The Design: A Short Horror Story: Audiobook
Book 35 of the Come Join Us By the Fire series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Design: A Short Horror Story runs 1.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Gerard Doyle (about 0.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 1.3 hours of listening.
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| 30 min / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day | 2 days |
| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 1 day |
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What our data says
- At 1.3 hours, it is shorter than 81% of the 5,506 Horror audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Come Join Us By the Fire
This is book 35. Books 1 to 34 run 8.8 hours before it; books 1 to 36 run 19.8 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Matter Which Way We Turned | 0.1 hrs |
| 2 | Daddy: A Short Horror Story | 0.6 hrs |
| 3 | This Guy: A Short Horror Story | 0.2 hrs |
| 4 | Flayed Ed: A Short Horror Story | 0.1 hrs |
| 5 | The Pond: A Short Horror Story | 0.1 hrs |
| 6 | My Body, Herself: A Short Horror Story | 0.2 hrs |
| 7 | The Girls from the Horror Movie | 0.3 hrs |
| 8 | These Deathless Bones: A Short Horror Story | 0.3 hrs |
| 9 | It Washed Up: A Short Horror Story | 0.1 hrs |
| 10 | Stemming the Tide: A Short Horror Story | 0.3 hrs |
| 11 | Midnight Caller: A Short Horror Story | 0.2 hrs |
| 12 | Black Bark: A Short Horror Story | 0.5 hrs |
More narrated by Gerard Doyle
Gerard Doyle narrates 168 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,669 hours in all.
- Eldest: Inheritance, Book II
- Inheritance
- Murtagh: The World of Eragon
- The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Volume 1, Eragon
- The Looking Glass Wars
About as long, on the Horror shelf
102 Horror audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Design: A Short Horror Story is book 35 of China Miéville's Come Join Us By the Fire series: a 1.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Gerard Doyle, released February 11, 2020, on the Horror shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 1.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Gerard Doyle
- Released
- February 11, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Horror
- Series
- Come Join Us By the Fire #35
- ISBN
- 9781250761170
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Design: A Short Horror Story as an audiobook?
The Design: A Short Horror Story runs 1.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.8 hours.
Is The Design: A Short Horror Story free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Design: A Short Horror Story?
The Design: A Short Horror Story is narrated by Gerard Doyle.