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

@David-og7di

5 жыл бұрын

13.55 brilliant blasphemy.

@Mukyoukai

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@FirCorred

4 жыл бұрын

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

@zhollamychalis4252

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

@michaeljorden8968

11 ай бұрын

We

@RolandWieffering1

9 ай бұрын

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

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

@Plankensen

5 жыл бұрын

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

@AndrewMaksymBrainNectar

4 жыл бұрын

Lon strickler?

@icecremeswirlieeee

3 жыл бұрын

Is this Night Vale?

@MalcolmBrenner

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@bobbymarcum772

8 ай бұрын

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

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

@labellafleur6262

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention non-euclidian

@StarboyXL9

3 жыл бұрын

its almost Lovecraft's signature

@jamescam04

3 жыл бұрын

Or "blasphemous".

@StrikeTheSkyline

3 жыл бұрын

You almost forgot cacodaemoniacal

@kdoran04

2 жыл бұрын

Gambrel roofs is everywhere.

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.

homeboy had no mouth and he needed to scream. hoohoohoo

@colefranklin27

3 жыл бұрын

Mel Paradise the matrix borrowed from this..

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

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

4 ай бұрын

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

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

@corinnejohnson8501

5 жыл бұрын

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

@adsmithh2578

3 жыл бұрын

Same it's perfect!

@helenwhite2066

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

@HorrorBabble

6 жыл бұрын

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

@MalcolmBrenner

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@MalcolmBrenner

3 жыл бұрын

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

@CJM-rg5rt

6 ай бұрын

​@@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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Duchess_Van_Hoof

Жыл бұрын

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

Cancel all my appointments for the next hour!!

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

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

@chrisrobo1

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Calvin300clan

3 жыл бұрын

Its in a lot of my favorite stories 2

@Xbalanque84

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Duchess_Van_Hoof

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

@KatherineMathiowetz

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

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

@HorrorBabble

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Cory!

@micahfoley9572

3 жыл бұрын

preach, brother

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

6 жыл бұрын

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

@karehhartig7287

6 жыл бұрын

Don Russell ha ha ha ! Right !?

This story is fascinating & well narrated.

THANK YOU! My favourite of all of Lovecrafts work!

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

@HorrorBabble

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks as always Jamie! Ian

Excellent

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

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

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

H.P Lovecraft is AWESOME!

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

Thank you ❤

I think I found my new favorite channel 😀❤

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@ghostofh.p.lovecraft6299

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention far harbor dlc

@MalcolmBrenner

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

Wonderful

I love this one. Great reading, as well!

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

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 Support us on Bandcamp or Patreon: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com www.patreon.com/horrorbabble HorrorBabble MERCH: teespring.com/stores/horrorbabble-merch Search HORRORBABBLE to find us on: AUDIBLE / ITUNES / SPOTIFY Home: www.horrorbabble.com Rue Morgue: www.rue-morgue.com Social Media: facebook.com/HorrorBabble instagram.com/horrorbabble twitter.com/HorrorBabble

@truthspirit4433

9 сағат бұрын

The Doors - 5 to 1 H.o P.e Lovecraft ^ Hazel Heal'd Are You Hip to the Stars? StarsHip kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zah8stWpmMqfqMY.htmlsi=f9Spmy3YfTsTqO7L Waiting For The Sun 🌞 ☀️ 🌅

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

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

@HorrorBabble

5 жыл бұрын

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

Recently discovered and loving every minute of it .

Amazing story, especially the ending

Love u for doing these m8

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.

Wow! Awesome! That one was really good.

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

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!

Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼🖖🏼

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

Amazing Work! ☕

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 KZread 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.

Great story and well told

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

6 жыл бұрын

It *is* pretty appalling Vero! Ha! Ian

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

@HorrorBabble

5 жыл бұрын

Love that film, John!

@jerryjohnson8485

4 жыл бұрын

It had to have! A lot of inspiration

@Xbalanque84

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

@daviddanielducker5446

5 жыл бұрын

what happened?

Terrific performance!

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

@HorrorBabble

2 жыл бұрын

We do that a lot...!

Great read.

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

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

Wow this is terrifying^^ well done

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

6 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

@michaelchitwood389

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Kitsaplorax

3 жыл бұрын

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

@StarboyXL9

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@notinspectorgadget

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

I cant wait to listen to it

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

Thank you

At last, the only story by HPL, that I haven't heard. I know that HazelHeald co wrote but I think it's mostly Lovecraft coming through. I was surprised about the way characters and events from past stories were in the plot. Thanx so much for the effort that you put into your productions. Really enjoyed this!

@HorrorBabble

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Elaine - I'm glad you enjoyed it! Ian

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

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

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

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

"We indignantly refused to abet such superstitious notions" Any sympathy i had for the narrator died at this point

@brianvanpatten9260

3 жыл бұрын

I hate that statement, it ruins the entire thing. Still my favorite of Lovecraft

@brianvanpatten9260

3 жыл бұрын

Not that the entire written account of the curator was superstitious and impossible or anything hahah

@Michaeljack81sk

3 жыл бұрын

@@brianvanpatten9260 Curator is a coward, deep down he knows what would happen and rejects it to preserve his worldview.

@vgamedude12

2 жыл бұрын

Agree. This guy was an absolute ass and so was everyone involved. Not even bothering the scroll on the two poor souls. I hate how alot of the characters of lovecrafts tails are indeed cowards afraid of the truth, I can say if I was in a similar place I'd want the truth out and damn the consequence. That guy deserved some shot at some sort of peace after being entombed with his own solitary loneliness for over 175000 years.

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

Abdul alHazred was my great grandfather.

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

5:48 fear and loathing

It is interesting that Science pushes back human history with every new discovery..... Once again, fiction precedes discovery of the natural world. I wonder what Lovecraft and others would make of these new discoveries....

@MalcolmBrenner

3 жыл бұрын

Stories, my friend, wonderful, horrible, gut-wrenching, mind-melting stories of eldritch things, which have no names, bursting from the primordial, ooze-filled depths of the fecund Earth!

but forgotten are the bovine people of moo

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

@thomfarrell9567

3 жыл бұрын

Singin' in the rain? 👽

@MalcolmBrenner

3 жыл бұрын

And the foolish claim that Stanley Kubrick is dead!

Out of the Aeons...I'm coming for you!

@HorrorBabble

6 жыл бұрын

I'd love to hear your take on this one, sir!

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

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

How I wish I have a voice like yours Ian

@HorrorBabble

6 жыл бұрын

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

@DeadHix

6 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

@vgamedude12

2 жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@HorrorBabble

5 жыл бұрын

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

Von Juntz is a German name. It should be pronounced 'Von Yuntz'. Just like Dr. Karl Jung (Young in English).

@HorrorBabble

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks David - this has been pointed out before. I'm working on a reading of Howard's THE BLACK STONE at the moment, and so will be sure to hit the nail on the head. Ian

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.

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

@HorrorBabble

9 ай бұрын

Yikes...

@RolandWieffering1

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

This is like HPL writing a Lovecraft pastiche. Almost embarrassingly entertaining.

@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

5 жыл бұрын

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

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.

just feeding the cosmic horror that is the Algorithm

An interesting take on the Medusa mythos.

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.

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

the odd tall dark man with the turban, rubbery face and wrapped bulging hands who came to see the mummy... Maybe Randolf Carter?