"The Invaders" by Henry Kuttner / A Cthulhu Mythos Story
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- "The Invaders" is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Henry Kuttner. Written under the pseudonym Keith Hammond, it was first published in the February 1939 edition of Strange Stories. The tale tells of a unique writer, who accidentally unleashes the hellspawn of a forgotten age upon the Earth.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:50 - The Invaders
43:10 - Further Listening
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I should be listening to more then just Cthulhu mythos stories but I can’t get enough of them~
Lol me either...every day!!!!
Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E Howard are great ways to avoid mythos stories and go whoops!
@@Wombats555 Yes! What wombats 555 said......And the king in yellow, Skull-face, The Red one, definitely House on the Borderland, all the Algemon Blackwood, In Amundsen's tent is a trip! Ian's The Thing that came from Winter Hill is awesome. Least these are my favorites.
@@Bbergster I only know about half of those thanks to HorrorBabble and I didn't enjoy a few until Ian read them.
"You tripped balls so bad you brought nightmare monsters into reality!"
"Well I could have nerfed the experience but then my novels might have not done as well..."
"Bill melted!"
Your narrations and voice absolutely blow every other narration out of the water. Keep up the great work!
Subtle choice for the times, Sir, a "craven hysteria" resulting from an "unseen menace"..
sick artwork on this one
The Invaders- A Quinn Martin Production. Seriously though, good job.
I really like Kutner he’s kinda my favorite right now.
I love your reading of this story, Mr. Gordon. Keep up the awesome work Jen and Ian and the whole Horrorbabble crew! You folks make every drive fun and tolerable!
This must have been one of the first notable Cthulhu mythos stories to feature a major role from one of the benevolent Elder gods. If I recall correctly, Lovecraft never actually named any of the benevolent Elder gods in his own writings. Before his passing, he eluded to them as a type of indirect contrast to the malevolent Great Old Ones...
From what i read of Lovecraft's own work, he always insisted that gods of Earth were powerless to do anything against the Outer gods, because they sucked.
One would hope they can at least protect their followers against the lesser eldritch gribblies?
@@Self-replicating_whatnot According to the wiki, Elder Gods are at least as powerful as the great old ones, if not more. But more modern writers either ignore them or just make them evil in a different way. But personally I rather like the idea that there are some good gods out there. Horror stories where there's literally no hope ever bore me because it makes everything between the beginning and the end filler.
@@Hawbitten "Great Old Ones" =/= "Outer Gods". The former are often as not the servants of the latter and/or descendants they sired upon mortal races.
Well raw primal existence came first and slowly got less brutal any semblance of niceness would have been a very recent memo that even humans are barely capable of, to be honest. Some individual humans have caused the deaths of millions. We can easily give the great old ones a run for their money.
They're both incomprehensible and care about us as much as we do bugs. Some humans are gross, some are pretty, and some are fun to poke with a stick.
Great narrator, I've discovered the channel a couples of weeks ago and I must say that I listen everyday with great pleasure to the Cthulhu mythos and other stories. I love it
Another awesome read. When he shrieked I shrieked.
Fantastic story! And superb narration, as always.
This is one of the best so far in your library
That was an incredible tale you narrated tonight. It sure kept my attention throughout the whole story. A tad bit frightening. Thank you so much♡♡
This was a great story! I felt so enthralled the whole way through
Oh my Dear God, I hope no dolphins or orcas or seals (or anything that can think and has a past) were swimming past when he threw those out to sea!!!! Great story and as always a superb reading! Ty
What a great story!
That totally slapped! Awesome job mates.
You did a fantastic job on this reading Ian!
I quite enjoyed this one; thank you for introducing it to me! 😀
Thankyou,again. Love this one. Amazing work. Great channel, as always.
...Cross the streams! Who ya gonna call...? This was a fascinating tale with superb narration. Thanks for all you do on this excellent channel!
@Lynn Bell - is that a li'l crocheted Cthulhu on yr profile pic? This is me being jealous!
This was a good one.
Outstanding! How did I miss this?!
Thank you Ian and Jennifer for this and the; escape, joy, entertainment, it gives during this interesting time.
Amazing narration and story. Fabulous job, Ian. I listened to this twice in a row.
Yea! a new one. i was going ya gotta know what to do! jeez! on and on the screechers continued. . . thanks, guys :) 👻
n.b. the artist’s rendering is perfect for this snd very imaginative :)
Thank you very much! This is a mythos story I have not read before. Reminds me a bit of Bob(Psycho) Bloch's writing style. Nice ending to it.
VERY COOL!
Excellent.I've not read to much of Kuttner's works.Something I'm going to change.Thank you.
Awesome thanks so much I needed that.
Excellent video! 10/10 !cthulhu story 😈
Always enjoy your readings my good man.
Awesome!! Perfect timing!!!
Great tale.... Thanks as usual....!
Thank you Ian!
At first this comes across as a rehash of Frank Belknap Long's 'The Hounds of Tindalos' with a dose of 'The Space Eaters', but there are some brilliantly horrible images in it which really stand up on their own... most especially the poor freakishly mutilated victim of the invaders' sadism.
This is my second favorite horrorbabble tale, second only to The Stroll.
YES! If Henry and his wife weren't playing whack a mole with their author names he'd likely be the best known Mythos contributor. They used to sit at the same typewriter and start where the other left off. Henry also changed his nome de plume after The Graveyard Rats for some reason. The Salem Horror was great mythos. Can't wait to knock off work and listen to this one.
I didn't know that.
@@lacyhart2043 C.L Moore is her name. Shambleau is the one that got my attention. Hope it is on HorrorBabble's list.
Vernal AND cyclopean...weather?
Kuttner very rightly channelling CAS and HPL simultaneously!
Why do it any other way?
This was an excellent story, and well read also.
I've not known about HorrorBabble before, I had hoped to find such narrations as podcasts and was bitterly disappointed - and here my premiere was a Kuttner story! Thank you, I enjoyed this very much, but now I worry I might find a playlist - and go on a binge. Anyway, the defending entity probably was Nyarlathotep dressed up as Hastur, wearing a costume of the Kindler of Flames. I don't know why I can't see them as truly evil... (:
It is finally night and the first night since release time to Travel into the mythos world!
So a frindlier lovecraftian god defending their turf? An intrigueing idea.
Awesome
Feel like I should be in front a fire with my pipe..
Ok, im listening to this during the day
This was a great story.
I think we've all become spoiled by HorrorBabble. Now all other horror sites suck buttermilk.
Love what you do Ian, I listen to your vids every night. Would love to see you do “The Horror at Red Hook” at some point!
Here you go, Dylan: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-horror-at-red-hook
Thanks for listening!
HorrorBabble yoooo thanks so much! Keep up the great work!
Where can I get some of these time pellets?
Guaranteed some dolphins got a fair dose.
"The Invaders 2": A fish swallows the time drug and remembers the glorious past when she was dunkleosteus. Of course the fish did not take precautions. Monsters appear in the ocean.
Bro I was just thinking that in my last post. Well I said dolphins and seals but still
Woo first! Love you Horror Bable!
Damn you Page Burner!!!
That was brilliant.
When's the next Horrorbabble mythos story due?
Damn close
Thank Azathoth he happened to be a high priest...
@@calviniscool I would tell him when he wakes .oh wait I am supposed to keep him asleep
We could summon and tell Nyarlathotep, I'm sure he'll relay the message.
Very cool story indeed! I wonder, have you ever played any games related to Lovecraft?
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Melding an eldritchly-afflicted writer with a previous incarnation's mind which was high priest of one of the entities worshiped as gods by ancient humans... I approve, but have a feeling I've heard a Lovecraft story where that's the allegedly-terrible ending.
It's interesting what happens when you don't assume "other" means "terrible".
The Akashic records precludes reincarnation. But anyone can tap those past lives and it will feel like your own! Only it isn't. Imagine a species that have evolved to use that huge treasure of over 109 billion human lives. Maybe aliens lives too there even more so.
I really want to narrate a story on here!
They are dealing with the Yith, right? No, i guess not. Sometimes I wish they would use the name or at least a descriptive nom de plume such as googly cone things. Vorvadoss, the fiery one, in hoodie, he who waiteth in the outer dark, the troubler in the sands! Apparently Kuttner wrote ex machina! Researched it and still am not sure. I do know that i like the artwork for this one. Party on horror babble gesh!
The Yith left their world eons ago and when they reached Earth the Yith found the weird Quiddudu to supplant the the rest remained themselves. Yith Quiddudu fighting the Umhullu (wind daemons) till they surged again and left to the future where the beetles had mutated and grown huge and intelligent.
Anyone know which work the opening epigraph from Machen is from?
North or santa Barbara hmmmmm that's where my home town is.
Nice...guardian angels are creatures of eldritch depths of deep time, our ancient, inhuman protectors.
The protagonist of a horror story is a horror writer. Where have I heard that before?
Always makes for a great read
Mason said, cheers for telling me about the human sacrifice.And why the fuck did you invite me down
Finally a story about something from the mysterious worm book, De Vermis Mysterous...uh, I don't know how to spell it, apologies.
Mysteries of the Worm, reminds me of From Beyond, only solid and evoked.
Book II, Chapter 27, verse 23:
"Nobody like me,"
"Everybody hates me,"
"Think I'll go and eat Vermis."
@@Eris123451 I read that book in 4th or 5th grade! The title escapes me . He did eat that worm though, respect.
All hail Discordia!
De Vermis Mysteriis. And I’m pretty sure that it isn’t a correct spelling in ANY🤣 language, just artistic license. There are also The Pnakotic Manuscripts by Von Junzt, The Book of Dzyan and a transnation of the Necronomicon, “or Al Azif”, by Olaus Wormius. Balderdash! (I would love to have just one!🙏🏻) By the way, I may have mixed up some authors with some titles- doesn’t much matter, as they aren’t real and I’m just too tired today! Hope that helped with your title though.
limbo 777 Are you thinking of the Illuminatius Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shaw? Cause that was goddamned amazing! 🍎
@@tunguskalumberjack9987
“Synchronicity is as universal as gravity. When you start looking you find it everywhere.”)”
― Robert Shea, The Illuminatus! Trilogy
It certainly goddamn was.
Dmt
Mmmmm kutner
Bedtime÷
It was quite good, but it just wasn't Lovecraft enough. They weren't supposed to just walk it off like that in the end
Not a fan of reincarnation in the mythos
Not my favorite story but I get a hint of an anti drug bout from kuttner in this story. The writer who dabbles in drugs too gain inspiration only to regret his decision as the drugs brought ruin to his life. Feels kind of like a mediocre version of "the hounds of tindalos”
Ever notice the most common job among protagonist in novels is writer? Shameless self inserts...
Write what you know. Most writers don't get out much...
Lovecraft used artists, scientists and ethnologists.
That was radical. Love it when I find one I missed. Midgard Serpent! Are we talking lizard creatures? Like Howard’s “children of the Dark” or one of the “Bran Mak Morn” yarns! Cyclopean ramparts. 🪶🦎