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The Story of the Champions of the Round Table

Howard Pyle (Author), Dennis Kleinman (Narrator)

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So accustomed are we to numerous cinematic films depicting Dinosaurs (resurrected from their extinction through various dramatic devices) running amok amongst the human race, from King Kong to Jurassic Park, that we forget that it was the creator of Sherlock Holmes who was amongst the first to imagine such a scenario. After so many years of the cerebral Holmes, Conan Doyle must have revelled in his colourful new character of Professor Challenger. He is a bear of a man with an appetite for self-advancement, adventure and controversy who leads an expedition into the forests of South America to vindicate his claim that a lost world lay hidden in that vast continent. This is Conan Doyle away from the constraints of Baker Street and one gets the feeling that the author makes the most of the possibilities, pitting his heroes against dinosaurs, treacherous guides, inhospitable terrain and not least a race of vicious ape men. Conan tells his rip-roaring adventure with all his usual descriptive skill and verve. Head Stories presents Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World' narrated by Simon Hester. With original music.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Simon Hester (Narrator)

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Topper: A Ghostly Adventure

Here is a meeting with George and Marion Kerby, a couple of free-wheeling ghosts, who meet up with respectable banker Cosmo Topper. This was noted by the New York Times, claiming: “Thorne Smith created the modern American ghost story, ghosts with style and wit; ghosts that haunt us still.” Others pointed out, “Smith was a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee.” The overall mood has a touch of silliness, but it provides lighthearted reading and listening, a matter of nonsensical escapism. For Topper it meant relief from a nagging wife with ongoing indigestion. Smith himself was a heavy drinker and died of a heart attack at a youthful forty-two. Once, after an unexplained week-long disappearance, he was asked why he hadn’t called in sick. He replied, “The telephone was in the hall and there was a draft.” Shall we listen to the escapades? Well, why not?

Thorne Smith (Author), John Rayburn (Narrator)

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The Door with Seven Locks

Dick Martin is leaving Scotland Yard. His final job, investigating a stolen book, takes him from a conversation with librarian Sybil Lansdown to a meeting with a Doctor Stalletti, who will become a key figure. Along the way, Martin becomes involved with a small-time crook—an expert at picking locks—who tells him about a recent lock-picking job that has made him quite nervous. But before he can pass along details, the lock-picker is murdered. Next, the retiring detective gets involved in a couple of seemingly unrelated incidents—the theft of an obscure book, and an assignment to chase after a very rich and very elusive young heir who is rarely seen. In the midst of all the chasing about, there is a desperate search underway for seven individual keys which, when all used together, can open a mysterious door in a family’s tomb. Doctor Stalletti is involved, clearly an unsympathetic and sinister character, suspected of carrying out unethical medical experiments, to say the least. There are glimpses of some powerful and dangerous creatures who may or may not be linked to the doctor. In addition, we’ll hear of librarian Lansdown’s unfortunate habit of getting herself into dangerous situations.

Edgar Wallace (Author), John Rayburn (Narrator)

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Robinson Crusoe Vol. I-II

-obra completa narrada en Español Latino- Robinson Crusoe es una de las obras más famosas del célebre escritor inglés Daniel Defoe, publicada en 1719 y considerada la primera novela inglesa. Se trata de una autobiografía ficticia del protagonista, un náufrago inglés que pasa 28 años en una remota isla desierta. Probablemente la historia tuvo como inspiración hechos reales ocurridos a Pedro Serrano y Alexander Selkirk, a partir de donde construiría, con una trama sencilla y auténtica, un símbolo del colonialismo, del hombre perfecto y de la moral suprema. Robinson Crusoe es la clásica novela de aventuras por antonomasia.

Daniel Defoe (Author), Max Garzón (Narrator)

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The Ultimate Gothic Horror Collection: Novels and Stories from Poe; Stoker; Shelley; Henry James; Os

The Ultimate Gothic Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of classic gothic stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, and Edgar Allan Poe. - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley - Dracula, Bram Stoker - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson - The Turn of the Screw, Henry James - Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde - 12 Edgar Allan Poe Stories and Poems, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, and many more.

Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Joseph Sheridan Lefanu, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Jonathan Keeble, Malk Williams, Peter Noble (Narrator)

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The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60+ Novels and Stories from Lovecraft; Poe; Stoker; James; Shelley,

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by H.P. Lovecraft; Edgar Allan Poe; M.R. James; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Le Fanu; Bram Stoker; Mary Shelley; Robert Louis Stevenson; and Henry James. - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde - Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson - The Turn of the Screw, Henry James - Dracula, Bram Stoker - x12 H.P. Lovecraft stories - The Colour Out of Space; The Dunwich Horror; The Whisperer in the Darkness; The Haunter of the Dark; Call of Cthulhu; The Rats in the Walls; From Beyond; Dagon; At the Mountains of Madness; In the Vault; The Shadow Over Innsmouth; The Dreams in the Witch House - x14 M.R. James stories - Canon Alberics Scrapbook; Lost Hearts; The Mezzotint; The Ash-tree; Number 13; Casting the Runes; Count Magnus; Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad; A Warning to the Curious; A View From a Hill; A Neighbour's Landmark; The Uncommon Prayer-Book; Wailing Well; The Fenstanton Witch - x30 Edgar Allan Poe stories and poems - A Descent into The Maelstrom; A Tale of Jerusalem; A Tale of the Ragged Mountain; Eleonora; The Black Cat; The Cask of Amontillado; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Gold Bug; The Hop Frog; The Masque of Red Death; The Murders in Rue Morgue; The Mystery of Marie Roget; The Oblong Box; The Oval Portrait; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Purloined Letter; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Raven; To Helen; Ulalume; A Dream Within a Dream; Annabel Lee; The Haunted Palace; Alone; Dream Land; Eldorado; The City in the Sea; The Bells; A Valentine; A Sonnet to Science

Bram Stoker, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Jonathan Keeble, Karen Cass, Malk Williams, Peter Noble (Narrator)

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The Secret of Chimneys

Intrigue, espionage, mystery, and murder collide at a British country home in this captivating thriller from Agatha Christie. Eager to leave his job as a tour guide in Africa, international vagabond Anthony Cade meets an old acquaintance, Jimmy McGrath, who offers him a small sum to dispatch an errand in England. McGrath is in possession of the memoirs of the recently deceased Count Stylptitch, former Prime Minister of the Balkan state of Herzoslovakia—a man deemed a dictator, a patriot, or a statesman, depending on which newspaper you prefer. His task is to deliver the count’s manuscript to a certain firm of publishers in London and receive payment. Little does Cade suspect that a seemingly simple job will drop him right in the middle of an international conspiracy. Just as the discovery of oil in Herzoslovakia creates extreme political turmoil between the nation’s republican and royalist factions, Prince Michael, presumed heir to the throne of Herzoslovakia, is found murdered at a party at Chimneys, the historic home of Lord Caterham, where Cade happens to be a fellow attendee. Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard arrives to lead the investigation, and although young Cade is cleared of suspicion, he has quite the role to play in the fallout of this assassination … As much a murder mystery as it is a treasure hunt, the tale is chock-full of impersonators, inspectors, riddles, and intrigue. Superintendent Battle, and the spirited “it” girl in the character of Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent, are introduced into Christie’s canon for the first time in The Secret of Chimneys, a first-class romp and one of her best early thrillers.

Agatha Christie (Author), Gabrielle De Cuir (Narrator)

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Dracula

‘Listen to them – the children of the night. What music they make!’ Bram Stoker’s masterpiece, in which the instantly recognisable Count Dracula plans to sate his dreadful appetites in England only to be thwarted by an intrepid band of friends, remains an enthralling read. Exploring themes of sexuality, religion, technology and good versus evil, and told through journal entries, letters and telegrams, its cultural and literary significance is undisputed.

Bram Stoker (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature's hideousness. Tormented by isolation and loneliness, the once-innocent creature turns to evil and unleashes a campaign of murderous revenge against his creator, Frankenstein. Frankenstein, an instant bestseller and an important ancestor of both the horror and science fiction genres, not only tells a terrifying story, but also raises profound, disturbing questions about the very nature of life and the place of humankind within the cosmos: What does it mean to be human? What responsibilities do we have to each other? How far can we go in tampering with Nature? Questions which, in the twenty-first century, are more relevant than ever.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious—during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona—the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde—has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative chillingly relates Jekyll's desperation as Hyde gains control of his soul—and gives voice to our own fears of the violence and evil within us. Written before Freud's naming of the ego and the id, Stevenson's enduring classic demonstrates a remarkable understanding of the personality's inner conflicts—and remains the irresistibly terrifying stuff of our worst nightmares.

Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

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The Ultimate Ghost Stories Collection: Novels and Stories from Poe; M.R. James, Charles Dickens, Hen

The Ultimate Ghost Stories Collection is a fully-indexed collection of classic ghost stories, read by three Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by Henry James, M.R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, and Washington Irving. - The Turn of the Screw, Henry James - x14 M.R. James Stories - Canon Alberics Scrap-Book; Lost Hearts; The Mezzotint; The Ash-tree; Number 13; Casting the Runes; Count Magnus; Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad; A Warning to the Curious; A View From a Hill; A Neighbour's Landmark; The Uncommon Prayer-Book; Wailing Well; The Fenstanton Witch. - x4 Edgar Allan Poe Stories - Morella; Ligeia; The Mask of the Red Death; The Oval Portrait. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving - The Empty House, Algernon Blackwood - How It Happened, Arthur Conan Doyle - The Fullness of Life, Edith Wharton - The Signalman, Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Henry James, M.R. James, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Washington Irving (Author), Jonathan Keeble, Juile Teal, Malk Williams (Narrator)

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