Classics audiobooks
Singing In The Shrouds - Abridged
By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Anton Lesser
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
On a cold February night the police find the third corpse on the quayside in the Pool of London, her body covered with flower petals and pearls. The killer walked away, singing. When the cargo ship, Cape Farewell, sets sail, she carries nine passengers, one of whom is known to be the murderer. Which is why Superintendent Roderick Alleyn joins... Read more
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Thumbelina
By: Hans Christian Andersen
Narrated by: Tamsin Greig & Ursula Anderman
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Thumbelina is the story about a little girl’s dedication and love for the old woman who gave her life. This is a new version of a classic tale set to beautiful classical music from beginning to end.Once upon a time, there was an old woman. She was very kind and loving. She also was very lonely, because she had no children. Quite often, she... Read more
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The Secret Agent
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Secret agent Mr. Adolph Verloc operates from a seedy Soho shop, where he deals in pornography and espionage. Idle, treacherous, and self-righteous, he makes the life of his wife, Winnie, one of silent misery. When Verloc is assigned to plant a bomb at Greenwich Observatory, his plans go terribly awry, and his family has to deal with the tragic... Read more
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The Forsyte Saga, Volume 1
By: John Galsworthy
Narrated by: Peter Joyce
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A compelling drama and merciless scrutiny of a newly-monied upper middle class family at the turn of the twentieth century, The Forsyte Saga has a sumptuous range of characters; Soames, he of the ‘perpetual sniff’; Old Jolyon, ‘typifying the essential individualism born in the Briton’; the sensuous Bosinney with ‘an air as if he did not quite... Read more
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Basil Hallward, an artist, meets Dorian Gray and paints his portrait. The artist is so infatuated with Dorian’s beauty that he begins to believe it is the reason for his quality of art. Dorian becomes convinced that beauty is all-important and wishes his portrait could age instead of him. But each time Dorian commits a sin, his portrait ages,... Read more
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In mir erwacht das Tier
By: F. W. Bernstein
Narrated by: F.W. Bernstein
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"Damen und Herren, Sie haben bestellt / die besten Gedichte der ganzen Welt. / Hier kriegen Sie, wenn's beliebt, / die süßeste, wildeste Lyrik wo gibt." F.W. Bernstein ist niemand, der leere Versprechungen macht, und deshalb gilt dieses Motto, mit dem er sein epochales Werk "Die Gedichte" im letzten Herbst eröffnete, auch für diese CD. Süße und... Read more
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Das große IchundDu
By: Wiglaf Droste
Narrated by: Wiglaf Droste
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
"Dieses lehren uns die Schlichten: / Freundlich lächeln. Weiterdichten", schrieb Wiglaf Droste, nachdem er wieder einmal Unbill mit der Chefsorte Mensch hatte. Und das tut Droste denn auch: gut gelaunt weiterdichten. Die Anlässe für seine Verse sind mannigfaltig wie das Leben selbst. Manchmal reicht schon ein klangvoller Halbsatz in einer... Read more
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Der Tag, an dem ich allen Glück wünschte
By: Franz Dobler
Narrated by: Franz Dobler
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
"Ich mag das Holz / und die Arbeit die es macht / Von mir aus können sie / den ganzen Wald umlegen / und mir herbringen / Ich steh da / mit dem Beil in der Hand." Franz Doblers Westerngedichte sind Dauerbrenner. Wer einzelne schon mal auf Lesungen gehört hat, kann jetzt endlich auf die komplette Sammlung zurückgreifen. Die Daltons kommen darin... Read more
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Crime and Punishment
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 23 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime—the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime—to transgress moral law—if it will ultimately benefit humanity?
So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological... Read more
The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 34 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
This passionate novel of ethics and morality, religion and philosophy was Dostoevsky’s final and best work.After spending four years in a Siberian penal settlement, during which time he underwent a religious conversion, Dostoevsky developed a keen ability for deep character analysis. In The Brothers Karamazov, he explores human nature at its... Read more
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Riders of the Purple Sage
By: Zane Grey
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Now, for the first time in a century, Zane Grey’s best-known novel is presented in its original form exactly as he wrote it.In Cottonwoods, Utah, in 1871, a woman stands accused and a man is sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man whom the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, and he is a notorious... Read more
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The Canterville Ghost
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The Ghost that haunts Canterville Chase has built a marvelous career of midnight haunting. But when an American family moves in, they simply have no respect for permanent bloodstains, nightmarish chains nor ancient legends. They even throw pillows at him. Read more
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Seize the Day
By: Saul Bellow
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children; at odds with his vain, successful father; failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as "the type that... Read more
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Tales
By: Ambrose Bierce
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 52 minutes
Abridged: No
There is a bridge at Owl Creek that is surrounded by dry and cracking driftwood. Burning the bridge would be the perfect way for a civilian Southerner to strike a blow against the Union Army. But Peyton Farkuar doesn’t make it that far. And instead, finds a rope around his neck. Read more
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The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: Doug Bradley
Length: 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A tragic secret comes back to haunt the house of Usher forever after. Read more
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The Black Cat
By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: Doug Bradley
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A psychopath gets his comeuppance in the form of The Black Cat. Read more
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The Damned Thing
By: Ambrose Bierce
Narrated by: Doug Bradley
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
There is more to the natural world than the human eyes and ears can detect. Read more
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How it Happened
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Doug Bradley
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
An automobile accident leads to shocking revelations. Read more
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Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Volume Five
By: Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle & Ambrose B...
Narrated by: Doug Bradley
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Welcome to Volume Five, one of the world's largest collection of high quality, classic horror short story audiobooks.
If you're home then get some logs ready and put on your most comfortable slippers, as we kick things off with Doug Bradley's well researched introduction to the authors and stories featured in this volume.
Ambrose Bierce brings us... Read more
Lot No. 249
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Doug Bradley
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No
An Egyptian Mummy terrorizes Oxford presented by Renegade Arts Entertainment. Read more
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Lost Hearts
By: M.R. James
Narrated by: Doug Bradley
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: No
An orphan discovers his foster father has evil plans for the children he takes in, past...and present. Read more
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Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Volume Four
By: Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce...
Narrated by: Doug Bradley
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Welcome to Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Volume Four, what is on the way of becoming the world's largest collection of high quality, classic horror short story audiobooks.
We start with Doug Bradley's well researched introduction to the authors and stories featured in this volume. Launching us into 'Lost Hearts', M.R. James' creepy tale of ghostly... Read more
John Mortonson's Funeral
By: Ambrose Bierce
Narrated by: Doug Bradley
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
John Mortonson's Funeral by Ambrose Bierce: A man's last laugh at his funeral service. Read more
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In The Vault
By: H.P. Lovecraft
Narrated by: Doug Bradley
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
An undertaker is trapped within his receiving tomb. Read more
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