This story is very engaging. Okay, I'm sucked in every time that I read or listen to it. Mostly because of the cyclopean ending, but the story buildup makes the package whole. Curious? Movie worthy.
I was so frustrated with the audiobooks as being read either too fast or without enough internal contemplation of the text. Your reading is just much more believable. An English gentleman laying out the story. Very authentic feeling. Much more even than the Lovecraft Preservation Society.
I couldn't agree more. I tried to listen to 2 readings prior to this, and frankly they were awful. To paraphrase a Chinese proverb. Music is about the silence Inbetween the notes. The same can be said for narration.
Hmmm…maybe I’ll have to give it another read, I found it sort of boring, and it’s the one story of Lovecraft’s that actually is as racist as his detractors characterized.
Thank you so much for this! I listen to dagon at 2AM this morning and was just tuning back in! Only to see you've redone call of cthulu as it's one of my favorite along with shadow over innsmouth....your delivery is impeccable the only reader i tune in for lovecraft
“Everything that I can remember, I have told with perfect candour. Nothing has been distorted or concealed, and if anything remains vague, it is only because of the dark cloud which has come over my mind-that cloud and the nebulous nature of the horrors which brought it upon me…” Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!
This is super awesome. I'm currently using it to practice my English pronounciation in an entertaining way by stepwise reading a sentence aloud and then listening to it on here. It also makes me appreciate the amazingly high skill that when into reading it, particulary the pacing and emphasis of the sentences and the little sub-sentences. Lovecraft seems to not use as many commas as modern day writers do, so the sentences can be sometimes challenging to deconstruct into nice understandable chunks.
Commenting before I listen tonight, I'm excited for some good old HorrorBabble entertainment. Once I'm done listening, I'll update. Well folks, I'm back to update when I first subscribed to the hb I listened to his cthulhu mythos comp with all the stories, but this set has always been one of my favourites other than shadow over insmouth but well once again I've been pulled into the stories with clear understanding on what's being read but what's more important is hearing the amount of passion and love HB gives in every video not just this one keep up the amazing work and thank you for being one of the greats I listen to whilst painting my minis
First time listener! I was searching for an audio book version of Lovecraft's classic work and as soon as I heard your tone and pace, I immediately knew this was what I was searching for. Thank you!
I love how pervasive The Mythos has come to be since Lovecraft's days. Elder gods slid into small contents or even big obvious references. So many people hearing the eldritch horrors without realizing it at all. I love it just as much as I love your recordings. Thanks again for helping me relax when I sleep or even when I don't. Y'all are my jam.
Ian Gordon has to be one of my most favorite readers! I've got a number of Audible recordings of him reading, mainly Lovecraft. Such a mellow and fruity voice that is wonderful to hear! His reading of The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath is something I listen to over and over again! So entertaining. I've subscribed to this and plan on enjoying it as well! 🙂
I listen to this most nights to fall asleep. I don't know if I actually know the whole story. I am usually asleep before the end of The Horror in Clay. Please take this as a compliment.
I’m a huge fan of your well-put-together videos, Lovecraft’s literature, and all things eldritch in general! I found your channel years ago and now I regularly listen to all of your various recordings each night to relax and wind down from the hardships of reality. Thank you for what you do!
I love this channel. You were my introduction to horror novels, and to Lovecraft’s works. I listened to it in the Hospital while my second son was getting ready to be born, and I have continued to enjoy your content ever since. Thank you so much for years of content and entertainment!!! :)
Are you sure it's not just being unable to stop listening to these stories? Maybe that's just my problem. Haha I've sat up so many nights listening to these stories over and over. In all seriousness, I hope you can find some way to get through insomnia if you're truly suffering. Lack of sleep is no joke and people are all too often unaware of the detriment it is to a person's well being. Best of luck, and at least you have some great stories at hand to help.
Re-listening to this has brought a revelation to me, much like Lovecraft wrote in the beginning of this story, his works are much more horrifying when you've collected enough pieces from each one to link things in each story to every other story and horrible truth, which is why whenever I heard of shoggoths or the void where azathoth lays first, I didn't think much of it, but now I get goosebumps whenever someone mentions those malign and horrible flutes and drums that keep the demon sultan asleep, and the same goes for those nightmare creatures fashioned by the elder things.
A true classic, presented once again by the best. This is a story that will forever be timeless, and will exist and be told long after we have all shuffled off this mortal coil.
The first version was my introduction to your works back in 2018. Still prefer the SFX added in that one, but this one is an instant favorite as well. Great job, HB! Looking forward to your own Mythos stories.
This was my first time listening to Call of Cthulhu! Was perfect will definitely be listening to again as well as other Lovecraft stories! Thanks very much for the great presentation!
Perfect timing! I was just going to listen to call of Cthulhu on your channel about a week ago after I bought a collection of Lovecraft's most popular works, and the first volume of a manga version of "The Mountains of Madness" by Gou Tanabe. It seems he also has a manga version of The Call of Cthulhu as well, although I'm not sure if it's translated into English. I can read Japanese but the wording/kanji is quite difficult and mostly above my level of reading. And then, I see my favorite channel post a re-recording of TCoC. Truly perfect timing. Thank you so much for doing these, no one could do them better than you! ❤🎉❤❤🎉🎉❤❤
Wonderful for easy listening. I'm playing Baldurs Gate 3 while listening to Horrorbabble. Honestly, I'd be hard pressed to make this night any better lmao Thanks for recording all these stories. Huge fan of your work. I have added this channel to my growing list of inspirations for going into voice related work for the future. 😊
Great reading, really brought the near-century old tale to life. It hit me this time around that maybe TCOC had an influence on Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. All those people obsessed with that mountain shape (and the main character shaping it out of potato) is somewhat like that artist making a Cthulhu sculpture. Or maybe I’m reaching a bit far!
Just a quibble about artistic renderings in general: Lovecraft described Cthulhu as having a face consisting of “a mass of feelers.” He never mentions eyes. Personally, I find the concept of Cthulhu as a being who doesn’t need conventional eyes, but rather relies on otherworldly senses, as more alien and creepier.
This is true, but Lovecraft also sketched the Legrasse Idol in profile in one of his letters, with a triangle of three eyes visible-suggesting six eyes in total on Great Cthulhu.
@@ShoggothLord the "eyes" on the idol may not actually be eyes either. The idol was most likely created by human, driven mad they may be. Eyes would seem natural for a human to put on a statue to make some semblance of sense, but thats the opposite of what Cthulhu is. The things we mistook for eyes could just be some other type of organ, or maybe just bumps on the Old One's head. Hardened scales, perhaps?
@HorrorBabble - First time listener and reader. Oh goodness, where to start. I could help put this story to rest. I wanted to tell them because there are 2 stories. My story is summed up, their math is wrong. It appears the writer is a friend. Hopefully that part of the story is like the math. Sounds like a mysterious death of the architect caused some unanswered questions. I'll answer one here, my son didn't put the green stone in his pocket. I did see it by the cabin. The 2nd of April 😊 my bride. She's amazing. 92yr old professor, my pops. Sad face woman in black, my mom. I made it home though. Again, 2 stories here. I tried to connect the dots for them when I found this place, untouched. It was wonderful for my brain to see the math, It made me stop. All this story is the same of broad impressions and angles. I tried to explain the geometry is wrong. The great barn door looks like round stone which rolls. It's perspective is off because they look backwards. I tried to show them from my phone but it's hard to tell this story I have lived. This is it, I would tell him Thank You for telling my story.
Thanks for posting this incredible story. I had to listen to this twice before understanding the ship was backed up to chew on the monster with propellers. I'm easily influenced by such stories so I don't listen to Lovecraft before going to bed. This is one dreamscape I don't want to experience.
Nothing important to say, just wanna boast with engagement Sooo This channel is the best, voiced im pertty sure ALL the Lovecraft works and posted it for free?! Like dude just so much respect And dudes voice is so lovely for this work Ahhh you deserve so much more engagement and subs
A magnificent and terrifying world, absolutely! But beautiful...? "The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom."
I want this and the Dunwich Horror to be adapted into a TV miniseries so badly. I can see the vision in my head, but I don't have the money or connections to make it happen
Im new to this Lovecraft stuff...sorta. ive read The Dunwich Horror and was trying to figure out the right order to listen/read them in and noone could agree on a proper order so i just went to the next one. Not hooked yet, but intrigued...highly.
Man having the right voice means everything for audiobooks. I just finished reading this and Dunwich Horror a few days ago but I'm gonna listen anyway. I'm about to start "Mountain of Madness" I think it's called. I found a website that has a ton of free ebooks so I been binge reading 😂
Thanks for listening, folks. Just a couple more oldies to re-record, and that'll be it for the mythos do-overs.
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Really awesome content here. My son and I sat in the dimly lit room and enjoyed a trip through this outstanding strange tale.
I wish this was just fiction…
This story is very engaging. Okay, I'm sucked in every time that I read or listen to it. Mostly because of the cyclopean ending, but the story buildup makes the package whole. Curious? Movie worthy.
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I won't turn down listening to a classic.
You mean Combine Harvester by The Wurzels ?
Especially since it's unedited, I dislike how people change the language of a book in order to be PC.
I usually turn them up.
I'll turn it UP though! 😝
I was so frustrated with the audiobooks as being read either too fast or without enough internal contemplation of the text. Your reading is just much more believable. An English gentleman laying out the story. Very authentic feeling. Much more even than the Lovecraft Preservation Society.
Thank you for the kind words.
I couldn't agree more.
I tried to listen to 2 readings prior to this, and frankly they were awful. To paraphrase a Chinese proverb. Music is about the silence Inbetween the notes. The same can be said for narration.
The first recording I ever heard Horrorbabble perform was this classic right here. Outstanding update!
First series of original Cthulhu Mythos stories? How rapturous! You're right, this is a perfect way to set the mood.
We've got some great stories lined up from some wonderful new authors.
a nice re-recording a great listen for working
This and Horror at Red Hook are my all-time favorites. They introduced me to the mythos, and I got hooked. Thank you for the new recording!
I'm hoping for a horror at Red Hook recording
Horror at Red Hook is a personal favorite as well.
@@kevinfogle7929They have it only on Bandcamp for now
Hmmm…maybe I’ll have to give it another read, I found it sort of boring, and it’s the one story of Lovecraft’s that actually is as racist as his detractors characterized.
This is definitely a great day!!! Had to work so now the whole arcade will listen with me to Horrorbabble. 💀
I have the most vexing urge to travel to the South Pacific. So well done!
As if you had been imperiously summoned, perhaps?
Cthulhu on Wheel of Fortune:
"I'd like to buy a vowel."
Ny_rl_th_t_p
This makes it a great day. Thanks for keeping me focused on Lovecraft with this new series.
Thank you so much for this! I listen to dagon at 2AM this morning and was just tuning back in! Only to see you've redone call of cthulu as it's one of my favorite along with shadow over innsmouth....your delivery is impeccable the only reader i tune in for lovecraft
“Everything that I can remember, I have told with perfect candour. Nothing has been distorted or concealed, and if anything remains vague, it is only because of the dark cloud which has come over my mind-that cloud and the nebulous nature of the horrors which brought it upon me…”
Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!
Thanks as always!
Great job! This is my favorite Lovecraft story. I'm so happy to hear the new rendition.
Really looking forward to hearing the next one.with regards and thanks.
💜🖤H.P. Lovecraft.🖤💜 thank you Horrorbabble 🙏
The voice of the speaker is amazing for storytelling of this nature.
This is super awesome. I'm currently using it to practice my English pronounciation in an entertaining way by stepwise reading a sentence aloud and then listening to it on here. It also makes me appreciate the amazingly high skill that when into reading it, particulary the pacing and emphasis of the sentences and the little sub-sentences. Lovecraft seems to not use as many commas as modern day writers do, so the sentences can be sometimes challenging to deconstruct into nice understandable chunks.
Amazing I’ll wait tonight to listen I’m so glad you did this thank you for all your work Ian ❤❤❤
Ah,, that was worth re-visiting. Nice, thanks.
"Let me write this thing that I hope no one ever reads" is quite a strange trope.
Another outstanding classic video many thanks as always Ian!😎👊👍
OH PERFECT! was looking for what next to watch and now I get to listen to a classic. Tyvm 😁
Great re-recording! I love both your readings. Thank you for leaving both up.
Loving these re-uploads from older readings
This is the first recording that i was not irratated with the narrator. lol, this is an awesome recording !!
Commenting before I listen tonight, I'm excited for some good old HorrorBabble entertainment. Once I'm done listening, I'll update.
Well folks, I'm back to update when I first subscribed to the hb I listened to his cthulhu mythos comp with all the stories, but this set has always been one of my favourites other than shadow over insmouth but well once again I've been pulled into the stories with clear understanding on what's being read but what's more important is hearing the amount of passion and love HB gives in every video not just this one keep up the amazing work and thank you for being one of the greats I listen to whilst painting my minis
@HorrorBabble
Nice!
First time listener! I was searching for an audio book version of Lovecraft's classic work and as soon as I heard your tone and pace, I immediately knew this was what I was searching for.
Thank you!
Thanks for stopping by, Nick!
A most excellent presentation. I prefer your narration to all others. 😃
I must have read this story two dozen times but your excellent narration makes it an absolute joy to experience it again.
I love how pervasive The Mythos has come to be since Lovecraft's days. Elder gods slid into small contents or even big obvious references. So many people hearing the eldritch horrors without realizing it at all. I love it just as much as I love your recordings. Thanks again for helping me relax when I sleep or even when I don't. Y'all are my jam.
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Always have time for a classic.
Fantastic x
Yes please! 💛💛💛
Perfect for a late evening in the guard shack. Awesome ‼️
Ian Gordon has to be one of my most favorite readers! I've got a number of Audible recordings of him reading, mainly Lovecraft. Such a mellow and fruity voice that is wonderful to hear! His reading of The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath is something I listen to over and over again! So entertaining. I've subscribed to this and plan on enjoying it as well! 🙂
Thank you for subscribing!
I got the UA-cam notification of Cthulhu for this video and tuned right in
I listen to this most nights to fall asleep. I don't know if I actually know the whole story. I am usually asleep before the end of The Horror in Clay. Please take this as a compliment.
Wonderful new recording!
Yeah! a classic story . I like the introduction. The Lovecraftian horror In a paragraph.
Amazing recording! Thanks
I’m a huge fan of your well-put-together videos, Lovecraft’s literature, and all things eldritch in general! I found your channel years ago and now I regularly listen to all of your various recordings each night to relax and wind down from the hardships of reality. Thank you for what you do!
Thank you for listening!
Excellent narration of one of the best stories. Thanks so much.
LOOOOVE LOVECRAFT CTHULHU MYTHOS 💀💀💀💜💜💜💜🔥🔥🔥🔥👌👌👌👌 KEEP IT COMING
I love this channel. You were my introduction to horror novels, and to Lovecraft’s works. I listened to it in the Hospital while my second son was getting ready to be born, and I have continued to enjoy your content ever since. Thank you so much for years of content and entertainment!!! :)
Thank you , Ian , I need to hear a good story .. especially by one of my favorite narroraters くコ:彡🐙🦑🦐🦪🐚🦀🦭
Talk about the icing on the end of my day cake!
I make a playlist every day for my insomnia and am going through all your H.P. Lovecraft.
Are you sure it's not just being unable to stop listening to these stories? Maybe that's just my problem. Haha
I've sat up so many nights listening to these stories over and over.
In all seriousness, I hope you can find some way to get through insomnia if you're truly suffering. Lack of sleep is no joke and people are all too often unaware of the detriment it is to a person's well being.
Best of luck, and at least you have some great stories at hand to help.
I fully understand. That's what I'm doing too. Lol I fell asleep on chapter 2.
Re-listening to this has brought a revelation to me, much like Lovecraft wrote in the beginning of this story, his works are much more horrifying when you've collected enough pieces from each one to link things in each story to every other story and horrible truth, which is why whenever I heard of shoggoths or the void where azathoth lays first, I didn't think much of it, but now I get goosebumps whenever someone mentions those malign and horrible flutes and drums that keep the demon sultan asleep, and the same goes for those nightmare creatures fashioned by the elder things.
A true classic, presented once again by the best. This is a story that will forever be timeless, and will exist and be told long after we have all shuffled off this mortal coil.
Awesome, thank you. Still a classic.
The first version was my introduction to your works back in 2018. Still prefer the SFX added in that one, but this one is an instant favorite as well. Great job, HB! Looking forward to your own Mythos stories.
I was tempted to keep the FX, but I think this version needed to stand on its own two tentacles.
So sick. Cleaned my whole house to this. ✌🏻😌
I'm so excited for next Wednesday!
wonderful reading, and a wonderful voice to listen to. thank you sir.
This was my first time listening to Call of Cthulhu! Was perfect will definitely be listening to again as well as other Lovecraft stories! Thanks very much for the great presentation!
Yay Lovecraft ❤! Thank you so much 🙏
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The Best 🐙🐙 Thanks 🐙🐙 love you !! 🐙🐙
Finished my first audiobook, let's go 👏
Well done, Sir!
I listened to your original reading of this story in bed last night. Spooooky.
Thank you!
I love Horror Babble ❤
I'm currently painting the giant cthulhu from CMONs Cthulhu death may die. So this is a nice background while I loose my mind painting the damn thing.
Lovely to hear a new reading from you
I am a horror fan
I do love to hear all the stories he wrote, such an imagination. He lived it.
Finally heard this late tonight! One of Lovecraft’s best!
Perfect timing! I was just going to listen to call of Cthulhu on your channel about a week ago after I bought a collection of Lovecraft's most popular works, and the first volume of a manga version of "The Mountains of Madness" by Gou Tanabe. It seems he also has a manga version of The Call of Cthulhu as well, although I'm not sure if it's translated into English. I can read Japanese but the wording/kanji is quite difficult and mostly above my level of reading.
And then, I see my favorite channel post a re-recording of TCoC. Truly perfect timing.
Thank you so much for doing these, no one could do them better than you! ❤🎉❤❤🎉🎉❤❤
Ohhhhh it's here! X
❤thanks
Wonderful for easy listening. I'm playing Baldurs Gate 3 while listening to Horrorbabble. Honestly, I'd be hard pressed to make this night any better lmao
Thanks for recording all these stories. Huge fan of your work. I have added this channel to my growing list of inspirations for going into voice related work for the future. 😊
I've been listening to these while at work lol.
Fantastic! 😊
Thank you
Great reading, really brought the near-century old tale to life. It hit me this time around that maybe TCOC had an influence on Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. All those people obsessed with that mountain shape (and the main character shaping it out of potato) is somewhat like that artist making a Cthulhu sculpture. Or maybe I’m reaching a bit far!
An interesting reach, though!
I await the day that a movie worthy of such writtings is made
When the oceans warm,
The time is right,
So it shall be,
And and deep ones will rise.
:)
This narrative is top notch. Thanks sir!
Thank you for this amazing reading.
Every now and then, UA-cam randomly adds this to my smart downloads and I think.. yup. Every time 😁
Just a quibble about artistic renderings in general: Lovecraft described Cthulhu as having a face consisting of “a mass of feelers.” He never mentions eyes. Personally, I find the concept of Cthulhu as a being who doesn’t need conventional eyes, but rather relies on otherworldly senses, as more alien and creepier.
This is true, but Lovecraft also sketched the Legrasse Idol in profile in one of his letters, with a triangle of three eyes visible-suggesting six eyes in total on Great Cthulhu.
@@ShoggothLord Interesting. I wasn’t aware of that
Interesting on both fronts. I think Lovecraft did his best to keep the details vague, and with good reason.
@@ShoggothLord the "eyes" on the idol may not actually be eyes either. The idol was most likely created by human, driven mad they may be. Eyes would seem natural for a human to put on a statue to make some semblance of sense, but thats the opposite of what Cthulhu is. The things we mistook for eyes could just be some other type of organ, or maybe just bumps on the Old One's head. Hardened scales, perhaps?
Best Cthulhu reading ever!
Well, no reason not to check it out. The old one was spectacular.
An amazing and classic story!
Fantastic narration
This is my lullaby.
Love that you guys are going to make your own mythos stories. Thought of it myself. Hope yours are pretty good.
One of the stories will be written by myself -- the others are by new (or should I say, 'living') authors.
@HorrorBabble - First time listener and reader. Oh goodness, where to start. I could help put this story to rest. I wanted to tell them because there are 2 stories. My story is summed up, their math is wrong. It appears the writer is a friend. Hopefully that part of the story is like the math. Sounds like a mysterious death of the architect caused some unanswered questions. I'll answer one here, my son didn't put the green stone in his pocket. I did see it by the cabin. The 2nd of April 😊 my bride. She's amazing. 92yr old professor, my pops. Sad face woman in black, my mom. I made it home though. Again, 2 stories here. I tried to connect the dots for them when I found this place, untouched. It was wonderful for my brain to see the math, It made me stop. All this story is the same of broad impressions and angles. I tried to explain the geometry is wrong. The great barn door looks like round stone which rolls. It's perspective is off because they look backwards. I tried to show them from my phone but it's hard to tell this story I have lived. This is it, I would tell him Thank You for telling my story.
Thanks for posting this incredible story. I had to listen to this twice before understanding the ship was backed up to chew on the monster with propellers. I'm easily influenced by such stories so I don't listen to Lovecraft before going to bed. This is one dreamscape I don't want to experience.
Nothing important to say, just wanna boast with engagement
Sooo
This channel is the best, voiced im pertty sure ALL the Lovecraft works and posted it for free?!
Like dude just so much respect
And dudes voice is so lovely for this work
Ahhh you deserve so much more engagement and subs
Thank you!
Fabulous reading, Ian.
Thank you.
Excellent job. My favorite
Nailed it!
What a beautiful world that man had in his soul
And dont let anyone tell you otherwise. Lovecraft had one of the most vivid imaginations in fiction.
A magnificent and terrifying world, absolutely! But beautiful...? "The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom."
A terrible person but a fantastic writer
I want this and the Dunwich Horror to be adapted into a TV miniseries so badly. I can see the vision in my head, but I don't have the money or connections to make it happen
What an amazing retelling!
Wow thanks so much love the work you do!
Im new to this Lovecraft stuff...sorta. ive read The Dunwich Horror and was trying to figure out the right order to listen/read them in and noone could agree on a proper order so i just went to the next one. Not hooked yet, but intrigued...highly.
Man having the right voice means everything for audiobooks. I just finished reading this and Dunwich Horror a few days ago but I'm gonna listen anyway. I'm about to start "Mountain of Madness" I think it's called. I found a website that has a ton of free ebooks so I been binge reading 😂
We hear it even now....
This story is what began my obsession with Lovecraft's writing.
NIce!