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Charles H. Spurgeon has been called the 'Prince of Preachers'. From his book Morning by Morning, these are his inspirational readings for the month of September. Each chapter is a devotional to start off the day read by Mike Vendetti, professional narrator.

Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti. "Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." Comes from this poem.

Phineas T. Barnum considered himself primarily a showman, but his main goal was to put money in his own pocket. Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads The Art of Money Getting, subtitled Golden Rules for Making Money, for you. It has a great deal of common sense about how to make money and, more importantly, how to keep it once you've made it. A little dated, but it remains one of the best self-help books ever written.

A master hustler and bank robber befriends a starving gentleman on Market Street in San Francisco. He engages the man, who hasn't eaten for three days, in a game of dice over a bottle of absinthe. The starving man plays amazingly well as he warms his empty stomach with the liquor - so well in fact that the last hand has $148,000 on the table.

Sex, greed, and of course money in the world of 2136, when seen through the eyes of a woman unjustly accused and fighting to remain an individual in her own right can take on somber overtones of high tragedy.

The Altar by Robert Shackley, a short story that first appeared in "Fantastic" July - August 1953, on on which the copyright was not renewed, putting the story into the public domain. It becomes apparent that strange things are happening in the small New Jersey town, and Mr. Slater is determined to solve the mystery of the dark stranger in the blue topcoat who appears before him on his way to his commute.

The time has come to listen to echoes from our land... the wisdom and teachings of the mountains, streams, and woods. Their words are simple and their voices are soft. We have not heard them, because we have not taken the time to listen. We have been too busy smothering them in crypts of concrete and steel.

Commissioners fed up - players angry at mandated educational seminar attendance! But that's what happened, and the commissioners aren't backing down. All pro athletes have to attend a course or seminar unrelated to sports every year. Dark days for the athletes until one of them sees an ad for the upcoming S.E.S. "Trash Talk" symposium. How perfect is that? None of the athletes knew, or even cared, what S.E.S. was, but trash talk was their specialty. Word of the meeting spread among the athletes like wildfire....

First published in 1953 ,"Time Enough at Last" by Lynn Venable is the basis for the eighth episode of The Twilight Zone, becoming one of the most famous episodes of the original Twilight Zone. It is "the story of a man who loves books yet is surrounded by those who would prevent him from reading them. Hope springs forth when the protagonist appears to be the sole survivor of a gigantic nuclear attack, but wait folks; there is more."

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in Colliers magazine on May 27, 1922. It was subsequently anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age, which is occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories.

We know all dogs go to heaven, but what happens when the people of a small town make a deal with the devil, and the soul of an unsuspecting dog ends up in hell? Listen along as award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads the tale of "The Good Dog".

H.P. Lovecraft, best known for his science fiction work, turns out a very masterful horror story here and possibly a precursor to today's zombie. It was the basis of the 1985 horror film Re-Animator.

Anyone who has to spend the better part of his days chained to a routine job in our workaday world will appreciate the sorcery that captured the heart of Mr. Sladden. That gentleman's experience in finding a private peep-hole out of this world is one we all may envy.

This version of The Moon Pool, narrated from the May 1948 issue of Fantastic Novels by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, takes us to a Pacific island where once a month the Ani emerge from the moon pool. They are an advanced race whom the natives fear for good reason. Those who are drawn to the moon pool may never reappear.

Christmas hadn't been celebrated in this old New England Puritan Church for years. Not until Nathan Stoddard arrived at work one morning, Christmas morning, to see an old man knock upon the door and have the door of the empty church flung open. Nathan rushes to a window at the rear of the church only to peer in to see the interior of the church filled with people dressed from a bygone era decorating the church. A lovely ghost story by Anna Wales Abbot.

Barred from life and death alike, she waited - waited for the key that could unlock the sinister talisman that held her prisoner of eternity. Taken from The King in Yellow, often referred to in "True Detective" this is one creepy short story.

A walk in the dark. The dark, one of man's primal fears, becomes even more intense, on a lonely planet where the dark is deeper, and being alone in the unknown increases this primal fear a thousandfold.

The sea is a lonely place, particularly when your ship was blown off course and disabled. William Hope Hodgson takes this scenario and adds the discovery of a derelict ship floating near you. Of course you would go investigate wouldn't you? The captain and part of the crew - including the ship's doctor, who is telling the story - visit this enticing phantom. They find the ship inhabited by a living mold that had been lying dormant just waiting for its next meal.

Race from scene to scene with the detectives in ten different cases as evidence leads these detectives throughout one of the most violent cities in the country - Baltimore. As detectives rush under the gun to identify and capture these ruthless killers, pressure from the administration builds to a contentious boiling point that leaves unrest within the unit.

This short story remains an enigma, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once again takes on the aristocracy. The heroine, Ardita, beautiful, rich, and spoiled rotten lounges on her uncle's yacht until she is carried away by an offshore pirate, Curtis Carlyle. Carlyle tells her of his upbringing as poor white trash in a Tennessee town, and his rise to become a successful musician - but one who has never been able to dance with the aristocracy. Until that is, the beautiful, spoiled-rotten Ardita falls in love with him, as much as she is capable of falling in love with anyone other than herself, on the deserted tropical island.