The Valley of the Worm by Robert E. Howard (Audiobook)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
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REH's 34th most well-known story is somehow still superior to 99.999% of the sword & sorcery / fantasy written since then.
I love the old stories written by REH and Clark Ashton Smith and the like. They just have a certain feel to them that modern fantasy is never able to really replicate.
Definitely one of my absolute favorite REH stories! I still read it at least twice every month! 🏴☠🏴☠🏴☠🏴☠
This is my favourite Robert E Howard story. Only ever read it on screen and then immediately after on common printer paper I stapled and kept in a drawer. I was unable to find a book with it.
You can find it in the Del Rey edition: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Crimson Shadows
@@michaelharrington5860 thanks. Ill look for it.
After giving us "Almuric", Connor became a beloved person among the Howardian community. I tough I'd die without actually see that story throught. Where I live there isn't copies of this story without having to import on a very inflated price.
Im glad i found ur channel recently ive been un a ho lovecraft/Robert e Howard mood i actually found REH books thanks to your channel and he has quickly become one of my favorite Arthur's. For some reason i like the monologues he and lovecraft do in some of the books where they talk of unfathomably ancient things like before the oceans drank Atlantis or while the bricks of Babylon where still unbacked always catch my imagination. Love your work keep up the good fight brother, as my favorite fictional DJ loves to say.
Have you explored Clark Ashton Smith, yet?
The parts hinting at ancient secrets are the reason I like these authors too- and I second the advice that you look into Clarke Ashton Smith!
Thanks so much for uploading this, a brilliant reading of a Howard story I have not read before, great job as usual!
Great story! One of my R.E.H. favorites. It's been put in audiobook form before, though. It's in "People of the Dark: The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard Volume 2", published by Audio Realms in 2009. So is "Garden of Fear", by the way.
Thanks for uploading a rarity!
It’s good to hear a new audiobook from you, Connor.
Extraordinary listening pleasure. Splendid.
Thank you, Connor! REH is always welcome. Many thanks.
narration is excellent!
Love this one, thank you for reading. No matter how many times I read this yarn the very instant Satha slithers onto the scene my heart skips a beat in anticipation of the struggle between man and serpent 🐍
A tale of time dwarfing beauty and a reading worthy of it.
Just in time for dinner! I was wondering today where you'd been, Connor. The James Allison stories are great. Can I put in a request or two or three? The Dead Remember, Black Canaan, anything featuring Xavier Gordon aka El Borak! Thanks for all the Two Gun Bob, bro!
Hey Al! Thanks! I will look into the requests, especially the El Borak because I dont think they have been done before. Cheers 👍
@@TheEldritchArchives All of the El Borak stories are in an audiobook called "El Borak and Other Desert Adventures", published by Audible Studios in 2012.
I remember an essay by howard about the biblical king Solomon and how he inspired King Kull but i can't seem to find it again, googling "Robert E Howard Solomon" just gets you a lot of stuff about Solomon Kane
Excellent work!
great work as always
Great story. REH is the master of high adventure!
Awesome sauce!!!!!
REH!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Damn thats good. Thanks
Is it understood that this man was also Conan?
Аве Конан!
Why did authors back then saturate their stories with how superior they thought the white was. Its very noticeable and annoying.
yeah, it’s bugging me too. hasn’t aged well in that regard but i stuck around for the intriguing story.
The guy was from middle of nowhere Texas in the early 1900s. What did you expect? Are you trying to hold someone that passed nearly a century ago to the moral and "PC" standards of the post-internet world of today? To be honest that is much stranger than racism from an author long dead
you can be not racist without “pc” culture and there are plenty of others that do that. i’m just saying it hasn’t aged well how divulging he is about it. it’s just annoying, doesn’t mean the story besides that isn’t good, and that’s what i’m saying.
@@marcelschreiber9399 It wasn't until 1964 that segregation ended. I just wish it were easier for people to appreciate these things for what they are without beating the dead horse that is "most people probably held varying degrees of racist views in the past."
So... Howard is a racist now, for writing about norse culture? Well, if you will criticize the man, at least do your homework.
- Picts: a race clearly not white from the beginning of time who endured until at least the viking age, thought as hell, and regarded as Howard's favorites, since they aren't real and embodies many of his ideals.
El Borak: A character who is an actual Texan, lived in 30´s Afghanistan, very familiar with Arabic culture it shows how deep Howard appreciated that culture back then.
And there are many other examples which would not have space to talk here.
And is not how "white" were superior. If you know a little about Howard he would say how MEN were superior. White or not. It goes to the principle where the primitive spirit of human was softened by a "artificial" and decadent society. Have seen he praised many races this way, even though some doesn't really exist, but are equivalent to others who does. If you think the man is racist because he is praising a people who was white (norse), and the fact that saying something good about white people bothers you, well.... Maybe you should look about your "racism" concepts. I have no problem when he talks about Tom Molyneux, for example.