For me, this story was the key to Lovecraft. I had read several of his tales before this one, but Shadows out of Time made everything fall into place and make sense. The stories I had read and the stories I read afterwards was all much more revealing after this one. His work is so immense in scale, that Im still flappergasted, when I dare to think about it. The stories themselves, might be perceived as low-quality fantasy horror stories with a sci-fi twist by some critics, but they actually questions reality itself and if you are lucky enough to get the artistic nerve he is trying to convey, you will never see the world in the same light gain. For good and bad. It somehow opens doors of perception that can be elaborated on. He elaborated on it, but only had time to write so much about it. His artistic and writing skills somehow dont matter much in itself, it is the idea itself, that is so incredible. This is great art, except art could perhaps be boxed as something somebody just made up for entertainment. Lovecrafts work transcends this shallow definition.
The story is only half the rent. The voice is the other, he reads like no one else on youtube. Clear, subtle and serious. Who can read like him? I'know none.Take my absolute grattitude!! Lovecraft would be proud!
I freaking LOVE this story's ending. The Yith are probably the only relatively 'noble' mythos aliens, but the idea of them hi-jacking bodies and swapping consciousness in order to escape foreseeable Armageddon still makes them a bit evil.
+Tony Smith they are unlike the fungoid migo. Who , like the E. O. D , share a likeminded servitude and use their similar science and technology in the name and ideals of the old ones, most of all: Cthulhu. (Though I assume for different reasons than the deep ones)
Richard Joyce Would we damn an entire species to an apocalypse to survive? I don't know. Human beings are capable of self-sacrifice, but the species as a whole is a bit harder to track. There would be some people who have a problem with it.
These are just read so well! The tone and manner of reading is exactly right for Lovecraft. Thanks so much for uploading, they're just the right thing for a sleepy rainy weekend afternoon.
@@jon79jw61 Yep, I agree, Wayne's reading of Lovecraft is awesome, he changes mood and tone to match the subject at hand. His reading of Rats in the Wall is amazing! Listen to his performance here: ua-cam.com/video/o0eDis-w-90/v-deo.html
I discovered Lovecraft my freshman year of high school. I had not read or listened to him in decades. What a delight!!! He related more truth than he ever dared imagine. And, yes, the narrator does an outstanding job! Most modern fantasy and horror are pale by comparison.
The very worst, most frightening, part is when he finds out there was "something" that had moved throughout the old dust, way down in the buried city. That in the very lowest level, where he finds " ...on that that deeply buried floor, the place where there was one of the barred and locked trap doors keeping out ( or in ) the unspeakable "things" the Yith were afraid of…. and, of course, now it's wide open! ( shiver! )
+anonymous that's why "the whisperer in darkness " (the story that introduced the mi-go race) is one of my favorites. The protagonist never directly meets them
I think the creepiest part was the dream, where he finally looks at his own body. The way it described him seeing nothing, and then revealing that this was because he was now looking downward, from the end of an inhumanly long neck, and then the freakish mental image of some primordial, cone-shaped being, and THEN ending all of this be describing his screams as being loud enough to wake half a city- it's all done so perfectly, not saying too much and overdoing it, but saying just enough to leave the horror to the imagination of the reader.
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I just wanted to say your channel is one of the best on youtube. I've read Lovecrafts stuff endlessly, and his stories in audiobook form are perfect for bedtime.
I am becoming a big fan of Howard Phillips lovecraft, I’ve been fascinated with writing since I was a child but swayed away from it in recent years, I find it hard to listen to all the story on these audiobooks because my mind has a tendency to wander off and miss half of it but so far my favourite from him is the shadow over innsmouth
Thanks for the upload! I love listening to Lovecraft tales, it makes it easier to just fade out and let yourself get taken away to a dark and amazing world.
You are very welcome! And yes, there is nothing like fading out into this unknown world of Lovecraft. I'm glad these audiobooks are helping it for you!
+Indigo Julze Awesome, because along with other excellence Lovecraft makes his aliens human. He has a sense of relativistic perspective, where as so many writers of the time often treat un-human aligned aliens as inhuman. Lovecraft: Sensitive, caring, and a deep thinker - - cool moist drafts through broken bars from unguarded depths.
Lovecraft was building a fictional universe. To call that recycling is to call all sequels using the same setting or characters as a pervious installment recycling. Lovecraft's sequels were just non-linear and sequels for not the narrative but series forvthe world he imagined
But 'Whisperer' holds a special place for me, as I read it just as I was getting into backpacking as a teen, the Green mountains were one of my first trips. Kept expecting to see something vaguely crablike in the mountain streams on Mt Mansfield LOL.
yeah, you bloody ozzies ::) you lot get up to all sorts of dark sordidness that would make the mad arab, blush. Its them kangaroos, isnt it? youve all been bouncing around on them so long, its rattled your brain blobs loose. just kidding. no need to send me for a "booting"
@@crossface5710 That, and the constant fear of drop-bears. The constant upward tilt of the head causes blood to pool in the back of the brain, resulting in a mild delirium.
Careful with the adjectives there hot shot. The encyclopaedian, antediluvian, gelatinous, froglike yet unwholesomely anthropoid protrusions and appendages of abysmal, primordial and immemorial obscurity are not for just anyone you know. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
As a lifelong Lovecraftian, this is my 4th or 5th time listening to this story. The reader is perfect for the writings. Lovecraft's attention to detail is absolutely rivetting! But I have a question: can anyone explain his apparent fascination with the arch? He makes a point of describing them to great extent in several stories, and I was wondering why. As an elder afficiando of all things strange and weird in literature, I consider Lovecraft to be the original 'Master'. Thanks much for uploading!
Though even scientists will admit that fossils left behind are few and far between, and that we haven't even yet discovered all of the living organisms on Earth today, much less know of every organism that has ever lived throughout the distant eons. Lovecraft's imagination in this regard is unique, since many seem to take for granted that we know everything we will ever know about the strange planet we live on. Taking into account the age of our planet, is it really so inconceivable that an intelligent species could have existed at some point in our distant past, long before humans, or even mammals?
I read this in the Necronomicon. I'm very happy to hear it, and good to know its available to those who look for it. I find the writing style dark and beautiful.
The narrator here seems most singularly suited. Some ask who could do a similarly good job at reading Lovecraft. I would suggest Alexander Scourby, the #1 Audio Bible Narrator. He died in 1985, alas, so a digital recreation of his voice, his enunciation, his very subtle understated melody or lack thereof should be undertaken.
I made the statement in the Horrorbabble version of this a statement that I still believe to be true. For the sane there will always be the fear to some degree of going off the deep end. I'm not talking about a period of depression. I'm taking about truly psychotic...a fracturing of the mind that might never be repaired. If I had experienced at any time what this character did...that would do it. I cannot imagine the crushing absolute realization. Screaming, crying, running to God knows where, isolation, and the contant echo of a Joker like laugh...just gone.
very similar to at the mountains of madness, it gives further insight into the old ones. Obviously we all know Lovecraft is a mason. I wonder how much of what he wrote is truthful esoteric illumination?
Intellectual Exercise yeah. he details the astral travel perfectly in this story. thats exactly how it is. more or less. he was telling the hidden truth through fiction, undoubtedly he had a helping hand along the way by "vested interests and powers".
after listion to a few of lovecrafts books I noticed he isn't good at writing dialog he never really writes conversations he always describes what people see what they're thinking or what they're reading but never what they're saying there is never any back and forth between 2 characters
i was looking for shadow over insmouth when i found this and whisperer in the dark is the one with the fucking crab people right man the main guy in that one seem smart most of the book but at the end he got really stupit really fast like he gets 2 letters from his buddy and he's all panicking talking about oh the fucking crap people are after me they crewing on my roof man killing my dogs I shot at them I think i got one don't come here i'm a gonner then all of a sudden on the next letter he's like oh everything is fine now the crab people turns out they're pertty cool dudes you should come over and don't forget to bring all the letters and evidence i sent you with you and Don't tell anyone where you going and oh ya it is totally safe here so come over how obvious dose a trap have to be man but he still gose there anyway there is talking in it but my point is he writes very little it's just rare for him to write diolog and when he dose it's not alot it's defently not his specialty it ain't like for example the game of thrones books where they have alot of conversions
Kains Legacy Yeah, that's the one. Very creepy story, one of my favorite Lovecraft pieces. It's true, he writes very little dialog. I guess it's because most of his stories are written kinda like memoirs, a past tense scripture of what someone experienced and went through.
Kains Legacy I don't think any of the books are very specific about Yog Sothoth, but I seem to recall that 'The curious case of charles dexter ward' at least mentioned Yog Sothoth a lot. "Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread."
A very poor Edgar Allen Poe tribute act. Vastly over rated . But at least he gets otherwise semi literate teens to read ? So, on balance ,a good thing ....
A lot of Lovecraft's stories do have , to a certain level, a kernel of truth. For example the stories seem to give life to the once living ''Old Ones '', - who will surely rise again in this eternal struggle between good and evil.. The forces of Evil , - or of Materiality , and the Forces of Love , Light , and power;-- all have a profound part to play in the cosmic , eternal Drama forever be.
Aw man I miss the old Screemshot this Playlist had. It was minimalist and captured some harrowing beauty of Lovecraft. New one looks like something Cooperate would releass
The dude got mind jacked by an ancient being who created a device millions of years ago that displaced it's conciousnes across time. Jumping from host to host, future to future.
Any idea who the narrator is? His voice is ideal for the style of these stories :) thanks for uploading, my love for Lovecraft wouldn't have blossomed had you not :)
rpeterson2205 According the the video at around the 2 hour 29 minute mark the narrator says "Read by Conrad Feininger." Also seems borne out by this text entry from LOC: www.loc.gov/nls/tbt/2004/2marapr.txt
+Joshuani If you listen to the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, it is read by Michael Kramer with an awesome voice as this plus he can do so many separate voice patterns during the tale and stay true to his own. Conrad Feininger is good and really fits this story well.
More detail and less constant use of a thesaurus would've benefited these tales more. Listing dozens of colorful people he spoke to about "secrets" vs. just describing one or two of the conversations in depth, it makes it feel more like Lovecraft wants to just paint the scene of a mystery. He is still my favorite but the more I read and listen, I think this.
+cyco phile That was the point. Clarity would've ruined the atmosphere, the feeling, of his tales. The unimaginable is always far, far, far more ominous than the describable. And what is describable must be described in known terms. No language can describe that which is truly alien.
One thing that confuses me about this, is who the antagonist species to the Yith are. Some people describe them as the Elder Things, others as the Flying Polyps. There are definitely references to the Elder Things, but some claim the 'trap doors' were for Polyps, but the creatures chasing Peaslee at the end were surely meant to be Elder Things (hence the whistling). Anyone got any idea?
I'm trying to understand what was the point of the last revelation. I thought we already knew his consciousness was trapped in the alien's body so naturally it would have his handwriting... or did i miss something?
Mr. Guy ikr. It made me shudder to realise that Lovecraft hugely influenced big-time lores like Warcraft and even other not so known parts of pop culture..
I love this story I just find the great city of Arabia deserta was underwhelming in comparison to his other localities even dunwitch was better, but I love the machines like the submarine and the electric vehicle.
One of his best quotes:
Mans oldest emotion is fear, and mans oldest fear is fear of the unknown.
Ethan Sheridan That quote still haunts me after so many years.
It's a "saying" that I've come to use when I'm scared of doing something new.
For me, this story was the key to Lovecraft. I had read several of his tales before this one, but Shadows out of Time made everything fall into place and make sense. The stories I had read and the stories I read afterwards was all much more revealing after this one.
His work is so immense in scale, that Im still flappergasted, when I dare to think about it. The stories themselves, might be perceived as low-quality fantasy horror stories with a sci-fi twist by some critics, but they actually questions reality itself and if you are lucky enough to get the artistic nerve he is trying to convey, you will never see the world in the same light gain. For good and bad. It somehow opens doors of perception that can be elaborated on. He elaborated on it, but only had time to write so much about it. His artistic and writing skills somehow dont matter much in itself, it is the idea itself, that is so incredible. This is great art, except art could perhaps be boxed as something somebody just made up for entertainment. Lovecrafts work transcends this shallow definition.
Thanks for sharing your insight with us!
Yes! This is exactly what I think when I read or listen to his work.
Well said!
Cyclopean dude.
HP lovecraft lets you fill in with your own dark imagination
The story is only half the rent. The voice is the other, he reads like no one else on youtube. Clear, subtle and serious. Who can read like him? I'know none.Take my absolute grattitude!! Lovecraft would be proud!
+Oksana Koprakova Thanks for listening!
Who is the voice that is reading these ?
Oksana Koprakova Yes!!! This is audio at its best! Who is this mysterious orator?
Beyond compare! I’ve literally listened to thousands of hours of audio and this is superb!
Conrad Feininger
the speaker has the perfect voice for these stories.
andy765gtr Indeed!
i know this is an old comment, but do you happen to know who is voicing these?
wait, forget i asked, found the answer
Conrad Feininger
This is absolutely my favorite narrator for Lovecraft’s books.
I freaking LOVE this story's ending.
The Yith are probably the only relatively 'noble' mythos aliens, but the idea of them hi-jacking bodies and swapping consciousness in order to escape foreseeable Armageddon still makes them a bit evil.
+Mike Zilla Evil, but not entirely. Noble as well, admirable. Not unlike our own kind. This is part of the complexity that makes Lovecraft sooo good.
+Tony Smith they are unlike the fungoid migo. Who , like the E. O. D , share a likeminded servitude and use their similar science and technology in the name and ideals of the old ones, most of all: Cthulhu. (Though I assume for different reasons than the deep ones)
Richard Joyce Would we damn an entire species to an apocalypse to survive? I don't know. Human beings are capable of self-sacrifice, but the species as a whole is a bit harder to track. There would be some people who have a problem with it.
Wartung to survive does not make you evil
Just a little Genocide
Great story. One of my top 3 from Lovecraft. Conrad Feininger delivers it masterfully.
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This is my favorite Lovecraft story. The narrator is awesome!
These are just read so well! The tone and manner of reading is exactly right for Lovecraft. Thanks so much for uploading, they're just the right thing for a sleepy rainy weekend afternoon.
My pleasure! Thanks for listening!
Who is the reader?
Try narrator Wayne June too.
The narrator sounds the way you'd imagine Lovecraft would.
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Thank you ever so much!
@@TheRecluseeee this is awesome thank you
He definitely sounds lantern-jawed.
So you’re saying he sounds racist and neurotic o.O?
I cannot listen to any other HP audio that is not this same narrator.
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Not even wayne june
Well horror babble is a great audio youtube channel.
@@jon79jw61 Yep, I agree, Wayne's reading of Lovecraft is awesome, he changes mood and tone to match the subject at hand. His reading of Rats in the Wall is amazing!
Listen to his performance here:
ua-cam.com/video/o0eDis-w-90/v-deo.html
True. He's got that vintage 30s-70s classic voice.
I discovered Lovecraft my freshman year of high school. I had not read or listened to him in decades. What a delight!!! He related more truth than he ever dared imagine. And, yes, the narrator does an outstanding job! Most modern fantasy and horror are pale by comparison.
This isn't so scary for me but it's very interesting and eery.
I love the lore created by Lovecraft
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No problem. Thank you for posting this :)
The very worst, most frightening, part is when he finds out there was "something" that had moved throughout the old dust, way down in the buried city. That in the very lowest level, where he finds " ...on that that deeply buried floor, the place where there was one of the barred and locked trap doors keeping out ( or in ) the unspeakable "things" the Yith were afraid of…. and, of course, now it's wide open! ( shiver! )
+anonymous that's why "the whisperer in darkness " (the story that introduced the mi-go race) is one of my favorites. The protagonist never directly meets them
I think the creepiest part was the dream, where he finally looks at his own body. The way it described him seeing nothing, and then revealing that this was because he was now looking downward, from the end of an inhumanly long neck, and then the freakish mental image of some primordial, cone-shaped being, and THEN ending all of this be describing his screams as being loud enough to wake half a city- it's all done so perfectly, not saying too much and overdoing it, but saying just enough to leave the horror to the imagination of the reader.
What we can see and hear is only a glimpse of the unseen yet present. Great reading here.
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"…a strange studious traveler from a far foreign land."
+Old-Man Parker Thanks for listening!
I’ve been listening to this as I fall asleep and I’ve been having really weird dreams!
Yes, that happened to me as well. ;)
My plan right now.
If you stare long into the abyss the abyss stares into you.
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I just wanted to say your channel is one of the best on youtube. I've read Lovecrafts stuff endlessly, and his stories in audiobook form are perfect for bedtime.
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It's honestly astonishing how ahead of his time his thinking was. I have no words.
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I am becoming a big fan of Howard Phillips lovecraft, I’ve been fascinated with writing since I was a child but swayed away from it in recent years, I find it hard to listen to all the story on these audiobooks because my mind has a tendency to wander off and miss half of it but so far my favourite from him is the shadow over innsmouth
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What's the name of this narrator? His voice fits this so perfectly.
Conrad Feininger
I've honestly been combing through the playlist just to find the stories read by this man.
+Rob Haskins his voice fits Howard's visage
Puffy the Destroyer Howards voice was said to be odd you can find a video talking about it on youtube.
I love how the only thing that frightens cosmic horrors is even more cosmic and horrific cosmic horrors. 01:13:00
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Thanks for the upload! I love listening to Lovecraft tales, it makes it easier to just fade out and let yourself get taken away to a dark and amazing world.
You are very welcome! And yes, there is nothing like fading out into this unknown world of Lovecraft. I'm glad these audiobooks are helping it for you!
Thanks for the uploads. I have today off and plan on listening to all of them.
You're welcome! Wish you a great time!
All of them lol.
These are brilliant. Thanks for uploading. It's so well read.
Richard Schutte My pleasure!
...a magician of the mind. He gives us a glimpse into his inner world. A dark and disturbing place.
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That was an awesome story. I really enjoyed listening to it. Thank you so much for posting these.
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+Indigo Julze
Awesome, because along with other excellence Lovecraft makes his aliens human. He has a sense of relativistic perspective, where as so many writers of the time often treat un-human aligned aliens as inhuman. Lovecraft: Sensitive, caring, and a deep thinker - - cool moist drafts through broken bars from unguarded depths.
Thx!
My dad read many many so-called audio-books back then for sight-impaired people.
Fucking great!
Heil Yog-Sothoth!
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The best Lovecraft stories begin with I'm in a loony bin writing my tale. Mine is called Psychopathic Psychotronics.
2002, ey? Sounds decades older. Really well read.
yeah,like the 50-s60s
You are getting smarter because of Lovecraft's syntax and the great Old Ones.
So true. LOL. Thanks for listening and cheers!
Darkest of the hillside thickets - Shadow out of tim is the music version of this story. and it is amazing.
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Now THAT was good. What an imagination. I love the word "stygian" :-)
robby faulkner Lovecraft was the king of imagination. :)
Best narrator ever! Especially for Lovecraft.
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I love how he recycles aspects of his writing. I had to get up to make sure this wasn't Dexter Ward
Lovecraft was building a fictional universe. To call that recycling is to call all sequels using the same setting or characters as a pervious installment recycling. Lovecraft's sequels were just non-linear and sequels for not the narrative but series forvthe world he imagined
This guy has a way of speaking , revealing the fact that He is well read and of gifted in education.
This was Amazeing in all acounts and I loved it.
Lizard Wizard Thanks for listening!
So brilliantly and subtlety written, the ending may seem anticlimactic, but a masterful twist.
Charles Lubelczyk Thanks for listening!
Very welcome, great service!
Charles Lubelczyk My pleasure!
But 'Whisperer' holds a special place for me, as I read it just as I was getting into backpacking as a teen, the Green mountains were one of my first trips. Kept expecting to see something vaguely crablike in the mountain streams on Mt Mansfield LOL.
I didn't need to sleep anyway.
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Listening to this from Western Australia is extra-freaky.
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yeah, you bloody ozzies ::) you lot get up to all sorts of dark sordidness that would make the mad arab, blush. Its them kangaroos, isnt it? youve all been bouncing around on them so long, its rattled your brain blobs loose.
just kidding. no need to send me for a "booting"
@@crossface5710 That, and the constant fear of drop-bears. The constant upward tilt of the head causes blood to pool in the back of the brain, resulting in a mild delirium.
In every book he mentions The Necronomicon of the Mad Arab, Abdul AlHazred, so I have to read that now
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I believe the name is a false name, the surname Alhazred seems that we All Have Read the necronomicon but need to seek its knowledge in the insane
Anyone else feel yourself getting smarter after listening to these Lovecraft audio books?
A few people have remarked on my expanded vocabulary.
Tate C Me too! :)
Same. I've also noticed an increase in quality in my own personal writings and musings.
me too! my writing improves every time i listen to his stories. try Poe too - the Masque of the Red Death read by Gabriel Byrne is just gorgeous.
His mastery of the English language was unsurpassed. Reading/listening has to rub off.
Careful with the adjectives there hot shot. The encyclopaedian, antediluvian, gelatinous, froglike yet unwholesomely anthropoid protrusions and appendages of abysmal, primordial and immemorial obscurity are not for just anyone you know.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
thanks-one of my personal favourite storys-well read..
My pleasure!
still one of the best books
Indeed!
This is really one of the best things on UA-cam.
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it is unhealthy how jealous of this narrators voice I am
+Chronophantamic Juju Thanks for listening!
Thanks for posting. this narrator is great.
Joe Young My pleasure!
Honestly I don't know what's so scary about those tentacle beings. It would pretty darn cool to experience this kind of trip
Take a drink anytime you hear "Queer-somethingsomething"
As a lifelong Lovecraftian, this is my 4th or 5th time listening to this story. The reader is perfect for the writings. Lovecraft's attention to detail is absolutely rivetting! But I have a question: can anyone explain his apparent fascination with the arch? He makes a point of describing them to great extent in several stories, and I was wondering why. As an elder afficiando of all things strange and weird in literature, I consider Lovecraft to be the original 'Master'. Thanks much for uploading!
Yes, I truly think there are very few masters of horror and Lovecraft was, IMHO, the king and there's no equal! :)
Who is this narrator, pure excellence, none better.
Though even scientists will admit that fossils left behind are few and far between, and that we haven't even yet discovered all of the living organisms on Earth today, much less know of every organism that has ever lived throughout the distant eons. Lovecraft's imagination in this regard is unique, since many seem to take for granted that we know everything we will ever know about the strange planet we live on. Taking into account the age of our planet, is it really so inconceivable that an intelligent species could have existed at some point in our distant past, long before humans, or even mammals?
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I read this in the Necronomicon. I'm very happy to hear it, and good to know its available to those who look for it. I find the writing style dark and beautiful.
I'm glad that you like the upload! Yes, indeed it's dark and beautiful.
Since I am not immortal, and have a rather finite amount of knowledge, who knows what mysteries history could hold.
Thank you for posting this.
Thanks for listening!
Damn, I wanna be an elder thing foreign exchange student! Where do I sign up?
I said best ever. Thinking about it, I forgot Vincent Price and Christopher Lee so I don't know about best ever but he's extremely good.
Price and Lee were amazing as well. :)
The narrator here seems most singularly suited. Some ask who could do a similarly good job at reading Lovecraft. I would suggest Alexander Scourby, the #1 Audio Bible Narrator. He died in 1985, alas, so a digital recreation of his voice, his enunciation, his very subtle understated melody or lack thereof should be undertaken.
Holy hell that was great.
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I made the statement in the Horrorbabble version of this a statement that I still believe to be true. For the sane there will always be the fear to some degree of going off the deep end.
I'm not talking about a period of depression. I'm taking about truly psychotic...a fracturing of the mind that might never be repaired. If I had experienced at any time what this character did...that would do it. I cannot imagine the crushing absolute realization. Screaming, crying, running to God knows where, isolation, and the contant echo of a Joker like laugh...just gone.
very similar to at the mountains of madness, it gives further insight into the old ones. Obviously we all know Lovecraft is a mason. I wonder how much of what he wrote is truthful esoteric illumination?
I think he had many astral projections during his sleep and many of his writings are inspired by the experience.
Intellectual Exercise yeah. he details the astral travel perfectly in this story. thats exactly how it is. more or less. he was telling the hidden truth through fiction, undoubtedly he had a helping hand along the way by "vested interests and powers".
after listion to a few of lovecrafts books I noticed he isn't good at writing dialog he never really writes conversations he always describes what people see what they're thinking or what they're reading but never what they're saying there is never any back and forth between 2 characters
Kains Legacy there is some conversation in shadow over insmouth and whisperer in the dark.
i was looking for shadow over insmouth when i found this and whisperer in the dark is the one with the fucking crab people right man the main guy in that one seem smart most of the book but at the end he got really stupit really fast like he gets 2 letters from his buddy and he's all panicking talking about oh the fucking crap people are after me they crewing on my roof man killing my dogs I shot at them I think i got one don't come here i'm a gonner then all of a sudden on the next letter he's like oh everything is fine now the crab people turns out they're pertty cool dudes you should come over and don't forget to bring all the letters and evidence i sent you with you and Don't tell anyone where you going and oh ya it is totally safe here so come over how obvious dose a trap have to be man but he still gose there anyway there is talking in it but my point is he writes very little it's just rare for him to write diolog and when he dose it's not alot it's defently not his specialty it ain't like for example the game of thrones books where they have alot of conversions
Kains Legacy Yeah, that's the one. Very creepy story, one of my favorite Lovecraft pieces.
It's true, he writes very little dialog. I guess it's because most of his stories are written kinda like memoirs, a past tense scripture of what someone experienced and went through.
JohnDiabol you know any love craft books where i could get alot of info on yog sothoth
Kains Legacy I don't think any of the books are very specific about Yog Sothoth, but I seem to recall that 'The curious case of charles dexter ward' at least mentioned Yog Sothoth a lot.
"Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread."
Lovecraft had one incredible imagination.
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A very poor Edgar Allen Poe tribute
act. Vastly over rated . But at least he gets otherwise semi literate teens to read ? So, on balance ,a good thing ....
A lot of Lovecraft's stories do have , to a certain level, a kernel of truth. For example the stories seem to give life to the once living ''Old Ones '', - who will surely rise again in this eternal struggle between good and evil.. The forces of Evil , - or of Materiality , and the Forces of Love , Light , and power;-- all have a profound part to play in the cosmic , eternal Drama forever be.
Indeed. This eternal cosmic drama will never end.
Aw man I miss the old Screemshot this Playlist had. It was minimalist and captured some harrowing beauty of Lovecraft. New one looks like something Cooperate would releass
The Central Scrutinizer has seen to it that you should be displeased in such a manner.
The dude got mind jacked by an ancient being who created a device millions of years ago that displaced it's conciousnes across time. Jumping from host to host, future to future.
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Any idea who the narrator is? His voice is ideal for the style of these stories :) thanks for uploading, my love for Lovecraft wouldn't have blossomed had you not :)
Joshuani Conrad Feininger
rpeterson2205 According the the video at around the 2 hour 29 minute mark the narrator says "Read by Conrad Feininger." Also seems borne out by this text entry from LOC: www.loc.gov/nls/tbt/2004/2marapr.txt
Rob Haskins Here's some video of him: bauhaus-online.de/en/magazin/artikel/stories-of-bauhaus-children-conrad-feininger-on-lyonel-and-t
+Joshuani If you listen to the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, it is read by Michael Kramer with an awesome voice as this plus he can do so many separate voice patterns during the tale and stay true to his own. Conrad Feininger is good and really fits this story well.
+Joshuani I just found out that Carl Feininger actually played the Hound and Machin Shin voice on a Wheel of Time 1999 ...that is too cool
Excellent reading thank you so much.
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I really want to listen to this but I have to get past the fact that the narrator's voice reminds me of the beginning of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
More detail and less constant use of a thesaurus would've benefited these tales more. Listing dozens of colorful people he spoke to about "secrets" vs. just describing one or two of the conversations in depth, it makes it feel more like Lovecraft wants to just paint the scene of a mystery. He is still my favorite but the more I read and listen, I think this.
+cyco phile That was the point. Clarity would've ruined the atmosphere, the feeling, of his tales.
The unimaginable is always far, far, far more ominous than the describable. And what is describable must be described in known terms. No language can describe that which is truly alien.
I tend to use a dictionary a lot with Lovecraft.
+Patrick S Welcome to the club! :D
Same with Daniel Handler ( Lemony Snicket) 😊
thank you for posting these, this channel is fucking great.
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What an intriguing story by an incredible man. I wonder what his cat's name was
Damn the ending was amazing
What an amazing story.
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this is too scary for me. cya..
hahaha
Since when do these videos have like forty ads in them..? Screw you UA-cam.
Incredible book
Best. Story. Ever!
Blake LaSart Indeed!
Ooh, Lovecraft write book good!
been watching these for awhile. is there a way i can donate
*veritably awesome*
Yog Sothoth thank you for your infinite knowledge I Nyarlathotep will gain all I need to know.
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ya all are just in love with adjectives.
Fine if there are not more of them than nouns,then it just gets
to be gobbly goop.
One thing that confuses me about this, is who the antagonist species to the Yith are. Some people describe them as the Elder Things, others as the Flying Polyps. There are definitely references to the Elder Things, but some claim the 'trap doors' were for Polyps, but the creatures chasing Peaslee at the end were surely meant to be Elder Things (hence the whistling). Anyone got any idea?
Yawn......! Who gives a F**k ?
Anyone know where can i find readings by Nathan Kloske?
This sounds like Ken Nordine. Anyone know where the original recording appeared?
I'm trying to understand what was the point of the last revelation. I thought we already knew his consciousness was trapped in the alien's body so naturally it would have his handwriting... or did i miss something?
Which audio book set is this? I don't know where to find it.
I like the title "shadow out of time." I sometimes feel that way, like a shadow out of time...
One of the coolest book titles ever! :D
1:00:57 f***kin Cho-Cho's coming here taking our jerbs
Is it just me guessing, or this has elements which could have been the source for the sci-fi show Doctor Who?
Lovecraft more or less is the father of modern science fiction.
That would make sense..
Although HG Wells is also a strong candidate, no?
Good point and they are loosely contemporary.
Lovecraft has very much influenced all of sci-fi; so this correlation is not at all unlikely.
Mr. Guy ikr. It made me shudder to realise that Lovecraft hugely influenced big-time lores like Warcraft and even other not so known parts of pop culture..
I love this story I just find the great city of Arabia deserta was underwhelming in comparison to his other localities even dunwitch was better, but I love the machines like the submarine and the electric vehicle.
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@marmonory.it was not a stroke-better to read the story than audio anyway,
Who is the narrator?
He is amazing love the richness of his voice
Bookmark ch. III - 32:46
TheThigoron Thanks for listening!
So who is this incredible reader?
58 whatever. priceless!
38:46 don't mind me, just leaving a bookmark
Wasn't His (the narrator's) grandfather Lyonel Feininger the Bauhaus expressionist artist?
Super-star of horror lit, Lovecraft = Eldritch Presley
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What is horror lit?, is it anything like horror literature 🙄🙄