Wieland
With Historical Context on Its Dark OriginsBy Charles Brockden Brown
Length9h 59m
About this audiobook
First published in 1798, Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland is often called the first great American Gothic novel. On a secluded estate above the Schuylkill River, a rational, close-knit family begins to hear voices where no speaker stands and discovers how quickly reason, faith, and love can be turned against themselves. Inspired by a documented true crime of the 1780s and praised by H. P. Lovecraft in his landmark essay Supernatural Horror in Literature, Brown's tale of religious obsession and psychological terror helped shape the American tradition that runs through Poe and Hawthorne to modern horror.
Complete text of Wieland
Historical true crime chapter — the real eighteenth-century family murder case that inspired the novel, reconstructed from surviving accounts
Companion chapter — spontaneous human combustion: the strange medical mystery behind the novel's most puzzling death
About the author — the short, driven life of Charles Brockden Brown
Audiobook details
GenreHorror
Length9 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 11, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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