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"The Creeper in the Crypt" by Robert Bloch / A HorrorBabble Production

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  • "The Creeper in the Crypt" is a short story by American writer, Robert Bloch. First appearing in Weird Tales in July 1937, the story tells of an unusual case of kidnapping in witch-haunted Arkham.
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  • @robwalsh9843
    @robwalsh9843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    If I had to guess, the Creeper sounds like one of the monsters from Pickman's Model. Then again, it could be one of the Martense creatures from The Lurking Fear. Both are subterranean carnivores.

  • @BluJean6692
    @BluJean6692 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    “Trees threw their twisted tips to the sky.” Bravo Bloch.

  • @Lorkhanable
    @Lorkhanable 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    robert bloch is the best alternative to lovecraft that I've found so far

  • @rayswoop4947
    @rayswoop4947 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Ian you are the best and have the greatest taste for stories, just these types of classic goth titles get me excited for what ancient thing lurks from beyond, thanks again for your channel, till next time☺

  • @nathankox190
    @nathankox190 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    10 minutes in & I am liking this story . Narration is spot on as always!

  • @markrpatterson9717
    @markrpatterson9717 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I'm considering legally changing my name to Rusty Hinges. 18:52

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Be sure to think it through carefully, Mark!

    • @CountingHouse
      @CountingHouse ปีที่แล้ว

      What about Dusty Chambers ala The Fire of Ashurbanipal?

  • @12201185234
    @12201185234 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I wish that Arkham was a real place. I absolutely love the lore that has been built upon it. I have always imagined wandering into an alternate reality where Arkham *IS* a real place. With Innsmouth right down the road. And the Necronomicon a real book, kept under lock and key a t Miskatonic University...

    • @thisfella
      @thisfella 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      nickyiil what are you even talking about?

    • @timmthompson8248
      @timmthompson8248 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm really kind of glad it doesn't. There was some seriously bad ju-ju going on in that town

    • @Kikilang60
      @Kikilang60 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Arkham was based on real towns. Lovecraft was a bit hyperbolic, but there old towns like this. The one I live in is such one.

    • @graneadear
      @graneadear 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lovecraft :P

    • @graneadear
      @graneadear 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it's based on his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island

  • @Nanosuit37
    @Nanosuit37 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your American accent is impressive. Excellent as always Mr. Gordon and Horror Babble. Thank you.

  • @donaldmccleary9015
    @donaldmccleary9015 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A big man with the neck of a hog - Awesome.
    I listened to your other recording of this in one of the Bloch compilations. I like it a lot. This is a good one! This story can be summed up by a few words or phrases - "Karma" and "clean living" come to mind.
    Great story and narration.

  • @HorrorBabble
    @HorrorBabble  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "The Creeper in the Crypt" is a short story by American writer, Robert Bloch. First appearing in Weird Tales in July 1937, the story tells of an unusual case of kidnapping in witch-haunted Arkham.
    Bandcamp link: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-creeper-in-the-crypt
    Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble
    Music and production by Ian Gordon
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  • @hereticsaint100
    @hereticsaint100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love me some Lovecraft fan fic written by his contemporaries.

  • @johnnicholas1488
    @johnnicholas1488 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Less arcane in language and and in reference than Lovecraft, but in Lovecraft"s Universe, that is to say, the Universe in Lovecraft's mind. Very amusing, I enjoyed it muchly.

  • @sarge4455
    @sarge4455 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The best narrator around

  • @themodestgoddess1645
    @themodestgoddess1645 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow. 😲 Great Story, Y'all!
    👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I appreciate how the ambiguity of the "Creeper" is an additional element of horror. 😬
    This was a Really good and CHILLING Morality tale as well.
    As we say in The South, "If you dig one ditch, you'd better dig two. 'Cause the one you dig for me, just might be for you!"...and BOOOY, did they GET IT in the end! 😬
    As always, Bravo, HorrorBabble!
    😄😄😄👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯🙌🏾

    • @donaldmccleary9015
      @donaldmccleary9015 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Agree... great tale of morality.
      I like your old Southern saying. In PA, we say, "Dig one for you, too, while you're at it."

  • @adamstringham5417
    @adamstringham5417 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ☺ Very good story. Ian Jordan's narration is awesome.

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ian Jordan - I love it.

  • @sissyblackwidowspider7529
    @sissyblackwidowspider7529 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Best thing about HORRORBABBLE, is that stories from the 1800s and 1900s, are told and the older the better🖤🕷❗👍🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🕷❗also 1700s ,1600s n older 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🕷

  • @danbreeden1801
    @danbreeden1801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent episode

  • @Chezbo
    @Chezbo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There are some Banquets without toasts.

  • @Echosinfireify
    @Echosinfireify 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really well read, thanks. It's fun to start exploring the other authors involved in the mythos

  • @MrsCaranAmy
    @MrsCaranAmy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    An awesome tale. Your narration was excellent. I enjoyed this one very much. Thanks again.

  • @johnoliva5153
    @johnoliva5153 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another great story.If you ever get the chance take a trip through Lowell Mass.I'm pretty sure this was lovecraft's model for Arkham.Wonderful reading.

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for the tip John! Ian

  • @jamiecameron7615
    @jamiecameron7615 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderful, this can be tonight's bedtime story!! Perfection as always, thank you very much!!

  • @cobrachicken07
    @cobrachicken07 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was awesome. Loved the story and the gangster horror mashup. Excellent narration as always!

  • @timmthompson8248
    @timmthompson8248 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great reading as always. Thank you, Ian. Bloch wrote Lovecraft as well as Lovecraft....

  • @kristadisgumundsdottir3658
    @kristadisgumundsdottir3658 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    If find this very poetic at times or maybe I'm just a bit queer when it comes to people describing their surroundings in horror stories. :D I understand that fellow not wanting to see a dead body given it can be an unpleasant experience even without it being turned into a pile of bloody gobbets on the floor. Awesome read like always.

    • @carljosephfriedrich8919
      @carljosephfriedrich8919 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Agreed - I totally get what you are saying. Also, kudos to you for using "queer" here. Let's take the word back, and use it for that which it was was intended for!;)

    • @kristadisgumundsdottir3658
      @kristadisgumundsdottir3658 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'll take gay back as well, I really like that is used in a derogatory manner for anything other than heterosexuality, even I been called that even though I am a bi-romantic trans-woman. It is a strange world out there that is having issues the use of language or lack there of, maybe Aldous Huxley was on to something in Brave New World ?

    • @carljosephfriedrich8919
      @carljosephfriedrich8919 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True. I think it's sad that such fun words as "queer" and "gay"(One of which initially had such a positive meaning) became slurs or insults. Just like how "retarded" and words like that (Some of which were diagnoses) became common insults.

  • @Schmuckubus
    @Schmuckubus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Who's been creepin' in my crypt?

    • @miserableoutcast
      @miserableoutcast 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hazel McGuire Sorry I’ll keep it down in here!

    • @ericshipley8488
      @ericshipley8488 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mr.Beast Rebel of the Hellscape 😄

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This guy apparently: vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/elderscrolls/images/0/0a/Creeper.png/revision/latest?cb=20150227143147

    • @Self-replicating_whatnot
      @Self-replicating_whatnot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The crypts are made for creepin, and that's just what they'll do.

  • @NightAngelus
    @NightAngelus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why is it whenever the line of 'yellow teeth being silent until it hits bone' is played when i listen to this my leg gets a sharp twinge of pain threw it.

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    a really good story :}. the bad guy gets his heh heh heh 😜
    thanks - a terrific reading. really enjoyed this one. not too yucky, just spooky enough. :}

  • @richardstrachmesserschmiti4979
    @richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The creeper in the crypt? Sounds like Lord Rothschild counting his sheckles in the basement of his palace

  • @tikkidaddy
    @tikkidaddy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ian--- THAT was terrifying! Take a Can of Tonya Creole Seasoning when you go in dat cellar hahaha!!

  • @violetfemme411
    @violetfemme411 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fantastic reading, as always Ian...love the American accent lol...if only I could master a British accent even half as believable I'd be a happy girl 😊

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ha, it's a work-in-progress - as most things are in life!

  • @Chezbo
    @Chezbo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've been searching for this story for about a month now I listen to it when it first came out and I loved it.
    , but I forgot the name

  • @gerry5134
    @gerry5134 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Enjoyed that very much. 😊

  • @LegendofLaw
    @LegendofLaw 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That lock looks extremely unuseful.

  • @JeffMaziarz
    @JeffMaziarz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know this was a while ago, but great reading.

  • @SteveShivik
    @SteveShivik ปีที่แล้ว

    If the pollack character was a polish person an Italian accent has to be THE WORST way to impersonate them hhahahaha

  • @karehhartig7287
    @karehhartig7287 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In Arkham ⚡😨

  • @RolandWieffering1
    @RolandWieffering1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I do hope you will post more of these a little over the top horror stories. They are great..!! I found a 1948 print of an Arkham House publication by Ballantine Books of August Derleth's Not long for this World. With 22 unknown stories, like :Logoda's Heads, The Gold Box, Those Who Seek, The Second Print, A Collector of Stones, to name but a few. Wonder if they still have copyright...?

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Roland! I've got another BLOCH story lined up for Monday - even *he's* more accessible than Derleth. It's a shame really. I think the best course of action for us in the future would be to attempt to establish some sort of relationship with Arkham House.

    • @RolandWieffering1
      @RolandWieffering1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Great idea, I think it's a shame we can't access the stories ever published in Weird Tales. They published so much writers you hardly hear about today or see in reprints. I have been hoping for years now to come across a Jules de Grandin story by Seabury Quinn. One of the important contributors to Weird Tales. Again, I have no idea about the accessibility of Quinn's stories. But I do have the "Complete Adventures of Jules de Grandin" on PDF. I could send any HorrorBabble enthusiast (who cares to drop me a line) the PDF in a attachment . rowief@tiscali.nl Mention HorrorBabble or Jules de Grandin and I'll send you the PDF. Best of luck and keep those fantastic stories coming.

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks Roland - we'll keep working on it. Plenty of time ahead of us yet!

  • @tomcurran1538
    @tomcurran1538 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ian, it is "Pole-lock."

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's been a while since we recorded this one... which word is that, Tom?

    • @TheLordUrban
      @TheLordUrban 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HorrorBabble You pronounced it like the name Pollock. It this case I believe Righetti was calling the man a pollock (Pole-lock) a derogatory term for people of polish decent.

  • @turtleanton6539
    @turtleanton6539 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    🔥

  • @Tusksplitter7372
    @Tusksplitter7372 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Arkoum just drips of twilight phantasms,,if i spelled it wrong,,sorry,,went to libary to pick up a copy of Mountains of Maddness,,not ONE Lovecraft book,,i was told to go online ffs,,not jk btw

  • @auail5594
    @auail5594 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not sure if subjective or not, but everyone else who sound like Lovecraft also sound like an amateur imitating Lovecraft.

  • @thefisherking78
    @thefisherking78 ปีที่แล้ว

    +1 for the algo

  • @12201185234
    @12201185234 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Your Polish accent needs some work... Not bashing you, it's a *really* hard accent to imitate.

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And I *almost* didn't attempt it... *IF* such a character crops up again in the future, I'll give him some extra attention. :) Ian

    • @jackp271
      @jackp271 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      He’s chinese/polish 😉

  • @markferguson3745
    @markferguson3745 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Arkham,- where all the ugliest racial stereotypes congregate.
    Unfortunately, earlier Victorian writers clearly handed down their classist and racist beliefs.

  • @WhoCares69
    @WhoCares69 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Joe Rigetti was a bit of a criminal …. who ended up as bits of a criminal 😂. You could quite happily walk around Arkham and pop out from dark corners to shout … “ I’m Batman “ 😂. Everyone would just think you were another nutcase from Innsmouth 😂

  • @mim0624
    @mim0624 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A little dark poetic Story. Thanks for that Piece. Good Work.👍