The Lighthouse Keeper
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Get 3 months for £0.99/mo
Buy Now for £12.99
-
Narrated by:
-
Steven Cree
-
By:
-
Alan K. Baker
About this listen
A terrifying mystery of the sea. In December 1900, three lighthouse keepers vanished without trace from the remote Scottish island of Eilean Mòr. An emergency relief crew was sent to man the lighthouse. At the end of their month-long duty, they resigned from their posts, and never spoke of what they had experienced on the island. The mystery of Eilean Mòr has never been solved. Until now. In the present, a group of environmental researchers arrives on the island to observe the wildlife. While exploring the lighthouse, now automated and deserted, one of the team discovers a manuscript written by one of the relief keepers, a man named Alec Dalemore.
As a sudden storm moves in, cutting off their escape, the researchers come to realise that Dalemore wrote the manuscript as a warning to all the lighthouse keepers who would come after him. A warning of something on Eilean Mòr and in the surrounding ocean - something ancient and powerful, and strange beyond imagining....
The Lighthouse Keeper is a supernatural tale based on the Flannan Isles mystery, one of the greatest unsolved enigmas in maritime history. Blending factual first hand reports with speculative fiction, the novel takes the listener on a journey to the edge of reality, where the greatest of human fears – the fear of the unknown – holds dominion.
©2012 Alan K. Baker (P)2012 Audible LtdEnding?!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
If you could sum up The Lighthouse Keeper in three words, what would they be?
the whole book was a page turner, with the narrator reallly good, but I found the ending difficult to comprehendJanet Richards
What other book might you compare The Lighthouse Keeper to, and why?
any one of Stephen KingsWhat about Steven Cree’s performance did you like?
Really Really goodoverall a page turner.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Based around a small group on a tiny Scottish island it would be easy to think there wasn't much scope for a story yet the past is interwoven with the present, giving great scope for plot and character development, without getting boring or concentrating too much on just one or two main players.
The narrator had such a lovely soft voice it almost lulls you into a false sense of security, but he was excellent at portraying each character individually.
Brilliant, you MUST listen to this!!
Kept me guessing right up to the end
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Despite all the above it's oddly compelling, probably because it's based on a true story. (sort of)
Interesting despite the author's best efforts.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Keeping it light
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.