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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Stanley Fleming is a healthy, hard-nerved man with no patience for fancies — yet he sits before his physician unable to explain the dread that grips him each night. For when sleep takes him, a great white dog pads silently into his room and watches...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a desolate California valley, a traveler stumbles upon a crude grave marked with a strange, half-effaced inscription warning the curious away. Years later, he returns and pieces together the dark history from a surly, half-mad settler named Jo...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the dark, untamed forests of Cheat Mountain, a young Federal officer stands watch, surrounded by the ghostly whispers of an endless night. His task is simple: protect his comrades from unseen foes. But as the shadows close in and the silence grows...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One of Twins by Ambrose Bierce plunges readers into a chilling tale of doppelgängers, deception, and dark secrets. When identical twins John and Mortimer's inseparable bond leads to a web of mistaken identities, an eerie series of events unfolds...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the shadowy woods beneath Mount Saint Helena, Halpin Frayser awakens from a nightmare, whispering the name “Catherine La Rue.” His restless dreams entwine with haunting memories of a complex bond with his mother, leading him into a chilling past...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a world where the lines between science and philosophy begin to blur, Moxon—a mysterious inventor—challenges the idea that only humans can think. When his friend visits him in his secluded house filled with machines, unsettling signs emerge. Can...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Silas Deemer kept his store so faithfully that the people of Hillbrook set their lives by him — and not even death seemed reason enough to close up shop. Weeks after they laid him in the ground, a respectable banker walks home past the darkened...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the shadowed depths of Macarger's Gulch, between overgrown hills and trails forgotten by time, a lone hunter stops for the night in an abandoned cabin. It was meant to be a simple rest—just a brief pause under the stars—but as night falls and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the long-abandoned and supposedly haunted Manton house, a grisly murder once scarred the land with a lingering evil. Years later, a man is challenged to a deadly duel inside the decaying building, where the past refuses to stay buried. As the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When Hawver rents an abandoned house once owned by an eccentric doctor with a dark reputation, he doesn't expect his stay to be anything more than an escape from the summer heat. But the lingering presence of Dr. Mannering—through his haunting...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a mysterious and unsettling realm where reality blends with hallucination, a lost wanderer discovers the ancient ruins of the legendary city of Carcosa. Surrounded by ominous landscapes and inexplicable phenomena, the protagonist comes face to face...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the heart of the untamed wilderness, a group of men gathers for a harrowing inquest. As the chilling cries of night creatures fill the air, a mysterious, invisible force stalks its prey. One witness, armed only with his pen, recounts a terrifying...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "The Moonlit Road" is a dark tale of mystery, love, and tragedy, told through three different perspectives—both of the living and the dead. A brutal murder shakes a family to its core, with each new piece of the puzzle revealing deeper secrets and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the heart of the American Civil War, young soldier Carter Druse faces an impossible choice. As he awakens from sleep on his outpost, he spots a lone horseman, perfectly poised at the edge of a cliff—a soldier of the enemy. With his rifle trained...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Henry Armstrong has been buried, yet he doesn’t quite feel dead. In the pitch-black confinement of his grave, he slowly grasps the absurdity of his situation, though his body lies sealed in a tight coffin beneath layers of fresh soil. Above him, on...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce is a haunting tale of a young boy who, lost in the woods, unknowingly steps into the aftermath of a brutal battle. Armed only with a wooden sword and his imagination, he finds himself surrounded by wounded soldiers. As...

A simple wager. A deserted house. And something waiting in the dark. In The Middle Toe of the Right Foot, Ambrose Bierce delivers a masterclass in psychological horror—where tension builds not through spectacle, but through what cannot quite be seen… or explained. When a man accepts a...

This collection contains a mixture of stories about ghosts and contacts from spirits, some by celebrated authors, together with essays on psychical research. As Joseph French notes in the preface, even for the skeptic, tales of ghostly activity retain a distinct fascination. The widespread interest in psychic phenomena in the early twentieth century proved to be a significant stimulus to literary production.

Carcosa is a fictional land that first appeared in Bierce’s 1886 story “An Inhabitant of Carcosa” (included in this collection), and later is appeared Robert W. Chambers’s The King in Yellow. It has since been used by many other fantasy and horror writers and poets. This collection explores Carcosa and other fictional cities found in nineteenth-century poetry and short stories. The works of these classic and innovative writers are given new life, and a new generation of listeners will have the chance to voyage to Carcosa … and beyond.

One of the most iconic TV series ever was Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. This audiobook contains four short stories that inspired four episodes of The Twilight Zone: "The Bus Conductor" by E.F. Benson; "Elegy" by Charles Beaumont; "Time Enough at Last'' by Lynn Venable; and ''An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge'' by Ambrose Bierce. Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, one can understand why Searling was inspired by these short stories.