Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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"The Empire of the Necromancers" is a Zothique Cycle story by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in the September 1932 edition of Weird Tales. "An endless army of plague-eaten bodies, of tattered skeletons, poured in ghastly torrents through the streets of the city."

Thanks to our patrons on Patreon for selecting this as our second Zothique recording.

horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-empire-of-the-necromancers

00:00 - Introduction
01:12 - One
11:50 - Two
26:03 - Further Listening

Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble
Music and production by Ian & Jennifer Gordon

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