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Title: Ligeia

Series Name: Timeless Terrors

Series Entry: 125

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Jonathan Dunne

Original Publication: 1838

Public Domain: Yes

Description:

Ligeia is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most haunting and enigmatic tales — a meditation on love, death, and the terrifying power of the human will.

The unnamed narrator recounts his marriage to the mysterious and intellectual Lady Ligeia, a woman of extraordinary beauty and even more extraordinary mind. Her vast learning, her fierce intensity, and her almost supernatural strength of spirit leave an indelible mark upon him. Yet it is her obsession with the triumph of the will over mortality that proves most unsettling — a doctrine she clings to even as illness draws her toward the grave.

After Ligeia’s death, the narrator retreats into a decaying English abbey with a new bride, the fair and fragile Lady Rowena. But the shadow of his first wife lingers in every darkened chamber and heavy tapestry. As Rowena sickens under strange and unaccountable circumstances, the narrator witnesses a series of chilling transformations that blur the boundary between life and death, dream and reality.

In Ligeia, Poe crafts a tale steeped in Gothic atmosphere — rich with opium-hazed visions, funereal splendor, and mounting psychological dread. The horror is not loud but insidious, growing from grief, obsession, and the unrelenting question: can the human will conquer even death itself?

Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures Poe’s lyrical prose, mounting unease, and the unforgettable climax of one of Gothic literature’s most disturbing masterpieces — a story where love refuses to die
 and something waits beyond the veil.

© 2026 Jonathan Dunne (Lydbok): 9780466354886

Utgivelsesdato

Lydbok: 9. april 2026

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