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His Black Tongue

By: Mitchell Luthi
Narrated by: Anna Capraro, Scott Miller
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Summary

There is no plague in Enfaire....

Dead things have been found in the fields of Enfaire, a God-fearing town north of Reams. Not just dead things, but twisted forms…unholy shapes. And there are rumors, too, of a blasphemous union and of fell creatures that haunt the night. Yet even as plague and witch pyres blacken the sky, the town remains untouched by the malady that has already claimed thousands and will claim thousands more.

It is here, in Enfaire, that an old Franciscan friar and his ward take shelter from a storm. It is here, in a little town on the edge of civilization, that they will have their faith truly tested.

His Black Tongue is a tale of medieval horror, plunging the listener into the plague-torn land of 14th-century France when pestilence and death walked hand-in-hand, and life was little more than a sputtering candle, waiting to be put out. But there are worse things than death, than sickness and decay…and it comes upon leathery black wings.

Includes The Bone Fields novella and the short story, "The Knights of the Non-Euclidean Table".

©2022 Mitchell Luthi (P)2022 Mitchell Luthi
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Tonally Perfect

Both the voice performances and sound effects set the perfect tone for historical horror. Loved the first story in particular, it was exactly what I hoped it would be.

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Historical inaccuracies and then some

I think the performance of this book is beyond world class. I think the narrators were absolutely faultless and their performances made this book well worth listening to. I’d listen to either of the two again as well as those behind the music. Superb.

My problem with this audiobook isn’t with story itself, it’s a fantastic setting. it’s the historical inaccuracies that really detracted from my immersion within the experience (in my opinion). The friar lights his tobacco pipe 170 odd years too early. Tobacco wasn’t even close to being introduced to Europe in 1349. He lights that pipe with a match, an invention from the mid 1800s. The phrase ‘breadcrumbs’ is used to insinuate a trail but that phrase was first coined by the brothers Grimm in 1812. And ‘the game is up’ is Shakespearean.

I think if more attention had been paid to details like that it would have been utterly fantastic. The author is clearly a very talented bloke but I think he ought to have done more to pay attention to those sorts of things.

I might be nitpicking really. I love the characters and the setting and the timeframe. Just didn’t quite hit the mark for me.

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