Classic Audiobook Collection

Victory by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: tragedy Set in the Dutch East Indies at the edge of empire, Joseph Conrad's Victory follows Axel Heyst, a wealthy, disillusioned European who retreats from the world to a remote island, convinced that detachment is the only safe philosophy. His self-imposed solitude is disrupted when he intervenes to help Lena, a young musician trapped in a seedy touring...

The Stolen Brain by Nicholas Carter audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet stretch of the Bronx, not far from the New York Zoological Park, a feared surgeon has turned his rambling home into a private hospital - and whispers say the screams are not only animal. Dr. Hiram A. Grantley is brilliant, ruthless, and obsessed with pushing surgery beyond accepted limits. When antivivisectionist John D. Wall...

Sinister House by Leland Hall audiobook. Genre: horror In an ordinary American suburb, Pierre and his practical wife, Annette, try to welcome new neighbors, Eric and Julia Grier, into the community. But the Griers' home is anything but ordinary: an aging, unfashionable house that seems to drink in light and warmth, leaving behind a chill that Pierre cannot explain. Julia insists the place comforts...

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion In Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton sets out to explain how he came to embrace historic Christian belief - not as a dry system of doctrines, but as a living vision of reality that makes sense of wonder, morality, and human experience. Writing with wit and paradox, Chesterton retraces an intellectual journey that begins with a desire to defend the...

Night Fears and Other Stories by L. P. Hartley audiobook. Genre: horror First published in May 1924, Night Fears and Other Stories gathers 17 early tales from L. P. Hartley that turn ordinary settings into stages for unease - where a polite conversation can feel like a trap, and a quiet room can seem to listen back. citeturn0search0 Across pieces such as 'Night Fears,' 'The Island,' 'The Teleph...

A Moment of Time by Richard Hughes audiobook. Genre: horror A Moment of Time is Richard Hughes's early collection of short fiction, where everyday life in coastal towns, rural lanes, and cramped lodging houses can tilt, in an instant, into the uncanny. Moving between wry observation and gothic unease, Hughes follows ordinary people as they stumble into moments that refuse to stay ordinary: a journ...

Lost On Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi Carson Napier never meant to go to Venus. Trying to pilot an experimental craft to Mars, he crashes instead on Amtor, a cloud-wrapped world of steaming jungles, impossible beasts, and city-states locked in ruthless rivalries. In Lost on Venus, the second adventure in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Venus series, Carson begins in a nightmare trap:...

The Life of Christ by Frederic Farrar audiobook. Genre: religion Frederic W. Farrar's The Life of Christ is a sweeping, reverent portrait of Jesus of Nazareth, told with the pace of a vivid narrative and the care of a scholar-pastor. Drawing on the Gospel accounts and the geography, customs, and politics of first-century Judea and Galilee, Farrar follows Jesus from the quiet beginnings of his mini...

The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers audiobook. Genre: mystery When a respected Honolulu judge is found murdered in his own beachside home, the case threatens to ignite more than local scandal - it risks inflaming tensions within the islands' tight-knit social circles and the visiting mainland elite. Into the uneasy mix steps Charlie Chan, a quiet, methodical Chinese-Hawaiian detective who...

The Door with Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace audiobook. Genre: mystery On the day he expects to leave Scotland Yard for good, Inspector Dick Martin is handed one last, odd assignment: track down a stolen library book. The small case draws him to the quick-witted librarian Sybil Lansdown, and then to a darker circle of rumors involving Gallows Cottage, a missing young heir, and a long-sealed family t...

Deirdre by James Stephens audiobook. Genre: folklore James Stephens' Deirdre retells one of the most haunting legends of Ireland's heroic age with a storyteller's wit and a poet's ear. In the court of Ulster, King Conachur mac Nessa hears a prophecy that a newborn girl will grow into such beauty that she will draw rivalries, betrayals, and blood-feuds in her wake. Determined to master fate, Conach...

The Crimson Patch by Augusta Huiell Seaman audiobook. Genre: mystery Seventeen-year-old Patricia Meade expects a quiet summer in a grand city hotel while her father, Captain Meade, completes a confidential government assignment linked to the recent war. But the hotel proves to be anything but restful. Patricia is lonely, her mother is away recovering her health, and her father warns her that in a...

Brattons Idea by Manly Wade Wellman audiobook. Genre: scifi In a bustling Hollywood film studio, Old Bratton is just another overlooked janitor - until night falls and he retreats to a hidden workshop where he pursues his true calling: creating life with wires, motors, and crackling electricity. His experiments have produced only disappointing failures, but a sudden opportunity arrives when a temp...

Baled Hay - A Drier Book than Walt Whitmans Leaves o Grass by Bill Nye audiobook. Genre: comedy In Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's Leaves o' Grass, 19th-century American humorist Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye) sets out to do the unthinkable: publish a book of lofty, poetic sayings while insisting he has carefully removed anything that might accidentally resemble real poetry. The result is...

The Whispering Eye, A Black Hood Novel by G. T. Fleming-Roberts audiobook. Genre: thriller In a city where headlines travel faster than truth, the masked crime fighter known as the Black Hood suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the law. A shadowy underworld mastermind called the Eye engineers a ruthless scheme that leaves the Black Hood framed for robbery and murder, with the police closin...

The Cartels Jungle by Irving E. Cox, Jr. audiobook. Genre: scifi In a future where Earth has been reshaped by catastrophe and power has consolidated into a few ruthless cartels, Captain Max Hunter comes home from the space service with one simple plan: marry Ann Saymer and help her open a clinic. Ann is brilliant, idealistic, and on the verge of unveiling her greatest achievement - a revolutionary...

Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol audiobook. Genre: adventure Set on the sweeping steppes of Eastern Europe, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol's Taras Bulba follows a fierce old Cossack warrior who lives for the hard freedoms of the Zaporozhian Host and the holy fire of battle. When his two sons return from school, Taras wastes no time pulling them into the rough brotherhood...

Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford audiobook. Genre: comedy Shorty McCabe used to earn his living with his fists. Now the ex-prizefighter is trying to keep steady work as a trainer in New York, only to learn that trouble finds him faster than any challenger ever could. Told in Shorty's fast-talking, streetwise voice, this classic romp begins when a bad horse tip and an empty bankroll introduce him to Le...

The Incubator Baby by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook. Genre: comedy Born at barely more than a pound, Marjorie Fielding begins life as a public marvel, sealed behind glass in a nickel-plated incubator while curious strangers peer in and experts adjust dials and temperatures. When she finally comes home, her mother, Mrs. Fielding, is determined to raise a perfect modern child by the newest rules of...

White Mountain Trails by Winthrop Packard audiobook. Genre: adventure In White Mountain Trails, naturalist and journalist Winthrop Packard invites you onto the footpaths of New Hampshire's White Hills in a vivid, early-20th-century journey of climbing, watching, and wondering. Moving from the spring freshness of Chocorua and its lake to the high, stony world of Mount Washington, Packard follows we...

History of the Johnstown Flood by Willis Fletcher Johnson audiobook. Genre: history Willis Fletcher Johnson's History of the Johnstown Flood is a gripping narrative of one of the deadliest disasters in nineteenth-century America: the catastrophic inundation that struck Johnstown, Pennsylvania, after days of relentless rain and the failure of an earthen dam above the Conemaugh Valley. Johnson recon...

Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 by William Morris Davis audiobook. Genre: biography Written by Harvard geographer William Morris Davis, Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 presents a brisk, first-hand portrait of one of the defining scientific frontiersmen of the United States. Powell emerges not only as the one-armed Civil War veteran who dared the Colorado R...

The Apartment Next Door by William Johnston audiobook. Genre: mystery During World War I, Jane Strong is restless with the safe routines of her New York life and hungry to do something that matters. One night, she glimpses a tense chase outside her building, hears a shot, and watches a familiar figure return - the tenant in the apartment next door. By morning, the papers insist the man who was pur...

The Troubled Man's Medicine by William Hugh audiobook. Genre: religion Written in the midst of England's Reformation and shaped by pastoral urgency, The Troubled Man's Medicine is William Hugh's practical guide for anyone facing sickness, loss, fear, or hard fortune. Framed as counsel originally composed for an ailing friend, the book sets out to give troubled readers a steadying remedy: not a phy...

Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil by William Henry Smith audiobook. Genre: philosophy Set in and around the English countryside village the author calls Gravenhurst, this reflective Victorian work follows an observant country gentleman as he records a chain of walks, visits, and drawing-room conversations that keep circling back to one stubborn question: if the world contains so much beaut...