"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On the dying world of Zothique, King Euvoran's whole sovereignty rests on a single relic: the fabled gazolba bird, slain ages past and set in gold atop his crown. When a condemned sorcerer breathes unnatural life back into the creature and it soars away – crown and all – the proud monarch swears to chase it across the last seas of the world. So begins a voyage of wonders and grotesqueries, past cannibal isles and monstrous shores, where every marvel quietly mocks a king too vain to grasp that some crowns, once flown, were never meant to be reclaimed."
"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On the dying world of Zothique, a young goatherd named Xeethra strays through a hidden cave into a forbidden garden and tastes a single blood-dark fruit – and with it, the memories of another life come flooding in. He is no longer a poor shepherd, but Amero, king of fabled Calyz by the eastern sea. Driven half-mad by a sovereignty he cannot prove, Xeethra abandons his flock and wanders the wastes in search of a realm that may be nothing but a dream. When at last he finds Calyz a leper-haunted ruin, a shadow rises to offer him everything he longs for – at the price every soul on Zothique knows too well. But in this dying world the cruelest curse is not the bargain, but memory itself."
"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 'The Isle of the Torturers' is a dark fantasy story by Clark Ashton Smith, part of his Zothique cycle–set on the last continent of a dying, far-future Earth. King Fulbra of Yoros flees his plague-ravaged kingdom (devastated by the Silver Death) wearing a protective ring given to him by a sorcerer. A storm wrecks his ship on Uccastrog, the Isle of the Torturers, whose smiling inhabitants greet shipwrecked strangers with elaborate hospitality before subjecting them to a festival of exquisite tortures. Fulbra endures days of grotesque torments alongside a fellow captive, the maiden Ilvaa, who feigns sympathy only to betray him. In the end, Fulbra wields his ring's hidden power–unleashing the Silver Death itself–to annihilate his tormentors, dying with them in grim triumph."
"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media (altrusiangrace.com) and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz.
In “The Mandrakes,” Clark Ashton Smith tells a grim Averoigne tale about Gilles Grenier, a sorcerer who murders his wife Sabine and buries her beneath a patch of mandrakes near his hut; when he later harvests the plants for use in his famous love-philtres, he discovers that the roots have grown into uncanny female-shaped likenesses of Sabine herself, quivering, crying out when cut, and bleeding as though alive. Rather than recoiling, Gilles exploits them for profit, brewing even more potent enchantments, but the potions inspire not love but hatred, madness, and violence in those who drink them. His crime is finally exposed when a mandrake-root, speaking in Sabine’s own voice, directs the authorities to her grave, leading to Gilles’s conviction for both sorcery and murder and ending the story as a macabre moral fable about greed, desecration, and the corrupting consequences of tampering with death."
"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
It was late in the afternoon, and we were seated on the veranda of my friend’s bungalow in the Begum suburb at Hyderabad. Our conversation had turned to ghosts, on which subject I was, at the time, rather skeptical, and Nicholson, after relating a number of blood-curdling stories, had finished by remarking that a nearby house, which was said to be haunted, would give me an excellent chance to put the matter to the test."
"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
It was quite impossible for him to believe that Ilalotha had died from a fatal passion: since, in his experience, passion was never fatal."
"1900 - 1939 Science Fiction 4 - 18 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Jack Williamson, John W. Campbell, Robert Bloch and more
- The Night Wire by H. F. Arnold
- Two Black Bottles by H. P. Lovecraft
- The Broken Axiom by Alfred Bester
- The Dream Snake by Robert E. Howard
- The Abominations of Yondo by Clark Ashton Smith
- The Mirrors of Tuzune Thune by Robert E. Howard
- The Horror in the Hold by Frank Belknap Long
- Shadow World by Ray Cummings
- The Meteor Girl by Jack Williamson
- The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar by Francis Stevens
- The Last Evolution by John W. Campbell
- The Grip of Death by Robert Bloch
- The Shambler From the Stars by Robert Bloch
- World's End by Henry Kuttner
- Helen O'Loy by Lester Del Rey
- The Ultimate Problem by Victor Rousseau
- The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long
- Salvage in Space by Jack Williamson"
"Vintage Sci-Fi 19 - 19 Science Fiction Short Stories from Philip K. Dick, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur C. Clarke, Jack London, Theodore Sturgeon and more
- The Father Thing by Philip K. Dick
- The Crystal Egg by H. G. Wells
- Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon
- Eight Million Dollars From Mars! by Winston Marks
- Lake of Fire by Frank Belknap Long
- The Coming of the Ice by G. Peyton Wertenbaker
- Forever vy Robert Sheckley
- Man–Hunting Robot by James Rosenquest
- Return of a Legend by Raymond Z. Gallun
- Old Crompton's Secret by Harl Vincent
- Exile of the Eons by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Crystal Man by Edward Page Mitchell
- Master of the Asteroid by Clark Ashton Smith
- A World to Die For by Sam Carson
- The Unnamable by H. P. Lovecraft
- The Avenger by Damon Knight
- Try and Change the Past by Fritz Leiber
- The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London
- The Last Letter by Fritz Leiber"
"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz.
Mother of Toads by Clark Ashton Smith follows Pierre, a young apothecary’s apprentice, who visits the feared witch Mère Antoinette in a remote marshland and becomes ensnared by her sinister enchantments. After drinking a seemingly harmless spiced wine, he falls under a grotesque illusion that transforms the repulsive sorceress into a figure of irresistible allure, leading to a night of corrupted intimacy. Awakening to her true monstrous, toad-like form, Pierre flees—only to be relentlessly driven back by swarming toads that serve as her familiars. Trapped within her supernatural domain, he is ultimately overwhelmed by these creatures, suggesting his doom as he is dragged into the witch’s grotesque, inescapable power."
"Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz.
In Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Disinterment of Venus,” a group of monks uncovers an ancient buried statue of Venus in a secluded garden, awakening the dormant power of pagan beauty and desire within a world supposedly governed by Christian restraint. What begins as an archaeological curiosity becomes a subtle but growing spiritual and sensual disturbance, as the presence of the goddess seems to revive long-suppressed passions and strange influences among those who behold her. The story contrasts ascetic religion with the enduring, seductive force of classical sensuality, building an atmosphere of decadence, irony, and supernatural unease."
"A collection of horror stories concerning figures and shapes of a particularly unnatural nature.
Contents:
The Underbody by Allison V. Harding (Weird Tales 1949)
'A thing that was not a man, yet could not be anything else...'
Mr. Sliggins by Gary Gordon (HorrorBabble 2022)
'A boy has an encounter with the so-called Mr. Sliggins.'
The Eighth Green Man by G. G. Pendarves (Weird Tales 1928)
'An uncanny horror befell the guests of the innkeeper when the Green Men held their revels.'
The Thing from the Barrens by Jim Kjelgaard (Weird Tales 1945)
'A strange entity makes its way into a small town in Northern Canada.'
The Pale Man by Julius Long (Weird Tales 1934)
'The eccentric behaviour of a strange guest in a country hotel.'
The Marmot by Allison V. Harding (Weird Tales 1944)
'Such a harmless looking tiny creature—but animals possess strange abilities beyond our ken!'
Rainman by Ian Gordon (HorrorBabble 2024)
'A police officer investigates the mysterious death of a youngster.'
The Shingler by E. L. Wright (Weird Tales 1941)
'Next time you have work done on your house, be sure you don't get the Shingler!'
The Ninth Skeleton by Clark Ashton Smith (Weird Tales 1928)
'A bizarre encounter with a procession of skeletons.'
The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce (New York Town Topics 1893)
'A hunter confronts an unseen creature beyond human perception.'"
"These terrifying tales will take you to the very brink of madness, in the remote, bleak and ominous wastes of Earth's polar regions.
Contents:
Ghost by Henry Kuttner (Astounding Science-Fiction 1943)
'An attempted exorcism at a centre of science in Antarctica.'
The Republic of the Southern Cross by Valery Bryusov (1906)
'A disastrous epidemic in a supposed Antarctic utopia.'
The Ice-Demon by Clark Ashton Smith (Weird Tales 1933)
'A hunter who seeks to plunder jewels from a glacial tomb.'
The Moonstone Mass by Harriet Prescott Spofford (Harper's Magazine 1868)
'An attempt to cross the Northwest Passage results in a series of unusual events.'
Prunes by C. P. Howard (HorrorBabble 2024)
'The water between the lighthouse and the island started to freeze, and the lone watchman looked on in horror.'"
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