On the coast of Brittany, a chemist named Max Fortin shows the narrator a skull with a bullet hole in the forehead. Workmen have dug up thirty-eight of them in a gravel pit, and a list found in a brass tube mentions thirty-nine.
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About this audiobook
On the coast of Brittany, a chemist named Max Fortin shows the narrator a skull with a bullet hole in the forehead. Workmen have dug up thirty-eight of them in a gravel pit, and a list found in a brass tube mentions thirty-nine. The date on it is 1760, and it is written in Breton.
Robert W. Chambers's tale of an old horror in the Breton countryside, first printed in The Mystery of Choice in 1897. Read by Michael Lyons, in eighty-one minutes.
For listeners who like folk horror and slow dread.
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Details
Length
1 hr 21 min
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Released
December 2025
Publisher
Academy Voices
Language
English
ISBN
9798295379147
Questions
Who narrates The Messenger audiobook?
This edition of The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers is narrated by Michael Lyons.
How long is The Messenger audiobook?
It runs 1 hr 21 min, unabridged, so you hear the complete text.
Is this audiobook narrated by a real person?
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