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  Super Fun Stories For Halloween...

  The Old Gray Goose, Geoffrey...

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  Beloved kids entertainer The Old Gray Goose is your guide in this fright-filled kid-friendly collection of Halloween stories that will send shivers up your spine! Here is the ultimate Halloween collection complete with stories music sound effects and heaps of holiday fun. 
   
  Joining Goose in this Halloween Scarefest is an old ghoulfriend Uncle Zombie, Goose enchants, inspires, and educates children of all ages in this very special audiobook celebrating the most ghoulish day of the year. Complete with scary sound effects and thrilling tales, this action-packed collection is a true classic pulled out by families every year in celebration of the trick-or-treat holiday that kids look forward to throughout the year. 
   
  The world's most beloved storyteller The Old Gray Goose. Goose enchants, inspires, and educates children of all ages in this very special audiobook celebrating the most ghoulish day of the year. Complete with scary sound effects and thrilling tales, this action-packed collection is a true classic pulled out by families every year in celebration of the trick-or-treat holiday that kids look forward to throughout the year. 
   
  Here then are the popular, evergreen Halloween recordings presented as Goose himself wanted them. Although it took producer Giuliano 10 years to get the Old Gray Goose inside of a studio it took another 5 to get him out! Goose loved telling his scarey stories on tape and did so with great enthusiasm and overwhelming charisma. 
   
  Sadly we lost Goose a few years ago but thanks to that long ago partnership between two old friends from Camp Kenan on the pastoral shores of Lake Ontario Goose's ingratiating persona, loving presence, wonderful stories, silly songs, tall tales, and frightening fables will live forever.

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  A Lady's Story

  Anton Chekhov

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  Natalya was once a happy and radiant young woman. Now an older woman, she reflects about her youth. In particular, she thinks about the heavy emphasis she put on her wealth and the relationships and experiences that it cost her. One man, Pyotr, loved her, but they both let their different statuses in society prevent their love from having a chance. After years of unhappiness and regret, Pyotr comes to visit Natalya.

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  Dream Life and Real Life

  Olive Schreiner

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  Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was a South African author, suffragist and political activist. She is best known for her novel The Story of an African Farm, but some of her most haunting and memorable works are her short stories. "Dream Life and Real Life" is a haunting short story about a little orphan girl in servitude to a cruel Boer family. One night, following a beating, she runs away and hides in a cave. But there she overhears three men plotting to rob and burn down the Boer's farm and kill the family. What should she do? Warn them, or let them burn to death?

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  The Bride of Corinth

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is widely recognized as Germany's greatest poet and writer. His early works are rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which was also the early phase of German Romanticism.'The Bride of Corinth' was written as part of a ballad-writing competition which Goethe was engaged in with Friedrich von Schiller. It tells the grisly tale of star-crossed lovers who were betrothed as children. The bride's family has converted from the old magical gods to the newfangled Christianity and no longer wish their daughter to marry a pagan.When the bridegroom, having grown to manhood, arrives to claim his bride, he is welcomed by the mother, who shows him a room where he can sleep and recover from his journey. While he sleeps, his betrothed slips into his room and wakes him. While they consummate their marriage, the bridegroom makes a horrifying and macabre discovery....

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  Dracula (Unabridged)

  Bram Stoker

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  Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel, and invasion literature. The novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film, and television interpretations.The story is told in an epistolary format, as a series of letters, diary entries, newspaper articles, and ships' log entries, whose narrators are the novel's protagonists, and occasionally supplemented with newspaper clippings relating events not directly witnessed. The events portrayed in the novel take place chronologically and largely in England and Transylvania during the 1890s and all transpire within the same year between 3 May and 6 November. A short note is located at the end of the final chapter written 7 years after the events outlined in the novel.

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  Daisy Miller

  Henry James

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  Daisy is as free as the air, but an innocent abroad. Her garden of earthly delights bristles with the thorns of youth, tradition and of love.  “Hearing Daisy Miller, listeners will recognize the tragic  difficulties of youth, love, and tradition. Flo Gibson reads  splendidly and portrays Daisy with requisite innocence and  insolence.”—Booklist

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