
Length994h 38m
About this audiobook
Beware The Silence gathers more than 560 horror classics, macabre tales, and supernatural mysteries into a capacious map of the uncanny. Spanning Gothic romance, ghost story, psychological terror, occult fantasy, decadent nightmare, satire, and proto-science fiction, the volume traces horror's movement from ruined castles and spectral visitations to urban paranoia and cosmic dread. Its range embraces celebrated tales of doubles, revenants, cursed objects, forbidden knowledge, and inexplicable silence, revealing how fear is shaped by form as much as by subject. The contributors constitute an international and transhistorical chorus: nineteenth-century Gothic innovators, Victorian and Edwardian masters of the short story, American fabulists, Continental fantasists, and early twentieth-century architects of modern weird fiction. Their varied social settings and aesthetic commitments—Romanticism, realism, sensation fiction, spiritualism, symbolism, and emerging speculative literature—make the anthology a valuable record of horror's evolving cultural concerns. Women writers, popular storytellers, canonical novelists, and specialists in the supernatural alike expand the tradition beyond any single national or literary lineage. This collection is especially rewarding for readers, students, and scholars seeking to encounter horror as a diverse literary archive rather than a fixed genre. Its abundance invites comparison across styles, periods, and imagined terrors, while fostering a rich dialogue between Gothic inheritance and modern unease. Each selection offers both chilling pleasure and an opportunity to study the changing languages of fear.
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GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length994 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 25, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Not Exactly Ghosts (Annotated)
26Metzengerstein
2Introduction: Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft
27The Assignation
3Introduction
28Berenice
4The Dawn of the Horror-Tale
29Morella
5The Early Gothic Novel
30King Pest
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6The Apex of Gothic Romance
31Shadow
7The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction
32Silence
8Spectral Literature on the Continent
33Ligeia
9Edgar Allan Poe
34William Wilson
10The Weird Tradition in America
35The Man of the Crowd
11The Weird Tradition in the British Isles
36The Oval Portrait
12The Modern Masters
37The Premature Burial
13Supernatural & Mystery Thrillers
38The Imp of the Perverse
14Edgar Allan Poe
39The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
15The Tell-Tale Heart
40Hop-Frog
16The Fall of the House of Usher
41H. P. Lovecraft
17The Cask of Amontillado
42The Call of Cthulhu
18The Pit and the Pendulum
43I. The Horror in Clay
19The Masque of the Red Death
44II. The Tale of Inspector Legrasse
20The Black Cat
45III. The Madness from the Sea
21The Oblong Box
46The Shadow over Innsmouth
22The Murders in the Rue Morgue
47I
23The Purloined Letter
48II
24The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
49III
25The Gold-Bug
50IV