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Short Stories About Mad Scientists

In search of a better world, power can corrupt even the smartest of us

by H P Lovecraft, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Constance Cotterell, Edward Page Mitchell, Emma Vane, L T Meade, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, M R James, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Garrick Hagon ...

Unabridged

10 hours 27 min

Science has brought us many benefits for our health, our understanding, and our quality of life in all sorts of positive ways. We are all the better for it. But there is also a darker side when science reaches into the shadows. It claims that a fuller knowledge would benefit everyone, it must investigate. But, let’s be honest, some in science have lost their true calling and their ideas and ... Read more

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Science has brought us many benefits for our health, our understanding, and our quality of life in all sorts of positive ways. We are all the better for it. But there is also a darker side when science reaches into the shadows. It claims that a fuller knowledge would benefit everyone, it must investigate. But, let’s be honest, some in science have lost their true calling and their ideas and
... Read more
Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 200

by Neil Clarke, Suzanne Palmer, Rich Larson, Naomi Kritzer, Parker Ragland, Harry Turtledove, Megan Chee, Jordan Chase-Young, An Hao ...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art.Our May 2023 issue (#200) contains:* Original fiction by Naomi Kritzer ("Better Living Through Algorithms"), Harry Turtledove ("Through the Roof of the World"), Suzanne Palmer ("To Sail Beyond the Botnet"), Rich Larson ("LOL, Said the ... Read more

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Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art.Our May 2023 issue (#200) contains:* Original fiction by Naomi Kritzer ("Better Living Through Algorithms"), Harry Turtledove ("Through the Roof of the World"), Suzanne Palmer ("To Sail Beyond the Botnet"), Rich Larson ("LOL, Said the
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Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 187

by Neil Clarke, Greg Egan, Beth Goder, Pan Haitian, Thoraiya Dyer, Leonard Richardson, Parker Ragland, Martin Cahill ...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our April 2022 issue (#187) contains:Original fiction by Thoraiya Dyer ("Doc Luckless and the Stationmistress"), Leonard Richardson ("Two Spacesuits"), Greg Egan ("Dream Factory"), Pan Haitian ("Hanuman the Monkey King"), Beth Goder ( ... Read more

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Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our April 2022 issue (#187) contains:Original fiction by Thoraiya Dyer ("Doc Luckless and the Stationmistress"), Leonard Richardson ("Two Spacesuits"), Greg Egan ("Dream Factory"), Pan Haitian ("Hanuman the Monkey King"), Beth Goder (
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Women Who Wrote as Men - A Short Story Collection

The journey for women to be recognised in literature was an ardous path, it began with very talented female authors using a male pen name to become published, this is a collection of those incredible stories by said women,

by George Eliot, Vernon Lee, Louisa May Alcott ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

9 hours 47 min

Today, we are all assured that being ‘ourselves’ is what we can not only strive for but will be accepted as.That has not always been true. In previous centuries, and even generations, to be a woman was to be second class. Mere chattel to do the bidding and whims of men. Perhaps a minor exception if you were Queen or of high rank but any male in near orbit was assumed to be not your equal, but your ... Read more

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Today, we are all assured that being ‘ourselves’ is what we can not only strive for but will be accepted as.That has not always been true. In previous centuries, and even generations, to be a woman was to be second class. Mere chattel to do the bidding and whims of men. Perhaps a minor exception if you were Queen or of high rank but any male in near orbit was assumed to be not your equal, but your
... Read more
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Female Short Story, The - A Chronological History - Volume 10

Katherine Mansfield to Emma Vane

by E M Delafield, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Edwards ...

Narrated by Eve Karpf, Liza Ross, Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

7 hours 54 min

A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories.Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex.Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re ... Read more

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A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories.Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex.Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re
... Read more
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3 Stories About Deadly Feuds

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Saki, Bret Harte, J Y Ackerman ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

1 hour 13 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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3 Stories with Wartime Massacres

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Alexander Kuprin, Ambrose Bierce, Vladimir Korolenko ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

1 hour 10 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

$14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Lessons from Literature - Short Stories About the Power of Love

Learn from the oldest form of communication and education - storytelling

by F Scott Fitzgerald, Ovid, Kate Chopin, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Stephen Crane, Giovanni Boccaccio ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

2 hours 31 min

Love. We grow up believing Love can accomplish everything. That’s a very demanding promise of one word despite its reputation. But is it true?In this volume our classic authors demonstrate just why they believe that to be so.1 - Short Stories About the Power of Love - An Introduction2 - Head and Shoulders by F Scott Fitzgerald3 - Pyramus & Thisbe by Ovid4 - The Locket by Kate Chopin5 - Compassion ... Read more

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Love. We grow up believing Love can accomplish everything. That’s a very demanding promise of one word despite its reputation. But is it true?In this volume our classic authors demonstrate just why they believe that to be so.1 - Short Stories About the Power of Love - An Introduction2 - Head and Shoulders by F Scott Fitzgerald3 - Pyramus & Thisbe by Ovid4 - The Locket by Kate Chopin5 - Compassion
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Stories From the Shadows - Retribution

Embrace the darkness

by Edgar Allan Poe, Gustav Meyrink, W C Morrow, William Mudford, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Samuel Blas, J Y Ackerman, William Hunt, Robert Barr ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

8 hours 4 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows – 1800 – 1849

Embrace the darkness

by Catherine Crowe, E T A Hoffman, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernst Raupach, Honoré de Balzac, Johann Hebel, John Willaim Polidori, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Prosper Merimee, Richard Harris Barham, Sheridan Le Fanu, The Brothers Grimm, Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Wilhelm Hauff, William Makepeace Thackeray, William Mudford ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

15 hours 56 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$42.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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3 Stories About - Cruel Tyrants

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Edgar Allan Poe, Gustav Meyrink, W C Morrow ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Bill Wallis ...

Unabridged

1 hour 10 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

$14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Lessons From Literature - Stories About the Horrors of War

Learn from the oldest form of communication and education - storytelling

by Ambrose Bierce, John Buchan, Kate Chopin, Mary Boyle O'Reilly, Luigi Pirandello, Sherwood Anderson, Alexander Kuprin, Vsevolod Garshin, Vladimir Korolenko ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

3 hours 36 min

In this volume our classic authors bring the carnage and needless sacrifice of young lives in pursuit of aims that are most probably not their own hauntingly into focus. Society has many problems but when we try to solve them with might, not words and helpful actions, the true nature of our pitiless humanity is exposed.01 - Lessons From Literature - Stories About the Horrors of War - An ... Read more

$42.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this volume our classic authors bring the carnage and needless sacrifice of young lives in pursuit of aims that are most probably not their own hauntingly into focus. Society has many problems but when we try to solve them with might, not words and helpful actions, the true nature of our pitiless humanity is exposed.01 - Lessons From Literature - Stories About the Horrors of War - An
... Read more

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