meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 546 - Empire of the Necromancers

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Education, Arts, Books, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A month of sword-and-sorcery stories kicks off with Clark Ashton Smith's Empire of the Necromancers!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

hppodcraft.com

0:11.0

The legend of Muck Moore and Siddos Moshela rise only in the latter cycles of Earth

0:16.0

When the glad legends of the prime have been forgotten

0:20.0

Before the time of its telling, many epochs shall have passed away

0:24.0

And the seas shall have fallen in their beds

0:26.0

And new continents shall have come to birth

0:30.0

Perhaps in that day, it will serve to be guile for a little the black weiriness of a dying race

0:36.0

Grown hopeless of all but oblivion

0:39.0

I tell the tale, as men shall tell it in Zothik

0:43.0

The last continent beneath a dim sun and sad heavens

0:47.0

Where the stars come out in terrible brightness before even tide

0:51.0

I think I had a yoga instructor called Zothik

1:01.0

Which I thought was her real name

1:03.0

I think she was trying to give herself some of that mystical cred that you can't normally get from growing up in century city

1:09.0

Yeah, one time I was visiting with my extended family back home

1:12.0

And I told in this whole story about how I was in this yoga class in the park

1:15.0

And this dog came tearing through, causing all this chaos

1:18.0

It's a long story, lots of antics, pretty funny

1:20.0

And I'll react to that joke the same way they reacted to my whole story

1:23.0

You were taking yoga?

1:25.0

Miss the details there

1:27.0

Valley changes people

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Strange Studies of Strange Stories, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Strange Studies of Strange Stories and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.