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I knew this day would come but I didn't think it would be so soon. I peered through the curtains of my bedroom window listening to the howling wind and watched as the lightning lit up the sky. My heart was beating like a bass drum. Something about this night was like no other night I have ever experienced that overwhelmed me with great fear of the unknown. Then I noticed in the distance a carriage barreling down the castle road at such a great speed. The closer the carriage got to the castle the more my fear grew.

"Graveyard Rats" by Robert E. Howard as published in "Thrilling Mystery" a pulp magazine in 1936 has mystery, murder, and terror, along with being highly creepy. Robert E. Howard was one of the premier mystery writers of the period. This audiobook narrated by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti will not disappoint.

Step into the dark and intriguing world of Ambrose Bierce with "A Diagnosis of Death". Known for his masterful storytelling and biting wit, Bierce weaves a tale that explores the fine line between life and death, sanity and madness.

Award-winning audiobook narrator and storyteller Mike Vendetti reads Poems in Prose, the collective title of six prose poems by Oscar Wilde derived from Wilde's many oral tales. These prose poems are the only six that were published by Wilde in his lifetime, and they include (in order of appearance): "The Artist", "The Doer of Good", "The Disciple", "The Master", "The House of Judgment", and "The Teacher of Wisdom".

In this tale an underrespected chemist uses his skill to create a poison that is undetectable and mimics a fit of apoplexy or stroke, killing the victim. He convinces his employer, who has wronged him in many ways, that it is an elixir promising everlasting life and many other benefits. The boss is only too anxious to sample it, and it works only too well. Problem is, what to do with the supernumerary or extra corpse.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti relates a Ray Bradbury tale, "Undersea Guardians" from Amazing Stories, that has passed into the public domain. Down in the sea, a fantastic battle was going on between German subs and their living-dead victims.

One of Lovecraft's earlier works, award winning narrator Mike Vendetti slips into one of his more ominous voices to lend a voice to the unnamed narrator of this weird dream.

It was so wonderful to live in the free and wide-open spaces after being cooped up on the overcrowded Earth. Yes, it was wonderful - until the naked aliens came! Read by award winning narrator Mike Vendetti, welcome to the Wild West of outer space created by Ray Silverberg writing in "Super Science Fiction" under his pseudonym Calvin M. Knox.

Recorded from Weird Tales, August 1926 by award winning narrator Mike Vendetti, this eight-minute short story takes our imaginations inside the crumbling abode of a New England sea captain. The townspeople knew enough to leave the old man alone, but when three out of town thieves take him to be an easy mark, well. Lovecraft was like many of his time, quite prejudiced, and he takes aim at "that new and heterogeneous alien stock which lies outside the charmed circle of New England life and traditions".

An interesting predicament. When a homeowner wakes up to noises downstairs, puts one round in a shotgun, and there are two men in the room when he turns the light on, both claiming to be the police.

He was the last of his race, and although he was wiser, stronger, and more intelligent than the earth men who had invaded his planet and exterminated the rest of his race, he was no match for their weapons. He survived by placating his tormentors. This Poul Anderson short story is a great study of humanity that will leave you with a lump in your throat at the end.

It is said that the observance of Memorial Day grew originally out of the custom of the widows, mothers, and children of the Confederate dead in the South strewing the soldiers' graves with flowers, including the unmarked graves of the Union soldiers. There was no settled date for this in the North until 1868, when General John A. Logan, as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, designated May 30. A touching poem in commemoration of Memorial Day narrated by Mike Vendetti.

Marion Zimmer Bradley takes us to a world in the future where crime is nonexistent. But why would you have a Crime Therapist? Obviously to relieve the the urge to commit a crime from those who would do so. Mr. Colby as such an intense desire to murder his wife, that he visits one of these therapists. The therapy involves actually committing the crime on a surrogate of course. A robot. But in order for the therapy to be complete…

A short story by Robert W Chambers that appeared in the collection The King in Yellow, this vignette starts with a stray cat wandering into the flat of an artist in Paris, that eventually leads him to a love he lost in another life.

What is a Wub? Perhaps a play on words by Philip K. Dick in this 1952 science fiction short story that first appeared in Planet Stories. As Philip K. Dick describes it, a Wub is an extremely ugly piglike creature, inhabiting the planet Mars, that may be good to eat. Most of the crew of the space ship are repulsed, however, when it speaks. But not the Captain, leading to a very interesting turn of events.

Paul Macimer is assigned to find a missing FBI file that may implicate a renegade agent. What he does not realize is that he himself is a suspect.

Say hello to Lavina Simes, a wholesome appearing midwestern girl, always dressed in black. Lavina has a gift, or curse, that allows her to see into the future. Tragedy has befallen every suitor who pursued her charms. She travels the world with her father, a lifetime Foreign Service officer, and misfortune seems to follow them.

Lean Times in Lankhmar, a gripping novella by Fritz Leiber Jr, follows the divergent paths of Faford and the Gray Mouser in the city of Lankhmar. The Gray Mouser becomes a Lieutenant for the city's top extortioner, dealing with the various religious sects on the Street of the Gods. Meanwhile, Fairford becomes an acolyte for the dottering apostle of the god, Issac of the Jug, setting the stage for a clash of interests between our two heroes. As the Issac of the Jug religion gains popularity and wealth, the Mouser is tasked with extracting funds from Fairford's mentor.

Step into the enigmatic world of Henry Hobart, a man whose life is a series of precise duplications.

Travel into the world of a pickpocket who has turned a new leaf. He has put his skills and fast hands to productive work and now is happily married. Everything is wonderful until he is the only witness to a murder. The murderer recognizes him immediately. Why not another Murder?