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The Willows by Algernon Blackwood Source: LibriVox (zipped mp3s) Length: 2 hours, 21 minutes Reader: Michael Thomas Robinson The book: Considered one of the greatest stories in horror literature, The Willows lives up to its reputation. Two friends canoeing down the Danube stop for… Read moreFree Listens Review: The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
“A Martian Odyssey” by Stanley G. Weinbaum Source: LibriVox (mp3) Length: 58 minutes Reader: Greg Margarite The book: In 1970, The Science Fiction Writers of America voted “A Martian Odyssey” as the second best science fiction story of all time, after Isaac Asimov’s “Nightfall” (previously… Read moreFree Listens review: “A Martian Odyssey” by Stanley G. Weinbaum
Fantômas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre Source: LibriVox (zipped mp3s or M4B) Length: 10 hrs, 11 min Reader: Alan Winterrowd The book: Literature is full of great detectives; less so with great criminals. The criminal masterminds that take center stage… Read moreFree Listens review: Fantomas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
A Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft Source: Voices in the Dark (Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 ) Length: 2.6 hours Reader: Sean Puckett The book: While on a architectural tour of New England, a man visits… Read moreFree Listens review: A Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan Source: LibriVox (zipped mp3s) Length: 4 hours, 20 minutes Reader: Adrian Praetzellis The book: Before Dan Brown or The Bourne Identity, John Buchan got the ball rolling in the man-on-the-run conspiracy novel sub-genre in 1915. The… Read moreFREE LISTENS REVIEW: The 39 Steps by John Buchan
The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs Source: LibriVox (zipped mp3’s) Length: 3 hr, 49 min Reader: Ralph Snelson The book: Set during World War I, this adventure novel starts with the sinking of an Allied ship by a German… Read moreFREE LISTENS REVIEW: The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs