The Diamond Lens with Other Stories by Fitz-James OBrien audiobook. Genre: scifi Step into the shadowed laboratories and gaslit parlors of Victorian imagination with The Diamond Lens with Other Stories, a beguiling collection by Fitz-James O’Brien where scientific curiosity and supernatural dread collide. At the heart of the collection, “The Diamond Lens” follows an obsessive microscopist who grinds a jewel into a lens capable of revealing an astonishing hidden world — a fragile, luminous life no human eye has seen before — and the strange, beautiful, and tragic consequences that follow when obsession turns discovery into desire. Surrounding this centerpiece are tales that shift from eerie ghost stories to early speculative and proto-science-fiction experiments, each written with O’Brien’s elegant prose, dry wit, and a keen sense of the uncanny. These stories are equal parts wonder and warning: vivid period detail and inventive premise make for haunting twists, moral ambiguity, and a persistent sense that curiosity can open doors better left unopened. Perfect for listeners who love richly atmospheric narration, moral complexity, and the creaking thrill of nineteenth-century speculative fiction, this audiobook promises jolts of horror, sparks of science, and the melancholy beauty of discoveries that change everything. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00 ) Chapter 00 (00:23:48 ) Chapter 01 (01:19:11 ) Chapter 02 (02:33:00 ) Chapter 03 (03:28:50 ) Chapter 04 (04:09:42 ) Chapter 05 (04:58:24 ) Chapter 06 (05:38:37 ) Chapter 07 (06:16:50 ) Chapter 08 (06:48:56 ) Chapter 09 (07:15:39 ) Chapter 10 (07:45:00 ) Chapter 11 (08:13:48 ) Chapter 12 (08:59:07 ) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices