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The first award-winning season of The Classic Tales Podcast, topping the iTunes charts as the #3 overall podcast. Here B.J. Harrison reintroduces the world to the greatest short fiction ever written, from Poe, Dickens, Hardy, Stevenson, Fitzgerald and many, many others

The Gospel of Matthew: Derek Jacobi reads St Matthew's account of the life and teachings of Jesus. Specially composed music is included. The readings were part of BBC Radio 4's series of 341 daily episodes of the Bible, broadcast in 1991 and 1992. Abridged by Catherine Czerkawska.

Welcome to a very special issue of Weird Tales. This issue celebrates the Bram Stoker Awards, the “Oscars” of the horror trade. They are presented every year by the Horror Writers Association (horror.org), a group founded in 1985 (and incorporated in 1987) by a collective of masters of that genre, including Joe R. Lansdale, Karen Lansdale, Robert McCammon, and Dean Koontz. This issue is packed with short stories, flash fiction, poems, and an essay—all written by past winners of the Bram Stoker Award.

This engaging collection of seven classic children’s stories presented by Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre includes Alice In Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Secret Garden, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Each story is performed by a full cast of award-winning voice actors enhanced by sound effects and music. Timeless classics that are sure to entice the imagination of the very young and the young at heart!

Las investigaciones de Miky y Clemente los llevan hasta un convento. El halo de misterio que rodea esas paredes hará que descubran quiénes fueron las personas que estuvieron en los asesinatos pasados y las que pudieron volver a atacar ahora.

Miky y Clemente acuden a la misa diaria de la ermita para poder hablar con el Padre Tomás. Han encontrado algunas pistas sobre el caso que está vinculado con un asesinato en el mismo cementerio años atrás.

Las mejores plumas de nuestra literatura se enfundaron en alguna ocasión los guantes de cuero rojo para acercarse al mundo de narices rotas, toallas a punto de caer, orgullos fracturados, amaños a deshora, y besos a la única que se deja querer: la lona. Los hemos reunido para así trazar un recorrido necesario por el subgénero más sudoroso, el de la literatura de boxeo.

In January 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting all refugee admissions for 120 days and temporarily barring entry from seven Muslim-majority countries. Mass protests followed, and the order has since been blocked, revised and challenged by judges, politicians, activists and artists alike. But the battle is not yet over, and in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in the UK, Trump has renewed calls for the ban.

Zizzle is a new short story bookazine for young minds. We have a unique taste in kids' fiction. As C. S. Lewis put it, "A children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last." We believe all kids can develop a discerning taste for fine fiction. We pick stories that dive deep into meaning and defy category. We publish the type of kids' fiction that we grownups like to read ourselves.

The Gospel of Mark: Juliet Stevenson reads St Mark's account of the life and teachings of Jesus. Specially composed music is included. The readings were part of BBC Radio 4's series of 341 daily episodes of the Bible, broadcast in 1991 and 1992. Abridged by Michael Jones.

Fear affects us all in some way, shape or form. Whilst we would rather shy away from it in real life, when it comes to stories, we tend to move towards it. In this volume of short stories our malevolent authors, including the talents of H P Lovecraft, Edgar Alan Poe, Charles Dickens, M R James, Victor Hugo, E T A Hoffman and many, many others, seem to take great delight in assaulting our senses with heart stopping narratives designed to put the fear of God, the Devil and just about every other form of disturbed terror into our eager hearts and minds.

Do you love Adventures? I certainly do. Join me as I explore entertaining Adventures from the past. Here you will find entertaining and exciting stories to take you on Journeys of your own. Thank you for listening. Have a great day.

Women’s prose writing has exploded on the literary scene in Ukraine just prior to and following Ukrainian independence in 1991. Over the past two decades scores of fascinating new women authors have emerged. These authors write in a wide variety of styles and genres including short stories, novels, essays, and new journalism. In the collection you will find: realism, magical realism, surrealism, the fantastic, deeply intellectual writing, newly discovered feminist perspectives, philosophical prose, psychological mysteries, confessional prose, and much more.

En "A puerta cerrada" los grandes autores de la literatura en español nos invitan a pasar a sus espacios privados y a compartir con nosotros una conversación íntima sobre los extraños días que vivimos. Confesiones desde el confinamiento que no solo nos develan cómo estamos sorteando la emergencia sanitaria ocasionada por el COVID-19 sino también nuestros hábitos, manías, obsesiones y perspectivas ante la pandemia, así como el poder innegable y sanador del diálogo y la literatura.

En "A puerta cerrada" los grandes autores de la literatura en español nos invitan a pasar a sus espacios privados y a compartir con nosotros una conversación íntima sobre los extraños días que vivimos. Confesiones desde el confinamiento que no solo nos develan cómo estamos sorteando la emergencia sanitaria ocasionada por el COVID-19 sino también nuestros hábitos, manías, obsesiones y perspectivas ante la pandemia, así como el poder innegable y sanador del diálogo y la literatura.

April 14-15th, 2015, is the 150th year anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. This is a collection of pieces to mark that occasion. Whitman’s poems, written shortly after the death, express his intense grief. Here are prose pieces that Whitman composed in the years following. Included too are three other eulogies regarded by Lincoln scholars as among the best, as well as a narrative from one of the doctors who attended the dying president and two speeches in the British Parliament. And finally three of the President’s finest compositions. ( summary by david wales)

This anthology of horror and suspense features seven spine-tingling stories to entice your imagination, including Every Now and Then by George Zarr, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, How to Shed 180 Pounds by Pete Lutz, Personal Delivery by George Zarr, A Visitor from Egypt by Frank Belknap Long Jr, Dark Road to Nowhere by Joey Ouellette, and The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. Sound effects and music chillingly enhance each story.

En "A puerta cerrada" los grandes autores de la literatura en español nos invitan a pasar a sus espacios privados y a compartir con nosotros una conversación íntima sobre los extraños días que vivimos.

Here you can find Hopewell Baptist Church's weekly sermons in podcast form! Located in rural Gainesville, GA, we are a Southern Baptist church dedicated to helping you be GROUNDED in your faith, GROWING in hope, and GOING in love.

Dos hermanas gemelas adolescentes y su mejor amiga, la Nena, forman parte de un grupo de música experimental y perversa. Una de las hermanas es sordomuda y la otra fantasea con la idea de cortarle esa lengua inútil… La historia reflexiona sobre la condición sordomuda, sobre escuchar, sobre no oír, sobre el silencio, sobre los terrores nocturnos que siempre vienen de algún lugar secreto y recóndito de la infancia. El terror, la emoción, la música y la poesía se entremezclan en este cuento extraño.