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Short Stories About Mad Scientists

In search of a better world, power can corrupt even the smartest of us

by H P Lovecraft, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Constance Cotterell, Edward Page Mitchell, Emma Vane, L T Meade, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, M R James, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Garrick Hagon ...

Unabridged

10 hours 27 min

Science has brought us many benefits for our health, our understanding, and our quality of life in all sorts of positive ways. We are all the better for it. But there is also a darker side when science reaches into the shadows. It claims that a fuller knowledge would benefit everyone, it must investigate. But, let’s be honest, some in science have lost their true calling and their ideas and ... Read more

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Science has brought us many benefits for our health, our understanding, and our quality of life in all sorts of positive ways. We are all the better for it. But there is also a darker side when science reaches into the shadows. It claims that a fuller knowledge would benefit everyone, it must investigate. But, let’s be honest, some in science have lost their true calling and their ideas and
... Read more
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Stories From 'The Sun'

by Edward Page Mitchell ...

Later described as "the lost giant of American science fiction," Edward Page Mitchell wrote many science fiction and fantasy short stories in the 1870's to 1890's, nearly all of which were published anonymously in the The Sun daily newspaper of New York. Mitchell was editor-in-chief of The Sun and was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board for many years.Mitchell introduced many technological and ... Read more

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Later described as "the lost giant of American science fiction," Edward Page Mitchell wrote many science fiction and fantasy short stories in the 1870's to 1890's, nearly all of which were published anonymously in the The Sun daily newspaper of New York. Mitchell was editor-in-chief of The Sun and was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board for many years.Mitchell introduced many technological and
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Inventions - A Short Story Collection

Stories about technology and progress, whatever the cost

by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Ethel Dell, Herbert C Ridout, Winifred Holt, Edward Page Mitchell, Frank R Stockton, Robert Duncan Milne, Bernard Capes ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

5 hours 38 min

The human mind has many amazing characteristics. It is logical and creative and able to make great leaps of imagination and turn many of its ideas into physical reality.In this volume our authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Winifred Holtby, Bernard Capes and many others bring forth creations and contraptions that are both amazing and abstract as well as diabolical and ... Read more

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The human mind has many amazing characteristics. It is logical and creative and able to make great leaps of imagination and turn many of its ideas into physical reality.In this volume our authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Winifred Holtby, Bernard Capes and many others bring forth creations and contraptions that are both amazing and abstract as well as diabolical and
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Foundations of Fiction, The - Sci-Fi

The stories that created one of the most popular genres of our time

by H G Wells, Jack London, E F Benson, Edward Page Mitchell, Fitz James O'Brien, Fred M White, H P Lovecraft, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Duncan Milne, Robert W Chambers, Voltaire, Winifred Holtby ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers ...

Unabridged

20 hours 3 min

To know the future is perhaps the most fabled of wishes.In this volume we present a roll-call of classic authors including H P Lovecraft, H G Wells, Mary Shelley, Lewis Carroll, Jack London and many others who short story by short story establish much of what today is science fact. From space travel, the Internet, robots and cyborgs to voice control, organ transplants, mobile phones, these are ... Read more

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To know the future is perhaps the most fabled of wishes.In this volume we present a roll-call of classic authors including H P Lovecraft, H G Wells, Mary Shelley, Lewis Carroll, Jack London and many others who short story by short story establish much of what today is science fact. From space travel, the Internet, robots and cyborgs to voice control, organ transplants, mobile phones, these are
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - America - The 1880's

The top 10 short stories written from 1880 to 1889 by American authors

by Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Edward Page Mitchell, Ambrose Bierce, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Mary Weilkins E Freeman, Frank R Stockton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Robert Duncan Milne ...

Narrated by Janet Maw, Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

5 hours 47 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Stories From The Shadows – Suicide

Embrace the darkness

by Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Amy Levy, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Hanns Heinz Ewers, M P Shiel, Edward Page Mitchell, Mrs Ellen Wood ...

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

4 hours 58 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
Sci Fi Stories Written in the 19th Century

by Edward Page Mitchell, Washington Irving, Jack London ...

Science Fiction is usually thought of as a modern genre, something that could only be ‘invented’ in these more modern times where technology and imagination combine to bring us thrilling stories. That, of course, is true, but these authors in the 19th Century were far ahead of their own times, and perhaps, still of ours. ... Read more

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Science Fiction is usually thought of as a modern genre, something that could only be ‘invented’ in these more modern times where technology and imagination combine to bring us thrilling stories. That, of course, is true, but these authors in the 19th Century were far ahead of their own times, and perhaps, still of ours.
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Clock That Went Backward, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Edward Page Mitchell ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

38 min

Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family. When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York’s famed Fifth Avenue.In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots and in the aftermath Mitchell's father moved the family to Tar River, North Carolina. It was there, at the age of fourteen, that his letters were first published in the local newspaper The Bath ... Read more

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Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family. When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York’s famed Fifth Avenue.In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots and in the aftermath Mitchell's father moved the family to Tar River, North Carolina. It was there, at the age of fourteen, that his letters were first published in the local newspaper The Bath
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Crystal Man, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Edward Page Mitchell ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

37 min

Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family. When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York’s famed Fifth Avenue.In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots and in the aftermath Mitchell's father moved the family to Tar River, North Carolina. It was there, at the age of fourteen, that his letters were first published in the local newspaper The Bath ... Read more

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Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family. When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York’s famed Fifth Avenue.In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots and in the aftermath Mitchell's father moved the family to Tar River, North Carolina. It was there, at the age of fourteen, that his letters were first published in the local newspaper The Bath
... Read more
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Stories From 'The Sun'

by Edward Page Mitchell ...

Later described as "the lost giant of American science fiction," Edward Page Mitchell wrote many science fiction and fantasy short stories in the 1870's to 1890's, nearly all of which were published anonymously in the The Sun daily newspaper of New York. Mitchell was editor-in-chief of The Sun and was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board for many years.Mitchell introduced many technological and ... Read more

$1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Later described as "the lost giant of American science fiction," Edward Page Mitchell wrote many science fiction and fantasy short stories in the 1870's to 1890's, nearly all of which were published anonymously in the The Sun daily newspaper of New York. Mitchell was editor-in-chief of The Sun and was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board for many years.Mitchell introduced many technological and
... Read more
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Crystal Man, The

The Scientist Who Erased Himself

by Edward Page Mitchell ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 415 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

36 min

On a dark New York street, a man collides with a stranger who leaves almost no trace behind him. Minutes later that stranger vanishes into thin air, and the mystery refuses to leave the narrator’s mind.The answer arrives in the most astonishing way imaginable. Guided by unseen hands into a hidden room, the narrator meets a man who should not exist—a living scientist whose body has been stripped of ... Read more

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On a dark New York street, a man collides with a stranger who leaves almost no trace behind him. Minutes later that stranger vanishes into thin air, and the mystery refuses to leave the narrator’s mind.The answer arrives in the most astonishing way imaginable. Guided by unseen hands into a hidden room, the narrator meets a man who should not exist—a living scientist whose body has been stripped of
... Read more
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Lost Sci-Fi Books 411 thru 415 - Four Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and one from 1906

Ghosts, Time Travelers & Mad Geniuses: Vintage Sci-Fi from 1906 to the Space Age

by Jack London, Arthur C. Clarke, H. P. Lovecraft, H. Bedford–Jones, Edward Page Mitchell ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook box set - Lost Sci-Fi 5 Book Box Sets
Unabridged

3 hours 10 min

Lost Sci-Fi Books 411 thru 415 - Four Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and one from 1906An Adventure of a Professional Corpse - The Artificial Honeymoon by H. Bedford–JonesThe Shadow and the Flash by Jack LondonThe Unnamable by H. P. LovecraftExile of the Eons by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Crystal Man by Edward Page Mitchell ... Read more

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Lost Sci-Fi Books 411 thru 415 - Four Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and one from 1906An Adventure of a Professional Corpse - The Artificial Honeymoon by H. Bedford–JonesThe Shadow and the Flash by Jack LondonThe Unnamable by H. P. LovecraftExile of the Eons by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Crystal Man by Edward Page Mitchell
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