Length5h 18m
About this audiobook
The Mystery of Cloomber is a gothic mystery novel – one of Arthur Conan Doyle's early forays into suspense and the supernatural. It centers on Cloomber Hall, a gloomy mansion set in the lonely moors of Scotland, recently occupied by the reclusive General Heatherstone and his family. The narrator, John Fothergill West, a young man living nearby, observes peculiar happenings: the General is in a state of constant terror, fortifying the house and anxiously awaiting an unspecified fate. Whispers of an eerie Eastern curse surround Cloomber. Through West's investigation and the General's eventual confession, the dark secret emerges: years ago in India during the 1857 Mutiny, General Heatherstone committed a grievous act against a group of Buddhist priests. Now, those holy men (or their spectral agents) have tracked him to Cloomber to exact spiritual revenge. The climax occurs on the anniversary of the misdeed: ghostly avengers (or perhaps very real, aged Lamas) confront the General, and his worst fears come true as he meets a bizarre death in the moorlands – found without a mark on his body, as if struck down by supernatural means. Doyle expertly builds tension with elements like mysterious music on the wind, Heatherstone's erratic behavior, and local legends. While the mystery is explained in a rational way by the end (with the "phantoms" revealed as living monks using psychic powers), the novel retains an ambience of dread. The Mystery of Cloomber combines Doyle's interest in Eastern mysticism with a classic haunted-house narrative, delivering a tale of vengeance that reaches from colonial India to the Scottish hills in uncanny fashion.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.5 (1.5K)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, StoryGraph
GenreHorror, Mystery and Thriller
Length5 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 1, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Mystery of Cloomber
2I. THE HEGIRA OF THE WESTS FROM EDINBURGH
3II. OF THE STRANGE MANNER IN WHICH A TENANT CAME TO CLOOMBER
4III. OF OUR FURTHER ACQUAINTANCE WITH MAJOR-GENERAL J.B. HEATHERSTONE
5IV. OF A YOUNG MAN WITH A GREY HEAD
Mostrar todos os capítulosVer menos
6V. HOW FOUR OF US CAME TO BE UNDER THE SHADOW OF CLOOMBER
7VI. HOW I CAME TO BE ENLISTED AS ONE OF THE GARRISON OF CLOOMBER
8VII. OF CORPORAL RUFUS SMITH AND HIS COMING TO CLOOMBER
9VIII. STATEMENT OF ISRAEL STAKES
10IX. NARRATIVE OF JOHN EASTERLING, F.R.C.P. EDIN
11X. OF THE LETTER WHICH CAME FROM THE HALL
12XI. OF THE CASTING AWAY OF THE BARQUE “BELINDA”
13XII. OF THE THREE FOREIGN MEN UPON THE COAST
14XIII. IN WHICH I SEE THAT WHICH HAS BEEN SEEN BY FEW
15XIV. OF THE VISITOR WHO RAN DOWN THE ROAD IN THE NIGHT-TIME
16XV. THE DAY-BOOK OF JOHN BERTHIER HEATHERSTONE
17XVI. AT THE HOLE OF CREE
The Greatest Mystery Classics of All TimeArthur Conan Doyle, Josephine Tey, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Edgar Allan Poe, Émile Gaboriau, H. P. Lovecraft, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Walter Scott, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Edgar Wallace, R. Austin Freeman, Anna Katharine Green, Mary Roberts Rinehart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Margery Allingham, Freeman Wills Crofts, Cyril Hare, Shirley Jackson, Ernest Bramah, Sapper, Arthur Morrison, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Buchan, Robert William Chambers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Richard Marsh, Annie Haynes, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, John P. Marquand, Patricia Wentworth, Ethel Lina White, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, Washington Irving, Guy de Maupassant, E. C. Bentley, A. A. Milne, Erskine Childers, Earl Derr Biggers1023h 28m4.3 (116)$1.99 · $0.00
Neues von Sherlock Holmes - Die Hörbücher - Folge 34: Sherlock Holmes und die automatische KombinationsmaschineArthur Conan Doyle, Klaus-Peter Walter2h 47m$12 · $0.00
Onkel Bernac (Historischer Roman)Arthur Conan Doyle7h 52m3.6 (500)$1 · $0.00
TRUE CRIME: British Murder MysteriesArthur Conan Doyle5h 53m3.7 (22)$1.99 · $0.00
The Complete Short Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated Edition)Arthur Conan Doyle166h 25m4.4 (208)$2.99 · $0.00
Sherlock Holmes: Complete Novels & Stories in One VolumeArthur Conan Doyle94h 56m4.6 (272.6K)$1.99 · $0.00
The RefugeesArthur Conan Doyle14h 57m3.8 (740)$1.99 · $0.00
The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries: All 4 novels & 56 Short Stories in One EditionArthur Conan Doyle72h 25m4.5 (4.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
Sherlock Holmes: Novels & Short Stories (48 Titles in One Edition)Arthur Conan Doyle64h 17m4.6 (2.5K)$1.99 · $0.00
An Intimate Study of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle37m3.6 (28)$1.99 · $0.00
The Christmas Conundrum (20 Thrillers in One Edition)Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Hardy, Saki, Robert Louis Stevenson, O. Henry, G.K. Chesterton, M.R. James, Catherine Crowe, William Douglas O'Connor, Charles Dickens, John Kendrick Bangs, Louisa M. Alcott, Emmuska Orczy, Grant Allen, Leonard Kip28h 7m$1.99 · $0.00
The Best British Detective Books: 270+ Murder Mysteries, Crime Stories & Suspense ThrillersArthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Annie Haynes, R. Austin Freeman, H. C. McNeile, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Victor L. Whitechurch, Thomas W. Hanshew, J. S. Fletcher, Rober Barr672h 35m4.3 (16)$2.99 · $0.00
Sherlock Holmes: Die bekanntesten Krimis (Zweisprachige Ausgaben: Deutsch-Englisch)Arthur Conan Doyle110h 40m4.4 (166)$1 · $0.00
The Essential Sherlock Holmes: 4 Novels & 44 Short Stories in One EditionArthur Conan Doyle63h 14m4.5 (3.8K)$1.99 · $0.00
Sherlock Holmes: Das Tal des Grauens (Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Deutsch-Englisch)Arthur Conan Doyle15h 49m4.3 (59)$1 · $0.00
The Big Book of Crime: Complete Sherlock Holmes Books, True Crime Stories & Detective TalesArthur Conan Doyle137h 50m4.5 (26)$1.99 · $0.00
The Ultimate Cozy Mysteries CollectionArthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Robert Barr, E. W. Hornung, John Kendrick Bangs, Melville Davisson Post, Edgar Wallace, Victor L. Whitechurch, Anna Katharine Green, G. K. Chesterton, Ellis Parker Butler, Maurice Leblanc, R. Austin Freeman, A. E. W. Mason, Mary Roberts Rinehart346h 43m4.4 (12)$1.99 · $0.00
The History of the Great War (Complete 6 Volume Edition)Arthur Conan Doyle58h 51m4.4 (126)$1.99 · $0.00
The Greatest Christmas Murder Mysteries & ThrillersArthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, Arthur Cheney Train, Edgar Wallace, Wilkie Collins, Robert Barr, O. Henry, Emmuska Orczy, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, M. R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, Leonard Kip, Lucie E. Jackson, Catherine Crowe, William Douglas O'Connor, John Kendrick Bangs, Louisa M. Alcott, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, James Bowker, Jerome K. Jerome, Florence Marryat, Katherine Rickford, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood55h 31m4.0 (32)$1.99 · $0.00
Die Rückkehr des Sherlock Holmes (Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Deutsch-Englisch)Arthur Conan Doyle21h 7m4.4 (155)$1 · $0.00
Japanese GothicKylie Lee Baker10h 20m4.2 (7K)$29 · $0.00
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Complete Edition)Arthur Conan Doyle12h 41m4.6 (286.7K)$1.99 · $0.00
DRACULA (Annotated)Bram Stoker17h 36m4.5 (6.9K)$1.99 · $0.00
Treasure Island (Adventure Classic with Illustrations)Robert Louis Stevenson8h 50m4.5 (11.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Uncensored 13 Chapter Version + The Revised 20 Chapter Version (Annotated)Oscar Wilde16h 12m4.5 (2.8K)$1.99 · $0.00
THE CTHULHU MYTHOS TALES (Annotated)H. P. Lovecraft22h 46m4.5 (16.9K)$2 · $0.00
The Undead PoolKim Harrison16h 13m4.4 (34.6K)$33 · $0.00
Glacier's EdgeR. A. Salvatore13h 44m4.5 (3.4K)$33 · $0.00
Good OmensNeil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett12h 33m4.4 (1.1M)$33 · $0.00
Dark of NightJonathan Maberry, Rachael Lavin4h 59m4.4 (3.8K)$20 · $0.00
Lost GodsBrom14h 50m4.4 (18.5K)$33 · $0.00
Corpus HermeticumHermes Trismegistus3h 43m4.4 (8.6K)$5 · $0.00
LambChristopher Moore15h 22m4.3 (211.3K)$33 · $0.00
CARMILLA (Gothic Classic) (Annotated)Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu4h 2m4.4 (1K)$1.99 · $0.00
The ExorcistWilliam Peter Blatty12h 52m4.3 (285.9K)$8 · $0.00
Lost ValleyWalt Browning7h 47m4.3 (5.4K)$20 · $0.00
Twice TemptedJeaniene Frost8h 17m4.3 (54.8K)$26 · $0.00
1984George Orwell12h 18m4.3 (6M)$25 · $0.00
The Best Tales of Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe5h 19m4.4 (2.2K)$1 · $0.00
A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens3h 7m4.3 (1.1M)$5 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
The New Human Revolution, vol. 1Daisaku Ikeda7h 46m4.7 (669)$12 · $0.00
The ReunionJana Deleon6h 31m4.6 (1.6K)$26 · $0.00
To Hold and ProtectSandra Owens7h 59m4.6 (1.1K)$8 · $0.00
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Complete Edition)Arthur Conan Doyle12h 41m4.6 (286.7K)$1.99 · $0.00
Farewell My Lovely (Annotated)Raymond Chandler10h 37m4.6 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Labyrinth of the SpiritsCarlos Ruiz Zafon27h 55m4.5 (77.2K)$53 · $0.00
Olympic Mountain PursuitJodie Bailey5h 55m4.6 (638)$12 · $0.00
Glen AffricKarine Giebel22h 51m4.5 (3.2K)$46 · $0.00
Deadly Badlands PursuitSharee Stover5h 53m4.6 (361)$12 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 25m4.5 (15.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
AngelAnita Waller10h 30m4.6 (672)$30 · $0.00
The BorderDon Winslow29h 8m4.5 (35.7K)$53 · $0.00
FlashpointCatherine Coulter11h 38m4.5 (11.6K)$29 · $0.00
Tracking Stolen SecretsLaura Scott5h 37m4.5 (2.2K)$12 · $0.00
The Gothic Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition)Edgar Allan Poe21h 5m4.5 (2.9K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m4.6 (495)$33 · $0.00
Fang Si-Chi's First Love ParadiseYi-Han Lin8h 25m4.5 (4K)$26 · $0.00
The Rose CodeKate Quinn16h 2m4.4 (493.7K)$33 · $0.00
No Woman Left BehindJulie Moffett8h 49m4.5 (3K)$25 · $0.00
You may also like
The Skeleton KeyBernard Capes7h 21m3.6 (1.6K)$2.30
Trent's Last Case (Annotated)E. C. Bentley8h 20m3.9 (6.7K)$2 · $0.00
The Missing WillAgatha Christie23m3.6 (2.5K)$2.30 · $0.00
Dead Man's FollyAgatha Christie6h 2m4.0 (50K)$24 · $0.00
The Murder on the LinksAgatha Christie7h 21m4.0 (162.2K)$17
Lord Edgware DiesAgatha Christie6h 32m4.1 (78.2K)$24 · $0.00
The Mystery of 31 New InnR. Austin Freeman8h 46m3.8 (1K)$2.30
The Case for PoirotAgatha Christie26h 55m4.5 (1.7K)$2 · $0.00
The Adventure of the Dancing MenArthur Conan Doyle48m4.1 (3.5K)$1 · $0.00
The Wisdom of Father BrownG.K.Chesterton7h 49m4.0 (9.3K)$2.30
A Treasury of Sayers StoriesDorothy L. Sayers17h 49m4.3 (660)$2.30
The sign of fourArthur Conan Doyle4h 35m4.1 (225.1K)$3 · $0.00
When Darkness FallsJames Grippando10h 29m3.9 (3.2K)$29 · $0.00
Deadly DuoMargery Allingham7h 22m4.0 (765)$1 · $0.00
Three Blind Mice and Other StoriesAgatha Christie6h 13m4.0 (28K)$24 · $0.00
The Bishop murder caseS. S. Van Dine10h 2m3.9 (3.8K)$2 · $0.00
The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesSir Arthur Conan Doyle9h 8m4.4 (388.8K)$20
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson2h 42m4.0 (786.9K)$2 · $0.00
Lady Audley's SecretM. E. Braddon15h 31m3.9 (33.6K)Free
The Blanched SoldierArthur Conan Doyle38m3.2 (40)$4 · $0.00