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The Bloodstained Parasol by James Ravenscroft

In Weird Tales Presents: Asylum Atrocities

Read by Ted Perkins


James Ravenscroft


Let's all hope that madness isn't catching because we have here for your pleasure a veritable buffet of items of insanity, terror tales of t…

The Lonetown Mystery

In American Myths and Legends, Volume 1

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Charles M. Skinner


American Myths and Legends is another collection of folklore from author Charles M. Skinner, whose exhaustive and expansive work in the fiel…

Introduction to "William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathe…

In LibriVox 17th Anniversary Collection

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Florian Cajori


"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…

Who is Santa Klaus

In The Story of Santa Klaus

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William S. Walsh


Who was Santa Klaus? Did he exist? In this study of custom and folklore, the author looks at the real and the legendary man, according to va…

An Accident

In Daisy: the Autobiography of a Cat

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Miranda Elliot Swan


"I was born in a clothes-basket, and do not feel ashamed of my birthplace, though fire and the swill man long ago removed all trace of …

Whitefoot Goes Astray

In The Christmas Reindeer (Version 2)

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Thornton W. Burgess


This story follows a young brother and sister who grow up herding reindeer and then discover how the Western story of Santa Claus fits in wi…

CHAPTER 12

In You Can't Win

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Jack Black


'You Can't Win' is an autobiography that was serialized in the San Francisco Call and Post (1925). It became so popular that it was publishe…

Milly the Pony, and Carlo the Dog

In History of My Pets

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Sara Jane Lippincott


A collection of stories about the various pets the author had during her childhood. In this revised addition, the author also added some sto…

The Last Galley

In The Last Galley, Impressions and Tales

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


From the Preface:I HAVE written "Impressions and Tales" upon the title-page of this volume, because I have included within the sam…

MANABOZHO, THE MISCHIEF-MAKER

In The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales (version 2)

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William Patten


Oh boy! Fairy Tales and Wonder Tales. This is exactly what you are thinking about but with a twist. Of course the well known tales from F…

CHAPTER I, THE DRIVE AGAINST DEATH

In Minos of Sardanes

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Charles B. Stilson


The micro cosmos of Sardanes faces macro calamity as climatic disruption and social upheaval threaten its existence. Its inhabitants, an anc…

Mr. Penney's Aerial Submarine

In Short Science Fiction Collection 101

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E. J. Rath


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…