"The Haunting at Ravenglass" is an original, Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder audio drama, written by Ian Gordon, based on characters and themes created by British author, William Hope Hodgson. Synopsis: Carnacki has been hired to investigate an apparent case of haunting at Montague Castle, on the outskirts of Ravenglass, Cumbria, in which a lone, ghostly figure has been observed wandering the corridors of the castle’s guest wing after dark. But, as is often the case with Carnacki’s investigations, things aren’t quite what they appear to be... Chapters: 00:06 - Introduction 01:28 - The Haunting at Ravenglass Bandcamp link: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-haunting-at-ravenglass Written and performed by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble Music and production by Ian Gordon and Jennifer Gill With thanks to our producers: Krista, Ashley Lindsay, C. S. Pace, Robert Daniel Pickard, Eliah Reese, and Wes Sale This recording is dedicated to our Cthulhu and Yellow Level HorrorBabblers: Rashid, Ricardo, Brandon, Camerin, Kristinn, Logan, L. Harris, Cameron, Shanna, Patrick, Sara, Bernard, Galen, Simon, Cody, Kickweed, Chris, Joshua C. S., Richard, Bjorn, Daniel, Joshua H., 'General' Dipper, Jessica, Dan, Zontar, Soraline, John, Bryn, Jamie AND Art, Aaron, Andrew, Rahul, Larna, Thomas, Will, Laura, Miri, Alex, Ian, Adam, Ann, Dmitri, Mark R. P., Sean, Austen, PlutoniumNekoD, Alfred, Charles, Tanner, Philippe, Laura, Jeffrey, John M. D., William, John M., Andrew, Bonnie, Myles, Adriana, Veronica 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

I loved 'The Whistling Room' and other Carnacki stories as a kid. I had heard there were original tales being written of his continued adventures. And here we have one!

I like the way Carnacki never portrayed himself as fearless or even braver than anyone else. He frequently talks about how he's thisclose to running away.

RAVENGLASS??😃😃💜💜 I love it ALREADY!!...and Carnacki lit his pipe with a Zippo!...or equivalent😎there is also a nostalgic, very faint dusty pop, as though one is listening to this on a 33 rpm phonograph....?? Or maybe its just me. I can almost pick up the nose of the brandy, and hear a fire in the fireplace....Ian, I thank you and Jennifer...for working so hard, stepping thru the portals of imagination...to bring Carnacki...to us. Simply Brilliant my friend.

@HorrorBabble

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark! The 'dusty pop' you're referring to, is in fact Carnacki's fireplace!

The Carnacki stories have been some of my favorite on the channel! I was sad to have finished them all, and am equally excited to listen to this origional. I love you guys work and your excellent narration Ian. Thanks very much for writing and reading this for us!

Slowly on your way to ghost write for Lovecraft. :) Keep it up Ian.

Yessss get that monetized content!!! And original content at that!! You guys are truly indispensable here 🤓

There is a certain poetry to this; it was through Horrorbabble that I learned of Carnacki, I can't think of a better source for an original story, great Job!

This is more deserving of a screenplay than it is an audio book. Think that'll be my next project, an awesome tribute to a dazzling protagonist 🖤

I love the spunk you give Carnacki, lol he won’t take shit from Jessop. Amazing story and with a plot worthy of William Hope Hodgeson! Edit *”Damn it Jessop I was just getting to that!”* Oh my God, I laughed so hard and loudly that I believe I just woke up my Neighbors

Oh dear lord I am so excited to hear this!! Thank you so much.

Well done Mr.Gordon and Horror Babble! Excellent work! I look forward to more of your writing and narration of Carnacki. Thank you. Until next time.

Fantastic! It really feels like a Carnacki tale! Wonderful job!

A gift to us, truly! Oooh that ending

I love all the Carnacki stories. I love the way they speak, very clear and concise. The stories are very intertaining. Think I've heard them all, and would like to request more,more,more!

@HorrorBabble

4 жыл бұрын

We might just have to write another, Mary!

Totally Horrified my day, which is Good!!! I listen every night when I come home from work, even if it's a rerun-I miss Skull-face terribly, btw-you (Ian) captured the subtle shades of the Carnacki experience in a fun, yet still Horrifying, "live" way with the dialogue. Even the details like the way Carnacki gently subjects his dinner guests to emotional and mental abuse. Poor Jessup...little does he know he has yet to suffer at the translucent, salt-waterlogged hands of the Ghost Pirates. Or has already, and Carnacki has only damaged him further. It is too bad Hodgson was killed in WWI at the hand of the Hunnish Peril, but I am sure he smiles on your augmentation of his Legacy, from somewhere beyond the Borderland. Please do more of these.

Excellent! ...and the sound effects are wonderful. Thank you so much for all of your hard work everybody!

Few years back, I was surprised at discovering how many Carnacki pastiches there are out there. Same for the fiction based on Hodgson's Night Land universe. Looking forward to hearing your own take on Carnacki.

Had to hop over here first before listening to “Translucent”. You are seriously a man of many talents, dear Ian. Thank you for sharing with us. ❤

@HorrorBabble

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, Corinne!

@ClockworkChainsaw

2 ай бұрын

Me too, to reaquaint myself with the story.

Excellent job, Ian! Hodgson would be proud! You, my friend, can bring us the new adventures of Carnacki. Splendid work!

@HorrorBabble

Жыл бұрын

Thanks again, Donald!

That was an awesome story. Very original. Great job, I enjoyed it more than I was expecting to.

How awesome is this !!!!

Very close attention paid to characterization and writing style. Very well done, as always! I was also on the verge of telling Jessop to pipe down 🖤

Ian,I forgot how old you are in real life,your voice for these adaptions is amazing

I was already enjoying this character, but your story just solidified it for for me! Great job ty!

Awesome to see new writing by you from an awesome old series! Definatley fits the feel of all the other ghost finder stories! I enjoyed it a lot

"...the boy was fed and watered..." 😆 haha. I had to go back and listen to that again to be sure that's what you said! Thanks for the awesome story Ian!

@HorrorBabble

3 жыл бұрын

😁

Nice one Ian, I really enjoyed this one and would love to hear more Carnacki originals!

I enjoyed this Ian thank you!

I’m not typically a fan of a pure narration story but this was very engaging and very well done in my opinion. It also doesn’t hurt that I always loved the Carnacki tales.

@someroob7915

2 жыл бұрын

Haven’t listened yet, but didn’t Ian say this was a Dialogue focused story as opposed to narrative?

Perfect. Carnacki as can be and more succinct than the originals - a much needed change. Love to see more Carnacki but don't let that limit you - would love to see you take a shot at other authors, too.

Wondeful as always

Great story. Thanks again Mr. Gordon..

Thank you, you've done Hodgson a service.

Quite enjoyable. Thanks!

excellent!! you made Carnaki come alive - both how you’ve written it and how you’ve read it! and a wonderful production - congrats to all of you. ( the ‘noises off’ were just right - a little just to make it live. i know i’ve heard some of your other stories, but i must find them both heard and unheard. you also made me wish i was invited to that table - mmmm. :}

Yes. Yes. Yes. and Yes. oh , did I say... YES?. I can't wait to check it out!!

So well done! Thank you very much.

So this is your form of Fan fiction in which I look forward to it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank u Ian and team I so didn't know how much work u put in for these great storys .until now 💜🙏💜🙏

@HorrorBabble

Жыл бұрын

Thanks again, Shirley -- and thank you for the generous Super Thanks!

That was brilliant. The atmosphere that you created, the characters and the plot, make it almost obligatory to do a follow up story perhaps revolving around the adventures of the Montague boy in the mirror universe. You are a brilliant and imaginative writer and it's perhaps time you thought seriously about adding to your current body of original stories to get them published. I for one wouldn't hesitate to purchase any hardcopy edition of stories like this one.

Great job! I listened to it the first time without knowing you wrote it! Thank you.

Looking forward to listening to this at work.

Thank you!

great story tonight Ian - nice work

Great work. You managed to very well convey the Carnacki feel and provide a wonderful story.

Beautifully written, Ian. I got the vibe of a build up the whole story. Hodgson would be proud. The fireplace and crickets are icing on the cake that is your reading. Got the"passing an herb filled pipe" vibe which made me wish the story was longer.

Great stuff. Pure Hodgeson.

Thanks for the upload sir.

well done!!! i’m v impressed..and more than a little spooked!

Thanks for the wonderful story.👍🏼👍🏼

Absolutely superb, and great narration too.

I enjoyed that very much, thanks!

This is brilliantly written and narrated. I love it. Great work, Ian xoxo,:)

@HorrorBabble

Жыл бұрын

Thanks again, Kristina!

Wonderful!

great story, great homage , excellent reading as always.

Nice work on this one Ian. Fantastic job.

@HorrorBabble

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Robert!

OMG! i was thinking about “Alice Though the Looking Glass” while listening, (of course). i kept noticing Dodgson throughout the whole story and my mind was saying to itself “Dodgson, Alice, mirror. . . egads!!! sometimes one’s brain takes a while to work. LOL

well worth the wait.

Marvelous!

An excellent story, I do enjoy Carnacki.

Enjoyed this very much!

@HorrorBabble

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening, Rebecca!

Great job!

Your dramatic re-enactments/adaptations are actually fantastic. Thank fuck for you horrorbabble, you get me through life. 😂 Ever considered writing screenplay, Mr Gordon...?

@HorrorBabble

4 жыл бұрын

Watch this space, Wolfie...! Thanks for listening.

@wolfieworby5653

4 жыл бұрын

@@HorrorBabble absolutely anytime. HB gets me to sleep every night. Couldn't live without it ✌️

Instant like and save to my all time favorite YT List...most valuable original content😃 😃😃 Yes...I'm a smartass😃😃ahhh the irony!

This was really good.

haven't finished it but this is golden bravo!!

AWESOME ! REALLY AWESOME :-)

Fantastic story.

I really like the dramas I find that they are much more entertaining and engaging many thanks

I really like how he turns around and tells the other guy when he's trying to tell something when he's saying the story it's so funny and I really like how he went through the mirror I was like oh my God he's not going to get to get back through and any did and then his partner got what cut in half well does that goes. Loved it

Years later, I wonder if will we ever hear the poor boy's story. Fantastic writing Mr. Gordon. Have your own stories been published in an anthology? If not they certainly should be. They rank with all these masters of horror you seem to know and love.

@HorrorBabble

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, Gregory! We have a 10-story eBook collection available currently: www.amazon.co.uk/Tell-What-You-Know-Fear-ebook/dp/B07L6M48NL

@gregorybowe9383

2 жыл бұрын

@@HorrorBabble Awesome news. I'll be picking one up.

You guys are amazing! Thoroughly impressed! Is there anyway to purchase this in a written manuscript for my Carnacki collection?

@bburns2478

5 жыл бұрын

Buy the books

@parkeaudio1338

5 жыл бұрын

@@bburns2478 that would be fine usually but Sir Ian wrote this one, not William Hope Hodgson

@bburns2478

5 жыл бұрын

@@parkeaudio1338 I stand corrected Corey. There are several other authors who have written Carnacki stories and you can buy their books on Amazon etc, I thought this was one of those. Love these stories.

@HorrorBabble

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Corey - it's in the works. There'll be more to follow, too.

I have always suspected that Van Melsen was a direct descendent of Carnacki.

Well done.

I'd love to see more of these, each escalating in the rudeness of Carnacki kicking out his listeners at the end of the story. It should culminate in him beating the slowest dinner guest out the door with the leg of a chair and confessing it from an insane asylum, The Rats in the Walls style. Then he tells the psychiatrists to GTFO :)

@HorrorBabble

4 жыл бұрын

Ha!

Fingers crossed for a HorrorBabble original based on the Cthulhu Mythos. :)

nice. I'd like to hear you tackle John Silence next.

Ian, have you been feeling strange or experiencing lapses of memory lately? I’d swear Hodgson himself must have taken possession of you in an effort to write another enjoyable CARNACKI tale. Invite Hodgson back if you can. I enjoy CARNACKI stories.😁

@HorrorBabble

4 жыл бұрын

Ha - there would be a sure fire way of doing him justice! I appreciate the encouragement though, Raymond. :)

Thanks

I had considered that your attempt at adding to the Carnacki mythos would be standard fan fiction, where all fan fiction is prone to being derivative of the source and suffers by comparison. I have never been more wrong about anything. This was World Class, a real showcase of your writing and narration talent and must be considered canonical.

@HorrorBabble

4 жыл бұрын

Very kind of you to say, Graham. :)

@CountingHouse

4 жыл бұрын

@@HorrorBabble I hope you take my meaning positively. It is extremely rare that anyone attains spirit of the original author and you've done so I bet the man himself would be pleased.

Tom Fool could be a nasty man when the mood took him; such as giving directions to travellers that would lead to a bottomless bog. They would never be seen again. Perfect material for a Carnaki ghost story 👍👍👍 and what a fine story it was,thankyou.👏👍👏

Think WHH would be happy 😃. Great story and reading as always. You’ll need to write a collection!!!!!

Yes more Carnacki!

22:07 "Shut the f@#& up and pass me the booze" 😂

@HorrorBabble

5 жыл бұрын

Ha!

I like that there's a Hodgson among them. Is Miss Montague a shoutout to MR James?

@frankmcgovern5445

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, maybe it's a Dodgson.

@HorrorBabble

5 жыл бұрын

It isn't, Frank - but you're on the money with Hodgson of course.

@traceyskingley9906

5 жыл бұрын

I keep thinking mr james but hay hoo

Dont know how i overlooked this one Wonderful! I loves me some carnaki..lol

uhhh... i love your Originals, but a Carnacki Original ? more pls ^^

Great story

Omg yes!!!!!

This story is so deep

Ahhh - I used to lose my sh*t in Egremont raving at D’old Hall back in 92...

I am distraught. Carnacki discusses a case during dinner time? That's unheard of! Nevertheless, an effective device for your style of narrative, Ian. Your story is very impressive, and if anyone were none the wiser, they would think that it came from Hodgson himself. Marvelous job.

@HorrorBabble

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks again, Eric!

Carnacki by Gordon? It's not my birthday! 😃

Oh I like this one.

Heh a "bit premature" for a ghost...reminds of me of De mare's horror tale "A.B.O."... Okay, that was awful..I felt The Creep coming right over me, you understand?

Yeah! Who ya gonna call Bois?!

You should write more of these

This is basically Scooby Doo for grown ups 🤣😂 love it 😍

And pass that decanter while you're at it!

@VildhjartaFanGurl

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha Yas got the heart! I am a seriously dorky hodgeson fan and you do a masterful job of capturing not only his story telling style but the essence of carnacki and his genial yet foreboding air. Well done all around mate.

@HorrorBabble

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks David! Much appreciated.