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MP3 Audio CD. 14.99 by Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?"Rediscover This Timeless Classic - The Ultimate MP3 Audiobook CD Experience!"Journey back in time and immerse yourself in a world of timeless stories with our classic MP3 Audiobook series. Evoke the magic of yesteryears and let the narratives from eras gone by captivate your senses.📚 Why Dive into Our Classic Title MP3 Audiobook CDS?Historical Significance: Journey back in time with this masterwork, which has shaped literature, inspired countless adaptations, and touched the hearts of generations.Authentic Reproduction: Faithfully reproduced to capture the essence of the original publication.High Quality Narration: Relish the richness of an advanced AI voice that brings alive the written tales and captures the essence of the classic era.Consistent Quality:AI narration ensures a consistent tone and pace throughout the book. There's no risk of the narrator becoming fatigued or any variations happening in the audio quality.Optimal Sound Quality: Experience crystal-clear audio, ensuring every word, every pause, and every sentence is conveyed in its purest form.Universal Playability: Our CD is compatible with any device that supports MP3 playback - from vintage CD players to modern car stereos and computersDurable: Engineered for durability, our CDs are made to resist common wear and tear, offering you uninterrupted listening.Made in the USA: Every CD is meticulously produced within a specialized duplication facility in the USA.🎁 A Gift of Nostalgia: Rekindle the joy of classic tales. This MP3 Audiobook CD is an exquisite gift for literature enthusiasts, history buffs, or anyone with a penchant for iconic stories.🌟 Exclusive Release: This edition celebrates the beauty of classic literature. Dive deep into the masterpieces that have shaped generations and been the cornerstone of world literature.Reacquaint yourself with the tales that have withstood the test of time. Embrace the classics anew. Embark on a audible journey through literature's golden age! 📖🎧Note: This AI generated audiobook gets delivered to your door on a professionally printed CD.The contents of this book is deemed to be in the public domain in the United States. Any use or redistribution of this item outside the United States is done at the user's own risk and liability.Listed Subjects:Short stories, American; Paranormal fiction

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MP3 Audio CD. Can Such Things Be? THE DEATH OF HALPIN FRAYSER I For by death is wrought greater change than hath been shown. Whereas in general the spirit that removed cometh back upon occasion, and is sometimes seen of those in flesh (appearing in the form of the body it bore) yet it hath happened that the veritable body without the spirit hath walked. And it is attested of those encountering who have lived to speak thereon that a lich so raised up hath no natural affection, nor remembrance thereof, but only hate. Also, it is known that some spirits which in life were benign become by death evil altogether.--Hali. One dark night in midsummer a man waking from a dreamless sleep in a forest lifted his head from the earth, and staring a few moments into the blackness, said: "Catherine Larue." He said nothing more; no reason was known to him why he should have said so much. The man was Halpin Frayser. He lived in St. Helena, but where he lives now is uncertain, for he is dead. One who practices sleeping in the woods with nothing under him but the dry leaves and the damp earth, and nothing over him but the branches from which the leaves have fallen and the sky from which the earth has fallen, cannot hope for great longevity, and Frayser had already attained the age of thirty-two. There are persons in this world, millions of persons, and far and away the best persons, who regard that as a very advanced age. They are the children. To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore. However, it is not certain that Halpin Frayser came to his death by exposure. He had been all day in the hills west of the Napa Valley,

A lovely crisp clean hardcover copy in very good condition, light shelfwear to extremities, light sunning to spine, former owners name written neatly in fountain pen on front pastedown.

Jonathan Cape, 1929. Hardcover. Good. 1929. Reprint. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout, notable to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Moderate tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Boards are mildly warped.

Jonathan Cape, 1927. Hardcover. Good. 1927. Reprinted. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Light thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Jonathan Cape, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. Reprint. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pencil marking to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine.

A lovely crisp clean hardcover copy in very good condition, light shelfwear to extremities, light sunning to spine, former owners name written neatly in fountain pen on front pastedown.

Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1903. Cloth. Good. iv, 320 pages. 8vo. Publisher's brick cloth with gilt stamped titles and white stamped border and large '?' on front panel. Spine titling, etc faded. Top edges soiled. Page edges untrimmed as published. Previous owner Malcolm M. Ferguson's copy with his Ex-libris on front pastedown and signature on front flyleaf. A few penciled notes on the CONTENTS page ("ML" marked next to some stories). Several leaves with tears at the fore-edge extending just to the text (no loss) wiht several others with old cellotape repairs (yellowing). Binding starting to loosen with cracking in the gutters. Cloth. The first edition of this work was published by Cassell in 1893. This edition (the first by Neale Publishing who also later published a collection of Bierce's works) has been revised: "Of some of the tales in this new and authorized edition the author wishes to explain that their appearance in other forms since the original edition of 1893 has been without his knowledge or assent." (Preface) "In his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature", H. P. Lovecraft characterized Bierce's fictional work as "grim and savage." Lovecraft goes on to say that nearly all of Bierce's stories are of the horror genre and some shine as great examples of weird fiction." (Wikipedia) The previous owner, Malcolm M. Ferguson was a writer and Lovecraft fan. A few excerpts from G. W. Thomas's cite Darkworlds quarterly article about Ferguson follow. "Malcolm M. Ferguson wrote five stories for Weird Tales. The name is not a household word, even among WT fans. He was no Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber or Ted Sturgeon. He didn't leave the pages of WT to go onto write bigger and better things. Once a year, for five years, he'd pen a tale. ... I was glad to find out in this case, Malcolm Ferguson was not forgotten. I dug deeper and found he had published a letter to Famous Fantastic Mysteries (August 1943), and his only other piece of fiction was "A Damsel with a Dulcimer" in the Arkham Sampler 1948. And here is where things get really interesting. MMF wrote many pieces for Derleth and was a friend. In "L'Abril" Ferguson describes a visit with M. P. Shiel in England during WWII. On Derleth's recommendations, Ferguson was trying to find English correspondents during his furloughs from the army. A picture of MMF solidifies: friend of Derleth, a veteran, it turns out he also graduated from Harvard and ran an antiquarian bookshop for some years, all the while writing fan stuff for Derleth like "Arkham House and Its English Visitants" or "Literature With a Capital Hell". Malcolm M. Ferguson was a fan, a supporter and part of weird fiction history. Ferguson died in 2011. His obituary mentions his many accomplishments including his writing." Ferguson was also a correspondent with M.P. Shiel: "Ferguson on Shiel collects various documents - articles and correspondence - that pertain to the writer M. P. Sheil (1865-1947) as written by (or to) the American bookseller and librarian Malcolm M. Ferguson (b. 1919) who met the elderly Shiel in 1944 when stationed in England as an American serviceman." (Anderson, Douglas A. and Berube, Pierre H. (2010) "Letters," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 29: No. 1, Article 11).

Washington: Neale Publishing Company, 1903. 2nd Edition. Cloth. VG/No Jacket. Octavo. Red cloth lettered in gilt and white with big question mark on front panel and spine with wear to edges .320 pages.Inscribed by Bierce to "T.T. Williams to whose powerful and friendly pen the author of this book is more indebted than he can say. Ambrose Bierce Washington D.C. June 27, 1903.