Classics audiobooks

Hop Frog

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dwarf has sinister plans for taking creative revenge on his master. Read more

Casting the Runes

By: M.R. James

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Two men investigate a mysterious alchemist who kills his rivals with arcane magic. Read more

The Raven

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most famous poems of all time. An Edgar Allen Poe classic. Read more

Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Volume Three

By: W. W. Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James & Rob...

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Volume Three of what is on the way to becoming the world's largest collection of quality, classic horror short story audiobooks.

This volume starts with the famous M.R. James' story of occult revenge, 'Casting the Runes', about a slighted occultist out for murderous revenge and using his diabolical black arts to achieve it. It was... Read more

The Monkey's Paw

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A talisman with a twist. Three wishes it grants, dire consequences it holds for challenging fate. Read more

The Body Snatcher

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Stevenson's famous story, adapted from the real grave-robbing events. Read more

Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Regarded as the first great masterpiece of Russian literature, Dead Souls mixes realism and symbolism for a vivid and highly original portrait of Russian life.Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town with a bizarre but seductive proposition for local landowners. He proposes to buy the names of their serfs who have died but... Read more

Michael Strogoff, with eBook

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A courier of the Czar must be dispatched to warn the Governor-General of Sibera at once: Ivan Ogareff has allied himself with the fierce and ambitious Feofar-Khan. The Tartar chiefs are pouring their men into Siberia and fomenting rebellion. Should Ivan Ogareff and his allies succeed, the Siberian provinces will be wrested away from Russian... Read more

Louise de La Vallière

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 23 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, Dumas continued his D'Artagnan romances with a final trilogy set during the reign of Louis XIV. Louise de La Vallière, the second novel in that trilogy, continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and will end with The Man in the Iron Mask. Filled with... Read more

Billy Budd

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Billy Budd, an orphaned, illegitimate child suffused with innocence, openness, and natural charisma, has been impressed into service aboard the HMS Bellipotent. He is adored by the crew but for unexplained reasons arouses the antagonism of the ship’s master-at-arms, John Claggart, who falsely accuses Billy of conspiracy to mutiny. Set in 1797,... Read more

Stolz und Vorurteil (Ungekürzte Fassung)

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Eva Mattes

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Im Mittelpunkt von Stolz und Vorurteil steht eine der hinreißendsten Frauengestalten der Weltliteratur, die kluge und lebhafte Elizabeth Bennet. Als zweite von fünf Töchtern eines nicht eben vermögenden Angehörigen der englischen Gentry, ist sie gezwungen, sich möglichst vorteilhaft zu verheiraten und muss doch ihrem Herzen folgen, das ihr... Read more

Short Stories by Saki

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Stephen Fry

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only. Stephen writes “Saki remains, from a distance of a hundred years, just about the... Read more

Benito Cereno

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, and a surprise ending, Benito Cereno at first seems merely a provocative example from the genre Herman Melville created with his early bestselling novels of the sea. However, most Melville scholars consider it his most sophisticated work, and many, such as novelist Ralph Ellison, have hailed it as the... Read more

The Man with the Golden Arm

By: Nelson Algren

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the first National Book Award in 1950, this modern classic takes us into the gritty underbelly of post–World War II America. It is the story of “Frankie Machine,” a veteran, drug addict, and card-dealer in an illicit poker game being run in Chicago’s near northwest side. Frankie has just returned from the federal prison for narcotics... Read more

Kim

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Kimball O’Hara is an Irish orphan, but he runs free in the streets of India. As a boy, he shows self-reliance and resourcefulness, running errands for Mahbub Ali, who works for the British Secret Service. Kim also meets a Tibetan lama who is on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life and becomes his disciple. Together they have wonderful... Read more

Le neveu de Rameau

By: Denis Diderot

Narrated by: Denis Podalydes

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Sous forme d'un dialogue vif et parfois provocateur, Le Neveu de Rameau de Denis Diderot met en scène Lui, le neveu du compositeur, et Moi : deux facettes de Diderot, le philosophe qui oeuvre pour les valeurs universelles et intemporelles, et le matérialiste qui pratique le cynisme et le détournement des valeurs. Le manuscrit fut caché, et ce... Read more

That Hideous Strength

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the final book in C. S. Lewis’s acclaimed Ransom Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. A classic work of fantasy as much for the wonder of its storytelling as for its insights into the human condition, the trilogy stages an epic battle between forces of light and darkness across a canvas of other worlds.In That... Read more

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Clear the decks for one of the greatest swashbuckling stories ever told. Masterfully crafted, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the fiery tropic seas—an unforgettable tale of treachery that embroils a host of legendary swashbucklers, from honest young Jim Hawkins to sinister, two-timing Israel Hands, to evil incarnate, blind Pew.... Read more

DragonSpell

By: Donita K. Paul

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Once a slave, Kale is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. Yet this young girl has much to learn about the difference between slavery and service. A Desperate Search Begins… A small band of Paladin’s servants rescue Kale from danger but turn her from her destination: The Hall, where she was to be trained. Feeling... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 18 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Eyre, the plain yet spirited governess, introduced a new kind of heroine to literature: one whose virtuous integrity, sharp intellect, and tireless perseverance broke through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loved.Orphaned and subject to a cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit... Read more

Wenn ich in deine Augen seh

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Gerd Baltus, Maren Eggert, Peter Franke, Donata...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Kaum einer hat Deutschland so voller Liebe, Wut und Witz besungen wie Heinrich Heine. Sanfte lyrische Töne wie "Leise zieht durch mein Gemüt" gehören ebenso zur Sprache dieses Dichters wie die bittere Satire "Erinnerung aus Krähwinkels Schreckenstagen" oder der charmante Humor in "Das Fräulein stand am Meere". Und noch immer zieht die... Read more

The Trumpet-Major

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the larger-than-life backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, Hardy’s only historical novel tells of the loves and sorrows of ordinary people caught in extraordinary times.When an anticipated invasion brings several regiments to her small rural community, young country maid Anne Garland is courted by three men in uniform: the loyal... Read more

Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt

By: Friedrich Schiller

Narrated by: Katharina Thalbach, Gerd Baltus, Donata Höffer,...

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit Generationen sind die Worte Friedrich Schillers in aller Munde. Seine Enttäuschung über die blutigen Auswirkungen der Französischen Revolution klingt in den Zeilen "Jedoch der schrecklichste der Schrecken, das ist der Mensch in seinem Wahn" ebenso wieder wie sein Optimismus in der "Ode an die Freude". Durch alle Werke dringt die innigste... Read more

Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Katharina Thalbach

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen" ist Heinrich Heines bedeutendste politische Dichtung. Heine verbindet sensible Wahrnehmung sozialer, religiöser und politischer Veränderungen in Deutschland und Europa mit dem für Heine typischen spöttelnden und ironischen Witz. 1844 entstanden jene berühmten Verse, von denen der Dichter selbst sagte, sie seien... Read more