The Room in the Dragon Volant by J. Sheridan LeFanu ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

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06/16/23

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The Room in the Dragon Volant by J. Sheridan LeFanu audiobook.

Genre: mystery

In Napoleonic-era Paris, young English traveler Richard Beckett arrives full of money, confidence, and the thrill of being anonymous in a glittering foreign city. An evening visit to a church delivers an instant obsession: a veiled, aristocratic beauty, the Comtesse de St Alyre, whose sadness and mystery seem to beckon him closer. A chance introduction pulls Richard into her orbit, where whispers of family danger, secret meetings, and urgent pleas for discretion make him feel both chosen and indispensable. But Paris has its own predators, and Richard's romantic certainty begins to collide with unsettling details: watchful strangers, oddly timed invitations, and a growing sense that every step has been anticipated. When he is steered toward a secluded inn called the Dragon Volant and assigned a particular room, the story tightens into a claustrophobic spiral of suspicion and dread. Blending gothic atmosphere with a sharp-eyed look at greed and manipulation, LeFanu spins a tense tale about the perils of desire, the ease of self-deception, and how quickly a traveler can become a target.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:08:29) Chapter 02

(00:17:02) Chapter 03

(00:24:41) Chapter 04

(00:33:31) Chapter 05

(00:48:04) Chapter 06

(00:59:34) Chapter 07

(01:12:56) Chapter 08

(01:21:29) Chapter 09

(01:30:46) Chapter 10

(01:41:10) Chapter 11

(01:51:00) Chapter 12

(02:00:52) Chapter 13

(02:11:39) Chapter 14

(02:25:49) Chapter 15

(02:39:20) Chapter 16

(02:53:00) Chapter 17

(03:01:54) Chapter 18

(03:14:37) Chapter 19

(03:24:36) Chapter 20

(03:33:19) Chapter 21

(03:40:36) Chapter 22

(03:49:02) Chapter 23

(03:57:33) Chapter 24

(04:06:14) Chapter 25

(04:13:19) Chapter 26

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Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu ~ Full Audiobook [horror]

June 16, 2023

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205m

Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu audiobook.

Genre: horror

In a lonely corner of Styria, a sheltered young woman named Laura lives with her widowed father in an old estate surrounded by forest and superstition. Their quiet routine is broken when a carriage accident delivers a mysterious, elegant stranger into their care: Carmilla, a girl of Laura's age who seems both fragile and strangely commanding. As the two grow inseparable, Laura is drawn into a relationship that feels like friendship, infatuation, and something darker all at once. Then unsettling changes begin to spread through the household and nearby villages - exhausted servants, fearful neighbors, and a pattern of illness that no doctor can explain. Laura herself starts to suffer vivid dreams and a weakening that deepens with Carmilla's nightly visits and cryptic confessions. With the help of a determined general, a skeptical physician, and a learned investigator of old legends, Laura's father is forced to confront the possibility that the threat is not a natural disease but an ancient predator hidden behind a beautiful face. Gothic, intimate, and charged with forbidden longing, Carmilla explores desire, secrecy, and the danger of trusting what you most want to believe.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:14:16) Chapter 02

(00:32:32) Chapter 03

(00:49:41) Chapter 04

(01:14:12) Chapter 05

(01:23:12) Chapter 06

(01:33:06) Chapter 07

(01:46:58) Chapter 08

(01:55:12) Chapter 09

(02:06:38) Chapter 10

(02:13:47) Chapter 11

(02:25:12) Chapter 12

(02:36:21) Chapter 13

(02:48:00) Chapter 14

(02:59:07) Chapter 15

(03:08:04) Chapter 16

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The Dead by James Joyce ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

June 17, 2023

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100m

The Dead by James Joyce audiobook.

Genre: drama

On a snowy Epiphany night in Dublin, Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta arrive at the annual holiday dance hosted by Gabriel's aunts, the warm-hearted Morkan sisters, whose crowded house fills with music, laughter, and talk that cuts as sharply as the winter air outside. As Gabriel moves through the evening - giving a speech, navigating old friendships, and sparring with a young nationalist's barbed questions - small tensions surface beneath the party's glow: class and culture, Ireland and the wider world, public polish and private unease. The festivities culminate in a lavish supper and spirited dancing, yet Gabriel cannot shake a sense that he is slightly out of step with everyone around him, including the woman he loves. When a song stirs an unexpected emotion in Gretta, Gabriel is drawn into a more intimate reckoning, where desire, jealousy, and tenderness collide with the weight of memory. In Joyce's most celebrated story, a simple gathering becomes a haunting meditation on marriage, identity, and the thin boundary between the living present and the past that still speaks.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:23:40) Chapter 2

(00:41:26) Chapter 3

(01:01:09) Chapter 4

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