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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a world where the lines between science and philosophy begin to blur, Moxon—a mysterious inventor—challenges the idea that only humans can think. When his friend visits him in his secluded house filled with machines, unsettling signs emerge. Can...

Il maestro di Moxon è un racconto breve ma ricco di suggestioni. Protagonisti sono Moxon, inventore e filosofo dilettante, e la sua creatura meccanica: un automa giocatore di scacchi. Lo spunto narrativo parte dal saggio di E. A. Poe Il giocatore di scacchi di Maelzel in cui lo scrittore smaschera un falso automa scacchista detto "Il Turco" che era diventato famoso in Europa e negli Stati Uniti. Ma "Bitter Bierce" manipola la materia a suo modo. Come si intuisce dal titolo, egli mette in guardia gli uomini del suo tempo contro la tirannia di una macchina.

LongBefore H.P. Lovecraft defined cosmic horror, a generation of pioneering writers was already exploring the unknown. Of the Unknown: Before Lovecraft collects 11 influential tales of early science fiction, weird fiction, and speculative horror that shaped the genre’s foundations. Featuring...

One of the most iconic TV series ever was Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. This audiobook contains four short stories that inspired four episodes of The Twilight Zone: "The Bus Conductor" by E.F. Benson; "Elegy" by Charles Beaumont; "Time Enough at Last'' by Lynn Venable; and ''An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge'' by Ambrose Bierce. Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, one can understand why Searling was inspired by these short stories.

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of books, the written word and the elegance of language. In 1891 Bierce wrote and published the collection of 26 short stories which included ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’. Success and further works including poetry followed.

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of books, the written word and the elegance of language. He began his first foray as a fabulist, publishing ‘Fantastic Fables’ in 1899. But tragedy struck two years later when his second son Leigh died of pneumonia relating to his alcoholism. He continued to write short stories and poetry and also published ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’.

Im 19. Jahrhundert lieferte Ambrose Bierce, der Journalist und gelegentliche Verfasser von Horrorgeschichten, mit der Kurzgeschichte "Ein Bewohner von Carcosa" den Grundstein für den Mythos um den König in Gelb und damit für den modernen Horror schlechthin, der neben Robert W. Chambers und H. P. Lovecraft - um zwei der prominentesten Vertreter in diesem Umfeld zu nennen - bis in die heutige Zeit zahlreiche Autoren inspiriert hat.

Ambrose Bierce's classic weird tale, first published in 1886, brings us the eerie visons of a feverish man, and introduces to the world the strange realm of Carcosa. Following this telling is a commentary tracing the origins, influence and importance of this Bierce story.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They 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 volume the Mad Scientist takes centre stage. Naturally the stories come in all shapes and sizes and in the pens of our classic authors the scientists more usually arrive as dark, twisted and evil as they go about their work illuminating humanity as only a mad scientist can.

A wolf howls through the forests of Transylvania, the murky graveyards of H.P. Lovecraft, the mythic marshes of Count Stenbock and the ghostly vaults of English cathedrals in these timeless stories read by award-winning actors from The Story Circle company.