Classic Audiobook Collection

The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories by Amy Walton audiobook. Genre: familyThese are three stories that will delight your heart and soul. The little girl Ruth in the first story is very privileged young lady with everything she could wish for except,of course, for companionship. Her mother has passed away and her father is a very busy lawyer who barely notices she is there. But then Ruth finds a scruffy, skinny and mostly ugly cat; the cat who lives in the kitchen and cellars,hence The Kitchen Cat. Her attempts to befriend this stray despite insurmountable obstacles make this story a really heart warming tale. She does eventually find the best kind of companionship but I won't tell you with who or when. Sarah's Sunday Out is the tale of a pampered little dog who wants to see the world and finally The Toad in the Hole is the tale of a somewhat selfish little girl and her lesson in seeing things from another's point of view. All are bitter sweet and all are delightful. You will be glad you listened to them. I know I'm glad I read them.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:48:40) Chapter 02(01:08:16) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: tragedyIn a rugged corner of the Alps in the spring of 1680, Brother Ambrosius, a young Franciscan monk, is sent with two companions from Passau to the remote monastery of Berchtesgaden - a place of cold forests, steep valleys, and a community ruled as much by fear and superstition as by the Church. On the road he encounters Benedicta, the beautiful and defiant daughter of the local hangman, marked from birth as an outcast and treated as unclean by the very people who rely on her father's grim work. Moved by pity, then drawn by a feeling he struggles to name, Ambrosius begins to seek her out in secret, defying both the monastery's discipline and the village's rage. As gossip hardens into accusation and old cruelties revive, the monk and the hangman's daughter are forced to navigate a world where compassion is punished, desire is weaponized, and faith is tested against the harsh demands of tradition. Told with the flavor of a dark folktale, the novel explores shame, redemption, and the perilous boundary between spiritual devotion and human longing.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:18:36) Chapter 02(00:30:03) Chapter 03(00:42:39) Chapter 04(01:07:50) Chapter 05(01:23:39) Chapter 06(01:41:44) Chapter 07(02:03:47) Chapter 08(02:16:51) Chapter 09(02:35:24) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can Such Things Be by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: horrorCan Such Things Be gathers Ambrose Bierce's most unsettling tales into a single volume where reason keeps colliding with the impossible. Across a series of tightly wound stories, Bierce follows hunters and townsfolk, soldiers and scientists, skeptics and storytellers who each confront a phenomenon that refuses ordinary explanation: a presence that cannot be seen yet leaves proof behind, a corpse that does not behave as it should, a familiar landscape that turns hostile, a calm investigation that becomes a descent into dread. Bierce writes with a sharp, ironic clarity that makes the strange feel frighteningly plausible, and his narrators often cling to logic even as it fails them. The collection's central tension is not only between the natural and the supernatural, but between what people believe they perceive and what might be lurking just beyond the limits of human senses. By turns grim, slyly humorous, and genuinely chilling, these stories explore fear as a force that distorts judgment, isolates the mind, and makes the world itself feel untrustworthy.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:43:40) Chapter 02(01:04:49) Chapter 03(01:09:53) Chapter 04(01:37:56) Chapter 05(01:47:42) Chapter 06(02:15:27) Chapter 07(02:38:14) Chapter 08(02:56:45) Chapter 09(03:28:11) Chapter 10(03:48:04) Chapter 11(03:54:51) Chapter 12(04:10:21) Chapter 13(04:24:02) Chapter 14(04:47:59) Chapter 15(05:13:22) Chapter 16(05:25:30) Chapter 17(05:49:33) Chapter 18(05:53:55) Chapter 19(06:12:38) Chapter 20(06:30:09) Chapter 21(06:55:30) Chapter 22(07:11:18) Chapter 23(07:22:29) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter by Alice Turner Curtis audiobook. Genre: historyTen-year-old Sylvia Fulton has left Boston behind and is living with her parents in Charleston, South Carolina, in the tense months just before the Civil War begins. Curious, warm-hearted, and fiercely loyal, Sylvia tries to make a home in a city where her Northern roots mark her as an outsider. At school she finds kindness and fast friendship with girls like Grace Waite and Flora Hayes, but she also meets sharp prejudice from classmates who fling the word 'Yankee' like an insult. Beyond the classroom, Charleston Harbor and its looming forts become part of Sylvia's everyday world, and growing talk of secession turns familiar streets into a place of whispers, secret errands, and sudden danger. Through her bond with Estrella, an enslaved girl close to her own age, Sylvia begins to see the painful contradictions beneath the city's elegance and 'honor.' As friendships are tested and loyalties harden, Sylvia must decide what courage looks like when the world around her is choosing sides, and when a child's sense of right and wrong collides with the realities of history in motion.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:01:00) Chapter 01(00:14:42) Chapter 02(00:26:30) Chapter 03(00:36:35) Chapter 04(00:48:34) Chapter 05(00:57:17) Chapter 06(01:17:14) Chapter 07(01:25:46) Chapter 08(01:37:50) Chapter 09(01:47:45) Chapter 10(02:00:07) Chapter 11(02:12:04) Chapter 12(02:19:32) Chapter 13(02:28:07) Chapter 14(02:41:02) Chapter 15(02:52:05) Chapter 16(03:01:54) Chapter 17(03:15:10) Chapter 18(03:24:06) Chapter 19(03:33:34) Chapter 20(03:45:31) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood audiobook. Genre: horrorA 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 the field. No less a personage than H. P. Lovecraft describing it as '...the greatest weird tale ever written.' A reading will reveal a clear influence to one familiar with Lovecraft's work. The masterful handling of mystery and suspense that build to a quite satisfyingly unnerving crescendo may be particularly noted by the discerning aficionado of the genreFor ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:41:20) Chapter 2(01:15:46) Chapter 3(01:51:14) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood audiobook. Genre: fantasyIn 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 baffling double life: at times he seems a simple, gentle country youth, and at others something vast and unaccountable shines through him - a presence Fillery names only by initials, as if language itself cannot hold it. As the doctors argue over what is illness and what might be evolution, fragments of the patient's past emerge: a remote upbringing, an eccentric mentor, and a devotion to natural forces that feels older than civilization. The closer Fillery comes to understanding the young man's divided consciousness, the more the surrounding world begins to tilt, as friends, patients, and skeptics alike are forced to confront the possibility that personality is not a closed room but a door. Part psychological inquiry, part occult romance, The Bright Messenger asks what humanity may become if the boundaries between the everyday self and the larger universe grow thin.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:16:15) Chapter 02(00:31:03) Chapter 03(00:40:20) Chapter 04(01:03:53) Chapter 05(01:38:13) Chapter 06(02:29:56) Chapter 07(02:58:49) Chapter 08(03:04:27) Chapter 09(03:58:46) Chapter 10(04:32:07) Chapter 11(04:58:35) Chapter 12(06:03:17) Chapter 13(06:31:52) Chapter 14(07:08:02) Chapter 15(07:30:42) Chapter 16(07:51:49) Chapter 17(08:25:22) Chapter 18(08:47:25) Chapter 19(09:15:52) Chapter 20(09:55:41) Chapter 21(10:41:30) Chapter 22(11:14:06) Chapter 23(12:10:09) Chapter 24(12:49:19) Chapter 25(13:30:48) Chapter 26(14:22:13) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Push Of A Finger by Alfred Bester audiobook. Genre: scifiScience 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 peace. Even the newspapers have very little to write about. One reporter however is curious about the 'Prog' building, where pronouncements are issued every day just as Moses issued the commandments. Everyone is locked out of course but he wants to know more, he wants in by any means and the results of that obsession are more far reaching than anyone can imagine. What would happen if just a tiny push with a finger to a critical element is made at the very beginning of a process? A little nudge that sends it in a completely different direction? Hmmm?For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:27:05) Chapter 02(00:52:45) Chapter 03(01:19:13) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Alexander Jessup audiobook. Genre: comedyEdited 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 humor is inseparable from character, voice, and surprise. Across the collection, readers move from dry wit and social satire to tall tales and comic misadventure, meeting schemers, innocents, and eccentrics caught in the everyday absurdities of love, money, reputation, and pride. Familiar masters appear alongside lesser-known gems, with stories by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others. From the slippery logic of 'The Angel of the Odd' to the deadpan exaggerations of 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,' the anthology showcases regional flavors and shifting American manners, while keeping the focus on storytelling momentum and sharp comedic timing. The result is a varied, lively listening experience: a tour through American humor at its most inventive, readable, and enduring.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:14:38) Chapter 02(00:41:58) Chapter 03(01:22:33) Chapter 04(02:05:55) Chapter 05(03:08:30) Chapter 06(03:57:18) Chapter 07(04:14:41) Chapter 08(04:30:51) Chapter 09(05:15:53) Chapter 10(05:46:12) Chapter 11(06:08:37) Chapter 12(06:52:10) Chapter 13(07:29:43) Chapter 14(08:07:26) Chapter 15(08:41:51) Chapter 16(09:36:37) Chapter 17(10:10:46) Chapter 18(10:28:45) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audiobook of Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow, a witty story of a house party at 'Crome' with bright young things. Topics include landscape beauty, population growth, artistic expression, and the power of words. Engaging debates on the future, eccentricity, and atrocities. Tragic events unfold at the party with romantic encounters and discussions on war memorials. Dennis explores a fair and reflects on experiencing events. The chapter ends with a quote, a hearse, and podcast ads.

His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune audiobook. Genre: familyAlbert 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 to health and the two form a bond such as only can be formed between human and canine. Unable to locate the collie's owner, Link christens his dog 'Chum' who becomes invaluable in tending to the daily needs of his meager farm.Unknown to Ferris however, Chum's original owners have been looking for their lost collie, and the story finds Link torn between that which he knows is morally right and his love for what he believes has become his dog.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:49:37) Chapter 2(01:36:32) Chapter 3(02:27:15) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices