The Tomb-Spawn
A Tale of Zothique
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The Tomb-Spawn
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AI Voice Josh Greenwood
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Narrated by:
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AI Voice Josh Greenwood
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Summary
In the grey city of Zul-Bha-Sair, all the dead belong to Mordiggian. The ghoul-god’s priests come for every corpse within the hour, carrying it away into a temple no outsider has ever left, and the law admits no exception.
Phariom and his young bride arrive in the city as travellers, knowing nothing of its customs. That night she falls into the deathlike trance of a rare malady she has suffered since childhood, and the muffled priests come for her before dawn. She is not dead. And to get her back, her husband must enter the charnel temple himself, where the god’s servants feast, where a pair of sorcerers from distant Zul-Bha-Sair are working a very unwise piece of necromancy, and where something far older than the priests is about to wake.
First published in Weird Tales in 1934, The Charnel God is one of Clark Ashton Smith’s finest Zothique tales: a lush, macabre masterpiece of dark fantasy set on the last continent of a dying earth, by one of the great masters of weird fiction.
Listen to the complete, unabridged audiobook of this classic pulp fantasy story.
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