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Reverand Gabriel Powers is the Pastor of a small town church that is threatened by an approaching hurricane. He struggles with the decision to relocate the church or to leave it where it has always been. An unimagineable miracle happens as God answers his prayers in an unexpected way.
Louisa May Alcott was born on 29th November 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She is most definitely a writer of her own experiences. Her father was a transcendentalist, philosopher and educational experimenter who founded, Fruitlands, a utopian community. Although poor, her liberal and progressive parents provided Louisa with much of her education, which was enhanced by many family friends that included Thoreau, Hawthorne and Emerson, a neighbour whose library she was often found reading in. She started writing stories as a way of providing the family with some financial stability. Times were difficult and the effects of poverty were always close at hand. During the Civil War she went to Washington to be a nurse and became ill with typhoid fever although she continued to write and build her success. However, the treatment for typhus gave her mercury poisoning which caused further health issues for the rest of her life and eventually contributed to her death. Alcott visited her father on his deathbed in Boston. Two days later on 6th March 1888 she also died resulting in a joint funeral.Ver libro
More classic horror narrations on Jonathan Dunne Horror Stories & Audiobooks: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks Title: Cool Air Series Name: Timeless Terrors Series Entry: 124 Author: H. P. Lovecraft Narrator: Jonathan Dunne Original Publication: 1928 Public Domain: Yes Description: Cool Air is a chilling tale of scientific obsession and unnatural preservation from the master of cosmic horror, H. P. Lovecraft. Set in a sweltering New York boarding house during an oppressive summer heatwave, the story follows a narrator who forms an uneasy acquaintance with a reclusive doctor living upstairs. The physician, brilliant yet unnervingly cold in manner and habit, maintains his rooms at an unnaturally frigid temperature through elaborate refrigeration machinery. As their acquaintance deepens, the narrator begins to suspect that the doctor’s dependence on cold air is far more than a matter of comfort. Lovecraft builds dread through atmosphere and suggestion, allowing the mounting heat outside to contrast cruelly with the sterile chill within the doctor’s chamber. What begins as eccentricity gradually reveals itself as something grotesque and blasphemous — a defiance of nature sustained by will, intellect, and terrible necessity. Unlike vast cosmic epics that gesture toward indifferent universes, Cool Air delivers a more intimate horror — one that lingers in confined rooms and clings to the senses. The terror lies not in distant stars, but in decay held at bay… and the dreadful consequences when the machinery fails. Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the story’s mounting claustrophobia, creeping revulsion, and unforgettable final revelation — bringing Lovecraft’s macabre vision vividly to life.Ver libro
Girls who wander into the forest at night never return quite the same... When a peasant girl follows glowing mushrooms into the forbidden forest, she discovers the witch waiting in the cave wears her own face—and the mad queen in the castle does too. In a kingdom gripped by famine, young Carys has always been the wild child her mother couldn't tame. But when mysterious mushrooms begin to glow at her touch and lead her deep into the forest, she stumbles into an impossible truth: she is the witch, she will become the queen, and time itself has trapped her in an endless cycle. As Carys learns to see the hidden threads connecting past, future, and the secret stores of food that could save her starving family, she must choose between remaining the girl she was or becoming the powerful, feared woman she's destined to be. But in a story where the ending is also the beginning, can she find a way to break free—or is she doomed to walk the same path forever? Perfect for fans of Alix E. Harrow and Naomi Novik, A Girl Made of Time is a lyrical, genre-bending tale of magic, sacrifice, and the impossible weight of living three lives at once.Ver libro
An Encounter is one of James Joyce’s most quietly disturbing and psychologically precise stories, capturing a moment when childhood imagination collides with the uneasy realities of the adult world. Set in Dublin, the story follows two schoolboys who skip class in search of adventure, inspired by tales of the Wild West and dreams of escape from the rigid discipline of school and home. Their day unfolds as a series of small freedoms—wandering the quays, watching ships, imagining distant lands—until a chance meeting in a lonely field alters the tone of their holiday entirely. What begins as youthful restlessness gradually darkens into discomfort and fear as the boys encounter a strange older man whose conversation drifts from nostalgic reflections to unsettling fixations. Joyce renders the scene with restraint and precision, allowing unease to build through repetition, implication, and the narrator’s growing awareness rather than overt action. An Encounter explores themes central to Dubliners: lost innocence, moral paralysis, and the quiet moments when perception shifts and the world reveals itself as more complicated—and more threatening—than expected. Narrated by John Young, this recording preserves Joyce’s subtle pacing and emotional tension, bringing to life a story that lingers long after its final lines.Ver libro
Winner of the 2025 Arnold Bennett Book Prize These are tales from the post-industrial scablands – stories of austerity, poverty, masochism and migration. The people here are sick, lonely, lost, half-living in the aftermath of upheaval or trauma. A teacher obsessively canes himself. A neurologist forgets where home is. A starving woman sells hugs in an abandoned kiosk. Yet sometimes, even in the twilit scablands, there's also beauty, music, laughter. Sometimes a town square is filled with bubbles. Sometimes sisters dream they can fly. Sometimes an old man plays Bach to an empty street, two ailing actors see animal shapes in clouds, a cancer survivor searches for a winning lottery ticket in her rundown flat. And sometimes Gustav Mahler lives just round the corner, hoarding rare records in a Stoke terrace.Ver libro
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time. The plot and its twist ending are well-known, and the ending is generally considered an example of comic irony. It was allegedly written at Pete's Tavern on Irving Place in New York City.The story was initially published in The New York Sunday World under the title "Gifts of the Magi". It was first published in book form in the O. Henry Anthology The Four Million in April 1906.Among the most significant works O. Henry: "The Duplicity of Hargraves", "A Retrieved Reformation", "The Cop and the Anthem", "The Gift of the Magi", "The Skylight Room", "After Twenty Years", "Conscience in Art", "The Caballero's Way", "The Last Leaf", "The Third Ingredient", "The Ransom of Red Chief", "Makes the Whole World Kin".Ver libro
