The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Ambrose Bierce ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]

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10/25/22

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The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Ambrose Bierce audiobook.

Genre: tragedy

In a rugged corner of the Alps in the spring of 1680, Brother Ambrosius, a young Franciscan monk, is sent with two companions from Passau to the remote monastery of Berchtesgaden - a place of cold forests, steep valleys, and a community ruled as much by fear and superstition as by the Church. On the road he encounters Benedicta, the beautiful and defiant daughter of the local hangman, marked from birth as an outcast and treated as unclean by the very people who rely on her father's grim work. Moved by pity, then drawn by a feeling he struggles to name, Ambrosius begins to seek her out in secret, defying both the monastery's discipline and the village's rage. As gossip hardens into accusation and old cruelties revive, the monk and the hangman's daughter are forced to navigate a world where compassion is punished, desire is weaponized, and faith is tested against the harsh demands of tradition. Told with the flavor of a dark folktale, the novel explores shame, redemption, and the perilous boundary between spiritual devotion and human longing.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:36) Chapter 02

(00:30:03) Chapter 03

(00:42:39) Chapter 04

(01:07:50) Chapter 05

(01:23:39) Chapter 06

(01:41:44) Chapter 07

(02:03:47) Chapter 08

(02:16:51) Chapter 09

(02:35:24) Chapter 10

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Can Such Things Be by Ambrose Bierce ~ Full Audiobook [horror]

October 25, 2022

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471m

Can Such Things Be by Ambrose Bierce audiobook.

Genre: horror

Can Such Things Be gathers Ambrose Bierce's most unsettling tales into a single volume where reason keeps colliding with the impossible. Across a series of tightly wound stories, Bierce follows hunters and townsfolk, soldiers and scientists, skeptics and storytellers who each confront a phenomenon that refuses ordinary explanation: a presence that cannot be seen yet leaves proof behind, a corpse that does not behave as it should, a familiar landscape that turns hostile, a calm investigation that becomes a descent into dread. Bierce writes with a sharp, ironic clarity that makes the strange feel frighteningly plausible, and his narrators often cling to logic even as it fails them. The collection's central tension is not only between the natural and the supernatural, but between what people believe they perceive and what might be lurking just beyond the limits of human senses. By turns grim, slyly humorous, and genuinely chilling, these stories explore fear as a force that distorts judgment, isolates the mind, and makes the world itself feel untrustworthy.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:43:40) Chapter 02

(01:04:49) Chapter 03

(01:09:53) Chapter 04

(01:37:56) Chapter 05

(01:47:42) Chapter 06

(02:15:27) Chapter 07

(02:38:14) Chapter 08

(02:56:45) Chapter 09

(03:28:11) Chapter 10

(03:48:04) Chapter 11

(03:54:51) Chapter 12

(04:10:21) Chapter 13

(04:24:02) Chapter 14

(04:47:59) Chapter 15

(05:13:22) Chapter 16

(05:25:30) Chapter 17

(05:49:33) Chapter 18

(05:53:55) Chapter 19

(06:12:38) Chapter 20

(06:30:09) Chapter 21

(06:55:30) Chapter 22

(07:11:18) Chapter 23

(07:22:29) Chapter 24

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The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories by Amy Walton ~ Full Audiobook [family]

October 25, 2022

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83m

The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories by Amy Walton audiobook.

Genre: family

These are three stories that will delight your heart and soul. The little girl Ruth in the first story is very privileged young lady with everything she could wish for except,of course, for companionship. Her mother has passed away and her father is a very busy lawyer who barely notices she is there. But then Ruth finds a scruffy, skinny and mostly ugly cat; the cat who lives in the kitchen and cellars,hence The Kitchen Cat. Her attempts to befriend this stray despite insurmountable obstacles make this story a really heart warming tale. She does eventually find the best kind of companionship but I won't tell you with who or when. Sarah's Sunday Out is the tale of a pampered little dog who wants to see the world and finally The Toad in the Hole is the tale of a somewhat selfish little girl and her lesson in seeing things from another's point of view. All are bitter sweet and all are delightful. You will be glad you listened to them. I know I'm glad I read them.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:48:40) Chapter 02

(01:08:16) Chapter 03

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