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"Subterranea" by W. Elwyn Backus / UNDERWORLDS

UNDERWORLDS
Episode 1: "Subterranea" by W. Elwyn Backus
First published in the November 1931 edition of Weird Tales magazine, "Subterranea" tells of a strange land lying several miles beneath the Egyptian Pyramids.
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:24 - 1. The Enigma of the Sphinx
0:09:40 - 2. Pharaoh’s Well
0:16:58 - 3. Grotto of the Slugs
0:23:52 - 4. Into the Limbus of Sheol
0:37:22 - 5. The Sahara Sea
0:47:20 - 6. A Crater Metropolis
0:58:48 - 7. The Stygian Horde
1:06:26 - 8. The Flaming City
1:13:46 - 9. The Chamber of Sacrifices
1:28:54 - 10. When the Earth Exploded
1:35:26 - 11. Through the Rock Sky
1:47:32 - 12. Lost Worlds
1:50:22 - Further Listening
How about some Lovecraftian artifacts?
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  • @HorrorBabble
    @HorrorBabbleАй бұрын

    Series playlist: kzread.info/head/PLeNNKRLWxwoNRUldIbdjG40pKCB5SKkED

  • @EdThomasisCthulu
    @EdThomasisCthuluАй бұрын

    The work you do to find new tales for us and your awesome readings are greatly appreciated!

  • @winstonsmith8597
    @winstonsmith8597Ай бұрын

    I had some popcorn for Warren, but somebody told me he was dead

  • @sarge4455

    @sarge4455

    Ай бұрын

    😂

  • @MarcusHCrawford

    @MarcusHCrawford

    Ай бұрын

    You fool!

  • @wakuaroberts2992

    @wakuaroberts2992

    Ай бұрын

    He is you fool.

  • @wakuaroberts2992

    @wakuaroberts2992

    Ай бұрын

    @@MarcusHCrawfordyou beat me to it Marcus, you fool.

  • @krusader357

    @krusader357

    Ай бұрын

    His corn was popped a long time ago friend 🤣

  • @CPWebster
    @CPWebsterАй бұрын

    Another knockout narration from Mr. Gordon, thank you.

  • @awarningtothecuriouswerewolves
    @awarningtothecuriouswerewolvesАй бұрын

    I thought for a moment that the tag line said UNDERWEARS -- now that would be truly frightening! Cheers Warren, who never mentions his unmentionables!

  • @Boogie_the_cat

    @Boogie_the_cat

    Ай бұрын

    It wouldn't say underwears. Underpants in the UK are called "pants"

  • @awarningtothecuriouswerewolves

    @awarningtothecuriouswerewolves

    Ай бұрын

    @@Boogie_the_cat -- I thought they were called Smalls! Anyway, Boogie Cat, I'm buried in the USA so its Underwears! Cheers Warren, who's smalls were Extra-Large -- till they rotted away!

  • @karenmcdonald7801
    @karenmcdonald7801Ай бұрын

    I really enjoyed this epic adventure, perfectly narrated, great!

  • @beitodesstrafe
    @beitodesstrafeАй бұрын

    I very much enjoyed that. Thank you!

  • @alantaylor353
    @alantaylor353Ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for this treat.!! 👍 👍 👍 Please stay safe out there & the very best wishes from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙏 ❤️

  • @shadownet3d
    @shadownet3dАй бұрын

    A great adventure! Thank you!

  • @MarcusHCrawford
    @MarcusHCrawfordАй бұрын

    Looking forward to this. The intro is gold, and as not-a-fan of tight underground spaces, hoping for some good chills. We will see where it goes! Best narrator ever!

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_Ай бұрын

    What a fantastic reading!

  • @andreasfilis9001
    @andreasfilis9001Ай бұрын

    Excellent! It reminded me " The Mound "

  • @CJ-uf6xl
    @CJ-uf6xlАй бұрын

    Brilliant! Thank you 🙏

  • @willjennings7191
    @willjennings7191Ай бұрын

    I like that this one was organized into discrete parts.

  • @Shacthulhu
    @ShacthulhuАй бұрын

    Brilliant! Several tales I have yet to add to my life. Thank you all, Ian & HB! 🤘

  • @GameBrain321
    @GameBrain32120 күн бұрын

    Just brilliant, my favorite narrator. Thank you for another interesting story spoken so lively

  • @rosiemcnaughton9933
    @rosiemcnaughton9933Ай бұрын

    Very ambitious undertaking! Thank you. Made me think of a few stories by others especially Journey to the Center of the Earth.

  • @OskinsBob
    @OskinsBobАй бұрын

    GOD BLESS YOU MAN 👍

  • @4362mont
    @4362montАй бұрын

    Listened to this before sleeping last night!

  • @cheesewiz9087
    @cheesewiz908725 күн бұрын

    This story is a delightful mix of The Mound and The Dweller in the Gulf. Great pick!

  • @soulreaver1983
    @soulreaver1983Ай бұрын

    Another outstanding video thank you Ian!

  • @dawnrowlands2408
    @dawnrowlands2408Ай бұрын

    I really appreciate these stories. Thank you for an author I'd not heard of before.

  • @mersmithy1269

    @mersmithy1269

    Ай бұрын

    Mentally Lovely 😉👍

  • @deniseindoung4514
    @deniseindoung4514Ай бұрын

    I'm fascinated whenever Ian does American, because i can't quite place his accent? I want to say New England. But i just listened to several KZread videos trying to nail it down, and i can't quite. Comments from more knowledgeable opinions welcome!

  • @Wombats555
    @Wombats555Ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @benruniko
    @benrunikoАй бұрын

    Oooo quickly! Click the video!!! Wonderful, so excited to hear this new story and new series! Thank you so much :)

  • @rayfairbanks6280
    @rayfairbanks6280Ай бұрын

    WOO HOO! LETS GO!

  • @pastordeniseearley6067
    @pastordeniseearley6067Ай бұрын

    This is wonderful!🎉🎉

  • @jessedeeeeee
    @jessedeeeeeeАй бұрын

    Yessss! In time for a long overtime shift. Thanks.

  • @anthonyfreeman3165
    @anthonyfreeman3165Ай бұрын

    I've been waiting for this! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @chrispeterson3362
    @chrispeterson336221 күн бұрын

    I love hollow earth stuff and underground monsters. A fantastic story and excellent narration

  • @4ms301
    @4ms301Ай бұрын

    Yay!!!!! Thank you! 👍

  • @OskinsBob
    @OskinsBobАй бұрын

    IAN THE MAIN MAN 1H52MINS STONE COLD STEEL STAMINA 💎

  • @kgreen242424
    @kgreen242424Ай бұрын

    I'm supposed to be moving into my new house but the power is out. I may have just enough time to finish this treat! Lol. Who am I kidding, I would have listened regardless of the power but I tell myself that to justify my procrastination. Thanks. PS: Has anyone seen VM? He is absent again. I suppose this means there will soon be a new episode appearing here

  • @HorrorBabble

    @HorrorBabble

    Ай бұрын

    Moving is never fun! As for VM... he'll be back soon!

  • @kgreen242424

    @kgreen242424

    Ай бұрын

    @@HorrorBabble Yes I suspect the same. It's impolite to ask too many questions but as a courtesy extended to the firm, will you please notify us when you are releasing his new episode with all due haste. It's always good for his recovery after a tough gig to catch your performance at its first airing. He so enjoys the way you craft his actual life into the incredible yarns the rest of us can't wait to hear. Fantastic, yes. Paranormal, certainly. All true though and that's a Van Melsen guarantee. (A cigarette but flops lively to the floor, sending tiny sparks of radiant brilliance dancing with the summer breeze. We are just able to discern a tall thin figure wreathed in a trench coat that's somehow even more black that the stygian surroundings. As they are slowly walking away the VM theme song begins to play. VM's rough gravely voice cuts in. "You didn't think it was over did you". Drums. Credits) Come next week for the second installment of "Where my cat?" Lol

  • @tishahouse846
    @tishahouse846Ай бұрын

    Listening from the ukwales ❤

  • @nickjames205
    @nickjames205Ай бұрын

    Just the kind of story I love. Reminds me of H Rider Haggard

  • @AcornElectron
    @AcornElectronАй бұрын

    I’m late, apologies, cmon England 😂 ⚽️

  • @Eris123451

    @Eris123451

    Ай бұрын

    Though not nearly as late as the as the, "late," Harley Warren who's now very late indeed. Good to have you back again, stay safe and take care.

  • @HorrorBabble

    @HorrorBabble

    Ай бұрын

    Final on Sunday! Yikes...

  • @EricDaMAJ
    @EricDaMAJАй бұрын

    Warren isn’t dead and doesn’t plan to be. His “Live, Laugh, Toaster Bath” t-shirt is just dark humor.

  • @amgroves76
    @amgroves76Ай бұрын

    Wow really enjoyed that

  • @bigsarge2085
    @bigsarge2085Ай бұрын

    ❤‍🔥

  • @Egg_Apron
    @Egg_Apron18 күн бұрын

    I love how the women of Subterranea are given two whole sentences: they are rarely seen outside of their houses and they're entirely devoted to their men and children. Even underground women are trapped under Patriarchy, geez.

  • @chbend8220
    @chbend8220Ай бұрын

    Warren went out like a gangster.

  • @kevinsumner9690
    @kevinsumner9690Ай бұрын

    I bought a cathulu ring becasue of this channel.

  • @BigTuk
    @BigTukАй бұрын

    And once again Man-things cause problems for the great-glorious Under Empire. Yeah I can't be the only one who thought this. Warhammer Fans chime in and post which clan you think this was.

  • @nathanielgrey4091
    @nathanielgrey40916 күн бұрын

    I am totally using the fire mountain in a DnD campaign. That was amazinb

  • @tamlandipper29
    @tamlandipper29Ай бұрын

    Definitely my speed. Determined and capable protagonists. Awful monsters.

  • @jasonsurrette76
    @jasonsurrette76Ай бұрын

    Thanks again for making Americans sound like complete dorks, which we mostly are

  • @OskinsBob

    @OskinsBob

    26 күн бұрын

    NO NOT ALL O YOU

  • @johnjones2nd667
    @johnjones2nd66716 күн бұрын

    Backus..... Backus..... Baccus! I wonder if his family were winemakers or wine drinkers? Probably both.

  • @redeye2225
    @redeye2225Ай бұрын

    Ok but who's warren

  • @nsob8897

    @nsob8897

    Ай бұрын

    The dead guy. If you're not joking, he's from the tale: "the statement of Randolph carter" who is a recurring character in h.p. Lovecraft stories.

  • @GRAYR189

    @GRAYR189

    Ай бұрын

    He's the adventurer who paid with his life for a discovery made deep beneath an ancient and decrepit graveyard....

  • @earlofnacho

    @earlofnacho

    Ай бұрын

    Not gonna lie, I’m glad I didn’t ask this or see a spoiler. I already assumed it was from a story, but man I was soo pumped when I finally stumbled on /the one/ and heard that line in context . It happened over a year after I first subbed too lol Now go listen and join the club!

  • @GRAYR189

    @GRAYR189

    27 күн бұрын

    @@redeye2225 "Again I called down, "Warren, are you there?" and in answer heard the thing which has brought this cloud over my mind. I do not try, gentlemen, to account for that thing-that voice-nor can I venture to describe it in detail, since the first words took away my consciousness and created a mental blank which reaches to the time of my awakening in the hospital. Shall I say that the voice was deep; hollow; gelatinous; remote; unearthly; inhuman; disembodied? What shall I say? It was the end of my experience, and is the end of my story. I heard it, and knew no more-heard it as I sat petrified in that unknown cemetery in the hollow, amidst the crumbling stones and the falling tombs, the rank vegetation and the miasmal vapors-heard it well up from the innermost depths of that damnable open sepulcher as I watched amorphous, necrophagous shadows dance beneath an accursed waning moon. And this is what it said: "You fool, Warren is DEAD!" In context.

  • @AnthonyBarnwell-vt5gd
    @AnthonyBarnwell-vt5gdАй бұрын

    G Man you and ruemorge make a great team

  • @fabiopereira8208
    @fabiopereira8208Ай бұрын

    Wait! Where is Warren?

  • @4everfighter

    @4everfighter

    Ай бұрын

    He's dead

  • @irProspect204
    @irProspect204Ай бұрын

    Hey

  • @NerdishNature
    @NerdishNatureАй бұрын

    Pour one out for Warren

  • @sabastjunberthiaume8391
    @sabastjunberthiaume8391Ай бұрын

    Hey can anyone help me here? I’m looking for a story that is about a person who sees a human sacrifice and then a toad god shows up briefly

  • @sabastjunberthiaume8391

    @sabastjunberthiaume8391

    Ай бұрын

    Any help at all would be appreciated

  • @HorrorBabble

    @HorrorBabble

    Ай бұрын

    Sounds like something featuring Tsathoggua -- can you remember anything else about the story?

  • @sabastjunberthiaume8391

    @sabastjunberthiaume8391

    Ай бұрын

    @@HorrorBabble I think it took place in Europe maybe? And the sacrifice was a baby and it described it in pretty graphic detail. There was also either big cliffs or large stones

  • @gacarson

    @gacarson

    23 күн бұрын

    The story you're thinking of is The Black Stone by Robert E. Howard, one of the best mythos tales by a writer other than Lovecraft.

  • @Vampster19CockedD20
    @Vampster19CockedD20Ай бұрын

    I love this story but you know they probably died of brain parasites from eating snails.

  • @FreedomFrog333

    @FreedomFrog333

    Ай бұрын

    Lol, I have eaten many a snail, yet I still live...for now.

  • @mersmithy1269
    @mersmithy1269Ай бұрын

    1.25 x speed ❤

  • @laurelsilberman5705
    @laurelsilberman5705Ай бұрын

    I love your work. But when you do an American accent, it’s a lot more convincing sounding to pick a regional accent and try to emulate that; right now when you narrate someone from America it’s this weird, mixed, kind of unsure and inconsistent pronunciation that kind of sounds like no one, and it’s very distracting. It’s like how Americans when they do a British accent it’s all over the place, not really understanding that not only are there class aspects of how strong one’s accent is, as well as the fact that someone from 20 minutes away from somewhere else can sound completely different. Like a generic east coast or Midwest is fine, it’s just really uncertain and sounds just very unnatural. I love your channel, I really do. I watch every upload. But if this is going to be an ongoing series I thought I might as well just throw some input out there.

  • @HorrorBabble

    @HorrorBabble

    Ай бұрын

    Thanks, Laurel. I appreciate your feedback. With older stories like this, the idea is to go with something general, so as to avoid putting a modern or specific slant on things. The main 'voice' I use isn't my real accent of course -- it's a general British accent that doesn't represent any particular region of the country. This isn't to say that I don't want to improve my regional accents -- as I've said many times before, I'm forever a work-in-progress!

  • @Eidridin

    @Eidridin

    24 күн бұрын

    Because the stories are early 20th century, I like to think that Ian helps immerse it with a sort of Transatlantic kind of accent. Which makes sense for traveling aristocratic American adventurers.

  • @mikegiamalva321

    @mikegiamalva321

    22 күн бұрын

    I think you do a good American accent.

  • @earlschandelmeier751
    @earlschandelmeier75124 күн бұрын

    I love this channel but please lose the "American" accent. As an American it is as hard to listen to as an American doing a British accent. No need. Your amazing British reading voice is worth its weight in gold!!!

  • @jamesduffy5980

    @jamesduffy5980

    17 күн бұрын

    If the character is American he should at least try to do an American accent.

  • @earlschandelmeier751

    @earlschandelmeier751

    17 күн бұрын

    @@jamesduffy5980 No. No. No. His voice is amazing the way it is. Why would you want a fake sounding bad impression of an American accent instead of his own voice. Honestly, if you can suspend disbelief and enjoy the story why can't you do the same and overlook the accent?

  • @jamesduffy5980

    @jamesduffy5980

    17 күн бұрын

    @@earlschandelmeier751 I can ask you the same question. The characters are American, so why shouldn't he do his best at imitating their accents? That's the standard for audiobooks.

  • @earlschandelmeier751

    @earlschandelmeier751

    17 күн бұрын

    @@jamesduffy5980 I can tell you why he shouldn't do it. His American accent significantly decreases the quality of the audiobook. I don't believe in following some nonsensical rules, well that's what they do, when following that rule gives a significantly diminished product. Doesn't seem like a good way to operate a business. What kind of argument is, "well that's what they do in audiobooks" anyway? And frankly having almost 400 audiobooks in my audible library I don't necessarily even agree that that's what they do in audiobooks. Sure different characters are given different voices but seldom do I hear characters try to take on accents from different countries. It is far far too difficult to pull off. If there is a significant character who is foreign most audiobooks use multiple narrators. Same goes with female to male and vice versa.

  • @jamesduffy5980

    @jamesduffy5980

    17 күн бұрын

    Well I follow my own rules, so that that means I don’t follow anybody’s rules, not even my own. New rule: Ian Gordon does an American accent even if the character is British Addendum: I laugh at how angry this apparently makes you.