HMPH Audiobooks
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Jerome K. Jerome The Man of Science
July 07, 2023 14:05 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBJerome K. Jerome The Man of Science --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
Count Magnus by M.R. James
July 04, 2023 15:54 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBCount Magnus by M.R. James --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
The Inmost Light by Arthur Machen
June 28, 2023 15:54 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBThe Inmost Light by Arthur Machen --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
United States Constitution
June 27, 2023 14:22 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBUnited States Constitution --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
U.S. Bill of Rights by James Madison
June 26, 2023 14:07 - 2 minutes - 2.46 MBU.S. Bill of Rights by James Madison --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
Rocket Summer by Ray Bradbury
June 25, 2023 14:34 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBRocket Summer by Ray Bradbury --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
Defense Mech by Ray Bradbury
June 24, 2023 14:50 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBDefense Mech by Ray Bradbury --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
Blood Toil Tears and Sweat Winston Churchill
June 23, 2023 15:19 - 3 minutes - 3.02 MBBlood Toil Tears and Sweat Winston Churchill --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
Change by Theodore Dreiser
June 22, 2023 14:21 - 6 minutes - 6.06 MBChange by Theodore Dreiser --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
The Haunted Mind by Nathaniel Hawthorne
June 21, 2023 15:07 - 8 minutes - 7.63 MBThe Haunted Mind by Nathaniel Hawthorne --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
The House Divided Abraham Lincoln
June 17, 2023 14:23 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBThe House Divided Abraham Lincoln --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
A Blackjack Bargainer by O. Henry
June 16, 2023 13:48 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBA Blackjack Bargainer by O. Henry --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
The Voice of the City by O. Henry
June 15, 2023 13:54 - 9 minutes - 8.47 MBThe Voice of the City by O. Henry --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
The Yarkand Manner by H.H. Munro (SAKI)
June 14, 2023 14:24 - 8 minutes - 8.06 MBThe Yarkand Mannerby H.H. Munro (SAKI) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
The Girl Who Got Rattled by Stewart Edward White
June 13, 2023 13:06 - 21 minutes - 20 MBThe Girl Who Got Rattled by Stewart Edward White --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
State of the Union Address, 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt
June 12, 2023 14:03 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBState of the Union Address, 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
Abraham Lincoln Fourth State of the Union Address
June 11, 2023 14:46 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBAbraham Lincoln Fourth State of the Union Address --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
Transformation by Mary Shelley
June 10, 2023 15:44 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBTransformation by Mary Shelley --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
A Ghost by Guy de Maupassant
June 09, 2023 16:43 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBA Ghost by Guy de Maupassant --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation
June 08, 2023 14:29 - 9 minutes - 8.84 MBEisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
A Wireless Message by Ambrose Bierce
June 07, 2023 14:28 - 3 minutes - 3.65 MBA Wireless Message by Ambrose Bierce --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
A Hyperborean Brew by Jack London
June 06, 2023 14:27 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBA Hyperborean Brew by Jack London --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
My Friend the Murderer by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
June 05, 2023 14:26 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBMy Friend the Murderer by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
Zero Hour by Ray Bradbury
June 03, 2023 16:01 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBIn this short story first published by Ray Bradbury in the 1951 "Illustrated Man" collection, the game of "Invasion" has been sweeping the country. Children all across the nation pretend to have been enlisted by alien invaders, their job to overthrow their parents, and help their newfound friends take over the Earth --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
The $25,000 Jaw by Richard Connell
June 03, 2023 14:25 - 34 minutes - 32 MBThe $25,000 Jaw by Richard Connell --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
The Crystal Crypt by Philip K. Dick
June 02, 2023 16:52 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBThe story is set in the distant future where Earth and Mars are on the verge of war. The last spaceship to leave Mars[1] headed for Earth is stopped and searched by Martian soldiers, who are looking for three saboteurs who destroyed a Martian city.[2] They are not found, and the ship continues towards Earth. On board the space ship, a business man by the name of Thacher meets a young woman and two men, who tell that they are the people sought by the Martians, and proceed to tell Thacher the ...
Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
June 01, 2023 16:45 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBin the aftermath of an extensive nuclear war between the Soviet Union (sometimes referred to as Russia) and the United Nations. Early Soviet victories forced the North American government and production to flee to a Moon base, leaving the majority of their troops behind. To counter the almost complete Soviet victory, U.N. technicians develop robots, nicknamed "claws" —the basic models are "a churning sphere of blades and metal" that ambush their unsuspecting victims "spinning, creeping, sha...
3 HG Wells stories 1 Hour Free Audiobook
May 31, 2023 15:20 - 1 hour - 84.7 MB3 HG Wells stories 1 Hour Free Audiobook --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
A Dream of Armageddon by H.G. Wells
May 27, 2023 17:12 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBA Dream of Armageddon by H.G. Wells --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
A Ladies Man by Robert Barr
May 13, 2023 14:46 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MB"Jest w'en we guess we've covered the trail So's no one can't foller, w'y then we fail W'en we feel safe hid. Nemesis, the cuss, Waltzes up with nary a warnin' nor fuss. Grins quiet like, and says, 'How d'y do, So glad we've met, I'm a-lookin' fer you'" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
The Pendulum by Ray Bradbury
May 12, 2023 14:23 - 9 minutes - 8.64 MBRay Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012) was a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. Bradbury's short story "Pendulum", written with Henry Hasse, was published in 1941 in the pulp magazine Super Science Stories. The protagonist, Layeville, had built a time machine and invited the world’s top scientists to attend its first performance. Unfortunately, a massive explosion killed them all, and for his crime, Layeville was imprisoned in a glass pendulum for what seem...
Cynthia by Aldous Huxley
May 11, 2023 14:02 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBCynthia is a story published in Huxley's collection titled Limbo, published in 1920. "So she was absolutely, frozenly virginal; but she was made of a sort of burning ice, if you understand me. She was virginally passionate just the combination you’d expect to find in a goddess." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
A Deal in Ostriches by H.G. Wells
May 11, 2023 02:46 - 8 minutes - 7.61 MBThe taxidermist is talking with an unnamed acquaintance about the price of birds when he tells the story of a bird auction on an East India Company ship en route from India to London. Sir Mohini Padishah, a wealthy native Indian, is aboard the vessel. An unnamed caretaker, was on deck with five ostriches when one of the birds swallowed the diamond from Padishah’s turban. The bird becomes mixed with the others during the resulting confusion. Word of the incident sweeps the vessel as Padishah...
Can Socialists Be Happy? by George Orwell
May 09, 2023 21:41 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBCan Socialists Be Happy? by George Orwell --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
A Case of Premeditation by R. Austin Freeman
May 06, 2023 05:25 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBA Case of Premeditation is one of Freeman's inverted detective stories, also referred to as a "locked room mystery" featuring his favorite medical-forensic investigator, Dr. Thorndyke. It was first published in McClure's Magazine, August, 1910. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
The Horror of the Heights by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
May 04, 2023 04:17 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBThe story is told through a blood-stained notebook discovered on the edge of a farm in Withyham. The notebook is written by a Mr. Joyce-Armstrong, and the first two and last pages are missing; the notebook is thus dubbed the "Joyce-Armstrong Fragment". Joyce-Armstrong, a brave aviator, had been curious over the deaths of certain pilots who tried to break the current height record of 30,000 feet. Recent casualties involve some strange deaths – one, Hay Connor, died after landing while he was...
Filmer by H.G. Wells
May 03, 2023 02:49 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBFilmer is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction," as are Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works ...
The Record by Ray Bradbury
May 01, 2023 03:31 - 8 minutes - 7.62 MBWritten cooperatively by Forrest Ackerman and Ray Bradbury, this story was first published in Ray Bradbury's Futuria Fantasia, Summer 1939 where it was credited only as “by Forrest J. Ackerman” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
The Defenders by Philip K. Dick
April 29, 2023 17:35 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBEight years ago a nuclear war began between the United States and the Soviet Union. American survivors evacuated to gigantic bunkers miles under ground. Sophisticated, radioactivity-immune robots called "leadys" continue fighting the war on the devastated surface that is too dangerous for humans. The Soviets have similarly evacuated underground, and each side builds powerful weapons and vehicles for the remote-controlled war they only see from film that the robots deliver. The security depa...
A Hanging by George Orwell
April 24, 2023 12:59 - 10 minutes - 9.42 MBA Hanging (1931) is a short essay written by George Orwell, first published in August 1931 in the British literary magazine The Adelphi. Set in Burma, where Orwell (under his real name of Eric Arthur Blair) had served in the British Imperial Police from 1922 to 1927, it describes the execution of a criminal. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
Tony and the Beetles by Philip K. Dick
April 23, 2023 12:56 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MB"Tony and the Beetles" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in Orbit Science Fiction, No.2, in 1953. The story is told from the point of view of a young boy, Tony, living on an alien world that humans have conquered. The native species are beetle like creatures called the Pas-udenti, some of whom Tony has befriended. As news reaches the planet that the war has turned against the humans, Tony attempts to carry on his daily life, to disastrous ef...
The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost by H.G. Wells
April 22, 2023 12:47 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBThe Story of the Inexperienced Ghost by H.G. Wells --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
Lazarus Come Forth by Ray Bradbury
April 21, 2023 11:27 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBThe Morgue Ship had gleaned information from space that would end the three hundred year war, knowledge that would defeat the aggressor Martians—if Brandon could carry it to Earth. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
The Bookshop by Aldous Huxley
April 20, 2023 13:28 - 8 minutes - 8.16 MBThe Bookshop is a story published in Huxley's collection titled Limbo, published in 1920. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
Under the Knife by H.G. Wells
April 19, 2023 13:01 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBA operation during which Dr Haddon administers an anesthetic. While under, the patient journeys into space and discovers that the universe is merely a speck of light reflected on a ring, worn on God's hand. A thought-provoking exploration of the afterlife, the universe, and the unconscious mind --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
Jonah of the Jove-Run by Ray Bradbury
April 18, 2023 12:21 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBNibley stood in the changing shadows and sounds of Marsport, watching the great supply ship TERRA being entered and left by a number of officials and mechanics. Something had happened. Something was wrong. There were a lot of hard faces and not much talk. There was a bit of swearing and everybody looked up at the night sky of Mars, waiting. But nobody came to Nibley for his opinion or his help. He stood there, a very old man, with a slack-gummed face and eyes like the little bubbly stalks o...
Of Withered Apples by Philip K. Dick
April 17, 2023 19:44 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBAlong the edge of the field was a grove of ancient trees. Lifeless trees, withered and dead, their thin, blackened stalks rising up leaflessly. Broken sticks stuck in the hard ground. Row after row of dead trees, some bent and leaning, torn loose from the rocky soil by the unending wind. Lori crossed the field to the trees, her lungs laboring painfully. The wind surged against her without respite, whipping the foul-smelling mists into her nostrils and face. Her smooth skin was damp and shin...
Why I Write by George Orwell
April 17, 2023 01:54 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBFrom a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hmphaudiobooks/support
The Hammerpond Park Burglary by H.G. Wells
April 16, 2023 03:01 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBThe Hammerpond Park Burglary by H.G. Wells is a seminal work of fiction that examines the human relationship between criminality and morality. Through its critique of the criminal justice system, Wells challenges the reader to consider how society should respond to those who break the law. The narrative follows a group of criminals as they attempt to burglarize a wealthy estate, while also exploring themes of guilt, redemption, and personal responsibility. --- Support this podcast: https:...
Beyond Lies the Wub By PHILIP K. DICK
April 14, 2023 04:15 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBPeterson, a crew member of a spaceship loading up with food animals on Mars, buys an enormous pig-like creature known as a "wub" from a native just before departure. Franco, his captain, is worried about the extra weight but seems more concerned about its taste, as his ship is short of food. However, after takeoff, the crew realizes that the wub is a very intelligent creature, capable of telepathy and maybe even mind control. Peterson and the wub spend time discussing mythological figures an...