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  Folklore as an Historical...

  George Laurence Gomme

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  An argument that folklore is evidence, not entertainment: that custom, rite and tale preserve the history of peoples who left no documents, and that the historian who ignores them loses half his country. Gomme was one of the founders of the Folklore Society and wrote this in 1908 to make the case at full length. His method has been much corrected; the claim that ordinary practice is historical evidence has not.

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  The Transition of Juan Romero

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 
  Deep in the Cactus Mountains of the American West, the Norton Mine cuts further into the earth than any shaft has a right to go. When blasting opens an abyss at the bottom of the mine, the miners find a hole so deep that no rope and no lantern can reach its floor. 
   
  That night a low throbbing rises from below, like a great drum beating in the heart of the mountain. Juan Romero, a silent Mexican labourer with an ancient Aztec look about him, hears it call his name, and he descends toward whatever waits in the dark. 
   
  Written in 1919, The Transition of Juan Romero is an early tale of cosmic horror by H.P. Lovecraft. Set in a Southwestern mining camp, it blends buried Aztec mystery with the abyss beneath the world and looks forward to the great weird fiction still to come. 
   
  Listen to the complete, unabridged audiobook of this rare early story by the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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  Out like a light

  GORDON RANDALL GARRETT

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  Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett(December 16, 1927 – December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.

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  The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of...

  William Shakespeare

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  The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.
  Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and is considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others".It was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and still ranks among his most performed, topping the performance list of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its predecessors in Stratford-upon-Avon since 1879. It has inspired many other writers—from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Charles Dickens to James Joyce and Iris Murdoch—and has been described as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella". 
  Among the most significant works William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Orpheus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, The Tempest, Venus and Adonis, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale and many more.

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  The strength of love

  Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

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  delighted to find that she was rarely gifted and intelligent, but he kept his knowledge closely to himself, never letting his friend know that he was pursuing his acquaintance with Daisie, though he contrived to see her every day in the week, and even took her to drive one afternoon when the coast was clear, Dallas having stayed in to write some important letters....FROM THE BOOKS.

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  Lorelei of the Red Mist

  Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury

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  His small stringy body hunched over the control bank, nursing the last ounce of power out of the Kallman. The hot night sky of Venus fled past the ports in tattered veils of indigo. Starke wasnt sure where he was any more. Venus was a frontier planet, and still mostly a big X, except to the Venusians—who werent sending out any maps. He did know that he was getting dangerously close to the Mountains of White Cloud. The backbone of the planet, towering far into the stratosphere, magnetic trap, with God knew what beyond. Maybe even God wasnt sure..FROM THE BOOKS.

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