The Shadowy Thing: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Shadowy Thing, credited to H. B. Drake, 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 The Shadowy Thing by H. B. Drake. Read in English by Thomas A. Copeland. A tale of spiritualism cannot easily win a willing suspension of disbelief in the world of a country squire, in which Dick Bellew has grown up. In his maturity, however, he finds himself surrounded by very attractive, intelligent, and strong-willed characters who challenge his impatience with unconventional ideas. A man of action, Dick has trouble expanding his stunted imagination, but this very quality makes him the ideal narrator of a story of spine-tingling horror. His no-nonsense "I say" or "Now, look here" defy readers to distrust his account—except to suspect it of being too skeptical. Being always one or two steps ahead of him in understanding what is really going on does eventually become somewhat tiresome, but since we seem to make these discoveries for ourselves, we are willing to accept even the most outrageous assumptions. (Headnote by Thomas A. Copeland)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Shadowy Thing
• Author credits: H. B. Drake
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 9:46:40

Catalogue topics

• spiritualism
• occult
• mysticism
• seances
• divination
• mesmerism
• WWI
• World War I

Track guide

1. 01 - I: Gaveston, 1-3 — 52:45
2. 02 - I.4-7 — 1:00:13
3. 03 - I.8-11 — 1:07:05
4. 04 - I.12-13 — 38:32
5. 05 - II: Katrina, 1-2 — 54:44
6. 06 - II: 3-5 — 51:29
7. 07 - II: 6-9 — 50:10
8. 08 - II:10-11 — 51:22
9. 09 - III: Olave, 1-4 — 52:50
10. 10 - III:5-8 — 1:01:29
11. 11 - III:9-10 — 46:01

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