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  The Imp of the Perverse

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Title: The Imp of the Perverse 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1845 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Number 44 in the Timeless Terrors series 
  Description: 
  The Imp of the Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe is a chilling exploration of the human compulsion toward self-destruction — that sinister whisper urging us to do precisely what we know we must not. Told in Poe’s hypnotic, confessional style, the story begins as a philosophical essay on impulse and perversity, then descends into the fevered confession of a murderer undone by his own mind. 
  This tale reveals Poe at his most psychologically incisive, dissecting guilt, pride, and the dark delight of defiance. Beneath its gothic calm lies a truth as disturbing now as in 1845 — that the greatest horror may be found not in the supernatural, but in the secret architecture of the human soul. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance evokes Poe’s morbid eloquence and the relentless pull of conscience that drives his doomed narrator to madness. While the text is in the public domain, this narration is an original performance and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  Part of Timeless Terrors, a series devoted to resurrecting the masters of the macabre and uncanny, The Imp of the Perversestands as one of Poe’s most haunting studies of inner torment — a reminder that sometimes, the truest demon wears our own face.

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  Alfred Lichtenstein - A Short...

  Alfred Lichtenstein

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  Alfred Lichtenstein was born on the 23rd August 1889, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, the son of a Jewish manufacturer.  He grew up in Berlin before studying law at Erlangen in Bavaria.   
   
  A writer in the Expressionist style his poems and stories are short but beautifully honed works.  His tragically curtailed life allowed only a small part of his talents to rest with us.  Undoubtedly a full life would have given the world a very gifted literary force. 
   
  Alfred Lichenstein volunteered for duty in the German Army for World War I.  He died on the front at the Somme in the early months of combat on the 25th September 1914.  He was 25. 
   
  01 - Alfred Lichtenstein - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - The Winner by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  03 - The Café Klösschen by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  04 - The Virgin by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  05 - The Suicide of the Pupil Mueller by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  06 - Mieze Meier by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  07 - Kuno Kohn by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  08 - Mabel Meier by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  09 - Siegmund Simon by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  10 - The Friend by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  11 - Konrad Krause by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  12 - The Family by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  13 - Leopold Lehmann by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  14 - Conversation About Legs by Alfred Lichtenstein

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  Blood Knowledge - A Vampire...

  Tao Wong

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  Information is power, or at least it's the currency Dram deals in in Eternal Night. When the information broker is given a new puzzle relating to the latest upcoming game update, he goes all in.  
  What Dram doesn't know is how far and to what extent the developers have seeded the game. Or what it'll cost him to learn the truth.  
  Good thing it's all a game.  
  Blood Knowledge is the third work in Eternal Night, A Vampire LitRPG Short Story series, written by Tao Wong, author of the bestselling System Apocalypse and A Thousand Li series of books.

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  The Golden Key & The Giant's Heart

  George MacDonald

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  The Golden Key is a beautiful allegory of life, death, and the afterlife.  This story follows a young boy and girl as they embark on strange adventures that help them to better understand the circumstances of their own lives as well as those surrounding life itself.  Their wanderings and discoveries bring them hope for life after death.In The Giant’s Heart two youngsters must learn to look for creative solutions as they struggle against a giant who guards his heart so carefully that he has lost sight of what is good and moral and has become quite a formidable and evil foe.This series, published by ONE audiobooks, seeks to produce Classic Christian titles read by well known and loved audiobook narrators.  ONE takes great care to cast these titles with readers who will provide an unmatched listening experience for these important works.Simon Bubb brings his passion to every performance and is considered to be one of the top audiobook narrators in the industry.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Mikhail Bulgakov, Franz Kafka, D...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this decade Europe is recovering from the Great War yet already the poisonous seeds for the next, even greater calamity, are taking root.  Our literary leviathans bring tales of pain and heartache, sorrow and humanity into every narrative.  Genius has many names. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - The Europeans - An Introduction 
  2 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  3 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka 
  4 - The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D H Lawrence 
  5 - Twilight Alley by Stefan Zweig 
  6 - The Tale Of The Stairs by Hristo Smirenski 
  7 - The Imbecile by Luigi Pirandello 
  8 - My First Goose by Isaac Babel 
  9 - The Loathly Opposite by John Buchan 
  10 - Vampire's Prey by Hanns Heinz Ewers 
  11 - Rhapsody by Dorothy Edwards

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  Electric Trees

  Melissa Bobe

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  There is a mermaid in this book.There is a sea monster.There are sirens.This book has monsters and murders, elephants and polar bears and wolves, of a kind. It has crappy jobs and happy escapes. It has funerals and hospitals and hope.Its homes are haunted by people haunted by the things they cannot face. Its halls are quiet, its colors are loud, and it will take you on a journey if you're willing to stay the course.Are you?

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