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Epic in scope and magically textured, Howard's The People of the Black Circle is one of the most accomplished tales of Conan the Cimmerian. Conan drives us to magnificent mountain heights, and subtle secret passes in order to foil a nefarious plot of the Black Seers of Yimsha.

Aunt Rachel heard something last night. Gertrude heard it as well. Tonight, shots ring out, and a dead body appears at the foot of the circular staircase.¶ Now it is up to Rachel to piece together what happened, as she weaves her way through the circular statements of paranoid staff, secret passages, and even suspicions of ghosts. Rinehart was known as the American Agatha Christie, and The Circular Staircase shaped the "Had I But Known" element of the mystery genre, while remaining true to...

America is fat and prosperous. We've warred with the world and come out on top. We've gotten rid of the riff-raff. A new era is arising, change is in the air, and to top it all off, the first Government Lethal Chamber is now open and ready for its first occupant. ¶ The future looks bright in 1895.

The year is 1745, and Prince Charlie of the defeated royal house of Stuart, has just returned to Scottish soil. A weighty choice faces every Scottish man. Should he stitch a white cockade to his hat and join the fight to restore James, Prince Charlie's father to the British throne? Or should he stay at home and back George II, the reigning King. One Lowland family, the Duries of Durisdeer and Ballantrae, believe they've found a clever way to sidestep the decision. With the toss of a coin, ...

"Have you seen the Yellow Sign?", mumbles a cadaverous hearse driver with a soft, squishy head. He's been skulking about Scott's painting studio, where he and Tessie have been developing a tangled relationship between artist and model. But as this ever-present watchman resembling a coffin worm begins to distract Scott, his portrait of Tessie takes on a death-like pallor. How can they forever rid themselves of this hearse stalker? And what precisely does he mean by a "Yellow Sign"? ¶ Develo...

Would you pay $50 for a bottle filled with a devil? What if the devil had to grant your every wish? Kiawe, a sometime sailor from Hawaii, takes the risk even though he learns that if the bottle remains in his possession at the time of his death, he will lose his soul. Find out how dear dreams can be.

What exactly lies beyond the treacherous and previously impassable Canadian glacier? From the collection In Search of the Unknown comes a chilling tale of the things nature can do when nobody's watching. ¶ Robert W. Chambers was a pioneer of weird fiction, and influenced the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury. In Search of the Unknown was originally released in 1904, this story includes chapters 6-8.

Two student anatomists purchase the remains of humanity in the small hours of the morning. The shadowy men who bring the bodies seldom speak, and the suspicions of the students are never spoken aloud. Until one morning, when the drapery is lifted from the face of a new acquisition and one student recognizes it as the face of a dear friend, alive and well only yesterday.

There is a man that haunts the streets by night. His visage provokes involuntary torrents of hatred. His voice is huskily whispered, and his deformity lies within. This audiobook collection contains some of the finest short fiction from the great Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, The Bottle Imp, Markheim, Olalla, and The Body Snatcher. These files have been remastered since their initial advent through The Classic Tales Podcast, making this a perfect cho...

"Refreshing! BJ did a phenomenal job making the characters come to life" – review by Apple listener glbmlb ¶ A seafaring stranger comes to the Admiral Benbow Inn, and young Jim Hawkins begins the journey of a lifetime. In this spirited production, veteran narrator BJ Harrison makes you feel as though you are sitting alongside Long John Silver and his pirate crew as they plot and scheme their way to treasure. ¶ Experience Treasure Island with an audiobook experience that's both true to the ...

In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully written, this work is especially compelling at a time when the forest, as a source of wonder, respect, and meaning, disappears daily from the earth." Forests is one of the...

What if God is not something you find-but something you remember?The divine presence you seek lives within consciousness itself-closer than breath. Creating God is not about inventing the sacred but uncovering what has always been here: love, awareness, and unity obscured by fear and illusion.In Creating God: Reclaiming Love, Truth, and Moral Clarity in an Age of Confusion, Robert W. Harrison guides readers beyond belief and doctrine to di...