Stories and misadventures from the edge of Alaska.

A reading of the poem by Edgar Allen Poe, written and first published as a poem in April 1839. Later, the poem was incorporated into "The Fall of the House of Usher" as a song written by the character Roderick Usher.

Selections from the epic by Homer.

From The Fellowship of the Ring: The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm.

By Homer. From Part One of the translation by Robert Fitzgerald.

By Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Part Two, sections 1-3.

Selected Readings from the Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald

A short story by Ray Bradbury, copyright 1949. Narrated by Hilary Hartman.