The Sepher Yetzirah or Book of Formation is perhaps the oldest rabbinical treatise of Kabbalistic philosophy which is still extant. This thoroughly re-edited and revised version helps bring this text to life. 

Sepher Yetzirah: The Book of Formation

The Corpus Hermeticum is a series of short philosophical and religious treatises dating from the beginning of the Common Era. Most of the texts take the form of a dialogue between Hermes Trismegistos and one or more of his disciples. The texts are lo...

Poimandres, the Shepherd of Men, a Hermetic Gospel

Antigone by Sophocles. Translated by Sir George Young. Presented by the Online Stage.  Sophocles (497 BC-406 BC), Aeschylus, and Euripides formed a trio of ancient Greek tragedians whose works represent the foundation of the Western tradition of clas...

Antigone by Sophocles

 Euripides (c. 480-406 B.C.E.) is the author of eighteen extant plays and many more only surviving in fragments. He is the youngest of the three great Athenian tragedians with Aeschylus and Sophocles.  Hippolytus, bastard son of Theseus and the Amazo...

Hippolytus

This is a heavily revised and updated version of this classic occult text. While the utterances and philosophy expressed in this book represent a concise statement of esoteric philosophy spanning several millennia, the importance of this work lies in...

The Chaldean Oracles

The Confession of the Laudable Fraternity of the Most Honorable Order of the Rosy Cross, written to all Europe  These enigmatic treatises caused a seismic shift in European culture, and massive speculation as to their origin and purpose. Even to this...

The Rosicrucian Manifestos

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw  Presented by The Online Stage  In the Greek legend, a sculptor, Pygmalion, created a statue of a woman so beautiful that he fell in love with it. Later the goddess Aphrodite responded to his earnest prayers and broug...

Pygmalion

Sophocles (497 BC-406 BC), Aeschylus and Euripides formed a trio of ancient Greek tragedians whose works represent the foundation of the Western tradition of classic drama. Of the more than 100 plays written by Sophocles, seven have survived to the p...

Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

Cicero's Stoic Paradoxes is a brilliant and accessible summary of the six major ethical beliefs of Stoicism. The nature of moral goodness, the possession of virtue, good and bad conduct, the transcendence of wisdom, and the sources of real wealth are...

Stoic Paradoxes: A New Translation

There is always room in the world for more gripping tales about the exploits of the inimitable Sherlock Holmes and the redoubtable Dr. Watson. Here is a collection of five previously unknown cases from the astonishing career of the consulting detecti...

A Farewell to Baker Street

Do you ever wonder if there is a gnome living in the hole at the bottom of the old tree in the park?  Have you ever felt like you weren't alone while in the woods?  Did you know that elves are responsible for many of our day-to-day occurrences?  If your mind ever fills with these kinds of questions, then these modern fairy tales are for you! 

The Gnome in the Neighborhood

Rosmersholm By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Charles Archer Presented by the Online Stage Rosmersholm is a play surrounding the deep and intense political and cultural change in Norway in the middle of the 1880s, a period during which the traditional ru...

Rosmersholm

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, and takes place over the course of 24 hours.  Together wit...

An Ideal Husband

If you had discovered a way to become invisible, would it bring you tremendous power? Or tremendous problems?

The Invisible Man

This is my life, one mistake at a time. Worker-bee goes to work, sip coffee, step forward, one, two, three. I'm a brainless zombie with no purpose in life. Feed me brains and I'll eat 'em raw with some Tabasco. Worst mistake in my life, getting marri...

The Russian Wedding - A Short Story

Emma  By Jane Austen  Presented by The Online Stage  Emma was the last completed novel by Jane Austen. It tells the story of a spirited and opinionated young woman who lives with her widowed father and who has an unfortunate penchant for interfering ...

Emma

By the witty author of the Jeeves and Wooster stories. The life of a simple dog is full of misunderstandings.... 

The Mixer

Oedipus the King, By Sophocles, Translated by Sir George Young, Presented by the Online Stage  Sophocles (497 BC - 406 BC), Aeschylus, and Euripides formed a trio of ancient Greek tragedians whose works represent the foundation of the Western traditi...

Oedipus the King

Henry Ian Darling is a collector of oddities, those that bring him closer to an enigma, one he hopes will be a great thing. But maybe it isn't? 

Weird

This collection contains Oscar Wilde's four best-known comedies: The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; and A Woman of No Importance. All of them satirize upper-class English society of the 1890s, dramatizing scandalous secrets, political and marital intrigue, and dandyish bad behavior with Wilde's trademark wit and wisdom.  Presented by The Online Stage 

Four Plays

The Swedish playwright August Strindberg was one of the founding fathers of naturalistic theater. A feature of many of his plays is the minute dissection of attitude and motivation by individuals within tightly bound groups. As in the present drama, ...

The Creditor

This beautiful collection contains five fairy tales by the celebrated British writer Oscar Wilde: "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket." These timeless tales are per...

The Happy Prince & Other Tales

The Life and Death of King John was probably written in the 1590s but not published until the First Folio in 1623. Of Shakespeare's 11 history plays, King John is the one which deals with the story of a monarch most removed from Shakespeare's time. T...

King John

The Ring and the Book, by Robert Browning, presented by Voices of Today.  The Ring and the Book is a verse novel of sex, lies, and murder, authored by Robert Browning, and it is widely considered to be one of the greatest literary works of the 19th c...

The Ring and the Book

Samuel Butler, although an evolutionist (but not of the Darwinian kind), postulated a radical theory about God as both known and unknown, suggesting a kind of creative energy throughout the universe. His ideas are somewhat gnostic, though they don't fall into any one camp. Here is Butler's book, God Known and God Unknown in a new format, with an astute review of Butler's God that was written after Butler's death and published in 1918.

The Cellular God: Samuel Butler's God the Known and God the Unknown

Holmes and Watson investigate spies and amateur beggars in this thrilling addition to the Sherlock Holmes mythos, based on one of the unpublished tales mentioned in the original series. 

Sherlock Holmes in the Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society

Tombstones is a collection of some of the finest dark verse and horror-themed literature while exploring the various elements of dreams, erotica, and psychology and visualizing complete fear and terror...including the popular dark verse "The Fallen Angel", the powerfully erotic vampire tale "Blood Hungry", and a journey into the mind of the "Wicked Torturer". 

Tombstones

What is the significance of what Henry Ian Darling found in the boot of a car? And how did his wife know of the event? How could anyone be cruel enough to do such a thing?  Find out where the discovery leads this collector of oddities and what it may mean for Henry's ultimate quest - finding the enigma, which will save or destroy all dimensions. 

Weird: A Henry Ian Darling Oddity, Missive Two

Warning! Warning! Master short storyteller Richard Porter does it again.  I am a storyteller. To some, not an author. I am a revolutionary. I have no faith in bullshit writing rules. If you want an excellent piece of writing that makes you feel all w...

Blue Bird Home

This play is a hilarious spoof of the original Shakespeare tragedy.  In the author's own words:  King Claudius, when a young man, wrote a five-act tragedy which was damned, and all reference to it forbidden under penalty of death. The King has a son ...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling's delightful collection of imaginative tales about natural history has captivated children and adults alike since its publication in 1902. Here the stories are presented in dramatic format by members of The...

Just So Stories

Shakespeare's King Lear ranks with Sophocles' Oedipus as a tragic hero destroyed by his own good intentions. From the moment when Lear unfolds his darker purpose, we are drawn into an ineluctable chain of events that leads through betrayal, deceit, d...

King Lear

Henry is not much of a detective. But when he becomes involved with a theatrical company, his career takes an unexpected turn.  By the witty author of the Jeeves and Wooster stories. 

Bill the Bloodhound

For many of us, the goal of life isn't ultimate wealth, a massive amount of stuff, or the perfect car. Though we strive to gain materialistic possessions and a social status, often times we find that the achievement of gaining such objects has little...

Ava's 30 Steps to a More Fulfilled Life

Danny MacIntyre Meets the Molecule, a radio play by Mike Murphy. Presented by the Online Stage  Danny's mother assures him that snowmen can't talk. In this whimsical adventure, Danny discovers that her assertion is not entirely correct.  Cast: Weatherman - Brett Downey; Danny - Amanda Friday; Mom - Susan Iannucci; Snowman - Alan Weyman.  Additional voices supplied by Leanne Yau, Beth Thomas, and K.G. Cross.  Audio edited by Amanda Friday. 

Danny MacIntyre Meets the Molecule

Stevenson's brilliantly macabre yet profound story of a man seemingly trapped in evil. 

Markheim

An anthology selected and edited by Edward J. O’Brien and John Cournos with an introduction by John Cournos and Edward O'Brien.    "Where Was Wych Street" by Stacy Aumonier   "The Looking Glass" by J.D. Beresford  "The Olive" by Algernon Blackwood   ...

The Best British Short Stories of 1922

The Online Stage presents Shakespeare’s most famous and most quoted play, a revenge drama which explores the inevitable conflict between conscience and justice, between morality and obligation. The tragedy arises, not from an obvious weakness in the ...

Hamlet

A man was hanged in Reading Gaol during Wilde's imprisonment there. In "The Ballad", written after his release, he tells of the horror of the event and its effect on himself and his fellow prisoners.  First published 1898, under the pseudonym C.3.3 - the number by which Wilde was known in the prison, consisting of the cell block, landing number and cell number of his cell.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

A weird dream tips Henry Ian Darling into the Shadowlands. What has this to do with Brett? Ms. Peabody has a plan, but will Henry survive his quest?  Cover Design: Julie Elizabeth Powell 

Weird: A Henry Ian Darling Oddity, Missive Three

Franz Kafka was one of the first and greatest masters of dystopian literature. In his bleak world view, man is presented as helpless and ineffectual, his destiny determined by distant, obscure and essentially unfriendly agencies. In none of his works...

Metamorphosis

Essential oils are extracted from flowers, leaves, fruits, peel, seeds, wood, bark, roots, and other natural materials. There are thousands of different kinds of essential oils, and each has unique properties and characteristics. They are highly vola...

Essential Oils: Unlock the Secrets of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy

A childhood nemesis. A threat seemingly from beyond the grave. Murder by Monday.... A mysterious letter sends Carl Brooke and Rutherford Nordlinger off to the aid of a man who, accused of murder, is now threatened by the man he is said to have killed...

Murder by Monday

Listeners are invited to sit back and enjoy this collection of classic Yuletide tales.  Contents  "The Christmas Dream of Little Charles" by J. S. Redfield  "A Christmas Inspiration" by L. M. Montgomery  The Christmas Present" by Richmal Crompton  A ...

Twelve Stories of Christmas

The Online Stage presents The Green Cockatoo by Arthur Schnitzler. The Green Cockatoo is a short play set in a busy tavern on the night of the storming of the Bastille. Rich Parisian nobles come to watch some actors play at being rogues, thieves, and...

The Green Cockatoo

Earth Spirit: A Tragedy in Four Acts by Frank Wedekind  Translated by Samuel A. Eliot Presented by the Online Stage Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) was the most controversial dramatist of his age. Most of his work focuses on the ubiquity and inevitably co...

Earth Spirit

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek Translated by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science-fiction drama that was first presented in the original Czech version in January 1921. It introduced the ter...

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

Five fables: "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", "The Remarkable Rocket". Each illustrates a moral, contrasting fake with real, selfishness with unselfishness, though Wilde wrote "I like to fancy that there may be many meanings in the tale".  First published in 1888. 

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