THE DAMP MAN TRILOGY by Allison V. Harding
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THE DAMP MAN TRILOGY by the American writer Allison V. Harding, concerns the strange exploits of a large, mysterious figure dressed in black. What are his motivations? And why the obsession with a young swimmer by the name of Linda Mallory? The journalist, George Pelgrim, hopes to find out...
The three stories first appeared in Weird Tales in its July '47, September '47, and May '49 editions, respectively.
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:40 - The Damp Man (1/2)
0:43:16 - The Damp Man (2/2)
1:36:26 - The Damp Man Returns (1/3)
1:49:54 - The Damp Man Returns (2/3)
2:17:50 - The Damp Man Returns (3/3)
2:35:54 - The Damp Man Again (1/3)
3:07:34 - The Damp Man Again (2/3)
3:38:32 - The Damp Man Again (3/3)
3:58:51 - Further Listening
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Can't wait for Damp Man 4: Even Damper
@karenbanks5985
9 күн бұрын
This sounds like great stories
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. I have consumed more horror books in the last month than I likely have in my life. Started with The Cthulhu Mythos(which was A+ quality) and now I listen to something from this channel every night when I am winding down. Love the volume of content as well.
@johnhelm6231
9 ай бұрын
Good job five star
@HorrorBabble
9 ай бұрын
Thanks, Vinnie!
@Wombats555
9 ай бұрын
Get on to Abominations of Yondo and Vaults of Yoh Vombis Lovecraft emulated Clark Ashton Smith. On a good day he's the better writer of phantasmagoria.
This is my first horrorbabble I have listened to. Not even finished yet but I definitely will. I am sincerely impressed and I plan to support the kind person who is committing time and energy and asking for nothing to willingly support them anyway. Thank you!
@HorrorBabble
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for joining us!
@ephraimmelmer7152
8 ай бұрын
@@HorrorBabble My pleasure!
I would never have known about this trilogy without you.😊 Never heard anything like it. Its a classic.
Wow a nice long one. This is going to go great with some remnant 2 tonight. Thank you so much!
The drawing of the Damp Man is fantastic! Exactly right. 👌
Wow, Allison V. Harding really is a quality writer, this channel really is a great resource. Thanks!
Thank you so much for all your work Ian.And jen very much❤🎉😂😅😮😢
Wow! Another solid banger! So much suspense! Now, I can finally fall asleep since I just listened the entire time.
This was absolutely amazing! Such an original idea, which satisfies lovers of both horror and scifi. The hypnotic narration makes it impossible to stop listening throughout the wild ride. 💜
@HorrorBabble
8 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed this one, and great to hear from you!
@violetfemme411
8 ай бұрын
@@HorrorBabbleThanks! Glad to be back 💜
@ashley2108
8 ай бұрын
It was hypnotic, wasn't it.
@MrBunghole666
8 ай бұрын
That has to be the most plastic reply ever
@violetfemme411
8 ай бұрын
@@MrBunghole666 That has to be the most juvenile non creative user name ever.
Loved this story man thanks again for it
I really enjoyed listening to this tale! The voice certainly added to the experience!
Simply the best reading!
@HorrorBabble
9 ай бұрын
Thanks as always!
Excellent as always many thanks again Ian!😎
I have listened to these individually on your channel. They are good. Thank you for combining them together. AVH was quite the writer! Thanks
The best road trip companion.
Brilliant telling of a fantastic tale
Highly recommend this excellent story, told superbly.😊
Perfect! It is going to last enough for tonight.
4 whole hours of horrorbabble? Don't mind if I do.
@lild6216
9 ай бұрын
Careful it's a little moist....
@fableshearth2457
9 ай бұрын
@@lild6216 damp, if you will
@johnsturgeon2967
8 ай бұрын
@@fableshearth2457.... 😮😅😅🎉🎉😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Matroxxtriste
8 ай бұрын
😊
@Matroxxtriste
8 ай бұрын
😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Well, I'm not planning on doing any work tomorrow anyway. So I might as well have an excuse.
Loved your voice on this . Fantastic story , with the unrelenting damp man's pursuit of the couple , very funny in parts too. And of course the ending ...well!
Thanks again.
What a great listen!
How did I miss this notification. Looking forward to this now!
Great story 🎉, thank you so much,so unusual, thanks again 🌷
@HorrorBabble
9 ай бұрын
Thank you for listening!
A particularly effective and well told tale.
Gonna fall asleep to this :)
You and your staff are legends, thank you❤
@HorrorBabble
9 ай бұрын
I always appreciate the thought that Jen & I have 'staff'!
@Wombats555
9 ай бұрын
HorrorBaby provided sound effects at one point didn't they? Family business :)
The ending really got me. Well done.
‘…Hostile late night pursuits and late night experiments gone wrong…’ Sounds like my career at Uni. 20 years on, I miss those days terribly. Though It would’ve been even better if I’d had HorrorBabble back in those days. Your Lovecraft readings would’ve been brilliant listening as I was coming down off the LSD. Thank you, by the way, for introducing me to these tales. I’ve never heard of them until your narration, and they’re marvellously peculiar.
What a fantastic trilogy!
Ya hadda do it, din'tcha? Ya hadda put these on here again! And you knew I hadda listen to 'em again! Seriously though, the Damp Man scares the liver out of me for some reason, but the stories are so good and you tell them so well that I just have to listen to them again. Oh, well, I didn't need to sleep tonight anyway!
Thanks
Unrelated to this reading. A few years ago I was listening to a story here about a man who stays in a strange town where the residents act like cats. It was an eerie tale for sure. If anyone can help id really like to finish it
@TheJakofClubs
9 ай бұрын
Sounds like Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood
@jgaz33
9 ай бұрын
@@TheJakofClubs that was it!! Thank you very much it's greatly appreciated
@Wombats555
9 ай бұрын
Check the Blackwood author list there is another called... Strange Devotion? That has a similar feel but sadly less cats. Think it's another John Silence story.
@twoshirts1842
7 ай бұрын
@TheJakofClubs you're a good person.
Part 2 surprise. Great stuff.
45:00 in and this story is much better than I thought it would be. I have been avoiding these stories for no other reason than I find the title and art work "off-putting ?" . I love a good Noir story.
I love this channel so much. I’ve been listening to a reading almost every day for the past few months. Just curious - does anyone know of a channel like this for sci-fi/fantasy shorts?
@HorrorBabble
8 ай бұрын
We've considered a separate sci-fi/fantasy channel, though sometimes we record sci-fi stories over here: kzread.info/head/PLeNNKRLWxwoPHZfVY_foSWT04_rj_AZCd kzread.info/head/PLeNNKRLWxwoMl_pNyRpgxgzhWpUn0WPDY
That was incredible!!!
This was very good! Well read of course as always but I've never heard of her and listened to the whole thing while working. Now I'm going to go find some more of hers I'll bet you've no doubt already recorded!
@HorrorBabble
8 ай бұрын
Here's a link to the Allison V. Harding playlist: kzread.info/head/PLeNNKRLWxwoOGO6cj4Z09UmWs36HhkuIm
SPOILER ALERT for anyone who hasnt listened to this yet. Please please could someone enlighten me regarding the ending. When George deliberately cut himself at the end did he bleed or was he changed into a damp man himself. I wasnt sure. It felt ambiguous but maybe its meant to be ...
Clicked on this because the thumbnail art looks remarkably like the work of an artist I like. Great story! I'm a sucker for sinister and unsettling humanoids or mutant humans in speculative fiction. Brilliant ending. Absolutely did not expect that. 10/10 on the Moist Meter.
@HorrorBabble
7 ай бұрын
Thank you for listening!
really enjoyed this one
Maybe if he spent as much energy dazzling up his stories as he exhausts while monologuing, he'd be a press secretary by now.
A tiny suggestion to anyone writing their own story. People don't actually get 'knocked out' for more than a couple moments. To add some realism, a normal human who gets punched that hard would start audibly snoring, and yes I know how funny that sounds but trust me, it's very real. Other than this tiny, very insignificant nitpick, it's a great story.
@rightcheer5096
8 ай бұрын
You seem to have experience knocking people out. For myself, I find that the biggest problem in this endeavor is when you try for that extra minute of unconsciousness and you end up giving them a fractured skull or worse. 💀 I hate it when that happens.
@Sparky-xk4vo
8 ай бұрын
Tee hee!@@rightcheer5096
summoning energy from my youngness and woman strength
No glasses on- thought this was a Jelly Roll video for a minute... Love a good story so still happy.
First timer ❤
@HorrorBabble
6 ай бұрын
Welcome!
I really appreciate that you have this channel, and it is so popular…your voice is hypnotic, almost erotic as you tell these tales. What a wonderful gift you have, the gift of storytelling!!! 🙌
@HorrorBabble
7 ай бұрын
Thank you! Quite an interesting way of putting it...
Interesting. As is the author. Quite a detective story finding out who she really was!
Really superbly horrific. As well as your voice acting, there's something to the villain. His otherworldly powers are far less an issue than his more commonplace incel entitlement! The stories and your dramatisation deserve way more recognition.
These are my favorite HorrorBabble stories. But where did you find that wonderful thumbnail painting?
@HorrorBabble
9 ай бұрын
It was produced when we recorded the first story, but we wanted to the use the original Weird Tales images for the individual tales.
@KNemo1999
8 ай бұрын
@HorrorBabble it's an amazing thumbnail. At first I thought it was Kim Jong Un
❤🕊
This is legit a rip off of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein but with an incel theme. You narrated it well and I am pleased you have a recording for Frankenstein.
@VersusArdua
6 ай бұрын
Where are you reading an incel theme here exactly lol
@VersusArdua
6 ай бұрын
Nevermind, I get what you mean now. Really it's more 'women writing men' imo, but yeah. I get your point
He should have shattered Remsdorf to bits in the Canadian park. But, that would have ended the story...
@skellikitten8281
8 ай бұрын
Yeaaa I was thinking the same o,o where's a shovel when you need one? But you are right. Then the story would end
You would think if she made the police report and not George, maybe the police wouldnt have been so dismissive. Who would believe such a beautiful girl was engaged to a behemoth of a "man" like Lothor? No matter how much money a man has, you cant dismiss utter disgust and fear. 😊
Cracking a six pack and getting damp as hell while doing some chores.
@HorrorBabble
9 ай бұрын
1:07:07 marking my place
She didn't really leave the ending there did she?
*DAMP*
😮
1:12:32 I really liked the beginning, but by this point the story is starting to lose me: He has kicked in the head and made unconscious a prone man, after stating he was looking for her, and now he has forcibly kidnapped and detained a complete stranger, in her bathing suit from a pool, against her will. Anyone with any sense would already have left a paper trail at the local Police. Sure, it's the late 1940s, but my suspension of disbelief is getting stretched thin.
@trashqueeen
9 ай бұрын
My thoughts exactly, none of the cops think to ask her whats going on?
@HorrorBabble
9 ай бұрын
There are several issues with the trilogy, but we just can't help loving it.
Bookmark 1:04:21
everytime i fart ihave to check my shorts for i fear i have become the damp man
Warren, you fool! He started at midnight. He's asleep!
So how did the damp man died?
@VersusArdua
6 ай бұрын
He didn't die he's hiding in your closet waiting for you to go to bed
cool story creepy antagonist.
2:50:00
01:27:00
🙃
Is damp man moist critical's wetter brother?
@HorrorBabble
9 ай бұрын
I had to look that one up!
lol. his co-workers name, jim crosha, lol
@HorrorBabble
9 ай бұрын
?
How you doing Mr Gordon?
@HorrorBabble
7 ай бұрын
I'm good thanks! And you?
@anthonybarnwell767
7 ай бұрын
@@HorrorBabble doing great just working daily at the hospital where I'm from
Might you have based the Damp Man's voice on a slowed-down recording of John Wayne? Wonderfully creepy effect, anyway!
@HorrorBabble
8 ай бұрын
I hadn't thought of it like that...!
Like number 667. I had to push the 666.
@VersusArdua
6 ай бұрын
Well done. You've saved the Earth yet again.
@YNVNEone
6 ай бұрын
Again?!?! Wow. I AM a gyro.@@VersusArdua
So swim coach got her kidnapped on purpose???
George was Jello because he wasn't aloud in the Pool n Beat all the Females.
Ig The Moist Lad didn't sound as scary
Ah. Moist!
@HorrorBabble
9 ай бұрын
EXTREMELY.
@benruniko
9 ай бұрын
@@HorrorBabble 😄
@andrewdaley5480
8 ай бұрын
The damp woman title would of attracted some funny comments. 🇬🇧 😁
Who the fuck is Warren man!
Airsoftfatty thumbnail? 😆
George shouldnt be in this story.