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READ ALONG AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com A doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: THE SHADOW IN THE SEA by William Hope Hodgson I went up the ladder, and walked across to where the Skipper and the Second Mate stood talking earnestly, by the rail. Tammy kept behind. As I came near to them, I caught two or three words, though I attached no meaning then to them. They were: ". . . send for him." Then the two of them turned and looked at me, and the Second Mate asked what I wanted. "I want to speak to you and the Old M—Captain, Sir," I answered. "What is it, Jessop?" the Skipper inquired. "I scarcely know how to put it, Sir," I said. "It's—it's about these—these things." "What things? Speak out, man:' he said. "Well, Sir," I blurt...

[READ ALONG WITH PODCAST BELOW] Like the novel "The Great Gatsby" this story examines a boy whose ambitions become identified with a selfish rich girl. Fitzgerald described "Winter Dreams" as "A sort of first draft of Gatsby." We've got golfing, swanky dinner parties, boating expeditions, fancy cars, and even fancier clothes.What's underneath all the glitter and gold? Not much, material wealth, at the end of the day, isn't all its cracked up to be. This doesn't mean we shouldn't dream big, it just means we have have to remember that nothing's perfect. And that's what makes life so exciting. DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: WINTER DREAMS by F. Scott Fitzgerald SOME OF THE CADDIES were poor as sin and lived in one-room houses with a neurasthenic cow in the front yard, but Dexter Green's father owned the second best grocery-store in Black Bear--the best one was "The Hub," patronized by the wealthy...

[READ ALONG WITH PODCAST BELOW] In this tale of classic literature, Saki gives animals uncanny power, and they act to expose the worst in their human counterparts. DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: TOBERMORY by H. H. Munro (aka 'Saki') In this tale, in which the divine ferret acts out the boy’s fantasy of revenge, Saki gives animals uncanny power, and they act to expose the worst in their human counterparts. The humans’ response is instant and malicious, their decision is described as if the guests were plotting the murder of a human. Because Saki’s fiction always succeeds in bringing forth the worst in people, be it greed, tyranny, or selfishness, Saki has himself been accused of inhumanity. A more intent look at the reasons for his deep sarcasm cannot fail to establish that the cruelty of his stories is the cruelty of the well-to-do society around him, the greed and vice of which stir his disgust and in turn impel him to put much of what he sees and feels o...

[READ ALONG WITH PODCAST BELOW] In Irish folklore, there are many stories about creatures who can transform themselves from seals to humans. These beings are called selkies. DOWNLOAD Joan Baez sings The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry Selkies are creatures found in Irish, Scottish, and Icelandic folklore. Selkies live as seals in the sea but shed their skin to become human on land. Male selkies are described as being very handsome in their human form, and having great seductive powers over human women. They typically seek those who are dissatisfied with their lives, such as married women waiting for their fishermen husbands. If a woman wishes to make contact with a selkie male, she must shed seven tears into the sea at the peak of high tide. Stories concerning selkies are generally romantic tragedies. Sometimes the human will not know that their lover is a selkie, and wakes to find them returned to their seal ...

READ ALONG WITH STORY BELOW: A thin moon faints in the sky o’erhead, And dumb in the churchyard lie the dead. Walk we not, Sweet, by garden ways, Where the late rose hangs and the phlox delays, But forth of the gate and down the road, Past the church and the yews, to their dim abode. For it’s turn of the year and All Souls’ night, When the dead can hear and the dead have sight. DOWNLOAD

READ ALONG WITH STORY BELOW: No one would stay in this London house more than a few hours. Each one who would talk about what had happened had experienced something different. Disembodied hands and feet and footsteps and all shapes and colors and sizes of presences seek to terrify anyone who stays in this house. The malignant spirit of a wronged husband wreaking vengeance against the house and all who dwell within it - even from beyond the grave! An 1843 story that is the archetype for all Haunted House stories to follow, from the author who gave us the famous opening line "It was a dark and stormy night.." DOWNLOAD The following is an abbreviated version of this famous story, as presented before a Live Audience. You may click here to Download The Full Version The Haunted and the Haunters A friend of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me one day, as if between jest and earnest, “Fancy! since we last met I have discovered a haunted h...