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  Five Children and It

  E. Nesbit

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  The story of three wishes being granted is an old one and often takes the form of a precautionary tale with the resultant moral being “be careful what you wish for!” Such is the fallibility of human nature that we can’t easily be trusted to use those wishes wisely. 
  The great children’s author Edith Nesbit (1858 – 1924) took this popular concept for her 1903 book “Five Children and It” and extended the wishes from three to eleven, now granted to five young siblings in Edwardian England. 
  They have no Geni of the Lamp or Fairy Godmother, but instead, an irascible Sand Fairy dug accidently out of the sand of an abandon quarry. This strange “Psammead”, with his snail’s eyes on stalks, furry squat body and aversion to water reluctantly grants the four children their, often ill thought out, wishes. 
  Nesbit writes with her usual warmth and humour, placing her protagonists into funny and sometimes frightening adventures which gradually make the children “wise beyond their years.” 
  Head Stories Audio presents "Five Children and It" by E. Nesbit. Narrated by Simon Hester. With original music.

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  The Nightmare Room

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "Lucille. Are you poisoning me?"When the young husband asks this question of his beautiful young wife, a terrible drama is about to unfold in The Nightmare Room...a strange place where high emotions and dire tragedies are the norm.

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  50 Classic Horror Short Stories...

  H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe,...

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  CONTENTS:The Imp of the Perverse [Poe],The Devil in the Belfry [Poe],The Crawling Chaos [Lovecraft],Aunt Joanna [Sabine Baring-Gould],The Outsider [Lovecraft],The Hound [Lovecraft],The Disinterment [Lovecraft],The Horror At Martin's Beach [Lovecraft],The Tree On The Hill [Lovecraft],The Outgoing of The Tide [John Buchan],The Curse of Yig [Lovecraft],The Haunter Of The Dark [Lovecraft],Berenice [Poe],The Angel Of The Odd [Poe],Black Ram [Baring-Gould],The Cask Of Amontillado [Poe],Dracula's Guest [Bram Stoker],The Mother Of Pansies [Baring-Gould],On The Leads [Baring-Gould],McAlister [Baring-Gould],Mustapha [Baring-Gould],The Ghost and the Bone-setter [Le Fanu],The Drunkard's Dream [Le Fanu],The Novel of the White Powder [Arthur Machen],The Merewigs [Baring-Gould],Xélucha [Matthew Phipps Shiel],Solange [ Alexandre Dumas],The Fall of The House of Usher [Poe],The Assignation [Poe],The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade [Poe],Laura Silver Bell [Le Fanu],Descent Into The Maelstrom [Poe],The Power of Darkness [ Edith Nesbit],An Authentic Narrative of A Haunted House [Le Fanu],The Night Wire [H. F. Arnold],The Dualists [Bram Stoker],Stories of Lough Guir [Le Fanu],The Vision of Tom Chuff [Le Fanu],The Three Strangers [Thomas Hardy],Crooken Sands [Bram Stoker],The Cairn of the Headland [Robert E. Howard],The Shining Pyramid [Arthur Machen],Schalken The Painter [Le Fanu],Hellhound Of The Cosmos [Clifford Donald Simak],Ibid [Lovecraft],The Grove Of Ashtaroth [John Buchan],The Moon Bog [Lovecraft],An Account of Some Strange Disturbances [Le Fanu],Ultor De Lacy A Legend of Cappercullen [Le Fanu],The Red Hand [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 50,The Inmost Light [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 52.

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  Eureka: A Prose Poem

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "Eureka" (1848) is a lengthy non-fiction work by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) which he subtitled "A Prose Poem", though it has also been subtitled as "An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe". Adapted from a lecture he had presented, Eureka describes Poe's intuitive conception of the nature of the universe with no antecedent scientific work done to reach his conclusions. He also discusses man's relationship with God, whom he compares to an author. It is dedicated to the German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859).
  
   
  Though it is generally considered a literary work, some of Poe's ideas anticipate 20th-century scientific discoveries and theories. Indeed a critical analysis of the scientific content of "Eureka" reveals a non-causal correspondence with modern cosmology due to the assumption of an evolving Universe, but excludes the anachronistic anticipation of relativistic concepts such as black holes.

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  Malachi's Cove

  Anthony Trollope

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  Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful and respected English novelists. Malachi's Cove tells the story of Mally, the granddaughter of an old seaweed collector, who takes over the family trade as her "Dada" becomes too old and infirm to carry on. Mally is plagued by interlopers from local farms who come down to collect seaweed in her cove. One in particular, Barty Gunliffe, she resents above all others. So when Mally sees Barty going out towards the great hole, a swirling, seething bottomless whirlpool among the rocks, she is gleeful at the thought of the danger he is in. But when Barty does slip on the rocks, things take a very unexpected turn.

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  The Adventure of the Musgrave...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  An early Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This story is told from the perspective of Sherlock Holmes, instead of by Dr. Watson. The case involves Holmes investigating the disappearance of a butler and maid that worked for a university acquaintance of his.

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