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Title: The Last Librarian of MarsLevel: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)DescriptionNinety years after its founding, the Martian colony of Arcadia stores everything in a perfect digital archive. The only person who still works with paper is Imani Okafor, the last librarian, who dusts fo ...  Show more

Title: The Last FlamebearerLevel: Advanced (C1-C2)DescriptionFor three hundred and twelve years, the Hearthfire of Vardenhal has burned without a break. Then a three-day storm ends, the hearth-keepers climb the Hall of Embers, and they find nothing but cold ash. The city has one ...  Show more

Do you believe in curses? Do you think that misfortune is random? Or can be caused by someone? Today’s episode is all about curses. First, Sapphire tells the tale of a legendary Japanese creature who is created from a curse. Then, a young girl discovers what’s haunting her mother ...  Show more

In this short fiction piece, a young woman becomes convinced she is being haunted by an alternate reality and takes desperate measures to cast the intruder out. 

The heir of a cursed estate attempts to find a way to outsmart the Water Ghost of Harrowboy Hall

The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall [1894] by John Kendrick Bangs

Dracula wasn’t the only frightful fiction conjured by Irish author Bram Stoker… In this retelling of “The Judge’s House,” a Cambridge student is overcome with curiosity — then dread — as he faces an evil man’s terrifying legacy. Listen to Part 1 right here, then search “Haunted P ...  Show more