"The Salem Horror" / A Cthulhu Mythos Story by Henry Kuttner
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- "The Salem Horror" is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by American author, Henry Kuttner. The tale first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in May 1937, and tells of an author who rents a quiet house in Salem in order to finish his latest novel-a house that once belonged to a witch-a witch whose presence has far from faded.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:56 - The Salem Horror
42:41 - Further Listening
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Pretty sweet of the eldritch goo monster to take his devoted fangirl with him.
I love how these guys are always staying at some strange house to finish writing some novel. Kinda like in "The Shining"
Yeah this stuff just doesn't come up to the level of Lovecraft and Ashton Smith but it's still a fun hoot
Lol, I guess Stephen King wasn’t THAT original after all😅
You mean the shinning?
True enough
@@SaraBarcenas-uc7nw I have found direct forerunners for many of King's works in old TV shows (60s Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, The Night Gallery, etc.)
The rats in the wall meet the dreams in the witch house
With a little bit of The Mountains of Madness since the thing under the Witch Room reminds me of a shoggoth
Yes, what a creepy story that was.
Just don't name the cat...
The Dreams in the Witch's House is one of my favorite.
And this one is like sequel. Great!
Amazing reading.
I thought I heard this before! I remember that one now,good work
I remember seeing the MOH episode of that story and was reminded of that one while listening to this story.
I appreciate the quality entertainment that you provide. Thank you!
Thank you, Roland!
“It looked exactly like a mummy!” Made my blood run cold😃 Bravo! Excellent production...
This is everything I could have wished for from these brilliant folk, Absolute perfection blended with talent and sultry voices PLUS SOUND EFFECTS? I’m in awe and joy 💜
I've read this story,
many years ago.
"Tales from the Cthulhu Mythos."
Volumes 1 & 2.
Published in the 70"s.
Classic literature.
Many thanks for the
oral presentation. 🤘
Henry Kuttner is my great great uncle. I am so glad to have stumbled upon this.
Fascinating! Thanks for stopping by!
Another great narration of a fabulous author I've never heard of, reading this guy's Wikipedia page is a book list in and of itself!
Thanks for everything you do, keep up the great work!
Cheers mate!
Henry Kuttner and his wife Catherine Moore wrote several novels. Two of his best are "The Portal in the Picture" and "Dark World". He also wrote a very famous short story that you never heard of, "Mimsy Were the Borogoves", the inspiration for the very bad movie, "The Last Mimsy."
Love a good Lovecraft Mythos story. Guessing this is related to Dreams in the Witch House. I can imagine our darling Brown Jenkin scampering about in the walls. haha!
I am hooked ! found your Lovecraft uploads and subbed fast. Thank you for all the hard work!
The Dreams in the Witch House 2.0 😉
My thoughts exactly.
Excellent as always. Thank you Mr. Gordon and Horror Babble.
Terrific work!
one of my favorite tales, pity Kuttner never reused the characters again in other tales.
It was a real treat to hear this classic. I love that you read the other Cthulu tales not written by Lovecraft.
Loved it thank you so much. I really like the magic stores any kind of wizardry so good.
Great choice, thanks for the upload. I've been waiting quite a while for this one....!
Brilliant story so well narrated as usual. Very good indeed. Thank you so much,
Back in 1988, I was at University of Delaware (🤮) but loved the Days of Knights game shop.
I bought the then new 4th edition (black book) of Chaosium Call of Cthulhu rpg. Great game!
For several years, I entertained friends with their slow and nerve-racking exploration of the mythos. Good times.
Last year, I bought a copy of the reproduction 2nd edition box set.
Haven't even opened it yet.
Maybe I never will...
Ian Gordon brings Henry Kuttner out of the literary shadows.
Thanks to your readings I convinced my class as school to allow my senior class to read “the mound”. Thanks for all the amazing readings to listen to over and over. Keep up the great work and we’ll wait with baited breath for your next video!
Great story! The occultist’s spell was epic!
That was REALLY GOOD!
😄👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯😬🙌🏾🤩
YES YES YES ANOTHER CTHULU MYTHOS!!!
I would live to have a place to set up a temple designed from scratch with all of the correct physics and correspondences.
I love this story!
"In the name of God!"
"Incantations and elixirs!"
"Fiddlesticks!"
Older forms of speaking sound awesome when you narrate, Ian. It is like taking a step back in time, with a neat Pennsylvanian Rye and lit pipe, by the family hearth with a lit fire.
Amazing!! Nothing like a Cthulhu mythos tale I've never heard before! Thank you very much!!
I appreciate all your hard work good sir, another good tale.
Most excellent tale and well told I am thankful for horror babble
Ian, I just wanted to say: "Bravo." I love the story. Some stories just get me, thank you!
Love it! Thank you for all you do!
Thanks for sharing this.
"ʏᴏᴜ ꜰᴏᴏʟ! ᴡᴀʀʀᴇɴ ɪꜱ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ"
I'm just getting into the HorrorBabble channel and oh my God it's good. Keep up the great work
Fantastic!
One of my favourite Lovecraftian stories.
One of my favorites
Excellent
Thanks for posting Weird Tales!
This is great. Please keep the Cthulhu Mythos stories coming. I listen to this at work and it seems that very few of them are in audio form outside of Lovecraft's own works.
As a fan of Lovecraft and Cthulhu I am really enjoying Horror babble keep it up. 🐙
Thank you, Dave!
Thanks for the upload sir.👍🏼👍🏼
"Ya na kadishtu nil gh'ri... stell'bsna kn'aa Nyogtha... k'yarnak phlegethor..." It fair trips off the tongue.
Thanks for the awesome story Mr. Horrorbabble on more time congratulations on the subs.
I still recommend your storytelling to my friends who love classic horror stories.
And thank you for the awesomess of your channel 😊
Hugs and love from Helene Andresen aka Ladyha 🤗
Fantastic entertainment. Thank you.
Perfect timing on the upload, was just about to pick a story to listen too, and saw this one was uploaded less then a hour ago.
And its cthulhu mythos story too!
Love it.
That was cheerful. Thanks 😀
You gotta know that I dig it the most man! Great work as always.
It takes a special kinda person to subscribe to Horrorbabble - and now there are more than 50k in this special clan: Congratulations! xxx
I haven't subscribed, does that mean I'll die
One of the better stories, as always narrated perfectly 👍
very enjoyable tale and superbly narrated.
Great listen!
Well well done Ian! I hadn't heard this!
flashlights are sure protection against eldritch horrors!
That was a great one thank you
If it was me I'd have been like, cool! This place comes with a free rat!
Wonderful narration.
That's was brilliantly done.. good on ya
Great production!
Amazing storytelling skill and talent.
I really enjoyed this presentation. Very well written story, had all those anxiety, curiosity, anticipation inducing passages. 🤷🏼BRAVO🎉
I feel the narrator had wonderful pace it seemed to capture the tale and the varied characters spot on! 🤵📃🐀🗝🕯✴🕵🏼 ☠⛤🕂🕁🕀
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This was my first listen and I'm subbed. Thank you for entertaining me.
Thanks for stopping by and subscribing, Stephanie! Ian
Mmmm of Cthulhu myth is was food I could live off it forever. Perhaps one day I could hand over my story script for narration
I would only ever wish for Ian Gordon to narrate it
Keep an eye out for future submission periods: www.horrorbabble.com :)
Wonderful story and narration
Babble on
Super fun one!
I love this one.
Very good story, I enjoyed it immensely as I always like history or fiction about witches and witch trials thanks for some decent entertainment.
Ah Salem ! If only it wasn't such a non-eldritch dump of a mill town. It's got a certain unique ugliness only us Yankees can pull off. Still there are blocks which are more dark than depressing and I would never want to discourage from visiting. And it's unquestionably nicer than Lowell. Another wonderful story told by the master of HorrorBabble. Bravo !
That was excellent
🖤👍🏼 love the story
I worked with two brothers who were from Salem, MA. I found it intriguing.
Love your channel
Oh man this one scared the
sh#t out of me👾
Had to stop at 4:10, Just too spooky for me. A door that becomes a jar?!
:^)
Awesome reading, and congrats on your 50k!!!
You should start making your own short story contributions to the Cthulhu mythos, you’re probably something of an expert on the subject at this point lol
Thank you! And watch this space...!
I always imagined our narrator as a taller more distinguished version of Mr Burns from the Simpsons. The type of man who owns a secluded tiny bookshop in London that sells books of arcane lore and makes casual browsers uncomfortable. But for the rare and sincere student of darkness a long humorless grin distinguished by yellowing teeth will emerge and he'll tell the pilgrim a tale that will cause them to wet their pants. Instead he's a young bearded and friendly looking fellow who doesn't suffer from a hint of old Victorian decrepitude. Basically his voice sounds like how I'd imagine that of MR James. I never had any gift for matching voices to faces.
Occasional glances in the mirror reveal such a character... But fortunately, the visions soon pass. Cheers TD!
I know this bookshop. on museum street, the oldest occult shop in the world
Does it have a cadaverous unwelcoming proprietor with a few thin strands of gray hair combed over his overly large head, deeply sunken black eyes, and a magnificent and resonant voice like our Horror Babble host ? If not it should !
Teddy Dog Do “books of arcane lore” actually exist 😀🤗 ?
I think Peter Cushing has set the stereotype of a keeper of dingy secluded bookshops in the back streets of London that sell dusty tomes of arcane and occult lore, bound in folio and printed in Latin, Greek and Hebrew at Leiden in the 17th century.
Mark Elsdon Is its interior larger than its exterior, and does it have windows that show the dead of night when the door from the street is bathed in sunlight ?
Someone wrote that this is like a sequel to Dreams in the Witch House which I have never read so, I think I will listen to that first, if you have it here. I am really enjoying these authors that I haven't read before, thanks to You!
" The Dreams In The Witch House", is a classic Lovecraft story! 😮
Besides this awesome reading of the Salem Horror there exists one other reading of this story I can really suggest to you, lovers of the Lovecraftian Cthulhu Mythos..
It is by Edward E. French, who has his own channel where he reads his pick of great stories. Just search for Edward E. French's channel and the Salem Horror. He is the only other reader who is very good as well.
I hope you like his version too.
Have fun hearing the same story by another great reader of the macabre.
Dreams in the Rat House.
The Witch in the Walls.
SUPER ! :-)
Ian, are you doing both Carson and Leigh? You sound perfectly American as Michael Leigh of San Francisco!
Deliciously wicked
More mythos : D
Scary-as-shit cool!!!🖤☻☠💀👻⚰🦇🕷🕸
Nothing better than an "evil-smelling tunnel" to start the day, 😀🤪!!
That's no way to talk about her...
This is good stuff Thanks Much!!
Lee would have been a great “Van Melsen” character, Carson could have been his Norman Cane.
Where is the Classic 'THE GRAVEYARD RATS' ?
30:00 deep sigh.
I shared the Horrorbabble link to Cthulhu Facebook page. Now their sharing Horrorbabble links... Get In!! 😁🐙
Thanks David!
Fiddlesticks!
whats the phrase for,,lets say,,orson wells,,,War of the Worlds> presentation?
How about some August Derleth stories?
His works aren't in the public domain, Reni.
Came here for a Naacal incantation intoned in a broad New England accent
Magic is creepy
And as usual, the superstitious old (whatever group) pesants are absolutely right!