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Skillfully narrated by voice actor Mark Turetsky, The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers is a classic in the field of the supernatural. The series of 10 short stories is named after a fictional play of the same name which induces madness in the minds of those that read it. The Yellow King and Carcosa were often alluded to in a popular TV series True Detective, where evil and madness are often a theme.

The only survivors of a shipwreck off a Pacific island are Cambridge professor Edward Bowden and an orphaned baby girl. When Valentine Ryven is discovered 20 years later, Edward has recently died, and she is relieved and excited to be taken to England, where she believes her loving family awaits. Valentine is sure of a warm welcome because among the papers retrieved from the wreck is a letter from her Aunt Helena saying so. But in 20 years things change ... especially when money is involved.

Johann Bogdan served eight months on the Russian front. Seventeen surgeries and one eye later, the wife of his oldest neighbor takes his train ticket without knowing his face. What follows is a walk up a single dusty road toward a homecoming his body remembers how to survive but his heart no longer can. Andreas Latzko wrote Heimkehr in a Swiss sanatorium in 1917, in two months, while recovering from combat trauma on the Isonzo front.

Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, in a new modern-prose English translation, narrated straight through by Mike Vendetti. One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up as an insect. His first worry is that he is late for work. His family's first worry is what to tell the boarders. A hundred years later, the story still comes across like it was written this morning—the exhaustion, the dread of the phone ringing, the way a family talks about a sick person as if he weren't in the room. Kafka wrote it in 1915. He never lived to see it in English.

From the creator of Tarzan of the Apes comes a classic interplanetary adventure. Tan Hadron of Hastor takes on a diabolical plot to conquer all of Barsoom. When his heart's desire is kidnapped, Hadron embarks on a planet-wide quest to stop a maniacal Jeddak bent on world domination. He must overcome fiendish science gone mad to prevent the fall of all Barsoom.

This is the fourth book in the Nancy Drew Mystery Series. Nancy is called on to find who stole a valuable amount of jewelry at the Lilac Inn. The jewelry is a school friend's inheritance and was stolen from her friend's guardian while she lunched at the Inn. As Nancy searches for clues, she finds herself chasing menacing strangers in seedy neighborhoods near the docks. She must not only retrieve the jewels, but save herself from three unsavory thieves as well.

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 - April 16, 1898). Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a young governess sent to a remote country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. But is the threat to her young charges really a ghostly presence or something else entirely?

Endymion is the largest work by John Keats and was composed between April and November 1817. It was published in April 1818, and the critical reception was almost universally hostile. The plot is built around the ancient Greek legend of Endymion, the young shepherd whose beauty was such that the goddess of the Moon entreated Zeus to cast him into a permanent sleep so that she could gaze on him without interruption. Keats expands this story into an epistle on beauty and love, and weaves into it elements from several other Greek legends.

Jenny is the story of Jenny Winge, a talented Norwegian painter who lives a free and independent life in Rome. Betraying her own ideals, she has an affair, resulting in a child out of wedlock, and decides to raise the child on her own. Undset gives a gripping portrayal of a woman struggling towards fulfillment and independence, who at the same time wrestles with mental problems. It is written with unflinching honesty, which makes her story as compelling today as it was nearly a century ago.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, the English poet Francis Thompson (1859-1907) was a true mystic. While more celebrated poets, like Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Arnold, were content to express their religious leanings in traditional devotional formulae, Thompson strove to portray the divine directly, in all its terrifying majesty. In this way he is more akin to earlier masters, like Henry Vaughan and George Herbert, than to the poets of his own day.

Phil Chenevert narrates this classic Edgar Allan Poe tale of mystery and suspense.

Glenn Hascell narrates this charming Hans Christian Anderson tale of a little girl forced to try to sell matches on the street by her father on Christmas Eve.

Hugo Ross is perfect for the job as irascible inventor Ambrose Minstrel’s new secretary: young, completely inexperienced, and with an occasional stutter that makes him seem somewhat dim—a mug, in fact. But from his first day, odd things begin to happen. A stranger offers him an absurd amount for an ordinary pair of field glasses; soon, the written offer is stolen from his room. A lovely girl he runs into in the dark one night outside his new employer’s house warns him not to take the job.

Deadly Secrets: A Magician’s Last Illusion When world-renowned magician Mason Drexel announces his final performance at the prestigious Magic Castle in Hollywood, magician Eli Marks and his famous uncle Harry can’t miss the show. But what begins as a spellbinding and exciting evening turns...

What comes after the honeymoon for Ivy and Mac? Looking for a good place to settle down and leave the nomadic life behind. No more dead bodies. No more killers. What do they find instead? Murder! Beginning with a runaway Miranda and a fiancée in a ruffled red bikini, continuing with a missing...

When Oksana moves to Jersey City, she never expects a chance encounter with a neighborhood cat caretaker to change her life. As she discovers a hidden community of volunteers feeding homeless cats, fostering abandoned pets, and helping animals find safety, she realizes that compassion can...

The Martians are back, and if they succeed they’ll seize the United States without ever firing a shot. After helping her fiancé thwart a plot in early 1915, Susan Wilson believed her life as a clerk at Edison’s radio laboratory had finally returned to normal. But she couldn’t have been...

Even to this day Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) remains the most loved and respected of all American presidents. In this heartfelt biography, Ernest Foster reprises the ever-inspiring story of the man who traveled from a log cabin to the White House and presided over one of the momentous periods of change in the nation's history.

A "crazy" woman has been released from the hospital, and it becomes the job of a driver and an orderly to take her home. It's a creepy evening on a lonely road, and to make matters worse the woman's sedation begins to wear off, they are driving into the fog, not sure where they are, and a green sedan suddenly looms behind them and passes them. They are drawn to the green sedan as it picks up speed.

In "The Parasite," Arthur C Clarke explores the dark and unsettling world of "mental illness" through the eyes of Roy Connolly. But Roy knows he isn't crazy, he has been possessed by Omega, a creature of the very distant future where humanity exists primarily as intellect with severely emaciated bodies. And what fun is that? The solution is to travel back in time to a more physical era