SF Story Audiobooks
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
by Edgar Allan Poe
27 minutes, 01 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Science Fiction
1835
What happens when you hypnotize a person in the moments before he dies? The story that began as a hoax (it was first published without the “fiction” label) is one of the first modern science fiction tales.
Narrated by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on October 18, 2006, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Edgar Allan Poe, Podcast
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
38 minutes, 54 seconds
Unabridged Short Fiction
1835
A puritan confronts witches, the devil, and his own morality in the spooky, Salem woods in this classic American short story.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on September 13, 2006, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Podcast
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
by H G Wells
29 minutes, 11 seconds
Unabridged SF/Fantasy Pulp Adventure Story
1903
H G Wells was such a science fiction pioneer that he took all the great, archetypal titles (Think about it: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Magic Shop, etc.. You’d think he would have at least been generous enough to call it, say, “A Magic Shop,” allowing that Asimov or Heinlein might decades later want to write about another one.) So it goes with “The Valley of the Spiders.”
Three adventurers face danger, death, and giant spiders, all for the capture love of a woman, in this classic pulp adventure story. Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on May 10, 2006, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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H G Wells, Podcast
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
by Edgar Allan Poe
54 minutes, 13 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Mystery Fiction
1839
“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all…”
Disease (vampirism?) and decay of both man and stone (do they share a soul?) in the master of the macabre’s famous tale. Includes Poe’s poem “The Haunted Palace” with musical accompaniment.
Performed by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on April 12, 2006, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Edgar Allan Poe, Podcast
Monday, September 20th, 2010
by Edgar Allan Poe
33 minutes, 22 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Mystery Fiction
1843
“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”
Poe’s classic horror tale about intoxication, murder, and a most mysterious cat. Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on September 20, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Edgar Allan Poe, Podcast
Monday, June 21st, 2010
by Ambrose Bierce
1 hour, 14 minutes
Unabridged Story Collection
1891, 1894, 1909
Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune narrate five stories by Bierce, full of vivid characters, precise and evocative language, surprises and suspense.
An Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge
A life, flashing before the eyes, and a miraculous escape from certain death, suddenly becomes–something else entirely. Bierce’s strangest and most famous fantasy. A French film adaptation of “Owl Creek Bridge” won the Academy Award for short film in 1963, and also became the hightest-rated episode of The Twilight Zone.
Staley Fleming’s Hallucination
The ghost of a Newfoundland dog with a white forefoot–and hungry for revenge!
The Damned Thing
A wild, ferocious animal determined to drive a man off his land-or or drive him insane, once he realizes the strange truth about the danger he faces.
Diagnosis of Death
A doctor whose incredibly accurate diagnoses are not at all conducive to a long and healthy life.
The Boarded Window
A window forever boarded up; a love forever gone.
Written a century ago, these stories still capture the imagination with vivid, precise language that bites–and may even draw blood. This Freshwater Seas production presents these five classics performed by Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune, with subtle musical underscoring to enhance and enrich Bierce’s words.
Note: The podcast includes only “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” All five stories are included in the downloadable bundles.
Originally for sale on June 21, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Ambrose Bierce, Podcast
Monday, June 14th, 2010
by Oscar Wilde
25 minutes, 49 seconds
Unabridged Fairy Tale
1899
Oscar Wilde’s fable about the true meaning of happiness (and, um, just a wee bit of antisemitism).
Originally for sale on June 14, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Oscar Wilde, Podcast
Monday, February 15th, 2010
by Ambrose Bierce
8 minutes, 25 seconds
Two Unabridged Short Ghost Stories
1910
Two short, Civil War era ghost stories by one of the most mysterious authors in American history.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on February 15, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Ambrose Bierce, Podcast
Monday, October 26th, 2009
by Washington Irving
1 hour, 26 minutes
Unabridged Horror Story
1819
Irving’s most famous story about Ichabod Crane–a timid schoolmaster and superstitious outsider in the the haunted Dutch community of Tarry Town–and his fateful encounter with the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier: the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
Note: only the first part (of two total) will be podcasted; the MP3, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis downloads include the full recordings. Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on October 26, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Podcast, Washington Irving
Monday, October 12th, 2009
by Edgar Allan Poe
18 minutes, 39 seconds
Unabridged Horror Fiction
1843
“You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me.”
The Master of the Macabre’s most famous horror story, and a consistent favorite among Telltale listeners. Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on October 12, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Edgar Allan Poe, Podcast
