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  • The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

    Rudolf Erich Raspe, Roy Macready, Spiders' House Audio

    Audiobook (Spiders' House Audio, June 1, 2017)
    This is the first volume of The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe. The Baron relates his fantastical experiences and exploits, telling of the many singular incidents such as climbing to the moon on a beanstalk, riding on a cannonball, being swallowed by a fish and being rescued from its insides, flying on an eagle from Margate to America, and many other incredible adventures, and challenges anyone who doubts him, asserting he is "a traveler of veracity!"
  • Eliza

    Barry Pain, Roy Macready, Spiders' House Audio

    Audible Audiobook (Spiders' House Audio, )
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  • The Chronicles of Clovis

    Saki, Roy Macready, Spiders' House Audio

    Audiobook (Spiders' House Audio, Feb. 4, 2016)
    The Chronicles of Clovis, which was published in 1911, was the third of Saki's collections of short stories. The character of Clovis Sangrail is, like Saki's earlier hero, Reginald, vain, sarcastic, and self-regarding and another vehicle for Saki's delicious, biting wit satirizing Edwardian high society in some of the funniest exquisite literary miniatures. Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Monro. He was born in Burma in 1870, where his father was a senior official in the Burma police. From the age of two, he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon and was educated in Exmouth and at the Bedford Grammar School. Later he travelled in Europe with his father. He joined the Burma police but resigned after a year because of ill health and returned to England, where he began his writing career as a journalist and short story writer for magazines and newspapers. Saki is regarded as a master of the short story. At the start of the First World War, he refused a commission, enlisted as a private, and went to France, where, in November 1916, he was killed by a shot to the head, his last words being, "Put that bloody cigarette out."
  • The Raven

    Edgar Allan Poe, Roy Macready, Spiders' House Audio

    Audible Audiobook (Spiders' House Audio, )
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  • The Cask of Amontillado

    Edgar Allan Poe, Roy Macready, Spiders' House Audio

    Audiobook (Spiders' House Audio, Dec. 18, 2018)
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is celebrated for his tales of the macabre and the supernatural. “The Cask of Amontillado” is one of his terrifying tales of premature burial. In it, the narrator, Montresor, has suffered from “insults and injuries” from his “friend” Fortunato and plans to murder him while he is drunk at the carnival by luring him to a wine tasting in the cellars of his palazzo. He chains him to the wall in a niche that he seals up with mortar, thus entombing him alive.
  • Casting the Runes

    M. R. James, Roy Macready, Spiders' House Audio

    Audiobook (Spiders' House Audio, Aug. 30, 2016)
    M. R. James (1862-1936) was provost of King's College, Cambridge, and Eton College. He was a highly regarded scholar and academic in his time but today is remembered for his ghost stories, which are considered among the finest in the genre. Here is one of them: "Casting the Runes".
  • The Gentle Grafter

    O. Henry, Roy Macready, Spiders' House Audio

    Audiobook (Spiders' House Audio, July 27, 2018)
    O. Henry (whose real name is William Sydney Porter) is famous for his many short stories of everyday-life America, full of wit, charm, and inventiveness. The Gentle Grafter contains 14 tales relating the questionable exploits of “Jeff Peters” (the gentle grafter) and his several “partners in graft”.