This story is as dense as you can get. Every sentence advances the story like a machine. “This was very gruesome and abnormal.” It’s hard to wrap your mind around.
It was absolutely terrifying how in the end he chose to remain as irrationally rational as possible. It's one of the scariest and I think, most healthy ways of the human mind to deal with such matters. Unless being a cultist gets you a ton of cool shit. Then give in and join the crazy.
The voice for this was absolutely perfect. The next time my group runs a Call of Cthulhu RPG campaign, I have a feeling like we will use either samples or the entirety of this recording.
Some subs still have windows the Russians for example a few of their subs had windows in the conning tower still do I belive lol so not as crazy as it sounds
I love the epic and colorful insults Lovecraft puts in the mouth of his commander. "Superstitious Alstashan Swine" "Soft Womanish Rhine-lander" "Swine hound Seamen" 😅😅😅😅
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Matthew Layford the narrator in the walls of eyrx came around at the end, leaving in his diary an entry telling his people they should abandon Venus, too bad they wrote that last bit off as written under mental duress.
Do you get my sentiments, or are you just being a smartass? Ok, I thought is was a ww2 story, As it is not I fall on my knees and beg forgiveness....! Thay cleared up, I still feel that it represented the German Zeitgeist and the Personality of the commander was what Lovecraft was speaking through.I first read the story when I was living in a Bus/Caravan parked up in the mountains of Andalucia.(1992)I read many stories there; H P Lovecrafts Omnibus Available in three parts.It contains many HPL stories and is a good buy, As are the Penguin editions with note and Introduction By H T Joshi... Lovecraft kept me Entertained, which is the main point for me. He was not a nazi but still a german.(The man in the sub, not HPL) Also, the Neo-liberal assholes are now trying to slag down H P L and calling him a racist.(Ultimately the Neo-libs would ban all Lovecraft stories as racist) H T Joshi walked out of the libtard meeting on such grounds(well, actually it was a horror convention hi-jacked by SJW's...Good for you Joshi!! I hope the Dark gods visit the neo-liberals. They represent a bigger threat than do the lloigor. Why do these assholes have to invade a sub-culture and impose their idiocy on us..
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Jeffrey314159 actually its pretty accurate of the German Military Zeitgeist of the time . Correction WWII hence the U boats.. learn history and youll see the future.
Lovecraft in one of his stories said that the old ones(the squid types) communicated through color changes. Modern science confirms this--the question is was that fact known in Lovecrafts day -anyone Know?
I watched a nature program showing these thousands of squid(i forget where) they were/are eating everything in sight.They come up from the deep at night!! The marine divers were cautious as mass attacks have occurred. This is when I saw the squid changing color and already Lovecraft's Story was in mind. possibly At the Mountains of Madness. The Marine biologists were suggesting the squid were using color as a means of communication. As you said Lovecraft had many strange dreams. I dream't once I was in a huge cyclopean city of Granite with canals and huge wrought iron gates 100 feet high.I was In the dream wondering who were the inhabitants (they never appeared) I have had dreams which showed rituals which were confirmed as real. This is an interesting concept--The Animus Thanks I still listen and am subbed.
Surely all knowledge is encoded in the DNA helix so it is not so much of a leap to think that this Ancestral information could bubble up into the realm of Dream which is connected Via the Unconcious/Subliminal deepmind.
Don't want to sound crazy. But I've been yo that same dream while I fell asleep listening to at the mountains of madness. I actually think he tapped into some cosmic plane of existence. But the dream. There were large crypts and coffin like things. Huge terraced gardens extending into the void with no direction. Those gates. The fossils. Good day.
@@moonman3213 Sounds like a strange dream realm! The Dream world is Fascinating to us. The dreams in the witch house also popped into mind with the mention of '' huge Terraced Gardens''. Good Day to you too.
Depending on when H P wrote this tale his characterization of the German officer was more Arian mentality than the mentality of the Germans who fought in W W 1
James Campbell Its mostly the germanaphobia that was going around in the anglosphere at the time of the writing. It's actually very comical reading this in now, seeing how far people took the extreme German mentality stereotype. Also this was written in 1920 so WW2 hadn't even happened yet.
Touring a U-Boat in real life I had to laugh at that. You definitely knew where everyone was on board. Sneaking off would be something only Houdini could do. It's understandable why the German's called them "Iron Coffins"
I really liked the insights of the German. It was a surprisingly accurate description of Prussian state officials and the overall national sentiment that it's refreshing. He takes tons of drugs when he rationally deems necessary. Then you have the Nazis who continued the trend of taking tons of drugs to alter/enhance reality/perception/life.
it seams that lovecraft is being a bit of satirical of what he is often accused of. the way the character goes on about be German and such and how that makes him reasonable and calm. it makes me question to what degree lovecraft was a raciest or if he just felt that the sort of people his character's were would be raciest.
+Serban V.C. Enache yeah he didnt hate everyone. just anyone who was not of english decent and of a kind of puritanical lineage. so like 99% of people including white people yet he still married a jewish woman. racist seems much too simple. it was something deeper than that. a hatred of the others. In a way i highly doubt he would have wrote such stories if he had not had this deep issue. either way his work is what I care about.
To quote WP: "The Temple" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1925. It was the first story Lovecraft published in Weird Tales, and indeed was his first publication in any professional outlet
::shrug:: I was just quoting wikipedia. Knowing HPL's obsessive rewriting, perhaps he wrote Dagon first, but Temple was the first thing he "published" as the article says.
Jeffrey314159 ::shrug:: I was just quoting wikipedia. Knowing HPL's obsessive rewriting, perhaps he wrote Dagon first, but Temple was the first thing he "published" as the article says.
Only Lovecraft would write from the POV of a German killing allied sailors. $5 says that he would have just said 'yeah, I wrote about what I saw as the good guy.'
Zack Burke Lovecraft was a super Anglophile who loved America and England and had regrets about not being able to fight for the entente in ww1. While he didn’t see the Germans as explicitly evil, the comedic stereotyping of the German protagonist shows he had some humorous, mild disdain for them at the time
Here is the story on HT JOSHI a veritable HPL expert ;www.theguardian.com › Arts › Books › Fantasy9 Nov 2015 - The World Fantasy award trophy will no longer be modelled on HP Lovecraft, ... that called the author out as an “avowed racist” with “hideous opinions”. ... Convention on Sunday, where David Mitchell took the top award, the ... Last year, Older launched a petition asking for the change. Signed by more than 2,500 people, the petition asked organisers to make the acclaimed African American science fiction writer Octavia Butler the model for the trophy, rather than Lovecraft, because while the creator of the Cthulhu mythos “did leave a lasting mark on speculative fiction, he was also an avowed racist and a terrible (Science fiction??wtf is that to do with horror?) wordsmith”, and “many writers have spoken out about their discomfort with winning an award that lauds someone with such hideous opinion. Oh now we have to have an African American instead..Lovecraft a terrible wordsmith?Matter of opinion..This is the Bollocks we have to put up with by the Neo-liberal experiment, Men of forty can call themselves girls and neolibs are trying to make it law that a so-called girl(forty year old pedophile) can walk into girls toilets and push open a door and leer ''Oh sorry i thought it was unoccupied?? Man/woman Kailtyn jenner wins Woman of the year award, But I am a loony, so be it. Ramadan Bomathon day 23 ...139 attacks ...1282 killed see The ReligionOf Peace website(not rightwing either) I gave up sugar for lent This is Islams equvalent? I mean WTF why is it racist to point out this and also British killing of 500,000 children in Iraq through Sanctions
Good story, though filled with examples that Lovecraft knew NOTHING about submarines!!! Pre "Nuke", submarines did most of their traveling on the surface, only submerging to attack, and their batteries simply would not last the days under water that Lovecraft attributes to them... and there isn't any portholes on a sub... no windows, not even today!!!
+David Crader Well, considering that at the time submarine technology was still secret, that is hardly surprising. This was written in 1920, only two years after the end of WWI. While I'm sure some knowledge about how subs operated and were constructed were public knowledge, a lot were not. And in an age before the internet finding out details would be a bit tricky. So, in fairness to Lovecraft, a lot of what we know about how subs were built and operated in WWI was not common knowledge among civilians. Its like knowing the details on how stealth technology works. We may know a few of the principles, but, the actual technology is a military secret.
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This story is as dense as you can get. Every sentence advances the story like a machine.
“This was very gruesome and abnormal.”
It’s hard to wrap your mind around.
"...but, the sight of an automatic pistol calmed them." haha. Captain don't take no crap.
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It usually does
Narrator's voice was meant to read Lovecraft stories! So good!!
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Wayne June is so much better
Yes and +jonyskinz philly has shit taste.
Eik ...cause I said Wayne June is better lol..have you ever even listened to Wayne Junevread Lovecraft...lol you fuckin tool.
Eik ..I'm surprised you can even comprehend while someone is reading aloud to you..
I've listened to this story three times now. I love the narrator's voice!
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It was absolutely terrifying how in the end he chose to remain as irrationally rational as possible. It's one of the scariest and I think, most healthy ways of the human mind to deal with such matters.
Unless being a cultist gets you a ton of cool shit. Then give in and join the crazy.
The voice for this was absolutely perfect. The next time my group runs a Call of Cthulhu RPG campaign, I have a feeling like we will use either samples or the entirety of this recording.
Yeah
All and forever...Howard, from beyond, we have lost an incomprehensible gem...
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Hail the Great Old One, Great Ones and the Elder Thing. May they still inspire dread.
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Wow the narrator really sold this story. I loved the old timey sound and feeling of the reading. Good job
Rebecca Rhean just watched hunter killer, felt compelled to listen to this again...
Once I figured out that Lovecraft believed that 1917 German subs had windows, this story made so much sense.
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Some subs still have windows the Russians for example a few of their subs had windows in the conning tower still do I belive lol so not as crazy as it sounds
I love the epic and colorful insults Lovecraft puts in the mouth of his commander. "Superstitious Alstashan Swine" "Soft Womanish Rhine-lander" "Swine hound Seamen" 😅😅😅😅
One of my favorite Lovecraft tales. Anyone here ever played the game Iron Lung. All I could think about was this story
Seeing dead faces in the port holes of the boat man spooky
Everytime I listen to this story there's something I catch that I didn't hear before and the story as a whole becomes better and better
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The narration sends me unto unfathomed waters for uncounted years. Will come back again again to initiate this journey in thy shrine.
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I was unaware of this gem.
Michael Stora Yes, it's great yet not famous one.
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Tusen tack!
Excellent voice and recording of the master of atmospheric stories.
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Yuuup
I like this one, though it seems unusual of Lovecraft to depict such an unsympathetic narrator. The only other one I can think of is in Walls of Eryx
Matthew Layford I like to think perhaps he wasn't as unaware of his biases as many portray him. Perhaps as an act of personal attrition.
Matthew Layford the narrator in the walls of eyrx came around at the end, leaving in his diary an entry telling his people they should abandon Venus, too bad they wrote that last bit off as written under mental duress.
The Narrator Was a Nazi don't forget.
So it was fitting and in character to portray him as such.
jerry cornelius Germans werent nazis during the ww1.
Do you get my sentiments, or are you just being a smartass?
Ok, I thought is was a ww2 story, As it is not I fall on my knees and beg forgiveness....!
Thay cleared up, I still feel that it represented the German Zeitgeist and the Personality of the commander was what Lovecraft was speaking through.I first read the story when I was living in a Bus/Caravan parked up in the mountains of Andalucia.(1992)I read many stories there; H P Lovecrafts Omnibus Available in three parts.It contains many HPL stories and is a good buy, As are the Penguin editions with note and Introduction By H T Joshi...
Lovecraft kept me Entertained, which is the main point for me.
He was not a nazi but still a german.(The man in the sub, not HPL)
Also, the Neo-liberal assholes are now trying to slag down H P L and calling him a racist.(Ultimately the Neo-libs would ban all Lovecraft stories as racist) H T Joshi walked out of the libtard meeting on such grounds(well, actually it was a horror convention hi-jacked by SJW's...Good for you Joshi!!
I hope the Dark gods visit the neo-liberals.
They represent a bigger threat than do the lloigor. Why do these assholes have to invade a sub-culture and impose their idiocy on us..
He was so ahead of /and behind his time all at once! How can that be?
Something only the truly gifted can be
I am sick with puking and fever. But this story on my tablet will help me retain my sanity. I pray I do not faint, as the fever overtakes my brain.
did you make it?
10:50: "swine-hound seamen" -- A more elegant way of calling them "pig-dogs"!
Such a bad idea putting this on in my earphones before bed :(
If you want a sweet dream, this is definitely not the one you should listen to. :D
im listening to this with headphones at 4 in the morning
Been there! lol
This one of MY fav bedtime stories lol..
this would indeed be a good movie... i would puke everywhere with occasional bouts of fainting but still id watch it
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That's absolutely dreadful and hilarious at one time 😀 I'd pay to see this grand tale in theater.
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This is the voice I would choose for all of these
Fave !!
Love it #wink #TheGoodwayofthinking
❤️🇲🇽🙏🏽 danke. I think this is E.G. Marshal, reading 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 good sho, & thanks so much
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This is To Build a Fire perfected.
Who is the reader? A wonderful rendition!
Dilwyn Roberts-Young it's Gordon Gould.
You're voice is perfect for these stories
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Got this in manga form.
What's the name of the manga version? I'm curious.
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That not dead which eternal lie, with stranger ions death may die.
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Ah yes, German submarines are known for their large windows, to allow for a marvellous view.
This story is full of the Germanophobia that was going on in America at the time.
Jeffrey314159 Thank God nothing ever came of that. /rolleyes
Jeffrey314159 circa WWI
Jeffrey314159 actually its pretty accurate of the German Military Zeitgeist of the time . Correction WWII hence the U boats.. learn history and youll see the future.
+Jeffrey314159 It's so over the top it's getting funny. It's a sarcastic parody :)
+seeker28WV the Germans were using u boats in both world wars
Lovecraft in one of his stories said that the old ones(the squid types) communicated through color changes.
Modern science confirms this--the question is was that fact known in Lovecrafts day -anyone Know?
Much of his knowledge and stories came from his strange dreams. The man certainly tapped into something. ;)
I watched a nature program showing these thousands of squid(i forget where) they were/are eating everything in sight.They come up from the deep at night!!
The marine divers were cautious as mass attacks have occurred.
This is when I saw the squid changing color and already Lovecraft's Story was in mind. possibly At the Mountains of Madness.
The Marine biologists were suggesting the squid were using color as a means of communication.
As you said Lovecraft had many strange dreams.
I dream't once I was in a huge cyclopean city of Granite with canals and huge wrought iron gates 100 feet high.I was In the dream wondering who were the inhabitants (they never appeared)
I have had dreams which showed rituals which were confirmed as real.
This is an interesting concept--The Animus
Thanks I still listen and am subbed.
Surely all knowledge is encoded in the DNA helix so it is not so much of a leap to think that this Ancestral information could bubble up into the realm of Dream which is connected Via the Unconcious/Subliminal deepmind.
Don't want to sound crazy. But I've been yo that same dream while I fell asleep listening to at the mountains of madness. I actually think he tapped into some cosmic plane of existence.
But the dream. There were large crypts and coffin like things. Huge terraced gardens extending into the void with no direction. Those gates. The fossils. Good day.
@@moonman3213 Sounds like a strange dream realm! The Dream world is Fascinating to us.
The dreams in the witch house also popped into mind with the mention of '' huge Terraced Gardens''. Good Day to you too.
they had the guy handcuffed whipped and then locked up cause he had s messed up dream?
Yes, what's the problem?
It's because the dream, as the narrator reads, helped cause a disturbance amongst the crew.
Depending on when H P wrote this tale his characterization of the German officer was more Arian mentality than the mentality of the Germans who fought in W W 1
James Campbell
Its mostly the germanaphobia that was going around in the anglosphere at the time of the writing. It's actually very comical reading this in now, seeing how far people took the extreme German mentality stereotype. Also this was written in 1920 so WW2 hadn't even happened yet.
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Chuthulu
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$500,000
who wrote this? when was it first release 1925 correct? i have someone claiming to have written this short story. please help me prove it wasnt him
This was written by H.P. Lovecraft in 1920 and first published in Weird Tales, 6, No. 3 (September 1925)
It needs no proving must just be a mad man claiming that.
portholes... in a U-boat, that you can see through underwater. oh rly.
some early 1900s subs like the holland class had portholes in the tower
Touring a U-Boat in real life I had to laugh at that. You definitely knew where everyone was on board. Sneaking off would be something only Houdini could do. It's understandable why the German's called them "Iron Coffins"
I really liked the insights of the German. It was a surprisingly accurate description of Prussian state officials and the overall national sentiment that it's refreshing. He takes tons of drugs when he rationally deems necessary. Then you have the Nazis who continued the trend of taking tons of drugs to alter/enhance reality/perception/life.
MegaMark0000 Well it’s pretty obvious Jules Verne’s 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea was an influence on Lovecraft’s The Temple.
R'yleth!!!!!
it seams that lovecraft is being a bit of satirical of what he is often accused of. the way the character goes on about be German and such and how that makes him reasonable and calm. it makes me question to what degree lovecraft was a raciest or if he just felt that the sort of people his character's were would be raciest.
I know he was the question were if his characters more so than he was in real life. just a musing really
+119matburn ..Howard was a classic misanthrope...he hated everyone.
+Serban V.C. Enache meh
+Serban V.C. Enache yeah he didnt hate everyone. just anyone who was not of english decent and of a kind of puritanical lineage. so like 99% of people including white people yet he still married a jewish woman.
racist seems much too simple. it was something deeper than that. a hatred of the others. In a way i highly doubt he would have wrote such stories if he had not had this deep issue.
either way his work is what I care about.
+Serban V.C. Enache
Like you would deserve any better. LOL
This was not written by Lovecraft, was it?
To quote WP:
"The Temple" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1925. It was the first story Lovecraft published in Weird Tales, and indeed was his first publication in any professional outlet
David Mayeux Thank you
David Mayeux Realy!? I thought DAGON was the first he wrote(1917) and published.
::shrug:: I was just quoting wikipedia. Knowing HPL's obsessive rewriting, perhaps he wrote Dagon first, but Temple was the first thing he "published" as the article says.
Jeffrey314159
::shrug:: I was just quoting wikipedia. Knowing HPL's obsessive rewriting, perhaps he wrote Dagon first, but Temple was the first thing he "published" as the article says.
Yeah yeah the narrator is great, now can we talk about the story?
I got the manga by gou tanabe
Only Lovecraft would write from the POV of a German killing allied sailors. $5 says that he would have just said 'yeah, I wrote about what I saw as the good guy.'
Zack Burke Lovecraft was a super Anglophile who loved America and England and had regrets about not being able to fight for the entente in ww1. While he didn’t see the Germans as explicitly evil, the comedic stereotyping of the German protagonist shows he had some humorous, mild disdain for them at the time
Here is the story on HT JOSHI a veritable HPL expert ;www.theguardian.com › Arts › Books › Fantasy9 Nov 2015 - The World Fantasy award trophy will no longer be modelled on HP Lovecraft, ... that called the author out as an “avowed racist” with “hideous opinions”. ... Convention on Sunday, where David Mitchell took the top award, the ...
Last year, Older launched a petition
asking for the change. Signed by more than 2,500 people, the petition
asked organisers to make the acclaimed African American science fiction
writer Octavia Butler the model for the trophy, rather than Lovecraft,
because while the creator of the Cthulhu mythos “did leave a lasting
mark on speculative fiction, he was also an avowed racist and a terrible (Science fiction??wtf is that to do with horror?)
wordsmith”, and “many writers have spoken out about their discomfort
with winning an award that lauds someone with such hideous opinion.
Oh now we have to have an African American instead..Lovecraft a terrible wordsmith?Matter of opinion..This is the Bollocks we have to put up with by the Neo-liberal experiment, Men of forty can call themselves girls and neolibs are trying to make it law that a so-called girl(forty year old pedophile) can walk into girls toilets and push open a door and leer ''Oh sorry i thought it was unoccupied??
Man/woman Kailtyn jenner wins Woman of the year award, But I am a loony, so be it.
Ramadan Bomathon day 23 ...139 attacks ...1282 killed see The ReligionOf Peace website(not rightwing either)
I gave up sugar for lent This is Islams equvalent? I mean WTF why is it racist to point out this and also British killing of 500,000 children in Iraq through Sanctions
Good story, though filled with examples that Lovecraft knew NOTHING about submarines!!! Pre "Nuke", submarines did most of their traveling on the surface, only submerging to attack, and their batteries simply would not last the days under water that Lovecraft attributes to them... and there isn't any portholes on a sub... no windows, not even today!!!
+David Crader Thanks for listening!
+David Crader Well, considering that at the time submarine technology was still secret, that is hardly surprising. This was written in 1920, only two years after the end of WWI. While I'm sure some knowledge about how subs operated and were constructed were public knowledge, a lot were not. And in an age before the internet finding out details would be a bit tricky.
So, in fairness to Lovecraft, a lot of what we know about how subs were built and operated in WWI was not common knowledge among civilians.
Its like knowing the details on how stealth technology works. We may know a few of the principles, but, the actual technology is a military secret.
however, I bet limiting the narrators view of the waters outside to indications of instruments could make for some cool paranoia-infused drama
Wow the cosmic science fiction writer included some fiction in his novel? Can't believe it.
Science fiction is still fiction... he was a writer, not an engineer.