"High Strangeness in the Village of Rillington" by Ian Gordon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2024
- High Strangeness eBook: www.amazon.com/dp/B078XKCYD9
"High Strangeness in the Village of Rillington" comprises twelve connected tales, focusing upon the strange events that transpired in a quiet village in the British Midlands, on a cold Christmas Eve, in the not too distant past.
The collection was first presented as our very first Twelve Days of Christmas series, from December 26th 2017, through to January 6th 2018.
Chapters:
0:00:00 - I: The Wish
0:05:20 - II: Through the Looking Glass
0:10:46 - III: Can I Come In?
0:18:05 - IV: There’s a Stranger at the Door
0:24:40 - V: Breakdown
0:33:33 - VI: Nolly of the Crypt
0:41:52 - VII: A Gift for Mr. Pike
0:47:58 - VIII: In the Shadow of Smith and Courtney
0:54:47 - IX: Turtle Doves Ad Infinitum
1:01:29 - X: A Trip to the Nursery
1:08:41 - XI: Last Orders at the Mount Pleasant Inn
1:17:12 - XII: The Boy in the Yard
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This narrator is so good. He could read recipies for vegan deep dish pizza and i would still listen.
Narrator, AND ....AUTHOR, of this.
He is one and the same. He has narrated works of others, but this is his own brilliant work. 😊✌
That would be true horror.
@@romb4649 I didn't even notice the giant ORIGINAL there in the title lol. *slaps forehead*
@@RealJustinReed I came here to make this joke and you beat me to it. SAD 🤣
You are making this vegan hungry! I agree about his voice! He is an amazing author also! I love vegan pizza, with ketchup and salt and pepper! I’ve been vegan since I was three, and been seeing spirits since that age as well- talk about a weird child!!!
- "Can i come in?"
- "Considering your literally nightmarish appearance? No you can not, thank you very much for asking."
😂😂😂
Exactly 😱🤣🤣🤣
I've seen a girl like that once. It was just a physical abnormality / handicap. Poor girl. : /
Something like a BEK but with elements of a "grey" alien.
When an unknown and unnerving stranger asks you that on a chilly and haunting winter night without any further explanation,the answer is always no.
The part about the old man made me want to cry.
How many people live like that and we don't even notice, or easily get annoyed when someone's too chatty in line at the store, makes me feel terrible.
Ugh. Be nice to people.
Well put
Nicely stated. Im happy when they hold up the line and try I try to keep the conversation going.
@@u-9732 Then you are a good soul Xxx
Very relevant statement.
Blessed Be Xxx 🙏🏼 ❤️ 🍀 🗺️ 🏴
Absolutely when I was younger I was very impatient with people like that. Now I'm not a callow young man it's easy to see the signs of loneliness and I make every effort to make the time to engage with anyone who needs some human contact. Maybe I'm just frightened that it will be me fairly soon
When I first heard, "Can I come in?", it made me think of vampires asking to have a window opened so they can come in. I live in Mt. Pleasant, MI, and believe me, "You" cannot come in...ever! This and The Zetland Hotel both leave me feeling that there are various levels of meaning and that I might get something more each time I listen. Wonderful work on both stories. Enjoy your time off knowing that you have inspired deep thoughts within us.
This is SO PERFECT. I really feel like you just can't find stories written like this anymore......those that could take place anytime and small town anywhere, but somehow still feel like a simpler time, and play on our simple human fears because of that. I love it.
Thank you for listening - we really appreciate it! :) Ian
" next year, he'd order a tree online" 😁 contextually amusing. Almost my favourite quote.
My favorite of these is: "A Gift For Mr. Pike"
The detail put into Mr. Pike's thought-process while opening the box is an exceptionally accurate reflection of the human psyche.
Came here after listening to the latest 12 days of Xmas tale. Thanks again for cracking entertainment 👌
Ooooh, the origins of “Can I come in”, now chillingly heard during this year’s Christmas at the Zetland Hotel - wonderful!
Yeah!
We need more british stories like these. Keep the stories from the uk coming!
Thanks Simon! Be sure to check out The Things That Came from Winter Hill: th-cam.com/video/4KBGDTX98Z8/w-d-xo.html
Half of the time when listening to your stories I assume they are by some famous writer until I realize that you wrote them.
That's kind of you to say, Galahad!
he will be a famous writer! should be one now. kindly recommend this channel to your family and friends. let’s get ian’s name out there. :)
That your narration and writing style is so pitch perfect that people think your originals are from Weird Tales is a huge compliment but doesn’t do you credit. Another great story!
Notum bonum: better than 90% of “Weird Tales” stories
Wow, thank you!
I'm listening to this one again tonight as I fall asleep. The description of the village at the beginning brings me back to my childhood. I grew up in a tiny mountain village of around 1,100 (in Southern California, of all places). Tiny town in a box canyon, with a single road in or out. We had a two quaint general stores (down to one now), one restaurant, a Christian camp (which took about about half of the land within the village), and a real estate office. The oldest building in town wasn't nearly as old as the one described in the story, but was a single-room stone schoolhouse built in the 19th century. Our town was so backwater that we didn't even have a stop light. We had bears on our streets and in our yards every night, coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, etc. It was literal anarchy. The sherriff's deputy patrolled maybe 16 hours a week witiin the town limits and if you called the police, it could take up to an hour for a response. So yeah, when I hear stories like this one, it always brings back memories of growing up in that weird little place. I've got a few ( *true* ) stories that would fit in on this channel. Maybe I should use it as a background for some creepy short stories that I could send to my favorite TH-cam channel. In fact, I think I might do just that. It's been a while since I've produced anything worthwhile creatively.
Above LA?
Hi, I hope this isn't too intrusive, and you don't have to answer if it is! Did you live in Forest Falls? I never lived there, but I would visit there a lot with friends when I lived in Southern California. There are probably other towns with similar traits, but the description of the box canyon, the one road in and out, the Christian camp, the stone schoolhouse, and the bears and mountain lions roaming around at night all fit with my memories of Forest Falls. And I guess it may sound kind of silly, but one of the reasons my friends and I kept going back there was because we always felt it was a weird, uncanny sort of place. We never actually stayed overnight, though. I still sometimes wonder if we would have seen more if we had. (Some of the totally "prosaic" stories I heard there were scary on their own. Like residents being encouraged to lock their doors when they left their houses because of bears opening unlocked doors and rummaging through people's kitchens for food. Or boulders falling into people's backyards when the river flooded.)
@@fluffysaffron5719 Small world, I live in the UK and I know a guy who lives in Forest Falls.
"Swingy under bits", lol, I have them too.
Finally listened and what a strange tale! It'll be awhile before I can shake Jennifer's voice and, "Can I come in?" from my head. Thank you!
You have real talent, Ian (and Jennifer). I was sleeping on this one until now. I truly enjoy your original stories, your narration, and your music. I really wish TH-cam's algorithim would catch onto and boost your channel. You guys should have a million subs by now.
Great story told by the best reader/narrator in the business.
i am automatically clicking "thumbs up", when i hear a story of ian gordon......
Thanks again, Eva! You're too generous. :)
Excellent! Very good! Thank you Mr.Gordon and Horror Babble. Well done. Until next time.
Oh my God I can’t stop laughing at the description of the cat climbing onto the man’s chest, as if she had climbed a mountain! The image of the overweight cat and the man having fallen makes me laugh! I was directed here from the bakers dozen and I love this author who is also the narrator!! Finding this channel has been a true gift! Thank you!💜🌟💜
Right, I got the link from the Zetla d Hotel stories of 2022. I believe I have heard this before, but had to listen again.
@@tomcurran1538 everything is worth a second listen! Leave it a bit longer and then listen again, set a reminder!
Black eyed kids, sasquatch, ripples in the matrix this one has it all
Thanks for checking this one out EG! Ian
....and, a 'Shadow Man' !!! 😁
Can't leave the Shadow man out.
😉✌
This is really well done - these originals have a unique form of scary thats unsettling first before it gets to the causing me to cry in the corner stage,
The guy not having enough gas.to get his tree home was some welcome humor - thats what ya get,
Wonderful, this will save me watching each individual episode again. This was a brilliant series. Thank you.
Excellent story, I was engrossed throughout the entire telling. Thank you.
High Strangeness eBook: www.amazon.com/dp/B078XKCYD9
"High Strangeness in the Village of Rillington" comprises twelve connected tales, focusing upon the strange events that transpired in a quiet village in the British Midlands, on a cold Christmas Eve, in the not too distant past.
The collection was first presented as part of a new, annual tradition: HorrorBabble's Twelve Days of Christmas.
Chapters:
00:10 - I: The Wish
05:20 - II: Through the Looking Glass
10:46 - III: Can I Come In?
18:05 - IV: There’s a Stranger at the Door
24:40 - V: Breakdown
33:33 - VI: Nolly of the Crypt
41:52 - VII: A Gift for Mr. Pike
47:58 - VIII: In the Shadow of Smith and Courtney
54:47 - IX: Turtle Doves Ad Infinitum
1:01:29 - X: A Trip to the Nursery
1:08:41 - XI: Last Orders at the Mount Pleasant Inn
1:17:12 - XII: The Boy in the Yard
Buy on Audible: www.audible.com/pd/B07955CPGS
Written & Narrated by Ian Gordon & Jennifer Gill for HorrorBabble
Music 'Juno Spacecraft' by Glen Alexander:
glenalexander2.bandcamp.com
Support us on Bandcamp or Patreon:
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Hilarious. Love the dryness. Struggling to not laugh out loud as I listen. Hugely entertaining!!! 👍
I wish I had known about this series before jumping prematurely to the Zetland Hotel. Now a lot of incidents make sense and I see threads of connection. I think the narrative about Being 12 of US is part of the Christmas classics past, but quite unsure of the one that is out there somewhere 🤔 Any help from fellow HBs wd be most appreciated🙏
This really is an excellent story. All set in one location, a small cast of characters, bizarre happenings. And snow and Christmas. What more could anyone want? It's just my opinion, but I think your narration is excellent and you don't really need the additional 'voices' doing some of the lines. It sort of pulled me out of the story every time it happened. But thank you so much for putting these stories here. Fantastic site.
Thank you!
This would make a great independent feature length film.
You guys are getting me through quarantine!
@Scout Rifle,
Same here 👍🏼
....and, here!! (Victoria, Down Under)
😊✌🐨
you’re so talented, Mr Gordon! this was sensational!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Incredible, a genuinely scary piece of Christmas horror narrated to perfection!
Excellent narration, and what more excellent is the writing. Thank you for such an amazing story.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing your excellent written work/narration. HorrorBabble is an amazing resource, and this work a most appropriate addition indeed. Btw, (mild spoiler:) apparently Nestor hadn't been keeping up w/pop culture (horror, specifically) or he'd have known immediately not to press that button lol.
I literally listen to your channel every single night 💀
Now that's a weird tale and one very well told ! 👌
I'm impressed by this so much. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I can’t believe this doesn’t have more views
Thanks for driving them up! :)
Wow another great story..So happy to have found your channel…From a British expat living in Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks again, Barbara!
Looking for more of your Christmas stories and stumbled here. Always happy to hear more of your work.
Thank you! Here's a link to the playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLeNNKRLWxwoO7EoSKvwFyIDOk7auTQSed.html
I've been saving this one. I am so glad that I did! Always excellent, thank you.
I listened to Zetland Hotel last year, and just now got to listening to this, so when it starts going "Can I come in?" I was like "Oh shit!" Very spooky and enjoyable :)
Oooohhh!! What a great story!!
Had some difficulties with the internet the past two months. But I see during my hiatus the channel has positively erupted with content! Finally can finish this tale as well.
We've missed you Myles! Hope you've got to the bottom of the problem. Ian
My good lord, I was listening to this before sleeping and when I actually fell asleep, it was the part where the ghost boy appeared, and he appeared in the dream chasing me and other kids. It was terryfying. But it ended with us helping him eat cookies lol. Very good story, though!
Whoa, Gotcha!
Gotcha thanks for the new ending. :}
i needed it.
don’t like this story at all. people do good things,too. why is it always the bad stuff. if you reward people for doing well, it makes them feel good and they’ll be better people. here have a cookie for writing about your wonderful dream. :} 🐾🐈🌻
yup, this happened to me with 'what happened to grandpa' and I had one of those nightmares too, as a seamless continuation of the story.
Bet you if at all they tasted like your own right foot with out the main veil ingredients lmao
Wholeness and balanced vibrations thanks for the upload
I'm so glad I came back and finished this story, I fell asleep the first time because it's good and I finished it because it's great, thank you!
Aaah, the Midlands, the Trent, Derby...this ex-pat from Stoke is feeling homesick! (Do a story based in Stoke, that place is horror enough! :D )
I had to check Wikipedia for Rillington. Is it the same one in Yorkshire and the Humber?
Wonderfully eerie!
Again quite intriguing. Has me curious in speculation on what happened, and how all these strange events have one ultimate connection. Superbly done. Loved it, and very creepy. 👏👏
Glad there are things to go through after the typical playlist is done
Brilliant. Thank you.
Gave me chills...Good job!
Brilliant but Terrible 😱👍🏼
What a start to the day.
Thanks for all the work and entertainment throughout lockdown.
This story is amazing it is like a Junji Ito story I was hooked from start to finish and dreaded everytime I heard "Can I Come In"
31:26 So Rashid used to engage in psychedelics in his college years, then? Love this story.
Outstanding!
🖤Little Nolly.🖤
I love it! T/Y
Horrorbabble!!!
Saddening to the core x
Essential Christmas listening, alongside The Things that came from Winter Hill and Bluebottle.
Thanks Ian, Jenny, and all, for your hard work and weird tales getting me through these weird times.
Happy Christmas and a better 2021
Hoping for another 12 day epic next week! 😁
Thank you, Robin! All the best to you, too!
Still one of my favourites.
Love this. It reminds me of 'The Antipope'.
Nolly of the Crypt is superbly spooky!
Ah, Nolly!
@@HorrorBabble 😁
Late to this one, but how very sad. I also wonder what happened to the girl running from the hairy gent who ended up alone. Excellently told.
Such a wondrous new piece of weird fiction! Thank you for that
Thanks Aaron - I'm thrilled you listened to this! Ian
👏 Brilliant!!!
Thank you for sharing!!
❤ from Melbourne, Australia
😊✌🐨
Thank you! 😊
Very fun indeed!! And unusually well read, even for I. Gordon. Glad the poor bastard managed to get his car started again. Seemed quite an imaginative chap for a salesman. Parallel dimensions and whatnot. (He even expected to hear insects and birds on a late winter's evening! ;)
Love it!!!
Thanks for seeking this one out, Marlene!
I like your inclusion of the Oz Factor/zone of silence in the 'Breakdown' scene, and the Rashid character since I'm Middle Eastern myself. Great story overall, BTW. Another home run!
I walk miles listening 2 you Narrate many wonderful stories. And 4☆the 3rd X 👁WILL re-listen 2 the Vampire collection. 👌🖖👍🕷🕸❗☆walking with U now☆
I also walk with Ian and Jennifer! The miles go by in a rush of magical words. 😊
what would happen if Peter Straub collaborated with the X-Files....in Derbyshire??? THIS! Excellent work
Oh I've been near this place. Was seeing a young woman from Derby ;)
I bring tidings, Mr. Freeman. I bring tidings.
Best!!
They turned the kid into a pine tree, funniest shit I've ever seen
I think of this story around Christmastime. Have you read any Cormac MacCarthy, Ian? Blood Meridian is right up your alley. Its villain, Judge Holden, is the most terrifying figure in American literature, in my opinion. Became my favorite of all time after reading it recently.
Thanks for the tip, Austin.
My daughter knocked on my bedroom door and asked, "can I come in?" I ran away screaming...
Ha!
❤...so creepy I had to listen in instalments!
The Curse of Twig.... Excellent!
Can we do more cosmic horror i know u covered all of loveceafts work but maybe a culthulu mythos book expanded on by a different autbor?
If you have any specific suggestions, feel free to send the details via the website: www.horrorbabble.com/contact
Thanks!
Your E.S.P. is working well !! My dad WAS a butcher, but his name was FRED ! ....,🐄🐷 yup ! Pretty cool ,huh ?? ♥. ( FOR REAL )
Damn, then the old ESP needs some fine tuning! Ha! Ian
Phillip...why do you smell of pine pitch??
Great stuff.
Ha - thanks for taking the time to listen to this Mark! Ian
I really enjoy the way you say 'welcome to horror babble' and was disappointed to not hear it at the start of this video
This was originally released in parts, Connor - which is why we did away with the intro when all 12 parts were compiled. It wouldn't have made sense to be honest.
@@HorrorBabble That's fair and the story more than made up for it, so I still remain a fan either way
HIGH LEVEL.
Are these your stories or other authors?
Ours. This was our first Twelve Days of Christmas special. Kindle version: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078XKCYD9
But the real question is: "Can I come in?"
Ha!
@@HorrorBabble nope
Under behind above in front of I dissapated thier presence from me permenently
This a great srory
I was on edge for the cat.
It's all about the cat.
Well I live near where this is supposed to be, is it a real place I only know Rillington in yorkshire.
It's based on a real place in Derbyshire, Wayne.
Live on the edge of Derby, may have to take a trip. Good work
@@wayneralph4712 Well, the fictional Rillington is just on the edge of Derby. Clue: Overlooking Willington Power Station... ;)
"Nolly of the crypt" has a janitor named Christopher Meloni so all I could picture is the actor by that name who plays Elliot on Law and Order:SVU.
Intentional?
Ha!
👍👍👍
I used to love the Pendragons. (Spelt right? )
I reckon so, Bill: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pendragons
creepily polite the critter
Your voice reminds me of John Houseman
If a strange object from space crashes in your neighborhood, Don't pick at it with a rock hammer and...PSA....DON'T press the damn button😂😂 Stay AWAY from flocks of doves and pigeons.....if a black eyed skinny girl asks to come in making weird promises...DON'T you open that door!
What's gonna happen if I do??...What then smart guy??
ATLAS VOICE...The Answer to that question is PASSWORD PROTECTED!!
@HorrorBabble
I love that response... "Can I come in??"
Ian sounded like "Awww HELL NO, do you think me mad??😂😂😂
i’m american; what is a “punter”?
It's slang for 'customer' basically.
The ending is pretty abrupt. I dunno, this feels like a lot of buildup without much payoff. What about the grey man and the weird mist and all of that?
There's a continuation, here: th-cam.com/video/gLbU65FmELs/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for giving it a listen.
@@HorrorBabble Got it, thanks. I suppose I'll check that out, then.
is this a real village
No, Cerdic. But it is *based* on a real village.
Brownie 🥶🥶🥶
I came here because one of recent the stories sounded familiar
Oml yes, the "can I come in". I'm scared.