Citadel of Fear: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Citadel of Fear, credited to Gertrude Barrows Bennett, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Citadel of Fear by Gertrude Barrows Bennett. Read in English by Mark Nelson Gertrude Barrows Bennett was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. Bennett wrote a number of highly acclaimed fantasies between 1917 and 1923 and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy". Citadel of Fear is considered Francis Stevens' masterpiece, by Lovecraft's acclaim. Two adventurers discover a lost city in the Mexican jungle. One is taken over by an evil god while the other falls in love with a woman from the ancient Mexican city of Tlapallan. Citadel of Fear was first published as a serial in Argosy Magazine in 1918-1919. It was eventually republished as a novel in 1970. It is now considered a "lost classic". (Summary by Wikipedia and Mark Nelson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Citadel of Fear
• Author credits: Gertrude Barrows Bennett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 9:53:21

Catalogue topics

• horror
• classic horror

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 01 - Chapter 1 - Hidden in the Hills — 33:03
2. 02 - Chapter 2 - The Moth Girl — 16:36
3. 03 - Chapter 3 - The Guardians of the Hills — 27:46
4. 04 - Chapter 4 - Tlapallan or -- — 20:37
5. 05 - Chapter 5 - Gold — 16:39
6. 06 - Chapter 6 - The Black Eidolon — 15:24
7. 07 - Chapter 7 - The Cloak of Xolotl — 16:48
8. 08 - Chapter 8 - Before the Black Shrine — 21:20
9. 09 - Chapter 9 - Maxatla Speaks — 22:32
10. 10 - Chapter 10 - The First Visitation — 26:16
11. 11 - Chapter 11 - The Red-Black Trail — 13:25
12. 12 - Chapter 12 - The Opinion of Mr. MacClellan — 9:05
13. 13 - Chapter 13 - The Bungalow Sold — 11:27
14. 14 - Chapter 14 - The Second Visitation — 8:29
15. 15 - Chapter 15 - The Third Visitation — 19:09
16. 16 - Chapter 16 - Admitted — 30:06
17. 17 - Chapter 17 - A Surprise and a Disappointment — 20:03
18. 18 - Chapter 18 - A Voice — 26:09
19. 19 - Chapter 19 - Cliona Receives a Guest — 35:50
20. 20 - Chapter 20 - The Fourth Visitation — 27:12
21. 21 - Chapter 21 - Cliona Meets a Stranger — 12:38
22. 22 - Chapter 22 - A Herder of Goblins — 10:53
23. 23 - Chapter 23 - The 'Lord of Fear' — 11:41
24. 24 - Chapter 24 - The Lonely Traveler — 2:10

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