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Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites William Shakespeare's Sonnet 1.

William Shakespeare’s 73rd sonnet read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti.

A beautiful woman from the 18th century - not dead, yet not alive - lures the spirit of Harry Langham, a 20th-century man, into the mirror with her stunning beauty. This allows Cagliostro, an evil and ancient sorcerer, to inhabit Harry's body. Calgiostro is a serial killer who practices his sick hobby until he is nearly caught and then goes back to the mirror, releasing the soul he was holding in the mirror to the soul's body, to face the consequences of Calgiostro's actions.

Ace Clawson, the "Carnie" guy, is in the dumps because his girlfriend, "The Girl from Mars" in his freak show, has run off with the magician. Everything becomes okay when a beautiful woman shows up claiming she is from Mars. Ace figures she is an escapee from the asylum, but she is built and beautiful in a strange way, so he offers her a job to lure her into the tent. Bad idea.

Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, this is the short story of an Anglican priest. More than one young woman's heart was near to breaking as she remembered he was a vowed celibate. But his languishing admirers had no notion of his other life.

This short story by Philip K. Dick takes us back to the Cold War era, when nuclear war was everyone's fear. A family suddenly wakes up in the future. A future too terrible for the people living in the present to accept. The family has a choice: They can stay in the future, go underground, and be dehumanized or take a chance by staying in the house of surviving the next ROM bomb attack and being blown back to the present.

Here is a very short, a very slight sort of tale which may yet manage to hold either a very big ghost or a very potent allegory. Lord Dunsany penned this sometime about the period of the First World War. Yet in what period of history, from the most ancient past up to very present, has not something of the spectre of Andelsprutz been perceptible to those with a sense of history. For those, this story will prove a "thought-piece" as well as a compelling fantasy.

Considered by scholars, critics, and readers alike as one of his best, Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen takes us into the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Gerda. Read by Earphone Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, this charming tale about growing up will enthrall young and old alike. The blockbuster hit Frozen was inspired by this timeless story.

After many years, eons, mankind has advanced and populated space to the extent that the home planet Earth, is being abandoned. This is the story of closing down our planet. How would you like to be left behind, not only the richest but the only man on earth.

A gentleman enjoying the morning over the River Seine waves to a steamer, and the nightmare begins. He believes he may be going insane, but then he begins to feel there is an entity that he cannot see invading his mind and his home. The entity is perhaps an invader from another world. Guy de Maupassant's tale of classic horror will enthrall you.

The Lady or the Tiger, which will it be? The unanswerable question, but certainly something to think about. And going even further, did the princess regret her decision later? Originally published in 1882, in The Century magazine by Frank R Stockton, this short story has become an allegorical expression for an unsolvable problem.

It's the 1920s, and Bernice, a teenager, visits her cousin, also a teenager, but far more wise in the ways of the world. It's summer, with dances at the country club, and Bernice is a bit of a burden to her cousin Marjorie, until Marjorie shares a few secrets with Bernice. With Bernice as the belle of the ball, Marjorie takes a few steps of her own.

In "Death and the Child," narrated as an audiobook by Mike Vendetti Stephen Crane captures the brutal realities faced by both soldiers and civilians, emphasizing the profound human cost of conflict.

In "The Last Man in New York," embark on a terrifying but sometimes sweet journey with Joe Dunn and Julie as they navigate the eerily quiet empty streets of New York as the sole survivors at the end of the world.

Travel along as Mike Vendetti narrates this outstanding true account of a trip made in 1909 by Zane Grey and a plainsman, Buffalo Jones, through the Grand Canyon to lasso a cougar. That’s right lasso. Throw a rope around. That’s equivalent to catching one by the tail. From narrator Mike Vendetti: As I narrated this book, I found fact to be as exciting as fiction. This part of the West was relatively wild and untamed at this time. Wolves, wild horses, buffalo and other wildlife were quite prevalent, and the Indians were not that friendly.

An upper-middle class peasant inherits his father's farm, which he hopes to pass on to his children. When the twin boys are born, there is joy in the family until they realize that they are severely retarded - to use the term of the day, idiots. And then another son is born, also an idiot. In desperation, Jean Pierre joins the church, which he has no use for, and a daughter is born. Another idiot. Jean Pierre becomes even more angry and abusive to his wife, whom he blames for producing four idiots.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti takes us to the New England town of Peck Valley, where George Birch, undertaker, finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring. Birch has become quite lax and indifferent in his treatment of those harvested by the Grim Reaper and entrusted to his care. Unfortunately for Birch one of these corpses is that of Asaph Sawyer, a man of whom stories were told of almost inhuman vindictiveness and tenacious memory for wrongs real or fancied.

An unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderry, a fictional town in Ireland. Barry ignores pleas from the local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences. Narrated by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti.

A terrifying short from the Hugo-winning author of The Man in the High Castle, narrated by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, in which paranoid Verne Haskel suddenly gains almost godlike power over two towns named Woodland - one of them just outside of San Francisco, the other lovingly constructed in the basement of his home.

This is a happy, feel-good tale by Lord Dunsany aka Edward Plunkett, the 18th Baron of Dunsany. Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, the wild things take you into their world.