The Golem


Read by Ben Tucker

Pernath is a man without a past, a cutter of stones, living in the Jewish Ghetto in the city of Prague and interacting with a strange cadre of individuals including the greedy and conniving Wastertrum, the maker of marionettes Zwakh, the fiery Rosina with morals as loose as her tongue, the wise and mysterious Hillel and his fetching daughter Miriam. The legend says that the golem, the living figure of clay in servitude to his masters, will return every 33 years. Is Pernath himself the golem? Is the golem sequestered away in the room in the tower with no doors? Or is the golem something less concrete? Dreamlike and vivid, Gustav Meyrink's The Golem is a masterpiece of modernist weird fiction.... Haunting, eerie and inscrutable... (8 hr 9 min)

Chapters

Sleep 5:47 Read by Ben Tucker
Day 15:32 Read by Ben Tucker
"I" 13:18 Read by Ben Tucker
Prague 24:39 Read by Ben Tucker
Punch 31:09 Read by Ben Tucker
Night 24:48 Read by Ben Tucker
Awake 16:14 Read by Ben Tucker
Snow 19:13 Read by Ben Tucker
Ghosts 32:23 Read by Ben Tucker
Light 15:01 Read by Ben Tucker
Distress 49:25 Read by Ben Tucker
Fear 14:38 Read by Ben Tucker
Urge 22:16 Read by Ben Tucker
Woman 50:18 Read by Ben Tucker
Trickery 30:18 Read by Ben Tucker
Torment 20:08 Read by Ben Tucker
May 29:34 Read by Ben Tucker
Moonlight 56:00 Read by Ben Tucker
End 18:44 Read by Ben Tucker