THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH by H. P. Lovecraft (2016 Recording)
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
- This is the 2016 recording of TSoI, which was originally divided into 10 parts and presented over 10 weeks in collaboration with Rue Morgue Magazine
"The Shadow over Innsmouth" is a horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in November-December 1931. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization, and references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures, and invocations. The Shadow over Innsmouth is the only Lovecraft story which was published in book form during his lifetime.
00:00:00 - Part 1
00:25:04 - Part 2
01:00:23 - Part 3
01:38:46 - Part 4
02:30:42 - Part 5
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This is the 2016 recording of TSoI, which was originally divided into 10 parts and presented over 10 weeks in collaboration with Rue Morgue.
2024 recording: ua-cam.com/video/3793kxWj7DE/v-deo.html
Traveler: "Can you tell me about Innsmouth?"
Agent: "We don't talk much about Innsmouth... but here's me dunking on Innsmouth until the air runs out of my lungs."
Sat here laughing about this for 5 straight minutes
😂
We don't talk about Innsmoooooouth, We don't talk about Innsmouth no no.
What I love about this story is that My hometown is the only small town in-between Newburyport, Ipswich, and rowley in Massachusetts. The town is not called innsmouth but the description of the town matches how I feel every time I have to go back to visit anyone.
That has to be pretty awesome - what's the name of the town?
HorrorBabble the name of the town is Byfield, no stop lights, one convenience store, one restaurant, no drive throughs, no police station, surrounded by marshlands and the locals have a habit of knowing exactly when someone knew is in town. Most people pass through it with out ever knowing they were there.
@@mru76 The next time I'm in Massachusetts, I'll be sure to pass through!
@@mru76 Supposedly Lovecraft used Newburyport for his inspiration, but the location of Innsmouth, according to the novel, was south of Plum Island and north of Cape Ann. Rowley is supposedly to the Northwest of it and Ipswich is nearby. That puts it right where the southern Great Marshes are, maybe in the sea...
I live not far in Gloucester, MA (Cape Anne)
I come back and listen to this once or twice a year. Nobody has ever done Lovecraft justice like Horrorbabble. Superb.
I would argue that Chilling Tales for Dark Nights is definitely better
I come back about the same amount each year also!
@@executioner_ecgbert884 Wane June is the best imo. Witch house media has a great The Haunter of the Dark reading. My favorite audio book of all time.
3 times a week.
Actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård did a wonderful reading, but I can't find it online, and it's in Swedish. I remember his reading of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" gave me nightmares as a kid. I can still recall the creepy feeling.
He is being chased by fishmen and just jumped out a building but he has to slow down to be like 'dam that sea is beautiful '
#YOLO
Probably the early onset of the allure he'll feel towards it, being a fishman himself
@@Hellion6325 just what I was thinking...
“Ah! Venice!” -Dr. Henry Jones Jr.
Just Innsmouth Things.
Station clerk: I never noticed anything strange about innsmouth folk...
Also station clerk: they all have scabby skin, creased necks, and bald very young.
He is probably scared of drawing any attention to himself despite hispite his fear and discomfort
@@alexanderadavar6439
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The station clerk understands that Innsmouth livin' is hard livin' and so he doesn't think their less-than-usual appearance as strange.
@@notinspectorgadget good point !
@@kellysnyder2393 You're a loser ;)
The female voice actor is named Jennifer Gill, which doesn’t seem like a coincidence.
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Wish she had swam away and left the part of Zadok to a man
That's really funny!
I listen to this recording at least once a month. One of my favorite Lovecraft stories.
Your performance is better than a lot of people on Audible.
I love this book and I think this is a really good audiobook of it. As a side note, I cannot stop thinking of the Fishing Hamlet in Bloodborne's The Old Hunters DLC whenever Lovecraft describes the town of Innsmouth.
The Fishing Hamlet is a wonderful compliment to this story tbh. If you could find a video of something slowly walking through the Fishing Hamlet while this audio book plays would be the best
Thats cause its whole design is an ode to live craft
Literally lovecraftian darksouls
Was just playing Bloodborne today. Anytime i play it, i always listen to Lovecraft books (partially because they fit so perfectly, but also because the game has almost no BGM)
Yes! Old Hunters is such a masterpiece
You know your voice is posh and gentlemanly when auto-generated subtitles are actually accurate.
Are there any hearing impaired people that would read the captions on an audiobook version of a book they could otherwise just read the text of? Not a joke question I’m honestly curious if people find anything to gain from “following along” instead of setting your own pace.
Its crazy because ive seen over the years the youtube AI improve at transcription
@@refoliation If you're still curious, I'm not hearing impaired but I actually do like to use both sometimes, especially if what I'm reading is difficult or for work or school. I absorb audio much better than text, but having captions or a print version handy helps me stay focused or compensates for any audio processing issues. I'm a literature student, so I like doubling up with certain classics--particularly elevated or purple prose and my ADHD brain do not mix well!
Wonder if the man at the bus station gets paid by word count
God hes been talking for 15 minutes lol
@@jordansebert11 I think there's implied questions. I think we're hearing only one side of an entire discussion. Feels that way a couple of times in this one.
Yeah he just asked one question
Lmfao
Ye the dude at fire station is worse than my history teacher when i used to say 'how you been lately?'
The narrator is AMAZING! How slowly he starts to lose it as the story escalates.
You uyho be😊 hi😊 III
I'd like to share my story with you about how I discovered H.P.Lovecraft for myself.
Back in 1999 I lived in a small village located in the far North-East of Russia. (there was no internet and no television).
One day, I went to my Grandfather's house. After a good meal I went to explore the grounds. I spent some time exploring and stumbled upon an old storehouse behind the overgrown garden. Nobody had used it for years, and with the burning curiosity of an explorer I decided to check it out. I entered through the broken window on the back side by climbing onto the empty barrels. Inside were old cardboard boxes and dirty clothes. After digging through all of that I found a peculiar notebook on the shelf beneath the window I’d entered. The notebook was large and heavy, and it was made in Soviet style. The state of it was far from decent: the front cover was completely destroyed, all pages were soaked in rain, and they’d been detached from the cover and put back together at random. The reason I drew attention to this notebook was that it was written with an ink pen in a very delicate and scrupulous way. Secondly, the penwork was beautiful--there were sketches of panoramas, buildings and creepy looking monsters.
I sat there reading this story and putting pages back together one by one for hours. When it started to get dark, I took the notebook and left. The road home was long, and after reading the horror story I was a little bit concerned. To get back home I had to cross the bridge and go through the dark forest next to the river. I got scared because I didn’t know if the story was true or not. All that time spent reading it gave me the feeling I was reading someone's diary. And with my lack of knowledge about the existence of foreign lands, words like "Washington square" or "Arkham" didn't make any sense to me. But they added to my horror even more. But after a spooky stroll I got back home. Back then my parents were going to a university in the city, so I lived alone with my brother. The house was empty, so I headed upstairs to the room my brother and I shared and continued reading, my fear growing. To my luck, a black out suddenly left me in the dark. I had to grab candles from the kitchen. After that traumatizing experience I got back and locked my door. I sat on my bed trying to sleep. My curiosity, however, took over me and I continued reading. When I had almost reached the end I realized that the last pages were missing. I spent some time trying to make sense of words from the notebook before becoming dead tired and going to sleep, but not without a very heavy feeling of pure fright, as if that story happened for real.
Later that night I woke up to creaking sounds coming from the stairs (just like in the story!). Soon after someone tried to open my door (JUST LIKE IN THE STORY!!!). I got so scared that I couldn't even move. I just stared at the door, paralyzed with horror. I lived next to the river side so my imagination was running wild with all the possibilities of who or what it might be. After a few attempts to unlock my door the unknown person gave up, headed downstairs, and disappeared. And there I was, lying in the bed, frozen in desperation and pure horror. Anxiety took over me, and I silently cried, expecting to die that very night. The sound of the river and wind was exceptionally louder than usual, so I couldn't sleep at all.
The next morning at dawn, I found the courage within myself to go downstairs very cautiously, just to find my stupid brother sleeping in the couch with his stupid portable SONY cassette player plugging his stupid ears. This jerk unintentionally scared the living crap out of me for life. Later that day, I went back to my Grandfather’s place in search of missing pages but unsuccessfully. I tried to get some information about the notebook from him. He told me that he got it from his friend who copied (and possibly translated) the original book back in 1960-70s. Alas, he had never read it himself. He then suggested I continue my search in the local library. To my disappointment, the old librarian there didn't know nothing about it, but she told me that it's most likely a foreign novel and suggested to try my luck in the city. So I waited for months to travel there with my parents. When I finally got there, I was greeted by rude librarians who ignored me. So, I explored the library until I stumbled upon a foreign horror section. There I finally found it. "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," the title read. Innsmouth! That was the name of the city in the story. Interestingly for me it was translated and spelled differently. I search for the author and there it was--H.P.Lovecraft. I took from that library all of his works and I never gave them back. The whole experience and immersion is imprinted in my brain until this very day. I’ve read them countless times and I’ve played all cardboard games and video games related to his works. Despite countless nightmares and fears of deep waters because of it, I say it was worth it!
tl;dr OP stole a bunch of HP Lovecraft books from the local library
I liked the older Call of Cthulhu game with the Innsmouth theme (Dark Corners of the Earth). There’s an extremely challenging part where you have to escape from the hotel as in the story, and it’s done quite well. It’s tense and scary. I would guess you’ve played that, right? Maybe the best Lovecraft game. The recent Call of Cthulhu game didn’t do much for me.
The Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game is published by Chaosium, and weekly on Fridays they have a group of talented Australians playing campaigns on Twitch. I try to catch that when i have time; also their videos are archived on Chaosium’s UA-cam channel.
Its beginning to look alot like fishmen
Everywhere I go
From the minute I got to town
And started to look around
I thoght these ill-bred peoples gill slits showed
I'm beginning to hear Fishmen, right outside my door
Probably my favorite Lovecraft story
I love the ending!
Why is that?
mine too
This and The Dunwich Horror
Same here. When I read this the first time I was like, "OK, I get it."
Row row tow your boat gently down the stream. When you see an insmouth deep-one don't forget to scream.
Having lived in New England for nearly the last 3-years, I love going out and exploring the sites of where Lovecraft’s stories are based in.
Careful you don't stumble onto the Deep Ones or relics of the Great Old Ones.
Born up the road from Herman Melville's home/farm, with nearly every teacher from our public schools a
'naturalist-spiritualist/Wiccan(less openly) gardeners & hunters & herbalists & writers & occultist
-all hikers'- ye olde Appalachian Trail trails through ...& Mr.Stephen King & 🎼Gutherie 🎸family
& Mike Tyson's birth place & the city of ol' Salem & HPL's haunts & Mr Crowley's temp. abode...
🍻🌄 It is one of those special areas on our globe😁
*Western Mass. area, Berkshire County-area where 4 states
kind of meet-Vt -Ct to NY-Mass =20mins drive from farthest
state in Berkshire County Mass. One of the highest rates of cancer in USA
Thanks, in part, to General Electric's PCBs 📈🐸
🏔Mt Washington in New Hampshire, New England has a wind speed high 231 mph...
One of the highest recorded..anywhere..on Earth..ever..🦞🍻📜
Nothing like listening to Lovecraft while drinking tea and knitting.
I like your sense of humour, friend.
@@Robert_Douglass - I don't think it's a joke. Based on his channel, he really does like knitting. Which is cool beans. Lovecraft and knitting it is.
Ditto! I'm relaxing with a coffee in my houseclothes tonight, listening to this.
@@TheGoodCrusader not if youre knitting my friend
@@TheGoodCrusader lsd works too hell if you don’t go insane by seeing that
“Zadok was really screaming now, and the mad frenzy of his voice disturbed me more than I care to own.”
Zadok proceeds to speak in the exact same tone and volume.😂😂
I always thought ol' Zadok was a bloke
@@ogee1264 He was a bloke. Why they chose a woman to do his voice is beyond me.
"Only an honest death will cure you now. Liberate you, from your wild curiosity"
Thank you for your wise words Arthur Morgan.
You know whats funny, Van Horn always reminded me of Innsmouth.
"A corpse should be left well alone"
@@generic_asian_ A man of culture i see
"Curse the fiends, curse their children too..."
@@absolutelyshmooie7086 “by the wrath of Mother Kos.”
That bus dude really, really loves the sound of his own voice, doesn't he?
Probably lonely. I'm sure most people buying tickets wouldn't want to talk.
i think it's meant to be like he wrote down the answers to his questions (as he was a researcher), but didn't write down the actual questions, which makes it sound like the most ginormous monologue.
@@edennis3202 And a subtle suggestion of "Find another way."
It’s beginning to look a lot like Innsmouth.
Everywhere you go
There’s a plot in the Gill Hotel, smelling of fish as well
The bug eyed ones that don’t want you to know.
lol!
This just made my night, thank you🤘
+1
Andrew B Absolutely brilliant!
It's beginning to look a lot like fishmen!
"Get back in the ***ing sea, you blasphemous.. ."
I can just picture Roy Scheider saying this!
@@HorrorBabble lol 😂🤣
@@HorrorBabble "I used to hate the water..." "I can't imagine why."
"Several were reputed to harbor in concealment, certain living kinsfolk, whose personal aspect forbade public view." My favourite line.
I've just discovered Lovecraft. Turning into a fan.
I love his work named my cat after his
@@Mortalkombatdakota change his name to lovecat
Check out the Algernon Blackwood, Henry Kuttner and Saki stories on this channel. Those three are absolutely awesome.
@@praesidium4278 the name it's already got is fine..
I envy you. You can only be a Lovecraft beginner once.
I've lost track of how many times I've listened to this story. This has to be one of your best reads ever Ian. If you put anymore of yourself into that escape from town we would feel the pounding of the guy's heart. Truly a masterpiece read by a master
100% agreed!
I was legit on the edge of my seat the first time i read the escape scene. So good
That feeling I get when I search for H.P. Lovecraft and it is a Horror Babble production..... right in the feels.
This is by far the highest quality horror content I’ve ever heard
The background ambience and noises make this one of the best audiobooks of all time, the immersion in this one is indescribable, this is pure brilliance.
How I would’ve loved to have UA-cam when I was a kid to have a channel like this to spend hours listening to this stuff.
I love your voice, bro!
It feels like I’ve fallen into a whirlpool of lovecraftian design - I see / feel / smell the decay from the briney depths. Thank you Ian and Gill
This is perhaps my favorite H P Lovecraft story. The ending is terrifying, the story is brilliant and I loved the narration.
By far his - HP's- most 'exciting😮' story.
First I heard from Lovecraft, have been completely hooked ever since!👍
I love your american accent- it sounds like classic Hollywood's version of men.
Just fits very nicely in these equally classic stories.
I believe it is called a "Transatlantic accent", I love it as well!
Woke at 3 A.M then I decided to listen to this and by God did it affect my dreams. I was in the part where the youth was controlled by some potions and a tiara or something and like literally, it was light sleep and I dreamt about it from every detail. Still listening to your vids tho.
I wish I were an immortal fish person.
Do you have a strange craving for insects😃? Just take a walk down lonely street to Fish Bait Hotel...
Me too! Does that make me bad or mentally ill or something? You'd get used to the smell and you'd be an immortal that could live forever under the ocean and hang out with Cthulhu. Honestly... all perks.
@BruderShaft1 Thank you. Incredibly cogent and well-considered response. Much appreciated. I now feel better about my desire to become an immortal fish person thrall of mighty Cthulhu.
Being an immortal fish person would be a gas.
You all are crazy. Do you not know how savage life in the ocean is? Literally everything is constantly being eaten by something else. On the floor of most of the ocean looks like a child's room full of Legos just waiting to be stepped on. Then you have people from the surface constantly polluting your habitat with plastic and even shit and piss. You may be immortal but even this can be a horror filled shit show too. Your one Damn shark attack survival from an eternity as a limbless slobbering glob of fishy burden to your fish family and friends who would slowly grow to resent and loath you.
One of my favorites. The sense of creepiness, isolation and dread builds slowly but inexorably until you feel trapped like a fly in amber in this nightmare “town”. Lovecraft is an amazing storyteller. Here, and in The Dunwich Horror, he is superb.
I´m obsessed with this story, I read it, I'd say, several times a year... I don't know what it is with it, the way he describes the places, the people, the feelings of horror... they're worth more than any image. I just know would surely visit Innsmouth
Sending love 💕...are you single?
I listen to this all the time just to hear zadok allen. "When they get readeh, I SAY WHEN THEY GET READEH!"
Omg. Drunk and listenin to this again, fer the several hundreth time. Enthralled by the story an then Zedok Allen starts talking. Lips curl at the corners and every happy spot in my brain lights up. My heart swells and almost bursts in my chest at how amazing this reading is. This is on par with Peter O'toole in Man of La Mancha. One of the most amazing works ever done. I will never get tired of listnen to this. Thank you so much =). One of the very few joys I find in life.
This, What the moon brings and Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath..."Who's vile hooves must paw the hellish ooze miles below...I SHRIEKED AND SHRIEKED!" "and the priests shook their pshent-bearing heads"
and call of cthulhu, and Mountains of madness...."Cambrian and pre cambrian strata" lol. but this is my favorite
The narrator is very good. You make this story more interesting than it would be. Thank you.
Agreed, I've read it before but I always love a good audio. And this gentleman adds a lot with his tone and obvious passion. Very well done :)
Hans Christian Anderson wrote The Little Mermaid. I would like to see a well done CGI movie of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Dagon is fantastic in my opinion.
Yet another narration masterpiece. You really brought this creepy story alive and this is probably my 7th or 8th time listening.
I challenge anyone listening to this to try reading Lovecraft aloud. It’ll make you appreciate Ian even more. It is particularly challenging, and this is the narration equivalent to linear algebra. The archaic words, the sentence structure, the paragraph-long sentences etc. This is no easy task.
Lovecraft was obsessed with the word "Furtive" in this story.
Lovecraft was obsessed with a lot of words he repeats constantly
Sending love 💕...are you single?
This is my favorite reader of this story by far! I've been wanting to listen to this story but it was so hard to find someone who was actually pleasant to listen to. This is amazing 😊❤️
Beautiful!
This takes me back to Oblivion's quest 'Shadow over Dirthack', which has a similar story. That was the first time I got to know Lovecraft, around 2006.
Kladdelic Same! I think it’s called Hackdirt though 🙂
I had the opposite reaction - because I already knew Shadow Over Innsmouth, I was disappointed by the lack of fish people in the quest, or creature-transformation in general.
@@garrick3727 I mean, it’s just a quest inspired by the book. Doesn’t mean they necessarily have to include every element. I thought they did pretty well with it. I was rightly freaked out of my underwear as a kid stumbling upon that town.
Lol it’s Hackdirt the community’s name in the game
hey a fellow ESO fan , Was literally thinking of that quest as i listened. One of the best quests in the game.
Playing The Sinking City right now and this audiobook is really helping keep the immersion. Greatly appreciated
The shadow is back over youtube! Thank you !!
Nothing like getting up early on Saturday and having this to listen to while working on models. :D
Krista Dís Guðmundsdóttir ..bikini models lol
If that is your fancy...
Genestealer cultists by any chance?
I seem to remember a song from when I was very young called "Zadok the Priest." Never thought I'd hear that name again
Great reading, as always, HB.
This is top 3 for me all time favorite in horror genre. My imagination runs wild painting a picture of the events everytime I come back to it!
One of my favourite stories ever since playing Dark Corners of the Earth. I'm glad Jennifer Gill wasn't replaced as Zadok. She was fantastic - and it's nice that Ian Gordon, despite his incredible voice, doesn't have to talk to himself all the time lol
Haha, thank you!
"Messenger of fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father roaming free"
🤘
@Col. George S. Patton, Sr. Just as a side note, althought Sweden has done well under social democracy for long and I don't expect it to work for every country, right now the capitalists are crawling up to the socialist democratic state to save them. Cute.
@@Akillesursinne it wasn't 'social democracy' that previously made Sweden an economic success story. Their means of production and distribution is still very much driven by private enterprise, just look into their weapons exports as an example. How exactly is socialism going to save us from economic strife? Pretty sure Hugo Chavez tried socialising the Venezuelan economy, it didn't take them long to get to capital flight and make them a pariah state hostile to private ownership. There's a difference between implementing Keynesian economic policies and socialism. Not once in the history of human endeavours has mass collective ownership of the means of production and distribution worked. I covered this extensively when I studied political history. It looks ok on paper (to ideologues that ignore twentieth century history) never works when it's expanded into socialising swathes of business
@@MaliciousChickenAgenda As a Swede, who has actually studied these things to some extent, I must give you a heads up.
First of, I don't think you are aware of the swedish model when it comes to the model of employment and unions. See, Sweden has long been a poor country, but under social democratic rule (which had an almost hegemonic status for half a century), we worked on the social contracts. One example is that unions and employers form binding contracts to which they adhere. As in, it is illegal to break said contract. For example, a norm is set for the pay of workers, and this affects even non-uninion workers and it's illegal to break that norm and drop the wages knowingly. But it is also against the rules to break "the peace" as it's called and, for example, strike whilst a unionen agreement is still functioning. This is a legal reason to kick employees if they fail to do so.
Now how does this affect the market? Well, workers in Sweden can forsee their economical futurure much better than their peers in many other countries, due to unionen agreements, laws that prohibit employers from firing people without either 1) lack of work. or 2) personal reasons (abuse, not showing up to work, etc). It is not legal to fire someone for disliking them, and the practise of "last in, first out" is very much in use.
Sweden worked it's way to finincial stability through a compromise between the state and the capitalists. The state, clearly social democratic, has time and time again saved the important companies in times of need (as is being done at this very moment) be it during the 2008 crisis (which Sweden handled well) or the late 1920s crisis, which Sweden also handled well.
To say that social democracy did not have a hand in it is to not have a deeper understanding of the Swedish model. And comparing it to Venezuela is, as we say in sweden, like comparing apples and pears. It's not the same thing.
Now if you are ignorant enough to ignore the glaring positive outcome of the swedish model of reformistic social democracy just because you are ideologically blinded, then I can't help you. Now, I understand, and most Swedes, that a revolutionary or full sale socialism would not do us much good. But most Swedes also know that if it were not for the unions, for our common striving against the degenerate way of treating the workers in the late 1800s, then Sweden would be shit.
Our socialist institutes and ideas keep saving our banks, who never see fit to pay the state back (of course), and right now the same thing is happening where the state is saving small businesses through billions in support. So saying pure capitalism is the way, well. No. Neither pure capitalism nor pure socialism seems very effective. Us Swedes found a middle way that works for us. It makes people like Ben Shapiro make such humiliating mental gymnastics, but see, I don't think many Swedes would ever endevour to ship our model. It works for us. An old nation, with long traditions of representation for the people (even under our kings) and that didn't ever suffer under the yoke of serfdom. It wouldn't work in the US. You do you, we do our thing. :)
@@Akillesursinne I`ve just realised i replied to the wrong person with that comment i posted to you! My apologies for that. I had 5 different pages open on here that day so when i read your comment i confused it with someone else i was discussing socialism with on another video. I read the bit about social democracy and Sweeden and got my reply mixed up and if you`re wondering why i mentioned Chavez, it`s because the person i was originally talking to on the other thread from another video was trying to make the case that he was the saviour of the Venezuelan economy. I actually just re-read what you said (sober this time, i was drunk lol) and i agree though my point about the Swedes still having private business as part of their economic model still stands but i`m sure you`ll be aware of that anyway. When i was covering politics the nordic model was referred to as a mixed economy by our tutor, were socialist policies can be beneficial and work alongside capitalism. At least that`s how i understand it. Tutors are not infallible though! On the subject of a mixed economy - I`m from the UK and we have socialised healthcare here but most people will probably say we are very much a capitalist country, which is true to an extent. Our NHS is a public service used by everyone so to my mind the private model (especially the U.S one) is based purely off of making money. The behaviour of some big pharmaceutical companies can be atrocious. I`d be here all day if i were to get into that (bad pharma by Ben Goldcare is worth a read by the way). I`m aware of Swedens history of collective bargaining but always willing to learn more about their unions etc. You don`t grow and learn as a person if you stick to being a grumpy, self righteous ideologue lol i probably have more in common with you when it comes to economic views than someone like Ben Shapiro...he`s a clever man but he suffers from confirmation bias. He`s even admitted it on the rubin report.
Excellent. This story hits all the right notes.
The quality of your readings are second to none
This is my top favorite of all H.P. Lovecraft's works.
Good narration.. nicely modulated. Bizarre fact bout Lovecraft.Even though he lived in a predominantly maritime part of new England,he was terrified of fish.He would leave the restaurant if someone even ordered fish.He also really was afraid of strangers.You can hear it in his verbosity.I grew up reading these stories.He created an entire myth cycle that inspired so many later authors.In the old testament,the temple that Samson brought down,was the temple of dagon.The old guy has been around a long time
I think this is my most listened to of all Horrorbabble videos. My go to is At the mountains of madness but it’s a long old listen and this particular story just gives me the ‘other side of reality’ shot I often need.
They used queer word in the past instead of the word weird or strange. Queer was the word to describe weird events.
Unsolicited fun fact: a dialect of the south-east of Ireland uses a reletive of the word queer, quare, to mean "very".
This story is quare good
H.P.Lovecraft ... is he a quare? Let's ask Bunny.
How well I know. Words such as "queer" and "gay", once having entirely different meanings and quite apart from any sexual connotation, now merely serve as synonymic adjectives for homosexuality. How sorrowful the direction in which our wonderful English language has turned...
DouglassRobert poor baby. Languages change or become archaic and die. English itself is far from pure.
@@riyadali4082 you could have said that without the "poor baby". By adding that you made yourself look like an immature douche. Dont be a douche. No one loves the douche
I can never decide between this story and The Whisperer in Darkness for my favorite. They're both so damned good.
Yay, it's back. I know what tonight's bedtime story is going to be!!
Big mood
My favorite channel for bedtime stories. 🌙
I would love to hear a story from the perspective of the guy working at the chain grocery store. His life there must be nightmarish.
Brilliant tale well read I’m happy to listen despite having read the story several times
Beautifully narrated, wonderfully clear voices, and just a hint of background sound in all the right places to add atmosphere.
I woke up in the middle of the night and listened to this ....the suspense and mounting dread was just intense. What a story...
Here it is July 2021 and I have just listened to my first Lovecraft. It will definitely not be my last! Am awed and fascinated by all the fans and their comments. Thank you HorrorBabble!!!!!!
Superb!
I always love Insmouth story. Is written almost 100 years ago, but is so well written, as it happens now in 2022.
This guy in the story is a true gentleman, even in being pursued by unholy abominations, he didn't lost his class, and complain even about the smell is insulting him.
And he was sure to keep his hat, as a gentleman of the time ought to ~no matter what~
I love the guy's voice at 5:40
One my earliest attempts at an American accent - thanks! Ian
This is one of my favorite Lovecraft stories. Great job both Ian and Jen. Really held my interest. I've read it two or three times, but it really gains intensity when listening to it read aloud.
First introduction to lovecraft. Appreciate it.
This will be my tenth story iv found and listened to here with HorrorBable both myself and my wife love the range of the stories told and like I've stated we've only herd ten or so tales. But job of the Narator marvelous job 👏🙌👌 we are very happy with such goodness in such horrible tales
You sir are amazing. My great grandpa used to read these books to me as a child at bedtime. It kind of formulated a bit of a horror obsession in me. I do own a copy of the complete Lovecraft stories. The voice work in this story is spot on. TL;DR: horror perfection.
Grandpa read Lovecraft to you at bedtime? 0_o
I guess, he was part of some cult too, eh?
“Spot on” voice work? Zadok’s a woman in the original story then?
This is absolutely canon to me. I don’t just mean the tale itself; no, but HorrorBabble’s narration itself OF the tale.
A wonderfully yet frightful tale being througly enjoyed tonight's bourbon and cigar stirring my imagination.
34:40
When you think out loud and other people on the bus notice the sign before you do
I have no idea what that clap is doing in there... but I think you've just given it meaning! Haha. Ian
I am actually proud of this tale. Instead of the main character shying away from his heritage he embraces it. Not many horror stories have such a happy ending like this one and I am glad that I took the time to listen to it.
I don't think you quite get it.
Old age as a human doesn’t seem that great. More relevant to Lovecraft however is the need to cherish human virtues falls away with the change. He saves his cousin from a terrible fate and goes to hang out with his grandma. Happy from a Deep One perspective anyway.
Every time the name of the Inn is mentioned I chuckle. Gilman! I mean seriously! Did the second L just fall off the sign? LMAO 😂
And people say Lovecraft didn’t have a sense of humor. 😊
it's amazing how interesting the story sounds when you read it, even in parts that boil to
"hey what's the cheapest bus?"
*drops every rumor and lore piece ever*
My phone's been sparked for the past three days, and for the past three days all I've wanted was spooky bedtime stories with Mister Gordon.
This is a fantastic story, masterfully delivered.
"more liquor for the ancient tippler"
charming turn, that one.
What a great performance. This is one of my favourite Lovecraft tales. I can see where Alan Moore got his influence for Providence.
Best reader ever. Ian you are amazing. 4th listen for me.
So what ever happened to old Zadok Allen?... He’s sleeping with the fishes.
If you play Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, you get to see what happens to him.
If Luca Brasi ever gets down there in Davey Jones's Locker, he should look up old Zadok.
Take a shot for every time Lovecraft wrote "Queer"
Sounds like provincetown on the cape lol.
Or "Gambrel Roof" or "Cyclopean Masonry"...
*dies of alcohol poisoning*
I'd rather play the Stephen King drinking game
You've killed many a man. You should be ashamed for developing a game more lethal than Blue Whale. Shame on you!
I fall asleep to this literally every night. It gives me the best dreams.
Something fishy this way comes. Thank you for this great story!
Lovecraft would probably have a hemorrhage if he learned of the movie the little mermaid.
If Lovecraft was still alive,he might like the movie,”She Creature” which was made in 2001. It has a mermaid in it that turns into a sea monster. (This movie was made for adults.)
Just imagine how he'd feel about Happy Feet and it's...
*GREAT, GROTESQUE PENGUINS*
That story was already a century old, my dude. I think The Shape of Water is closer. Although I think he would be horrified to see that the hedonism and decadence that would foretell the return of Cthulhu is now considered to be normal and desirable.
@@whitemagus2000 oh there are many things in modern western society that would horrify lovecraft
@@whitemagus2000 The Shape of Water would probably give him a stroke lmao
That hotel scene is nerve racking
Just listened to the new version so of course I have to go back and listen to this one.
BTW Horrorbabblers, your product is great for insomniacs.
It leads to warped dreams of Cthulhu, but at least you eventually get some sleep, as well as a free pile of trinkets of questionable and unknown origins.
Definitely an excellent 3 in the morning activity.
There’s definitely going to be a “Zadok” in the Saltmarsh Dnd campaign I’m running. Here from Slyflourish to get some ideas for good imagery and the bits from 53:00 to about 56:00 is all gold. As well as Zadoks entire tale.
Leaving this video a new Lovecraft fan!
Fabulous! All the best with the campaign. Ian
My favorite Lovecraft's story *_*
This is probably just how Lovecraft perceived a trip to the grocery store. Harrowing
I believe he was actually inspired by learning he was like 1.02% Welsh lmao
My favorite recording of my favorite Lovecraft story! Well done!!!
"Probably some foreign kind of a disease brought from China"
People today: "Aye"
First story I ever heard from Lovecraft, am now completely addicted!👍
Great job, Ian and Jennifer. Thank you so much for narrating one of my top ten stories!
This is an excellent narration of one of my favorite stories. This story is fabulously written. I find myself drawn into it every time I read or listen to it.
This story's description of Innsmouth is amazing. The book has no pictures or drawings (some include a map), but such detail is given that the reader gets an excellent picture of what the town looks like.
The descriptions in the book are reminiscent of old seaport towns in New England.
Finally, Zadok Allen is the best "NPC" ever. His is awesome and hilarious. His lifelong resistance is classic! Jennifer's narration of his words is awesome!
Fantastic narration of a timeless classic! Looking forward to more!
If you havent yet, id check with Mike Bennett audio as well Ian, his rendition of this is as memorable as yours, thanks for the upload as per usual.
Thanks Joe - I believe he does excellent work.
With all the social distancing going on I thought I'd give this old classic a re-listen. After all, seems fitting, now this is a place where you would definitely " want" to social distance yourself, lol. Just a little humor in this troubled time. But again, thanks horrorbabble, you have made this week a whole lot better in so many ways, you guys have completely ruined me for any other narrator, especially involving Lovecraft tales and stories, be safe out there ian and Jen! And as always keep up the good work.
Same to you, Joshua! Take care.
This is in the top 3 of Lovecraft's stories..... awesome thanks