Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 03: Apollo and Daphne, Etc
| |||
 |
|
||
 |
|
||
 |
| ||
| |||
23 minutes, 11 seconds
Unabridged Mythology/Literature
1913
Here we have Apollo and Daphne and how one of them refuses the other's advances and becomes a laurel tree. Then we have Pyramus and Thisbe, the love story that inspired Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, or at least the bloody parts of it. And finally: Cephalus and Procris and how the wind is slutty and how misunderstanding can inspire uxoricide. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 03: Apollo and Daphne, Etc"
Posted by alex at 9:48 AM
| TrackBack
| |||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
|
| |||
17 minutes, 2 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
Sometimes romance needs a bit of deliberation; this is Joyce at his most satiric. "The Boarding House" is the seventh story in his collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce's Ireland.
Continue reading "Dubliners: The Boarding House"
Posted by alex at 3:59 PM
| TrackBack
| |||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
| ||
| |||
18 minutes, 40 seconds
Unabridged Mythology/Literature
1913
Creation myths! Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 02: Prometheus and Pandora"
Posted by alex at 7:01 PM
| TrackBack
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
38 minutes, 6 seconds
Unabridged Horror Short Story
1910
"And then the thing happened — the thing unthinkable and unexpected." London's speculative story about the frightening, dual nature of man.
Read by William Coon.
Continue reading "When the World Was Young"
Posted by alex at 12:39 PM
| TrackBack
| |||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
| ||
| |||
24 minutes, 44 seconds
Unabridged Mythology/Literature
1913
An introduction to the stories and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, and an overview of the pantheon. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 01: Introduction"
Posted by alex at 10:46 AM
| TrackBack
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
34 minutes, 52 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1922
A man makes a pilgrimage to his hometown and finds you can, indeed, put a price on fate.
Read by William Coon.
Continue reading "Two for a Cent"
Posted by alex at 6:34 PM
| TrackBack
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
17 minutes, 19 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1920
A story of love lost and found, after an absence of six years. The reasons for connection and separation quickly become clear, but what will be the choice this time around?
A beautiful day. A discussion of classlessness. A snobbish ex-lover. What could possibly go right?
Read by William Coon.
Continue reading "A Dill Pickle"
Posted by alex at 10:08 AM
| TrackBack
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
50 minutes, 34 seconds
Unabridged Short Mystery Story
1904
Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard seeks the guidance of Sherlock Holmes and Watson when the mysterious destruction of statues leads to murder.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"
Posted by alex at 7:38 PM
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
54 minutes
Full Cast Western Radio Drama
1978
The National Radio Theater of Chicago presents a full cast adaptation of Bret Harte's classic western story. Dramatized for audio by award winning dramatists Carol Adorjan and Yuri Rasovsky (director of Murder at Woodside Village and Frankenstein).
Continue reading "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
Posted by alex at 11:32 AM
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
25 minutes, 14 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
Con men want to convince a maid to steal from her employer. "Two Gallants" is the sixth story in James Joyce's collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce's Ireland.
Continue reading "Dubliners: Two Gallants"
Posted by alex at 2:59 PM
| |||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
| ||
| |||
2 hours, 15 minutes
Unabridged Novella
1915
"One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin." So begins the classic existential tale about the traveling salesman who too late realizes what he's become.
Translation by David Wyllie. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Metamorphosis"
Posted by alex at 4:59 PM
| |||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
| ||
| |||
13 minutes, 37 seconds
Unabridged NIMH Informational Brochure
1999
Full text (including printable and redistributable brochures) available at the NIMH website.
Continue reading "NIMH: Social Phobia"
Posted by alex at 12:30 PM
| |||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
| ||
| |||
46 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
1999
"Think of the underworld as the back of your closet, behind all those racks of clothes that you don't wear anymore. Things are always getting pushed back there and forgotten about. The underworld is full of things that you've forgotten about."
First published in Event Horizon in 1999. Later reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection and Link's short story collection Stranger Things Happen, a Salon Book of the Year and one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Girl Detective"
Posted by alex at 9:21 PM
| |||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
| ||
| |||
13 minutes, 19 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
2000
When the fuel went, Mara's town turned to windpower. They struggled on as the lights left, as the cities fell fallow, and plastic became a memory. Their only link to the outside world is the Zephyr, and now it too has not shown up. Originally published in Jackhammer. Narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal of the Willamette Radio Workshop.
Continue reading "Waiting for the Zephyr"
Posted by alex at 10:19 AM
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
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
Continue reading "The Valley of the Spiders"
Posted by alex at 3:32 PM
| |||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
| ||
| |||
2 minutes, 5 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1920
The classic war poem written by a British soldier during World War I. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Posted by alex at 2:44 PM
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
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.
Continue reading "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Posted by alex at 9:34 PM
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
1 hour, 18 minutes
Unabridged Science Fiction and Horror Stories
2000-2002
Four science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories.
The Fish Merchant: (science fiction) Li Hao-Chang struggles to stay one step ahead of starvation or stabbing, selling fish on the brutal docks of Macau. He's too busy to read the headlines in the newspapers that wrap his wares--rumors of non-random signals from deep space. When a gangster named Pepper is gunned down in front of Li's stand, the fish seller finds a computer disk stolen from the Chinese government. Maybe, just maybe, the biggest news in history is enough to make Li's dearest dream a reality: escape to safety in America. First published in Science Fiction Age, 2000. Read by Jonathon "Sullydog" Sullivan.
"The story is interesting for its non-western setting, and its realization that many people in the world would have no care for news about aliens..." -- Locus
A Green Thumb: (fantasy/science fiction) It's a very different USA, where necessity has provoked a very profound change in technology. And yet many things are still the same. Being a teenager is always tough, and there are many choices ahead. One of which is "how and where do you grow your very first car?" First published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, 2002. Read by Alex Wilson.
"Amusing and heart-warming at the same time, and read with feeling and emotion by Wilson." --Locus
All Her Children Fought: (science fiction) When you fire something into space the cost of that launch is per pound. When you go to war with someone in space, you need to keep the cost down. So you use the smallest available pilot you can. A child. Originally published in Speculon, 2001. Read by Mary Robinette Kowal of the Willamette Radio Workshop.
Trinkets: (horror) New England, early 1800s: At the harbor near his jewelry shop, George Petros receives a package from the Haitian merchant ship Toussaint--a sinister link that follows him from a brief stay on the Caribbean island of dark magic. Originally published in The Book of All Flesh, 2001. A Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention. Read by the author.
Continue reading "The Fish Merchant and Other Stories"
Posted by alex at 12:02 AM
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
27 minutes, 3 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
Two stories about Dubliners on the cusp of adulthood, figuring out how to balance their respective responsibilities and freedoms. "Eveline" and "After the Race" are the fourth and fifth stories in James Joyce's collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce's Ireland.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Dubliners: Eveline & After the Race"
Posted by alex at 2:52 PM
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
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.
Continue reading "A Bite of Bierce: Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories"
Posted by alex at 3:45 PM
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
25 minutes, 49 seconds
Unabridged Fairy Tale
1899
Oscar Wilde's fable about the true meaning of happiness.
Continue reading "The Happy Prince"
Posted by alex at 1:32 PM
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
21 minutes, 58 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
"It was Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us. He had a little library made up of old numbers of The Union Jack , Pluck and The Halfpenny Marvel . Every evening after school we met in his back garden and arranged Indian battles. He and his fat young brother Leo, the idler, held the loft of the stable while we tried to carry it by storm; or we fought a pitched battle on the grass. But, however well we fought, we never won siege or battle and all our bouts ended with Joe Dillon's war dance of victory..."
The second coming-of-age story in James Joyce's collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce's Ireland.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Dubliners: An Encounter"
Posted by alex at 3:08 PM
| |||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
| |||
23 minutes, 51 seconds
Unabridge