The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy]

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10/25/22

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The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

In this moody, metaphysical novel from master of the uncanny Algernon Blackwood, Dr. Edward Fillery, a psychologist with an unusual sensitivity to hidden currents in the human mind, is drawn into a case that defies ordinary diagnosis. At a discreet Spiritual Clinique he and his colleague Paul Devonham take in a young man with a baffling double life: at times he seems a simple, gentle country youth, and at others something vast and unaccountable shines through him - a presence Fillery names only by initials, as if language itself cannot hold it. As the doctors argue over what is illness and what might be evolution, fragments of the patient's past emerge: a remote upbringing, an eccentric mentor, and a devotion to natural forces that feels older than civilization. The closer Fillery comes to understanding the young man's divided consciousness, the more the surrounding world begins to tilt, as friends, patients, and skeptics alike are forced to confront the possibility that personality is not a closed room but a door. Part psychological inquiry, part occult romance, The Bright Messenger asks what humanity may become if the boundaries between the everyday self and the larger universe grow thin.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:15) Chapter 02

(00:31:03) Chapter 03

(00:40:20) Chapter 04

(01:03:53) Chapter 05

(01:38:13) Chapter 06

(02:29:56) Chapter 07

(02:58:49) Chapter 08

(03:04:27) Chapter 09

(03:58:46) Chapter 10

(04:32:07) Chapter 11

(04:58:35) Chapter 12

(06:03:17) Chapter 13

(06:31:52) Chapter 14

(07:08:02) Chapter 15

(07:30:42) Chapter 16

(07:51:49) Chapter 17

(08:25:22) Chapter 18

(08:47:25) Chapter 19

(09:15:52) Chapter 20

(09:55:41) Chapter 21

(10:41:30) Chapter 22

(11:14:06) Chapter 23

(12:10:09) Chapter 24

(12:49:19) Chapter 25

(13:30:48) Chapter 26

(14:22:13) Chapter 27

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The Push Of A Finger by Alfred Bester audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Science fiction from the 50s by one of the masters, Alfred Bester. Society has committed itself to complete stability. Nothing is allowed to upset this stability, nothing that is not planned and approved and accounted for in advance. Yes, this is hard to imagine but this has produced decades, nay, centuries of predictable prosperity and peace. Even the newspapers have very little to write about. One reporter however is curious about the 'Prog' building, where pronouncements are issued every day just as Moses issued the commandments. Everyone is locked out of course but he wants to know more, he wants in by any means and the results of that obsession are more far reaching than anyone can imagine. What would happen if just a tiny push with a finger to a critical element is made at the very beginning of a process? A little nudge that sends it in a completely different direction? Hmmm?

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Chapters (Approximate)

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(00:27:05) Chapter 02

(00:52:45) Chapter 03

(01:19:13) Chapter 04

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The Willows by Algernon Blackwood ~ Full Audiobook [horror]

October 25, 2022

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145m

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood audiobook.

Genre: horror

A tale of horror in which a pleasant sojourn down the Danube tumbles terrifyingly awry as the veil between this world and an unfathomably weird dimension is inadvertently pierced by an innocent pair of vacationers, 'The Willows', arguably Algernon Blackwood's seminal contribution to supernatural literature, has had a lasting influence on the field. No less a personage than H. P. Lovecraft describing it as '...the greatest weird tale ever written.' A reading will reveal a clear influence to one familiar with Lovecraft's work. The masterful handling of mystery and suspense that build to a quite satisfyingly unnerving crescendo may be particularly noted by the discerning aficionado of the genre

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:41:20) Chapter 2

(01:15:46) Chapter 3

(01:51:14) Chapter 4

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