In 2008, I started recording audiobooks for Librivox, a web project to provide free public domain audiobooks. Librivox is a project run without a budget or a staff, entirely by volunteers. Currently there are over 2000 titles completed and several are added every day. Most of the books read come from Project Gutenberg's vast library of public domain texts.

Because they are completely volunteer operation, Librivox maintains a pretty strict limit on the recordings it will accept. If there is any question about the Public Domain status of a text, they do not allow it to be recorded. Because of that there are a few recordings on this site which are not Librivox files, they are my own, and I am responsible for them.

A few notes about the links on these pages. Completed Librivox recordings are linked to their respective catalog pages. Librivox maintains in progress projects at temporary URLs, which I do not link to. For short story, or poetry, projects that I have contributed to, but are not fully catalogued, I will provide links to local versions of the files. For larger projects, I will provide links to the main project page, which will have links to the temporary files that can be listened to.

In addition to these recordings, I have also started a podcast devoted to Penny Dreadfuls, Victorian era episodic publications. I have started with The String of Pearls, the story that introduced Sweeney Todd to the world.

Librivox has collections of short fiction, in various categories, and short non-fiction and poetry. These collections are catalogued when they get 10-20 selections. Most of the stories listed below are parts of one collection or another. Some are from special projects for a certain author, or from a public domain collection or shorter works.

Stories in collections link to the collection page, you can scroll to find the specific story.

	Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe. This was always one of my favorite Poe stories, and a lesser known one, so I could not pass up the chance, when I saw that it had not been recorded.
	The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe. This was recorded as part of a collection in honor of Poe's 200 birthday. Another favorite of mine, it was part of a literary duel between Poe and a literary rival. The fact that few of you will have heard of the opponent should give an idea of who won the duel.
	Robert Burns by Henry W. Longfellow (poem). This is part of a tribute to Robert Burns. I did not think anyone wanted to hear me try a Scottish accent, but I thought that I could manage to read a tribute from an American poet.
	To the Old Pagan Religion by H. P. Lovecraft (poem). Not much Lovecraft is in the public domain, or at least not clearly so, so this was a good opportunity.
	The Schwartz-Metterklume Method by Saki. Saki was an author I found back in the dim and distant past (the 60's) through the Scholastic Book Club. Saki, real name H. H. Munro, wrote short stories with twist endings, a la O'Henry, but with more wit and often a bit of bloodthirtyness. No blood in this story, just a bored wit taking advantage of a mistaken identity.
	The Flayed Hand by Guy de Maupassant. I recorded this for a horror and ghost story collection, but could not verify its public domain status. I am sure that it is PD, so I have hosted it locally.

The next couple of recordings are for science fiction collections. There is a fair amount of sci-fi from the 50's that was published in magazines, which no one renewed the copyright, so it has fallen into the public domain.

	Earthmen Bearing Gifts by Fredric Brown (science fiction). This was my first recording, for a science-fiction short story collection. It is a very short story.
	The Big Fix by George O. Smith (science fiction). This is a second, longer sci-fi story. I tried to do a deadpan, Mike Hammer sort of voice. It sounded good in my head, I will leave it up to you how it worked out.

After recording a couple sci-fi stories, I realized that there were plenty of people recording sci-fi, but fewer recording mysteries. While current public domain just misses the Golden Age for mysteries, the first 70 years or so of mystery writing is available, so I have started spending more time on mystery short stories.

	The Blue Sequin by R. Austin Freeman. This is one of the Dr. Thorndyke mysteries. Freeman was an important figure in early 20th century mystery writing.
	The Black Bag Left on a Doorstep by C. L. Pirkis. Pirkis created one of the first female detectives, Loveday Brooke, in the 1890s. Brooke was intelligent and also used her ability to penetrate areas of households, where males might have difficulty entering, to solve crimes.
	The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle. One of my favorite Holmes stories, emphasizing Holmes' ability to deduce a serious crime from minor oddities.
	The Riddle of the 5:28 by Thomas W. Hanshew. A Hamilton Cleek "impossible crime" mystery from the early 20th century.
	The B-Flat Trombone by Samuel Hopkins Adams. The first Average Jones, from 1911. It establishes the basis for the series, since my son plays the trombone, this was a title I couldn't pass up.
	The Problem of the Crystal-Gazer by Jacques Futrelle. One of the Thinking Machine stories. A solid, if unexceptional story.

On this page, I have listed longer projects that I have either participated in, or done solo. In progress projects will link to the first page of the discussion page, which will have links that you can listen to.

Solo Projects

	The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart. This is the novelization of a mystery play that ran for over 800 shows on Broadway, and has been made into 3 movies.
	The House on the Borderlands by William Hope Hodgson. An influential early horror novel. You can see much of Hodgson's influence in Lovecraft's writing.
	Doctor Ox's Experiment by Jules Verne. An amusing long short story, or novella, in which Doctor Ox experiments with the inhabitants of a sleepy Flemish town. A long time favorite of mine, this was not available on Project Gutenberg, so I found a copy in Google books and converted it for PG, so I could read it.
	Fantômas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. The first of the long running French pulp series, Fantômas was the darling of the French avant garde in the pre World War I period.
	Niels Klim's Journey Under the Groundby Baron Ludvig Holberg. A satiric social commentary in the guise of a travelogue to a fantastic world, a la Gulliver's Travels.

Group Projects

	Armadale by Wilkie Collins. A long, involved mystery involving two characters named Allan Armadale. Collins is best known for The Moonstone and the The Woman in White, but Armadale is also a quality story.
	The Beetle by Richard Marsh. This 1897 piece of British Sensasion fiction was more popular than Dracula for many years. Told from four different viewopints, this audiobook has been recorded with four different reader for each section.
	Famous Sea Fights by John R. Hale. A recounting of important naval battles from the Battle of Salamis, 480 BC, through the Battle of Tsu-shima, 1905 AD.
	Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 1. This is the beginning of a massive project. This project covers volume 1 of a 45 volume set that was published in 1902 with the goal of providing "American households a mass of good reading". I am reading three sections of Assyrian-Babylonian poetry for this project and hope to read more as the project goes forward.
	Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4. I read a couple of stories by Guy de Maupassant for this collection.
	A Popular History of France, Volume 2. A readable, comprehensive history of France. I read several section regarding the rise of the communes.