Free Audio Books for Intellectual Exercise

Out of the seething cauldron of my woes,
Where sweets and salt and bitterness I flung;
Where charmed music gathered from my tongue,
And where I chained strange archipelagoes
Of fallen stars; where...

[Psychodeviant - Telepath Thriller Audiobook] The Penal Cluster by Randall Garrett

Alas—my poor Muse—what aileth thee now?
Thine eyes are bedimmed with the visions of Night,
And silent and cold—I perceive on thy brow
In their turns—Despair and Madness alight.
A succubus green, or...

Although the background setting of this book is Chinese, it is similar to "the Arabian Nights." Both are a collection of curious tales narrated by a person who are facing a grave punishment and try...

The authorship of this writings is still up to debate but you be the judge.
Apocrypha Volume 2 (Audiobook) by Plato and Lucius Apuleius

The authorship of this writings is still up to debate but you be the judge.
Apocrypha Volume 1 (Audiobook) by Plato and Lucius Apuleius

[Horror Audiobook from the Author of Dracula] The Crystal Cup (by Bram Stoker)

Methought the world was bound with final frost;
The sun, made hueless as with fear and awe,
Illumined yet the lands it could not thaw.
Then on my road, with instant evening crost,
Death stood, and ...

[Trippy Fantasy Tale from the Master of German Weird Tales] The King's Betrothed by E. T. A. Hoffmann (Fantasy Audiobook)

Our mind is using various memories constantly as long as we live. But what is memory and how to use it in a creative manner? Are we fully utilizing it for ourselves? The master occult scholar Manly...

The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 2: Geology (Audiobook) by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

In the Abyss (Terror from the Unfathomable Depth) Audiobook by H. G. Wells

As a poet, the author was heavily influenced by a famous Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg and said that he could only write poems when 'an inner light' guides him. His close friend mentioned that ...

Rousseau played a seminal role for the Enlightenment movement in Europe but he had to suffer some hardships in his time including having this book (Emile) publicly burned in 1762 and arrest warrant...

Rousseau played a seminal role for the Enlightenment movement in Europe but he had to suffer some hardships in his time including having this book (Emile) publicly burned in 1762 and arrest warrant...

The main text starts at 08:14 mark. Rousseau played a seminal role for the Enlightenment movement in Europe but he had to suffer some hardships in his time including having this book (Emile) public...

[A Tale of the Ultimate Dilemma] Damned If You Don't (SF Audiobook) by Randall Garrett

Their mouths have drunken the eternal wine— The draught that Baal in oblivion sips. Unseen about their courts the adder slips,
Unheard the sucklings of the leopard whine;
The toad has found...

This legendary book is one of the two important 13th-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America. The author's identity is unknown but the translation was done by Arth...

[Occult Audiobook] Necromancy (Evocation of the Dead) From the collection "Greek and Roman Ghost Stories" by Lacy Collison-Morley

[Immortality-Themed Legend Audiobook] Osseoj the Son of the Evening Star (From the collection "The Indian Fairy Book" by Henry R. Schoolcraft)

The sun descending in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
The moon, like a flower,
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight
Sits ...

[Mind-Bending Tale of Existential Reality] The Big Engine (Audiobook) by Fritz Leiber

[Psychological Audiobook] An Honest Thief (by Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

[Gothic Horror Audiobook] The Residence At Whitminster by M. R. James

"We are false and evanescent, and aware of our deceit,
From the straw that is our vitals to the clay that is our feet.
You may serve us if you must, and you shall have your wage of ashes, —
Though ...

If you want to skip 'Christian-influence', click 12:34 mark to start from the main text since the translator did a poor job on 'Prologue' part (for example, translating 'Ask and Embla' (Norse male/...

The greatest mystery that we easily forget is the human mind itself. There are diverse concrete and abstract functions of the human mind that could be our greatest asset once we mastered them. The ...

On Living to Oneself (Philosophy Audiobook) by Seneca

[Thought Provoking Tale of Mind-Control] The Sensitive Man (SF Audiobook) by Poul William Anderson

The narrator finished reading by just saying "End of chapter one" but it is the end of this short story so don't be confused (the entire story is 15 minutes and 48 seconds). The author was famous f...

That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen [Frédéric Bastiat] (Philosophy - Political Science Audiobook)

Come, Mercury, by whose minstrel spell Amphion raised the Theban stones, Come, with thy seven sweet strings, my shell, Thy "diverse tones," Nor vocal once nor pleasant, no...

The main text starts at 15:04 mark. This is one of the most horrifying books you will ever read. In this book, you'll see the perspective of fundamental-religious fanatics on their quest to torture...

[In Search of the Perfect Note] I Like Martian Music (SF Audiobook) by Charles E. Fritch

APART, immutable, unseen,
Being, before itself had been, Became.
Like dew a triple queen
Shone as the void uncovered:
The silence of deep height was drawn
A veil across the silver dawn
O...

Agatha Christie mentioned this fiction as her main influence for her mystery fictions. This book is considered by many as one of the best mystery fictions ever written so Agatha Christie was not al...

Agatha Christie mentioned this fiction as her main influence for her mystery fictions. This book is considered by many as one of the best mystery fictions ever written so Agatha Christie was not al...

[In Search of the Lost Book of Thoth: Egyptian Myth] Setna and the Magic Book (from the collection: Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series Two : XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty) Edited by Will...

This is one of those horror - suspense tales from legendary "Weird Tales Magazine" where H. P. Lovecraft published a lot of his stories.
[A Horror Fiction from "Weird Tales Magazine"] In The Dark (...

NOONDAY upon the Alpine meadows
Pours its avalanche of Light
And blazing flowers: the very shadows
Translucent are and bright.
It seems a glory that nought surpasses—
Passion of angels in form and ...

This is a very unusual tale for H. G. Wells with its central theme dealing with politics and sex. However, many seminal authors consider this as a masterpiece including Joseph Conrad (of Heart of D...

This is a very unusual tale for H. G. Wells with its central theme dealing with politics and sex. However, many seminal authors consider this as a masterpiece including Joseph Conrad (of Heart of D...

One of the most famous symbolism in the ancient days is Jacobs Ladder which has hidden and profound meanings for spiritual seekers. The master occult scholar Manly P. Hall shares his insight on thi...

[History Audiobook] Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4 by Plutarch (Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus)

Ten From Infinity [SF Audiobook] by Paul W. Fairman

[Norse Legend Audiobook] Prince Lindworm (from the collection "East of the Sun and West of the Moon") by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

The main text starts at 4:12 mark. This is a masterpiece of modern Japanese literature which is full of
humor and insight. This is a collection of first several episodes of the book but since the ...

Great forests, you alarm me like a mighty fane;
Like organ-tones you roar, and in our hearts of stone,
Where ancient sobs vibrate, O halls of endless pain!
The answering echoes of your "De Profun...

Inside Earth [SF Audiobook] by Poul William Anderson (1926 - 2001)