Lion Loose ♦ By James H. Schmitz ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Lion Loose ♦ By James H. Schmitz ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: Lion Loose



Author:  James H. Schmitz



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Winston Tharp



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Summary:

The most dangerous of animals is not the biggest and fiercest—but the one that's hardest to stop. Add intelligence to that ... and you may come to a wrong conclusion as to what the worst menace is.... - Summary by Analog Science Fact & Fiction





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Voodoo Planet ♦ By Andre Norton ♦ General Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Voodoo Planet ♦ By Andre Norton ♦ General Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Voodoo Planet



Author: Andre Norton



Genre(s):  Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Mark Nelson



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The sequel to Plague Ship, Voodoo Planet finds the Solar Queen banned from trade and starting her supposed quiet two-year stint as an interstellar mail carrier. But instead her crew accepts a visit to the safari planet of Khatka, where they find themselves caught in a battle between the forces of reason and the powers of Khatka's mind-controlling wizard. (Summary by Mark Nelson)t)



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The Circuit Riders ♦ By R. C. FitzPatrick ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audio...

The Circuit Riders ♦ By R. C. FitzPatrick ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: The Circuit Riders



Author: R. C. FitzPatrick



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  KirksVoice



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Interesting, older story, published in 1964. Worth pulling out of obscurity.

Policemen of the future rely on an electronic circuit board that gives the location of every citizen - and the level of emotional intensity they're feeling at that moment. It takes talent and a 'feel' for the zeitgeist of the precinct to read this board, but it can be used to predict who's about to commit a violent crime. Several issues with this concept are immediately obvious, but the author deals with most of them rather well.



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Pellucidar ♦ By Edgar Rice Burroughs ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Pellucidar ♦ By Edgar Rice Burroughs ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Pellucidar



Author:  Edgar Rice Burroughs



Genre(s): Science Fiction. Fantasy Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Mark Nelson



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David Innes and his captive, a member of the reptilian Mahar master race of the interior world of Pellucidar, return from the surface world in the Iron Mole invented by his friend and companion in adventure Abner Perry.



Emerging in Pellucidar at an unknown location, David frees his captive. He names the place Greenwich and uses the technology he has brought to begin the systematic exploration and mapping of the unknown land while searching for his lost companions, Abner, Ghak, and Dian the Beautiful. He soon encounters and befriends a new ally, Ja the Mezop of the island country of Anoroc; later he finds Abner, from whom he learns that in his absence the human revolt against the Mahars has not been going well. In a parlay with the Mahars David bargains for information of his love Dian and his enemy Hooja the Sly One, which his foes agree to supply in return for the book containing the Great Secret of Mahar reproduction that David stole and hid in the previous novel. David undertakes to recover it, only to find that Hooja has been there before him and claimed Dian as his own reward of the Mahars! - Summary by wikipedia



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Heart of Darkness ♦ By Joseph Conrad ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook

Heart of Darkness ♦ By Joseph Conrad ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Heart of Darkness



Author: Joseph Conrad



Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Bob Neufeld



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Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters: the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the Europeans' cruel treatment of the African natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil. Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. In the story, Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization, in a cover-up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region. (Summary by Wikipedia)



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The Golden Slave ♦ By Poul Anderson ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

The Golden Slave ♦ By Poul Anderson ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Golden Slave



Author:  Poul William Anderson



Genre(s):  Fantasy Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Mark Nelson



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100 B.C. The Cimbrian hordes galloped across the dawn of history and clashed in screaming battle against the mighty Roman legions. Led by their chief, Boierik, and his son, Eodan, the hungry and homeless pagan tribes hurled back the Romans time after time in their desperate search for land. But for all the burning towns, the new-caught women weeping, the wine drunk, the gold lifted, the Cimbri did not find a home. And now it was over. At Vercellae the Roman armies shattered them completely. Only a few survived—and for them death would have been more merciful. Eodan, the proud young chieftain, had been caught and sold into slavery, his infant son murdered and his beautiful wife, Hwicca, taken as a concubine. But whips and slave chains could not break the spirit of this fiery pagan giant who fought, seduced and connived his way to a perilous freedom to rescue the woman he loved. - Summary by original text



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The Moonlit Road ♦ By Ambrose Bierce ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full ...

The Moonlit Road ♦ By Ambrose Bierce ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Moonlit Road



Author:  Ambrose Bierce



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Louise J. Belle



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Summary:

"The Moonlit Road" is a gothic horror short story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in a 1907 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, illustrated by Charles B. Falls. This story is presented in three parts and relates the tale of the murder of Julia Hetman from the perspective of her son, a man who may be her husband, and Julia herself, through a medium.

The first part is narrated by Joel Hetman Jr. He is summoned home from college by his father, because his mother, Julia, has been found strangled. His father claims that he returned from a business trip and saw the figure of a man fleeing the home. Upon entering the house, he found his wife lying dead in her bedroom. Months later, the father and son are walking down a moonlit road when the father sees something and suddenly turns pale and disappears into the night.



The second part of the story is narrated by a man who describes himself as a wandering outcast, wracked by guilt. He recounts a dream in which he suspects his wife is being unfaithful and he returns from a business trip early to find a strange man leaving his house. When he finds his wife cowering in her room, he murders her in a fit of jealous rage. In another dream, his wife's ghost confronts him on a moonlit road at night and the strangulation marks are still visible on her neck.



The third and final section is the statement of the murder victim, Julia Hetman, delivered through a medium. She describes the night she was murdered. Alone in the house, she heard frightening noises and believed she was being hunted by some creature of the night. While she cowered in the corner of her room, a man entered and strangled her, but she never saw his face. Later, upon seeing that her husband and son were sad, she tried to communicate with them from the spirit world and offer them comfort. She was finally able to appear to them on the moonlit road, but only her husband could see her and he fled in fear. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moonlit_Road



A popular, classic haunted-house story, "The Empty House" can be found in many anthologies.



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The Pygmy Planet ♦ By Jack Williamson ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

The Pygmy Planet ♦ By Jack Williamson ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Pygmy Planet



Author:  Jack Williamson



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Phil Chenevert



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Classic science fiction story by Jack Williamson: The Pygmy Planet was published in Astounding Stories in the very early 1930's. and was a  fine example of the far-ranging imagination of science fiction writers of the day. - Summary by Phil Chenevert



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Creatures of the Abyss ♦ By Murray Leinster ♦ General Fiction ♦ Full Aud...

Creatures of the Abyss ♦ By Murray Leinster ♦ General Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Creatures of the Abyss



Author: Murray Leinster



Genre(s): General Fiction, Science Fiction, Horror



Language: English



Read By: Mark Nelson



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Orejas de ellos, "the things that listen", whispered the superstitious fishermen when the strange occurrences began off the Philippine coast. How else explain the sudden disappearance of a vessel beneath a mysterious curtain of foam? The writhings of thousands of maddened fish trapped in a coffin-like area of ocean? What monsters gorged at the bottom of the Luzon Deep and what were their plans? Radar expert Terry Holt and the crew of the Esperance had to devise a weapon against the horrifying creatures which threatened mankind with extinction. Here are terror, excitement, and the clutch of cold death as combined by a master hand in the field of science fiction. (Summary by from original book jacket)



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The Drummer ♦ By Joseph Addison ♦ (Comedy) ♦ Full Audiobook

The Drummer ♦ By Joseph Addison ♦ (Comedy) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Drummer, or, The Haunted House



Author:  Joseph Addison



Genre(s): Comedy



Language: English



Read By:  Group



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Lady Truman received word fourteen months ago that her husband, Sir George Truman, has died in battle. Now a very eligible widow with a large estate, she has more suitors than she knows what to do with. As if that wasn't enough, her house is now being haunted at night by the horrible and ghostly sound of a drum, apparently caused by the restless spirit of her husband. When an old man arrives who claims to be able to lay the spirit to rest, she is so desperate for relief that she determines to give him a chance. Written with wit and good humor, this play will have you laughing out loud! - Summary by Devorah Allen



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The Road ♦ By Jack London ♦ Short Stories ♦ Full Audiobook

The Road ♦ By Jack London ♦ Short Stories ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: The Road



Author: Jack London



Genre(s): Short Stories, Single Author Collections, History



Language: English



Read By:  Barry Eads



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Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic strangers. In The Road, he relates the tales and memories of his days on the hobo road, including how the hobos would elude train crews and his travels with Kelly’s Army. - Summary by Barry Eads



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Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus ♦ By Thomas Nelson Page ♦ Legends ♦ Au...

Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus ♦ By Thomas Nelson Page ♦ Legends ♦ Audiobook



Title: Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus



Author: Thomas Nelson Page



Genre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By:  Tom Hirsch



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A charming tale about an Tommy, affluent Virginia boy who always gets what he wants at Christmas, only to discover his toys never make him quite happy. He begins to take pity on his poor neighbor Johnny, and slowly understands than only by giving can one find true happiness. - Summary by Miles Smith



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Arm of the Law ♦ By Harry Harrison ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Arm of the Law ♦ By Harry Harrison ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Arm of the Law



Author:  Harry Harrison



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Phil Chenevert



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A quiet backwater outpost on Mars gets a surprise in the form of a new police recruit - in a box! Yep, it's a prototype robot cop sent to the backwater station for testing. And Harrison tells the strange, funny and scary things that begin to happen after that, as only he can.



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The Jungle Book ♦ By Rudyard Kipling ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook

The Jungle Book ♦ By Rudyard Kipling ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: The Jungle Book



Author:  Rudyard Kipling



Genre(s): Action & Adventure



Language: English



Read By: Phil Chenevert



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This is the classic story of Mowgli, the young boy raised by wolves in India: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his capture by the Monkey-People, his attempt at reintegration into human society, and his ultimate triumph over his avowed enemy the tiger Shere Khan. Included in the book is the story of the brave white seal, Kotick, and the tenacious young mongoose, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi who battled through the night to protect his human family from a pair of sly and viscous cobras. Packed with adventure and Jungle Law wisdom, this book has pervaded popular culture as the basis of many film and stage adaptations, including the popular Disney movie.



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The Idiot ♦ By John Kendrick Bangs ♦ Humorous Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

The Idiot ♦ By John Kendrick Bangs ♦ Humorous Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Idiot



Author:  John Kendrick Bangs



Genre(s): Humorous Fiction, Satire



Language: English



Read By: Gregg Margarite



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The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their skin, because when you’re beneath contempt you can say what you please. – This is the first of John Kendrick Bang’s “Idiot” books and was published by Harper and Brothers in 1895. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)



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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ♦ By Robert Louis Stevenson ...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ♦ By Robert Louis Stevenson ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde



Author:  Robert Louis Stevenson



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Group, Dramatic Reading



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A series of mysterious and increasingly alarming crimes are taking place across London. People are being injured, even murdered without mercy and without reason. And yet, the perpetrator cannot be found. The crimes happen overnight, but in the morning the murderer is gone "like breath upon a mirror". Mr Utterson (a lawyer), Dr Lanyon and Dr Jekyll each bring their insights to this sinister conundrum.



Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is brought to life with a cast of voices in this dramatic reading. Only 10 chapters long, tradition says that Stevenson wrote the novella in less than a week, yet the central idea of the duality of human nature continues to fascinate through the ages! (Summary by Beth Thomas)



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The Beast with Five Fingers ♦ By W. F. Harvey ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ F...

The Beast with Five Fingers  ♦ By W. F. Harvey ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook



Famous Modern Ghost Stories



Title:  The Beast with Five Fingers



Author:  W. F. Harvey



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Jc Guan



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Francis Ingram (Victor Francen) is a noted pianist who lives in a large manor house near a small, isolated Italian village. Ingram suffered a stroke which left his right side immobile, and he has to use a wheelchair to get around. He has retreated to the manor house for the past few years—seen by only a few close friends. These include his nurse, Julie Holden (Andrea King); a musicologist (and amateur astrologist), Hillary Cummins (Peter Lorre); a friend, Bruce Conrad (Robert Alda); and his sister's son, Donald Arlington (John Alvin). Ingram has fallen in love with Julie Holden, and has changed his will so that she receives the vast bulk of his enormous estate when he dies. But Julie is secretly in love with Conrad. The change in the will disinherits Arlington and Cummins, and Cummins tries to expose Holden's affair. Ingram, outraged at the slander on his beloved's good name, tries to choke Cummins to death. Only Julie's arrival (after meeting Conrad in the garden) saves him.



Later that night, Ingram begins to suffer hallucinations from poison put in his food and drink. He climbs into his wheelchair, makes it to the top of the stairs, and calls out for Julie (who never comes to his aid). Ingram falls down the stairs, breaking his neck. (The audience does not see if Ingram was pushed or he fell.) Commissario Ovidio Castanio (J. Carrol Naish) of the local police investigates the death, but finds little sign of murder.



A few days later, Raymond Arlington (Charles Dingle) (Donald's father) arrives, determined to ensure that his son gets the inheritance. Duprex (David Hoffman), Ingram's attorney, tells Raymond that there are suspicions regarding Ingram's death that may lead to overturning the new will in favor of the old one. That night, Duprex is murdered by an unseen assailant. Commissario Castanio begins to investigate. The Arlingtons try to search for the old will, while suspicion falls on Cummins after he tries to remove several expensive old books from the manor house. That night, everyone hears Ingram playing the piano in the main hall, but when they go to check no one is there. Donald, too, is attacked and almost choked to death. Commissario Castanio discovers that someone has broken into the Ingram mausoleum and cut off Ingram's left hand. But it seems impossible for anyone to have gotten in or out.



The audience now begins to see a disembodied hand moving around the manor house. The hand attacks Cummins, but he is able to assuage the hand's quest for vengeance by giving the hand Ingram's signet ring. He locks the hand in a closet, but when Conrad and Holden appear to see what has happened — the hand has disappeared. Meanwhile, Donald Arlington remembers the combination and location of an old safe in the house, and Commissario Castanio and his father accompany him to the room where it is located. They discover the old will...and the disembodied hand. In a fit of madness, Donald Arlington flees the house with Conrad in pursuit. He comes to his senses, and is not harmed. When Holden claims to have discovered the hand, Cummins (becoming more and more mentally unhinged) tries to burn it in the fire. But the hand crawls out and chokes him to death.



Commissario Castanio discovers a hidden record player and concludes that Cummins was playing it to scare people. He theorizes that Cummins cut off the hand, killed Duprex, and tried to kill Arlington. By that point, his mind had snapped, making him believe his own fabricated plot. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_with_Five_Fingers



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Shadows in Zamboula ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full Audio...

Shadows in Zamboula ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Shadows in Zamboula



Author:  Robert E. Howard



Genre(s): Science Fiction, Science Fiction



Language: English



Groups:  Conan the Cimmerian, Conan the Barbarian



Read By:  Phil Chenevert



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Plot:

Despite a warning received in the Suq by an elderly desert nomad, Conan stays the night in a cheap tavern in Zamboula, run by Aram Baksh. As night falls, a black Darfarian cannibal enters to drag him away to be eaten. All of the Darfar slaves in the city are cannibals who roam the streets at night. As they only prey on travellers, the people of the city tolerate this and stay locked securely in their homes, while nomads and beggars make sure to spend the night at a comfortable distance from its walls. This night, however, Conan finds a naked woman chasing through the streets after her deranged lover; Conan rescues them from an attack by the cannibals. She tells him that she tried to secure her lover's unending affection via a love potion which instead made a raving lunatic of him. Promising Conan "a reward" in return for his assistance, they attempt to kill the high priest responsible for the man's madness. (Summary by Wikipedia)



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The Werewolf In France ♦ by Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural ♦ Audiobook

The Werewolf In France ♦ by Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural ♦ Audiobook



Title: The Werewolf In France



Author:  Elliott O'Donnell



Genre(s): Gothic Fiction, Horror, Supernatural



Language: English



Read By: William Hahn



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Written in 1912 by a famous ghost hunter who was also an occult fantasy writer, this interesting book collects together folktales and traditions from across Europe, starting in the British Isles, through Spain, France, Belgium and Norway to Russia. The "scientific" accounts (including "How to Become a Werewolf") are embellished by anecdotes of the author's personal experiences with werewolves, ghosts and vampires.



The wolf is not the only animal whose shape, it is stated, man may possess the power of assuming; and it may be of some interest to inquire briefly into the varying branches of lycanthropy, comparing them with the one already under discussion. In Orissa, the power of metamorphosing into a tiger is asserted by the Kandhs to be hereditary, and also to be acquired through the practice of magic; many who have traveled in this country have assured me that there is a very great amount of truth in this assertion; and that although there are, without doubt, a number of impostors among those designated wer-tigers, there are most certainly many who are genuine. As with the werewolf, so with the were-tiger, the metamorphosis is usually dependent on the hour of the day, and generally occurs contemporaneously with the setting of the sun. But the lycanthropy of the were-tiger differs from that of the werewolf inasmuch as there is a definite god or spirit, in the shape of a tiger, that is directly responsible for the bestowal of the property. This tiger deity is looked upon and worshipped as a totem or national deity—that is to say, as a divine being that has the welfare of the Kandh nation especially at heart. It is communed with at home, but more particularly in the wild dreariness of the jungle, where, on the condition that the prayers of its devotees are sufficiently concentrated and in earnest, it confers—as an honor and privilege—the power of transmutation into its own shape.



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What Was It ♦ By Fitz-James O'Brien ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook

What Was It ♦ By Fitz-James O'Brien ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook



Famous Modern Ghost Stories



Title:  What Was It



Author:  Fitz-James O'Brien



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Igor Teaforay



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Most famous in O’Brien’s oeuvre is the following episode: “What Was It?” In the original publication (which we have included), references to opium and a stark ending brooding with uncertainty enhanced the Gothic aesthetic. While those were redacted in the secondary, more widely published, Victorian version of the tale (compare to the incorrigible censorship of Poe’s gruesome “Berenice”), all versions maintain a vigorous element of melancholy, otherworldliness, and mystery. As in “The Lost Room,” we are denied explanations and refused clarification. Unlike the tales thematic descendents – particularly H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man – there are no science fictional expositions to unwrap the grisly puzzle. The story invites comparisons to Machen’s The Great God Pan, Lovecraft’s “From Beyond,” and “The Music of Erich Zann,” Blackwood’s “The Willows,” and especially de Maupassant’s “The Horla,” and Bierce’s “The Damned Thing” (two direct descendents) – stories that wonder at the possibility that other worlds exist alongside ours, worlds terrifying, malignant, and awesome. Like Bierce’s compendium, “Strange Disappearances,” it reads like a newspaper clipping concerning a little-noticed, little-understood oddity which science has yet to explain. The weirdness of this writing style leaves the reader feeling insecure, confused, and vulnerable; we are used to clean-cut explanations, and while O’Brien’s withholding plot lost him the affection of critics in his own day, we may look back at his style as artistically brave and philosophically chilling. Summary by M. Grant Kellermeyer



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