PseudoPod 1013: The End Of The Story

PseudoPod

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Drama

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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“The End Of The Story” was originally published in Weird Tales, vol. 15, no. 5 (May 1930). Link: Weird Tales original text Original layout from Weird Tales The Emperor of Dreams documentary Best collection of Smith’s poetry The following narrative was found among the papers of Christophe Morand, a young law-student of Tours, after his unaccountable disappearance during a…

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0:00.0	You know the end of the Ark of the Covenant, with the Nazis and the Ark, and the, ah, don't look, ah, that, just with no Nazis and you listen instead.
0:09.2	But it's still scary.
0:11.2	Okay?
0:11.9	Cool.
0:17.5	SudaPod, episode 2013 for January 23,
0:22.4	2026,
0:23.8	The End of the Story by Clark Ashton Smith,
0:27.4	narrated by Tall,
0:29.0	hosted by Joshua Tuttle,
0:30.9	audio by Chelsea Davis.
0:33.3	Hi, everyone.
0:34.7	I'm Josh,
0:35.5	assistant editor of Sudapod,
0:37.2	your host for this week.
0:39.2	Your story this week is The End of the Story by Clark Ashton Smith.
0:44.2	This story first appeared in the May 1930 issue of Weird Tales.
0:48.6	If you want to see what the original layout was like, we have a link to an archived copy in the show notes.
0:54.6	Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter, and author of
1:00.7	fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories. Smith was one of the big three of weird tales,
1:06.6	with Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft, although some readers objected to his morbidness and violation
1:12.3	of pulp traditions. Smith was a member of the Lovecraft Circle, and his literary friendship
1:18.2	with Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. Of his own writing style,
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