The Diamond Lens with Other Stories
Fitz-James O'Brien
Read by Ben Tucker
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) (9 hr 41 min)
Chapters
Sketch of O'Brien by William Winter | 23:48 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Diamond Lens | 55:23 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Wondersmith | 1:13:49 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Tommatoo | 55:50 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Mother of Pearl | 40:52 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Bohemian | 48:42 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Lost Room | 40:13 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Pot of Tulips | 38:13 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Golden Ingot | 32:06 | Read by Ben Tucker |
My Wife's Tempter | 26:43 | Read by Ben Tucker |
What Was It? | 29:21 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Duke Humphrey's Dinner | 28:48 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Milly Dove | 45:19 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Dragon Fang | 42:10 | Read by Ben Tucker |