The Isle of the Torturers

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "The Isle of the Torturers" is a dark fantasy story by Clark Ashton Smith, part of his Zothique cycle–set on the last continent of a dying, far-future Earth. King Fulbra of Yoros flees his plague-ravaged kingdom (devastated by the Silver Death) wearing a protective ring given to him by a sorcerer. A storm wrecks his ship on Uccastrog, the Isle of the Torturers, whose smiling inhabitants greet shipwrecked strangers with elaborate hospitality before subjecting them to a festival of exquisite tortures. Fulbra endures days of grotesque torments alongside a fellow captive, the maiden Ilvaa, who feigns sympathy only to betray him. In the end, Fulbra wields his ring's hidden power–unleashing the Silver Death itself–to annihilate his tormentors, dying with them in grim triumph.