Classic Audiobook Collection

World-Power and Evolution by Ellsworth Huntington audiobook. Genre: history In World-Power and Evolution (1919), Yale geographer Ellsworth Huntington widens his famous climate-and-civilization argument from the map to the timeline, asking a sweeping question: if environment helps shape where civilization flourishes, can shifting weather and climate also help explain when nations surge, stall, or decline? Writing in the shadow of World War I, Huntington blends climatology, public health, economics, and early evolutionary thought to trace how year-to-year variability in weather may influence human vitality, disease, and productivity, and how those human changes ripple outward into trade, social stability, and the capacities that underpin world power. Moving between broad theory and pointed case studies, he considers the role of variability itself, the conditions that may favor mental development, and the long arc by which environments select for different traits in animals and people. He then tests his framework against historical and contemporary examples, including Rome and modern European rivalries, building a provocative portrait of history as a contest shaped not only by leaders and ideas, but also by heat, cold, rain, and the rhythms of health. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:05:05) Chapter 01 (00:25:49) Chapter 02 (00:56:20) Chapter 03 (01:11:17) Chapter 04 (01:24:47) Chapter 05 (01:53:14) Chapter 06 (02:24:49) Chapter 07 (03:00:48) Chapter 08 (03:46:40) Chapter 09 (04:17:57) Chapter 10 (05:02:38) Chapter 11 (05:44:22) Chapter 12 (06:21:52) Chapter 13 (06:53:28) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Civilization and Climate by Ellsworth Huntington audiobook. Genre: history In Civilization and Climate, geographer and early climate thinker Ellsworth Huntington asks a bold question: how much of human history can be understood through the rhythms of weather, seasons, and long-term climatic change? Moving across regions and centuries, Huntington traces how temperature, rainfall, and variability may shape agriculture, health, migration, labor, and the rise and decline of societies. He connects everyday human energy and productivity to broader patterns of settlement and economics, arguing that climate is not just background scenery but an active force that can amplify opportunity or intensify hardship. Along the way, he draws on travel observations, historical records, and the scientific ideas available in his era to build a sweeping interpretation of civilization as a living system responding to environmental pressures. The book blends big-picture historical storytelling with an investigator's desire to measure, compare, and explain, inviting listeners to weigh evidence, question assumptions, and consider how climate influences culture and power. Even when you disagree, Huntington's provocative framework makes the past feel newly dynamic and raises unsettling questions about resilience and vulnerability in any age. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (01:04:31) Chapter 02 (01:55:56) Chapter 03 (02:38:39) Chapter 04 (03:40:24) Chapter 05 (04:25:53) Chapter 06 (04:58:41) Chapter 07 (05:37:51) Chapter 08 (06:12:38) Chapter 09 (06:57:31) Chapter 10 (07:38:28) Chapter 11 (08:30:15) Chapter 12 (08:58:19) Chapter 13 (09:42:52) Chapter 14 (10:24:24) Chapter 15 (10:45:09) Chapter 16 (11:22:43) Chapter 17 (12:05:44) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Campaigns of Curiosity - Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in London by Elizabeth L. Banks audiobook. Genre: biography In Campaigns of Curiosity, American journalist Elizabeth L. Banks arrives in London in the 1890s with ambition, nerve, and little patience for the rules of a rigid class system. Determined to break into British journalism, she turns herself into the story, adopting disguises and taking on a string of roles that place her on both sides of Victorian society. One assignment drops her into the exhausting routines and tight quarters of domestic service; another pushes her into the precarious hustle of street work; still others test what it takes to survive on low wages where respectability is a luxury. Then Banks flips the experiment, presenting herself as a wealthy American and probing how easily money, titles, and connections can purchase entry into polite circles. With sharp observation, humor, and a reporter's instinct for telling detail, she exposes the hidden labor that keeps London running while challenging assumptions about women, work, and social rank. Part personal chronicle and part investigative experiment, this pioneering account captures the daring spirit of early undercover journalism and the questions it raised about empathy, power, and who gets believed. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:15:04) Chapter 01 (00:29:42) Chapter 02 (00:52:35) Chapter 03 (01:11:24) Chapter 04 (01:33:15) Chapter 05 (01:57:52) Chapter 06 (02:20:53) Chapter 07 (02:42:33) Chapter 08 (03:04:16) Chapter 09 (03:13:55) Chapter 10 (03:23:20) Chapter 11 (03:32:16) Chapter 12 (03:38:16) Chapter 13 (04:02:57) Chapter 14 (04:19:24) Chapter 15 (04:41:24) Chapter 16 (05:03:38) Chapter 17 (05:20:51) Chapter 18 (05:38:49) Chapter 19 (05:57:55) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Weather Influences by Edwin Grant Dexter audiobook. Genre: science First published in the early 1900s, Edwin Grant Dexter's Weather Influences sets out to test a question most people think they already understand: how much do day-to-day meteorological conditions shape what we feel and what we do? Dexter begins by surveying the rich tradition of weather lore - proverbs, folk beliefs, and literary portraits of 'skyey influences' - then pivots to a rigorously empirical challenge. Using meteorological records for temperature, humidity, wind, barometric pressure, and seasonal changes, he compares shifts in the atmosphere to real-world human outcomes drawn from schools, courts, police records, financial activity, and public health statistics. Chapter by chapter, Dexter follows weather's possible fingerprints across attention and classroom behavior, crime, mental illness, suicide, drunkenness, and other social indicators, always wrestling with a central problem: how to separate coincidence and cultural storytelling from patterns that can be measured. Written in a clear, methodical style, Weather Influences offers an early model of data-driven behavioral science, inviting listeners to question their assumptions, examine evidence, and consider how subtle environmental forces might nudge individuals and societies alike. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:38:59) Chapter 01 (00:52:19) Chapter 02 (01:15:48) Chapter 03 (01:34:17) Chapter 04 (02:01:15) Chapter 05 (02:35:47) Chapter 06 (03:01:18) Chapter 07 (03:37:38) Chapter 08 (04:18:35) Chapter 09 (04:54:33) Chapter 10 (05:10:12) Chapter 11 (05:40:48) Chapter 12 (06:10:14) Chapter 13 (06:28:27) Chapter 14 (06:49:37) Chapter 15 (07:20:50) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. Lucas audiobook. Genre: history Highways and Byways in Sussex is E. V. Lucas's warm, observant journey through an English county of chalk downs, market towns, seaside resorts, and quiet lanes where history seems to press close to the present. Framed as a wanderer's progress shaped largely by railway lines, Lucas enters Sussex in the west at Midhurst and zig-zags eastward through places such as Chichester, Arundel, Petworth, Horsham, Brighton, Lewes, Eastbourne, Hastings, and Rye, pausing wherever a church tower, castle wall, inn sign, or stretch of heath sparks a story. This is not a strict guidebook of timetables and practicalities, but a literary bouquet: a blend of local legend and literary echoes, architecture and antiquities, countryside character and coastal bustle, and the small, telling details of everyday life. Along the way Lucas introduces the reader to Sussex's shifting landscapes and long memory, from Roman roads and medieval strongholds to village customs and the natural life of fields and forests. Frederick L. Griggs's illustrations, paired with the book's roaming curiosity, make the county feel both intimate and freshly discovered. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:20:47) Chapter 02 (00:48:52) Chapter 03 (00:59:27) Chapter 04 (01:18:21) Chapter 05 (01:46:19) Chapter 06 (02:16:41) Chapter 07 (02:28:50) Chapter 08 (02:48:18) Chapter 09 (03:01:14) Chapter 10 (03:24:37) Chapter 11 (03:34:26) Chapter 12 (03:55:10) Chapter 13 (04:10:19) Chapter 14 (04:21:18) Chapter 15 (04:37:50) Chapter 16 (05:03:02) Chapter 17 (05:41:23) Chapter 18 (05:55:43) Chapter 19 (06:07:58) Chapter 20 (06:35:50) Chapter 21 (06:41:10) Chapter 22 (06:59:18) Chapter 23 (07:09:31) Chapter 24 (07:18:14) Chapter 25 (07:30:42) Chapter 26 (07:59:26) Chapter 27 (08:12:37) Chapter 28 (08:31:14) Chapter 29 (08:45:05) Chapter 30 (09:06:27) Chapter 31 (09:21:50) Chapter 32 (09:34:17) Chapter 33 (09:58:26) Chapter 34 (10:17:02) Chapter 35 (10:37:13) Chapter 36 (10:53:09) Chapter 37 (11:10:07) Chapter 38 (11:42:18) Chapter 39 (12:12:46) Chapter 40 (12:41:59) Chapter 41 (13:09:47) Chapter 42 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salome and the Head by E. Nesbit audiobook. Genre: thriller Edmund Templar, a young Englishman on the verge of shipping out to the South African War, takes refuge with relatives and wanders the New Forest to steady his nerves. There, in a sunlit clearing, he witnesses an unforgettable scene: a wild, spellbinding girl dancing as a crippled boy plays a penny whistle, the two of them seeming to belong to some older, stranger story than his own. Years later, returned to civilian life and still haunted by that encounter, Edmund sets out to find them again - and is drawn into the limelight world of London performance, where beauty is a commodity, reputations are manufactured, and desire can be engineered as expertly as any stage effect. As the dancer is remade into a modern Salome for a hungry audience, Edmund begins to sense that the drama is not confined to the theatre. A secret refuge, a web of dependence, and hints of coercion and unnatural influence tighten around the principals, until the line between a prop and a reality becomes dangerously uncertain. Darkly romantic and sharply aware of the traps laid for women, Nesbit builds a macabre melodrama of obsession, artifice, and the price of being watched. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:24) Chapter 02 (00:47:27) Chapter 03 (01:10:25) Chapter 04 (01:27:10) Chapter 05 (01:54:00) Chapter 06 (02:18:50) Chapter 07 (02:41:21) Chapter 08 (03:06:04) Chapter 09 (03:37:05) Chapter 10 (03:56:59) Chapter 11 (04:25:20) Chapter 12 (04:57:07) Chapter 13 (05:24:32) Chapter 14 (05:42:30) Chapter 15 (06:05:39) Chapter 16 (06:41:19) Chapter 17 (07:05:51) Chapter 18 (07:29:50) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Man and Maid by E. Nesbit audiobook. Genre: horror Man and Maid is a sharp, atmospheric collection of adult short fiction by E. Nesbit, moving from drawing-room comedy to quiet dread with the turn of a page. Across thirteen tales, Nesbit tests the fragile boundary between what society expects and what the heart, and sometimes something far stranger, demands. In one story, a newly inherited country house offers comfort, status, and a whispering legend of haunting; in another, chance encounters and small deceptions set romance and reputation on a collision course. Elsewhere, a wealthy woman's freedom becomes its own trap, an editor and an aunt wage a subtle battle of wills, and ordinary streetside errands lead to unsettling revelations. Whether the setting is a manor with a past, a cramped London room, or a railway carriage where a stranger's gaze lingers too long, Nesbit keeps the focus on people: their bargains, their blind spots, and the moments when love and fear look uncomfortably alike. Witty, eerie, and surprisingly tender, these stories invite listeners to savor both the charm of Edwardian manners and the shadow that falls just behind them. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:36:34) Chapter 02 (01:12:10) Chapter 03 (01:41:24) Chapter 04 (02:05:23) Chapter 05 (02:42:54) Chapter 06 (03:12:21) Chapter 07 (03:37:46) Chapter 08 (04:07:27) Chapter 09 (04:36:56) Chapter 10 (05:03:46) Chapter 11 (05:31:17) Chapter 12 (05:54:35) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grim Tales by E. Nesbit audiobook. Genre: horror Grim Tales by E. Nesbit is a collection of short Victorian-era stories that take the familiar comforts of drawing rooms, seaside holidays, and country houses and tilt them into the uncanny. Instead of a single hero, Nesbit presents a parade of ordinary people - curious visitors, complacent householders, and practical-minded skeptics - who find that a casual choice, a private wish, or a small act of selfishness can open the door to something coldly inexplicable. Each tale builds with Nesbit's trademark clarity and wit, balancing eerie atmosphere with a sharp eye for human weakness: vanity, greed, jealousy, and the desire to control what should not be controlled. Shadows lengthen in corridors, objects refuse to stay harmless, and the past proves far less settled than anyone would like to believe. Written with brisk pacing and a storyteller's relish for tension, these stories explore the price of temptation and the thin line between the everyday and the supernatural - leaving listeners to wonder what might be waiting just beyond the lamplight. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:29:23) Chapter 2 (00:46:52) Chapter 3 (00:55:22) Chapter 4 (01:03:55) Chapter 5 (01:20:26) Chapter 6 (01:29:23) Chapter 7 (01:38:00) Chapter 8 (02:12:15) Chapter 9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Food Values by Dr. Albert Sy audiobook. Genre: science Written during the World War I era, Food Values is Dr. Albert Philip Sy's brisk, practical guide to understanding what everyday foods contribute to the body. Part primer and part reference booklet, it begins by laying out the basics of nutrition in plain language: how the body uses protein, fat, and carbohydrates, why energy (calories) matters, and what to keep in mind when choosing foods for health, work, and economy. From there, Sy turns the book into a usable handbook, organizing common foods into categories and comparing them by chemical composition and food value, including figures for calories and amounts of protein, fat, carbohydrates, water, and mineral residue (listed as ash). Along the way he discusses prices and tradeoffs, showing how different choices can stretch a budget without sacrificing nourishment. Chapters move through staples such as milk products, eggs and cheese, meats and fish, cereal grains and bread, sugars, vegetables and beans, fruits, nuts, and simple dietary standards. Read today, the book also offers a window into early 20th century nutrition thinking, before modern vitamin science and later debates about types of fats reshaped dietary advice. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:13:26) Chapter 2 (00:24:11) Chapter 3 (00:30:46) Chapter 4 (00:40:49) Chapter 5 (00:49:10) Chapter 6 (00:59:06) Chapter 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unicorns by James Huneker audiobook. Genre: speeches Unicorns (1917) is James Huneker's sharp, wide-ranging collection of essays on the arts - a roaming conversation about what happens when imagination collides with reality. Taking the unicorn as his opening emblem of the unattainable and the necessary dream, Huneker moves from concert hall to studio to library, weighing the claims of modern taste against classical standards and asking what makes an artist, a masterpiece, or a movement endure. Along the way he sketches vivid portraits and arguments around composers, writers, and painters such as Edward MacDowell, Brahms, Chopin, Richard Wagner, Remy de Gourmont, J.-K. Huysmans, Henry James, James Joyce, and Paul Cezanne, while also pausing over style, rhythm in prose, and the shifting currents of French and Anglo-American culture. By turns witty, combative, and lyrical, Huneker writes as a critic who loves the heat of opinion and the thrill of discovery - and who insists that sincerity, craft, and daring matter more than fashion. Unicorns is both a time-capsule of early modernism and a spirited defense of art's power to remake the everyday. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:32) Chapter 02 (00:27:07) Chapter 03 (00:51:15) Chapter 04 (01:36:27) Chapter 05 (02:07:23) Chapter 06 (02:42:18) Chapter 07 (03:03:13) Chapter 08 (03:18:52) Chapter 09 (03:28:03) Chapter 10 (03:43:26) Chapter 11 (04:12:09) Chapter 12 (04:31:51) Chapter 13 (04:45:50) Chapter 14 (05:00:14) Chapter 15 (05:25:38) Chapter 16 (05:38:10) Chapter 17 (05:51:41) Chapter 18 (06:05:15) Chapter 19 (06:18:41) Chapter 20 (06:34:29) Chapter 21 (06:57:05) Chapter 22 (07:28:18) Chapter 23 (07:50:59) Chapter 24 (07:59:43) Chapter 25 (08:25:35) Chapter 26 (08:49:47) Chapter 27 (09:00:19) Chapter 28 (09:28:58) Chapter 29 (09:48:57) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Food Preparedness by Dr. Albert Sy audiobook. Genre: history Written as a wartime bulletin in the World War I era, Food Preparedness is a brisk, practical guide to eating well when supplies are uncertain. Dr. Albert Philip Sy, a Ph.D. chemist and professor at the University of Buffalo, begins by grounding the listener in the fundamentals of nutrition as his generation understood them, then turns to the urgent, everyday question families faced: how do you stretch a food budget, conserve staples, and still protect health? With a clear, instructional voice, Sy lays out how to think about food as fuel and building material, how to avoid waste, and how to plan sensible meals even when familiar ingredients are scarce. The heart of the book is substitution: which foods can stand in for others without sacrificing nutritional value, and how to make those swaps wisely across grains, fats, proteins, and sweets. Part historical snapshot and part household handbook, Food Preparedness captures the intersection of science, civic duty, and kitchen reality, offering listeners both a window into an earlier America and a set of principles that remain relevant whenever scarcity, rationing, or disruption forces tough choices at the table. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 0 (00:01:39) Chapter 1 (00:09:39) Chapter 2 (00:19:09) Chapter 3 (00:26:33) Chapter 4 (00:39:12) Chapter 5 (00:49:58) Chapter 6 (00:54:08) Chapter 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Outermost House by Henry Beston audiobook. Genre: history Written from a solitary cottage on Cape Cod's Great Beach, The Outermost House is Henry Beston's luminous record of a year spent living at the edge of land and sea. Through the turning seasons, Beston watches the Atlantic's moods, the shifting dunes, and the night sky, learning the beach's daily rhythms and the larger cycles that govern weather, tides, and migration. His closest neighbors are the creatures that share this narrow margin - shorebirds riding the wind, foxes tracing the sand, and the restless life of the surf - and his prose invites the listener to see them not as scenery, but as fellow inhabitants of a complex, ancient world. As storms threaten the fragile house and winter isolates the shore, Beston confronts the hard beauty of coastal life and the questions it raises about solitude, stewardship, and humanity's place in nature. Part field journal, part meditation, and part love letter to the wild, this classic work offers a bracing, attentive way of looking that still feels urgent today. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:05:02) Chapter 01 (00:33:15) Chapter 02 (01:06:47) Chapter 03 (01:34:42) Chapter 04 (02:22:15) Chapter 05 (03:04:45) Chapter 06 (03:42:14) Chapter 07 (04:20:55) Chapter 08 (04:53:43) Chapter 09 (05:37:00) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nightmare Tales by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky audiobook. Genre: horror Before she became famous as the co-founder of the Theosophical Society, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky also turned her sharp eye toward fiction, producing uncanny tales that hover between ghost story, mystery, and metaphysical thought experiment. Nightmare Tales gathers a set of eerie narratives in which ordinary life cracks open to reveal doubles, strange echoes, haunted objects, and visions that refuse to be dismissed as mere superstition. In one story, a bedridden narrator in a somber Rhine town finds himself drawn into a disturbing account that blurs the line between memory and manifestation. Elsewhere, skeptical observers confront phenomena that challenge their certainty: a shadow-self that seems to act with its own will, a cavern that answers human voices with something more than sound, an encounter on the frozen edge of the world, and a violin whose music suggests an unnerving presence within. Across these stories, Blavatsky builds tension less through gore than through psychological pressure and spiritual ambiguity, asking what the unseen might demand of the living, and what a person risks when curiosity becomes invocation. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:19) Chapter 01 (00:47:17) Chapter 02 (01:54:00) Chapter 03 (02:16:05) Chapter 04 (02:35:24) Chapter 05 (02:43:33) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Re-creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright audiobook. Genre: drama Brian Kent is a respectable young bank clerk on the outside, but inside he is fraying under pressure, temptation, and a marriage that drains his courage. When a desperate choice leaves him on the run and sick with remorse, Brian tries to vanish into the dark current of a dangerous river, hoping the water will erase what he has done. Instead, the river delivers him into the rough, beautiful Ozarks and into the care of two unlikely guardians: Judy, a sharp-eyed local girl with her own scars, and Auntie Sue, an aging schoolteacher whose plainspoken kindness hides a fierce moral strength. As Brian hides from the law and from his own self-contempt, he is put to work, drawn into a small community, and challenged to rebuild his body, his conscience, and his sense of purpose. But renewal is not simple. Old habits and old lies do not stay buried, and as affection grows between Brian and the spirited Betty Jo, jealousy and suspicion stir. With his past closing in and the river ever present as both threat and symbol, Brian must decide what it truly means to be re-created. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:27) Chapter 02 (00:31:38) Chapter 03 (00:53:36) Chapter 04 (00:58:31) Chapter 05 (01:19:57) Chapter 06 (01:33:54) Chapter 07 (01:51:24) Chapter 08 (02:10:22) Chapter 09 (02:31:25) Chapter 10 (02:50:04) Chapter 11 (03:15:08) Chapter 12 (03:24:14) Chapter 13 (03:47:10) Chapter 14 (04:14:59) Chapter 15 (04:34:40) Chapter 16 (04:54:15) Chapter 17 (05:08:33) Chapter 18 (05:19:39) Chapter 19 (05:37:12) Chapter 20 (05:54:24) Chapter 21 (06:18:13) Chapter 22 (06:35:02) Chapter 23 (07:03:10) Chapter 24 (07:11:02) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Biddy and the Silver Man by Harlan Ellison audiobook. Genre: scifi In the sunblasted Arizona desert, twelve-year-old Biddy passes her days making up adventures with her burro, Buck, pushing past the limits of a leg brace and the pain of polio. Sage Bend is small, harsh, and quick to judge, but Biddy has learned to meet the world head-on - especially when the wide, empty country beyond town still feels like it belongs to her. Everything changes when she and Buck discover a hidden cave containing a strange machine and a wounded man named Joe, who insists he is from the 'sky bloc.' Joe is unlike anyone Biddy has ever met: guarded, frightened, and capable of something that looks an awful lot like a miracle. When Joe heals Biddy, wonder spreads through Sage Bend - and so does suspicion. To the townspeople, the unknown is a threat, and their fear curdles into prejudice and violence. As the community closes in, Biddy must decide what she believes, what she is willing to risk, and whether a child with a stubborn heart can stand against a mob. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:24) Chapter 02 (00:15:54) Chapter 03 (00:27:35) Chapter 04 (00:39:52) Chapter 05 (00:45:13) Chapter 06 (00:58:27) Chapter 07 (01:09:43) Chapter 08 (01:17:22) Chapter 09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Virgin of the Sun by H. Rider Haggard audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Virgin of the Sun, H. Rider Haggard carries listeners to a turbulent Egypt where old gods, rising faiths, and imperial ambitions collide. At the center is Neter-Tua, a young princess of royal blood whose beauty and perceived sanctity earn her the title 'the Virgin of the Sun' and make her both a symbol and a prize in a land on edge. As factions maneuver for power, she is drawn into a dangerous web of prophecy, politics, and devotion that tests the limits of duty and desire. Her fate becomes entangled with a small band of outsiders, including a capable warrior and a wandering figure with secrets of his own, whose loyalties are constantly questioned as the stakes climb from personal survival to the future of kingdoms. Moving through temples, desert roads, and courts thick with intrigue, the story blends romance, spiritual conflict, and high adventure, asking what it means to be chosen, what is owed to love, and how far people will go to shape history when the world they know is changing. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:42:55) Chapter 01 (01:09:33) Chapter 02 (01:36:00) Chapter 03 (02:08:01) Chapter 04 (02:49:16) Chapter 05 (03:19:21) Chapter 06 (03:54:35) Chapter 07 (04:29:08) Chapter 08 (05:02:51) Chapter 09 (05:29:24) Chapter 10 (05:58:37) Chapter 11 (06:29:45) Chapter 12 (07:02:11) Chapter 13 (07:30:04) Chapter 14 (08:09:25) Chapter 15 (08:35:40) Chapter 16 (09:05:20) Chapter 17 (09:32:51) Chapter 18 (10:00:23) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lady of Blossholme by H. Rider Haggard audiobook. Genre: adventure In Tudor England, with Henry VIII's rule tightening and the north simmering with unrest, the quiet lands around Blossholme Abbey become a battleground. Sir John Foterell, stubborn lord of the district, discovers that Abbot Clement Maldon is using law, bribery, and fear to seize the Foterell inheritance and bankroll a dangerous cause. When Sir John's defiance brings deadly consequences, the burden falls on his daughter, Cicely, newly thrust into the role of Lady of Blossholme. Courageous yet unprepared for the ruthless games of churchmen and courtiers, Cicely must defend her home, her people, and her own reputation as Maldon's plots close in. At her side are Emlyn, her fierce and faithful foster-mother, and Sir Christopher Harflete, the man Cicely has loved since childhood, whose loyalty is tested by separation, suspicion, and violence. From abbey dungeons and courtroom accusations to the shadowed roads leading toward Thomas Cromwell and the King's presence, H. Rider Haggard blends romance, peril, and political intrigue into a sweeping tale of faith and power, and of a woman fighting to keep what is hers. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:41) Chapter 02 (00:50:25) Chapter 03 (01:15:47) Chapter 04 (01:40:57) Chapter 05 (02:16:17) Chapter 06 (02:44:28) Chapter 07 (03:17:13) Chapter 08 (03:41:32) Chapter 09 (04:07:41) Chapter 10 (04:34:36) Chapter 11 (05:04:38) Chapter 12 (05:35:04) Chapter 13 (06:06:30) Chapter 14 (06:34:04) Chapter 15 (07:05:01) Chapter 16 (07:30:44) Chapter 17 (08:00:34) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft audiobook. Genre: horror In Supernatural Horror in Literature, H. P. Lovecraft turns from fiction to criticism, offering a sweeping guided tour of the eerie, the uncanny, and the otherworldly across centuries of storytelling. Written with the authority of a master practitioner, the essay traces how supernatural terror evolved from early folklore and Gothic romance into modern weird fiction, and it argues for fear of the unknown as the genre's most enduring power. Along the way, Lovecraft highlights key writers, landmark tales, and shifting cultural moods, drawing connections between atmosphere, suggestion, and the careful crafting of dread. His voice is both scholarly and intensely personal: he praises what works, explains why certain stories linger in the imagination, and champions a tradition devoted to mood over mere shock. Part history lesson, part manifesto, and part reading roadmap, this classic work invites listeners to see horror not as escapism but as an art of evocation - a literature of shadows, thresholds, and the vastness beyond human certainty. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:59) Chapter 02 (00:20:19) Chapter 03 (00:34:34) Chapter 04 (00:46:29) Chapter 05 (01:04:54) Chapter 06 (01:18:16) Chapter 07 (01:34:37) Chapter 08 (02:06:17) Chapter 09 (02:28:49) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Horla by Guy de Maupassant audiobook. Genre: horror In The Horla, Guy de Maupassant delivers a chilling psychological tale told through the private journal of a well-to-do man living quietly in late 19th century France. At first, his days are filled with ordinary pleasures: his home, the river, passing ships, and the comfort of routine. Then small disturbances begin to intrude - restless nights, strange sensations, and an unsettling feeling that he is no longer alone. As the entries continue, the narrator becomes convinced that an invisible presence has attached itself to him, feeding on his strength and bending his will. Desperate to prove he is not imagining it, he turns to observation, medical advice, and the era's new language of science, only to find each explanation slipping through his grasp. His rational mind clashes with mounting terror as he tries to name and understand the thing he calls the Horla. Tense, intimate, and claustrophobic, this short classic explores obsession, the fragility of sanity, and the frightening possibility that the greatest monster might be the one no one else can see. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:14) Chapter 02 (00:33:51) Chapter 03 (00:54:53) Chapter 04 (01:19:54) Chapter 05 (01:38:23) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Gargoyle by Greye La Spina audiobook. Genre: horror From the lurid brilliance of Weird Tales comes Greye La Spina's Gothic occult thriller, a headlong descent into a castle where reason is a thin shield. Luke Porter, a working painter with a practical mind, is approached by the flamboyant and unsettling Cagliostro Moderno, an amateur mystic who insists he has uncovered something monstrous at remote Fanewold Castle. Luke expects a crank and a curiosity, not the steady drumbeat of coincidences and warnings that seem to herd them toward the castle gates - and toward a presence Moderno fears to name. Inside Fanewold, whispers of black magic cling to the stonework. A cloaked figure known only as The Master moves in secrecy, preaching devotion to Lucifer and tightening his influence over his young cousin, Sybil, whose innocence makes her the perfect focus for an unthinkable rite. With only fragments of evidence, a growing sense of spiritual peril, and the wary help of Sybil's handmaid, Alden, Luke must decide how far a skeptic will go when faced with forces that do not care whether he believes. As the castle's shadows lengthen, temptation, obsession, and courage collide in a race against a ritual already set in motion. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:15) Chapter 02 (00:30:40) Chapter 03 (00:47:37) Chapter 04 (01:03:38) Chapter 05 (01:21:02) Chapter 06 (01:32:22) Chapter 07 (01:52:19) Chapter 08 (02:07:26) Chapter 09 (02:22:16) Chapter 10 (02:40:13) Chapter 11 (02:54:59) Chapter 12 (03:05:35) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices