Hungerstone
by Kat Dunn
Narrated by Perdita Weeks
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
When Carmilla arrives pale and weak at the manor door, you already know exactly what she is — and you'll listen anyway.
- Great if you want: gothic sapphic romance with real menace underneath the desire
- Listening experience: slow, atmospheric dread — fog-and-candlelight pacing throughout
- Narration: Weeks brings a cool, guarded elegance that suits Lenore's repression perfectly
- Skip if: you want plot momentum over mood and tension
About This Audiobook
Victorian England's industrial age provides the backdrop for a Gothic tale of desire and darkness, where Lenore finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage to steel magnate Henry at the remote Nethershaw manor. When a mysterious woman named Carmilla arrives after a carriage accident, she awakens dangerous hungers in Lenore just as young women in nearby villages begin succumbing to a strange, bloody affliction. Caught between her duty as a wife and her growing attraction to the enigmatic stranger, Lenore must confront buried secrets that threaten to consume everything she knows about herself and her marriage.
Perdita Weeks delivers a mesmerizing performance that captures both the suffocating atmosphere of Victorian society and the intoxicating allure of forbidden desire. Her nuanced narration shifts seamlessly between Lenore's internal turmoil and the seductive danger that Carmilla represents, while her command of period dialogue and regional accents brings authenticity to the Gothic setting. Weeks's pacing allows the psychological tension to build gradually, making full use of the audio format to create an intimate, almost hypnotic listening experience. The atmospheric production enhances the story's dark romanticism, transforming this sapphic retelling into a compelling audio journey through desire, hunger, and self-discovery.
