Classic Audiobook Collection

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood audiobook. Genre: horror A tale of horror in which a pleasant sojourn down the Danube tumbles terrifyingly awry as the veil between this world and an unfathomably weird dimension is inadvertently pierced by an innocent pair of vacationers, 'The Willows', arguably Algernon Blackwood's seminal contribution to supernatural literature, has had a lasting influence on t...

The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood audiobook. Genre: fantasy In this moody, metaphysical novel from master of the uncanny Algernon Blackwood, Dr. Edward Fillery, a psychologist with an unusual sensitivity to hidden currents in the human mind, is drawn into a case that defies ordinary diagnosis. At a discreet Spiritual Clinique he and his colleague Paul Devonham take in a young man with a b...

The Push Of A Finger by Alfred Bester audiobook. Genre: scifi Science fiction from the 50s by one of the masters, Alfred Bester. Society has committed itself to complete stability. Nothing is allowed to upset this stability, nothing that is not planned and approved and accounted for in advance. Yes, this is hard to imagine but this has produced decades, nay, centuries of predictable prosperity and...

The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Alexander Jessup audiobook. Genre: comedy Edited and introduced by Alexander Jessup, The Best American Humorous Short Stories gathers a handpicked lineup of classic American tales that prove how many shapes laughter can take. Jessup's opening essay makes the mission clear: these are not merely jokes on the page, but fully crafted short stories where humo...

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley audiobook. Genre: comedy Crome Yellow, published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley’s first novel. In it he satirizes the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story of a house party at ‘Crome’ where there is a gathering of bright young things. We hear some of the history of the house from Henry Wimbush, its owner and self appointed historian; Apocalypse is prophesied...

His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune audiobook. Genre: family Albert Payson Terhune, perhaps best known for his book Lad, a Dog (later turned into a popular movie), was also a breeder of collies and a journalist. Some of his collie lines survive to this day. His Dog is a story about Link Ferris who finds an injured dog on his way home one evening. Knowing nothing about dogs, Link nurses the dog back t...

The Lucky Piece - A Story of the North Woods by Albert Bigelow Paine audiobook. Genre: adventure While riding a stage back to the city late in the summer, a youngster had no money to spend, and so gives his lucky piece as payment to a young girl selling berries by the roadside. As time passes, in the Adirondack mountains of northern New York state, a tale unfolds involving two young women, two you...

The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt audiobook. Genre: fantasy When a renowned scientist vanishes under impossible circumstances, Dr. David South and a small circle of friends are drawn into a mystery that seems to defy every rational explanation. Their search leads from hushed academic rooms to a remote Pacific island, where a forbidden crater-like abyss known as the Moon Pool is whispered about with...

The Secret Battle by A. P. Herbert audiobook. Genre: tragedy Like many soldiers at the beginning of their military careers, Harry Penrose has romantic ideas of climbing the ranks and attaining hero status. However, while stationed at Gallipoli, the realities of war begin to take their toll on Penrose, not only physically, but also mentally where the war has become a 'battle of the mind.' This is h...

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne audiobook. Genre: family In the Hundred Acre Wood, where every day feels like it has room for one more small adventure, Winnie-the-Pooh is always thinking about one important thing: honey. Guided by his gentle, slightly muddled logic and a very big heart, Pooh drifts from one situation to the next, drawing his friends into schemes that are as earnest as they are unpr...

The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey audiobook. Genre: adventure The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon polygamy, but in The Rainbow Trail this theme is treated more explicitly. The plots of both books revolve around the victimization of women in the Mormon culture: events in Riders of the Purple Sage are...

Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James audiobook. Genre: philosophy William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophies of pragmatism and Radical Empiricism. Essays in Radical Empiricism is a collection...

Fidelity by Susan Glaspell audiobook. Genre: drama In the small Midwestern town of Freeport, Iowa, people still whisper about Ruth Holland, the young woman who shocked everyone by running away to Colorado with a married man. More than a decade later, Ruth returns home at a moment she cannot avoid: her father is dying, and the life she left behind is waiting to judge her. As she steps back into fam...

A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock audiobook. Genre: history Stephen Leacock's The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada (often referenced by its subtitle, A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada) opens Canada's story long before the familiar era of colonies and Confederation. Written as part of the Chronicles of Canada series, Leacock begins with the land itself - a...

The Life of St. Teresa by St. Teresa of Jesus audiobook. Genre: religion Written in the voice of one of Christianity's most influential mystics, The Life of St. Teresa is St. Teresa of Jesus' own account of how a restless, imaginative girl in 16th-century Spain became a Carmelite nun and a fearless reformer. Teresa recounts her early love of stories and honor, the tug of worldly comforts, and the...

On Loving God by St. Bernard of Clairvaux audiobook. Genre: religion In On Loving God, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the great 12th-century Cistercian abbot and preacher, offers a clear, searching guide to the most essential question of the spiritual life: why and how a human being comes to love God. Written as a brief treatise for fellow Christians seeking deeper prayer and truer freedom, the work be...

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott audiobook. Genre: history In medieval England, the long-absent King Richard is rumored to be returning, but the country is tense with rival loyalties, private vendettas, and the lingering divide between Norman rulers and Saxon subjects. Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a disinherited Saxon knight, comes home from crusade determined to restore his honor and win the hand of the high-b...

Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: philosophy Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still Freud's argument—that our contemporary civilisation favours this sort of hypocrisy and that there are more ci...

This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch audiobook. Genre: scifi Robert Bloch (1917 – 1994) was a prolific writer in many genres. As a young man he was encouraged by his mentor H. P. Lovecraft, and was a close friend of Stanley G. Weinbaum. Besides hundreds of short stories and novels he wrote a number of television and film scripts including several for the original Star Trek. In 1959 Bloch wrote the n...

Stamped Caution by Raymond Z. Gallun audiobook. Genre: scifi When a strange spacecraft slams into a Missouri hillside, the Army moves in fast, sealing the site behind barbed wire and unanswered questions. Colonel Miller and a small team of investigators and scientists pick through scorched metal, radioactive fuel residue, and baffling machinery that looks unsettlingly familiar in places and utterl...

Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy P. G. Wodehouse's Love Among the Chickens is a bright, fast-talking comedy of friendship, optimism, and spectacularly bad planning. The story is related by steady, long-suffering Jeremy Garnet, a struggling writer who is persuaded to join his irrepressible school friend, Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, in a bold new venture: ch...

The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley audiobook. Genre: scifi When Lionel Verney looks back on the vanished world that raised him, he remembers an England poised between old hierarchies and revolutionary hopes. Orphaned and proud, Lionel grows up on the margins until fate draws him into the orbit of Adrian, the idealistic son of a deposed ruler, and Raymond, a dazzling leader whose ambition...

The Child’s Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson audiobook. Genre: biography The Child's Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson introduces young listeners to the lives that helped shape the United States, told in clear, story-forward portraits designed to spark curiosity rather than overwhelm with dates. Moving from the earliest days of the nation into later generations...

The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook. Genre: scifi At one time Race Cargill had been the best Terran Intelligence agent on the complex and mysterious planet of Wolf. He had repeatedly imperiled his life amongst the half-human and non-human creatures of the sullen world. And he had repeatedly accomplished the fantastic missions until his name was emblazoned with glory. But that...

The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany audiobook. Genre: fantasy First published in 1912, The Book of Wonder gathers Lord Dunsany's luminous, dreamlike short tales into a single volume of mythic imagination. Each story opens a different door: a traveler strays into uncanny streets where ordinary rules dissolve; a king bargains with forces older than his throne; a hunter follows signs that seem to come...