Episodios

  • EJ Benson - The Room in the Tower

    EJ Benson - The Room in the Tower
    Jun 26 2025
    "The Room in the Tower" is a short horror story by E. F. Benson, published in 1912. The Room in the Tower and Other Stories is a compilation of stories by Benson. An unnamed young man has a recurring nightmare in which he visits a friend's house in the summer.

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    27 m
  • John Pheonix - Tushmaker's Toothpuller

    John Pheonix - Tushmaker's Toothpuller
    Jun 25 2025
    "Tushmaker's Toothpuller" is a short story written by John Phoenix, a pseudonym for the American humorist and writer, whose real name was John P. Smith. He was active in the mid-19th century and is known for his humorous and satirical writings, often reflecting the culture and society of his time.The story itself is a comedic narrative that revolves around the character of a toothpuller, showcasing the absurdities and eccentricities associated with dental practices of that era. Through humor, Phoenix addresses the fears and experiences of patients in a light-hearted manner, often exaggerating the situations for comedic effect.John Phoenix's work is characterized by its wit and playful language, making it a notable example of American humor literature.

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    4 m
  • O Henry - The Furnished Room

    O Henry - The Furnished Room
    Jun 24 2025
    ‘The Furnished Room’ is a short story by the US short-story writer O. Henry, whose real name was William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). His stories are characterised by their irony, their occasional sentimentality, and by their surprise twist endings. All of these things became something of a signature feature, and ‘The Furnished Room’, which is one of O. Henry’s more melodramatic tales, showcases them all to some extent.

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    TRIGGER WARNING: CONTAINS SUICIDE

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    14 m
  • Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 8 - Explanation

    Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 8 - Explanation
    Jun 21 2025
    The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.

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    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Chapter Seven

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    23 m
  • Ralph Cram - In Kropsberg Keep

    Ralph Cram - In Kropsberg Keep
    Jun 19 2025
    “The Kropfsberg Keep” by Ralph Adams Cram. It has ghosts, it has misdirection, it has a haunted manor, it has massacres; it has it all.

    TRIGGER WARNING
    Contains suicide.

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    20 m
  • Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - The Academy of Projectors

    Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - The Academy of Projectors
    Jun 18 2025
    Gulliver's Travels, originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising human nature and the imaginary "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best-known full-length work, one of the most famous classics of English literature, and popularised the fictional island of Lilliput.

    Excerpt from the Academy of Projectors

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    2 m
  • Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - The Peoples of Laputa

    Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - The Peoples of Laputa
    Jun 18 2025
    Gulliver's Travels, originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising human nature and the imaginary "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best-known full-length work, one of the most famous classics of English literature, and popularised the fictional island of Lilliput.

    This is the short extract about Laputa.

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    2 m
  • Charles Dickens - The Signalman (New Read)

    Charles Dickens - The Signalman (New Read)
    Jun 17 2025
    "The Signal-Man" is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The story is told from a fictional first-person perspective. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works.

    I re-read this as I felt I could do it better than the previous post. Enjoy.

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    29 m