The Gold-Bug

Released: January 28, 2020
Length: 1 hr 16 mins
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

Set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, this story follows William Legrand, who becomes obsessed with deciphering a secret message after being bitten by a mysterious gold-colored bug. His friend, an unnamed narrator, becomes involved in an adventurous quest prompted by Legrand’s discovery, leading to the promise of uncovering buried treasure. The tale is penned by Edgar Allan Poe, renowned for his masterful and atmospheric stories.

general gothic horror

RecentAudiobook tracks Edgar Allen Poe and over 141,000 other authors for new releases.

Follow the authors you love and hear about every new audiobook the day it lands.

Get started Browse authors

Tales of the Dark Romantics and Beyond

Louisa May Alcott, Washington Irving, Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Bram Stoker, Herman Melville, William Cullen Bryant, Alfred Lord Tennyson, James Whitcomb Riley, Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Meville, Alfred Tennyson

The Detective Club. Collection of Timeless Mysteries - 77 Novels and Stories

Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Raymond Chandler, Josephine Tey, Edgar Allen Poe

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

Out from the Heart

James Allen

Flight or Fright

Joe Hill, Ray Bradbury, Bev Vincent, Stephen King, Dan Simmons, Richard Matheson, Cody Goodfellow, Ambrose Bierce, Roald Dahl, John Varley, Tom Bissell, E.C. Tubb, E. C. Tubb

The 19th Century Classics Collection: 13 Stories From Tolstoy, Brontë, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Eliot, Verne, & Much More

Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, H.G. Wells, Anne Brontë, Bram Stoker, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herbert George Wells, Jules Scott Verne

10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die 2

Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Napoleon Hill, L.M. Montgomery, Homer, L. M. Montgomery

Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection

Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Fry

Cover of The Ultimate Modern Classics Collection: Volume 2 - 23 Novels and Stories from E. M. Forster, William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, & Much More

The Ultimate Modern Classics Collection: Volume 2 - 23 Novels and Stories from E. M. Forster, William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, & Much More

James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Somerset Maughm, William Faulkner, Dorothy L. Sayers, Willa Cather, E. F. Benson, James Weldon Johnson, E.F. Benson, F Scott Fitzgerald, William Somerset Maugham

Cover of The End of the World as We Know It

The Gold-Bug