"The Shunned House" by H.P. Lovecraft | Classic Horror Reading by Otis Jiry

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  • @subliminalbliss9448
    @subliminalbliss9448 8 років тому +21

    Mr. Otis Jiry, you are an amazing narrator, you bring character and nuance where others most likely would drone on. You are truly a Master Storyteller

  • @sunnydazecustomdesigns
    @sunnydazecustomdesigns Рік тому +1

    Great work i can't sleep woth out your voice now 😮.

  • @vindiboy1965
    @vindiboy1965 6 років тому +2

    Mr Jiry. Your talent for bringing a narrative to life is truly unique. Thank you.

  • @Sevvolf
    @Sevvolf 9 років тому +10

    H.P. Lovecraft and Poe, The greatest horror authors that have blessed the face of this earth. Thank you, for narrating this story. Always a pleasure 'tuning in' to hear your take on my favorite stories.

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  9 років тому +2

      TheGodlessandHappy What are some other examples of your favorites? I'll try to do as many as I can.

    • @poodlelova
      @poodlelova 9 років тому

      Otis Jiry's Creepypasta Crypt While she's not as scary as she is weird, Shirley Jackson is just amazing. Her stories are very creepy. Joyce Carol Oats also wrote some horror stories you should look into.

    • @Sevvolf
      @Sevvolf 9 років тому

      Otis Jiry's Creepypasta Crypt The Cask of Amantiago, The Black Cat, or anything by Franz Kafka. I really appreciate it! Thank you!

    • @RSEFX
      @RSEFX 9 років тому +1

      +Otis Jiry I wonder if anyone has thought of doing a reading of Murray Leinster's MAD PLANET? Man on a planet in which insect and vegetal life has grown wild and gigantic. Leinster was a master at describing/making real and visceral all kinds of horrific encounters between man and beast---in this case, the "beast" is the realm of the insect. (However, this may fall far afield of this far more supernaturally-attuned material being posted here.) MAD PLANET, btw, was later expanded into an equally effective book called THE FORGOTTEN PLANET.

  • @bugone2724
    @bugone2724 8 років тому +17

    I can listen to Otis tell stories all day.

  • @waynecalhoun2802
    @waynecalhoun2802 6 років тому +2

    This is one of my favorite Lovecraft stories. Dripping with atmosphere and the ending really got me when I first read it. When he nopes it out of the pit suddenly when he sees he managed to dig up only the things ELBOW! how big did this get?!

  • @letiramos8013
    @letiramos8013 3 роки тому

    I love Otis jiry story telling his voice the way he reads the story and makes it come to life is amazing

  • @glass4breakfast
    @glass4breakfast 7 років тому +1

    what an amazing voice n talent for reading! so glad I found this channel. not many people out there among the creepypasta community that are reading any Lovecraft, especially with any talent worthy of his works. thank u for being there n making these videos!

  • @francesmariemclaughlin895
    @francesmariemclaughlin895 4 роки тому

    Otis is one of the best story tellers there is. I love his voice an how he adds detail's that just improve the story, where so many try it an fail miserably. Thank you Otis Jiry you make my week.
    From FrancesMarie in Ireland 🇮🇪. 💚💚🍀🍀💀😈👀⏳☠👏👏👏 I forgot 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 for Otis an his story.

  • @RSEFX
    @RSEFX 9 років тому +4

    Excellent job. This is one of Lovecraft's best, most carefully developed and written tales. He builds believability into his story by that classic means, namely the slow accretion of minute histories and physical, even seemingly prosaic details, so that the increasing extremes of events feel real and true, in spite of being pure fantasy. The descriptive passages detailing the eerie phenomena in the cellar rival the same sort of elements in one of H.P.L.'s other truly masterful pieces, THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE, all of which creates that atmosphere of "documentary" so vital to the creation of successful weird-tale effects. And this is a really wonderful, precisely-tuned reading of the material on top of that!

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  9 років тому

      +RSEFX Thank you, RSEFX. I do my best. We are big fans of H.P.'s prose over here at ua-cam.com/users/chillingtaleswi.

    • @DustWarden
      @DustWarden 8 років тому +1

      +RSEFX Well-said! You've encapsulated the most powerful aspect of HPL's writing in the space of a youtube comment - no mean feat.

    • @Liminal2024
      @Liminal2024 8 років тому

      This is a top-notch review.

  • @alphawizard9719
    @alphawizard9719 7 років тому +1

    Thanks ! Love your shows !

  • @lordcoy461
    @lordcoy461 6 років тому +7

    I want to start by saying that you were one of the first voices that drew me in to the horror podcasting scene. I believe it was the story about the camp counselors who ended up being not so nice haha. Since then I've delved into ctfdn, no sleep, and horror hill and whatever comes up on my feed! Haha so thanks for all the amazing work you do!! Also, the cartoon icon with the hood makes you look like you are a member of the akatski haha

  • @joannehattam6228
    @joannehattam6228 6 років тому +8

    Love this guy. So good at telling stories I jus spent 6 hours in bed with otis now my alarm going off for work

  • @kateking3953
    @kateking3953 8 років тому +1

    Fantastic Otis! Thanks so much for this.

  • @XAmericanRenegadeX
    @XAmericanRenegadeX 7 років тому +1

    thank you for uploading this to UA-cam. I am a huge fan of Lovecraft. My favorite is the Dunwich Horror but they are all great!

  • @blackspider4universepeace.315
    @blackspider4universepeace.315 7 років тому +1

    oldest gyrate is the best Storyteller in the world nobody can beat him he's a master storyteller

  • @Never_heart
    @Never_heart 9 років тому +2

    Lovecraft the greatest horror author since Edgar Allan Poe. The creativity of his lore and the complexity of Lovecraft's diction makes his work deserving of such an influential legacy

  • @AnaxErik4ever
    @AnaxErik4ever 8 років тому +2

    This was the first Lovecraft story I read, roughly around New Year's 2016. My sister and I alternated between long passages to narrate together.

  • @andrewhunt3923
    @andrewhunt3923 8 років тому +1

    Brilliantly read with really good annotation and register.

  • @danielross6744
    @danielross6744 9 років тому +4

    I love a nice long story . It's time to crack open a can and sip that sweet nectar , While I listen to Otis

  • @blackspider4universepeace.315
    @blackspider4universepeace.315 7 років тому

    this is great and the way I fall asleep. thank you Master Otis JIry. 👍👍👍❗❗❗ I suport all your work

  • @jonnyc212121
    @jonnyc212121 5 років тому +1

    10/10 best narrator

  • @glass4breakfast
    @glass4breakfast 7 років тому +1

    just subscribed! I've added a bunch of your videos to my Lovecraft playlist, n listened to a couple of them already. I didn't realize I hadn't subscribed yet.

  • @BeastGuardian
    @BeastGuardian 9 років тому +19

    Thank you so much for this fabulous narration!
    I have always been fond of this short by Lovecraft. Somehow, I feel a bit of sympathy for the poor unknowable being. The description of the nightmare always makes me think that it is just as confused as its victims... possibly it is desperately trying to reach out for help, but in doing so it harms and terrorizes those it petitions. In many ways, this feels like a forerunner for The Color out of Space, which Lovecraft penned 3 years later, though it subverts the Color, as this spectral vampire is somewhat understandable.
    I adore the way the narrator of the tale frames his willingness to observe the supernatural, seeing it as possibly real phenomena that is unquantifiable by modern techniques, but with a wealth of unreliable accounts -- one does not need to claim a blanket belief in the full mythology of vampires to imagine that there may be a real basis to the myths. It reminds me of how people scoffed at the concept of germ theory even into the early 1900s -- even educated doctors found the idea of invisible animals that could sneek into people and cause illness preposterous, and so thought that the washing of hands prior to things like surgery or childbirth was unnecessary. Now we take these basic sanitary habits for granted, especially as we have such powerful microscopes to confirm the existence of bacterial, viral, and other microscopic parasites and excellent system of disseminating information so that the general public can be assured of their being a real thing. This kind of initial doubt is so common with any cutting edge or 'fringe' science. It can be very difficult to try to blaze a new field. Science teaches that one cannot deny the existence of anything absolutely, all we take for 'fact' must constantly be reevaluated based on new evidence that has been discovered and rigorously checked. It is a battle of bias, ego, and social pressure that generally bars open-minded scientists from pursuing scientific reasons behind the 'supernatural' in the modern age.

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 7 років тому +1

      Guardian Beast
      Um, the narrative strongly implied what we saw was actually the eldritch wizard from the historical records, grossly changed by ritual and bodily death into a vampiric being. Indeed, there's a reason the narrator focused on "a titan elbow," for the once-human thing had grown massive and fat by sucking the life out of all the hapless tenants. There's really no way to put a sympathetic lens on the horror as "confused and inadvertently hurting people as it reached out for help." Speaking of which, who reaches out to _a baby_ for help? For several decades? Killing them every time?

  • @lianakenoly7041
    @lianakenoly7041 9 років тому +3

    Yes! Scary story satisfaction... finally. ;)

  • @krissynurse
    @krissynurse 9 років тому +5

    Otis, I hope you know how awesome you are! You are, without a doubt, the best narrator I have ever heard. You remind me a little bit of Morgan Freeman:) After hearing your narration, how could I ever let anyone else read me a story? Thank you for hours of blissful story telling:)

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  9 років тому

      krissynurse Thank you for the kind words. Bless you. If you're in a position to do so, have a look at the Members Area at Chilling Tales For Dark Nights where you can subscribe to have access to all my work, plus other narrators and music and movie productions that you can download. Doing so will move me to my goal of doing narrations full time.

  • @sabinamarie6999
    @sabinamarie6999 8 років тому +2

    Love love love your voice! Youre such an AMAZING narrator! And btw, LOVING the monster slayer shirts!

  • @mintedmango
    @mintedmango 9 років тому +1

    bless you

  • @Celtic_Iron
    @Celtic_Iron 9 років тому +14

    Could I request that you do The Shadow Over Innsmouth ? I think the story along with your own style of narration would be amazing !

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  9 років тому +18

      James Omahony Hi James. Thank you for the suggestion, however The Shadow Over Innsmouth, would work out to be just over three hours in length, which much too long for the scope of this channel. Perhaps in the future, we could look at cutting it up into several parts. Bless you.

    • @fp-ko7vg
      @fp-ko7vg 2 роки тому

      @@OtisJiryReads please it would be amazing!! Thanks for your works it helps me go to sleep, greetings from argentina!

  • @JustiniusMXIII
    @JustiniusMXIII 6 років тому +1

    This is great. There’s another reading of this story on UA-cam where the guy sounds like a sleepy William shatner, anyone else not able to get through that one and found this?

  • @laurahenriksen19
    @laurahenriksen19 6 років тому

    An old favourite in need of another listen 😁

  • @pharoahscurse
    @pharoahscurse 9 років тому +4

    love this! very well read. I wonder how "the nameless city" would sound like if read by you! ^_^

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  9 років тому

      +pharoahscurse We'll take a look and see if we can add it to the 'ol calendar. Thanks! ;)

  • @badwolf73
    @badwolf73 9 років тому

    Great job, Otis! Keep up the good work.

  • @FurryAminal
    @FurryAminal 9 років тому +10

    Very well read!

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  9 років тому +3

      +FurryAminal Thank you! I love Lovecraft's writing, and this one was a doozy to record. Glad you enjoyed it! Bless you!

    • @DeltaPi314
      @DeltaPi314 9 років тому

      +FurryAminal True that!

    • @DustWarden
      @DustWarden 8 років тому

      +Otis Jiry Do you - sorry to jump in nine months after this was posted, but I've always wondered - do you record these in one "take"?

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  8 років тому

      LOL Ummm no. I once accidentally uploaded the wrong file which was a working file, and it became known as the 'pickup' version. People actually enjoyed it judging by the comments.
      When I record, and I make a mistake, I say pickup, then proceed to repeat the line and keep going. Well, everyone who listened enjoyed the 'pickup' reference and got an understanding of what actually goes on when recording. When you listen to the final product, keep in mind usually it takes about 5 times as long to do the recording from start to finish.
      Aside from the voicing, you need to remove the errors, clean up the mouth noises, equalize the file,do various types of processing, then convert to the proper format and most important do a quality control listen for any reading mistakes such as mispronunciations, missed words, etc.

    • @DustWarden
      @DustWarden 8 років тому

      +Otis Jiry Wow - all right, now I know you're not actually a supernatural being. Lovecraft's writing must be a huge challenge even for a narrator of your caliber, and you read it so gracefully and naturally that if you were doing these all in one shot I'd suspect you'd sold your soul to the devil. It's just that I've heard narrators repeat lines they flubbed and it made me wonder whether they were doing any editing or just trying to get it all down in a single take. Even so, sir, I have never detected a "seam" in one of your pieces. Bravissimo and rock on.

  • @khronotos5916
    @khronotos5916 9 років тому

    I love your narrations :D listening to all of'em

  • @shawndaply
    @shawndaply 8 років тому +2

    That was a great story

  • @lifesabeach7
    @lifesabeach7 9 років тому +2

    Brilliant man! Have been following you for a while now with the creepy pasta shorts and especially fond of the lovecraft readings. Pickman's model was my favourite until I was reminded of this wee beauty. Lurking fear was awesome as well. You got the feel perfectly! (Anyhoo enough gushing) have you thought about a shadow over innsmouth to keep the lovecraft train rolling? I think it's a story your particular style of narrating would be perfect for. At any rate Keep up the good work and have merry xmas :-)

  • @ZheninehZ
    @ZheninehZ 9 років тому

    Another great reading. :)

  • @joshuacarpenter7447
    @joshuacarpenter7447 7 років тому +1

    After seeing how many Lovecraft inspired parts there are in games like Fallout, thought I'd finally check out the source material. I see why they picked Lovecraft, this stuff is spooky.

  • @micheuala
    @micheuala 9 років тому +3

    This was amazing Mr.Otis....although I did have a problem staying awake, NOT bcuzz it was boring.....quite the opposite......but due to the mixture of my choice to put in my headphones and settle in under the covers while enjoying, and how relaxing your voice is....almost as if it was designed for the sole purpose of storytelling 😉😉😉😉. I had to go bck about 1/2way thru and start over but this was an awesome story and great narration👍👍👍😉😉

    • @johngalt969
      @johngalt969 7 років тому +1

      Am I the only person who thinks his voice is banal and 'just like any other American's? Is this something that is lost in translation, like ... are all you guys who jerk off to this guys voice yankees or something? I'm not American, I am a native English speaker though, but generally I find his voice quite jarring. So for me seeing everyone being all fapfapfapomgjizzjizzjizz all I keep thinking is "These guys are fucking weird, and fucking gay."

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  7 років тому +3

      Well John, keep in mind the vast majority of my viewers are American Not English. Most Americans find English narrators pompous. So it depends on your cuppa team. If you look at the thumbs up/down index my historical rating over 300 videos is at approximately 96% thumbs up with close to 3 million views. You'll never please everybody, but I am pleasing the vast majority. As for the 'fucking gay' comment. I think you may have 'issues'.

  • @PritchDringle
    @PritchDringle 5 років тому +1

    OJ telling stories written by Lovecraft? Horrorgasm.

  • @KyeEnzoden
    @KyeEnzoden 3 місяці тому

    Weird, I was just thinking about listening to this story earlier today..

  • @scottthompson-ez1hz
    @scottthompson-ez1hz 6 років тому +1

    As hard as it is to transfer written word to cellulite I wait for the day a visionary director turns a Lovecraft story into a film Worthy of the author. Mr. Del Toro I'm talking to you.

  • @shezzy911
    @shezzy911 9 років тому +1

    otis i love your Voice , you are amazing i love your work !!! keep going with this you are amazing :)

  • @lorrainemandelbaum3035
    @lorrainemandelbaum3035 2 роки тому

    I enjoy your narration more than the read!

  • @lesliebrooks4548
    @lesliebrooks4548 7 років тому +1

    you do sound like Selleck! I'm listening, thanks!

  • @Nachtrae
    @Nachtrae 8 років тому +1

    Lovecraft's stories are so hard for me to follow being a non native English speaker XD Still, I cannot stay away from them because they are amazing. Even more so with this great narration.

    • @TheTalemaster
      @TheTalemaster 8 років тому +2

      +Nachtrae That's the allure of Lovecraft...the added bonus for you is you learn all kinds of new things about English!

  • @fledge4838
    @fledge4838 9 років тому +1

    awesome! really love your narration. is it possible for you to read some Stephen King short stories, it would be cool if you could.

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  9 років тому

      +fledge48 Can't because of copyright issues and could be sued for more money than I'll make in a lifetime :)

    • @fledge4838
      @fledge4838 9 років тому

      +Otis Jiry's Creepypasta Crypt sorry, just asking.

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  9 років тому

      +fledge48 Asking is fine. :) We don't expect the average person to know what the repercussions of that would be. Hopefully someday we shall have the right and privilege to do some of King's work.

    • @craigspecht2196
      @craigspecht2196 9 років тому +1

      +Otis Jiry's Creepypasta Crypt THX. that's cool.

  • @alexmullens1807
    @alexmullens1807 7 років тому +1

    otis your the best please read rats in the walls by h.p. lovecraft

  • @jonnavdpas
    @jonnavdpas 9 років тому +1

    Your voice is amazing.

  • @carolgarwood3021
    @carolgarwood3021 8 років тому +4

    your voice sends me to sleep its soooo luxurious

    • @TheTalemaster
      @TheTalemaster 8 років тому

      +Carol Garwood Creepy...minus the pasta :P

  • @marxist-leninisttheory8023
    @marxist-leninisttheory8023 9 років тому +1

    nice

  • @fumomofumosarum5893
    @fumomofumosarum5893 8 років тому +4

    (spoiler)
    one of the few lovecraft stories where protagonists manage to fight and win against the supernatural ^^

    • @PaulPacheco
      @PaulPacheco 8 років тому +2

      fumomo fumosarum
      A nice change of pace, right? Keeps you on your toes.

  • @blues7160
    @blues7160 5 років тому

    My goodness, from intro too end it was so familiar?????

  • @horrorfan96
    @horrorfan96 7 років тому +1

    May I recommend you read “The Rats in the Walls?

  • @Welther47
    @Welther47 8 років тому +1

    thumb down for the sound. it seems to decrease and increase constantly

  • @mikeya2384
    @mikeya2384 8 років тому

    y no Background music and sound effects?

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  8 років тому +6

      +Mike Y Because this is a straight audiobook style channel of my narrations. I do other narrations on Chilling Tales For Dark Nights which has music and sfx, but here is for straight reads only. The amount of work involved to produce full productions doesn't justify the return from UA-cam. I am a voice actor aside from doing these narrations, and time is better spent looking for and recording paying work outside of this channel.

    • @TheTalemaster
      @TheTalemaster 8 років тому

      +Otis Jiry Amen. Quite frankly, it's a wonder that we can enjoy any boutique readings from you considering your schedule.

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  8 років тому

      I enjoy doing the narrations, it's all part of being a VO regarding the crazy schedule. Lots of time spent doing this :)

    • @oxysz
      @oxysz 8 років тому

      i actually prefer the straight narration . i dont like how some people all a bunch of sound effects. keep up the great work!!

    • @nicklausmclean5099
      @nicklausmclean5099 8 років тому

      Hm. True. Some people have their sound effects too loud and can barely here them. In my opinion, I believe that music and sound effects add in to the tension and imagination.

  • @micheuala
    @micheuala 9 років тому +1

    Its ELBOW...... Jesus😨😨😨😨

  • @maelewis25
    @maelewis25 7 років тому +1

    I'm pretty sure this house had black mold in it you guys.

  • @billiegray9109
    @billiegray9109 2 роки тому

    I have a cat named Otis 😁

  • @alenwake72
    @alenwake72 9 років тому +1

    electric torch lol

    • @DeltaPi314
      @DeltaPi314 9 років тому

      +alen wake What is so funny?
      ^

  • @DeltaPi314
    @DeltaPi314 9 років тому +4

    All these modern day CP writers, writing about run-of-the-mill bullied victim turning "EAVUL" should really read up on the real master of horror.... "bleah! Tikkitoby took a knife" Jesus!

    • @Thevitamindealer
      @Thevitamindealer 8 років тому +1

      they would go mad before being able to comprehend the bleak and fractal universe of the cthulhu mythos lol. lovecraft himself seemed to suffer in a way from his vivid and ultra realistic creations (keeping in mind that most of these stories were collaborative efforts) the only people who might get close to pulling it off are some of those SCP contributers imo xD

    • @johngalt969
      @johngalt969 7 років тому +3

      Crappypasta's are cancer. I can't stand them. But sadly that is the demise of literature as a whole. You go to the ibook store and the first 80 pages are just shirtless naked men and titles like 'Forty Colors of Magenta' and other variations thereof. I think it's what has come from Gen C taking over. We have a generation of cucks fucking up everything culture related on earth.

    • @CryingZombie666
      @CryingZombie666 7 років тому

      +John Galt Can't agree more. Crappypastas are shit. Cheap shit. Only sheep and drones prefer them over SCP and Lovecraft and Poe.

    • @xanderpekios1135
      @xanderpekios1135 6 років тому

      Tim I read 'EAVUL' in mermaid man's voice. Ya' know, spongebob

  • @MrOrcshaman
    @MrOrcshaman 8 років тому +3

    Otis I love your narration. But sometimes, lovecrafts work can be just way, way to over the top in the detailing.

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  8 років тому +1

      However, HPL, is consistantly my most viewed and most lucrative narrations for over 2 years. Plus I have a LOT of subs who would like me to do nothing but HPL. Each month, 5-6 of my most viewed narrations are HPL.

  • @johncloois3301
    @johncloois3301 4 роки тому

    969th 👍🏼!

  • @michaelpkerrigan4490
    @michaelpkerrigan4490 4 роки тому

    HP Lovecraft is the best I appreciate him because he is so articulate not like ask Abby Irish knacker Traveler cuz I'm an Irish traveler this American my people came over here in the 1800 and we were just after the Civil War the ones that made it the ones that were my parents grandparents fathers and mothers and born right natives and I'm glad so glad that I've got nothing to do with those scabby bastards that you see on my Gypsy bride those are hired men's hired men those aren't even Irish those aren't even English those aren't even Romanian those are polish if they were if they were polish should be the last but they're not scrub nuts they don't know what they are

    • @michaelpkerrigan4490
      @michaelpkerrigan4490 4 роки тому

      I'm Gorman Fury Kerrigan Sheridan O'Neal Campbell I know exactly what I am I know who my grandparents are on all four sides my parents and grandparents said we expect more from you scrubs are scenery like trees pass them

  • @zmo1ndone502
    @zmo1ndone502 5 років тому

    I think I got all that
    Soo that house is a spooky scary-Wary no no zone

  • @Twulfbynight
    @Twulfbynight 3 роки тому

    Otis Jiry a.k.a. White Morgan Freeman 😅

  • @waytoomuchwax7001
    @waytoomuchwax7001 9 років тому

    I have a man crush on your voice

  • @saijack6438
    @saijack6438 8 років тому +2

    this seems really weirdly narrated. Loads of stopping and starting.

    • @OtisJiryReads
      @OtisJiryReads  8 років тому +4

      That's my style. :)

    • @saijack6438
      @saijack6438 8 років тому +1

      Ah okay! Fair enough :)

    • @billybones6890
      @billybones6890 8 років тому +3

      +Otis Jiry you seem like a humble cool man " thats my style"

  • @scottcrocker3702
    @scottcrocker3702 7 років тому

    excellent once past the unnecessarily idiotic intro

  • @TheDesmo54
    @TheDesmo54 5 років тому

    Reading lovecraft is like drowning in algebraic word problems. Only that which is being solved for is undistinguished. I’m out.