B. J. Harrison Reads The Cask of Amontillado (EN) - Edgar Allan Poe (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison Reads The Cask of Amontillado (EN) - Edgar Allan Poe (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison visits Edgar Allan Poe's grim horror story, 'The Cask of Amontillado'. Montresor is a man who has been insulted, and he does not take this lightly. Seeking revenge on the person who slighted him, Fortunato, he sets out on a terrible mission to even the score. Yet what follows is

B.J. Harrison Reads The Purloined Letter (EN) - Edgar Allan Poe (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison reads 'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe, which is a story of an unusual mystery that needs to be solved. A sensitive letter has been stolen from the queen's boudoir, and the famous amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin has been called to the rescue. The guilty one is the

B.J. Harrison Reads The Masque of the Red Death (EN) - Edgar Allan Poe (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison reads one of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short stories 'The Masque of the Red Death'. Prince Prospero and 1,000 other nobles have taken refuge at a castle-like abbey to escape the Red Death, a horrifying plague that has taken over the land at large. Yet horror finds them one night

B. J. Harrison Reads The Edgar Allan Poe Collection (EN) - Edgar Allan Poe (mp3 audiokniha)

The Edgar Allan Poe Collection features a selection of works from the pioneering 19th-century poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's works include the dramatic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart' to his perhaps most famous poem 'The Raven'. This collection promises some of the finest from the

B. J. Harrison Reads The Tell-Tale Heart (EN) - Edgar Allan Poe (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison tells Edgar Allan Poe's story 'The Tell-Tale Heart', where our narrator has committed the crime of murdering an older man. He does not consider himself a madman, and he describes the murder up to the smallest detail. Yet he has killed a man whom he loved and had never wronged him,

B. J. Harrison Reads The Raven and Other Poems (EN) - Edgar Allan Poe (mp3 audiokniha)

Is there anyone more associated with a raven than the writer Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the macabre? His famous poem 'The Raven', published in 1845, presents us with a speaking bird and numerous mythological references. Edgar Allan Poe's poetry is known for its dark romanticism, gothic tones

B. J. Harrison Reads The Fall of the House of Usher (EN) - Edgar Allan Poe (mp3 audiokniha)

One of the most haunting short horror stories to date is told to us by B. J. Harrison. Our narrator is invited to visit his acquaintance Roderick, who lives in a remote house with his sister when strange things begin to happen. Neither of the siblings appears to be healthy, and the house itself

B.J. Harrison Reads Berenice (EN) - Edgar Allan Poe (mp3 audiokniha)

Egaeus is a man who can get lost in matters with 'nervous intensity of interest'. He is about to marry his cousin Berenice, whose health is deteriorating until the only part the disease has not touched are her teeth. It is those teeth, which fill Egaeus' mind and continue to haunt him to a

B. J. Harrison Reads The Pit and the Pendulum (EN) - Edgar Allan Poe (mp3 audiokniha)

A prisoner arrives at a trial before the Spanish Inquisition and is condemned to death. Upon his conviction, he faints and finds himself in a horrendous cell to fight off death. Still, this prisoner is not giving up that easily and describes his horrendous circumstances to the last detail. 'The

B. J. Harrison Reads The Gods of Mars (EN) - Edgar Rice Burroughs (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison Reads The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (EN) - Edgar Allan Poe (mp3 audiokniha)

In 'The System of Doctor Tarr and Pofessor Fether' from the 19th century nothing is quite what it seems. During his tour of southern France, our narrator visits a local mental institution, of which he has heard a great deal. Upon arriving at the institution, which is run by an acquaintance of his

B. J. Harrison Reads A Princess of Mars (EN) - Edgar Rice Burroughs (mp3 audiokniha)

B.J. Harrison Reads MS. Found in a Bottle (EN) - Edgar Allan Poe (mp3 audiokniha)

In 'MS. Found in a Bottle', one harrowing event seems to take place after another. Our narrator is a man who has become alienated from others and his country. He steps aboard a cargo ship from Batavia, which crashes into stormy conditions that send most passengers into the water. Surprisingly,

B. J. Harrison Reads The Call of the Wild (EN) - Jack London (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison Reads Allan Quatermain (EN) - Henry Rider Haggard (mp3 audiokniha)

H. Rider Haggard's 19th-century novel 'Allan Quatermain,' is the sequel to the novel 'King Solomon's Mines'(1885). In this novel, adventurer Allan Quaterman's son has passed away and Quatermain longs to get back into the wild. From the eastern coast of Africa, he and a party of comrades arrive

B. J. Harrison Reads The Errors of Santa Claus (EN) - Stephen Leacock (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison Reads The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (EN) - Washington Irving (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison Reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol (EN) - Oscar Wilde (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison Reads The Ball of Fat (EN) - Guy de Maupassant (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison Reads The Death of Halpin Frayser (EN) - Ambrose Bierce (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison Reads The Gardener (EN) - Rudyard Kipling (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison Reads The Highwayman (EN) - Alfred Noyes (mp3 audiokniha)

B. J. Harrison Reads The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (EN) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook B. J. Harrison Reads The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. An old grey-bearded mariner returns from a long sea voyage. He stops a guest at a wedding ceremony and tries to tell him the story of his greatest adventure. At first, the man doesn't want to

B. J. Harrison Reads The Island of Doctor Moreau (EN) - Herbert George Wells (mp3 audiokniha)

Audiobook The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. B. J. Harrison reads a classic science fiction novel from the late 19th century. In 'The Island of Doctor Moreau', a man is rescued from death after a shipwreck, only to face something possibly even more frightening. The island he now faces