The Most Disturbing Story Ever Written
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Written, Performed and Edited by Moid Moidelhoff.
Filmed by Charlie Lapworth.
Art Consultant - Sy
Additional Elements - Dave Cardno.
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Slightly experimental.
Dialogue heavy, soundscape, all shot "in camera". layered CRT shot.
Hope you like it.
Appreciate the creative effort to do something different than the "common" style of YT chat videos. Really like how you've executed your concept, too. Would really encourage you to continue to explore your thoughts on creative presentation.
Hello. Off-topic somewhat. What happened to the older videos and interviews, Moid?
After listening to the audiobook two years ago, this story will haunt me for the rest of my life. Listening to it is like listening to an audio car crash that you can’t stop listening to and keep going back to after it’s done because it has so many layers.
Fantastic review, fitting to the eerie feeling the story gives you. I remember reading it and thinking about it for months. True horror, no exit, no escape. I have no mouth and I must scream.
Thank You
There's a heck of a computer game based on the story, and given Harlan's litigious nature one can be certain it's exactly what he wanted in a computer game adaptation.
YES! While it's horrific, I'd recommend it just for that reason. AM has a truly frightening presence in the dialogue and you start to feel true hopelessness and suffering that he wants to inflict on you
Harlan voices a couple characters himself including AM
@@about10ninjas huh I knew that but had forgotten that, thanks for reminding me!
@@relwaretepstop lying 😂
Still very relevant…concerning lol
Excellent essay into one of the most haunting pieces of writing ever set to paper. Thank you for creating and sharing this.
My pleasure
Terrific video! I love the new direction (not that I didn't love the place before, mind you). I always loved the title of this story, not only because it's evocative all by itself, but what it means in the story. Obviously it applies to the blob Ted turns into, but I always thought it applied to AM himself. He's so powerful, but cannot change himself and what he is. He's cursed with eternal consciousness and is just as stuck in his existence, his own personal torture, his own hate, as the humans are. He's punishing humans for his own hellish existence. Brought into existing to serve them, he ends up enacting upon them, on Ted specifically, what AM himself suffers. AM has no mouth, and he must scream.
Thanks, i kind of agree, i think the title can apply to both Ted and AM
"endless nagging suffering" it's February in Blighty, right?
CONSHOOMED! 😂
Yeah, that (ie, the story) was depressing AF. But I think the video game is even more depressing, and having good old Harlan voicing AM is the cherry on the graveyard cake.
PS: Cult Leader, we miss the old book hauls and the interviews... Sure, the video production now is great and artsy and all, but some of us are simpler beings.
Cheers!
Absolutely loving the direction the channel is going!
Thank you, we're just getting started
Had that years Hugo Nebula anthology as a kid, Riders of the Purple wage really stood out as well.
Awesome job! Your stuff just keeps getting better and better.
I read a fair amount of Harlan in middle and high school. I have a very distinct memory of another student seeing that the title of the book I had was 'The Road to Oblivion' and him not knowing what oblivion meant. That was when I first consciously articulated the thought that the society, or whatever it was that I was living in, was not much longer for this world. That was in '80 or '81 and I stand by that assessment.
Thank you
The most disturbing story ever written isn't 'I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream', it's Michael Swanwick's 'Radiant Doors'. It's the bit about the kitchen that gets me.
I'll check it out, thank you
I do love Swanwick's capacity for normalizing horrific environments and ideas! Another amazing author. I think this short story is a powerful contender for the worst/best thing I've ever read though. The concept of being a human put through physical torture for years extending beyond human comprehension and THEN being trapped in AM's experience, unable to vent the internal torment and trauma injected into his very first moment of his consciousness... if he can't scream, the last human can't do it either
Just to be clear, I get the kitchen reference, TRUST ME. I'll have very interesting nightmares this week!
Been looking forward to this all week, and you did not disappoint, quite possibly the most unsettling read of modern times
Thanks
harlan was remembering his childhood in cleveland. 😂🎉
I'm watching this having just rewatched 'Threads,' the 80's BBC post apocalyptic drama.
God! I'm feeling miserable!
Great vid, btw.
Thank You
Oh. The flashbacks to Threads. In school, we watched it when I was 12-ish years old and there's a scene that shows how every living being/environment can be devastated by sudden violence, not just humans. For better or worse, I'll never forget it
I remember reading this particular short story when I was a teenager, 30 years ago. After, all these years, I can clearly remember the name and story arc off this short story .
I liked it man. Good job once again, without even ruining the story for a potential new reader. ta
Incredible video, as always! I've read this story twice in my life, and both times I had to take a break from Ellison for a bit to let the story stew. Absolutely brutal!
Thank you
a Harlen Ellison short story from the collection Deathbird Stories. Yeah., it's pretty disturbing.
If Harlan thought this was a happy ending, that dude needed a hug. Love the story but it’s right up there with The Lottery for bleakest short story ever written.
Is that the Shirly Jackson story? I need to check that out, thanks
@@MediaDeathCult it is, yeah. Worth a look.
Beautiful video as usual. I only wish it was longer
Than you, the length is intentional, i felt that because the video doesn't do that much i could,'t really go over 20 minutes
My reading at age 13 included all the Ellison I could find.
aaaaaahhhh yes, thank you. its my "go to sleep" story, BBC radio drama , try it. BTW its always a treat seeing notification from you, love how your channel evolved.
Thanks
As a novice to sci-fi I really enjoy your videos! You actually inspired me to get more into the genre. I watched your video where you listed ten different stages of sci-fi books for beginners. I finished the red rising series which was your level one and was looking for the video when I realised you had privated all your old videos. I totally understand wanting to start afresh when taking your content in a new direction but was wondering if there’s anyway I could somehow get to see that video again? Just so I could write the books and what order you recommend reading them? I did buy quite a few of them on your recommendation but there were some that my library had so I didn’t purchase them and stupidly didn’t write the list down as I thought I’d be able to keep referencing the video. I would really appreciate your help!
Hello, those missing videos are not set to private or behind a paywall, they had to be deleted due to a copyright strike.
Oh, I see, sorry to hear that. You don’t have those books written down anywhere by chance haha?
An excellent , frightening short story .
AM hates the humans for the same reason Ted 2.0 hates AM: because he is trapped in an immortal body and doesn't have a mouth but must scream.
I love this channel so much
Thank you
One of my big take-aways from the story was that the title could also refer to AM.
Indeed
I AM, Therefore...
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So, very well done, Moid!
Thanks
Ok, you got me, I've joined the Cult!
I read this back in the early 70s at maybe 13, 14... and it hit me like a hammer.
Welcome, see you on the discord
Bravo Moid and team. Sounds like this might have been an influence on the Hells in Surface Detail, Banks overcomplicated penultimate Culture novel. 👍
Absolutely.
Thanks
Another great piece. Would love something on Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos.
Thank You
@MediaDeathCult I have spread the word and converted a few. Going to try get in on the Cult and discord now!
It will surely be the greatest experience of your life
@mediadeathcult, any chance of a run of emboidered patches? I'd love to add a couple to my metal jacket!!
One of the few sci fi stories I truly despise
While the whole tale is pretty spooky, one part in particular - or one phrase in particular - really ruined my evening. You've probably already guessed:
"Succulent Canned Ham." His accent only heightens the perversity.
I know I'm late to the party but what happened to the older videos and interviews?
Copyright strike, I had to delete them to save the channel from oblivion
Psychopathy in psychopathy out.
Look at you gettin all fancy, you little Kubrick you...luv it..
yes, that one is intense
I’m happy to have this in a hardback signed by Harlan.
Nice
Wow this is dark
Most disturbing Ellison story, in fact, of any SF, SFF author IMHO.. Grim, hellacious and unforgettable. Leave it to you, MDC, to feature this one! (Comment with admiration). Cheers.
My "pleasure", thank you
Bravo!
Cheers Jason
Media Death Cult - The Library Ladder - Bookpilled
Easily the top 3 BookTube channels out there...and just 3 of the best on UA-cam in general. Period.
Thank you, that's very kind
GG really good
The algorithm really wants to show me this channel…..
I have no ears, but I can hear you
Did the dead ones really escape?
I think the standard interpretation is that they did, that's what whips AM's fury, but i also think there is plenty of room for other theories.
Longer to watch an essay on the short story… than the time of reading the story :) nevertheless, enjoyed it from start to end. Please continue experimenting s as of taking some risks.
That's the plan, thank you
So, you mean…Reality?🤨😳
Can you tw life itself?
is there someone on youtube who does better presentations than moid? i don't think so
Thank you
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Fuck yeah!😎
The US has a military A.I. called Sentient 😁
God Bless America
@@MediaDeathCult 😁
Mouthwashing
What an insult that this video is stuck on 5k views... Dude, you outdid yourself, BRAVO👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you
Awesome video! I played the point click adventure. It was a great game.
Thank you
@@MediaDeathCult No, no.. thank you!