I feel a modern list of 'tomes' would more likely be a segment on the Southern Poverty Law Center website. Or a UN report. Right out in the open, but no one reads because they're on tiktok instead.
Ian Gordon your voice is perfect for this style of storytelling and I have enjoyed listening to your narration very much. Thank you for the content I look forward to more like this!
Ian and Jennifer you are spoiling us. This will get me through the weekend at the arcade. My chance to spread the joy of Horrorbabble to the masses here in Tennessee. 💀
Bedtime listen for the next week. I have listen to a few on the day they were uploading but saved a few for this group upload. I cannot say how much I love these longer collections. Thanks to all involved both Ian, Jennifer and everyone else involved, both in front of and behind the microphone.
This is quite a nice collection of macabre stories you have put together for us. It is wonderful that they are all together now. Thank you. Have a marvelous day 🥰💖🤗🌟
There's thousands of miles of mysterious walls in New England. They are supposed to be from early settlers but the sheer amount and the remote locations makes this unlikely.
H.P. inspired so many authors to create works in the awesome and horrifying world he created. I'm not sure that anyone else has inspired more works from others in their universe.
My Mind is blown. Incredible narrator, but the Words, but like the Knowledge the Characters seek, I can't stop listening, because I want that Knowledge.
Just wrapping up the Guardian of the Book, and I'm stoked for the rest of this video. I have been doing deep dives into other Weird fiction that isn't Lovecraft for inspiration in Delta Green. I am copying an outline of it for a random scene to slot into my campaigns.
And lo; the abyss entered into him also and as each second became as millennia to him, he heard a sound like unto a tiny voice and it sounded like this, "...............Oh bugger I knew I should have taken that first left after Watford."
Can someone please draw one of the old gods watching the wall “swim” away with a thumbs up? I love ambiguity; life is ambiguous. I loved the story up to that end. Why can’t we just be like “yeah that wall is crazy.” “What do you think it means?” “Look inward”
‘Settler’s Wall’ is like a blend of Lovecraft and *House Of Leaves*. Utterly disturbing. There is nothing so much in all of fiction, film, and life itself that unsettles me to nearly the degree as does non-Euclidean geometry in greater than three dimensions.
The guy from the first story is that rarest of things a guy who comes through a brush with the uncanny not only safe but a bit more sane than he started (anyone who wants to read the Necronomicon is crazy by definition.)
Ok, these really help my sleep. I don't really dream, due to trauma and insomnia/night terrors. Trained myself to not dream...., but have a few times with these readings lately. Thank you!
I'm trying real hard to listen to the Guardian of the Book tale, I really am, but the second it was established the Old Ones treated this as some game, the entire time the main character was trying to fight reading the book I kept imagining the old ones like some college frat group sitting around a dusty basement with their red solo cups of beer shouting READ READ READ- and groaning in defeat whenever he held back XD
Is there a collection of stories read from the wider Dream Cycle? This edition is fantastic because I've been looking for non-core Mythos stories, but I'd also love a compilation of Dreamlands material not written by Lovecraft himself :)
I know Ian has made a complete dream cycle video. But I am unsure if there are any authors in it other than lovecraft. Definitely worth a watch though if you haven’t seen it yet
I can't help but notice how much the cthulhu mythos and Lovecraft's other works parallel certain aspects of metaphysics and spirituality Dream like mystical experiences and altered states of consciousness, revealing forbidden knowledge and indescribable encounters with that which lies outside reality... Azathoth the blind idiot God dreaming up the Universe? Strange coincidence 👀
If anyone needs an idea for something to doodle, I want to get a Lovecraft sleeve tattoo. The only real idea I have at the moment is having Cthulhu or some other central creature, head on my shoulder with several other monsters lined up down my arm, like a Cartoon Network crossover announcement if that helps at all. Don't have any money to pay for it, but if you're bored and wanna draw, would much appreciate some basic doodles
@@Eris123451 -- Whatever it was, it would appeal to HPL, as he was always burrowing under the earth! Cheers Wrascally Warren, who yet lives but is currently La Bas!
That last story was so predictable from the beginning, brain surgeon gets cucked by big fish cawck. Once you go fish, you never go back. Cassandra gets F I S H E D. The meme potential of the story unveiled by my broken sense of humor ruined any suspense or sense of horror, still I enjoyed it immensely.
*sigh* captain Carteret, not exactly the sharpest tool in the box, eh? Just when I thought ignoring red flags (hurr hurr) doesn't get any worse than Albert N. Wilmarth, here comes this guy :^). Also, great reading :3
No single artist really -- we've been using Midjourney lately, alongside the usual reworked public domain images, in additional to a handful of artists who we work with when we can afford to: Duncan Kay, Noah Herring, M. Grant Kellermeyer, Vishnu Prasad, amongst others.
@@HorrorBabble haha I knew it! I was messing around with midjourney like 6 months ago and thought it would be an awesome resource for a channel like yours. I’ve got some neat king in yellow images out of it.
I must say some of these are beyond weird. What kind of child would result from the union of Cassandra and the Great Oceanic Slime Blob with One Eye-Tentacle is mind-boggling, for instance. One wonders, also, why monsters always want our women? From King Kong to the Slime Blob. Why not a female gorilla, or jellyfish? Damn we're hot.
I really like settlers wall. It’s not really horror or cosmic entities from outer space. It’s just good plain weird fiction. Almost like an scp article but without all the spooky government stuff.
So cute! "Almost like an SCP article..." Ah, the telling nature of this comparison: brimming with irony, paradox and clearly sincere/well-intentioned but uninformed enthusiasm. Once you've read a substantial additional amount of fiction pre-dating SCP you'll recognize SCP entries as (mostly) a reiteration of a myriad archetypal "weird" works of fiction (which does not detract from the brilliance of the best SCP tales) and a vast majority of it a repeat, pastiche, or reworking of earlier works. Mostly.
This series was put together in celebration of the great Rue Morgue Mag turning 25 this year: www.rue-morgue.com
Happy 25th, Rue Morrgue!
Cool
These reading have been a help with my insomnia when i didnt think id ever sleep again after i lost my wife. Thank you. Truly.
Deepest condolences, brother.
Hope you are getting happy
Good luck 🤝.
Been there brother, sleeping alone is...
You're not alone. ❤️
I always smile at the laundry list of evil tomes. Lovecraft bingo. Nameless Cults… Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred… Cults des Ghoules… BINGO!
And anything Pnakotic!
I feel a modern list of 'tomes' would more likely be a segment on the Southern Poverty Law Center website. Or a UN report. Right out in the open, but no one reads because they're on tiktok instead.
This was literally nail biting. This voice actor is amazing. The stories are bone chilling. I LOVE this.
💯 does someone know who did the narration!?
@@sticks1990 The description says it is narrated by Ian Gordon for horror babble
This is one of those compilations that somehow always seems to end up back in my queue again 😁
Ian Gordon your voice is perfect for this style of storytelling and I have enjoyed listening to your narration very much. Thank you for the content I look forward to more like this!
Thank you!
Ian and Jennifer you are spoiling us. This will get me through the weekend at the arcade. My chance to spread the joy of Horrorbabble to the masses here in Tennessee. 💀
I'm in Nashville, glad to know I'm not isolated.
@@clarkeyeatman853 Down here in Murfreesboro.
Nashville here too! 😊
Also in Nashville. They’ve got a fan club. 😊
arcade? As in, games? That's so cool, i've never been to one!!
Bedtime listen for the next week. I have listen to a few on the day they were uploading but saved a few for this group upload. I cannot say how much I love these longer collections. Thanks to all involved both Ian, Jennifer and everyone else involved, both in front of and behind the microphone.
Love u guys Jennifer and Ian
Horrorbabble
Fantastic. An entire day's worth of Lovecraftian tales. Splendid!
That's really nice
Always been a fan of Lovecraft's work....now I listen to it, and everything from his worlds as I work, and I couldn't be more satisfied.
Thanks Ian and Jennifer you both are simply outstanding thanks for yet another fantastic video I hope you are both keeping well 🙂👍
Sweet this will cover a good portion of my drive from Richmond to Chicago. Thx
Nothing better then to go to sleep listening to one of your collections. You guys are amazin!
Agree
Such a good series coupled with superb narration
Wow these are some great stories! It’s crazy seeing all the ways people took what Lovecraft did and ran with it.
This is quite a nice collection of macabre stories you have put together for us. It is wonderful that they are all together now. Thank you. Have a marvelous day 🥰💖🤗🌟
Was crossing my fingers and hoping that this would be in a British accent. Don’t know why but it just makes it better.
Wonderful voice acting. A big thank you from France
I'm definitely looking forward to this! Thank you so much 😁
The narration of these stories is superb.
I was lurking in the shadows, waiting for this one! 🐙
You are mommy now? Hungry.
@@leosharman8630 Ha! 🤣
Loved this.
Looking forward to Obscure Tales 2!
There's thousands of miles of mysterious walls in New England. They are supposed to be from early settlers but the sheer amount and the remote locations makes this unlikely.
Ay what where tell me more dude
Music of Erich Zan
Thanks for getting me through a night shift. This made the time fly by
I'm slowing making my way through H.P. lovecraft stories so this is a fantastic upload I'll listen tonight. Cheers
H.P. inspired so many authors to create works in the awesome and horrifying world he created. I'm not sure that anyone else has inspired more works from others in their universe.
This voice fits so much that I started to imagine how it'd been if some other read this. Thanks from Nigeria.
The one about the wall should be made into a movie I could definitely see it being vary good if done right
Just finished the first story.
Awesome!
I remember reading his books when I was like 12 and being amazed at the imagination. This should be amazing.
Amazing
perfect for my overnight shift while the client sleeps, thank you so much and phenomenal voice!
All the stories in one! Absolutely perfect.
My Mind is blown. Incredible narrator, but the Words, but like the Knowledge the Characters seek, I can't stop listening, because I want that Knowledge.
Thank you so much for all the exquisite narrations! 😇🙌
This will be a favorite collection
I could have danced all night.....instead I think I will listen to some good stories all night. Thank you.
Very talented sir. Your readings are greatly appreciated.
I really like settlers wall, anything to do with oddball sci-fi paradox stories :)
Phenomenal stories. All of them are really good listens.
I'm a huge fan of the cthulu mythos
Thank you so much. Once again you've smashed it.
I'm truly enjoying your channel. You have a wonderful voice, Ian.
Thanks for listening!
Just wrapping up the Guardian of the Book, and I'm stoked for the rest of this video. I have been doing deep dives into other Weird fiction that isn't Lovecraft for inspiration in Delta Green. I am copying an outline of it for a random scene to slot into my campaigns.
Wonderful stories and narration! Great job!
These are sooooo good. Lesser-known , but excellent!
Thanks!
so nice to hear an older sounding dude reading this and not some young dude who sounds like they are congested from eating too much processed cheese.
I fell asleep TWICE and I had a dream about a deathclaw outside my window.
ah wonderful the collection together
“Not even a dragon’s fire could harm that book…”
Incredible!
6 hours, 9 minutes and 6 seconds well spent.
Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!
And lo; the abyss entered into him also and as each second became as millennia to him, he heard a sound like unto a tiny voice and it sounded like this, "...............Oh bugger I knew I should have taken that first left after Watford."
Aweeeee man that intro... When I hear that 1st note of that intro I get a warm feeling of home.
Thank you so much 😊
Can someone please draw one of the old gods watching the wall “swim” away with a thumbs up?
I love ambiguity; life is ambiguous. I loved the story up to that end. Why can’t we just be like “yeah that wall is crazy.” “What do you think it means?” “Look inward”
Thank you kindly !
Please do “the very old folk” it gets no love
I listen to your channel every night
Thanks for wonderful readings of my fave author
‘Settler’s Wall’ is like a blend of Lovecraft and *House Of Leaves*. Utterly disturbing. There is nothing so much in all of fiction, film, and life itself that unsettles me to nearly the degree as does non-Euclidean geometry in greater than three dimensions.
The Guardian of the Book is surprisingly good. A modern take on the motif of Faustus selling his soul for knowledge.
Wonderful,. Thank you.
The guy from the first story is that rarest of things a guy who comes through a brush with the uncanny not only safe but a bit more sane than he started (anyone who wants to read the Necronomicon is crazy by definition.)
Id read the Necronomicon. The world is fucked anyway due to global warming automation and antibiotic resistant bacteria. Might as well have some fun.
Now this is some great content!!
Ok, these really help my sleep. I don't really dream, due to trauma and insomnia/night terrors. Trained myself to not dream...., but have a few times with these readings lately. Thank you!
Cheers for all the Cthulu Mythos! Been listening to them all at work.
I love how Settlers Wall mentions things within the mythos without calling them by name, so you only get the reference if you're paying attention
I'm trying real hard to listen to the Guardian of the Book tale, I really am, but the second it was established the Old Ones treated this as some game, the entire time the main character was trying to fight reading the book I kept imagining the old ones like some college frat group sitting around a dusty basement with their red solo cups of beer shouting READ READ READ- and groaning in defeat whenever he held back XD
That final tale! 🖤 these were all marvellous- thanks for the compilation!
This is spectacular!!!
Is there a collection of stories read from the wider Dream Cycle? This edition is fantastic because I've been looking for non-core Mythos stories, but I'd also love a compilation of Dreamlands material not written by Lovecraft himself :)
Can you recommend the names of any? They sound cool.
@@exoblivione6086 Check out Brian Lumley. He wrote a few novels that take place in the Dreamlands.
I know Ian has made a complete dream cycle video. But I am unsure if there are any authors in it other than lovecraft. Definitely worth a watch though if you haven’t seen it yet
is there any compiled whole of the dream cicle and various collection made by lovecraft and affiliate?
@@jeffkenamon1806 god no they are awful 😵💫
Love from south Africa
Prayers indeed, for all of us left behind.
Vote Cthulhu 2024.
2:50:05 - President Calvin Coolidge was known as "Silent Cal."
Wow,I really liked it,and the voice is splendor.
That first one, Guardian of the Book was quite scary.
oh boy !! 👽🖤
New sleep aid acquired ty 🙌🏽
I can't help but notice how much the cthulhu mythos and Lovecraft's other works parallel certain aspects of metaphysics and spirituality
Dream like mystical experiences and altered states of consciousness, revealing forbidden knowledge and indescribable encounters with that which lies outside reality... Azathoth the blind idiot God dreaming up the Universe? Strange coincidence 👀
Vote Cthulhu 2024!
If anyone needs an idea for something to doodle, I want to get a Lovecraft sleeve tattoo. The only real idea I have at the moment is having Cthulhu or some other central creature, head on my shoulder with several other monsters lined up down my arm, like a Cartoon Network crossover announcement if that helps at all. Don't have any money to pay for it, but if you're bored and wanna draw, would much appreciate some basic doodles
There’s a neat Easter Egg at 2:20:08 for any Steven King fans!
Aren't all Cthulhu Mythos tales obscure, if not occult? Cheers from the obscurity of death -- Warren!
"Wait what was that; was that a rabbit Warren ?"
@@Eris123451 -- Whatever it was, it would appeal to HPL, as he was always burrowing under the earth! Cheers Wrascally Warren, who yet lives but is currently La Bas!
ONe of the best narrators.
2:28:00 lol a reference to the annoying part of my favorite tale, the Shadow Over Innsmouth
Surprisingly this stuff is better than asmr and I love listening
asmr?"?
It reminds me of gyzq.
Could even be bfnsyxt don't you think
That last story was so predictable from the beginning, brain surgeon gets cucked by big fish cawck.
Once you go fish, you never go back.
Cassandra gets F I S H E D.
The meme potential of the story unveiled by my broken sense of humor ruined any suspense or sense of horror, still I enjoyed it immensely.
*sigh* captain Carteret, not exactly the sharpest tool in the box, eh? Just when I thought ignoring red flags (hurr hurr) doesn't get any worse than Albert N. Wilmarth, here comes this guy :^).
Also, great reading :3
“I don’t think I want to read the Necronomicon, after all.” Sounds like the title of a manga.
Manga is a cosmic abomination of pure drivel
Please upload this to spotify.
Right, can someone help me? I'm confused as to what happened to the wall.
You should read _The Plain of Sound_ by Ramsey Campbell.
We’ve been trying to secure permission to record some RC stories for a while now… You never know!
@@HorrorBabblewon't he go along with it ?
Who does the stellar artwork for Horror Babble?
No single artist really -- we've been using Midjourney lately, alongside the usual reworked public domain images, in additional to a handful of artists who we work with when we can afford to: Duncan Kay, Noah Herring, M. Grant Kellermeyer, Vishnu Prasad, amongst others.
@@HorrorBabble haha I knew it! I was messing around with midjourney like 6 months ago and thought it would be an awesome resource for a channel like yours. I’ve got some neat king in yellow images out of it.
She walked on, DOWN THE HAAALL.
ty
I must say some of these are beyond weird. What kind of child would result from the union of Cassandra and the Great Oceanic Slime Blob with One Eye-Tentacle is mind-boggling, for instance. One wonders, also, why monsters always want our women? From King Kong to the Slime Blob. Why not a female gorilla, or jellyfish? Damn we're hot.
Boris
@@markletts8802 Another mystery solved!
Shea's tale reminds us that not only Warren is dead.
Nice.
I really like settlers wall. It’s not really horror or cosmic entities from outer space. It’s just good plain weird fiction. Almost like an scp article but without all the spooky government stuff.
So cute! "Almost like an SCP article..." Ah, the telling nature of this comparison: brimming with irony, paradox and clearly sincere/well-intentioned but uninformed enthusiasm. Once you've read a substantial additional amount of fiction pre-dating SCP you'll recognize SCP entries as (mostly) a reiteration of a myriad archetypal "weird" works of fiction (which does not detract from the brilliance of the best SCP tales) and a vast majority of it a repeat, pastiche, or reworking of earlier works. Mostly.
SCP???? Soft crap piles? super crab pillows? science came prancing? Some can presume? So completely perpendicular ?
The dude was born to read Lovecraftian horror.
My man
Necronomicon - Mad Arab Abdul Azarhazred. Is available in B&N.
Bookmark 1:56:22