Fiction
Thrills and Mystery Podcast - Season 1
Read by J. David Core
J. David Core
These are the archives of The Thrills and Mystery Podcast, a weekly fiction show featuring crime stories, noir, thrillers, mysteries, advent…
The Duke's Children
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Anthony Trollope
In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, findin…
The Beetle
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Richard Marsh
A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and…
The Agony Column
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Earl Derr Biggers
English romantic adventure starring a young American in London and inspired by the personal ads (agony columns) in the London papers. In thi…
A Cousin's Conspiracy
Read by Abigail Rasmussen
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Ernest Ray is a young boy who sets out to reclaim the inheritance that was unjustly with held from his father and given to a cousin. (Introd…
Invito Rex
Read by Brand Gamblin
Brand Gamblin
In a fantastic world not too far ahead of us, Victorian sensibilities have brought back the monarchy, with a caste system that is lethally e…
Madame Butterfly
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John Luther Long
Madame Butterfly is the story of the young Japanese girl Cho-Cho San, who marries a flighty American naval officer, and is thenceforth outca…
The Last Day of a Condemned
Read by Alisson Veldhuis
Victor Hugo
A man who has been condemned to death writes down his cogitations, feelings and fears while he is waiting for his execution. He does not bet…
Indiana
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
George Sand
This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aris…
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today
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Mark Twain
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in po…
Toppleton's Client
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John Kendrick Bangs
A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simpl…
Short Story Collection Vol. 055
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 055: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, i…
The Unbearable Bassington
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Saki
The Unbearable Bassington was the first novel written by Saki (H. H. Munro). It also contains much of the elegant wit found in his short sto…
The Hall in the Grove
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Pansy
Fearing that her son, Robert, will grow too intellectual to relate to his parents, Mrs. Fenton starts a "Chautauqua Literary & Scie…
Our Mutual Friend, Version 2
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, …
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
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Charles Dickens
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time, (better known as The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain) is a novella …
The Green Rust (Version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three b…
Aunt Jane's Nieces And Uncle John
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L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John picks up the continuing story of the three cousins Patsy Doyle, Beth De Graf, and Louise Merrick, and thei…
Divers Women
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Pansy
A collection of short stories, highlighting some of the best and worst characteristics we women are capable of in our Christianity and in ou…
Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 2
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Thomas Peckett Prest
Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to va…