The Fall of the House of Usher was published in 1839, and written by the American master of the Gothic, Edgar Allen Poe. This is the classic gothic tale of a family identified...

In this classsic of H. G. Wells, Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a beautiful island in the South Seas and is drawn into the wild and cruel world of Doctor Moreau, who aspires to...

Do you want to listen to Treasure Island? If so then keep reading…One of the best-loved adventure stories ever written, Treasure Island's timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure...

Do you want to listen to The Story of Doctor Dolittle? If so then keep reading…Doctor Dolittle is one of kind. Not only can he talk to animals—but he can understand them too!...

Do you want to listen to The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge? If so then keep reading…In Agatha Christie’s short story, “The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge,” Poirot and Hastings...

Victor Frankenstein has no idea the horrors he is to unleash when at the University Town of Ingolstadt he create a living being from dead tissue. This begins a cycle of death,...

Don Juan in Hell is an excerpt (Act 3, Scene 2) from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. It is often performed as a stand-alone play. In it, three characters from Mozart’s...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving,, both appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies...

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the...

A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French...