Artifacts of Horror: Volume 1 (Audiobook)

[@HorrorBabble]

A truly nightmarish collection of shorts, focusing upon objects of an unsettling nature... Chapters: 0:00:09 - The Waxwork Written by British writer, A. M. Burrage, The Waxwork tells of a journalist who chooses to spend the night alone in a wax museum... 0:18:29 - The Mezzotint Written by British writer, M. R. James, The Mezzotint tells of a strange engraving, with even stranger properties... 0:44:15 - The Ebony Frame Written by British writer, Edith Nesbit, The Ebony Frame is the story of a beautiful and curiously carved picture frame, imbued with a mysterious allure... 1:15:49 - The Shining Pyramid* Penned by Welsh writer, Arthur Machen, The Shining Pyramid tells of mysterious stones that begin to appear in unusual arrangements on the edge of a man's land... 2:08:09 - The Rose-Colored Glasses Written by American writer, Thomas Kent West, The Rose-Colored Glasses is the tale of a mysterious pair of glasses, the wearing of which affects one's perception in a most curious manner... 2:39:25 - Out of the Aeons Written by American authors, H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, the tale focuses on a Boston museum that displays an ancient mummy recovered from a sunken island... Bandcamp link: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/artifacts-of-horror Narrated by Ian Gordon & Jennifer Gill for HorrorBabble Music and production by Ian Gordon & Jennifer Gill *Image used with the permission of mgkellermeyer (mgkellermeyer.deviantart.com) Don't forget to check out Oldstyle Tales Press, too: www.oldstyletales.com Support us on Bandcamp or Patreon: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com www.patreon.com/horrorbabble HorrorBabble MERCH: teespring.com/stores/horrorbabble-merch Search HORRORBABBLE to find us on: AUDIBLE / ITUNES / SPOTIFY Home: www.horrorbabble.com Rue Morgue: www.rue-morgue.com Social Media: facebook.com/HorrorBabble instagram.com/horrorbabble twitter.com/HorrorBabble

[@Israelkeyestolife]

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[@timothybaxley1262]

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[@mytwinsroc]

Indeed you have!!!

[@lisamariehennessey4532]

And what na delightfull treat I got I lthink you are one of the most luckiest men alive having to hear such an enchanting voice every day . Thank you Jen for sharing your beautiful gift with us I just love how when I listen to you cares and worries fall away and I feel like a child sat in the garden of Eden .that's the best way I can describe how feel .your child/children is/are going to absolutely love story time .I'd love to hear you narrate classic and spooky childrens storys I've got plenty of grandbabies I'd definitely introduce to that channel that's for sure

[@georgemarquardt4435]

The ebony frame is just toooo romantic omg. Rose colored glasses: best metaphor for heroin ever except in prison you don't get to keep the dope! Thanks Ian and Jennifer!

[@benruniko]

I have to say, all of these stories are VERY effective, and your production is always of the highest quality! Also, I must say I was touched deeply by the horror of the rose colored glasses. All I can relate of the matter is that I am very glad indeed that narcotics like Heroine cannot be gotten and used as easily as just wearing something on your face. The destruction of three lives in that story was obviously written by someone who has seen such destruction first hand. It simply becomes the only thing that matters in life. Thank you for the great stories :)

[@anthonypost8214]

HP Lovecraft was a master, his ability to leave the reader or listener envisioning the possible ancient horrors trapped in such otherworldly artifacts however small or residual is incredible. The narrators cadence and voice makes elevates to a captivating gripping tale leaving me in rapture. Thank you.

[@magnuskallas]

For some reason I love the overblown "horrendous" descriptions for comedic value - the mummy in Out of the Aeons is pure gold, and kudos to Ian for amazingly expressive reading :) You have to admit there's an element of dark humour.

[@angelachouinard4581]

I feel like I found a gold mine! You have so much great content. I remember reading "The Waxwork" ages ago, but listening to it in bed with the lights out was a real treat. Much scarier.

[@DauntlessChaos]

Damn, Ebony Frame got me all teary eyed.

[@christopherreeves7807]

Had to thumbs up this upload before I even listen to it. This'll be my 2nd time hearing them. They were great stories the 1st time around. Thank you Horror Babble! Your dedication is truly appreciated.

[@budahbaba7856]

Ebony Frame was friggin awesome! I love witch stories! :)

[@GRasputin91]

That was so depressing :( I so wanted him to recover the picture from the fire. The real horror is that he was never able to forget and couldn't experience happiness again

[@budahbaba7856]

@@GRasputin91 there is an early French vampire story, absolutely glorious when translated to English, called "The Beautiful Dead" by Theophile Gautier, 1830's. It has many similarities to the Ebony Frame, and is my personal favorite among vampire literature.

[@lisamariehennessey4532]

@@GRasputin91 I cared so beautiful and so sad with the added bonus it was narrated by Jen

[@michaelkottler]

Another fine and addictive literary mess HorrorBabble has gotten us into, in this instance with their excellent Artifacts of Horror: The Complete Collection which contains a number of gems including "The Shining Pyramid" by A. Machen. Excellent again, HorrorBabble!

[@blowitoutyourcunt7675]

Thanks so much for these compilations! They are amazing! Cheers mate!

[@betterthanmyself]

i’d be sleepless every night if it werent for your calming voice, amazing storytelling skill and just great content in general. keep up the great work!

[@robertdeal410]

Perfect for a friday night.

[@donaldmccleary9015]

This is truly amazing! Great job! I love these stories. "Out of the Aeons" is one of my favorite stories. The detail in which objects are described is amazing! I can sit and listen to that story on repeat for hours. The story of the priest, T'yog is very interesting and thorough. I like the intricate ways the story is connected to the listed "forbidden" books. Thank you for doing these! Great job to you both! Four hours of listening to great stories!!

[@dcrog69]

So Ian if I were to win the lottery would you consider moveing to Maine and reading a 40 year old dude bedtime stories? Actually now that I've typed that out I can see how creepy it sounds lol.

[@orangeiceice12]

Haha we can do a timeshare

[@HorrorBabble]

Ha!

[@plicketyplunk]

LMAO!! Sometimes what seems good when you think it becomes a truly unsettling comment when you read it.

[@lacyhart2043]

Lol

[@angelachouinard4581]

@ Dc Rogers Soon as I read your comment, couldn't help but think it sounds like a Stephen King story. Maybe it was the Maine part LOL

[@seanmccuen6970]

lol, 'the rose-colored glasses' is delightfully demented, and I like it. this channel is a treasure, thank you.

[@lisamariehennessey4532]

Oh what a wonderful treat 🎉a Jen narration 🎉🎉

[@adamfox1669]

Ahhhh these collections are great! Thanks so much. Very glad to have subbed. Be safe!

[@TEQNEEK]

Just stumbled upon this during a bout with insomnia last night and it was perfect! I mean- I still was wide awake; forcing my eyelids closed trying to fall asleep, but didn't mind so much because of this video. The Rose-Colored Glasses really stuck with me, and was probably my favorite of the stories. That melancholy... Thanks HB & Co. !

[@jackalina91]

Yay! I ♥️ compilations! Good stories too.

[@matosz23]

The glasses was terrifying. It got close to an existential threat to me.

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

Idk sounded to me like a story of a young couple accidentally getting into a drug habit during honeymoon ending up with him killing her for a doze. Magic stuff was superfluous.

[@KatJ3st]

This reading is excellent to help me fall asleep! All those introductory words is like counting sheep.

[@bittybitty8233]

Just as I m going to bed , you come thru in fine style ...❣️ TY!!

[@magnuskallas]

Rose-Coloured Glasses is quite good symbolism about shared drug/alcohol addiction. Reminded me of the film The Days of Wine and Roses.

[@Calithan]

Loved "The Rose-Colored Glasses."

[@fredrikgranstrom6743]

SUCH AMAZING CHANNEL FILLED WITH QUALITY CONTENT

[@michaellee6489]

Ian is an absolute legend with the amazing Jennifer Gill. I love you both.

[@jamiecameron7615]

Another brilliant collection!!!

[@RexytheRexy]

These collections are a gift to us. I hope it'll take me a great deal of time to listen to all the works on this channel.

[@JohnIainMcFarlanewaspfactor]

The one about the fairies....truly brilliant.Thanks for this.

[@gametheorymedia]

Hmm; so, one single visitor/viewer was irked that they couldn't sleep. Great stuff, keep up the good work!

[@beardwithlegs5160]

Rose-tinted glasses was brilliant the ignorance in the couple slowly ending in their ends.... Its truly terrifying

[@debacofzomb9889]

It's an extremely accurate metaphor for opiate addiction. I don't know if that's what the author was going for but I would bet a pretty, he's had a monkey on his back.

[@enriquerubio8177]

Fantastic!!!

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Rose Colored Glasses, wow. Deep and terrifying. That’s a classic right there.

[@gozinta82]

Great lil' collection you got there, very inspiring content 😌

[@nicholasgreenwood.9387]

You are so welcome AND I HOPE you enjoy them As much as me. Nik

[@anitacigarette]

The first story is reminding me of a short story we covered in literature, where a Nazi is in an unsuspected Jewish barber's chair, & the barber is deciding whether to cut his throat or not during a shave.

[@blixten2928]

The Rose-Colored Glasses is a description of alternating cocaine highs. Poor people, it can't last, can it!

[@blixten2928]

It sounds like it DOES last, though. A permanent cocaine high somehow. Very seductive, I'd think. -- What amazes me is that they were willing to share, initially. They must have been rather fond of each other once.

[@TheWerewaa]

The Demon of the ring by Laurence. J. Cornford next! Think of the children for goodness sake!

[@jeremyreagan9085]

What a great and tragic story. I love these sorts of stories.

[@listerjne]

obseessedsddsd with the ebony frame absolutely fantastic

[@paladin56]

I've just revisited this superb marathon and was so glad I did. Congratulations, Ian and Jennifer, for this excellent piece of work. I must say, Aeons is most unsettling. One of Lovecraft's finest, in my opinion.

[@earndoggy]

LOL the protagonist from the Rose Colored Glasses is a real piece of work. Thinks little of his wife, refuses to go to bed on their wedding night, caring little how she might feel about that, then trespasses and disobeys the owner of the inn.

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

The Ebony Frame is so romantic!

[@garysuarez9614]

Fear of mannequins can be debilitating, I have seen it in person. Your reading of waxworks was chillingly perfect.

[@glenncheetham2907]

I like listening to this entire track throughout the day while at my desk, in the background. It's like subliminal reinforcement for all the great authors and stories I love. That way if I get into Heaven I won't have to steal them from the Holy Library and, if not, I'll be more prepared than the next poor soul.

[@MrJasonshores364]

66.6k subscribers? That's funny.

[@parkeaudio1338]

Rose colored glasses is still one of my all time favorites, even after all these years

[@jonathanotoole4030]

I wish that little frenchy would come at me face-to-face in a wax museum with his razor! Infuriating!!! LOL

[@kaziahmyren-zobel1925]

Just punt him across the room

[@debacofzomb9889]

Ebony frame makes me weep every time. Too close to home.

[@emmamaclachlan1971]

I really like the background sounds of nature...it's like I'm listening from inside the story 🦗

[@auroramariealmeara8622]

All the stories are good but the second one is great.

[@jolenelittlewood7978]

Amazing thanks! Ican now sleep well and my dreams are as lucid as they ever have been 😮😮😮😮😮

[@beverlyamarantes9775]

It's a Friday night, two years later and perfect for me.

[@SidRandom]

This is good stuff.

[@Rebel9668]

I'd really like to enjoy Lovecraft, but he goes into so much detail about everything that by the time he's finished half the time I've forgotten what he was talking about in the first place.

[@michaelkottler]

That sucks, really. Less-demanding productions might be more to your liking, then. Try Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan (kidding!). It does suck that HP L is too cognitively challenging. Maybe read or listen in small doses?

[@Rebel9668]

@@michaelkottler Well, I mean, I GET some of his stuff like The Shadow Over Innsmouth, or The Dunwich Horror just fine, but whenever I read or listen to The Mountains of Madness I may as well set my brain to autopilot after the first 20 minutes or so when they enter the cave because from there on in, no matter how many times I go through it my brain starts to fog over for lack of a better term. Maybe some day they'll make a film version of it but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting, lol. There was one I used to like a lot but have long since forgotten the title of and haven't been able to find it in years. It concerned a man inheriting? his Uncle's house after he "passed away", a tunnel under the house and a sort of lab in the basement or cellar.

[@michaelkottler]

@@Rebel9668 Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I apologize if I was at all critical in my original response. I can totally see how works like The Mountains of Madness might require a lot of additional effort to follow given HPL's hyper-descriptive writing style including his rather extensive use of adjectives and adverbs. So, I heat ya' and thanks for your response.

[@cindysettles3743]

My favorite is the rose 🌹 colored glasses 👓

[@jdarkwind]

Brilliant readings (as always)! For your reference in future readings, the abbreviation "mss.", mentioned in the Mezzotint, is short for "manuscripts". One manuscript is an MS or ms., and you add a second S to make it plural following the same convention that makes p=page and pp=pages.

[@SidRandom]

You know how you go to sleep and youtube just plays stuff? I woke up to the the last 5 min of the Ebony Frame. I recognized the voice I have been trying to find, reading poetry. "O cap'n Obed." What a pleasant experience. Is that the same voice from shadow over innsmouth?

[@officaldungeons]

I hate it when someone inscribes me drunk at 3AM crawling across my lawn to get back into my house

[@CJM-rg5rt]

I can't believe they didn't free those two from their petrifaction! Can you imagine how Tyog felt? Knowing that the scroll and freedom was right in front of him.. all someone had to do was unfurl it and flash it in front of his eyes. Everyone wanted them to try too but they "indignantly refused that superstitious notion" which is ridiculous.

[@AshGrg2007]

Rose coloured glasses reminds me of a short story I read as a child. I recall it faintly, but a girl's aunt finds a crystal ball that shows paradise/ some place the gazer desires, only downside is that like the mirror of erised from HP the gazer would become obsessive and addicted and waste away just longing for what they see. Think the girl is unfortunate and also grows up then gets hooked to what the ball shows. Sad

[@GRasputin91]

Randolph Carter makes a cameo at the beginning of Aeons as Swami Chapathutra

[@DarkSideBecky]

Have you read The Spider Glass by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro?? Such a good story. Can you add this to a list? Love listening to thus channel every night at bedtime. Thank you!

[@HorrorBabble]

I don't think that'll be in the public domain, unfortunately.

[@crypto-radio8186]

Thank you so .

[@johnpauljones6229]

I love your accent s, HB!!

[@cynthiawilson4500]

At the age of 15 I found a portrait photograph of myself. I had never seen it before and I was confused because I had never posed for a portrait. When my mother came home I asked her about it. When my mother was 12 her mother had passed away and my mother was angry about it. This portrait was the first time I had ever seen a picture of my grandmother and it was the last time I saw it for my mother hid it away again. Sad but true.

[@TEQNEEK]

Hide your mother's portrait for ultimate trade power

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

So... I recently got new glasses, including sunglasses. But when I got them, the latter were rose tinted.

[@thomaswilke9126]

Having ben a profesional killer for several years, this cuts close to the bone

[@mikehoncho8004]

Oh, and let's not forget saffron Gouda, apparently two ingredients which should never be combined by the hands of man.

[@bertramgunn]

Love it

[@beccarose1789]

why doesn't this one contain Murders in the Rue Morgue to start? or ending with at least

[@rockfordlow571]

The Ebony Frame -interesting story almost destroyed by loud background music.

[@beverlyamarantes9775]

It's Sunday night , another year later .

[@jacktueton7445]

12 is ghost time....right

[@ShadowCoyoteDKM]

Heard this several times, and each time I hear it I become more and more disgusted that they just let the girl die. Didn't even try.

[@louiehoughton5553]

Out of the aeons is a veritable plethora of yugs yogs and yigs.

[@listerjne]

just figured out cyclopean means "stuff made out of boulders"and i mean thats fair enough. makes plenty of sense. thats fine

[@gothicdragonwarriorqueen5819]

Scary-as-shit cool!!!☻🖤☠💀👻⚰🦇🕷🕸

[@0_dearghealach_083]

Hmm. Was I the only one who thought The Ebony Frame sounded like Edgar Allan Poe? Like, the Oval Frame? I don't know, maybe I'm just making things up. Honestly I thought that the painting would be cursed and that it led the protagonist's aunt to die, and then would soon kill him, tbh. Still like it tho. Good stories, Horrorbabble!

[@stephaniehand503]

thanka

[@julielevinge266]

Do you think someone will rewrite Sherlock Homes? Or even more recently Inspector Morse? Plagiarism is protected for musicians but not authors? Once you’re dead anyone can take your material?? I find this incredible????

[@HorrorBabble]

Hmm... Not sure what you're referring to here, Julie.

[@cnkclark]

@@HorrorBabble Sounds like someone is having trouble with the idea of aged intellectual property passing into the Public Domain.

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Others have written Sherlock Holmes, many people have.

[@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979]

Now that is how to ✍️ write

[@christopherellis2663]

2:15:25 what a prig be this man.😊

[@j4nk3n]

I do hope the 1 "thumb down" is just someone adjusting their hearing aid 😂

[@listerjne]

did i hallucinate a story calling albert einstein gay i just woke up yall got me sleepin so good 💕

[@listerjne]

also just googled it and wow i really appreciate the online coverage of einsteins sexuality

[@listerjne]

when i wake up to Jen Narration ? day is 👍

[@twt2718]

Your subconscious probably heard “queer” & “Einstein” in the same sentence😂. I have to re-listen to many of these to make sure it’s not a dream.

[@listerjne]

@@twt2718 i swear! he said something about two historical smart people, and then that he liked to imagine that they were in love, and might paint together??? idk but i promise it might have been part of the story, if it isnt queer, i usually assume its queer. if it is queer, i need to check 8 times because i cannot believe i encountered gays in the wild

[@twt2718]

@@listerjne That’s also completely plausible… from the small % of the ENTIRE collection I’ve listened to, I’ve heard Einstein come up a few times when referring to odd geometries, extra dimensions or time travel. Which I thought was cool since General Relativity is built from extremely weird geometries in an extra spacetime dimension. The beautiful curvatures in 4 dimensions! But… there’s plenty of geniuses, before and after Einstein. I wish you knew which story or collection you were listening to!! I love the works with historical science mixed in!

[@mikehoncho8004]

Reading, or listening to HP Lovecraft, you might find yourself tempted to play a drinking game revolving around the words: furtive, cyclopean, the dread necronomicon, the mad Arab Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.... I would strongly advise against it. Do so at your own peril.

[@raymagini3799]

"Put your grasses on nothing will be wrong"

[@sissyblackwidowspider7529]

Merci beaucoup horrible gracias para Bible shukran Hara Bible thank you horrible you are the best the best the best ever the best number one thank you thank you I could say it in many languages but you know what I mean

[@carolewilson1311]

I look at the stories on different levels. gives adult or appeals to that side of a person that would enjoy dracular on horror level straight forward read or as I did for A'level symbolism correct English description alliteration and all the things that make English pros full of rich words something that gives your brain a workout but also a teenager who finds literature a chore. They would pick up a book instead of X box hopefully pick up the dictionary explain the meaning of English words

[@JoyeuseCurtana]

1:20:00 Swear I heard "taken by the furries"... OwO

[@ricarldoharris6037]

I remember this story from Alfred hitcock

[@justinakers3196]

The rose colored glasses is a lot like meth and cocaine addiction. You've been warned kiddos. Don't touch the shit. Literally the closest analogy I've ever heard. Heard the saying before, did it come from this story?

[@BryinWillis-e8g]

Sunday

[@marianchambers1588]

The beautiful blanket quickly suffer because pain rarely complain vice a ignorant morning. lavish, fragile pimple

[@christopherellis2663]

Valparaiso | balpar👁so| You do relish mispronouncing each foreign word, including Latin, do you not? Düßeldorf. -ei isn't -iæ.

[@itallia666]

I loved the Ebony Frame but it would have been so much better with a better narrator. This narrator didnt inject any emotion at all into reading. The exclamations were dull & unemotional. The narrator didnt even try to differentiate between voices of The Lady & Mildred & the female maids. It was the same voice throughout Which slightly spoiled the story but not by much. It was a brilliant story & with a good narrator it would have been superb. I dont know why this lady narrator is given story after story, shes really awful & her voice is so boring. Its a good job the authors are so good. The male narrator is very good. I think he would have made a much better job of narrating the Ebony Frame.

[@David-Gerard]

Found the same thing. Especially with a female narrator it could be very confusing at times which character was speaking.

[@pifkingmail5584]

There is not need to be so mean.

[@David-Gerard]

Had no intention to be mean.

[@pifkingmail5584]

@@David-Gerard by saying a better reader is needed, you're inferring the reading was poor. Her voice is as clear as a bell and I don't think many narrators would want to stand next to Ian Gordon for comparison. I personally found your comments were bordering on scathing and perhaps that something to consider in the future. Ask yourself would you say that comment directly to their face? Anyway good day I'm here to enjoy not to criticise you or anyone else.

[@markletts8802]

You could always read it yourself,

[@Charlie-qc6su]

these narrators are very boring

[@gezbanks1277]

This content is wonderful

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