“The Peril That Lurks Among The Ruins“ by Clark Ashton Smith (read by Craig Nickerson)

“Go not too often among ruins,“ said the Daemon in one of his rare moods of admonitory confidence. “For there is a strangeness in the shadows which these memorials of the vastness of the Past, broken though they may be, have thrown for so many centuries upon the selfsame spot as in the dawn of their erection. Such shadows have gathered strength from their ancient and unbroken brooding; and they are not as the shadows of natural objects, for human time has accumulated within them like unswept dust, and memor