It's been my ritual for about a year now. Unfortunately, I don't think I could listen Lovecraft books and stay awake anymore. Especially this narrator.
@@TheRecluseeee Love from Siam, thank you for uploading this. Very interesting to listen to and I always wake up in the middle of the night with the next audiobook playing. This is the best narrator as well.
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True fact: The "noises in the hills" are based on actual noises heard in Moodus, CT, which are attributed to small earthquakes. I grew up in Connecticut, and have visited Moodus, and heard them myself - they're real.
those announcements were edited out when these stories were made digital for the braille library. shame that, they were great. please change side selector switch.
@@AmericanIdiot181 Let's put it this way, nowhere. These were made for the blind, and only work with a specific player. Your best option is to download these vids as mp3s.
After I finished this story I had a horrible nightmare that night. It doesn't take much to scare me but this man has opened my mind! I love his stories and I hope everyone reads him!
Sullivan Sarah dude I sleep listening to his stories, but I don't dream or at least don't remember having them, lol. I too hope more people would read H. P. Horrorcraft, ain't no love there.
I also often sleep with Lovecraft playing. Sometimes I find the words and scenes seep through into my dreams, which then become particularly intense and vivid. I've tried different stories but for some reason I get best results using this story and also The Colour Out Of Space and The Whisperer In Darkness. Helps if you eat a lot of aged cheese before going to bed.
I wish Lovecraft had lived longer. Not because there isnt a lot of stories - fans already made plenty of those. Lovecraft was showing signs of repetition. No, I wished he had lived longer to see how his stories or world would have changed. We can now only get imitations of his best work.
This narrator is the .best of all. His name I do not know. He's a Vicent Price. Like a wet suit and a reader he jumps in. He has laid waste all the others
The narrator of this same story presented by "Chilling Tales for Dark Nights" is also quite good, I think, and includes some creepily effective sound effects.
I live in providence, and each time I hear/read Lovecrafts stories, can't help but walk around East side/college hill,where much of his inspiration came from...
I spent a few years in the Monterey-Carmel area in California. My best friend, who grew up in Carmel, went to school with the son of Clark Ashton Smith, who I consider to be in the same league with Lovecraft. A higher compliment would be hard to find for a writer. Smith and Lovecraft corresponded quite a bit as well. Lovecraft wrote of an Egyptian priest, in one of his stories, named him Clar Kash ton. Interesting that they were about as far away from each other as you could get, and still be in the US. Carmel and the coast south from there, as well as the Monterey area, is very moody, and it's no surprise that Smith lived and wrote there all his life. The two of them never met in person though.
No doubt about it Yog-Sothoth got owned in this one. One of your own plans and own offspring getting destroyed by a few puny humans? It's a good thing he's trapped outside the universe then cause if I were it I sure wouldn't want to show my face in there anytime soon. Probably why Cthulhu went back down the R'hlye he was too embarrassed after letting a human ram in with a boat and completely disrupt his physical form. It's like Brock Lesner getting out wrestled by a two year old, it's hard to bounce back from that
Yog Sothoth is neutral in all this. The Whateley's were attempting to use Yog Sothoth to open the gate and allow the Old Ones to return, and part of that plan was also to make children of Yog Sothoth who could do this. Yog Sothoth isn't really malevolent in any of these stories, it's just the multiverse personified and occasionally gives random hillbillies kids and opens doors for them.
FINALLY. This is the third spoken version I've found. The first was muddled by added sounds, the second was spoken like a lullaby intended to put the listener to sleep. Finally a version I can listen to. Thanks!
I first starting reading Lovecraft when I was about 12, and I've never grown out of them a very long time later. Like Edgar Allen Poe he's got a totally distinct style and cadence, and despite the fact that it ought to be over the top, it isn't, it's just really good and manages to capture his imagined world wonderfully.
Poe's Eureka is one of the _best_ poems I've ever read, and it is perhaps no coincidence that Lovecraft - who greatly admired him - went on to write in the field of science fiction due to the work's influence.
It would seem that he is writing a story based on his early childhood. His father went mad and died when he was an infant and only his mother and Grandfather were around , also, his grandfather left him a big library in the attic of the estate.
wow all the elders seem to want a chance to rule the earth, I wonder if there would've been some sort of climactic clash between all these terrifying races at some point if Lovecraft hadn't died that early.
+Teh BrownieMixx (brownie mixx) there kind of is, in the mountains of madness lovecraft describes the fight for domination between the kind of cthulhu and the great old ones
A really great channel, thank you. Do you know the names of either of the two narrators for the majority of your hp love craft recordings? They catch HP's often clinically descriptive style of writing and the scientific detachment from the horrors his characters sometimes possess perfectly with their flat authorative tones
Virginia Aravena They are the nameless dwellers of R'lyeh who visited our domain some time ago and left these ominous recordings. But they went back to the dreaming city of the deep. Still, when the stars are right, they will come back.
Virginia Aravena Conrad Feininger is the narrator for The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow out of Time, and others. I haven't found out the name of the other.
Virginia Aravena I did a little more searching. The other reader, I believe, is Gordon Gould-check out cthulhuwho1.com/2013/09/07/the-worlds-largest-h-p-lovecraft-audio-links-gateway/
Apollyon Katastrefia there's a building in the far west of the Fallout 3 map called the Dunwich Building and it's haunted in the game, they revisit it in fallout 4 with Dunwich Borers as well
Vilkku the deep ones are the servitor race of Dagon, not Cthulhu. The star spawn of Cthulhu (somewhat bearing his likeness, but seldom mentioned in Lovecraft's works) are the Servitor race of Cthulhu. In fact Cthulhu, and Dagon once many eons ago warred for dominance of the earth, and eventually settled that Dagon would have the sea, and Cthulhu would have the land... This is Ironic since his city of Rl'yeh sunk into the sea during the great old ones slumber.
+Nicholas Musser The Deep Ones worship both Dagon and Cthulhu (and Hydra). Dagon seems to be their primary deity, given the name of the Innsmouth cult, but they certainly serve Cthulhu as well; in fact, the whole purpose of their human crossbreeding program was to provide some kind of "tribute" to Cthulhu. Maybe some later Mythos authors introduced a strict categorization of "Servitor races" and this war between Dagon and Cthulhu you mention, but there was certainly nothing of the sort mentioned in The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Yog sothoth dreamt all the old gods, reality and cthulu. He sleeps as they wallow in their morbid, knowingly finite existence. For they know the day their true creator will awake.
in case anybody is wondering, these recordings are from the braille library. i have this collection in digital format, it was originally on tape (the side notices and muffled sound) but was digitized for the modern day braille library players. still cool to have on youtube, because not many people get to experience these recordings.
@@AmericanIdiot181 No. They're free, but as I said, only work with a specific player, and setting up an account is pretty impossible unless you're blind. Just convert these to mp3s.
when unseen whippoorwills chatter and the fireflies come out in abnormal profusion to dance to the raucous, creepily insistent rhythms of stridently piping bull-frogs...
The exposition of this story is fantastic. You can almost imagine the countryside. If anyone has ever played Fallout 3: Point Lookout, I'm pretty sure the level design was inspired by this.
I'm writing a quick short story to amuse some call of Cthulhu enthusiasts today, it's great having such material at hand! Thanks, whoever uploaded this, you know who you are!
I could listen to more of those stories but i Cant.... I fell in love with this Mans voice. I Just doesnt feel right when others read it. Ill try listening to more stories but it wont be his same Deep voice. It creates a special mood for me . If by any chance somebody knows his name could he write it? Id be glad. But all in all thank you for this playlist of stories. Have a wonderful day.
Moraktion yep. One of the most excellent audio recordings I've ever heard in fact. Check out the 'Dunwich Horror- Chiiling Tales for Dark Nights' recording. Incredibly atmospheric with excellent audio production. I think it is probably exactly what you are looking for
I have to second this. Chilling Tales for Dark Nights has an excellent cast of voice actors and makes great use of sound effects and music. They have some great readings of Lovecraft's writings, including "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Herbert West, Reanimator".
I love H.P. Lovecraft's stories; Call of Cthulhu, Shadow Over Innsmouth, Dunwich Horror, Dagon, Colour Out of Space, and Shadow Out of Time are six of his best works. Fungi From Yuggoth was another good story by Lovecraft and he has a lot of other good short stories, novels, and novellas, also. None of his stories even stoop down to being average or mediocre because all of his stories are outstanding.
I agree, with one exception. The Street is a piece of xenophobic, racist bigotry and it is a shame that the biases of the time corrupted such a great mind.
+Reese Loveland he was a racist man. and Albert Einstein had a sexual relationship with his step daughter. Abraham Lincoln was arguably a bad husband and a non existant father. Winston Churchill was a paranoid drunk everyone has problems. some are worse than others. racism IS deplorable; don't get me wrong; it's kind of why The Incident at Red Hook falls so low in my opinion.
I don't know how good it is for my sanity but I'm streaming all the stories back to back. And telling others about it so if anything happens I'll be in good company ;)
I grew up in a town called Maynard, and the woods running through my side of town on the other side of the assabet River stretch far into Sudbury. My neighborhood was surrounded by thick woods, despite how busy the town has always been, the woods are eerie. There were multiple people in my area, children and adults, who attest to having seen glowing red eyes in the woods. They wouldn't blink and would sit staring for extended periods of time. The scariest time was having heard a shriek in the woods when the cops were called by my friends mom. I don't think anyone ever seen it, but I know they aren't lying. Massachusetts is home to many old celts and witches who filled from the catholic church back in the day.. only to meet the Christians xD I have a strong belief in things that are elusive, maybe ancient, lurking in our land. The world is ancient.
Whenever i go to a crowded place or meet someone unpleasant. I hear "Get the hell out of here" in my head repeatedly until I leave and get out the situation . At 1st i found to be cool but now it's getting really annoying and making me nervous. People seem to laugh at me for being awkward. More I try to suppress this voice more louder it gets. At first I knew it's me talking to myself but now I am sure its not my voice and definitely someone else is talking to me. What hell is happening to me should go and see a shrink ? Am I delusional or something?
There are indications the brain does not generate consciousness, but is more like a receiver that taps into it. Next time ask the name of 'who' is speaking to you. If you know the name, you have the power to accuse 'it' (of harassement I guess) to a 'higher authority', who or whatever you believe that to be. And most important: no fear :)
I very much doubt that random UA-cam users are the best people to ask, in regards to such an issue. it would be far better to try speaking to an actual healthcare professional.
The reader is Conrad Feininger. It is part of an audiobook that was made for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, recorded in 2002. I'm still trying to find straight audio copies but the original is only accessible if you're registered as blind, through the library of congress website.
This is good, but I find reading a book is always better than an audiobook, because you can go at your own pace and everything seems to make more sense. But that's just my opinion.
I agree, but there are other advantages to audiobooks. I have a job, where I often do not need to listen to or talk to anybody, but I *do* need to use my eyes and hands. I recently took to listening to audiobooks, and the fact that I can now enjoy a variety of literature up to an additional 37 hours a week has me smiling even as I get ready for work on a monday morning. (I am only disappointed that it didn't occur to me until now). Also, I have found that it is sometimes easier to sample literature outside of my normal reading, in audiobook form. I have less patience with a physical book, but in audiobook form I am more willing to take a chance with something, I might otherwise have discarded - there is some value to that, I think.
SaaErDetNok Great point! Yes, ever since I started using audiobooks, I found it much easier way to sample various books. I use various medium for books (printed books, PDF books, Kindle books, audiobooks, etc.) and I find audiobooks to be very useful.
I suppose that is a good point, the ability to sample something. But if the book is from an author I know I like, and I will enjoy (E.G. Lovecraft) I would much prefer a physical copy.
Yeah I said this same thing to my mum on the subject of movies and music. Yeah sure I could store my entire collection, and some more, on my iPod, and yeah I could store every movie I've ever watched on my PC. But I would always rather have a physical copy, it has more meaning.
I DO hope the movie comes out soon. Those who did 'Colour out of Space' with Nicholas Cage. Are supposed to be making this movie. I haven't heard or seen any news of it yet.
All glory to the all wise and all divine father, YogSothoth. ~We, the children, honor thy twisted and draconian blood, and will connect or/and break worlds with our portals. ee yah ee yah YogSothoth yah ee yah YogSothoth YogSothoth
Oh thank god they punched 15 commercials into the shows. It was awful being able to listen to Conrad's voice and superb reading of the tales uninterrupted.
My favorite Abdul Al Hazred is when he said to change the side selector switch. What could this mean? Am I tottering on the brink of technologies unknown to this or any sane generation?
What's the narrator's name? As someone else commented, he is *the* voice of Lovecraft. Even when I read HPL in book form this is the voice I hear in my head... only problem is trying to listen to anyone else now (no offense to HorrorBabble etc., it's not that others are bad, just that this guy is so perfect).
What I'm listening to in the background: Dark Ambience - Horror Background Music: ua-cam.com/video/W33kv-ZAxzE/v-deo.html Radio Static: ua-cam.com/video/r0OfStGQbCg/v-deo.html Any suggestions for music to accompany Lovecraft?
A great tale by old HP...although, and I suppose one maybe shouldn't look to hard into this as its probably just to create an atmosphere with little reason behind it, but what force is behind the whippoorwills? Presumably its not the old ones...otherwise Wilbur would not mind about them 'taking' the soul of old Whately...so is it some other supernatural force? I know its a theme of the story based on traditional new England tales, but it does sort of feel out of place in logic of the story. Also, as Lovecraft mentions 'decayed' branches of the Whatelys, Bishops etc and one of the Whately number remembers gatherings in the stone circles during old Whatelys youth, surely there must be other followers of the old ones in Dunwich in order to perform these ceremonies, so why didn't the Whatelys call on them for help in summoning these things from beyond? Surely they would have wanted the same thing?
That's an interesting part where the grandfather is giving Wilbur his final instructions.. feeding etc and speaking of the old ones wanting to come back. Creepy in a wonderful way.
Shoutout to the homies who fall asleep to HPL audiobooks
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It's been my ritual for about a year now. Unfortunately, I don't think I could listen Lovecraft books and stay awake anymore. Especially this narrator.
@@TheRecluseeee Is there a way to purchase these audiobooks of HP Lovecraft complete works? Or does it cover just a selection of his work?
@@TheRecluseeee Love from Siam, thank you for uploading this. Very interesting to listen to and I always wake up in the middle of the night with the next audiobook playing. This is the best narrator as well.
The only thing is all the people in my dreams keep spouting H. P. Lovecraft dialogue.
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Smart! Thank you. And thank you so much for uploading this. The narrator is excellent.
That's very useful to know thanks
Cheers for that 👌
This voice over artist has become the voice of H.P. for me, and listening to anyone else just sounds.....meh.
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Wayne June is great for many stories, and Mike Bennet for others. Try Wayne June's 'Lurking Fear' or Bennett's 'Shadow Over Inns...".
I now have this issue as well! LOL
Could not agree more, perfect voice for Lovecraft!
Gisburne2000 does some nice work.
True fact: The "noises in the hills" are based on actual noises heard in Moodus, CT, which are attributed to small earthquakes. I grew up in Connecticut, and have visited Moodus, and heard them myself - they're real.
Arkadia Moon I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing the information. :)
i hard them as wel in sweden did u her tem?
best regrds friend from sweden
Arkadia Moon Is there a time of year they are known for sounding, because I would like to hear them and I have never been to Connecticut.
I've never heard that there's a time of year for them; they seem to happen randomly.
Arkadia Moon Thanks maybe I will get lucky when I visit.
Good thing he reminded me to swap my reel-to-reel cassettes
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I just flipped my iPhone over. Seemed to work. lol
those announcements were edited out when these stories were made digital for the braille library. shame that, they were great. please change side selector switch.
@@SwineBrothers where can I find these digital
@@AmericanIdiot181 Let's put it this way, nowhere. These were made for the blind, and only work with a specific player. Your best option is to download these vids as mp3s.
After I finished this story I had a horrible nightmare that night. It doesn't take much to scare me but this man has opened my mind! I love his stories and I hope everyone reads him!
My friend, you just opened the gate to the dark side! But it's ok since many of us are here and we do not wish to go back to the real world. ;)
Sullivan Sarah dude I sleep listening to his stories, but I don't dream or at least don't remember having them, lol. I too hope more people would read H. P. Horrorcraft, ain't no love there.
I also often sleep with Lovecraft playing. Sometimes I find the words and scenes seep through into my dreams, which then become particularly intense and vivid. I've tried different stories but for some reason I get best results using this story and also The Colour Out Of Space and The Whisperer In Darkness. Helps if you eat a lot of aged cheese before going to bed.
Sullivan Sarah but but but we all listened to him not read him
I wish Lovecraft had lived longer. Not because there isnt a lot of stories - fans already made plenty of those. Lovecraft was showing signs of repetition. No, I wished he had lived longer to see how his stories or world would have changed.
We can now only get imitations of his best work.
This narrator is the .best of all. His name I do not know. He's a Vicent Price. Like a wet suit and a reader he jumps in. He has laid waste all the others
Conrad Feininger
Wonderful stuff, and the narrator is absolutely superb. I wish I had his voice and his talent for structure and phrasing.
Agreed. It's Conrad Feininger
Jj
The narrator of this same story presented by "Chilling Tales for Dark Nights" is also quite good, I think, and includes some creepily effective sound effects.
He's the best for hp imo
I live in providence, and each time I hear/read Lovecrafts stories, can't help but walk around East side/college hill,where much of his inspiration came from...
You are really lucky!
I spent a few years in the Monterey-Carmel area in California. My best friend, who grew up in Carmel, went to school with the son of Clark Ashton Smith, who I consider to be in the same league with Lovecraft. A higher compliment would be hard to find for a writer. Smith and Lovecraft corresponded quite a bit as well. Lovecraft wrote of an Egyptian priest, in one of his stories, named him Clar Kash ton. Interesting that they were about as far away from each other as you could get, and still be in the US. Carmel and the coast south from there, as well as the Monterey area, is very moody, and it's no surprise that Smith lived and wrote there all his life. The two of them never met in person though.
No doubt about it Yog-Sothoth got owned in this one. One of your own plans and own offspring getting destroyed by a few puny humans?
It's a good thing he's trapped outside the universe then cause if I were it I sure wouldn't want to show my face in there anytime soon.
Probably why Cthulhu went back down the R'hlye he was too embarrassed after letting a human ram in with a boat and completely disrupt his physical form. It's like Brock Lesner getting out wrestled by a two year old, it's hard to bounce back from that
Imagine eldritch monsters telling each other stories about humans and being terrified.
Yog Sothoth is neutral in all this. The Whateley's were attempting to use Yog Sothoth to open the gate and allow the Old Ones to return, and part of that plan was also to make children of Yog Sothoth who could do this. Yog Sothoth isn't really malevolent in any of these stories, it's just the multiverse personified and occasionally gives random hillbillies kids and opens doors for them.
Note to self: don't listen to Beneath the Pyramid while trying to sleep, and don't listen to The Dunwich Horror while trying to eat.
Why would you do any of that. Hp Lovecraft makes Steven King look like a fucking children's fairy tale
for sleep honestly try the Music of Erik Zann much more surreal than horror bent
ShootingStarNeo i can attest to thr under the pyramids thing
Also, don't listen to "The Color out of Space" on a full stomach.
Gilmore Guirao Definately do not listen to the Colour Out Of Space when you need to sleep!
How magical and profound are Lovecraft's writings to give me deep sense of discomfort and intrigue all these years later. Amazing.
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I really like these narrations I just subscribed!
Thank you for these true American classics. "LEST WE FORGET"
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This speaker is so perfect.
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that feel when you accidentally tune out on other web pages and then remember to pay attention and you can't decide to restart or not
FINALLY. This is the third spoken version I've found. The first was muddled by added sounds, the second was spoken like a lullaby intended to put the listener to sleep. Finally a version I can listen to. Thanks!
I first starting reading Lovecraft when I was about 12, and I've never grown out of them a very long time later. Like Edgar Allen Poe he's got a totally distinct style and cadence, and despite the fact that it ought to be over the top, it isn't, it's just really good and manages to capture his imagined world wonderfully.
So true! He was a true master in his craft!
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I am eleven... Lovecraft and Poe are the writers I treasure most.
Poe's Eureka is one of the _best_ poems I've ever read, and it is perhaps no coincidence that Lovecraft - who greatly admired him - went on to write in the field of science fiction due to the work's influence.
this intro and the Cthulu intro[written by HP himself] contain flashes of complete genius
Lovecraft was a true genius, way ahead of his time. :)
It would seem that he is writing a story based on his early childhood. His father went mad and died when he was an infant and only his mother and Grandfather were around , also, his grandfather left him a big library in the attic of the estate.
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HGV Gaming wasn’t it his mother who went mad and died
Another great lovecraft story. I love it. Thanks again for the opportunity to relive some childhood scares.
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wow all the elders seem to want a chance to rule the earth, I wonder if there would've been some sort of climactic clash between all these terrifying races at some point if Lovecraft hadn't died that early.
+Teh BrownieMixx (brownie mixx) Thanks for listening!
+Teh BrownieMixx (brownie mixx) there kind of is, in the mountains of madness lovecraft describes the fight for domination between the kind of cthulhu and the great old ones
+Teh BrownieMixx Cthulhu vs Yoggsothoth.Who ever wins we humans are totally still fucked lol
+The Beard i love games, whos story is somewhat lovecraftian
i think that they are all kind of related, descended from Azathoth... plus id assume Yog Sothoth would free Cthulhu once he had earth in his realm
A really great channel, thank you. Do you know the names of either of the two narrators for the majority of your hp love craft recordings? They catch HP's often clinically descriptive style of writing and the scientific detachment from the horrors his characters sometimes possess perfectly with their flat authorative tones
Virginia Aravena They are the nameless dwellers of R'lyeh who visited our domain some time ago and left these ominous recordings. But they went back to the dreaming city of the deep. Still, when the stars are right, they will come back.
Virginia Aravena Conrad Feininger is the narrator for The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow out of Time, and others. I haven't found out the name of the other.
Virginia Aravena I did a little more searching. The other reader, I believe, is Gordon Gould-check out cthulhuwho1.com/2013/09/07/the-worlds-largest-h-p-lovecraft-audio-links-gateway/
Both those of those narrators have the exact right voice for reading H.P.. 😊
Listening to those sound effects towards the end was jarring with the rest of the story, but on its own, it's hilarious
+Nick MIlls Thanks for listening!
loved this book
To be honest Fallout Lore brought me here, and I am glad it did. Great tale!
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Canadain Whisky what in fallout ? its been a while since I played but I can't remember anything that would lead to lovecraft.
Apollyon Katastrefia there's a building in the far west of the Fallout 3 map called the Dunwich Building and it's haunted in the game, they revisit it in fallout 4 with Dunwich Borers as well
Imagine if he knew how large his work would grow to be. He is the true definition of famous . Well known after all this time, retold by so many
he was a great writer but also a terrible racist. today he would be locked up for his views.
I wonder what Dagon and the deep ones or Cthulhu would have to say about their world being over run by Yog-Sothoth creatures
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I can imagine a meeting between the Old Ones, arguing who gets the Earth. XD
Well, Deep Ones serve Cthulhu and Cthulhu is related to Yog-Sothoth.
It would probably be like one big annoying family dinner to them.
Vilkku the deep ones are the servitor race of Dagon, not Cthulhu. The star spawn of Cthulhu (somewhat bearing his likeness, but seldom mentioned in Lovecraft's works) are the Servitor race of Cthulhu. In fact Cthulhu, and Dagon once many eons ago warred for dominance of the earth, and eventually settled that Dagon would have the sea, and Cthulhu would have the land... This is Ironic since his city of Rl'yeh sunk into the sea during the great old ones slumber.
+Nicholas Musser
The Deep Ones worship both Dagon and Cthulhu (and Hydra). Dagon seems to be their primary deity, given the name of the Innsmouth cult, but they certainly serve Cthulhu as well; in fact, the whole purpose of their human crossbreeding program was to provide some kind of "tribute" to Cthulhu. Maybe some later Mythos authors introduced a strict categorization of "Servitor races" and this war between Dagon and Cthulhu you mention, but there was certainly nothing of the sort mentioned in The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Yog sothoth dreamt all the old gods, reality and cthulu. He sleeps as they wallow in their morbid, knowingly finite existence. For they know the day their true creator will awake.
I love the character of Armatige! Brave old man
Great stuff. I appreciate the effort! Love hearing good tales while I'm working on a project.
in case anybody is wondering, these recordings are from the braille library. i have this collection in digital format, it was originally on tape (the side notices and muffled sound) but was digitized for the modern day braille library players. still cool to have on youtube, because not many people get to experience these recordings.
Anyway to buy these
@@AmericanIdiot181 No. They're free, but as I said, only work with a specific player, and setting up an account is pretty impossible unless you're blind. Just convert these to mp3s.
@@SwineBrothers ok thank you
@@SwineBrothers sorry i commented on two comments
when unseen whippoorwills chatter and the fireflies come out in abnormal profusion to dance to the raucous, creepily insistent rhythms of stridently piping bull-frogs...
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I hear he regarded this as his best work. It definitely influenced me enough for the plot of my first novel to basically be the same.
I appreciate both Wayne June and David Palmer. They bring the Lovecraft tales for me.
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Conrad Feininger too 😊
grant us eyes
Majestic!
baeo fume Grant us fries like you did for vacuous McRomald.
YOU THERE... HUNTER... DIDN'T YOU SEE THE WARNING?
baeo fume that we may see
A hunter is a hunter even in a dream...
great story, just listened to it in one sitting. takes me a while cause i tend to rewind. the reader is very good.
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Reader is Conrad Feininger.
+davemaier68 oh thanks
The exposition of this story is fantastic. You can almost imagine the countryside. If anyone has ever played Fallout 3: Point Lookout, I'm pretty sure the level design was inspired by this.
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of coarse it is and what about the "Duwich" Building in 3 and the "Dunwich" Bowors in 4
I'm writing a quick short story to amuse some call of Cthulhu enthusiasts today, it's great having such material at hand! Thanks, whoever uploaded this, you know who you are!
You're welcome! Glad you liked the book. Lovecraft forever!
Your story better be good because I might read it if its put online!
Michael S. Thomas Same here. The world can use more of Lovecraft-inspired stories.
Michael S. Thomas I hope it is. I never try to judge my writing - i just spent a ton of time on it and hammer it until it can't take it no more.
Nathan Tarantla When you have finished writing, let us know. Cheers!
there is a reason that there is no 'Lovecraft school of dentistry'... probably.
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*Whippoorwills intensify*
Thank you so much, I’ve wanted to hear this forever!!!
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TFW you check the time after Wilbur'sdeath and realized you aren't even halfway done.
I could listen to more of those stories but i Cant....
I fell in love with this Mans voice.
I Just doesnt feel right when others read it. Ill try listening to more stories but it wont be his same Deep voice. It creates a special mood for me .
If by any chance somebody knows his name could he write it? Id be glad. But all in all thank you for this playlist of stories. Have a wonderful day.
Is there a dramatized version of this, with voice actors, music and/or sound effects?
Moraktion yep. One of the most excellent audio recordings I've ever heard in fact. Check out the 'Dunwich Horror- Chiiling Tales for Dark Nights' recording. Incredibly atmospheric with excellent audio production. I think it is probably exactly what you are looking for
I have to second this. Chilling Tales for Dark Nights has an excellent cast of voice actors and makes great use of sound effects and music. They have some great readings of Lovecraft's writings, including "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Herbert West, Reanimator".
I like the inverted theology in this story.
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A dog is the unsung hero of this whole story.
God, that ending with the horror trying to speak. Gives me the shivers.
Yes, the ending is great for this one. Very fitting for the story.
I love H.P. Lovecraft's stories; Call of Cthulhu, Shadow Over Innsmouth, Dunwich Horror, Dagon, Colour Out of Space, and Shadow Out of Time are six of his best works. Fungi From Yuggoth was another good story by Lovecraft and he has a lot of other good short stories, novels, and novellas, also. None of his stories even stoop down to being average or mediocre because all of his stories are outstanding.
+Sean McGinnis Indeed!
I agree, with one exception. The Street is a piece of xenophobic, racist bigotry and it is a shame that the biases of the time corrupted such a great mind.
Don't forget Pickman's Model!
add At the Mountains of Madness and Under the Pyramids to that.
personal opinion
+Reese Loveland
he was a racist man.
and Albert Einstein had a sexual relationship with his step daughter.
Abraham Lincoln was arguably a bad husband and a non existant father.
Winston Churchill was a paranoid drunk
everyone has problems.
some are worse than others.
racism IS deplorable; don't get me wrong; it's kind of why The Incident at Red Hook falls so low in my opinion.
Fantastic! Well read and Well shared! thank you!
Daniel Cazan My pleasure!
I don't know how good it is for my sanity but I'm streaming all the stories back to back. And telling others about it so if anything happens I'll be in good company ;)
Daniel Cazan Welcome to the club my friend! Enjoy the ride! :D
Kos...or Kosm...Wait!
YES
I think being driven mad would be a lot worse than any bodily injury I can think of at least.
Lovecraft said that? Mustve wrote it subconsciously then.☺
I grew up in a town called Maynard, and the woods running through my side of town on the other side of the assabet River stretch far into Sudbury. My neighborhood was surrounded by thick woods, despite how busy the town has always been, the woods are eerie. There were multiple people in my area, children and adults, who attest to having seen glowing red eyes in the woods. They wouldn't blink and would sit staring for extended periods of time. The scariest time was having heard a shriek in the woods when the cops were called by my friends mom. I don't think anyone ever seen it, but I know they aren't lying. Massachusetts is home to many old celts and witches who filled from the catholic church back in the day.. only to meet the Christians xD
I have a strong belief in things that are elusive, maybe ancient, lurking in our land. The world is ancient.
His "Supernatural Horror In Literature" is very good 👍.
the founder of heavy metal
the narrator sounds like Wayne June. He's the best.
wonderful,thank you for posting!
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Is that the whole thing? Is the end missing? It feels incomplete but I've never read the book so I don't know.
Masterful reading. 💝
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" . . . the feeling of strange uneasiness . . ."
Who reads the book?
Don't you love it when UA-cam adds midroll ads to your videos?
the man looks serious.
So true. It's very difficult to find smiling pictures of Lovecraft. ;)
Indeed. It's part of the Lovecraft charm 😄
Whenever i go to a crowded place or meet someone unpleasant. I hear "Get the hell out of here" in my head repeatedly until I leave and get out the situation . At 1st i found to be cool but now it's getting really annoying and making me nervous. People seem to laugh at me for being awkward. More I try to suppress this voice more louder it gets. At first I knew it's me talking to myself but now I am sure its not my voice and definitely someone else is talking to me. What hell is happening to me should go and see a shrink ? Am I delusional or something?
Alter ego at most. Still you, technically.
There are indications the brain does not generate consciousness, but is more like a receiver that taps into it. Next time ask the name of 'who' is speaking to you. If you know the name, you have the power to accuse 'it' (of harassement I guess) to a 'higher authority', who or whatever you believe that to be. And most important: no fear :)
9digitNo do you have a source for that?
I very much doubt that random UA-cam users are the best people to ask, in regards to such an issue. it would be far better to try speaking to an actual healthcare professional.
What kind of birds were they? I didn't quite catch it.
Zergrushmyanus Whippoorwills.
TheHeavyMetalBrony I grew up out in the sticks. Used to hear them all the time. Its a damn good thing I never heard this story when I was a kid!
Where can I get these in mp3 audio?
thank you for posting this
Atheistprimate My pleasure!
Every night I play one of these as im boarding the train to dunwich , I mean dream town
Would like to see an animated interpretation of this story while the story is being told
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This sounds like Ken Nordine. Anyone know where the original recording appeared?
Donovan Loucks It's Conrad Feininger, he narrated The Shadow Out of Time as well.
You are correct! He mentions his name at the end of the reading. Thanks!
Name of the narrator is Conrad Feininger
Do you guys read this or is this from an old archive or something?
The reader is Conrad Feininger. It is part of an audiobook that was made for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, recorded in 2002. I'm still trying to find straight audio copies but the original is only accessible if you're registered as blind, through the library of congress website.
This is good, but I find reading a book is always better than an audiobook, because you can go at your own pace and everything seems to make more sense. But that's just my opinion.
I agree, but there are other advantages to audiobooks. I have a job, where I often do not need to listen to or talk to anybody, but I *do* need to use my eyes and hands. I recently took to listening to audiobooks, and the fact that I can now enjoy a variety of literature up to an additional 37 hours a week has me smiling even as I get ready for work on a monday morning. (I am only disappointed that it didn't occur to me until now). Also, I have found that it is sometimes easier to sample literature outside of my normal reading, in audiobook form. I have less patience with a physical book, but in audiobook form I am more willing to take a chance with something, I might otherwise have discarded - there is some value to that, I think.
SaaErDetNok Great point! Yes, ever since I started using audiobooks, I found it much easier way to sample various books. I use various medium for books (printed books, PDF books, Kindle books, audiobooks, etc.) and I find audiobooks to be very useful.
I suppose that is a good point, the ability to sample something. But if the book is from an author I know I like, and I will enjoy (E.G. Lovecraft) I would much prefer a physical copy.
Maximus Lampus Yeah, if I like some audiobook, I'd like to buy a physical book as well. So, paper books are still great for collecting.
Yeah I said this same thing to my mum on the subject of movies and music. Yeah sure I could store my entire collection, and some more, on my iPod, and yeah I could store every movie I've ever watched on my PC. But I would always rather have a physical copy, it has more meaning.
I DO hope the movie comes out soon. Those who did 'Colour out of Space' with Nicholas Cage. Are supposed to be making this movie. I haven't heard or seen any news of it yet.
I'm currently reading this one in 'The Necronomicon'
The best one so far. Chilling.
Yes, Dunwich horror is one of my all time favorites as well. Glad you like it!
All glory to the all wise and all divine father, YogSothoth.
~We, the children, honor thy twisted and draconian blood,
and will connect or/and break worlds with our portals.
ee yah ee yah YogSothoth
yah ee yah YogSothoth YogSothoth
Im on a binge of these. Works gone alot smoother but can i say the same about my psyche
Anyone know if I can buy these cassettes
If you're reading this book, you have the perfect voice for horror.
+Ian Bruchak Thanks for listening!
Oh thank god they punched 15 commercials into the shows. It was awful being able to listen to Conrad's voice and superb reading of the tales uninterrupted.
My favorite Abdul Al Hazred is when he said to change the side selector switch. What could this mean? Am I tottering on the brink of technologies unknown to this or any sane generation?
Thank you for the upload!
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What's the narrator's name? As someone else commented, he is *the* voice of Lovecraft. Even when I read HPL in book form this is the voice I hear in my head... only problem is trying to listen to anyone else now (no offense to HorrorBabble etc., it's not that others are bad, just that this guy is so perfect).
Conrad Feininger
the reader adds extra frisson to an horrific tale!
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I recommend Lamb's A Dissertation on Roast Pig.
Isn't the "w" silent in the word "Dunwich"?
Why is that?? I've seen people say that but idk if thats true would like to know because I'm making an adaption of this short story
Fallout dunwich bores be creepy af
Thanks for uploading the many Lovecraft stories..excellent.
+C. K. Dexter Haven Thanks for listening!
I walked when i was 7 months, and i could speak in full sentences by 2 years of age
Probably you dream of the future,and have strong intuition, aye?
Imagine doing a paternity test in that family...
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Does anyone else use H.P Lovecraft as inspiration for writing their own Horror Stories?
I currently do📝📖
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I most certainly do!😃
21:55 ya boy carries a strap
HPL with the lord but he still got shooters out here.
Too much dialog in this one. Lovecraft could simply not write dialog, probably because he was such a recluse person.
He certainly was a recluse. :)
What I'm listening to in the background:
Dark Ambience - Horror Background Music:
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Radio Static:
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Any suggestions for music to accompany Lovecraft?
Thanks for the suggestion! Have a great weekend!
35:26 Some of Lovecrafts best lines
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A great tale by old HP...although, and I suppose one maybe shouldn't look to hard into this as its probably just to create an atmosphere with little reason behind it, but what force is behind the whippoorwills? Presumably its not the old ones...otherwise Wilbur would not mind about them 'taking' the soul of old Whately...so is it some other supernatural force? I know its a theme of the story based on traditional new England tales, but it does sort of feel out of place in logic of the story. Also, as Lovecraft mentions 'decayed' branches of the Whatelys, Bishops etc and one of the Whately number remembers gatherings in the stone circles during old Whatelys youth, surely there must be other followers of the old ones in Dunwich in order to perform these ceremonies, so why didn't the Whatelys call on them for help in summoning these things from beyond? Surely they would have wanted the same thing?
That's an interesting part where the grandfather is giving Wilbur his final instructions.. feeding etc and speaking of the old ones wanting to come back. Creepy in a wonderful way.
Amazing ;) Good Crack ;)
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Held spellbound.
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Such e great reading voice.
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His fear of inbreeding/miscegenation really shows in this one. His descriptions in this one are great.
Early explorers notice with horrors
good book
+Austin Harrison Thanks for listening!