Notebook of the Night 2: THE INQUISITOR by Thomas Ligotti
Channel: Manifest Dust-in-yer-eye
Date: 2022-10-02

From NOCTUARY's "Notebook of the Night" sequence (Subterranean Press edition). 

The picture is of a medieval torture device I had not seen before and which doesn't depict any detail in the piece itself. But the "heretics fork" struck my fancy as apt in at least a couple of ways anyway. The description for it reads: "Another piece of neckware that tended to be fancied by the church, these would be placed between the lower jaw and the throat. Lower your head and it will kill you… if you’re lucky. The heretics fork was a macabre way of keeping sinners looking up at God." (https://www.thecoolist.com/medieval-torture-devices/)
Lose your will and strength, voluntarily or involuntarily, and you drop into the formless prison of nothingness that rejects it all. And as for the reader aloud... it's a predicament in which the expression of your voice and of the words it speaks will certainly be born of pain and suffering, and perverse will... before that blackness claims it all.

A higher quality .mp3 of this recording can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gbMSFgepKUCW_g9aTE_Ngc7kM5VHxyXl/view?usp=sharing