Ben Tucker

8 livros lidos para o LibriVox

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Short Fiction Mary Shelley English
You get Mary Shelley’s darker, stranger side here, especially in “The Mortal Immortal,” where an alchemist’s mistake turns a love story into a meditation on outliving everyone you know. The stories can feel uneven and theatrically gothic, but their loneliness, moral unease, and fascination with bodies that refuse to behave stay with you.
Short Fiction Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, traduzido por Glenn W. Shaw, Eric S. Bell, Ukai Eiji, Tada Yoshinobu English
You get stories that are compact but morally unsettling, especially “In a Grove,” where conflicting testimonies make certainty feel almost absurd, and “Hell Screen,” whose artist’s devotion turns horrifying. Akutagawa is dry, sharp, and often bleak, so this suits you if ambiguity stays interesting after the last page.
Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse, traduzido por Basil Creighton English
You follow Harry Haller, a lonely, self-dramatizing intellectual who despises the bourgeois world while secretly needing its warmth. The novel gets increasingly strange, especially in the Treatise and the Magic Theater, and its messy argument with despair feels more honest than comforting.
Suspiria de Profundis Thomas De Quincey English
Fair warning, this is opium-dream prose, fragments rather than a story, but the piece on the three Ladies of Sorrow will stay lodged in you, and his grief for his dead sister is raw under all the ornate sentences. Read it slowly, at night, in pieces.
The Door with Seven Locks Edgar Wallace English
Pure 1920s pulp, and it knows it: a locked tomb, scattered keys, and Dr. Stalletti, one of Wallace's genuinely creepy villains, doing unspeakable things in a dark house. Read it fast on a rainy night and don't ask the plot to hold up in daylight.
The Lady of the Barge W. W. Jacobs English
Mostly it's droll Thames-side comedy, skippers and mates scheming over the same girl in the title story, but tucked in among the jokes sit The Monkey's Paw and The Well, which still genuinely chill. Good bedside reading, one story at a time, half grins and the occasional shiver.
The Place Called Dagon Herbert Gorman English
The Son of the Wolf Jack London English
These are London's earliest Klondike stories, so you get the frozen trail before he polished it: Malemute Kid, sled dogs, men making awful choices in forty below. Read one at a time by lamplight; the attitudes are dated in spots, but the cold feels absolutely real.

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Ben Tucker

8 livros lidos para o LibriVox

filtrar ordenar gênero época audiolivros

Short Fiction Mary Shelley English
You get Mary Shelley’s darker, stranger side here, especially in “The Mortal Immortal,” where an alchemist’s mistake turns a love story into a meditation on outliving everyone you know. The stories can feel uneven and theatrically gothic, but their loneliness, moral unease, and fascination with bodies that refuse to behave stay with you.
Short Fiction Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, traduzido por Glenn W. Shaw, Eric S. Bell, Ukai Eiji, Tada Yoshinobu English
You get stories that are compact but morally unsettling, especially “In a Grove,” where conflicting testimonies make certainty feel almost absurd, and “Hell Screen,” whose artist’s devotion turns horrifying. Akutagawa is dry, sharp, and often bleak, so this suits you if ambiguity stays interesting after the last page.
Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse, traduzido por Basil Creighton English
You follow Harry Haller, a lonely, self-dramatizing intellectual who despises the bourgeois world while secretly needing its warmth. The novel gets increasingly strange, especially in the Treatise and the Magic Theater, and its messy argument with despair feels more honest than comforting.
Suspiria de Profundis Thomas De Quincey English
Fair warning, this is opium-dream prose, fragments rather than a story, but the piece on the three Ladies of Sorrow will stay lodged in you, and his grief for his dead sister is raw under all the ornate sentences. Read it slowly, at night, in pieces.
The Door with Seven Locks Edgar Wallace English
Pure 1920s pulp, and it knows it: a locked tomb, scattered keys, and Dr. Stalletti, one of Wallace's genuinely creepy villains, doing unspeakable things in a dark house. Read it fast on a rainy night and don't ask the plot to hold up in daylight.
The Lady of the Barge W. W. Jacobs English
Mostly it's droll Thames-side comedy, skippers and mates scheming over the same girl in the title story, but tucked in among the jokes sit The Monkey's Paw and The Well, which still genuinely chill. Good bedside reading, one story at a time, half grins and the occasional shiver.
The Place Called Dagon Herbert Gorman English
The Son of the Wolf Jack London English
These are London's earliest Klondike stories, so you get the frozen trail before he polished it: Malemute Kid, sled dogs, men making awful choices in forty below. Read one at a time by lamplight; the attitudes are dated in spots, but the cold feels absolutely real.