Another masterful reading by Ian of a story I'd never have read or even known about. Can't tell you how much I enjoy these stories and how lucky I feel for having discovered this site.
In 11-12 yrs, Howard wrote more prolifically than most authors do over their lifetimes. If only he had finished all of his works before his death. Incredible for someone who had never left his hometown.
“After an interval, however, we approached the pit again, and found the exhalations less unbearable. Our lanterns disclosed the top of a flight of stone steps, dripping with some detestable ichor of the inner earth, and bordered by moist walls encrusted with nitre….” Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!
This is another great story from REH and one that doesn't lose anything from being retold. Even though I remember it, I'm still looking forward to listening to it later on with my wife.
Ian this is one of my favorite stories!!! So glad there is a horror babble version finally!!! 😊 I've first heard this on the weird tales channel and will forever remember it, one of the coolest! These kind are the best!!
I've done the same w "Out of the Jar" and "City of the Djinn" so I'm glad I'm not alone in endlessly to relistening to stuff😅and now this prob be another one...🎉
A new Robert E. Howard story!! I'm so happy! (PLEASE do some Solomon Kane, if his stories are in Public Domain. They're my favorite REH works. Kane is so endearing.)
Thank you for this! May I suggest to all that this tale would best be enjoyed after one reads Robert E. Howard's fantastic (but lesser known) story: "The Grey God Passes". In that story, REH describes the epic battle of Clontarf--the twilight of the Norse gods.
That was pretty cool; recently I'm reading "Saxon Tales/Saxon Chronicles" by Bernard Cornwell and I happy to hear yet another tale inspired by Viking's invasion of Britain - that real crash of civilizations and battle of the religions - even if this virsion of Odin is... let's just say; unorthodox! 😉 BTW, Vikings never used horn helmets!
You might try Turlough Conmee,s story “The Foggy Dew” on his Dublin Dialect channel covering the same Battle of Clontarf. Though also a tale of the supernatural it covers some more of the history of the battle and the characters involved…..l,ve thoroughly enjoyed an evening doing both the stories.
[I guess there's a sort of spoiler here, warning] Oh, that was a wild ride... this was one of my favorites. I had a good idea where it was going from the early-on Odin reference that's in there somewhere (as opposed to the cairn just covering up some Cthulhu-esque relic that enrages people), but the timeline is mixed up because my narcolepsy had me falling asleep and dreaming wild things so often. (Like after part 2 started, I discovered that I'd fallen asleep within 30 seconds at least 8 times that I remembered and had to repeat it. Oh, man.) Also reminds me of _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,_ Prosser at the start, who whenever he's irritated starts having ancestral flashbacks of an angry Genghis Khan and his Mongol Horde... haha. Now we get to imagine what the 20th century Viking invasion would've looked like.
Abbot Brandon “the bold” Literally licens…. Idk…. I’ve met some sea monsters in my time! Wow! That is cool history. Thanks. Gotta keep seeking that promise land, baby! ❤
Unsure if anyone has said this before, but the "Meve" in the initial quote is pronounced May-iv. It's spelled Maebh in Irish, the "bh" becomes a "v" sound. Always love your stuff btw, just thought I'd mention that.
Thanks! I overlooked the 'Maeve' pronunciation video (th-cam.com/video/PN5OWIelhME/w-d-xo.html) as I wasn't sure it was the same name. There were several tough words to pronounce in this one -- it's always difficult to nail them all.
I dunno...I thought I saw Warren at Walmart last week. And my grandson got one of those "Where's Warrendo?" books...😂 I'm sorry Mr. Gordon. (Under his breath damned Americans!)
Twelve: Always something of a recluse; a secretive and a somewhat unsocial individual from temperament and from habit Carter, who employed no domestics or any other servants, recalled that very few indeed were the people who knew of his current whereabouts. There was no one Carter thought ruefully, no one at all who would soon seek to inquire about him; not until it would be far too late to matter. And then it dawned on Randolph Carter that he would never leave this room alive.
@@sterlingcampbell2116 It's a whimsical tale of Randolph Carter, (H.P. Lovecraft's eponymous hero,) that I've written and that I've been posting here for a few weeks now. It's just a bit of fun and not intended to be taken very seriously and since no one seems to mind I've a carried on with it; it's nearly finished and there are only a few episodes left to go. The, "cats," are The Cats of Ulthor which in a different and much better story written by Lovecraft came to Carter's rescue.
⤵️ Of course, your reading was terrific, Ian :) I wonder how you would play MacBeth in a reading? There are ghosts and witches 🙀 Have a great day to your whole family 🌷🌱
I gotta point out how unlikely it is for some random villager to know the name and approximate date of death for any given woman in the local cemetery. Let alone one from 300 years ago in clan country where there are only like 3 last names and everyone is named after a grandparent or aunt/uncle.
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Hmmm. Very well read, and the initial setting of the story is quite intriguing, however I found the ending a bit... I don't know... forced maybe? The twist was both a bit over the top and a bit too simple at the same time.
That was inspired... I hope I'm not wrong thinking you enjoyed this story more than some others. The energy is spot on in this reading.
Another masterful reading by Ian of a story I'd never have read or even known about. Can't tell you how much I enjoy these stories and how lucky I feel for having discovered this site.
Same feeling. Thank you, Ian. ❤
When you're half asleep and hear someone say your name it sure as hell jolts you awake
I would think so yes
I googled my name once I am the only one
In 11-12 yrs, Howard wrote more prolifically than most authors do over their lifetimes. If only he had finished all of his works before his death. Incredible for someone who had never left his hometown.
“After an interval, however, we approached the pit again, and found the exhalations less unbearable. Our lanterns disclosed the top of a flight of stone steps, dripping with some detestable ichor of the inner earth, and bordered by moist walls encrusted with nitre….”
Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!
Read this back in 1967, while in 7th grade.. Couldn’t get enough of REH.
This is another great story from REH and one that doesn't lose anything from being retold.
Even though I remember it, I'm still looking forward to listening to it later on with my wife.
Ian this is one of my favorite stories!!! So glad there is a horror babble version finally!!! 😊 I've first heard this on the weird tales channel and will forever remember it, one of the coolest! These kind are the best!!
I have listened to this at least 2 times a week since its release. Thank you so much.
I've done the same w "Out of the Jar" and "City of the Djinn" so I'm glad I'm not alone in endlessly to relistening to stuff😅and now this prob be another one...🎉
I keep listening to this over again. HB, you're the best. Legendary.
Oooh lovely, an hour of fine listening for me. ❤ Thank you!
I wish you guys would stop messing with my cairn -- it's keeping me awake! Rock on, the slightly stoned Warren -- a real salt of the earth kinda guy!
Crom's teeth! A fine telling Mr. Gordon! Thank you! Excellent as always Mr. Gordon and Horror Babble.
Howard was a master of savage description
Always have time for a bit of Howard. Not heard this one before and it's great. Thanks for sharing.
Well. That was a marvelous way to spend an hour.
Thank you. 👍👍💯🎣☕
Any story that appeared in Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror is one I’m all in on.
Same here, I've heard the other version and it was great!!!
Is this a really horror-ible one? Love the ghost ones but not really a fan of true horror. Tks
It's more of a ghost story than a horror story.
One of my favorite authors! Always a pleasure to discover more of his work through your wonderful, inimitable voice. Much thanks.
God i want more stories like this!! One of the most captivating!
Many thanks for another excellent video Ian!😎👍🏻
A new Robert E. Howard story!! I'm so happy! (PLEASE do some Solomon Kane, if his stories are in Public Domain. They're my favorite REH works. Kane is so endearing.)
Pretty good story, thank you ❤
Thank you for this! May I suggest to all that this tale would best be enjoyed after one reads Robert E. Howard's fantastic (but lesser known) story: "The Grey God Passes". In that story, REH describes the epic battle of Clontarf--the twilight of the Norse gods.
A wonderful tale expertly crafted and delivered!
Thank you for your efforts!
Perfect! Thanks!
Outstanding work, HB! This is one of my favorite REH tales, made better with your narration.
Babble King has my vote every time.
The ending was like a maelstrom of madness! I was driving and was hanging on for dear life to the steering wheel !
Always great to have a HorrorBabble story to fall asleep to.
Yessssss..one of my fave stories
You had me at REH👍🥰👍
Great story, THANK YOU!
Fantastic as always!
What a story! I listened it three times! Simply fantastic!
Fantastic! One of your very best! ⚔🔥👻
I enjoyed the story, and I've enjoyed it in the past as well, although its even better when its performed by my favorite narrator.
This was a really good story. Very creative use of Norse Mythology in this one
Oh man they didn't have to do Odin that dirty lol! An interesting story told by pros nonetheless.
Cool!
Another R.E.H tale!
Amazing story and wonderful narration as always 👍 Thank you 🙂💕
Awesome story Mr Gordon 😁😁
Always so good.
Greetings from the Isle of the setting sun.
Thank you for a great story.
Two Gun Bob is favorite. The Grey God Passes would be a natural follow up.
A great story masterfully told
Marvelous story!
This was a great listen. Properly chilling story!
its interesting to go from Conan before Odin to this in the Howard universe, and a good read
The opening quote bodes well
This story is excellent. Great job! I love it, especially the ending!
Anything else would be a spoiler, so that is all!
Awesome story❤
Beautiful
Fabulous story :-)
Very good reading.
That was pretty cool; recently I'm reading "Saxon Tales/Saxon Chronicles" by Bernard Cornwell and I happy to hear yet another tale inspired by Viking's invasion of Britain - that real crash of civilizations and battle of the religions - even if this virsion of Odin is... let's just say; unorthodox! 😉 BTW, Vikings never used horn helmets!
You might try Turlough Conmee,s story “The Foggy Dew” on his Dublin Dialect channel covering the same Battle of Clontarf. Though also a tale of the supernatural it covers some more of the history of the battle and the characters involved…..l,ve thoroughly enjoyed an evening doing both the stories.
Awesome 👌
That was BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!❤
That was awesome.
Very good! You always deliver such wonder content! Still, I'm rather fond of Odin. 🐦⬛🐺🐦⬛
The grim one😁
This was a great story
Fabulous
Thank you!
This was great!
THANKS H B LOVE IT ❤
R e Howard I'm definitely in
REH turns Odin into an eldritch abomination?! Sweet!
Lovecraft, "My protagonist sees an alien god and goes insane."
Howard, "My protagonist sees an alien god and kills it!"
😄
I see you around on TH-cam all the time.
It's like you have all of the same interests as I do. You even have the same haircut!
Are we brothers?
@@Tom-sd9jb We'll, have you seen the film, "It Follows"..? 😄😄😄
yo i LOVED this thank u so much for more reh content aaaa
Thanks to Ian et all for this great tale
Hope there will be another 12 days of Christmas story coming up 🤓
Thank you.
Just in time for me to enj0y❤
Enjoy Nancy! -- then stop by for a visit! Cheers Warren, the Barney Rubble of Horror!
Like that one. Thank you very much.
Anything Howard gets an auto like from me!
[I guess there's a sort of spoiler here, warning]
Oh, that was a wild ride... this was one of my favorites. I had a good idea where it was going from the early-on Odin reference that's in there somewhere (as opposed to the cairn just covering up some Cthulhu-esque relic that enrages people), but the timeline is mixed up because my narcolepsy had me falling asleep and dreaming wild things so often. (Like after part 2 started, I discovered that I'd fallen asleep within 30 seconds at least 8 times that I remembered and had to repeat it. Oh, man.)
Also reminds me of _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,_ Prosser at the start, who whenever he's irritated starts having ancestral flashbacks of an angry Genghis Khan and his Mongol Horde... haha. Now we get to imagine what the 20th century Viking invasion would've looked like.
This is what Arthur Machen's tales is lacking, the human element. The emotional investment of the narrator and the reader.
I'm a simple man. I see one of Two-Gun Bob Howard's tales of terror and I click.
Works every time.
You have good taste.
Awesome
I have yet to listen to this, but since it’s a story set in Ireland that was penned by Howard, I assume that Conan O’Brien will make an appearance
I am pushing 40, I just got this. I am slowing down....
Eh don’t feel bad,. I’m still working on it…
Abbot Brandon “the bold” Literally licens…. Idk…. I’ve met some sea monsters in my time! Wow! That is cool history. Thanks. Gotta keep seeking that promise land, baby! ❤
A good version.
Anybody talked to Warren lately? Every time I call, it just goes straight to voicemail.
Fool! Warren is dead!
😂
Keeps saying voice-mail full. I think Warren is ignoring us.
Last I heard, he'd taken up belly dancing with Madame FooFoo in Cornwall.
If anybody talks to him, tell him he better pay me what he owes me, or he's dead!
Unsure if anyone has said this before, but the "Meve" in the initial quote is pronounced May-iv. It's spelled Maebh in Irish, the "bh" becomes a "v" sound. Always love your stuff btw, just thought I'd mention that.
Thanks! I overlooked the 'Maeve' pronunciation video (th-cam.com/video/PN5OWIelhME/w-d-xo.html) as I wasn't sure it was the same name. There were several tough words to pronounce in this one -- it's always difficult to nail them all.
Vikings didn't have horned helms.
I dunno...I thought I saw Warren at Walmart last week. And my grandson got one of those "Where's Warrendo?" books...😂 I'm sorry Mr. Gordon. (Under his breath damned Americans!)
Imagine reviving a God just to vanish him again
The heathens never fell ;)
Even the other, older version is also really good 😊
Shocking!😄
Twelve:
Always something of a recluse; a secretive and a somewhat unsocial individual from temperament and from habit Carter, who employed no domestics or any other servants, recalled that very few indeed were the people who knew of his current whereabouts. There was no one Carter thought ruefully, no one at all who would soon seek to inquire about him; not until it would be far too late to matter.
And then it dawned on Randolph Carter that he would never leave this room alive.
Cats to the rescue
@@AcornElectron
Not this time.
This wasn't in the story what are you talking about?
@@sterlingcampbell2116
It's a whimsical tale of Randolph Carter, (H.P. Lovecraft's eponymous hero,) that I've written and that I've been posting here for a few weeks now.
It's just a bit of fun and not intended to be taken very seriously and since no one seems to mind I've a carried on with it; it's nearly finished and there are only a few episodes left to go.
The, "cats," are The Cats of Ulthor which in a different and much better story written by Lovecraft came to Carter's rescue.
Very peculiar. Imagine this was the reason for the ultimate fall of the Vikings - Odin being trapped under the rocks.
As a Swede, resurrecting Oden really doesn't sound like such a bad prospect. ;)
The modern-day Gauls might wish to borrow him, if you do. ='[.]'=
He'd never have the same clout, being a previously vanquished "God"
⤵️ Of course, your reading was terrific, Ian :) I wonder how you would play MacBeth in a reading? There are ghosts and witches 🙀 Have a great day to your whole family 🌷🌱
Odin lives!
Listening from the ukwales❤
Are there any other books similar to this ones about ancient Ireland
I gotta point out how unlikely it is for some random villager to know the name and approximate date of death for any given woman in the local cemetery. Let alone one from 300 years ago in clan country where there are only like 3 last names and everyone is named after a grandparent or aunt/uncle.
Perhaps the longshoreman had been haunted too.
Nah, you're right, a strange contrivance but I'm happy to overlook it.
Rob Zombie, "Dead Radio"...
Type O Negative, "Christian Woman"/"Summer Breeze"...
Alice in Chains, "Would", "Down in a Hole", "Rooster"...
The Doors, "The End", "People Are Strange", "Riders of ths Storm",
Willie Nelson, "Pancho & Lefty", "Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain", "Whiskey River"
Devo, "Whip It"...
R.E.M., "Shiny Happy People", "Losing My Religion", "Everybody Hurts", "Stand"...
U2, "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "ONE"...
Prince, "When Doves Cry", "Party like it's 1999"...
B52's, "Love Shack"... 😅😂
Warren if you can hear me…
Poor Warren. RIP.
Hmmm. Very well read, and the initial setting of the story is quite intriguing, however I found the ending a bit... I don't know... forced maybe? The twist was both a bit over the top and a bit too simple at the same time.
So that's Stone in prison a ancient God known as odin.