"Out of the Aeons" by H. P. Lovecraft / Artifacts of Horror

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  • @AmericanMartyr720
    @AmericanMartyr720 6 ปีที่แล้ว +575

    I never get tired of hearing "the dreaded and monstrous necronomicon, of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred"

    • @David-og7di
      @David-og7di 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      13.55 brilliant blasphemy.

    • @無教会内村
      @無教会内村 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      After listening to several of these, I'm convinced "The Dreaded and Monstrous Necronomicon, of the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred[™️]" is the only proper way to refer to it now.

    • @nicholaschamberlain6239
      @nicholaschamberlain6239 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I prefer to call it "The black book of the Mad Arab, Abdhul al-Hazred and his wicked findings".

    • @FirCorred
      @FirCorred 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@nicholaschamberlain6239 Is it acceptable to call it "I want to read that!"?

    • @zhollamychalis4252
      @zhollamychalis4252 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yeah but does this book really permit itself to be read?

  • @sterlingnilssen5812
    @sterlingnilssen5812 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I'm addicted to the narrations with this voice. They help me sleep when sleep feels impossible.

    • @michaeljorden8968
      @michaeljorden8968 ปีที่แล้ว

      We

    • @RolandWieffering1
      @RolandWieffering1 ปีที่แล้ว

      The same with me, and especially the Cthulhu mythos stories. They bring me in a twilight, zone close to sleep.... Welcome to the club.

  • @robertjohnson-kj8vj
    @robertjohnson-kj8vj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    The shwarmi putra guy is randolph carter after he comes back to earth in the bug body from i think yuggoth. (Gate of the silver key)The description of him fits perfectly.

    • @MalcolmBrenner
      @MalcolmBrenner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      More like a crustacean than an insect, I think. I wonder if he had to have his antennae trimmed to fit in that waxen human mask? Must have been painful...

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I figured the "swami" was a worm that walks, like the mute wizard from The Festival.

    • @bobbymarcum772
      @bobbymarcum772 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, who wears absurd white mittens these days aside from wax-like swamis

  • @tonlito22
    @tonlito22 6 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    The oldest and most powerful emotion is fear, and the oldest and most powerful fear is fear of museum patrons.

    • @Plankensen
      @Plankensen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      as seen in ancient cave-paintings about the ancient horrors: Alien taxmen, queues, bureaucrats writing on stone-slabs. and the above-mentioned horrible...inexplainable terror that comes from the museum patrons

    • @AndrewMaksym
      @AndrewMaksym 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lon strickler?

    • @icecremeswirlieeee
      @icecremeswirlieeee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Is this Night Vale?

    • @MalcolmBrenner
      @MalcolmBrenner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Plankensen Pardon me, but the whole story about proto-bureaucrats "writing on stone slabs" is not only preposterous, but unscientific! The earliest example of real writing we have is in early Babylonian curneiform on a clay tablet, and appears to be a piece of graffiti: "The King has a drinking problem, the High Priest gets high, and the Queen has a K9 lover." The significance of the symbol for K9 isn't known, but experts believe it relates to a worshipper of Anubis, the jackal-headed god.

    • @Plankensen
      @Plankensen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MalcolmBrenner It's a joke. :P i thought that was very self-said, yet here we are.

  • @katdroidd
    @katdroidd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    Another thoroughly enjoyable reading from Ian! Also, I do not consider any tale officially Lovecraftian until I hear the word "cyclopian".

    • @labellafleur6262
      @labellafleur6262 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Not to mention non-euclidian

    • @StarboyXL9
      @StarboyXL9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      its almost Lovecraft's signature

    • @JamesMC04
      @JamesMC04 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Or "blasphemous".

    • @StrikeTheSkyline
      @StrikeTheSkyline 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You almost forgot cacodaemoniacal

    • @kdoran04
      @kdoran04 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Gambrel roofs is everywhere.

  • @matineemike
    @matineemike 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you, Ian; you are simply the best curator and narrator of weird tales!

  • @TheHappyhorus
    @TheHappyhorus ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Many thanks again team, where would our nights be without you. ❤❤

  • @primus7776
    @primus7776 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I love falling asleep to this stuff.
    Best nightcap ever!

    • @corinnejohnson8501
      @corinnejohnson8501 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's what I'm doing right now :)

    • @adsmithh2578
      @adsmithh2578 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same it's perfect!

    • @helenwhite2066
      @helenwhite2066 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      If your lucky it may inform your dreams and engender an interesting nightmare.

  • @chrishalliday8371
    @chrishalliday8371 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    One of the finest tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, superbly delivered. Delicious!

  • @urbex_cr5063
    @urbex_cr5063 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    This is isn't his most famous work, but is definitely my favorite! This story is so captivating and intriguing, I love that fact that makes you want a 2nd part, but that would ruin all the mystery and imagination where your mind takes you after finishing it.

  • @corygiesbrecht5423
    @corygiesbrecht5423 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Just wanted to say, "thank you for sharing your time and talent to produce this channel".

  • @donrussell1606
    @donrussell1606 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    My goodness, I've just been going through your archives. You have so many horror tales I do believe I can spend the rest of my like listening to one a day. Thank you so much. I love horror tales. I believe I'll work on Edgar Allan Poe next. He has always been a favorite of mine

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      And there's plenty more yet to come Don - thanks for joining us on the journey! Ian

    • @karehhartig7287
      @karehhartig7287 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don Russell ha ha ha ! Right !?

  • @donaldmccleary9015
    @donaldmccleary9015 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is an amazing story. This story NEVER gets old! I listened to it slowly today and rewound parts to pick out all the details. This is an amazing work of art.
    This is a well-written story. I love the links and references to other mythos stories and "books of the mythos." There are many links to other stories included in this.
    Fantastic narration, as always.
    To be that way for 173,000+ years!
    Well-done!

  • @orangeiceice12
    @orangeiceice12 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    My only problem with horror babble's lovecraft collection is finding something I haven't listened to at least twice.

    • @KatherineMathiowetz
      @KatherineMathiowetz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah I sadly he died way before his time if he was 47 That's only 2 years older than I am now so imagine what he could have wrote if he lived longer but I never get tired of hearing him most I have trouble with knowing what once he wrote by himself and wrote with other people I need to find something to help me distinguish between the two

  • @AnAmericanComposer
    @AnAmericanComposer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Cancel all my appointments for the next hour!!

  • @davidwhite7294
    @davidwhite7294 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Well done Ian. I asked for this one a while back because there is no other decent narration of this story. The only trouble is that, as with the Dreams in the Witch House with Brown Jenkin, l now want my own Ghatanathoa so l can take him out for a waddle down the High Street where he can bring terror and petrifaction to the inhabitants of Deptford.....excellent.

    • @stevepalpatine2828
      @stevepalpatine2828 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Genetically engineered Brown Jenkin companions are the pet of the future.

  • @andromalius9595
    @andromalius9595 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Didn't expect it to be as good as it was. Also isnt it weird how everyone in Lovecraft's stories know about the necronomicon dispite it supposedly being a rare and secret text?

    • @LTPottenger
      @LTPottenger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Merely knowing about it puts you in the ranks of the accursed

    • @Duchess_Van_Hoof
      @Duchess_Van_Hoof 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It is in several major universities so it is probably well known among occult students of the setting.

    • @MarcusHCrawford
      @MarcusHCrawford 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s a common enough book among academics-especially those at Arkham University. There are other volumes and folios that are less known and much more dangerous within the mythos, but the Necronomicon seems to be one of those books skeptics refuse to indulge, the superstitious are scared to, and the knowing acolytes of the occult who trade in secrets are unwilling to publicize that such a simple and mundane thing could contain such revelations as it does. This combination of factors seems to keep it in circulation, despite most not knowing what evil lurks within its pages.
      - Me rationalizing a bit of inconsistency on something so dangerous and powerful being so common.

  • @Beastinvader
    @Beastinvader 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This would make for such a good movie.
    The problem with Lovecraft in movie is showing the evil being. In this story you never have to show it. Only glimpse it once.

    • @R.I.H
      @R.I.H 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just in case you haven't heard of saw this game called bloodborne
      Check it out I think some of the monsters are as close as you can get to describing the indescribable horror
      Game loosely based on certain Lovecraft stories

  • @Folker46590
    @Folker46590 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This one could be made into a short film very easily.

  • @SwedetasticGames
    @SwedetasticGames 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    This is by far the most terrifying work of H.P.L I've heard until now. What an absolute masterpiece.

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's one of my favourites too, Jonathan. Ian

    • @MalcolmBrenner
      @MalcolmBrenner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I remember how, as a 10-year-old, the Hans Christian Anderson story "The Little Girl Who Stood On The Loaf," which has a similar theme of a transgressive person frozen for aeons in the same position, utterly terrified me! And I was a boy, who really didn't need to add morbid fears to his long list of problems! I am sure if I'd encountered this HPL story at that age, it would have made me even more neurotic than I am!

    • @NGRevenant
      @NGRevenant 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      being trapped in your own mind for 175,000 years doesn't sound very fun

    • @MalcolmBrenner
      @MalcolmBrenner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@NGRevenant May I remind you that you're never alone with a schizophrenic?

    • @CJM-rg5rt
      @CJM-rg5rt ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@NGRevenantit's so disturbing that as they were passing around the scroll they said the mummies eyes were bulging. Knowing it was right there in front of him.

  • @melparadise7378
    @melparadise7378 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    homeboy had no mouth and he needed to scream. hoohoohoo

    • @colefranklin27
      @colefranklin27 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mel Paradise the matrix borrowed from this..

    • @TransRoofKorean
      @TransRoofKorean 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, that was my thought revisiting this story, that it's very reminiscent of that story. Presaged it by a few decades.

  • @johnphilipfelipe4542
    @johnphilipfelipe4542 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    OH my eyes are open. Fear the blood, fear the old blood.

  • @hellhammer7444
    @hellhammer7444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'll never be able to read Lovecraft without hearing your voice narrating it. Thank you for all your hard work.

  • @0therun1t21
    @0therun1t21 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That's one hell of a living sculpture in the video, if I'm seeing it right.
    This story crept into my dream in the form of my cat's paws, they had tentacle like suction power and my cat was like the mummy but still adorable. He kept hunting my hand and trapping my fingers between his paws, it felt really weird, my ex was there and I woke up.

  • @skywyzeparanormal7934
    @skywyzeparanormal7934 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is my favorite Lovecraft story. Thank you for reading it and this channel.

  • @jamiecameron7615
    @jamiecameron7615 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Finishing off this brilliant series with H.P is just perfect. You have made my day!! Thank you very much!!

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks as always Jamie! Ian

  • @philbertdez3863
    @philbertdez3863 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great Scott! Brilliant production values and an excellent voice/reader make this adaptation well worth listening to. Keep up the awesome work.

  • @Runeinc
    @Runeinc 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    THANK YOU! My favourite of all of Lovecrafts work!

  • @RolandWieffering1
    @RolandWieffering1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very good how the healing power of the Real Scroll is described. Without mentioning it straight out.
    Everybody who reads it knows that the strange stiffening feeling disappeared after handling the true Scroll. Well done, it's one of my favorite stories by HPL and HH.
    I still hope for the Trail of Cthulhu, complete. There are some loose stories available. I would like to hear from "The House on Curwen street" up to the "Black Island". But Copy right is probably difficult.
    All the best to you Both.

  • @prince-solomon
    @prince-solomon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This story is fascinating & well narrated.

  • @austencobine864
    @austencobine864 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I have been waiting for this for a while. Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @strange1420
    @strange1420 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love that Pickmans curator position was mentioned here to broaden the lore

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Terrific performance!

  • @mahorosan1
    @mahorosan1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    fuuuuuuuuuuu man that last part still sends shivers up my spine. legit couldn't finish it till the next day

  • @JohnLemieux
    @JohnLemieux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    If you enjoyed this I recommend a film called the autopsy of Jane doe which I suspect drew inspiration from this story

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Love that film, John!

    • @jerryjohnson8485
      @jerryjohnson8485 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It had to have! A lot of inspiration

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for the recommendation. Will have to check it out later.

  • @MTheBasementReader
    @MTheBasementReader 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I think I found my new favorite channel 😀❤

  • @bittybitty8233
    @bittybitty8233 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Me too !! 💜💚💛💙💕😸😸😸. I've enjoyed this series SOOO. MUCH.....TY 😳

  • @kenneth83DK
    @kenneth83DK 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thx for another wierd and wonderful tale, told as if it came from the crypt itself.

  • @HorrorBabble
    @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Artifacts of Horror
    Episode 6: Out of the Aeons
    Written by American authors, H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, the tale focuses on a Boston museum that displays an ancient mummy recovered from a sunken island.
    Chapters:
    00:27 - Introduction
    00:58 - Part One
    14:59 - Part Two
    21:53 - Part Three
    39:41 - Part Four
    53:43 - Part Five
    Bandcamp link: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-the-aeons
    Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble
    Music: "Red Limbo Spread" by Ian Gordon
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    • @truthspirit4433
      @truthspirit4433 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Doors - 5 to 1 H.o P.e Lovecraft ^ Hazel Heal'd Are You Hip to the Stars? StarsHip th-cam.com/video/3tHPsphg9xc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=f9Spmy3YfTsTqO7L
      Waiting For The Sun 🌞 ☀️ 🌅

  • @Lucid_Death
    @Lucid_Death ปีที่แล้ว

    One of Lovecrafts best IMLTHO. Great job Ian/HB.

  • @ernestschultz5065
    @ernestschultz5065 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent

  • @bingomat1980
    @bingomat1980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Without further ado......................
    ..................................... lol. Had me hanging. Thanks for the vid.

  • @fnamelname9077
    @fnamelname9077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this one. Great reading, as well!

  • @Minerva734
    @Minerva734 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like the ghost writings he did with Hazel Heald. All of them =-)

  • @NightAngelus
    @NightAngelus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Keep coming back to this one since you guys posted it. So awesome and the ending man. Love your channel.
    Sucks what happened to you guys. So messed up hopefully you can find a solution that works the best for you.

  • @smegcity
    @smegcity 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just Listened to This, What can i say?. Fantastic That's What!!
    Strength to Strength Ian🙌🏻🙌🏻

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you once again, sir! This is one of my favourites. Ian

  • @seanchds9750
    @seanchds9750 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing story, especially the ending

  • @christyrollins8009
    @christyrollins8009 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Scary geez wtf but awesome nonethe less thanks for the great story excellent reading

  • @doktorwyvern2883
    @doktorwyvern2883 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wonderful

  • @ExterminatusDeliveryService
    @ExterminatusDeliveryService 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    17:23
    I love this. Just absolute murder of newspaper coverage.

  • @Aroundthesquarebowl
    @Aroundthesquarebowl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you ❤

  • @bittybitty8233
    @bittybitty8233 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I'm so happy to see your sub's growing !! 😸

  • @scottmitchell1974
    @scottmitchell1974 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow! Awesome! That one was really good.

  • @vero0992
    @vero0992 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I keep trying to listen to this one (and I think I've read it before) but that mummy is freaking me out! 😅 I'm laughing at myself over it. I'll try again during daylight hours!

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It *is* pretty appalling Vero! Ha! Ian

  • @G1ace
    @G1ace 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    H.P Lovecraft is AWESOME!

  • @jacksonvillereclaimedwood6709
    @jacksonvillereclaimedwood6709 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy is s great reader. He could make the phone book sound great!

  • @philipclements8505
    @philipclements8505 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Recently discovered and loving every minute of it .

  • @Mi-yc3oy
    @Mi-yc3oy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    “curator pickman”? 🎩
    surely, that’s not by accident.

    • @chrisrobo1
      @chrisrobo1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He did manage to become a gouhl. Is a meusiam curator that far off?

    • @Calvin300clan
      @Calvin300clan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Its in a lot of my favorite stories 2

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think there's more than one Pickman in New England.

    • @Duchess_Van_Hoof
      @Duchess_Van_Hoof 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Became? Wasn't he a changeling and a born ghoul?

  • @Tekel-Upharsin
    @Tekel-Upharsin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Possibly the scariest, most disturbing, body horror story of all time. I remember being highly disturbed by Cain's brain scene in the 1990 Sci-fi film RoboCop 2 the first time I watched it as a kid (sadly I can't link to the video directly in this comment because it's flagged as mature content - but you can easily find the scene via a simple TH-cam search).
    Lovecraft was somehow able to take a similar disturbing concept to a completely different level 55 years prior. Hazel Heald couldn't have selected a better author to collaborate with. I don't know how much of the story Lovecraft had to edit and adapt to get the final result, but her foundation was obviously solid enough for Lovecraft to turn it into a masterpiece.

  • @MrsCaranAmy
    @MrsCaranAmy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was an incredible tale. Fantastic reading. Thanks Ian.

  • @richardstrachmesserschmiti4979
    @richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Press 1 for most excellent story
    Press 2 for most excellent non fiction story

  • @slim-yin
    @slim-yin 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks again.

  • @pbr-streetgang
    @pbr-streetgang 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼🖖🏼

  • @vero0992
    @vero0992 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hey guys great thanks a lot (spoilers)
    It was more horrible than I thought! The picture of that mummy matches the description perfectly AND there was a dude trapped in it at the end?? Eww! I hate the thought of being trapped in an inanimate object for all eternity. And when I was a kid my mom took my took me to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, which I'm just reading now was founded by the esoteric Rosicrucian Order, and they had a freaky mummy and all kinds of other stuff. There was actually an ad for it in one of the old "Weird Tales" I looked up. What! Thanks mom!
    Excellent reading!

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sounds like the kind of thing my mum would have exposed me to if she had had the chance! No wonder we have such 'dark' interests nowadays...! Ian

  • @micahfoley9572
    @micahfoley9572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wish my name came with an awesome title like, "the mad arab". That's basically exactly as i want to be remembered. Seriously, coolest title in weird literature. Even cooler than "the crawling chaos", which is already double awesome.

  • @michellesanctuary9089
    @michellesanctuary9089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing Work! ☕

  • @tommeakin1732
    @tommeakin1732 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I've only just started listening to some of Lovecraft's stories, and I've just realised how many Lovecraft references there are in Fallout 4.... ^^

    • @highatlastdabs8000
      @highatlastdabs8000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tom Meakin yup there’s a whole lot in fallout 3 and 4

    • @Keiththebullfrog1916
      @Keiththebullfrog1916 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not to mention far harbor dlc

    • @MalcolmBrenner
      @MalcolmBrenner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Woe betide those who have ripped-off The Master, ever since Roger Corman in the early 1960's! Now. Lovecraftiana has become a major media industry!

    • @tommeakin1732
      @tommeakin1732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MalcolmBrenner I may be misunderstanding, but it sounds like you're implying that references to Lovecraft equate to ripping-off Lovecraft? I appreciate that there can be a fine line between paying homage, building upon something revolutionary, and just plain copying - but the things I'm referring to are most definitely homage

    • @MalcolmBrenner
      @MalcolmBrenner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tommeakin1732 It's sarcasm, of a sort, because it's true. Lovecraft is popular, in large part, is because nobody pays royalties to use his stories.

  • @PlayNiceFolks
    @PlayNiceFolks 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I enjoy strolling the lonesome nite within the woods of Red Dead Redemption 2 while listening to such tales.

  • @guilledcf1547
    @guilledcf1547 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ghatanothoa is such an underrated eldritch abomination

  • @countiblis1246
    @countiblis1246 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Eleven uses of the word cyclopean. Even for Lovecraft that's laying it on pretty thick.

  • @ChewieFlakes
    @ChewieFlakes 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Definitely one of my all time favorites

  • @Courage_girl13
    @Courage_girl13 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    *final thing happens*
    Me: was not expecting that. But then again I expect the unexpected so it doesn't count

  • @Calvin300clan
    @Calvin300clan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @DieselWeazel
    @DieselWeazel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great read.

  • @danbreeden1801
    @danbreeden1801 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great story and well told

  • @questorincompetus8841
    @questorincompetus8841 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They sound like detective halligen from mystery of the druids.

  • @Morboeatspeople
    @Morboeatspeople 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Went through the ages intact, just to be vivisected :( I wonder if this was on King's mind, when he wrote Autopsy Room(?)...

  • @Mality
    @Mality 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Imagining the suffering of Ty'og gave me a rough night. What a horrible fate!

  • @autystycznybudda5012
    @autystycznybudda5012 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When I hear your voice I imagine Alex Delarge from Clockwork Orange

    • @thomfarrell9567
      @thomfarrell9567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Singin' in the rain? 👽

    • @MalcolmBrenner
      @MalcolmBrenner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And the foolish claim that Stanley Kubrick is dead!

  • @nicholaschamberlain6239
    @nicholaschamberlain6239 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I always loved H.P. Lovecraft stories, in fact, I have been thinking of writing a little novel series in a similar style as both the author and Edgar Allan Poe, however, I have not thought of a title..... yet but I'm not giving up on it, although, one idea gives me the name "Dark Alleys of Cthulu and the bar of the Outer Gods." Idk, give me feedback by comment.

  • @andilucas6926
    @andilucas6926 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What a perfect image to illustrate this story! (shudder)

  • @DeadHix
    @DeadHix 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How I wish I have a voice like yours Ian

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      You probably haven't heard me in the real world...!

    • @DeadHix
      @DeadHix 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I could imagine you talk like when you are reading in real world.

  • @WowUsernameAvailable
    @WowUsernameAvailable 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    An interesting take on the Medusa mythos.

  • @MusKubium
    @MusKubium 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    the gravity of what they found is so well laid out by the story after they open the skull at the end, I would probably have shit myself if i were in the room while it happened

  • @PoFFizdaMan
    @PoFFizdaMan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow.. the descriptions of the cult in the 3rd section are on par with Tolkien's lore in names and terminology.

  • @dvynthetraveler9509
    @dvynthetraveler9509 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    take a shot every time Lovecraft uses the word "cyclopean" in any of his stories. JFC lol

    • @michaelchitwood389
      @michaelchitwood389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When i can afford a 4 day hangover, i shall get right on it!

    • @Kitsaplorax
      @Kitsaplorax 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      So long as it is eldritch, squamous, non-euclidean and indescribable, it's good with me.

    • @StarboyXL9
      @StarboyXL9 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He does tend to repeat himself, which funny enough has given me cause to try and deliberately make liberal use of a thesaurus while writing. I'm not a fan of constantly repeating myself using the same diction, and thanks to the Internet I can have a thesaurus on demand at any time.

    • @micahfoley9572
      @micahfoley9572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I do a happy dance whenever ian says "the mad arab". Coolest epitaph EVER.

    • @notinspectorgadget
      @notinspectorgadget 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that's what happens when you get paid by syllable.

  • @vivanecrosis
    @vivanecrosis 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I dreamt last night of hellish demonic abominations that would make any a sane man weep in horror. Obviously caused by listening to your videos until 5am, and then going to bed. I thank you.

  • @Duchess_Van_Hoof
    @Duchess_Van_Hoof 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I find myself distracted early on in this one, but the latter parts well made up for it.

  • @RolandWieffering1
    @RolandWieffering1 ปีที่แล้ว

    If something this contagious would break out, only can be cured by a scroll.... Man that would be something...

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yikes...

    • @RolandWieffering1
      @RolandWieffering1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@HorrorBabble That would be the right reaction in such a situation...... Yikes! (with a tongue in cheek) have a good day pal. (Laughing is the best medicine there is) C. U.

  • @iunary
    @iunary 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow this is terrifying^^ well done

  • @darkkrafter
    @darkkrafter 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I cant wait to listen to it

  • @GeoffreyChurchilley
    @GeoffreyChurchilley ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yaddith-Gho is Stark Mountain. Beware the uttermost vault, and its waddling devil.

  • @viriathas9910
    @viriathas9910 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This would make a pretty good movie, I think.

  • @Scenereans
    @Scenereans 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @horrorbabble Thank you for your lovely videos, as always! I wanted to ask if you've ever done Lovecrafts "The picture in the house?" I can't seem to find one that I like as much as your narrations.

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi Rena - it's scheduled for December! :) Ian

  • @Duchess_Van_Hoof
    @Duchess_Van_Hoof 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Poor ancient heroic and tragic priest, he did not deserve such a horrid end.

    • @vgamedude12
      @vgamedude12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Then these idiot humans cut him open and operate on him when one of the guys knew with 90 percent certainty he was alive. Absolutely horrible. Then they don't even try to save them with the scroll even after everything they saw.
      Unbelievable ignorance.

    • @Duchess_Van_Hoof
      @Duchess_Van_Hoof 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Morally repugnant is what they are. If they hadn't dissected them, they could be saved at a later date at least.

  • @waterboyownall
    @waterboyownall 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    If Mu did exist it would be quite weird looking at creations move around. Being a Explorer with Marco and Polo I would want to explore there... :) I got this audio book referred by looking up Atlantis.
    The thing i wish to discover in the future is how to teleport.

  • @bravingsirens2804
    @bravingsirens2804 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for introducing me to Lovecraft's works. What's the name of this image?

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's a photograph of a mummy found in Peru I believe.

  • @maunderjape8365
    @maunderjape8365 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for your hard work. What is that an image of? Creepy as hell.

  • @Borishal
    @Borishal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Abdul alHazred was my great grandfather.

  • @primus7776
    @primus7776 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh I LOVE this!
    Read it first in the early 80's.
    Fabulous1