A Grown-up's Halloween: Fantasies and Fables for the Philosophically Fiendish

2007 Audie® Award Finalist - Short Stories/Collections

A Grown-up’s Halloween: Fantasies and Fables for the Philosophically Fiendish is an eclectic mix of stories, plays, and sketches dedicated to the thinking paranoiac. Selections include "In a Grove," upon which Akira Kurosawa based his classic film, Rashomon; an adult fairy tale by the author of Winnie-the-Pooh; the real story (honest!) behind Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel The Moon Maid; and cautionary and scary tales from Dostoevsky, Kafka, Mark Twain, and others. Gore, sex, horror, literature, and edifying morals — what more could you want from an audiobook?

This collection includes:

In a Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

The Garbage Man and the Noble Lady of Baghdad and The Sultan and the Wazir's Wife from The Book of a Thousand Nights and One Night

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice

The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Josephine, the Mouse Singer by Franz Kafka

An Interview in a V. A. Hospital by Yuri Rasovsky

The Ugly Duckling by A. A. Milne

The Moon Maid: The True Story by Emmett Loverde

Fables by Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce

The Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw

Why Support for Public Radio Must Increase and It Came from Outer Pinsk by A. Fiend