The Story of the Siren

By: E.M. Forster

Narrated by: Annette Grayson

E.M. Forster was an English novelist, short-story writer, and essayist who specialized in stories that examined and deconstructed socioeconomic class systems and societal and religious hypocrisy. "The Story of the Siren", taken from Forster’s short-story collection The Eternal Moment and Other Stories, first published in 1928, is a short story heavy with metaphor and symbolism.

It centers around two people, a couple, who have both seen a siren deep in the sea. The couple are to be wed and bear a child who will reveal the siren to the world and thus save it. However, a priest plots to quash this prophecy in a dark and shocking way.

"The Story of the Siren" is a fascinating, expertly crafted, and thought-provoking piece of surreal fiction and is an extremely underrated Forster short story.

Public Domain (P)2018 Museum Audiobooks

Not a great story or narration, had to listen 3x

Honestly, this story is super boring, meandering, and hard to follow. The narration was difficult to understand. I had to listen 3x, still didn't get it, switched to a youtube horror storyteller to finally kind of understand the story, it's super anticlimactic and really missing the magic I was hoping for