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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: The Truth of Carcosa by Jacob Rollinson read by James Goode, Nneka Okoye, Christopher Tester, and Marc Vietor
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Evil books, shadowy corporations, and interdimensional monster collide in this dark, masterful tribute to Robert Chamber’s cult classic, The King in Yellow.
In 1984, exiled author Salvatore Archimboldi accepts the help of a psychotherapist to write his new book. He hopes to transform his traumatic memories into literary genius. But the resulting book, The Truth of Carcosa, is pure evil. Horrified, Archimboldi suppresses the book and wills all traces of it, his correspondence, and any copies to be destroyed.
Long after Archimboldi’s death, in a chaotic age of resurgent nationalism and violence, one of the only havens for his work is the ALI, the A...