The World Maker Parable

Adjacent Monsters, Book 1

By: Luke Tarzian

Narrated by: Teagan Walsh-Davis

Guilt will always call you back...

Rhona is a faithful servant of the country Jémoon and a woman in love. Everything changes when her beloved sets the ravenous Vulture goddess loose upon the land. Forced to execute the woman she loves for committing treason, Rhona discovers a profound correlation between morality and truth. A connection that might save her people or annihilate them all.

You are a lie..

Varésh Lúm-talé is many things, most of all a genocidal liar. A falsity searching for the Phoenix goddess whom he believes can help him rectify his atrocities. Such an undertaking is an arduous one for a man with missing memories and a conscience set on rending him from inside out. A man whose journey leads to Hang-Dead Forest and a meeting with a Vulture goddess who is not entirely as she seems.

©2020 Luke Tarzian (P)2025 Luke Tarzian

Poetic & Pulse Pounding

I'm gonna re listen to this actually, and give my full thoughts after. I loves the descriptive, nightmightarish world being build here. The characters seem solid, raw and emotional. Great dialogue, great audio performance, super great prose. I'm a bit confused but I get that in kinda supposed to be. Def gonna check out more of whatever this was.

An emotional performance of a dark mind melting story

Performance was amazing! She did so good. Story had incredible prose. Be warned this story was designed to be something that makes you think and reflect. It can be tough to follow. If you like poetry please check this out.

Psychological brilliance

I got a taste for Tarzian’s writing already, with his, A Cup of Tea at the Mouth of Hell where he weaves a whimsically tragic story, that’s a metaphorical autobiography. So I went into this knowing what was ahead of me, but that still paled in comparison to what was on these pages. Where A Cup of Tea was whimsy, The World Maker Parable is a slow psychological horror that will push readers to their limit, reflecting over its themes of mental health and the human psyche. While this is such a dark and brooding novel, there’s still beauty within, and that beauty starts with Tarzian’s, elegant prose. No matter the intensity of the scene, the sentences are so smooth and impactful, just flowing with an unforgettable touch, that remind me of Neil Gaiman and the king of macabre, Edgar Allen Poe.

“Perception is fickle, dangerously so. Often times we see things as we wish they were; we see ourselves as something we are not. We dream to run from what we fear—but the truth is never far behind. The guilt will always call you back.”

I saw Tarzian say that this book “examines the consequences of nationalism and is a loose interpretation of Dante Alighieri’s, The Inferno,” which describes going through the nine circles of hell and the torments people experience, and I think he nails that narrative of this story, to a tee. What he was able to get into a 166 page novella is incredible, because the characters are all deeply flawed and it’s what drives the story to its deep dark depths, but the slow methodical pacing makes the darkness feel even more profound. There’s so much to unpack within the pages of this novel, but one thing is for sure, you better be ready to be emotionally devastated by the time this novella ends.

On top of that, he found the perfect narrator for his story in Teagan Walsh-Davis. Her performance floored me, pulling me deeper into the emotional ties and the psychological warfare of the mind that Tarzian twists into the fabric of our very being. Walsh-Davis brought the elegance to Tarzian’s eloquence, amplifying the story’s haunting resonance.

I enjoyed the performance it was very well done

I enjoyed the style of writing and reminded me of great works I enjoyed over the years. Look forward to what else Luke has coming next