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  Rapunzel and Other Stories

  The Brothers Grimm

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  This charming collection of Grimms' Fairy Tales includes Rapunzel, Frederick and Catherine, Sweetheart Roland, Snowdrop (Snow White), The Pink and Clever Elsie. Grimms' Fairy Tales was first published in Germany in 1812 as Kinder und Hausmärchen. This series of recordings is based on the original 1823 English translation by Edgar Taylor, with subsequent editing by Marian Edwardes.

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  With the Night Mail - A Story of...

  Rudyard Kipling

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  This thrilling Kipling Dirigible adventure is enhanced with original music and sound effects. An hour long classic tale that takes you across the Atlantic, through a massive electrical storm, and back again. Perfect for Steampunk fans as well as Anglophiles and early Science Fiction buffs. Come with us as we soar through the skies in a mighty blimp. Kipling style!

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  When the Devil Was Well - From...

  Gertrude Atherton

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  Gertrude Franklin Horn was born on October 30th, 1857, in San Francisco, California. Her parents separated in 1860 when she was two years old, and she was raised by her maternal grandfather, Stephen Franklin, a devout Presbyterian. He insisted she be well read, and was a great influence on her.  
  She attended St. Mary's Hall high school in Benicia, California, and, briefly, the Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky. 
  In Kentucky, the rebellious Gertrude met George H.B. Atherton, who was courting her mother. His attentions wandered to Gertrude and, after she accepted his sixth proposal, they eloped on February 15th, 1876.  
  She went to live with him and his domineering Chilean mother. Gertrude found life stultifying. As a result of her disappointment she began to develop an independent life. But two tragedies changed her life dramatically: her son George died of diphtheria, and her husband died at sea. She was left with their daughter Muriel but and needed to support herself. Her mother-in-law agreed to raise Muriel. 
  Her first publication was ‘The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance’, and serialised in The Argonaut in 1882. When she told her family, she was ostracized.  
  Gertrude’s first novel, ‘What Dreams May Come’, was published in 1888 under the pseudonym Frank Lin. 
  With the death of her grandfather and her mother-in-law she returned to California to resume care of Muriel. In 1891, while writing a weekly column for The San Francisco Examiner, she met Ambrose Bierce, with whom she carried on a love-hate relationship. 
  She wrote ‘Doomswoman’ in 1892, it was published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine and as a book in 1893. The story focuses on Chonita Moncada y Iturbi and her love of Diego Estenega, as he dreams of modernizing California.  
  In 1892, Atherton left for New York to write for the New York World. She wrote letters to Bierce, confiding her loneliness, her dismay at freelance writing and her dislike of eastern literary circles. Whilst there though she published another California novel, ‘Before the Gringo Came’ (1894). 
  Following this was ‘Patience Sparhawk and Her Times’ (1897), but it proved to be controversial. Its rejection encouraged her to leave for London.  
  In 1898, she completed ‘The Californians’, her first novel set in the post-Spanish era. Critics received this much more positively: The Spectator said "The novel fairly establishes her claim to be considered as one of the most vivid and entertaining interpreters of the complex characters of emancipated American womanhood."  
  Further works followed, many from her California series dealing with the social history of California.  
  Gertrude wrote several stories of supernatural horror, including ‘Death and the Woman’, and ‘Crowned with One Crest’, as well as ‘The Foghorn’, and the much anthologised ‘The Striding Place’.  
  She was an early feminist well acquainted with the plight of women although she spoke against its militancy. Add to this her strong-will, independent-mind, and sometimes her oversteps into controversy, especially over anti-communism and its easy to identify why her novels had such sharp and strong characters. 
  Gertrude Atherton died on June 14th, 1948. She is buried in Cypress Lawn cemetery in Colma, California.

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  Hop-Frog

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  More classic horror narrations on Jonathan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks 
  Title: Hop-Frog 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1849 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 85 
  Description: 
  Hop-Frog is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most viciously ironic tales of psychological and moral horror—a dark exploration of cruelty, humiliation, and the devastating power of revenge. Set within the grotesque decadence of a royal court, the story follows Hop-Frog, a physically disabled jester whose sharp intellect stands in stark contrast to the barbarity of those who rule over him. 
  Central to the narrative is the sustained abuse inflicted upon Hop-Frog by a sadistic king and his courtiers, whose mockery and violence are disguised as amusement. Poe slowly builds tension through repeated acts of degradation, revealing how cruelty, when normalized, becomes a catalyst for catastrophic consequences. Beneath the trappings of comedy and festivity, an atmosphere of moral rot festers, awaiting ignition. 
  Rather than relying solely on supernatural elements, Poe crafts horror through psychological inevitability and grim poetic justice, culminating in a masquerade that transforms spectacle into terror. The story’s final act is both shocking and disturbingly earned, forcing the reader to confront the true cost of unchecked power and dehumanization. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the story’s escalating malice, bitter irony, and explosive conclusion. Hop-Frog endures as one of Poe’s most unsettling revenge tales—a reminder that those treated as monsters may one day decide to become them.

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  Dangerous Days - Booktrack Edition

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

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  Listen to Dangerous Days with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience.Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central Powers in the first world war. Clayton Spencer, a successful industrialist and owner of a munitions plant, finds himself facing several problems: not only anarchism and German sabotage, but also the prospect of a deteriorating marriage, and of a son who all too often shares his mother's frivolous and essentially self-concerned point of view. How far will America's entry into the war change such views? What will it mean for Spencer, for his family, and for his business?

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  "The Happiest Day"

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  “The Happiest Day.”: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.
  
  The happiest day—the happiest hour
  My seared and blighted heart hath known,
  The highest hope of pride and power,
  I feel hath flown.

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