Fort Raphael Publishing Company

03/25/2026

New audiobook alert!

Here's a VERY special project that was two years in the making: a year to collect, format and publish all the stories and ANOTHER year to record, process and release the audiobook.

But here it is! The first volume of Fort Raphael's production of "The Complete Dashiell Hammett Short Story Collection," as performed by David Blixt, Kevin Theis and Sara Nichols.

Over twenty short stories from the master of hard-boiled detective fiction, the great Dashiell Hammett.

Come and get it!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Dashiell Hammett is universally regarded as one of the finest American writers of "hard boiled" detective fiction and his short stories and novels have been hailed as some of the best mystery stories ever written. Hammett would doubtless have g...

02/12/2026

New audiobook alert!

This is a very special release, ladies and gents: our first Dashiell Hammett novel and one of the most beloved crime thrillers of all time:

The Maltese Falcon.

Featuring the voice talents of Ben Werling, Kevin Theis and Sara Nichols, this is the first of many Hammett audiobooks to come! (This spring: "The Complete Dashiell Hammett Short Story Collection: Volume I" featuring the enigmatic and brilliant David Blixt!)

And I'm giving it to you on the straight, see?

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Dashiell Hammett was already a well-established hard-boiled mystery writer by the time he released what would turn out to be his masterpiece, The Maltese Falcon in 1930. But with the release of this novel, Hammett would be catapulted to the forefront of .....

01/24/2026

New audiobook release! And it's a BIG one!

This is one we've been preparing for a long, long time. Three years in the making, it is the culmination of a long partnership with the brilliant audiobook performer (and dear friend of Fort Raphael), Ben Werling as well as FR's own Sara Nichols. We present:

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection.

All nine books, from "A Study in Scarlet" to "His Last Bow." Five novels, about a hundred short stories. Every word that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about the world's first (and only) consulting detective and his faithful companion, Dr. John Watson.

All in one epic audiobook bundle.

Come and get it!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In 1886, a struggling young doctor and part-time author named Arthur Conan Doyle picked up his pen and created what is arguably the most famous character in the history of mystery and detective fiction: the consulting detective known as Sherlock Holmes. .....

01/10/2026

This one was YEARS in the making, but we are so proud to finally release "The Edgar Allan Poe Collection - Volume III" featuring Fort Raphael's longtime collaborator and resident graphics guru Paul Stroili bringing this collection home.

Good, creepy fun!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Edgar Allan Poe, long heralded as the dark master of macabre fiction, is one of America's most celebrated and admired authors. Here, in this collection, you can enjoy four of his most beloved tales: "The Cask of Amontillado," "Berenice,&qu...

09/17/2025

New audiobook alert!

Here's a fun one: the horror classic "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs as narrated by the team of Brian J. Gill, Sara Nichols and Kevin Theis, with spoooooky sound effects and creeeeepy music!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. "The Monkey's Paw" is the best-known work of writer W.W. Jacobs. Generally acknowledged as one of the most disturbing and brilliant works of short horror fiction ever created, the story was first published in a larger collection of scary storie...

08/08/2025

New audiobook alert!

The brilliant military tactician Sun Tzu is best-known for his treatise on the strategies of battle and armed combat, "The Art of War."

Mark Lancaster brings this book brilliantly to life in Fort Raphael's latest production. Available....right now!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The Art of War is the widely acclaimed book of military strategy written by the legendary Chinese general and philosopher Sun Tzu. In this treatise, Sun Tzu lays out his basic philosophy of how to wage military campaigns, including a description of the c.....

03/03/2025

New audiobook alert!

Here is the first of FOUR Edith Wharton books we are preparing for 2025. We begin with Ms. Wharton's novel of high society and forbidden love, The Age of Innocence, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921, making Wharton the first woman to be given that great honor.

Available....right now!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. "The Age of Innocence" is considered by many critics to be author Edith Wharton's masterpiece. When it was published in 1920, it was received with rapturous reviews and earned Wharton the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making her the first wo...

01/16/2025

New audiobook alert!

For those who prefer their E.M. Forster stories in bunches, we have the TRIPLE volume of "A Room with a View," "Howards End" and "A Passage to India" - all narrated by the great Sara Nichols - in ONE package!

Available from Audible or wherever you purchase audiobooks.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Collected here are three of E.M. Forster's classic novels: "A Room With a View," "Howards End" and "A Passage to India," each a stand-alone masterpiece and all of them celebrated as among the finest novels of early 20th cent...

01/11/2025

New audiobook alert!

Fort Raphael's own Sara Nichols reads the E.M. Forster classic "A Passage to India"!

Available....right now!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. One of E.M. Forster's most critically-acclaimed works, "A Passage to India" was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the best "All Time 100 Novels" and it won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Modern Library also list...

01/07/2025

HUGE day for Fort Raphael Publishing!

We have never had a day before where we could announce the release of FOUR projects on the same day but....we're there tonight with the release of:

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Donan Doyle AND The Best of Sherlock Holmes (featuring Return, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes AND The Hound of the Baskervilles)...all narrated by Ben Werling, Kevin Theis and Sara Nichols.

PLUS

The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway AND The Ernest Hemingway Omnibus, featuring FIVE books by Hemingway and all narrated by the great Joseph Wycoff.

(All audiobook covers by the incomparable Paul Stroili.)

That's four audiobooks...in one day! Woot!

01/02/2025

First audiobook of 2025!

Fort Raphael is proud to announce the release of our latest audiobook bundle: the Classic Romance Collection, Volume II, featuring:

Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" read by Sara Nichols
Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" read by Joseph Wycoff and
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" read by Kevin Theis.

A great way to start off the new year!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The most romantic literary lovers in history: Heathcliff and Cathy. Frederic and Catherine. Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Now, all three of their classic stories are collected in one volume: the Classic Romance Collection - Volume II featuring Emily Bro.....