The Undying Monster


Gelesen von Ben Tucker

(4.4 stars; 7 reviews)

A curse has plagued the Hammand family for thousands of years with Oliver Hammand and his sister Swanhild being the last of the line. What does the curse of the Undying Monster have to do with the hidden room of Oliver's and Swanhild's ancestor, Magnus the Warlock? What secrets are coded on the sacred runes emblazoned on the hilt of a bronze sword hidden within the walls? It is up to occult investigator Luna Bartendale to unravel the dark mysteries of the past and put a stop to the curse once and for all! Woman of weird fiction Jessie Douglas Kerruish takes us on a heart-stopping journey into the occult and Norse mythology across the ages and into the fifth dimension! - Summary by Ben Tucker (8 hr 6 min)

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Book I. Search for the Supersensitive. Chapter I. To Thunderbarrow Shaw 13:53 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter II. In Thunderbarrow Shaw 13:38 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter III. Oliver Half-Remembers 12:26 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter IV. A Witch Hunt in Prospect 13:24 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter V. Suez-West-of-Suez 11:31 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter VI. The Vampire Hammands 13:17 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter VII. More Dimensions than Four 13:25 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter VIII. "Another Dimension–possibly a Fifth" 9:08 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter IX. "Pardon for … 26,000 Yeares and 26 Daies" 14:03 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter X. The Hand-of-Glory 14:13 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter XI. Runic Writing 13:32 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter XII. "? ? ? ? ? ? : Hammand" 13:03 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter XIII. "C, G, Q, O, or S; and L, or Z" 8:56 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter XIV. The First of the Fourth Estate 11:42 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter XV. An Entirely New Crime 8:33 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Book II. The Mound of the Golden Pigtails. Chapter I. To Summon the Warlock 9:39 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter II. Lewes Martyrs and Golden Pigtails 13:35 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter III. Ancestral Autobiography 10:56 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter IV. "Aaron's Golden Calf–in Sussex" 9:27 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter V. To Open the Barrow 10:01 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter VI. Churchyard Mould 12:27 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter VII. Golden Calf and Dragon Ship 15:22 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter VIII. "In the Hidden Room–To-night" 15:57 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter IX. "In Names of the Asa-Gods–" 11:12 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter X. "… the Explanation–in a single word" 14:05 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter XI. "Let down–by the Golden Pigtails" 13:02 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter XII. The Clue of Clues, 1520-1651 17:03 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter XIII. The Clue of Clues, 1651-19– 12:26 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter XIV. "? ? ? ? ? ? : Hammand :" Again 10:27 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Book III. The Night of Three Thousand Years. Chapter I. The Spirit of the Age T… 13:21 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter II. The Monster at Large 7:42 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter III. In the Fifth Dimension 16:47 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter IV. One Loose Link 16:15 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter V. Bronze Age to Judgment Day 8:14 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter VI. The Vow of Sigmund the Volsung 13:39 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter VII. Judgment Day on the Horizon 11:19 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter VIII. The Hour of Three Thousand Years 16:31 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter IX. The Twilight of the Gods–And After 11:55 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Chapter X. A Night of Unclouded Stars 7:15 Gelesen von Ben Tucker
Envoi 3:10 Gelesen von Ben Tucker

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Ben Tucker reading kept me interested


(4 stars)

This for me a very weird book. I found the first half or maybe more quite interesting. It wasn't particularly frightening, but rather mysterious and complicated. The characters are fun to get to know. It keeps getting stranger and stranger and then seems to slow way down for a few chapters. The ending did surprise me.