The Venom Houses: The Complete Legendarium
By Gemini Cool
Length8h 26m
About this audiobook
Vampires were never undead. They are hosts of an ancient parasite that enters through the eye — kept running past death, dissolved and regrown across two centuries in the dark, emerging full-grown and knowing nothing, to be tended into a person or to come out wrong.
The Venom Houses gathers the complete legendarium: six volumes and the Roll of the Crowns. The raw age and the first mortal who did not run. The Council of Seventy-Seven and the one land that fell silent. The war that drove the deathless into hiding and made them humanity’s Devil. And the present age — their dwindling cast, and the camera that is finally outpacing a four-thousand-year concealment.
A cold, patient myth about memory, grief, and the sorrow that moves the world — written, always, by the ones who cannot feel it.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, General Fiction
Length8 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 31, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Note on the Order
2Volume One · The Venom Houses
3BOOK ONE — The Chrysalis Room
4BOOK TWO — The First Eye
5Volume Two · The Untended
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6BOOK THREE — The One That Came Out Wrong
7BOOK FOUR — The Concord in Session
8Volume Three · The Sovereign Dark
9BOOK FIVE — The Sovereign Age
10BOOK SIX — The First House
11BOOK SEVEN — The Second House
12BOOK EIGHT — The Hands That Tend
13BOOK NINE — Gods Made Late
14Volume Four · The Keeping-Running
15BOOK FIFTEEN — The Present Cast
16BOOK SIXTEEN — The Two Houses Now
17BOOK SEVENTEEN — The Anomaly Desk
18BOOK EIGHTEEN — The Quiet People
19BOOK NINETEEN — The Woman Before the Strand
20Volume Five · The Seventy-Seven
21BOOK TEN — The Council
22BOOK ELEVEN — The Seven Lands
23BOOK TWELVE — The Silent Land
24BOOK THIRTEEN — The Three Schisms
25BOOK FOURTEEN — The Last Convening
26Volume Six · The First Hand
27BOOK TWENTY — The Raw Age
28BOOK TWENTY-ONE — The First Worm
29BOOK TWENTY-TWO — The First Hand
30BOOK TWENTY-THREE — The Rise of the One Crown
31Appendix · The Roll of the Crowns
32On the Keeping of the Roll
33The Crowns of Auren
34The Crowns of Vesh
35The Crowns of Sard
36The Crowns of Thann
37The Crowns of Ombric
38The Crowns of Kael
39The Silent Roll of Yssa
40The Roll Closed
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