The Last Miracle

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The Last Miracle

by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

EN·~7 hours·31 chapters

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31 total
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THE LAST MIRACLE - By M. P. SHIEL - Author of "The Yellow Danger," "The Lord of the Sea," "The Evil that Men do," "The Yellow Wave," etc.

0:16
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THE LAST MIRACLE

9:07
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CHAPTER I - MY VISIT TO SWANDALE

5:27
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CHAPTER II - THE WREN

5:02
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CHAPTER III - THE STYRIAN

5:31
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CHAPTER IV - THE RITUAL, THE STREET CORNER, THE DEATH-BED, AND THE BELLS

17:27
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CHAPTER V - THE TRAIL

14:45
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CHAPTER VI - THE MEETING

21:42
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CHAPTER VII - THE COMPACT

6:36
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CHAPTER VIII - THE FACE OF ROBINSON

6:46

Description

A dying physician reaches out with a strange parcel: four notebooks filled with shorthand, a frantic letter, and a request to preserve a baffling secret. He tells of Miss Mary Wilson, a gaunt woman who lived alone in a remote manor and who seemed to command an uncanny power while under hypnotic trance. Through her, the doctor claims the mind can reach beyond ordinary perception, touching events far away in the present moment, a notion that both intrigues and unnerves him as he confronts his own mortal decline.

The listener is invited into a Victorian world of medical curiosity, quiet country houses, and the thin line between science and the uncanny. As the doctor’s notes unfold, the listener will sense the tension between the rational attempts to cure his illness and the mysterious, almost otherworldly insights offered by Miss Wilson’s trance. The first act sets a tone of eerie fascination, promising a story where the limits of human understanding are tested in the shadow of an impending final miracle.

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en

Duration

~7 hours (415K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Bergquist, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2013-01-06

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

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About the author

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

1865–1947

Best remembered for The Purple Cloud, this Montserrat-born writer helped shape early science fiction and weird fiction with lush, intense stories of catastrophe, mystery, and the uncanny. His work still stands out for its atmosphere, ambition, and strikingly individual style.

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