"The Isle of the Torturers" by Clark Ashton Smith

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  • Опубліковано 31 гру 2024

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  • @universallymarred4978
    @universallymarred4978 2 роки тому +2

    Wondrously read... I can see it all clearly. This is a great presentation.

  • @cheayunju
    @cheayunju 8 років тому +11

    I've read this many times, but this audio version in amazing with audio and and added background. Beautiful.

    • @winstonsmith3370
      @winstonsmith3370 10 місяців тому +1

      Reg Green has to be the best to narrate CAS stories. I wish there was a full volume of all his works read by this same narrator

  • @j.t.8848
    @j.t.8848 10 років тому +9

    Amazingly well read and well compiled video to go along with Smith's gruesomely terrific tale. I enjoyed this immensely. Thank You so much. It was so well done in every aspect I only but wish every Smith tale were given such treatment. I long for more.

    • @cheayunju
      @cheayunju 8 років тому +1

      +J.T. Edwards I truly fell you should get an amazingly long comment for this%^%^^^^^^

  • @sain11
    @sain11 Рік тому +3

    After some really intense research, the narrator name is actually Deem Bristow! He also was the voice actor for Dr. Eggman in sonic and many other video game characters, and unfortunately he passed away in 2005.

  • @FIONA21ful
    @FIONA21ful 7 років тому +5

    Ahhhhhh perfect! I have found my lullaby narrator for tonight... Thank you.

  • @BlaqueCzar
    @BlaqueCzar 9 років тому +3

    Excellent tale, possibly one of my new favorite of all time, fitting reading as well!

  • @gesturestear
    @gesturestear 10 років тому +2

    Finally, CAS full story. What a great story, this will open a lot of eyes. CAS necromancy and the lengths one will go for true love.

  • @Art-talk
    @Art-talk 4 роки тому

    Brilliant production.

  • @GrahznySlovo
    @GrahznySlovo 10 років тому +9

    That was a really great reading. CAS is a writer whose work is meant to be read aloud; hearing his words is like a spell that conjures up the imagery of his stories to your mind. I see you've got some of his poems up, too, so I hope to investigate those as well, and that there are more readings to come. ;)
    FYI, I learned of this after it was shared with the Facebook group "Emperor of Dreams: Devotees of Clark Ashton Smith," if you're interested in joining/informing them of any future videos.

  • @manmonkee
    @manmonkee 9 років тому +4

    Brilliant twist, love the incidental music, Thanks.

  • @Pentapus1024
    @Pentapus1024 8 років тому +6

    I love this one. The story, the man's voice and the 80s sounding atmospheric music really rounds this bad boy out.
    One of my favorite CAS stories is "The Coming of the White Worm" but I can't find an audio version. I hope that someone uploads that one sometime.

  • @aesopstortoise
    @aesopstortoise 5 років тому +3

    And they all lived happily ever after ...

  • @consciousnez
    @consciousnez 7 років тому +1

    well done . the atmosphere was set well and the narration was excellent. thankee kindly for posting

  • @Mality
    @Mality 9 років тому +2

    Magnificentlymacabre, well read and scored! It would be pleasing to CAS himself!

  • @shaddonon
    @shaddonon 5 років тому

    Fantastic production! FANTASTIC production! You have a great smokey voice and your delivery is compelling. The music has this seductive fever-dream quality that is as alluring as it is sinister and alien. Coupled with your narration and the crashing waves, it breathes life into the proceedings, lends depth, as though we are only glimpsing one little tale on a few scattered islands in the vast, dark, delightful world of Zothique. Incredible work!

  • @Vhjfdvbnk
    @Vhjfdvbnk 10 років тому +2

    Thank you for this, it's a fantastic reading of a great story.

  • @BluJean6692
    @BluJean6692 4 роки тому +1

    One of my favorite things about this story is that his descriptions of abyssal sea creatures is pretty accurate for someone who never actually witnessed the like. The imagery is reminiscent of footage from deep sea probes that you see elsewhere on youtube...

  • @wotan237
    @wotan237 9 років тому +4

    Almost too chilling to continue listening....

    • @SkywalkerSam64
      @SkywalkerSam64 4 роки тому +1

      Luckily, the Isle of Torturers is broken by absolute death in the end, due to the brave deed of King Fulbra of Yoros, who had taken three days of torture in Uccastrog.

  • @CionJSBJJ
    @CionJSBJJ 8 років тому +1

    amazing work.

  • @toniyoung8474
    @toniyoung8474 5 років тому

    Very well done! Thank you.

  • @lacyhart2043
    @lacyhart2043 5 років тому

    Hell yeah awesome I've never read this one thank you so much.

  • @Garghamellal
    @Garghamellal 7 років тому +2

    I totally love your eerie reading of this wonderful tale.

  • @darkbrightly4164
    @darkbrightly4164 10 років тому +11

    “Whatever you do,” cried Brer Rabbit, “Don’t throw me into the briar patch”

  • @lacyhart2043
    @lacyhart2043 5 років тому

    Wow that was brutal and amazing sooo good. Thanks man I appreciate it.

  • @rtt1961
    @rtt1961 6 років тому

    This guy is really a great reader.

  • @shaddonon
    @shaddonon 5 років тому +4

    If anyone asks what sets Clark Ashton Smith apart from HP Lovecraft or Robert E Howard, I will be directing them to this video.
    Your production thoroughly captures the fever-dream sensuality, the unbridled creativity, and the psychelic weirdness that distinguishes CAS from others in the Lovecraft Circle.

  • @ArcNeon
    @ArcNeon 10 років тому +2

    would love to try and score something like this!

  • @mikegiamalva321
    @mikegiamalva321 7 місяців тому

    I wish the sound effects weren't so loud

  • @Chillydreamers
    @Chillydreamers 10 років тому +5

    Tht voice :3

  • @andydensmore5293
    @andydensmore5293 9 років тому +1

    Will you have more of these read along stories these are good and I want to thank you for downloading the Ice demon and the return of the sourcerer. By Clark Aston smith now if you could please download the mayor of hell by norvell page through the pulp crazy website I'll download more

  • @robertboyle2573
    @robertboyle2573 7 років тому

    Great fantasy tale.

  • @colinmurray5368
    @colinmurray5368 6 років тому

    Excellent please make some more.

  • @RoboBoddicker
    @RoboBoddicker 6 років тому

    Great story. I wonder if this was an inspiration for Theon's torture scene in GoT

  • @TheBRIZZA82
    @TheBRIZZA82 3 роки тому

    CAS is the man

  • @1amjapan
    @1amjapan 4 роки тому +1

    Great reading, thanks for sharing. I wonder if this was the inspiration for Gene Wolfe's new sun stories?

  • @andydensmore5293
    @andydensmore5293 9 років тому +1

    To the dark eddillo website the reading of the isle of the tortureers by Clark Ashton smith is quite good I do like it if you are in to horror of which I am not I am now into pulp fiction please will you please put as another pulp vidio read along the mayor of hell by norvel page but just three chapters one though three and fangs of the dragon by norvel page writting as grant Stockbridge

  • @realism51
    @realism51 5 років тому

    I wish I knew who narrates this.

  • @sunamori
    @sunamori 2 роки тому

    I really love this reading, but for feedback's sake, the music is a bit too high in volume and distracting... I wouldn't keep it up throughout the whole reading, just in the beginning and end. Keep up the good work!

  • @andy-the-gardener
    @andy-the-gardener 3 роки тому

    outstanding. the silver death was what that pathetic recent 'pandemic' should have been. 12 billion (and a dead planet) here we come.

  • @rachweatherilll69
    @rachweatherilll69 4 роки тому

    I was suss on Ilva from the start 😉

  • @Welther47
    @Welther47 Рік тому

    Moral of the story; don't trust women, I guess.
    Good story, but a tame ending.

  • @sinistril
    @sinistril 5 років тому +1

    Quickly, coverup your inability to worldbuild by adding a half dozen places and names to remember within the first paragraph!