The Nameless City by H.P. Lovecraft (Audiobook)
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"To convey any idea of these monstrosities is impossible"
Proceeds to describe them
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If you think about it, it's funny that people criticize Lovecraft (among other things, that actually deserve criticism) for calling everything "indescribable" and "being too lazy to describe something", when in his best stories he indeed tries to describe the monstrosities. The fact that he starts by calling something "indescribable" and still tries, just shows how hollow the effort of describing the monster is imo.
@Cody Ingram That's the thing - I heard both "arguments", sometimes from the same person. "He uses too much adjectives, he uses whole pages to describe one little thing." And yet people *also* say, "he's being lazy by calling everything "indescribable"." Shows how much they actually read his stories.
@Cody Ingram I actually have read the story you mentioned, but it's been a while since then. My mind jumps to the message of the story whenever I hear these arguments and I agree that it was very likely his excessive use of adjectives was intentionally. (what good is an author that doesn't use certain words on purpose?)
I should read it again, this time in english. (I'm not a native speaker) I'm interested if his stories maybe were "dumbed down" when they were translated into my native language because I never really had much trouble understanding the words he used. (most of the time at least)
lovecraft in a nutshell
lovecraft: they were real scary
why?
lovecraft: they were ugly AND they dressed good
they dressed up real snazzy today
Never trust a snazzy dresser.
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For me, one of the best moments is when he comes across the city and just... stands there.
Staring.
For hours.
The slow realization that the strange creatures aren’t the representations of ancient gods but the actual denizens is such a incredible moment of cosmic horror
Or, with a different presentation, the start to a fun Sci-Fi adventure. Which is fairly common with Lovecraft's stuff. Happens when a good author is also really, really, really racist.
EDIT: Actually, I suppose it's not entirely fair. A big part of it is that some of the big cornerstones of Cosmic Horror are things that some outlooks won't find scary- for people like Carl Sagan, there is no horror in finding out that humanity is insignificant, because the ego of humanity is replaced with the wonder of the universe, what Transcendentalists called 'The Sublime.' In stories like this, however, the horror may be hinged on the fear of all that space and time, the intellectual equivalent of the gut feeling when you look at the stars and almost think you'll fall up into them.
Perhaps, that's part of the enduring appeal- the things Cosmic Horror deals with are things that are at once frightening, yet also fascinating. We want to know more about the terrors because they are constructed from the ideas we are most curious about. Because while fear of the unknown is the most primal, humanity is also defined by the quest to discover it.
@Johnathan Monsen I am very surprised to hear someone else talk about "falling up, into the stars." I thought I was alone in that.
Good to know I'm not:)
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@@johnathanmonsen6567 lol ... "he rayciss" is the best you can do? its such a banal accusation in the west, where by default everyone is "rayciss" lol.
@@rickdeckard1075 ...No? I wasn't trying my best to insult him, I was simply acknowledging a problem that does exist. I myself am a fan of his works, but I won't ignore his flaws.
I especially loved when Lovecraft uses an extremely skeptical and logical protagonist and completely changes their mindset of reality. Even the most scientific man goes insane by the incomprehensible
No in real life we accept what we don't know and move on
Over the body of his work, I'm also impressed with how Randolph Carter develops. In "The Statement of Randolph Carter" he's considered by the somewhat more knowledgeable Harley Warren to be reliable enough to stay on the surface and receive reports, but definitely not able to come down into the crypt. By "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" Carter has become as skilled and ruthless as any villain in the stories.
@Ярослав Л lmfao
@@jmarch_503 not everyone does. How do you think we know what we know
@@Primus-kz3ri epistemology
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I was just on another one of his videos and I seen you said the same thing on that video. So I looked at more of his videos and you say the same thing on all of his videos
The SCP where you end up in an endless desert with an unrecognizable and unrememberable entity pursuing you is directly inspired by this story. The Prey reboot draws a bit of inspiration from it as well, despite being a game set in space.
The scp's called "forget me not" I believe
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"And then I, of course, was eaten."
I have noticed that, as awesome as they are, Lovecrafts stories do tend to end somewhat abruptly.
Was listening to this in bed with my eyes closed, fully immersed.
A soothing voice telling a twisted tale, painting pictures in my mind, that was racing as it perfectly detailed every written word from paper to a hand painted effigy of indescribable madness. When suddenly, after wandering for a few minutes, a grotesque voice called to me from the depths of my awareness and brought with it a booming bass in the sounds it muttered, shakeing my mind to the very core and leaving my body in a state of cold sweat, unnerving and demanding, as i could only recognize it as something that i have known for my whole life, yet unfamilliar in a sense of trying to escape it's cold dark clutches that would haunt my present state of being forever. While it slowly swallows, into the darkness, all the beloved memories i made trough the years and held so dear to my heart.
The voice grew louder, waking me from my slumbering state with the one final incantation;
"DISNEY PLUS!"
You win the creative writing contest.
*Cuts a line of anti-amnestic and snorts it before leaning back*
"Take me back to wonderland Dr.Bright..."
Why Dr. Bright? Isn't he *not* supposed to bring people to "Wonderland"?
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Best comment. Lol
Does anyone else find it strange that so many of Lovecraft's stories involve intrepid explorers and travellers, despite the fact that he was stubbornly tied to the North-Eastern US and never had any curiosity to see the world
The man was actually a xenophobic asshole, and his psychological condition kept him very introverted and antisocial. Perhaps his writings stem from a deep regret for the life he lived.
For such an ignorant man, he imposed his own suffering. His dreams haunted him and he truly deserved it.
@@MrRaisinBran But thats the thing, is his writing like thid because he regrets not seeing the world, or are the "horrible eldritch monsters" just fanfictions he wrote about all the people and places he didnt like based on his own personal xenohpobic bias?
@@MrRaisinBran His xenophobia was definitely reflected in his works, but at the same time he shows such a curiosity for the dark mysteries of the world. It seems like he warns against curiosity and experiencing other cultures, yet it's that same curiosity that made him write. I think you might be right, he likely did regret his lifestyle choices and may have wished to be better. I remember reading that he was apparently maturing with his views by the end of his life, and had he lived longer maybe his extreme racism might lessened with age, though that's likely giving him a bit too much credit.
Well, like in the story, curiosity and fear fight for dominance in the mind. Curiosity wins out for his characters while fear conquered the author himself. He had many aspirations as a boy but his own anxiety and lack of self worth had him give up on much of it. Even as a writer he heavily undervalued his work contributing to his poverty and obscurity. It makes sense that a man who even as a young child was considered monsterous and sickly by his own mother and cloistered away in his grandfather's library, would have such a terrible fear of the outside while also being drawn to it through the stories he read.
Of course, fear and hate are so often entwined. Much of what we hate in others is really what hate in ourselves. Our shadow. The overarching trait in much of his prejudice is about corruption and degeneracy. For Lovecraft, there are high cultures which are honorable (England, Rome, Egypt etc) and then you have the savage cultures (african Americans, native Americans, Eurasian immigrants). I believe this fear of degeneration comes from his own life. His father contracted syphilis and died in an asylum when he was but a boy. His family's money was lost after his grandfather died. His mothergoes mad and dies in the same asylum as his father. And again, his mother always described him as a little monster. His very body was made degenerate by his mother's words. No wonder so many of his protagonists go insane or find some horrific truth about their ancestory. Hell, when the man found out he was part Welsh he was distraught. I think he had an ever present fear of ruin and entropy.
@@salomaogomes7311 The horrors he describes are more about the unknowns of the world rather than some manifestation of his xenophobia. The Call of Cthullu is a good example of this. When he was writing, science was just starting to really come into public eye. He basically says that science is gaining so much info in all different subjects that seem to be intertwined and that we will either go mad from learning the truths of the universe or want to go back to a dark age out of fear of what we learn. Also, later in life, he said he expressed regret for his racist/xenophopic ideas.
An ancient city ruled by horned alligator-like monsters. Imagine if Indiana Jones or Lara Croft were to ever stumble upon this city.
The next H.P. Lovecraft story I like to hear: “At The Mountains of Madness”.
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Honestly, that's the kind of direction I want to see in a game like Tomb Raider or Uncharted. Have it start out like an Uncharted/Tomb Raider game, only for things to get particularly eldritch as the explorer descends further and further into the forbidden city, at which point both the narrative and the mechanics lean closer to Amnesia or Penumbra. The adventurer could still kinda defend themselves, but the resources have gotten so scarce that they start relying on stealth to avoid costly clashes with the unspeakable inhabitants of these places, and where attempts at stealth fail during moments of overconfidence, they start relying on improvised weaponry rather than wasting precious bullets.
And that would only be the first of the ruined abysses. For in the adventurer's descent, they would find no way back to the world above, but at the very bottom of that first abyss, they would find an unnatural aperture of massive gnarled roots, with a rippling curtain of light within. With no way back, and the only way out being through, the adventurer would, through the player's own intrigue, step through the gateway to another world, and behold the shattered husk of a cyclopean star-scraping redwood.
What mad miracle is this? This incalculably massive tree. Its carcass towers beyond the sight of mortal eyes, neither top nor bottom visible in the void. ...yet sundered as it is, its roots still burrow into the Worlds Beyond. And now, with nothing left to lose, the adventurer sets forth to explore whatever worlds they can reach, in the vain hopes of finding a way home. Or, failing that, a world that would accept them as they are.
@@GmodPlusWoW A Tomb Raider game can do this, I admit, what with their alternate continuities.
However, the Uncharted games are better off left alone now. We don't want a fifth game ruining the otherwise "perfect" series.
Sydney Fox and Rick McConnell would need to come along.
@@GmodPlusWoW first Tomb Raider was very fantastical and esoteric from what I remember. You had all manners of creatures and undead attacking you in the later game.
Love this story! I've read it a couple of times, but it's much more palatable listening to you read it. The first read through I didn't understand a thing I'd read, having been one of my first Lovecraft stories.
I thought it was just me. His writing style is so bloated with tangents detailing every single little thing I can’t follow what’s actually going on at all. It just sounds like gibberish.
@@snorgonofborkkad it's definitely a writing style you have to get used to. The story can get lost in the details. I guess when you're describing undescribable horrors, it takes a lot more... description.
Lovecraft was definitely known for this style. It's something of an homage to an old British formal style of writing (Lord Dunsany), that's more like reporting/documenting and less like speaking.
@@KharBrons he was quite the anglophile which I'll never understand.
@@snorgonofborkkad beyond your abilities methinks.
I thinks it’s criminal how some of Lovecraft’s most beautifully detailed stories haven’t been adapted into movies or mini series.
"The Nameless City" is one of my favourite Lovecraft stories, probably only rivaled by "The Music of Erich Zann".
There's something about the methodical and scientific way the character combines things he find and just.... thinks, that really speaks to me.
@don't matter I didn't flex. That wasn't a flex. What are you talking about?
@don't matter Saying that one has a methodical and scientific mindset is not a flex. Not at all.
Which I didn't even say to begin with, I said I admired the characters methodical and scientific mindset.
Huge difference.
But dwarfs can seem like giants when one is looking up at them from down a hole, true.
@don't matter bro, that's not a whooosh moment. Your dumb joke simply didn't land.
You need to be really appreciated for what you are doing. This feels so genuine and surreally real to my imagination that every intonation mood and inflexion of wordings to dramatic moments of horror to your clear audible vivid and fitting voice of a narrator puts me to a wonderful immersion as if in a sweet dream as I ponder and listen.
2:39 When the desert is suddenly introduced to Heavy Metal Rock.
Lovecraft: "Its a city."
People in the 1900's: "Okay."
LC: "but its scary"
People: "AIBRHSIFBWHWIRBRISIGDJWBFUGLFB!!!! DON'T DO THAT TO ME!!"
People: "Okay. Okay. Ive calmed down a bit."
LC: "Also there are some ugly lizards."
People: * have heart attacks *
Yeah, the more I listen to Lovecraft the less I understand why he is liked so much.
@@scarecrow2621 my guess is that Lovecraft was one of the first writers to do this genre of writing. The horror of reality breaking was more “novel”. More modern stories borrow the same ideas, but refined them with more horrifying details with mediums other than just pen and paper
Aw I love the idea of mysterious dark abandon cities of an ancient long passed era bulit by a civilization which modern mankind would not fully understand nor fully except actually existed today.
I have several ideas of my own dark ancient cities of truly evil advance kingdoms in my head that have since been forgotten. Bulit by forces that were not human in the slightest and lacked any since of morality and were principalities of profane darkness and cruelty.
Imagine being some of the first people to discover sites like Gobleki Tepe or Caral. Imagine seeing the ruins of civilizations that even cultures we consider ancient and long-dead would have considered mythological in nature.
Smiles in Daevite.
12:33 "I recited something in singsong from Thomas More.
...Until I feared to recite [mM]ore."
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Man, I love that you’re expanding into audiobook type stuff! If you can do more Lovecraft or horror type reading that would be awesome!
🔥 you should do more of these. Specifically H.P. Lovecraft ones but I’d love to listen to whatever. Really enjoy your vids. ❤️
I was wondering when you're gonna do another H.P Lovecraft audiobook
It has been almostt a year
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Beautifully captivating. I wish ID would remake Quake in all of its Lovecraftian glory
The game's graphics are still good in a retro way, though.
However, a remake/remaster with the option to switch to the original gameplay and graphics could be a good idea.
It was... good. Having read it, I’m still getting used to Lovecraft’s over-written style. He definitely describes things all to well, a little over the top. Though if you want to write good cosmic horror and describe eldritch abominations, I guess the bar has to be transcended somehow.
This story, the Color out of Space, and The Rats in the Walls, were the three HPL stories that hooked me.
I really like this direction you’re taking with content. Getting me back into my reading
I love the connections to Abdul Alhazred and the Necronomicon.
It's interesting to reflect on the themes here that are featured in other HPL works.
Particularly the gradual decadence of the reptile people and their transition into immaterial forms (The Mound), and the elucidation of aeons-dead cultures through their remaining wall decorations (At the Mountains of Madness).
The persistent genre-blindness of the unnamed narrator shows up more times than I can remember.
Lovecraft did a real good job of making him seem stupefied by his discoveries.
O snap this is one of my favorites. I'll be back to listen to this in like, 10 hours. Thanks for the vid my man.
I really like this kind of mythos
I speak for many when i say we're fine with whatever you upload, and most definitely fine with audio books
They took the name of the city
Can’t have shit in the nameless city
I love these audiobooks. Please, do continue making them
Really great job, super impressed with your dramatic reading ability. Taking it to the next level here, super awesome stuff.
Awesome video, i love that youre doing an audiobook. It seems like a natural progression for your content
The sound design and ambience is so good! Thanks for making this. I was properly on tenterhooks by the end, just sitting and listening.
I just starting reading HP and I’m so happy you did another on of his stories, keep up the amazing work man love it 👍
This is wonderful! Please do more of these! I adore your narration !
Please do more of these! You have a great voice for readings!
That's just what I was needing this morning. Thank you.
As a history major this is so funny, finding a new civilization with a unique and unknown past and just going "ew" at every building
You are my favorite narrator. You carry the best cadence and inflections of any I've listened to.
I've been listening to this a number of times already lol I love it. And the ambient music you pick for your videos works very well. I like using some of their stuff for meditation now.
Great job! Can't wait for more Lovecraft stories!
The only thing I'd like to add would be to have a slightly slower pace and some pauses to give us time to appreciate the descriptions.
I listen to this every time I’ve had trouble sleeping in the last month. So good!
Lovely work as always explorer!
I'm so glad I remembered these videos on a sunshiney, lazy sunday afternoon. They're the perfect thing to listen to while cleaning house lol
Hey. I really appreciate you and all your work. Probably hear it a lot but honestly you have accompanied me through countless sleepless nights, video game marathons and even a few drives. So thank you.
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My god was this a perfectly splendid reading my friend !! Thanks to infinity for your sharing this mate
I subbed back during the King in Yellow video. Im so glad you've only risen in popularity since then!
This was a wonderfully presented story. Further, the images included in this presentation were totally on point. They made the story so much more real.
I keep coming back to this. Such good narration. I could listen to you read a refrigerator manual.
everything your voice touches is gold. Keep up your work !
I came here to say, please please please do more of these readings!!! I absolutely love them.
I never get tire of any H.P Lovecraft ! I have read all of his stories many times and never get tired of them.
Agreed, I listen too a story a night. Every night.lol
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These are great - thanks for the upload
Such a shame there arent more games like secret world legends. They say its a niche fanbase, but it looks like there are many people who enjoy these stories.
I think the title name of it didn't resonate well. Plus; not alot of advertisement. It's an awesome game, just didnt get a good push, is all.
Great job picking art to accompany the story! Good work!
Thanks for the great vids!
One of my favorites from the great H.P. Lovecraft! Thank you good sir.
*sees carvings of beastmen*
"oh wow these must be allegorical carvings"
*sees a LOT of carvings of beastmen*
"these people must have really loved their symbolic artwork!"
*walks down passages designed for beastmen sizes*
"lol those crazy ancients and their metaphors"
*sees a mural of beastmen tearing apart a human*
"this is probably a religious reference"
*sees literal beastmen*
"I did not see this coming"
Such a relaxing voice, telling an eerie story
LOVE STORIES LIKE THIS
They're so enthralling and enchanting. They make me think about what possibly distant and glorious portions history were completely lost to time in the untouchably vast epochs of endless history. Events so distant and amazing that we would only believe them in dreams.
Thank you, nice voiced person. I thorougly enjoy listening to you ^^
“...and in my fevered state I fancied that from some remote depth there came a crash of musical metal to hail the fiery disc as Memnon hails it from the banks of the Nile.”
I come back and listen to your lovecraft stories every other weekend
Thank you, for this story is one of my top three pieces of his works.
You are an absolute master at reading H.P. Lovecraft's works!!!
These audio books help me fall asleep in these worlds. I feel so lucky to have access to these
Great reading! Thank you very much!
Love your channel mate
Love it. Keep it up, man!
1:24 Favorite Lovecraft Quote
Love your material!
Good stuff my man keep it up!
Cool art thanks for the links! Great vibe!
These audiobooks are fantastic!
Read this a while back still nice to listen to it. Thanks for making the vid
Great stuff. One of my personal favourites
Listening to the series at work, it's great!
Love your videos man
this must be my favorite Lovecraft story so far
Much better then anything on audible iv heard for lovecraft.
Keep this going 👍
I was actually going to ask if you were doing audiobooks xD epic
Nice! Something to listen to while I take a walk ^-^
This is a great story. Nice job!
the nameless of the city is one good lovecraft stories
something always brings me back to this story… the forward motion of the take, as if the protagonist is entranced by it and can’t look back, being further pulled into the depths of the unknown.
Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼
Great choice! Me of my fav Lovecraft stories that doesn’t get talked about as much. I also love Robert Chambers, I have a reading of one of his in my channel.
Love this kind of art. None better fitting than in a Lovecraft novel.
This was really really good.
Has to be the best channel idk why this one aint number 1 yet
Great artwork.
So far from the norm for what I usually watch. So glad I did . Well done ✅
You've got the voice for it, my guy. If you enjoy it, you should definitely do other Lovecraft stories.
Great video thank you so much please give up your amazing work and live long and prosper