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Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts

Saturday, 1 June 2019

Triplanetary

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of the classic sci-fi space opera Triplanetary.

Mankind's evolution has not been a purely natural event. There are races with powers far greater than ours that have manipulated the development of the human race as part of a power struggle to gain dominance of the known universe.

From the ancient nuclear war that sank Atlantis to the far future where mighty space fleets battle with unimaginable lasers and super beams, this exciting story will keep you listening.

Run time: 9 hours 32 mins

Available from Audible

Around the World in 80 Days

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

Phileas Fogg is a man of regular orderly days, down to the minute. His acquaintances know where he will be and when, with perfect regularity. Discussion in the Reform Club turns to an article concerning a theorised journey around the world in only 80 days. From this a gentleman's bet is placed, and there is nothing more important to a gentleman than a bet!

Mr Fogg's life is thrown into turmoil as he commences the journey around the world. Taking his servant, one change of clothes, and a carpetbag stuffed with money, he starts leaping from train to train to steamer. Alas for him, his journey will not follow the carefully planned itinerary! Before the trip is over, there will be battles, rescues, arrests, mishaps and piracy.

Run time: 6 hours 33 minutes

Available from Audible

Sci Fi Shorts Volume 3

Sci-Fi Shorts is a collection of classic science fiction stories from the golden age of space fiction. This group of six unabridged short stories by various authors covers such adventures as secret research projects, underground robot organisations, a subjugated Earth, getting trapped in the void, alien minds, and strangers from Jupiter.

Run time: 3 hours 48 mins

Available from Audible

The Call of Cthulhu

Professor Angel was an expert on ancient languages. When a young man brought a grotesque carving to his office that contained a strain of hieroglyphics that were unreadable to all, it started the strangest and most horrific research of his life.

The statue would lead the professor and is great-nephew to discover the awful truth of the cult of Cthulhu and what its existence meant for the future of mankind.

Run time: 1 hour 19 minutes

Available from Audible

Monday, 27 May 2019

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of this classic tale of super science and murder.

When Gabriel Utterson takes charge of the will of his good friend Dr Jekyll, in which the doctor leaves everything to the mysterious Mr Hyde, he's alarmed at what appears to be a recipe for murder. Over the following months, he investigates Mr Hyde until he uncovers a horrific murder. What's the relationship between his friend and the murderer, and can Utterson save the doctor?

Runtime: 2 hours 34 minutes

Available from Audible

The Lost World

A reporter for the Daily Gazette asks for an exciting assignment from his editor and ends up taking part in one of the most astounding and dangerous expeditions ever mounted.

Professor Challenger claims to have found a remote land in the heartland of South America where prehistoric dinosaurs still roam and thrive. Called a liar and mocked by his peers, Professor Challenger leads a scientific mission back to the Lost World to gather proofs and discover more of the strange survivors of ancient times. Before the heroes return to civilisation, they will be hunted, chased, betrayed and assaulted. This classic tale has stood the test of time with outstanding characters that you'll love - and love to hate.

Runtime: 7 hours 18 minutes

Available from Audible

Red Nails (a Conan story)

Conan and Valeria discover a lost city that is walled in and roofed over, allowing none to enter or leave. Within its walls are riches beyond compare and a seething war between the tribes of degenerates who live there.

FNH audio presents an unabridged reading of Red Nails. Red Nails was the last Conan story penned by Robert E. Howard and is often represented by Howard scholars as one of the best.

Runtime: 3 hours 11 minutes

Available from Audible

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Victor Frankenstein is a driven man. His single-minded scientific drive has controlled his life from childhood. It has driven him to do the unthinkable, to carry out fiendish, craven tasks, to do that which only God has done before.

His goal of creating life - a living, thinking being, a man - has come to pass. Little did he expect that his zeal would forge a monster, an intelligent being set upon Victor's complete destruction.

The story of Frankenstein has become a rightful classic of its time. The doctor and his monster stand preeminent in the culture of horror stories, an equal of the vampire and the werewolf. Mary Shelly has crafted a tale of desire, horror and despair that has stood the test of time.

Runtime: 7 hours 57 minutes

Available from Audible

The Ghost Pirates

The Mortzestus is sailing far from shore when the wind drops away and a mysterious mist surrounds the ship.

After a few days becalmed in the mist, Jessop spots something creeping over the taff rail, the men in the rigging are attacked, a man disappears, and everyone is scared. Then Jessop sees something below the water following the ship....

Runtime: 4 hours 27 minutes

Available from Audible


A Princess of Mars

FNH audio presents an unabridged reading of A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

When John Carter wakes up, he finds himself mysteriously transported to the planet Mars, where the people are constantly at war. In the lower gravity of the red world, John discovers his Earth strength makes him almost superhuman, able to leap huge distances and kill with a single punch.

In this classic tale of mighty men fighting with sword, pistol, and lance, Edgar Burroughs has created a fascinating world and a cast of characters you can easily fall in love with.

Nonstop adventure and high action draw you along on this roller-coaster ride where John Carter carries the fate of a world in his hands.
Runtime: 6 hours 30 minutes

Available from Audible 

At the Earth's Core

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of "At the Earth's Core". When their Iron Mole drilling machine goes off course, David and Abner find themselves in another world - the interior or the Earth!

In a land populated by monsters and dinosaurs, humans exist subjugated beneath of claws of other intelligent races. Can the two heroes of the upper world survive in a world they're unprepared for,? Can they defeat the evil Mahar overlords and free humankind from tyranny?

This story represents Burroughs at his adventurous storytelling peak, telling a tale of heroes, monsters and love in an alien world.

Running Time: 4 hours 47 mins
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Wednesday, 19 August 2015

The Secret of Kralitz

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Henry Kuttner's dark tale The Secret of Kralitz.

The House of Kralitz has thrived for hundreds of years while hiding a dark secret in the family vaults. A curse was laid upon the Kralitz line, and today the present head of the household will learn its true horror.

This short story is in the classic gothic style of H.P. Lovecraft, and makes reference to some elements of Lovecraft's famed Cthulhu Mythos. The story was first published in the October 1936 edition of Weird Tales.

Format: MP3
Running Time: 17 minutes

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Saturday, 24 January 2015

The Damned Thing

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Amrose Bierce's short story.

The horribly mutilated body of a man lies upon a table in the cabin. Eight serious men sit by the light of a flicker candle to investigate the cause of his death. Was it a mundane wild animal attack as they hope, or was something more sinister and supernatural involved?

Format: MP3
Running Time: 20 minutes

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Thursday, 23 January 2014

Vampires of Venus

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Vampires of Venus, a story that was first published in the April 1930 edition of "Astounding Stories of Super Science".

Leslie Larner, an entomologist borrowed from the Earth, pits himself against the night-flying vampires that are ravaging the inhabitants of Venus.

Running Time: 46 mins


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Saturday, 28 December 2013

The Dunwich Horror

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror".

Lavina Whateley has birthed an abomination, and now it's got free. First one family and then another are wiped off the face of the earth, and this is just the beginning of the plan.

Dr Armitage, the Librarian at Miskatonic University, is scared. He's pieced together the clues and has a dreadful inkling of what is abroad. This ageing Doctor may be the worlds only hope.

Running Time: 115 minutes

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Monday, 22 July 2013

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

In 1927 the sea side town of Innsmouth was raided by police, federal agents and elements of the United States Navy. The town was cleared. Everyone was arrested yet none of the prisoners turned up in the prison system.

One man who knew the reason for the raid was sworn to secrecy. He knew the deep secrets of ancient Innsmouth, had seen the horrors that lurked within and barely escaped with his life.

Only now, many years later, when the horror has finally caught up with him, does he dare to tell the terrifying truth of the shadow over Innsmouth.

This audiobook is an unabridged reading of H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale of horror.

Running Time:  2 hours 49 minutes

Sunday, 5 May 2013

The House on the Borderland

While on a fishing trip two men discover the ruins of a house perched on the very edge of a cliff. In the ruins they discover an old manuscript that tells the horrific super natural history of the place.

This early example of weird fiction comes from the pen of William Hope Hodgeson

Running Time: 5 hours 3 minutes

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Saturday, 23 March 2013

The Secret Service Submarine

When the war with the Kaiser's best started, John Carey found himself rejected by the forces while his own brother had joined the Navy and become a hero. Due to his infirmities he found himself relegated to the role of School Teacher in a second rate establishment in the back of beyond.

Yet, in the quiet little village not everything is what it seems. Perhaps a chance for valour is just around the corner and foes could be on the knocking on your door.

The Secret Service Submarine is a ripping yarn of adventure and combat set during the first world war, where the chance for glory is just around the next corner.

Running Time: 4 hours 13 minutes

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Monday, 14 May 2012

The Man who was Dead


FNH Audio presents a reading of this classic Sci Fi story lifted directly from the pages of Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930. Astounding Stories was a magazine that had its zenith during the "classic" age of science fiction.

This short tells contains all the classic elements of such stories. A brave protagonist, an evil enemy and amazing Super Science.

Set in the backwoods of the united States during a cold dark night, a stranger has a horrid tale to tell.

Running Time: 34m
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The Horror at Red Hook


FNH Audio presents a full unabridged reading of H.P. Lovecraft's The Horror at Red Hook

It's  well known that people enter Red Hook than leave it, and most of the people who enter are strangers from foreign parts. But where do they go, what happens to them? Do they share the same fate as the recent kidnap victims?

A New York police detective named Thomas F. Malone knows what's happening. He's seen "things".

Running Time: 54m

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