Mark Turetsky – Spoken Realms https://spokenrealms.com Wed, 29 Dec 2021 22:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/spokenrealms.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-logo-purple-black-white-outline.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Mark Turetsky – Spoken Realms https://spokenrealms.com 32 32 136118765 The Boats of the Glen Carrig https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/22/the-boats-of-the-glen-carrig-mturetsky/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/22/the-boats-of-the-glen-carrig-mturetsky/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:50:11 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=6073 The survivors of the shipwrecked eighteenth-century vessel Glen Carrig fight for their lives amidst a vast continent of weeds. Mysterious wrecks, horrific monsters, and swashbuckling adventure!
First published in 1907, The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” is a classic supernatural horror tale, praised by H. P. Lovecraft for its “brooding menace… impossible to surpass”

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/22/the-boats-of-the-glen-carrig-mturetsky/feed/ 0 6073 The King in Yellow https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/21/the-king-in-yellow-mturetsky/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/21/the-king-in-yellow-mturetsky/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:30:26 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=6070 Skillfully narrated by voice actor Mark Turetsky, The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers is a classic in the field of the supernatural. The series of 10 short stories is named after a fictional play of the same name which induces madness in the minds of those that read it. The Yellow King and Carcosa were often alluded to in a popular TV series True Detective, where evil and madness are often a theme.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/21/the-king-in-yellow-mturetsky/feed/ 0 6070 Demoiselle D’Ys: The King in Yellow https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/20/demoiselle-dys-the-king-in-yellow-mturetsky/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/20/demoiselle-dys-the-king-in-yellow-mturetsky/#respond Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:20:43 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=6067 From The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, an American gets lost whilst hunting in Brittany and encounters The Demoiselle D’Ys and is invited back to the castle where she lives. While the two become close, it is clear to the listener that this castle and those who live in it are strangers to the world the American recognises, and he returns to the world he knew, after a sudden attack by a snake.
Jeanne is 19 and lives alone in the castle except for her nurse, her four falconers and her beater Glenmarec Rene. The ending is similar to that of “An Inhabitant of Carcosa”, with Philip finding himself standing beside unfamiliar ruins that prove to be those of the chateau and discovers a gravestone for Jeanne who “died in her youth for love of Philip, A Stranger, AD 1573”.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/20/demoiselle-dys-the-king-in-yellow-mturetsky/feed/ 0 6067 In the Court of the Dragon https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/19/in-the-court-of-the-dragon-mturetsky/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/19/in-the-court-of-the-dragon-mturetsky/#respond Sun, 19 Feb 2017 18:44:51 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=6064 “Oh, thou who burn’st in heart for those who burn In Hell, whose fires thyself shall feed in turn; How long be crying – ‘Mercy on them.’ God! Why, who art thou to teach and He to learn?” In the Church of St. Barnabé vespers were over; the clergy left the altar; the little choir-boys flocked across the chancel and settled in the stalls. A Suisse in rich uniform marched down the south aisle, sounding his staff at every fourth step on the stone pavement; behind him came that eloquent preacher and good man, Monseigneur C—–.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/19/in-the-court-of-the-dragon-mturetsky/feed/ 0 6064 The Street of the First Shell https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/18/the-street-of-the-first-shell-mturetsky/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/18/the-street-of-the-first-shell-mturetsky/#respond Sat, 18 Feb 2017 18:48:26 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=6061 From The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers, and set in the Latin Quarter of Paris, artist Jack Trent lives with his model Sylvia. The story takes place during the Seige of Paris in 1870, ending with the Germans shelling the Latin Quarter, and Trent arriving home to see a child scrawling “Here fell the first shell”.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/18/the-street-of-the-first-shell-mturetsky/feed/ 0 6061 The Street of Our Lady of the Fields https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/17/the-street-of-our-lady-of-the-fields-mturetsky/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/17/the-street-of-our-lady-of-the-fields-mturetsky/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2017 18:39:37 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=6057 From The King in Yellow, this tale narrated by Mark Alexander begins: “The street is not fashionable, neither is it shabby. It is a pariah among streets – a street without a Quarter. It is generally understood to lie outside the pale of the aristocratic Avenue de l’Observatoire. The students of the Montparnasse Quarter consider it swell and will have none of it. The Latin Quarter, from the Luxembourg, its northern frontier, sneers at its respectability and regards with disfavour the correctly costumed students who haunt it. Few strangers go into it. At times, however, the Latin Quarter students use it as a thoroughfare between the rue de Rennes and the Bullier….”

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/17/the-street-of-our-lady-of-the-fields-mturetsky/feed/ 0 6057 The Prophet’s Paradise https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/16/the-prophets-paradise-mturetsky/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/16/the-prophets-paradise-mturetsky/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:51:32 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=6050 “The Profit’s Paradise” is a story from The King in Yellow narrated by Mark Turetsky, a collection of eight dreamlike poems by Robert W Chambers.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/16/the-prophets-paradise-mturetsky/feed/ 0 6050 Rue Barree https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/15/rue-barree-mturetsky/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/02/15/rue-barree-mturetsky/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:12:30 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=6015 From The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, this story is set in the Latin Quarter of Paris, where a young artist falls in love with a nameless girl. He has no name, so he names her by the street. Rue Barree in English translates to Road Closed. Are there connotations here, or not?

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