The Diamond Lens with Other Stories
Irish-born author Fitz-James O'Brien is a underrated genius of weird fiction, serving as the missing link between Edgar Allan Poe and later purveyors of the form like Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce and Arthur Machen. This collection contains several of O'Brien's most well-known weird tales including "The Diamond Lens" (a seance, a murder and a world beneath a microscope!) and "What Was It?" (an invisible murderous creature that predates Wells' The Invisible Man and Ambrose Bierce's "The Damned Thing"), both stories taking a scientific approach to the fantastical and supernatural. Also included are stories like the bizarre killer puppets of "The Wondersmith", the spacial legerdemain of "The Lost Room", a mystery from beyond the grave with "A Pot of Tulips", an exotic and fantastical tale of the Orient with "The Dragon Fang" and several others that illustrate the sheer talent and imagination of a near forgotten master of the weird. (Summary by Ben Tucker)
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Science Fiction
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 00 | Sketch of O'Brien by William Winter | Ben Tucker |
00:23:48 |
| Play 01 | The Diamond Lens | Ben Tucker |
00:55:23 |
| Play 02 | The Wondersmith | Ben Tucker |
01:13:49 |
| Play 03 | Tommatoo | Ben Tucker |
00:55:50 |
| Play 04 | Mother of Pearl | Ben Tucker |
00:40:52 |
| Play 05 | The Bohemian | Ben Tucker |
00:48:42 |
| Play 06 | The Lost Room | Ben Tucker |
00:40:13 |
| Play 07 | The Pot of Tulips | Ben Tucker |
00:38:13 |
| Play 08 | The Golden Ingot | Ben Tucker |
00:32:06 |
| Play 09 | My Wife's Tempter | Ben Tucker |
00:26:43 |
| Play 10 | What Was It? | Ben Tucker |
00:29:21 |
| Play 11 | Duke Humphrey's Dinner | Ben Tucker |
00:28:48 |
| Play 12 | Milly Dove | Ben Tucker |
00:45:19 |
| Play 13 | The Dragon Fang | Ben Tucker |
00:42:10 |