The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 01 October 1896: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 01 October 1896 by Various: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 6 original MP3 tracks, 2:03:49 running time and a link to listen.
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 01 October 1896, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 01 October 1896 by Various. Read in English by John Walker; Anita23; Julie Burks; ToddHW; Sarah Angelici; Greg Giordano The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. Volume 2 starts off with the following 6 stories in the first issue: > "The house that Jack built", by Harold Donovan Hilton: a young man learns the intriguing story of an uncanny old house > "In the garden of a villa", by R. George Smith Jr.: a female lark sees her tragic love life reflected in the life of a duchess > "A peg-leg ghost", by Wellington Vandiver: strange events finally make a sceptical man believe in the supernatural > "How the run was stopped", by Richard Stillman Powell: to save the bank from bankruptcy, a clerk resorts to an ingenious ruse > "My friend, Walker", by Geraldine Meyrick: a man achieves the impossible of communicating with horses, but at an awful price > "In an hour", by Warwick James Price: in his last hour, a dying scholar muses about his life - Summary by Sonia
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 01 October 1896
- Author credits: Various
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 6
- Combined MP3 track duration: 2:03:49
Catalogue topics
- adventure
- romance
- Mystery
- suspense
- magazine
- uncanny
Track guide
- 01 - The house that Jack built, by Harold Donovan Hilton — 29:38
- 02 - In the garden of a villa, by R. George Smith Jr. — 28:55
- 03 - A peg-leg ghost, by Wellington Vandiver — 11:51
- 04 - How the run was stopped, by Richard Stillman Powell — 20:40
- 05 - My friend, Walker, by Geraldine Meyrick — 18:50
- 06 - In an hour, by Warwick James Price — 13:54
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