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36 - The Man on the Chimney

In The Book of Stories for the Storyteller

Read by Joseph Lawler


Fanny Coe


This group project is a collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of authors, bro…

VII On the Races of Man pt.4

In The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1

Read by Joseph Lawler


Charles Darwin


A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutiona…

05 - Janni and the Draken

In The Grey Fairy Book

Read by Joseph Lawler


Andrew Lang


The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other re…

Way of a Rebel

In Short Science Fiction Collection 040

Read by Joseph Lawler


Walter M. Miller Jr. and Walter M. Miller, Jr.


Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

23 - King Kojata

In The Green Fairy Book

Read by Joseph Lawler


Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Altho…

04 - In which Kin-Fo receives an Important Letter, which is Eight Days behind T…

In The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China

Read by Joseph Lawler


Jules Verne


The rich and phlegmatic Kin-Fo loses his fortune and decides to die, but not before experiencing some strong emotions. He asks his friend Wa…

The Mucker

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Grown and raised on the streets of Chicago; a ruthless, brawling beast of a man who detests all that “class” and “highbrow society” has to o…

The Return of the Mucker

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, law enforcement arrests Billy Byrne…The Mucker… as he returns to the streets of Grand Aven…

The Man-Eater

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Africa: The land of savagery and splendor. Where a marriage between an adventurer and a missionary's daughter is cut short by invading local…

The Girl from Farris's

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Ever want to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, only to have the whole world fight to keep you down? Ever been upstanding and righteous, o…

The Castle of the Carpathians

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Jules Verne


The Castle stood above the quiet little town for as long as folks remembered: barren, deserted, lonely and frightening to the townsfolk. Unt…

The Survivors of the Chancellor

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Jules Verne


The Survivors of the Chancellor is a poignant and tragic tale of terror and intrigue on the high seas. Through raging storms, emaciating hun…

The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Stories of Pirates

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Notorious pirates who are the scourge of the seven seas, and on land; ghost stories which scare voyagers in the jungles and the ice caps; tw…

The Girl From Hollywood

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


The countryside outside of Los Angeles is a paradise on Earth: nature gives bounty on the land, the animals are majestic, the oaks breathe a…

The Raider's Lament

Read by Joseph Jaquinta


Joseph Jaquinta


No honest business is ever conducted at an L3 point. But the crew of the Raider's Lament make a living doing jobs that don't fall into norma…

Captain Antifer

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Jules Verne


“No good deed goes Unpunished”, as the saying goes. A wealthy Egyptian leaves millions of buried treasure on an island and sends the locatio…

The Lost Art of Reading

Read by Joseph Tabler


Gerald Stanley Lee


Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…

The Master Mind of Mars

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Across the the vast reaches of space went he: another man of Earth (Ulysses Paxton) finds himself transported to Mars ("Barsoom"),…

The Celebrity

Read by Joseph Tabler


Winston Churchill


Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding Davis, but denied as such by Churchill). - Summary by Joseph Tabler

The Pirates

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Morgan Robertson


A dozen men jailbreak from a naval prison, and steal the newest destroyer tied up at the docks to escape in: the fastest ship in the navy. …

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