HorrorBabble is by far the best audio book channel out there. the readings are immaculate and a pleasure to listen to as well as having their own creative additions on rotation. this channel deserves millions of subscribers to enjoy their hard work. truly one of a kind.
The amount of synchronisities for me in this book was unreal. The dates used in the story included my wife's birthday, my sons birthday and the date I'm listening to the book. Amazing
The king in yellow is literally what brought me back into literature after like 6 years of not touching a singular book. Of course I only discovered the book because of this channel so in short thanks to your channel I now have a deeper interest in reading books once more and I'm almost done reading the Lovecraft collection! So my deepest thanks for uploading one of my all time favorite stories as well as for getting me back into literature!!!
@@dmonvisigoth1651 its weird that mathew mcannahay's character never actually mentions or points out that the yellow king was a famous book in the late 19th century. I guess in the universe of the show, the book _The Yellow King_ never existed. Either that, or his character is actually not a very good detective after all lol.
This is so good. I was first introduced to Lovecraft via "The Yellow Sign". A friend had a copy, a friend has printed. I was hooked. Then he gave me a collection of Lovecraft's work. I can't wait until my kids are old enough to listen to these with me.
Robert W. Chambers was a popular romance novelist in his time. But this is the work we now remember. It almost fell into complete obscurity, but was brought back into public consciousness by the surge of interest in Lovecraft’s works in the 1960’s and beyond, and now is referenced in pop culture such as the HBO series “True Detective,” and (obliquely) in John Carpenter’s “In the Mouth of Madness.”
Listening to or reading these stories is like wandering in a strange dream and not being sure whether or not you are sleeping. Thank you both for such a wonderful reading!
I have loved In The Court of the Dragon ever since I first read it almost 20 years ago. Something about it just grabs me like almost nothing else I've ever read.
Thank you for creating these wonderful experiences for us on this platform. My usually dull life is injected with mystery, intrigue and wonder when I immerse myself in your readings. Appreciate you guys so much! Many sincere thanks.
I always enjoyed the fact of the "Repairer of Reputations" letting his cat beat him up. It just goes to show that everyone has a master (excepting maybe He-Man and the Masters of the Universe😮) My kitty certainly bosses me around and even determines when i get up in the morning. At 5AM she just *had* to go out and climb trees, so... Thats what we did. Well, she climbed, I kept an eye out for possums. I hope all is well with your family, Ian and Jen (and baby makes 3).
Ctulhu may chair my favorite mythos but the King in Yellow is my favorite character. Phone background is always him or Dagon, for as long as I've had a smartphone
I have been listening to your content for a couple of years now, discovered when I was first getting into reading Lovecraft's works, but having very little time to sit and read. I really appreciate HOW you narrate and read through these works. You don't just read in a pleasant cadence as many well meaning narrators do, but attempt to natch your tone to the tone of the story. If the words seem excited, or calm and examining, or rushed and worried, you match your tone to it as you read. It is something I really took for granted until I ventured out to other narrators on TH-cam and I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate that. Thank you so much for everything you do, and thanks to you I can continue to explore worlds of literature I might otherwise never have known!!!
Oh yes oh yes oh yes what a way to start this collection of weird and wonderful tails by getting the angel voice of Jen. On the opening lines❤❤ thank you thank you and again thank you I'm definitely going to enjoy this collection even more than always xxx
this was fantastic, was kinda put off when i realized, listening to the other recording, that the later parts had nothing to do with this. I also really enjoyed a the arthur machen recordings and william hope hodgson. Especially the house on the boarderlands. Was about to keep ranting but there are just so many good picks. Ty for this great channel
I’m surprised the Author predicted in 1895 that in 1920 there was a War with Germany. Crazy. I wonder what if any did everyone felt that way, predicting. Thank you guys for releasing this. This is so awesome. Especially the intro voice of Cassilda’s Song. The eerie echoes.
Yup who ever narrates these stories are absolutely amazing. Perfect and have fully perfected the craft of story narrations. In no way could they be any better. Litrally god tier audio readings on this channel. Other narrators need to step up cos horrorbabble rise the bar . Nuff said
Eighteen: Randolph Carter gazed dumbly at salvation with bewildered uncomprehending eyes; for a moment he once again imagined that this must be a dream or perhaps some final lapse of his failing sanity ? But it was no dream. It was the post. The postman had two letters for Randolph Carter. The first predictably was from The Miskatonic University Library, was addressed to Harley Warren C/O Randolph Carter and was yet another demand for the immediate return of Harley Warren’s still overdue library books and for the payment of the now substantial, “late,” fines that Warren’s errant volumes were still incurring. The second, to which Carter then paid but scant attention was written in a familiar hand; unique and singular and quite impossible to forge or even to imitate closely.
I like all of the king in yellow. Up to the 5th story it contains references to the king in yellow play. Then prophets paradise is sort of a delirium of waking from a dream and we focus on the horrors of war time france ending in the joys of peace.
@HorrorBabble Demoiselle D'ys and Repairer of Reputations are probably my favorites of the first half. I rather enjoy Our Lady of The Fields and Rue Barree from the second half. Clifford is hopeless. I listen to them all the time at night to relax. You and Jen really nailed alot of accents and ambience in that collection.
The latest development in the Warhammer 40k lore includes the King in Yellow, which shows you the incredible impact of this mythos in Sci-Fi fantasy as well as horror.
That’s too bad because I’d love to see his stuff get the HorrorBabble treatment. Since I’m here, I was looking up “Seven Footprints to Satan” by A. Merritt and it looks like you haven’t done that one yet… eh? Eh?
Your narration style has quite improved in just a year of listening. I had no problem with it before, mind you, but one may always get better at one's craft with practice. Not a bad North American dialect, either. I get super critical of non-American/non-Canadian English speakers having a go at those sorts of dialects, as I'm sure Brits are when it comes to hearing your multitudinous manners of speaking mishandled by American actors. It does not come easy.
A little useless history connection here: Some might interpret in the first story that Chambers predicted the war with Germany, ie World War I, but he was probably alluding to an incident that actually happened in the 1880s. I believe it was the Samoan Islands, but I don't remember for sure off hand, but the US and the Germans had claim to different islands in the same island chain. The Germans started making aggressive overtures as though they may take the American islands by force. The US Navy at the time had been so neglected after the end of The Civil War, that it was determined that the Navy would have no ability to appose the Germans if they tried to attack. This prompted Congress to start giving some, albeit limited, funds to develop modern (for the time) battleships and cruisers to protect US overseas interests. Nothing ever came of the incident as far as hostilities, but I imagine Chambers was picturing a Naval battle with the Germans in the Pacific rather than the continental battles that happened historically. I just found that kind of interesting.
Hey, Warren, have you seen the Yellow Sign? 😱 Ian, Jennifer, or anyone else bearing a potent fascination with The Yellow Mythos, and Cthulhu Mythos in general; do you, like myself, wonder whether it could ever be possible for a literary work, or other work of art to be created which could, actually, induce insanity? I know, some can induce nausea, as I had to ditch out on Edward Lee's "Brain Cheese Buffet", as it, literally, made me feel physically ill.
I like the idea that these stories and lovecrafts are just our mind’s desperate attempt to make sense of the unfathomable. In our weak minds we can only comprehend these horrors as writings on a page as opposed to their true form.
Excellent audiobooks & production as usual. Your track record speaks for itself always. I’d be interested (if not tickled) if you ever considered tackling the horror works of Clive Barker, like his Books of Blood short-stories. His stylings & themes are very different, indeed more “mature” & explicit (such as the famed “The Hellbound Heart / Hellraiser”,) but in many tales, his language is no less imaginative & drawing in as Lovecraft and long’s musings.~
@@miarencrowsdaughter6434 That may be true. If so that may make things tricky. Even still the man's definitely an intriguing fellow. The first Hellraiser film was what got me started years back for how different and well written it was.
We recorded The Midnight Meat Train back in 2017. Unfortunately, we were only permitted to host it for a couple of months (rights are complicated when it comes to living authors).
"The book’s latter tales, however, deviate from the Yellow Mythos theme, and, generally, seem incongruous with the tales that preceded them." Yeah, Robert isn't as great as an "influence" to me because of that as well. The opening stories are so incredible but it deviates into short loss/having stories that, although still neat, just aren't as interesting--from a horror perspective at least.
"I think I am dying. I wish the priest would..." What? I hate and love this writing. I do think writers from the period leaned too heavily into vagueness. It is thought-provoking but also a tad obnoxious.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. For anyone who truly wants to know God and have eternal life, all you have to do is seek him with all your heart and ask Jesus to please forgive your sins and to come into your heart. Jesus loves you so much and gave his life so we can be saved. We are all sinners and will be judged for our sins, and only the blood of Jesus Christ can take away your sins. Please don’t give up the free gift of eternal life without seeking God with all your heart first, because Judgement and hell are very real. Anyone who seeks God with a genuine heart, will be led to Jesus Christ, and you will soon know how real he is. God bless. ❤🙏🕊
Oh man the insanity of the intro pages. “America got rid of Jews and Foreigners and then everything was better” what a load of garbage. I love the King in Yellow but it’s hard to swallow some of those old ideas even incidentally sometimes.
HorrorBabble is by far the best audio book channel out there. the readings are immaculate and a pleasure to listen to as well as having their own creative additions on rotation. this channel deserves millions of subscribers to enjoy their hard work. truly one of a kind.
I will say cthulu and friends did the shadow over innsmouth better, but every thing else is top tier
@@adamlubben2504 its good to have more than one version. I love HorrorBabble! They have a commitment to truth.
He sounds kind of like Wesker. Which is a plus as far as I’m concerned.
The amount of synchronisities for me in this book was unreal. The dates used in the story included my wife's birthday, my sons birthday and the date I'm listening to the book. Amazing
The king in yellow is literally what brought me back into literature after like 6 years of not touching a singular book. Of course I only discovered the book because of this channel so in short thanks to your channel I now have a deeper interest in reading books once more and I'm almost done reading the Lovecraft collection!
So my deepest thanks for uploading one of my all time favorite stories as well as for getting me back into literature!!!
I love its inclusion in the 1st season of True Detective.
@@dmonvisigoth1651 its weird that mathew mcannahay's character never actually mentions or points out that the yellow king was a famous book in the late 19th century. I guess in the universe of the show, the book _The Yellow King_ never existed. Either that, or his character is actually not a very good detective after all lol.
Thank you Ian & Jennifer
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@@nancyM1313 😊👍
“Cassilda’s Song” alone would make this collection excellent by any standard! Thank you HB!
Really happy to see the Yellow Mythos. After recently getting into Lovecraft its great to see these works.
This is so good. I was first introduced to Lovecraft via "The Yellow Sign". A friend had a copy, a friend has printed. I was hooked. Then he gave me a collection of Lovecraft's work. I can't wait until my kids are old enough to listen to these with me.
Robert W. Chambers was a popular romance novelist in his time. But this is the work we now remember. It almost fell into complete obscurity, but was brought back into public consciousness by the surge of interest in Lovecraft’s works in the 1960’s and beyond, and now is referenced in pop culture such as the HBO series “True Detective,” and (obliquely) in John Carpenter’s “In the Mouth of Madness.”
That's why "The Yellow Sign" is my favorite in the collection. It combined the horror and the romance, each enhancing the other.
Listening to or reading these stories is like wandering in a strange dream and not being sure whether or not you are sleeping. Thank you both for such a wonderful reading!
I have loved In The Court of the Dragon ever since I first read it almost 20 years ago. Something about it just grabs me like almost nothing else I've ever read.
I love "The Repairer of Reputations".
Yes I love that the main character is a complete insane maniac 😂😂getting help from an advisor who is twice as mad as himself 😅
Thank you for creating these wonderful experiences for us on this platform. My usually dull life is injected with mystery, intrigue and wonder when I immerse myself in your readings. Appreciate you guys so much! Many sincere thanks.
Thank you for listening!
I always enjoyed the fact of the "Repairer of Reputations" letting his cat beat him up.
It just goes to show that everyone has a master (excepting maybe He-Man and the Masters of the Universe😮)
My kitty certainly bosses me around and even determines when i get up in the morning.
At 5AM she just *had* to go out and climb trees, so... Thats what we did. Well, she climbed, I kept an eye out for possums.
I hope all is well with your family, Ian and Jen (and baby makes 3).
@@yancoh307yes, I am happily "pussy-whipped" 😻
Thank you! Cats will usurp us all.
I've listened to your individual readings but this is the first time with the combined edition. That montage at the very beginning is brilliant.
Ctulhu may chair my favorite mythos but the King in Yellow is my favorite character. Phone background is always him or Dagon, for as long as I've had a smartphone
I have been listening to your content for a couple of years now, discovered when I was first getting into reading Lovecraft's works, but having very little time to sit and read. I really appreciate HOW you narrate and read through these works. You don't just read in a pleasant cadence as many well meaning narrators do, but attempt to natch your tone to the tone of the story. If the words seem excited, or calm and examining, or rushed and worried, you match your tone to it as you read. It is something I really took for granted until I ventured out to other narrators on TH-cam and I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate that. Thank you so much for everything you do, and thanks to you I can continue to explore worlds of literature I might otherwise never have known!!!
Thank you for listening!
That is some absolutely incredible artwork, and MK-Ultra level video work, Ian and Jennifer. Outstanding!
Thanks again, Dweller!
Wonderful timing
Excellent.
Saved a lot of people a lot of time and focused on these gems!
Thank you for adding it to the playlist. HB The King in Yellow is the second playlist I ever saved on YT.
So excited! Thank you so much
One of your best readings yet!!!
ah what a good listen, great for listening to at work tonight
Oh yes oh yes oh yes what a way to start this collection of weird and wonderful tails by getting the angel voice of Jen. On the opening lines❤❤ thank you thank you and again thank you I'm definitely going to enjoy this collection even more than always xxx
This show makes for a fantastic evening. Got you on the big screen.
Fantastic!
this was fantastic, was kinda put off when i realized, listening to the other recording, that the later parts had nothing to do with this. I also really enjoyed a the arthur machen recordings and william hope hodgson. Especially the house on the boarderlands. Was about to keep ranting but there are just so many good picks. Ty for this great channel
I've never heard of this author or anthology. Thank you for the introduction!
WONDERFUL! Another person who has discovered the King in Yellow!
Welcome to the fold.......
I’m surprised the Author predicted in 1895 that in 1920 there was a War with Germany. Crazy. I wonder what if any did everyone felt that way, predicting. Thank you guys for releasing this. This is so awesome. Especially the intro voice of Cassilda’s Song. The eerie echoes.
Thank you so much 💞 goodnight Ian & Jenny & little one 💚🐬💕 wonderful reading 💛🌛✨
@@HorrorBabble 💖👋
Fantastic collection that is beautifully read. Keep up the great work
Many thanks for the Super Thanks!
Thank you
Liked in advance! Gonna do this 3 hour gem the justice it deserves when i have time! Many thanks!
Thanks!
The opening was beautifully read, this is going to be good!
Time for a skinny dip in Hali.
WHAT A PICTURE...BRILLIANT
My all time favorites, thank you for what you do it's amazing
Excellent compilation! Thanks!
Fabtastic stories and narration.
I love this channel!
Thank you for this collection. Itbis awesome.
I wonder if Phil K Dick was a Rob W Chambers fan? The paranoia in Chambers' stories is profound.
Thank you for another outstanding video i hope everyone is having an amazing day!🙂
Just listen to the old one excited for this!
Warren was spotted keeping bees in Maine.
Yup who ever narrates these stories are absolutely amazing. Perfect and have fully perfected the craft of story narrations. In no way could they be any better. Litrally god tier audio readings on this channel. Other narrators need to step up cos horrorbabble rise the bar . Nuff said
Thank you!
Nice! 🙂
Warren has been killed more often than Kenny in South Park. An enjoyable listen all the same. Thanks for sharing.
Yes!!!
Awesome thanks man
Eighteen:
Randolph Carter gazed dumbly at salvation with bewildered uncomprehending eyes; for a moment he once again imagined that this must be a dream or perhaps some final lapse of his failing sanity ?
But it was no dream.
It was the post.
The postman had two letters for Randolph Carter.
The first predictably was from The Miskatonic University Library, was addressed to Harley Warren C/O Randolph Carter and was yet another demand for the immediate return of Harley Warren’s still overdue library books and for the payment of the now substantial, “late,” fines that Warren’s errant volumes were still incurring.
The second, to which Carter then paid but scant attention was written in a familiar hand; unique and singular and quite impossible to forge or even to imitate closely.
Yay! ❤❤❤
❤️🔥❤️🔥
If this is the Yellow Mythos, then I Am Curious Warren!
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I like all of the king in yellow. Up to the 5th story it contains references to the king in yellow play. Then prophets paradise is sort of a delirium of waking from a dream and we focus on the horrors of war time france ending in the joys of peace.
I'm a fan of this interpretation -- The Demoiselle d'Ys in particular, is one of my favourites.
@HorrorBabble Demoiselle D'ys and Repairer of Reputations are probably my favorites of the first half. I rather enjoy Our Lady of The Fields and Rue Barree from the second half. Clifford is hopeless. I listen to them all the time at night to relax. You and Jen really nailed alot of accents and ambience in that collection.
Strange and unfathomed Carcosa, how my dreams are dunged about with it’s craven and non-Elucidian terrors!
The latest development in the Warhammer 40k lore includes the King in Yellow, which shows you the incredible impact of this mythos in Sci-Fi fantasy as well as horror.
What are you doing unleashing this on common humanity again you madman?
Extinction through the guise of entertainment.
Excellent! I'm a Chambers fiend. I would love see you guys do some of Karl Edward Wagner...there's hardly any good readings out there.
I don't think Wagner's stuff is public domain, and probably won't be for a while yet.
That’s too bad because I’d love to see his stuff get the HorrorBabble treatment.
Since I’m here, I was looking up “Seven Footprints to Satan” by A. Merritt and it looks like you haven’t done that one yet… eh? Eh?
oh shit omg this is totally different... thank you for this beauty! very cosy 💪🤠🩷
It is good to see you revisiting Robert W. Chambers. Maybe you will read the Maker of Moons sometime?
It's a possibility.
"I love you, but I think I love someone else best"
W o w ..
Your narration style has quite improved in just a year of listening. I had no problem with it before, mind you, but one may always get better at one's craft with practice. Not a bad North American dialect, either. I get super critical of non-American/non-Canadian English speakers having a go at those sorts of dialects, as I'm sure Brits are when it comes to hearing your multitudinous manners of speaking mishandled by American actors. It does not come easy.
Thanks! This one goes back to 2017 -- my approach has certainly changed since then. Ian
👍👍👍
you do a great job
I am looking for James Blish more light I don't see it on your page open somebody can direct me to the TH-cam audiobook
The art is nice
I have this collection. ❤
A little useless history connection here: Some might interpret in the first story that Chambers predicted the war with Germany, ie World War I, but he was probably alluding to an incident that actually happened in the 1880s. I believe it was the Samoan Islands, but I don't remember for sure off hand, but the US and the Germans had claim to different islands in the same island chain. The Germans started making aggressive overtures as though they may take the American islands by force.
The US Navy at the time had been so neglected after the end of The Civil War, that it was determined that the Navy would have no ability to appose the Germans if they tried to attack. This prompted Congress to start giving some, albeit limited, funds to develop modern (for the time) battleships and cruisers to protect US overseas interests.
Nothing ever came of the incident as far as hostilities, but I imagine Chambers was picturing a Naval battle with the Germans in the Pacific rather than the continental battles that happened historically. I just found that kind of interesting.
Long Live the Ancient Dreams!
Hey, Warren, have you seen the Yellow Sign? 😱
Ian, Jennifer, or anyone else bearing a potent fascination with The Yellow Mythos, and Cthulhu Mythos in general; do you, like myself, wonder whether it could ever be possible for a literary work, or other work of art to be created which could, actually, induce insanity? I know, some can induce nausea, as I had to ditch out on Edward Lee's "Brain Cheese Buffet", as it, literally, made me feel physically ill.
I like to think so...
I like the idea that these stories and lovecrafts are just our mind’s desperate attempt to make sense of the unfathomable. In our weak minds we can only comprehend these horrors as writings on a page as opposed to their true form.
Depends on how hard you look at Escher and if you try to make sense of it...
Excellent audiobooks & production as usual. Your track record speaks for itself always.
I’d be interested (if not tickled) if you ever considered tackling the horror works of Clive Barker, like his Books of Blood short-stories.
His stylings & themes are very different, indeed more “mature” & explicit (such as the famed “The Hellbound Heart / Hellraiser”,) but in many tales, his language is no less imaginative & drawing in as Lovecraft and long’s musings.~
One major problem is that Barker hasn't yet entered the public domain, last I checked.
@@miarencrowsdaughter6434 That may be true. If so that may make things tricky.
Even still the man's definitely an intriguing fellow.
The first Hellraiser film was what got me started years back for how different and well written it was.
We recorded The Midnight Meat Train back in 2017. Unfortunately, we were only permitted to host it for a couple of months (rights are complicated when it comes to living authors).
@@HorrorBabble Ah I see. Tis a predicament. Your work is still appreciated regardless, even if for a limited period.
Information about the illustration used for these stories please
The art is unbelievable! Where could I get a print?
We'll try to make it available at some stage.
nice
"The book’s latter tales, however, deviate from the Yellow Mythos theme, and, generally, seem incongruous with the tales that preceded them."
Yeah, Robert isn't as great as an "influence" to me because of that as well. The opening stories are so incredible but it deviates into short loss/having stories that, although still neat, just aren't as interesting--from a horror perspective at least.
I think this tends to be the general consensus. I'm glad we tackled the latter tales, but I think this streamlined version helps with the ambiguity.
WOW😊
Ahhh! I wish the priest would've........ What?! Would have what?!?!?! Noooohohoho
Thanks for the upload, love this stuff!
it cutoff at the end!!!
Frustratingly, that’s just how that story ends!
The King on Yellow is my phones wallpapers.
ha i love this alternate US
hey! good american accent, not easy to do. it was even a pretty good New York one. :) 🌷🌱
I know the king i yellow he is my master
Has anyone found the yellow sign?
We're still looking...
"I think I am dying. I wish the priest would..." What? I hate and love this writing. I do think writers from the period leaned too heavily into vagueness. It is thought-provoking but also a tad obnoxious.
I know -- killer!
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Cthulhu fhtagn!
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
For anyone who truly wants to know God and have eternal life, all you have to do is seek him with all your heart and ask Jesus to please forgive your sins and to come into your heart. Jesus loves you so much and gave his life so we can be saved. We are all sinners and will be judged for our sins, and only the blood of Jesus Christ can take away your sins. Please don’t give up the free gift of eternal life without seeking God with all your heart first, because Judgement and hell are very real. Anyone who seeks God with a genuine heart, will be led to Jesus Christ, and you will soon know how real he is. God bless. ❤🙏🕊
Oh man the insanity of the intro pages. “America got rid of Jews and Foreigners and then everything was better” what a load of garbage. I love the King in Yellow but it’s hard to swallow some of those old ideas even incidentally sometimes.
Timestamps please. Ps I love horrorbabble, I always listen to the hp lovecraft Playlist, I also love the 12 of us murder mystery and king in yellow
Thanks! Did you check the video description? Chapters are listed there.
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
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