Another fantastic story by Paul Draper. He is one heck of an author, and Ian is one heck of a narrator. Ecellent mythos story with soooo many connections to others! Out of the Aeons (one of my favorite), aluminum-like scroll case, bluish parchment (Yakith lizard skin), Narragansett Bay, device put there by a "friend", Exham Priory, The Black Book, von Junzt, and many others. T'yog would have known what to do! Fantastic job, gentlemen! I am sooo looking forward to the next Paul Draper story. What a story to listen to over a fine Scotch to end the evening. Thanks!
Paul Draper’s stories are always good, and this is one of his finest. I appreciate the silent nod to the narrative structure of Delany’s ‘Dhalgren’, not to mention the welcome appearance of a surprise guest deity (you know who you are). Thank you Paul for this excellent entry to the mythos, and thank you Ian for bringing it to life.
Love it. So many subtle nods to detail spanning the Mythos, not just from HPL but other writers (Plongeon's continent of Mu, Bloch's Narragansett Bay...) in a fresh tale that doesn't forget to be a horror. Great series, all fantastic tales again.
Wow very deeply intense story had me riveted to the edge of my seat the entire way through. Ill definitely check out rhe authors site thank you for sharing
I always come to the comment sections of this channels videos expecting insightful feedback from a grateful audience, but the top few comments are somehow always the same inane joke about Warren… Anyway.. These stories are always so wonderful, and largely due to the quality of your narration, Ian, and the production in general. Keep up the consistently great work. It’s appreciated.
Ahahaha, I was expecting something on the lines of 'YOU SAID IT WASN'T REAL!' with the setup there, but the Delta Green-type shennanigans are good fun. Don't like Mythos entities being petty, though: They should be big enough to be above that and weird/alien enough to mangle minds with mere presence rather than monologue. Poor Derek, I wonder if he was wearing a red shirt at the time...also wonder why he smelled 'putrid' when burnt, though maybe the narrator is a longterm vegetarian and experiences the bacon smell of burnt people as somewhat like sweetened carnivore poop due to having lost the gut fauna to digest flesh/have the instincts recognise it as food.
Always the challenge! This is why Azathoth doesn't appear in many stories, it's hard to write from that scale down to human interests. If it's anything, Jack here is an avatar of a fraction of Ghatanothoa, a sort of side-dream rather than the big guy himself. A sort of Ambrose Dexter in "Shadow From the Steeple", infected by the Old One rather than completely manifesting as him. Still a bit human. But yes, good shout on 'putrid'... 😮 Thanks for listening!
Thanks! Definitely elements there. Main source text is 'Out of the Aeons', also a story HPL did with Hazel Heald, who co-wrote The Horror in the Museum. The thing Jack found in the bay while scuba diving definitely relates to The Haunter of the Dark (and its follow up Robert Bloch story "The Shadow From The Steeple")... 🐙
@BlackGateMedia55 after having backtracked and re-listened or reread all the stories, I have a much deeper appreciation for what you've done. The combination of the stories is well done. The continuation of the mythos, this many years later is great! I really appreciate the explanation of what happens in the mind of a victim of Ghatanothoa during their long imprisonment, too!
Thanks for the love for this story all, really appreciated. A fantastic reading and overall production by Ian as ever. If folks want any more backstory on Ghatanothoa, the scroll (maybe there was more than one...) and the goings on in Boston, then Horrorbabble recorded the classic HPL & Hazel Heald story "Out of the Aeons" a few years ago, available as part of the 'Artifacts of Horror' series here > th-cam.com/video/wKNdGYbQ7Xk/w-d-xo.html - PD
I'm searching for a story with a similar plot point, where a guy camping by a lake gets body swapped with a far off slug-like alien. The guy learns how to use his alien body and takes over the alien planet, while the slug alien flops the human body into the lake. PS: I love the use of the word "triggered" in Lovecraftian stories: "Danforth was like so triggered, to this day he remains triggered in the asylum."
So...I love the Mythos. I love this channel. I love this series. And, as both monument and foundation, I love writing. Is there ANY chance in R'lyeh that I could write a Mythos story and submit it to this channel? A meager offering to the Mythos--pale in comparison to the greats, to be sure--but nonetheless the Call remains, and I must answer it.
Well Ian canvassed for new submissions from readers, (listener,) a while back, but I get the feeling that channel's moved on from that and become a lot more commercial, (which is in no sense a criticism, not at all,) and even more, "professional," so it's possible, perhaps, likely that Ian doesn't have the time anymore to read through a lot of submissions of very mixed merit from aspiring authors. In fact I submitted a very short piece that I'd written, (again just for a laugh,) but it was long after he'd stopped accepting submissions and was probably not what he was looking for anyway ? This channel doesn't happen by magic and there's huge amount of sheer hard work, time management and discipline underpinning all this and it's a pretty tough schedule to keep up week after week after, but he manages it; hernia and baby etc not withstanding ? So think about it ? I've also dropped a few of short submissions that I'd written into the comments section simply for a laugh, (I'm not in the least an aspiring author,) with mixed responses but the one that liked best didn't even get single like, (so it's good that I didn't have anything, "invested," in it,) which is perhaps also something else to think about ? Writing stuff that people will like isn't nearly as easy you think it is, until you try to do it.
@@Eris123451 Thanks -- you've hit the nail on the head with most points. I've been one-man operation for several years now, so it's tough to find the time to look at things beyond the scope of my very tight schedule. I'm not sure from your username here which submission is yours, but no doubt it'll be in my 'see later' folder. All the best for now.
I need your guys's help I have been trying to find the name of a book. The synopsis is that a man visits a friend and has Asiatic features and a lisp his friend in an accident it's him with ancient weapon and he travels unconsciously back to what his ancestors in prehistoric Europe who are hunter-gatherers who are at odds with an underground serpentine race of prehumans. In the end he finds out that his friend is a descendant of these people. I have tried chat GPT and looked and looked and I cannot remember which story this is does anybody have any clue.
Not going to lie, I didn’t enjoy this one much towards its end but I want to thank you for starting this series and for sharing these stories, „the green door“ was probably my favorite tied with „In his own handwriting“ with „Devilskill as third. I think you are a talented writer and performer and I look forward to diving a bit more into your Van Melsen stories. Thanks for being awesome and a happy hallows eve🦇
Well they can't all be, Tomb of the Black Pharaoh but that's a pitfall of the, "Mythos," as a sub genre, too many writers seem to think that slipping in few references to Lovecraft's writing can lend a poor plot and weak writing a credibility that it doesn't otherwise command. These mythos stories can sometimes come across as if they might have been written by H.P. if he were a far less talented and imaginative writer. Nonetheless I can still think of few more enjoyable ways to spend half an hour.
@@Eris123451 Lol, couldn't agree less, Edgelord. These stories are shorts, and this one in particular subtly sews together established Mythos from The Rats in the Walls, Out of the Aeons, The Horror in the Museum, The Shadow From the Steeple/Haunter of the Dark and a few others, as well as being very well-researched in the area of renovation, all framed lightly within a circular narrative and an unreliable narrator twist. To mix that lot together, ring authentic on main character and STILL come up with a gripping monster tale that is freshly planted in the modern world takes skill many of wish wish we had. I look forward to reading your story someday, as it's that easy...do reply with a link. :D
@@brianagray6940 I wouldn't necessarily want to argue with any of that. Another pitfall, all to common however is when people take everything including themselves far far too seriously. I still continue to listen Horror Babble mostly because it's fun, (remember fun,) but like everyone I enjoy some stories far more than other but then, "The best is always the enemy of the good."
@@Eris123451 Fair enough. Just remember if you can that it's easy to ruin someone's day with casual criticism. I'm pretty sure these guys trying to create aren't made of steel. Horrorbabble is fun, a great channel.
Ooooohhhhh man...a tangent off of my favorite lovecraft story. I am truly cursed. Its halloween, i get to make lame jokes! Well, that was a good story. Its nice to see old thanthar back in business again. Hes far too cool of an evil entity to only get one story.
He's awesome. A sort of more-developed Cthulhu really. I think Out of the Aeons was written after Call. Love the lore and backstory of the denizens of K'naa.
@BlackGateMedia55 absolutely. The first time I heard the story (on this channel of course) I was hooked when it got to the part where he reads the history from...nameless cults is it?
This is based on events established in Out of the Aeons. In that story Magna Mater/Shub Niggurath acolytes (particularly T'Yog who weilded the first scroll) attempted to defend Earth against "alien" Ghatanothoa. This just continues that emnity. OOTA is a great story, well worth a read.
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Nice to see real art from real humans along the great storytelling!
Absolutely love this one, that twist at the end really caught me off guard and it feels like a fresh take on these types of stories
❤ Thanks! Ian's narration amazing as always.
Fully agreed. It was a nice twist.
ooh now i’m even more excited
Great story! Love how it ties together elements of Rats in the Walls, Haunter of the Dark and Out of the Aeons.
Thanks! Love that folks are getting those connections. ❤
Another fantastic story by Paul Draper. He is one heck of an author, and Ian is one heck of a narrator.
Ecellent mythos story with soooo many connections to others! Out of the Aeons (one of my favorite), aluminum-like scroll case, bluish parchment (Yakith lizard skin), Narragansett Bay, device put there by a "friend", Exham Priory, The Black Book, von Junzt, and many others.
T'yog would have known what to do!
Fantastic job, gentlemen! I am sooo looking forward to the next Paul Draper story. What a story to listen to over a fine Scotch to end the evening.
Thanks!
Completely agree. Out of the Aeons is brilliant. More folks need to read that.
Thanks Donald! Great to see you here again. I knew you'd get the little nods. :)
@brianagray6940 it is an amazing story and one of my favorites.
Paul Draper’s stories are always good, and this is one of his finest. I appreciate the silent nod to the narrative structure of Delany’s ‘Dhalgren’, not to mention the welcome appearance of a surprise guest deity (you know who you are). Thank you Paul for this excellent entry to the mythos, and thank you Ian for bringing it to life.
Well that's made my day. So pleased you enjoyed this one. I love it when listeners and readers get the little things. PD
Great reading as always!! I could smell the air with in the church with in a church!
Love it. So many subtle nods to detail spanning the Mythos, not just from HPL but other writers (Plongeon's continent of Mu,
Bloch's Narragansett Bay...) in a fresh tale that doesn't forget to be a horror. Great series, all fantastic tales again.
It's Halloween!!! With horror babble! Very nice, properly spent time.
love this. Thank you❤. Ben, Devon
Best channel on TH-cam by far
Happy Halloween eve HorrorBabble and everyone!😊
Hope you have an old European Halloween not an American Commercial one.
Thank you boo 👻
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@@davidbudge8359 I'm from Ireland 🇮🇪 the birthplace of Halloween!:)
@@lisapoe888:)
Yay! 1 minute old story!
Particularly liked this one.
Wow, the music is very eerie.
🌫 👻⛪💀🌫
🎃🎃
Ghanatathoa!! From “The Horror In The Museum.”
Nice to see…it…make an appearance, stony leather victim and all.😱
Glad you enjoyed it! He's a terrific Great Old One.
Great story, can't wait for more in this series!
Wow very deeply intense story had me riveted to the edge of my seat the entire way through. Ill definitely check out rhe authors site thank you for sharing
Very cool connections in this one! And of course another great reading by Ian.
Wooohooo more Paul Draper!
Thank you ❤
I enjoyed that, a very good tale indeed !
Excellent x
I think I will like it very much.
I liked it! Thanks Ian
Love the intro music for this one.
Awesome! My fav mythos story (Out of the Eons) finally gets some love!
Love how this ended
I always come to the comment sections of this channels videos expecting insightful feedback from a grateful audience, but the top few comments are somehow always the same inane joke about Warren…
Anyway.. These stories are always so wonderful, and largely due to the quality of your narration, Ian, and the production in general. Keep up the consistently great work. It’s appreciated.
Nice blend of mythos and quasi romano British elements
VERY good! Happy Samhain everyone!🎃
Wooah this is a really fun tale!
Now that's scary! The thought of being trapped like that - awful
Paralysed!
Thx appreciate the effort
Just realised it’s Halloween ha. 2.57am listened alone in darkness. Sleep beckons🙏
Best time to listen to Horrorbabble!
Happy Halloween tomorrow!!!! :D
Ahahaha, I was expecting something on the lines of 'YOU SAID IT WASN'T REAL!' with the setup there, but the Delta Green-type shennanigans are good fun. Don't like Mythos entities being petty, though: They should be big enough to be above that and weird/alien enough to mangle minds with mere presence rather than monologue.
Poor Derek, I wonder if he was wearing a red shirt at the time...also wonder why he smelled 'putrid' when burnt, though maybe the narrator is a longterm vegetarian and experiences the bacon smell of burnt people as somewhat like sweetened carnivore poop due to having lost the gut fauna to digest flesh/have the instincts recognise it as food.
Always the challenge! This is why Azathoth doesn't appear in many stories, it's hard to write from that scale down to human interests. If it's anything, Jack here is an avatar of a fraction of Ghatanothoa, a sort of side-dream rather than the big guy himself. A sort of Ambrose Dexter in "Shadow From the Steeple", infected by the Old One rather than completely manifesting as him. Still a bit human. But yes, good shout on 'putrid'... 😮
Thanks for listening!
Great story
Happy Halloween 🎃 Ian!
Very good
Happy Halloween all!
Happy Hallowe'en, ya splenda!
Jumped straight in as soon as I saw it was one of yours.
@@tamlandipper29Thanks General! Hope you enjoyed.
It was really hard for me to click the like button....bringing total likes to 667. Lol
"Who . . . Who are you? Where is my son!?!"
"YOU FOOL! WARREN IS DEAD!"
Great use of mythos things. Partly from The Horror in the Museum and The Haunter of The Dark, I think
Thanks! Definitely elements there. Main source text is 'Out of the Aeons', also a story HPL did with Hazel Heald, who co-wrote The Horror in the Museum. The thing Jack found in the bay while scuba diving definitely relates to The Haunter of the Dark (and its follow up Robert Bloch story "The Shadow From The Steeple")... 🐙
@BlackGateMedia55 o right. I got the titles mixed up lol. I had forgotten The Shadow on The Steeple. That's how it ended up in Narragansett.
@@dflt5th easy to mix up!
@BlackGateMedia55 after having backtracked and re-listened or reread all the stories, I have a much deeper appreciation for what you've done. The combination of the stories is well done. The continuation of the mythos, this many years later is great! I really appreciate the explanation of what happens in the mind of a victim of Ghatanothoa during their long imprisonment, too!
Thanks for the love for this story all, really appreciated. A fantastic reading and overall production by Ian as ever. If folks want any more backstory on Ghatanothoa, the scroll (maybe there was more than one...) and the goings on in Boston, then Horrorbabble recorded the classic HPL & Hazel Heald story "Out of the Aeons" a few years ago, available as part of the 'Artifacts of Horror' series here > th-cam.com/video/wKNdGYbQ7Xk/w-d-xo.html - PD
Nice time for Halloween.
I'm searching for a story with a similar plot point, where a guy camping by a lake gets body swapped with a far off slug-like alien. The guy learns how to use his alien body and takes over the alien planet, while the slug alien flops the human body into the lake.
PS: I love the use of the word "triggered" in Lovecraftian stories: "Danforth was like so triggered, to this day he remains triggered in the asylum."
Was it The Challenge From Beyond?
@@GothicBarbarian Yes! Thank you very much!
❤
Yeah, keep telling yourself that pal, it will all become clear.
So...I love the Mythos. I love this channel. I love this series. And, as both monument and foundation, I love writing.
Is there ANY chance in R'lyeh that I could write a Mythos story and submit it to this channel?
A meager offering to the Mythos--pale in comparison to the greats, to be sure--but nonetheless the Call remains, and I must answer it.
Well Ian canvassed for new submissions from readers, (listener,) a while back, but I get the feeling that channel's moved on from that and become a lot more commercial, (which is in no sense a criticism, not at all,) and even more, "professional," so it's possible, perhaps, likely that Ian doesn't have the time anymore to read through a lot of submissions of very mixed merit from aspiring authors.
In fact I submitted a very short piece that I'd written, (again just for a laugh,) but it was long after he'd stopped accepting submissions and was probably not what he was looking for anyway ?
This channel doesn't happen by magic and there's huge amount of sheer hard work, time management and discipline underpinning all this and it's a pretty tough schedule to keep up week after week after, but he manages it; hernia and baby etc not withstanding ? So think about it ?
I've also dropped a few of short submissions that I'd written into the comments section simply for a laugh, (I'm not in the least an aspiring author,) with mixed responses but the one that liked best didn't even get single like, (so it's good that I didn't have anything, "invested," in it,) which is perhaps also something else to think about ?
Writing stuff that people will like isn't nearly as easy you think it is, until you try to do it.
I will be looking at story submissions again eventually, but it's beyond my schedule at the moment. Keep an eye on our website: www.horrorbabble.com
@@Eris123451 Thanks -- you've hit the nail on the head with most points. I've been one-man operation for several years now, so it's tough to find the time to look at things beyond the scope of my very tight schedule. I'm not sure from your username here which submission is yours, but no doubt it'll be in my 'see later' folder. All the best for now.
@@HorrorBabble
Just carry on doing more or less what you're doing and I'll be happy enough.
Take are and thank you for all your hard work.
@@HorrorBabble Awesome, I will!! ❤️
Man, Warren can’t catch a break-even when dead!
👍
Time is a flat circle.
I heard Warren tried to open the locked drawer today!😮
You fools, Hannah is dead
You fool! Your hope is dead.
I need your guys's help I have been trying to find the name of a book. The synopsis is that a man visits a friend and has Asiatic features and a lisp his friend in an accident it's him with ancient weapon and he travels unconsciously back to what his ancestors in prehistoric Europe who are hunter-gatherers who are at odds with an underground serpentine race of prehumans. In the end he finds out that his friend is a descendant of these people. I have tried chat GPT and looked and looked and I cannot remember which story this is does anybody have any clue.
I was always suspicious of that von Jungst fellow.
He has a lot to answer for...!
Ukwales❤
I hope Warren is ok.
You fool. He's dead!
@@jacovandeventer3796 oh no😮
We got bad news about Warren, friend.
@rylanasher4756 noooo
Necromancer’s Assemble!
Tee Yog's scroll, wasted after millennia
Hi, I'm from the IRS and I'm looking for Warren.
You fool! He's ďead...😂😂😂😂
Not going to lie, I didn’t enjoy this one much towards its end but I want to thank you for starting this series and for sharing these stories, „the green door“ was probably my favorite tied with „In his own handwriting“ with „Devilskill as third.
I think you are a talented writer and performer and I look forward to diving a bit more into your Van Melsen stories. Thanks for being awesome and a happy hallows eve🦇
Well they can't all be, Tomb of the Black Pharaoh but that's a pitfall of the, "Mythos," as a sub genre, too many writers seem to think that slipping in few references to Lovecraft's writing can lend a poor plot and weak writing a credibility that it doesn't otherwise command.
These mythos stories can sometimes come across as if they might have been written by H.P. if he were a far less talented and imaginative writer.
Nonetheless I can still think of few more enjoyable ways to spend half an hour.
@@Eris123451 Lol, couldn't agree less, Edgelord. These stories are shorts, and this one in particular subtly sews together established Mythos from The Rats in the Walls, Out of the Aeons, The Horror in the Museum, The Shadow From the Steeple/Haunter of the Dark and a few others, as well as being very well-researched in the area of renovation, all framed lightly within a circular narrative and an unreliable narrator twist. To mix that lot together, ring authentic on main character and STILL come up with a gripping monster tale that is freshly planted in the modern world takes skill many of wish wish we had.
I look forward to reading your story someday, as it's that easy...do reply with a link. :D
@@brianagray6940
I wouldn't necessarily want to argue with any of that.
Another pitfall, all to common however is when people take everything including themselves far far too seriously.
I still continue to listen Horror Babble mostly because it's fun, (remember fun,) but like everyone I enjoy some stories far more than other but then, "The best is always the enemy of the good."
@@Eris123451 Fair enough. Just remember if you can that it's easy to ruin someone's day with casual criticism. I'm pretty sure these guys trying to create aren't made of steel. Horrorbabble is fun, a great channel.
Ooooohhhhh man...a tangent off of my favorite lovecraft story. I am truly cursed.
Its halloween, i get to make lame jokes!
Well, that was a good story.
Its nice to see old thanthar back in business again. Hes far too cool of an evil entity to only get one story.
He's awesome. A sort of more-developed Cthulhu really. I think Out of the Aeons was written after Call. Love the lore and backstory of the denizens of K'naa.
@BlackGateMedia55 absolutely. The first time I heard the story (on this channel of course) I was hooked when it got to the part where he reads the history from...nameless cults is it?
@@nsob8897 Yes indeed, the same "Black Book" Hannah has here (although I suspect hers is in worse condition than that held at the Cabot Museum 😄).
People dont believe it! Warren is alive and living in Argentina with Elvis
Some kind of church centipede...
👍🪦👍
Warren is dead....OMG, they killed Kenny
Go me
All Warren wanted was more ado.
Warren isn’t dead. But he’s a Dallas Cowboys fan so he kinda wishes he was.
💀
Warren .....noooooooooooooo!!!
Trying to make the worshippers of Magna Mater sympathetic is a bold choice
This is based on events established in Out of the Aeons. In that story Magna Mater/Shub Niggurath acolytes (particularly T'Yog who weilded the first scroll) attempted to defend Earth against "alien" Ghatanothoa. This just continues that emnity. OOTA is a great story, well worth a read.
@@zondervanamo Yep that's the Mythos.
👻🎃🐺🧛⚰🕸🕷🦇🎭🪦