All Pieces for Roy Trumbull
This account of a plot to assassinate President-Elect Lincoln in Baltimore comes from Carl Sandburg's "Lincoln-The War Years"
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 39:25
Two swindlers are short of the amount they need to mount a land scheme so they decide to make up the short-fall by kidnapping the son of the wealth...
- Added: Nov 10, 2011
- Length: 26:34
Traditional tales from the White Mountains. From Myths and Legends of Our Own Land by Charles M. Skinner
- Added: Aug 30, 2011
- Length: 08:45
A fiddler taunts the Quaker owner of a haunted mansion of his fear to occupy the place. In front of a bunch of tavern regulars the owner offers the...
- Added: Aug 25, 2011
- Length: 06:32
War brings on tales of predictive dreams and wondrous signs.
- Added: Aug 25, 2011
- Length: 04:22
A New Amsterdam doctor has bought some property way out of town (roughly 23rd St.) and the locals claim it's haunted. Dolph, an adventurous young m...
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 05:58
Before it was Ellis Island it was Gibbet Island as that was the location of the gallows used for pirates and mutineers. This is a tale of the dead ...
- Added: Aug 11, 2011
- Length: 05:05
This is the story of the trumpeter of New Amsterdam sent to rouse his countrymen to ward off a British invasion. Unable to find a ferryman, he swea...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 03:29
A tale of the imps, goblins, and other demons said to reside on Thunder Mountain and raise squalls on the waters below.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 02:40
A tale of ghost ships sailing up the Hudson or seen just before a storm.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 03:06
A fay is one of the names for a fairy. This fay has loved a mortal, which is forbidden. To redeem himself he must catch the spray from a leaping st...
- Added: Aug 01, 2011
- Length: 03:57
A tale from New Amsterdam concerning the origin of 13 being a baker's dozen.
- Added: Aug 01, 2011
- Length: 03:26
A witch sits atop a monster who has been turned to stone and brews the weather for those below.
- Added: Aug 01, 2011
- Length: 02:46
What if all the bad stuff about drinking cola were spelled out on the label under the image of a skull?
- Added: Oct 01, 2010
- Length: 14:50
This is a satire on the scandals of a few years ago when there was a lot of fiction on the books of corporations. It is based on Jack And The Beans...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Sep 30, 2010
- Length: 07:03
- Purchases: 1
A college student who is the older sister of our narrator won a contest in Alaska and won't let go of it.
- Added: Sep 30, 2010
- Length: 06:46
This is a narration of the original version of the story which was written by Washington Irving.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 47:09
The author goes in quest of the Boars Head Tavern that was often frequented by Falstaff and Prince Hal in Henry the IV Part 1.
- Added: Feb 09, 2010
- Length: 30:08
