The Dead Cannot Be Photographed
A Horror Mystery Claire Malloy MysteryBy Delia Wren
Length12h 26m
About this audiobook
Twenty glass negatives. Twenty people who died before the picture was taken.
Court reporter Juno Beck buys a box of glass negatives at a Fayetteville estate sale and starts matching faces to death certificates. Four fit. Then eight. Then twenty.
They all come from the studio of Ada Rule, who photographed Washington County for three decades and was committed to the state asylum in 1929. Her intake note reads: the dead would not stay in the pictures.
A photography professor confirms the plates are unedited. The figures are simply out of focus. Slightly to the left.
A horror mystery for readers who know archival boxes are called accessions for a reason.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length12 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2One
3Two
4Sunday, 16 November, 8.40 a.m. — Juno's apartment
5Thursday, 12 December, 8.52 a.m. — the Washington County Courthouse
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6Five
7Six
8Seven
9Eight
10Nine
11Thursday, 11 December, 2.15 p.m. — C. Fisk, Properties, second floor, 118 West Center
12Friday, 12 December, 8.05 a.m. — the Washington County Courthouse
13Tuesday, 10 February, 8.47 a.m. — Juno's apartment
14Thirteen
15Epilogue
16About the author
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