Lightning has struck Sudapod towers once again and as every week something horrifying slouches towards your ears, waiting to be heard.

What follows is horror to the core.

Proceed only if you wish to be disturbed as well as entertained.

Pseudopod, episode 611, September 7, 2018.

This week's story, The Vault of Yo Vombis by Clark Ashton Smith. Hello everyone, welcome to Pseudopod the Weekly Horror Podcast.

I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story first appeared in edited form in weird tales in May of 1932.

Clark Ashton Smith is, as has been discussed before in these parts,

an integral part of the evolution of contemporary Western horror, and this is one of his very best

pieces. He's also notable for having a pretty solid Wikipedia page about his work and

if you click on the show notes you'll get the full breakdown on our site of what you need to know about him.

The audio production this week is by the magnificent Sean M Garrett of Sudapod,

one of the pillars of the organization and a man I am proud to work with.

Your reader is the mighty Dr. Howell, once again, one of the all-time luminaries of audio drama and audio fiction, we're honored to have him in the house.

Welcome aboard, sir.

So, without further ado, grab a seat, because the doctor is making a house call and the stories his

patients are going to tell you are he assures me true. True. by Clark Ashton Smith Breface.

As an intern in the terrestrial hospital at Ignor, I had charge of the singular case of Rodney Severn, the one surviving member of the

Octave expedition to Yovumbus, and took down the following story from his dictation.

Severn had been brought to the hospital by the Martian guides of the expedition.

He was suffering from a horribly lacerated and inflamed condition of the scalp and brow and was wildly delirious part of the time,

and had to be held down in his bed during recurrent seizures of a mania whose violence was doubly inexplicable in view of his extreme

debility. The lacerations, as will be learned from the story, were mainly

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