on: March 05, 2022, 07:04:47 AM
PseudoPod 800: The Parricide’s TaleAuthor:
Charles Robert MaturinNarrator:
Kurt KuersteinerHost:
Alasdair StuartAudio Producer:
Chelsea Davis“The Parricide’s Tale” is an excerpt from a larger work, the notorious Gothic Novel
Melmoth The Wanderer (1820)
Show NotesWikipedia article on Melmoth The WandererThis week’s quote
It was in the midst of one of his most licentious songs, that my companion suddenly paused. He gazed about him for some time; and faint and dismal as the light was by which we beheld each other, I thought I could observe an extraordinary expression overshadow his countenance. I did not venture to notice it. “Do you know where we are?” he whispered.
“Too well;—in the vault of a convent, beyond the help or reach of man,—without food, without light, and almost without hope.”
“Aye, so its last inhabitants might well say.”
“Its last inhabitants!—who were they?”
“I can tell you, if you can bear it.”
“I cannot bear it,” I cried, stopping my ears, “I will not listen to it. I feel by the narrator it must be something horrid.”
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