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This edition encompasses the best short fiction ever written for children. The beloved, enchanting fairy tales, such as of Cinderella and the Sleeping Beauty, thrilling stories packed with the adventures of Sindbad and Aladdin, excerpts from iconic works such as Oliver Twist and Gulliver’s Travels—all this and many more stories that inform, educate, entertain, and enthral children and fill them with wonder and fire up their imagination, have been included in this covetable collection.

Four chilling episodes from the famous 1940s BBC radio series, introduced by Valentine Dyall, AKA The Man in Black. These are the four sole surviving episodes from the BBC archive: ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ by Edgar Allan Poe (18/9/1943); ‘The Speaking Clock’ by John Dickson Carr (13/4/1944); ‘The Clock Strikes Eight’ by John Dickson Carr(18/5/1944); ‘And The Deep Shuddered’ by Monckton Hoffe (20/11/1945). Amongst the cast are Marjorie Westbury, Marius Goring and Gladys Spencer.

Horror stalks the sideshow tents of the 40’s and runs a 70’s era dive bar steeped in murder… It preys from the frozen peaks of a small, 80’s Alaskan town and spills across the streets of modern-day New York City. From the Great Plains of Native America to war-torn North Korea and the cradle of civilization itself in ancient Mesopotamia, the Beast is out for blood but the werewolf hunter pursues and will not stop until the last drop of blood has fallen.

The fifteen stories and three screenplays that make up Volumes Two and Three of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death + Robots. Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.

Savor each new day with him. Jesus is there every day, in every step you take, in every decision you face. His mercies are new every morning. Are you experiencing the joy that can be found in his presence? At the heart of this year-round collection of devotionals are penetrating thoughts on...

Children's Favourites is a delightful compilation of old time radio stories and songs.

Join TV presenter and Australian landscape architect Costa Georgiadis; TV presenter, radio host, actress and comedian Julia Zemiro; musician and singer-songwriter Dave McCormack; film director and actor Sofya Gollan; comedian, actor, author and radio presenter Matt Okine and Australian author and social commentator Dr Anita Heiss as they bring to life a delightful collection of stories for young children.

Join acclaimed actress Yael Stone, radio host and TV personality Myf Warhust, award-winning actress Pia Miranda, actress, radio presenter and author Kate Ritchie and much-loved Play School presenter and actress Benita Collings as they take to the Story Time couch to read this beautiful collection of stories for young children.

Halloween Horror Collection is a rotating public-domain audiobook show of ghost stories, gothic tales, and classic horror. Each episode is a complete book that already found listeners on other Sol Good Media podcasts, gathered here because it fits the collection. New titles move through the feed, so there is always another story waiting. More free classic audiobooks at solgoodmedia.com.

The American literary tradition has, in a far shorter span of time than others throughout history, achieved a glowing and glittering reputation. From its transatlantic roots it has absorbed the sons and daughters of other cultures, other lands and made them part of her own. Within this melting pot of styles, genres and wordplay one fact stands out: In the American short story, Literary tradition has a strong, vibrant and almost inclusive history, if you know where to look.

Step back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country free! Who Was Abigail Adams? By True Kelley; read by Ann Marie Lee. Listen to find out more about a smart and independent colonial girl, both the wife of a president and the mother of a president, and...

Kierkegaard and Existence Collection is a rotating public-domain audiobook show of philosophy, essays, and wisdom literature. Each episode is a complete book that already found listeners on other Sol Good Media podcasts, gathered here because it fits the collection. New titles move through the feed, so there is always another story waiting. More free classic audiobooks at solgoodmedia.com.This show includes AI-generated content.

Halloween Stories Collection is a rotating public-domain audiobook show of Christmas, Halloween, and holiday stories. Each episode is a complete book that already found listeners on other Sol Good Media podcasts, gathered here because it fits the collection. New titles move through the feed, so there is always another story waiting. More free classic audiobooks at solgoodmedia.com.This show includes AI-generated content.

Victorian Romance Collection is a rotating public-domain audiobook show of classic love stories and historical romance. Each episode is a complete book that already found listeners on other Sol Good Media podcasts, gathered here because it fits the collection. New titles move through the feed, so there is always another story waiting. More free classic audiobooks at solgoodmedia.com.This show includes AI-generated content.

Ulysses S. Grant History Collection is a rotating public-domain audiobook show of classic history and war narratives. Each episode is a complete book that already found listeners on other Sol Good Media podcasts, gathered here because it fits the collection. New titles move through the feed, so there is always another story waiting. More free classic audiobooks at solgoodmedia.com.

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit. Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured in this gloried niche of literature.

The nine narrative episodes of Volume Four of the Emmy® Award-winning Netflix Original series Love, Death + Robots. Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson. Introduction by John Scalzi, with stories by John Scalzi, Stant Litore, Siobhan Carroll, Bruce Sterling, John McNichol, Dave Hutchinson, Marc Laidlaw, and Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon.

Whilst Europe endured the Dark Ages in the 6th & 7th Centuries, devotees of Shiva and Vishnu in Southern India were creating the Bhakti Movement. Some of these exponents, as in our volume, were bestowed with the title of saint but some had the additional title of sant, swami or goswami. Broadly speaking, Bhakti poetry, as in Hinduism itself, is divided into ‘Nirguna’, the idea that the divine is formless as exampled by Kabir and ‘Saguna’, which interprets the divine as having physical form as captured by Mirabai.

Gathering ten modern masters of the strange and unsettling, Unquiet Guests sets fire to the blueprints and reimagines the haunted house from the foundations up. From dreamlike visions of an abandoned future mansion to a sentient building grown tired of its owners, these rooms echo with whispers of the disenfranchised and the lost.

Forty-five of Britain's best-loved poems, read by John Nettles, Siobhan Redmond, Greg Wise and Emma Fielding. In a national poll conducted to discover Britain's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's 'If -' was voted number one. This unique anthology brings together over forty poems from the poll...