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The Lady Executioner

In John Dough and the Cherub

Read by Rob Smith

L. Frank Baum

An evil Arabian sorcerer loans a golden flask full of the Great Elixir - a magic liquid that endows a person with pronounced health, strengt…

The White Terror

In Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906

Read by Rob Marland

Various

"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…

Dramatis personae

In Amends for Ladies

Read by Rob Marland

Nathan Field

Amends for Ladies falls within the genre of Jacobean city comedy. Three women debate which has the better lot: a maid, a wife, or a widow. L…

The Fox who Served a Lion

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 11 (Fables 251-275)

Read by Rob Howard

Aesop

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Chapter V

In A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln

Read by Rob Powell

John G. Nicolay and John George Nicolay

John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive …

Foreword, Preface, and Introduction

In Oscar Wilde from Purgatory

Read by Rob Marland

Hester Travers Smith

Hester Dowden, who wrote under the name Hester Travers Smith, was an Irish spiritualist medium. She claimed to have communicated with the sp…

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