The Death of Malygris, Will
The Death of Malygris, Will
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The Death of Malygris

Author: Will

Narrator: Hahn

Unabridged: 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2021


Synopsis

The prose of horror master Clark Ashton Smith comes to life again with the storytelling of narrator Will Hahn. The sorcerer Malygris has tyrannized ancient Susran for decades, but now appears to all the world to have died in his ivory throne. Who will be the first to plunder his fortress and what can even the mightiest wizard do to his enemies from beyond the grave?The text of this tale is drawn from The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger published by Night Shade Books and used with the kind permission of CASiana Literary Enterprises, the Literary Estate of Clark Ashton Smith.Cover design by Katharina Kolata, Independent Bookworm, using art by grandfailure, Depositphoto.Sound FX by the narrator or from Freesound.org.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim on April 13, 2018

This is one of the Poseidonis cycle which sits alongside Averoigne, Zothique and Hyperborea as one of the four cycles of tales produced by Ashton Smith, each with a different tone and literary background. Poseidonis, a remnant of Atlantis, is the place where Ashton Smith weaves some of his darkest f......more

Goodreads review by Chris on March 22, 2021

William L. Hahn cast his line wisely to snare those who, in their youth, drank deeply and without reservation of the heady wine that is the prose of Clark Ashton Smith. An acolyte of poet George Sterling, Smith actually argued with that famous Bohemian about the wisdom of writing prose at all. Sterl......more

Goodreads review by Per on May 19, 2022

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Goodreads review by Gilbert on March 26, 2021

One of the things that stands out about Clark Ashton Smith’s short stories is that there are often no good guys to be found in the pages. In this excellent story, a great necromancer has died—or has he? As other magical powers seek to confirm Malygris’ demise and to profit from it, they continue to......more

Goodreads review by Michael on November 13, 2018

Necromancy, bones and dark magic. Gives off vibes of The Alchemist and Charles Dexter Ward by Lovecraft. Imprisoning a powerful and cunning sorcerer in a tower never goes well.......more