"The Shadow from the Steeple" by Robert Bloch / A Cthulhu Mythos Story
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ส.ค. 2024
- "The Shadow from the Steeple" is a short story by American author, Robert Bloch, first published in 1950. It completes a series of tales started by Bloch in 1935 with The Shambler from the Stars, and continued by H. P. Lovecraft in 1936 with The Haunter of the Dark. The story concludes the mystery surrounding the "Shining Trapezohedron".
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:22 - The Shadow from the Steeple
56:04 - Further Listening
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I think HorrorBabble would do an incredible job narrating
“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”
It was available on the channel for a while, but we had to remove it due to the fact that it is still under copyright. It is now only available on Patreon.
@@HorrorBabble Really? I wonder why. Because Harlan Ellison's (estate's) reputation regarding the use of his work is so laid back.... ;)
(I love me some H. Ellison, by the way. Just aware of that reputation.)
H.E. actually does a reading of it himself
Jonathan Pressman I’ve listened to that one, but I liked the thought of HorrorBabble narrating the short story.
Thank you Darling Ian. This is lovely.
This story is fantastically iner-referential, which is one of the really magical things about the whole Cthulhu mythos, and the Lovecraft circle. All these authors, mostly known to each other by correspondence and mutual artistic support, almost crowd-sourcing (friend-sourcing? Colleague-sourcing? Acquaintance-sourcing?) a new type of fiction, straddling fiction and reality. What a wonderful rendition. Thank you very much, Ian!
The Haunter of the Dark is one of my favorite stories glad to hear an excellent addition to it Cheers
Funny, usually it's the villain that fails after waxing overlong on his cunning plan.
If you're gonna shoot - shoot; don't talk!
There's the lesson taught by every fable,- shut up, and shoot, - and for gods sake, - make sure they'll STAY down....
Man, this is more meta than the usual Mythos tale.
“I am Providence” reads Lovecraft’s headstone.
He truly is.
Providence has changed a lot since last I saw it. But there is a lot of history there. It is a nice town for the most part. I wasn't born in the most part unfortunately lol.
A wonderful story every time i listen to it I'm addicted to horror babble and the Cthulhu mythos
A brilliant cooperation of Bloch with HPL! By shedding light on the mystery it became almost palpably real and yet ... more mysterious. Nyarlath... and nuclear energy? A wonderful rendering of this important triplet of stories, thank you.
I love this story! An encounter with the one an only Crawling Chaos!
A terrific sequel to my favorite Lovecraft poem. Thank you for reading it!
This was awesome for a component of Lovecraft's Haunter in the Dark. Awesome reading indeed!!!!!!!
You’re readings make me smile and bring so much joy thank you Ian you are such a talented individual
Thanks, Jack!
An outstanding addition to the Mythos narrated by a truly talented narrator. I tip my hat to you good sir and shall greet you warmly if you should ever visit my native whitechapel.
i really like Robert Bloch -he is always fascinating -thanks much for the whole series of your awesome readings. :} 🐅
been looking forward to this all day - great way to start 2019
Just finished the 22hr lot plus so many others, can’t wait to get stuck into this. Thank you and happy new year
sometimes when i’m doing things ‘round the house, i don’t really listen to the whole story, but your voice keeps me calm and so i listen in a sort of cloud zone of your voice. . .
once again you've taken an already amazing story and added just the right amount of 'seasoning' what I like to call 'the HorrorBabble touch' and ramped up the flavour of the whole experience~thank you for this!!!!
Awesome trilogy! Some forth wall breaking right there too! And of course, great job reading!
Finally! 30 years ago I read the Shambler and the Haunter but for some stupid reason or another I never read this last and third installment. Thank you for finishing what I could not. 👍
What an amazing short story! Fantastic job with the narration, you never disappoint!
Well done.
As usual, awesome narration. What a story!
A continuation of my personal favorite Lovecraft story written by Bloch? Color me giddy. Thank you, sir. You've made my wife's and I's day.
Story has a very similar air to the Call of Cthulhu video game
What an amazing climax!
This is *great!* I love the Cthulhu mythos!
oh hell yeah!!!!! thanks for this unexpected gem Ian! big kudos ur way brova!
As always, a great reading. Thank you
Great, I have been hoping for years to hear this story. Many thanks Ian.
I love this so much I'm back for seconds, The Haunter of the Dark is definitely one of my top 5 Lovecraft stories so this is very exciting!
I need to get started on the Dunwich Horror while it's still happening.
A pleasure as always, Ian. Thanks for reading this classic tale.
Wow, what a treat. Thank you so much!!!
This is an amazing story! I really enjoyed this. I need to investigate more from Robert Bloch
Ah, the familiar stench of weirdness, tickling my cilia, and soon enveloping me in a stifling blanket of overwhelming mental imagery. I have missed you.
I love how Lovecraft is written into the story as a spectator of "The Haunter of The Dark". It makes these stories come to life.
Thanks for the fantastic narrating as always, Ian! When I start making more money I'm going to buy this channel so I can have you read all my favorites LOL
Perhaps it was a true account. He was into weird stuff
…and it’s Robert Bloch & Horrorbabble to kick off my horror audiobook haul for spooky season !,
Couldn’t wait any longer, gettin’ started early ! Here we go!…🤓
85 cents for a cab??? Those were the times...!
WOW, that's just all I can say... I literally got chills before the ending, I was totally enraptured. So great a tale
I'm loving it.
AWESOME !! :-)
A truly horrific (reading similar tales) year to all! errr nice kitty...
Listening during a thunder storm 😁
Excellent choice of story - thankyou!
Another quote dark and stormy night here in georgian bay ... Liking the mythos and authors ...this...new. . let the games begin
BRILL! Thanx, Ian!
Thanks again for a great start to my New Year... All will be ok in 2019 as long as HorrorBabble keeps reading amazing stories to me!!
This is an awesome tie in
That was simply amazing, Both story, and reading. That ending, my god!
Mr Gordon your voice is more then fantastic for the wonderful storys you read .. your my horror Hero and the best Artist Narrator on the net ❗👍👍🕷🕸❤
Oh my gosh. That's one of the best tales . It was so exciting and your narration was marvelously superb. Are there more like this one, Ian? Thank you.
Hi Amy, this one is the final part of a 'trilogy', beginning with Bloch's The Shambler from the Stars, followed by Lovecraft's The Haunter of the Dark. Here are the links to listen to the other two parts in order:
Shambler: th-cam.com/video/0Q6xA0f9SNk/w-d-xo.html
Haunter: th-cam.com/video/sqI3Bs1gK0U/w-d-xo.html
I think you've listened to them before, but perhaps listening in the order above, might add fresh perspective.
Here, however, is another tale that I feel you might enjoy:
Satampra Zeiros: th-cam.com/video/Ob4YH86NJlE/w-d-xo.html
Thanks again, Amy! Ian
@@HorrorBabble Oh. Thank you Ian. I didn't have links to some of these others. It's off to sleep for awhile and I will listen to them later. You see you did help me after all.
Bloody brilliant!
Great reading Ian, as always :) - Have to say though that personally im not 100% on board with the direction Block takes with this sequel; conflating the haunter with Nyarlethotep frankly irritates me :) i find it to convenient, that it reduces the breadth and scope of the Mythos in an unnecessary way, and even worse it seeks to bring a degree of logic and consistency that HPL always IMHO sought to avoid, by which i mean he largely left things vague by design, with many questions unanswered - here is where much of the fascination with Lovecrafts work abides - in the fact that its left to the reader to pontificate, and to imagine what lies beyond whats on the page... for me i choose to see the haunter as separate and unique, an inexplicable entity.... but i guess Block is more qualified than I to have his say - lol - anyway great reading! :)
Awesome as always, happy New year for you too.
Listening from the uk wales 2022❤️
Perfect timing. No sleep.
2022 and the Cthullu sagas continue !!
Oh hell yes!!! Warm puddle of happiness!
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@@Take.mewithyou All day I've been interrupted trying to listen, finally I finished and it was worth it! Thank you!
Hell yeah! Literally... the 666th view. Keep up the great narration Ian! ... 666th... wait. What was that? Nvm, just my neighbors downstairs doing Fleetwood Mac songs. Truly haunting.
Ha!
Happy new year to you as well. Let us hope 2019 is an extraordinary year.
Wow 👌
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Thanks dood.
That ending was great.
Thank you... 85 cents for cab! Wow!
This gave me the atomic jitters
Wonderful work.i sleep to these stories and Ian's narration every night. May i recommend The Crawling Sky by Joe R. Lansdale?
THAT ENDING!
Well done @ Circa 11:04 You managed to say "the shadow shrouded structure" without tripping over your tongue. It's a bit of a tricky one.
Fantastic finish to a fantastic story arc. I'a Nyarlathotep
wow, i did not know that this is some sort of Trilogie. The Haunter of the Dark i knew but "The Shambler from the Stars" only as enemy in "Darkest Dungeon". Seems like i have some hearing to do. Thanks !
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I think I'm going to start a church called "Starry Wisdom."
Mr. Pitch shambles out of The Dark, yet again.
Bloch, that's surprisingly autobiographical
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Super like Robert Block 🌊🦑🐙also love the black panther ❤️💀
They should make a movie of this in the style of Oppenheimer.
A+ for not pronouncing the S in illinois!
Von Davah, Fantastico, Funtastic, mabuti!
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The Cthulhu myrhos is the greatest creation in horror
Can you please read from the book The Shuttered Room by HP Lovecraft & August Dereleth
Derleth's works are largely under copyright - but if you find any that are in the public domain, be sure to send us a request here: www.horrorbabble.com/contact
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Thank you for letting me know, I was unaware. I love his colab work with Lovecraft their work blends seamlessly together. Cheers
This one had me shook as fuck
Lovecraft: Kills Bloch.
Bloch: Kills Lovecraft.
both became canonical Mythos characters.
The Shambler From the Stars by Robert Bloch 1935
The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft 1936
The Shadow from the Steeple by Robert Bloch 1950... is there a fourth addition to this series? Please do respond.
Have you done a version of or would you consider doing a reading or audio drama of Robert Bloch's "Enoch" ?
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Thank you! Ian
sorry, i liked the story, but then it becomes very funny - like just too much. . . : )
beautiful photo of the black “panther” though. i really enjoyed this over-the-top story 🙀
The Older Ones, the Outer Ones, don't need Dunwich half-breeds, brooding Cthulhus or deathless fish-monsters to destroy mankind. They just need to tell us about nuclear bombs. We do the rest. I bet they saw that that wasn't quite enough, and now are finally finishing off all life on earth with global warming. Well played!
Hello kitty, kitty😂😂😂😍😍...Well, look at things now...we edge closer and closer it seems to a time when. an avatar of Nyarlethotep may clasp its clawed hand about this planet...chilling...
Well done Ian....
Edit...Oh Joy...Can somebody see 2020 to the door....??
Whenever I have to fill out forms that ask I always put Starry Wisdom or Discordianism as my religion, they don't like that, lol.
Of course they don't. Their pitiful minds shatter like glass when confronted with the charnel, eldritch truth of the vast fathoms of cyclopean cosmic horror that is life for us initiated.
@@frankmcgovern5445 True, it's fun watching them spin out trying to understand anything other than "Satan".
Or Thelema eh babalon777? 😉
@@nadiaminerva Yes, apologies for not seeing your reply until now on my old phone number account. You got me, hope you're all good now during this awful pandemic and 93!
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It was alright.
30:52 That's not an English pronunciation of verbatim, is it? Is it?!? I am an American I have never heard an English person pronounce verbatim like that. Is it an English thing? It can't be. I've been listening to English people talk all my life and I've never heard it pronounced that way. There's no way that's right. My sense of reality is faltering. Please send help.
Ha! You're not going mad -- I would typically say verBAYtim. Sometimes, the voice I put on for HB results in these unusual pronunciations. This one evidently slipped by us during editing. Ian
@@HorrorBabble Sanity restored by the man himself, thank you!
Of the stories in Bloch’s Cthulhu Mythos “trilogy”, this has to be the weakest.
Overlong and derivative-and I know he’s still writing (very willingly) here in Lovecraft’s shadow, but it really does just read like a parody of Lovecraft, even if he does include some crime/mystery elements in which he would later find great success.
Don’t get me wrong: I like Bloch, and I’d like much more Bloch, but this just doesn’t work for me.
It isn't my favourite either, niriop, but I'm something of a completionist, and so I feel it was worth recording. :) Ian
HorrorBabble Oh yes I’m glad you did, and I’m still glad I’ve listened because I did want to “complete” the trilogy myself.