Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

King Pest

By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: Melissa Arredondo
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £3.99

Buy Now for £3.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

"King Pest: An Allegory" is a fantastic account by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) who with excellent humor narrates a night of terror, taking on the subject of epidemics, in this case the Plague. Poe first published individually in September 1835, in the Southern Literary Messenger newspaper, but his status as a classic author was acquired when he appeared in the anthology Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840.

Public Domain (P)2020 Jaime Arredondo
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Tales of Mystery and Imagination cover art
Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories cover art
MS. Found in a Bottle cover art
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter - Unabridged cover art
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings cover art
Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Audio Books, Volume 1 cover art
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket cover art
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories (AmazonClassics Edition) cover art
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula, H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man cover art
The Luminous Shield cover art
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents cover art
Can Such Things Be? cover art
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson: A Study in Illusions of Terror cover art
The Moonlit Road and Other Stories cover art
Billy Budd cover art
Bartleby the Scrivener and Other Stories cover art

What listeners say about King Pest

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.