The Diamond Lens with Other Stories
Fitz-James O'Brien
Lu par Ben Tucker





Irish-born author Fitz-James O'Brien is a underrated genius of weird fiction, serving as the missing link between Edgar Allan Poe and later purveyors of the form like Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce and Arthur Machen. This collection contains several of O'Brien's most well-known weird tales including "The Diamond Lens" (a seance, a murder and a world beneath a microscope!) and "What Was It?" (an invisible murderous creature that predates Wells' The Invisible Man and Ambrose Bierce's "The Damned Thing"), both stories taking a scientific approach to the fantastical and supernatural. Also included are stories like the bizarre killer puppets of "The Wondersmith", the spacial legerdemain of "The Lost Room", a mystery from beyond the grave with "A Pot of Tulips", an exotic and fantastical tale of the Orient with "The Dragon Fang" and several others that illustrate the sheer talent and imagination of a near forgotten master of the weird. (Summary by Ben Tucker) (9 hr 41 min)
Chapitres
Sketch of O'Brien by William Winter | 23:48 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
The Diamond Lens | 55:23 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
The Wondersmith | 1:13:49 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
Tommatoo | 55:50 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
Mother of Pearl | 40:52 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
The Bohemian | 48:42 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
The Lost Room | 40:13 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
The Pot of Tulips | 38:13 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
The Golden Ingot | 32:06 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
My Wife's Tempter | 26:43 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
What Was It? | 29:21 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
Duke Humphrey's Dinner | 28:48 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
Milly Dove | 45:19 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
The Dragon Fang | 42:10 | Lu par Ben Tucker |
Critiques
Excellent stories , well read





A LibriVox Listener
great weird and speculative stories, and it sounds like some real practice and craft went into the reading. thank you!