At the Mountains of Madness

[@TheRecluseeee]

Which Lovecraft's fiction do you want to hear a dramatized version? Also, which voice actor do you recommend? Let me know.

[@occupiedaustralia9952]

I am very new to H.P.Lovecraft, where can I get a overview of his work and story , a view that is not skewed by the liars who have given us a spinning space ball for a home? My friend recomended him very highly.

[@Disciple_of_Cthulhu]

What happened to your recording of "The Shunned House"?

[@AerisShenlin]

@@zontarzee cannot agree. That voice rubs me the wrong way. I tried listening over and over again, I keep coming back here. Wayne June has just such a good voice.

[@CH0MSKYH0NK]

who voiced this audiobook???

[@Disciple_of_Cthulhu]

@@CH0MSKYH0NK Conrad Feininger.

[@Astrithor]

"The librarian's hands shook with supreme despair as he moved the works of H.P. Lovecraft from 'fiction' to 'non-fiction'."

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting!

[@wraightai]

real life

[@raymondhamill270]

Wait what?!

[@jandrews3419]

Nice :)

[@tikkidaddy]

Wouldn't be surprised in the least...

[@jaysonness]

I've fallen asleep to this about 9 times now, not because it's boring, but because I listen in bed when it's late. My subconscious may now be completely insane while my exterior conscious personality remains intact.

[@TheRecluseeee]

jaysonness I know what you mean! I did it countless times as well!

[@GutsnoKen]

***** I was wondering the same, i have been trying to listen to this for ages now but i do not know what happens in this story, so i dont know if it affects me or not. lol

[@jameswhite8215]

Be careful. You will likely open your consciousness to mysterious realms of eldritch horror and cyclopean terror. However that would be quite cool.

[@GutsnoKen]

Oh that what this is about? Just another day in the hood. lol

[@CarnalKid]

Same here. I can't count the number of times I've fallen asleep to a lot of his stories, but this is my fav because of the length. Man, I love this channel.

[@echomoon1431]

I've lost count of how many times I've used this particular video to help me get to sleep. this narrator has a fantastic voice.

[@TheRecluseeee]

+Justin Hogsett Same here! It's just perfect to get to sleep while listening!

[@karlnord1429]

how the fuck do you guys sleep to this

[@karlnord1429]

lol

[@xavierspade666]

Perfect voice, perfect inflections of the reading. I'm very impressed. It's the voice I would hear in my head, were I reading it.

[@TheRecluseeee]

+Xavier Spade Thanks for listening!

[@davemaier68]

The narrator is Conrad Feininger

[@bigjim88]

davemaier68

[@DarthMohammedRules]

I agree, but overall I think there's a touch too much bass, compared to the other audiobooks I've been listening to on here.

[@YoUtUbEhAnDlEsArEgReAt]

I couldn't help but read those last two sentences in his voice.

[@mhlee9348]

I remember reading this in my late teens...could hardly put down till I finished it. I had a paperback copy that I carried with me everywhere. Terrific, almost hypnotic writing. I'm 62 now and enjoying this immensely. Thank You and BRAVO!!!

[@TheRecluseeee]

M H Lee My pleasure!

[@ZnenTitan]

I love this narrator, there are shadows in his voice.

[@seconds-kr5uj]

I like you.

[@Ardepark]

@@seconds-kr5uj Get a room, you two

[@Puzzledtraveller]

I love the narrators voice, can hardly listen to anyone else read Lovecraft.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@scottbreon9448]

Gordon Gould is pretty good too

[@theresa6752]

@@TheRecluseeee who is the narrator of some of these lovecraft books? I love his voice.

[@Sitking]

@@theresa6752 it's Wayne June

[@Silver-fh4fb]

You can tell that he was well versed in the sciences of the times. He knew his mastodon from his archaeopteryx.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting and listening! Cheers!

[@yuggoth777]

except geometry

[@rickdeckard1075]

@@yuggoth777 the geometry of the higher dimensions and astral realms is not necessarily computable by the egoic human mind

[@DarthMohammedRules]

All the "required" reading I had in school, and never any Lovecraft. Such a shame. Even if you aren't a fan of horror (or "weirdness"), Lovecraft's works are a great study in writing, vocabulary, and English/grammar skills. He was truly a master of his art. Speaks volumes of the education system we have. *smh*

[@TheRecluseeee]

So true! Thanks for listening!

[@klazuthed]

to be fair, he was openly racist, and his works do reflect this. but on the other hand the eras he wrote in and covered had those words used in relatively common vocabulary so. hard to tell

[@jeffjeff3132]

I know right! I am a student and I have to listen to this in my spare time because the librarians refuse to buy his books.

[@konstantinandreyev6778]

I've heard that he uses words in an incorrect way likewise the meaning does not match the description which was simply to make it sound cool:) Besides, many of those words were considered as archaic already in those times. Furthermore, people claim than many words are made-up to add to some sort of mystery of whatever. Nevertheless, when I was reading it, those words truly made the images brighter and could reflect the emotions better than if it would have been written with "normal words".

[@cmk5724]

Jesus Christ died for your sins on a cross and rose again after three days. You have committed evil deeds, as we all have done. God is a just judge, and must punish you for these sins, because he is perfect by his nature. But God loves you, does not want to punish you. This is why God took the form of a man, Jesus Christ, and died as a sacrifice for your sins on a cross. He was punished for your sins, so that you could be made righteous in God's sight. After three days, Jesus rose again, because it is impossible for him to have been held down by death. This is great news! Repent, (that is, change your mind,) and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and be saved from the judgement of God. God will reward you for your faith with eternal life, and forgiveness for your deeds. I sin, and you sin, and we both will continue to sin, but Jesus Christ died for these sins, and God is willing to forgive them. Please, repent, and believe the Gospel.

[@Larkinchance]

Now I know why HPL was so difficult to read.. He consistently composes strings of 100 word, complex sentences that requires complete and focused attention. It must require the same or more effort to recite.. Thank you to who ever read this video.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening!

[@mikenusser8444]

Add to it he goes into that much detail over evvvvverything, it's not just a 100 word sentence it's a 100 word sentence to describe the condition of a roof or how street is paved.

[@Larkinchance]

Mike Nusser HPL... Maybe he was being paid by the word?

[@Larkinchance]

Also during a time when reading was the only solitary media, people may feel cheated with a short story that came right to the point.

[@Folker46590]

Shakespeare is so much worse, Milton's Paradise Lost is a tough read too. People had few books to read so a long, descriptive story was much appreciated. By today's standards, long stories are boring. Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons is so long that getting through it can take weeks and a lot of self discipline, same for War and Peace.

[@tomaszneska7940]

I have a drinking game. Every time you hear "cyclopian masonry" you take a shot.

[@raziel1132]

4 hours later......death by alcohol poisoning.

[@TheFoggyjones]

As a bonus if you hear the words 'considerable' and 'vast' in the same sentence pour rubbing alcohol into one of your eyeballs.

[@raziel1132]

Andy Jones i am blind now

[@Folker46590]

Or "Mountains of Madness", you hear that a lot too.

[@McFasty3924]

Yeah, also in all his books as a constant top up drinks rule 'Impossible to describe'

[@jackredelfs]

Thanks so much for posting this video. Outstanding story by an author who, despite his vast influence, is still very much underrated.

[@LBarbarell]

jackredelfs pk

[@TheRecluseeee]

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[@nyjnt11]

02:05

[@amyjean9045]

read this collection when I was 13, it still has new meaning each time.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@XAmericanRenegadeX]

H. P. Lovecraft is on a level far superior than any modern writer of today. I just finished the Dunwich Horror and all I can say is WOW! Incredible.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Yes, I agree. He cannot be touched even to this day, IMHO.

[@zachmerrill8204]

His best by far, and that's saying something

[@scottbreon9448]

Only one that comes close is Edgar Allan Poe

[@johnathan6642]

Ehh, Terry Pratchett and Susanna Clarke both give him a run for his money, and they come without the sudden boughts of racism.

[@WendingWind]

@Based Log XD Cringe

[@vedanthu5836]

Elder creatures....hypnotic suggestion....relevant forever.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@davidchrysostom695]

Nicholas Roerich is the landscape painter he mentions, whose paintings resemble the Mountains of Madness

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for your input. Cheers!

[@PsilocyephMagricriiMaster]

This is a wonderful reading of this epic tale of frozen terror amidst the tundra of antiquity and the unknown

[@Thirdman24]

My ADD kicked in and lost track for a minute a couple of times, just to find out he was was still elaborately describing the same thing

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening!

[@waysidejokester]

Me too, god you know x)

[@pauldickinson3961]

I have the same problem, and most of Lovecraft's works are the same way. It's one of the reasons I like him so much.

[@Never_heart]

The joy of Lovecraft, but ya it happened to me the first few times I listened to his stories. To quote my co-worker as he overheard me listening to this, "Holy adjective"

[@kodensai1]

That is just the Old Ones tapping into your subconscious, it will pass in time.

[@mattell3302]

Thanks for uploading these! Unlike so many modern attempts at horror, Lovecraft understood that true fear was fear of the unknown. What is left unsaid and open to speculation is just as important as those elements described in full. Suggestion is a key tool in the arsenal of horror writing, one that is sometimes sadly ignored. I only wish that I had been able to read these at the time they were written, when such writings had even more potential to carry fragments of truth. Weirdly enough in recent years a huge mountain range has been detected under the East Antarctic sheet with ground radar. It has been estimated to be similar in size to the European Alps. So maybe there are Eldritch horrors lurking below the ice.

[@mattell3302]

For anyone interest: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2874839/Scientists-explore-Antarctica-s-ghost-mountains-ice-cap-land-does-not-age-water-flows-uphill.html I'm sure there's better articles out there (Daily Mail I Know.....) but here's a quick start on the "Ghost Mountains" of the Antarctic for anyone who's interested.

[@TheRecluseeee]

HedgeKnight Matt Yes, Lovecraft understood the fear of the unknown and how to use it for his writings. He's just way ahead of his time (or even our time).

[@mattell3302]

I can imagine him rolling in his grave every time a horror movie uses a jump scare. I was curious for a while to see what would become of the Del Toro film, but its probably for the best that it didn't get made. Although if anyone could get close to doing the story justice, Del Toro was the guy.

[@BigTuk]

It could be said Lovecraft was more an artifact of his time period. Much later horror writers are inspired by film as much as literature so focus on what is seen. In truth that is the greatest weakness of Film Horror.that it is seen, the creatures and things are given concrete definition which can be analyzed. But the horrors of lovecraft are the slowkind that creep and change with each envisioning by the mind's eye.

[@123nazgu]

Matt Ell Horror in popular media is basic at best. Things which have been raised to masterpiece status (like the FNAF franchise, which is only scary for lingering reasons because of the over worldly nature of the backstory of the games) are things which I'd imagine Lovecraft would spit at.

[@futurecyborg_]

Thank you so so much for these! Lovecraft lives on with your lovely renditions! Have heard 3 other stories thus far, and now this... keep it up!

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@Trevor-j8i]

Just want to give a big thanks to the uploader of these. A certain MMORPG encapsulates a majority of my free time and listening to these stories makes me feel I'm not completely wasting my time.

[@Stereomonitor]

Every time I listen to this I wonder why he thought penguins were so grotesque

[@jdogpayne238]

Because the ones being bred are eyeless and albino.

[@jdogpayne238]

Joshua Payne nevermind, I'm thinking of piece of lore.

[@geert574]

+Stereomonitor Lovecraft just hated sea-food and everything remotely nautical

[@rhigganomie4978]

+Geert Matthys interesting...

[@jdogpayne238]

Wait, it was because they were blind and albino! I remember now!

[@FIONA21ful]

Hi there my old friend, came back for a listen to my favourite Lovecraft to sleep to for last nights bedtime , and just woke up from the most wonderful dreams!! as always I Thank you so much.

[@TheRecluseeee]

+fiona cahill That's awesome that you had a wonderful dream after listening to Lovecraft! As always, thanks for being such a wonderful audience! :D

[@FIONA21ful]

Free Audio Books for Intellectual Exercise yes I usually have very outlandish and interesting dreams when I listen to imaginative literature. I really ought to write them down .

[@TheRecluseeee]

fiona cahill Writing down the details of dreams tends to make them more vivid. :)

[@HotaruZoku]

You know what I love most about his work? The way he never once jams something down your throat. To the contrary, not only do you not get it for free, most of the depth is up to the reader/listener to catch on their own, demonstrated beautifully here. The entire report is of a dry, scientific nature, but if you keep your ears pricked you can pick up warning signs. Red flags. Threats. And it's all so casual. One minute devoting half a sentence to the idea that the breathing methods suggested they were adapted to airless hibernation, than half a paragraph later playing off the revelation that laying in the arctic sun the bodies start slowly unfolding, hiding the ominous nature of these two revelations by playing it off, going on about how the doctor wasn't worried about decomposition, when that was actually the very LEAST of his concerns. Beautiful. It's the only word I've got for it,

[@TheRecluseeee]

+HotaruZoku Thanks for listening!

[@reeseloveland7721]

It really is

[@alanfaulkner6329]

This channel and these stories have been one of my greatest discoveries.

[@TheCrazydude17]

Long before the invention of creepypasta, the world was graced with the presence of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, a man who took the formula for cheap internet thrills that didn't exist yet, and turned it into art of the highest order. Whatever the man's flaws, he did well in this.

[@Astrithor]

TheCrazydude17 Yeah, creepypasta is just a new name for something that's been around for a looooooong time. But not as long as the Elder Things

[@sistergrimace1567]

“Osseus medley” to describe a pile of bones- only Lovecraft

[@vladimirremmirez7671]

"cephalic appendage" to describe a head- only Clark Ashton Smith

[@guilledcf1547]

dude that was some detailed carvings

[@TheRecluseeee]

Indeed! Thanks for listening!

[@mpbiggame1010]

Yeah what the hell was up with that? At first I thought its the character's interpretation, or an afterthought, rather. But then there was I minor detail (can't recite the exact words by now) where he says "Yeah we couldn't decipher that from the masonry". In that case what in god's name did I just listen to??

[@oscarlove4394]

@@mpbiggame1010 maybe its 'we couldn't decipher that from the masonry at the time' or maybe the narrator (of the story, not the audiobook) has more info than he's letting us on to.

[@jamesarduini2688]

Thanks very much for this! I grew up reading Lovecraft among others and now I can sit back and be brought back into Lovecrafts world.

[@TheRecluseeee]

James Arduini My pleasure!

[@jacobjohnston3983]

I love this story because as far as I know, this is the only time when Lovecraft depicts an alien race not as unknowable monsters, but as people. The Elder Things have a culture, they're artists and scientists. The idea that there is a race of beings on Earth that vastly predate humanity is frightening, but those beings aren't evil themselves. It's very interesting and I loved hearing their history.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@AdinArkonen]

Shadow out of Time

[@Kadajliger100]

I'm so happy I'm not the only one who falls asleep to this

[@TheRecluseeee]

Trust me, there are many!

[@D.C.T.23]

Boy, 1930 times were scary.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Dustopia 47 Indeed!

[@123nazgu]

Dustopia 47 Must have been all the free drugs

[@D.C.T.23]

Sanctum Quis Cocaine Cola was at the heart of the mountains of madness.

[@ysabeauvalikov7894]

Cecil Palmer O my gosh, I found Cecil!! *squeal*

[@D.C.T.23]

Ysabeau Valikov If you stare hard enough into the unknown, you can trick yourself into seeing anything. Be careful on your time squinting at the abyss, your family thinks you are dead and it's honestly starting to smell like it.

[@UncleSamSiam]

Favorite narrator. I’ve been listening to all of these, love your channel and now I am wholly enthralled by the work of Lovecraft, his predecessors and those who have continued the mythos after. Thank you!

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting and listening. Cheers!

[@RamekGreen]

elder things be like "OK, take the stove and let's go!"

[@joecoo4615]

Love these narations Conrad Feininger Wayne June David Mc Callum They all deserve accolades in my humble opinion. Thank you @intellectual Exercise for your channel.

[@Behling101]

going good: barren wasteland, giant mountains of madness, mystery, horrific elder creatures, said horrific elder creatures coming back to life, ancient ruins. Then out of nowhere, giant albino penguins...

[@JH-tk6ge]

wow, thanks

[@MichaeltOuHeR]

Thank you ever so kindly for this read. Greatly appreciated!

[@TheSaderV]

Lovecraft's word of the day: CYCLOPEAN

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening!

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

TheSaderV I prefer "queer" as the word of the day from shadow over innsmouth.

[@benjaminseng4271]

Opalescent

[@JohnDoe-ne4kg]

Gambral

[@danielmehmedovich8498]

Cyclopean is his word in every story lol

[@Schpikleheimer]

What makes this more eerie is the faint sound in the background that almost sounds like distorted voices.

[@TheRecluseeee]

+Schpikleheimer Indeed!

[@SwineBrothers]

that would be tape noises actually. i know where this is from. the braille library

[@ianmurdoch6247]

Jotaro Kujo Or its the lurking darkness

[@HollowDestruction]

Its a shame this was written before the Mass Extinction periods were well known and documented, I feel like the idea of life nearly being snuffed out wholesale like that would have been great inspiration for Lovecraft.

[@thomasdanforth766]

+HollowDestruction A lot if things he should've seen would have been an interesting read, the unveilment of the atom bomb would likely have changed his entire grasp on humanities strife against the eldritch terrors waiting for them. I guarantee most of his creatures wouldn't have an easy time against the blast of one of those.

[@bludrahven9781]

+Thomas Danforth Actually in the story "A Colder War" Cthulu takes on 300 megaton of US Nukes...and shrugged it off

[@mwellnow5016]

BLUD RAHVEN Doesn't make too much sense considering he got popped by a boat.

[@ingold1470]

@@thomasdanforth766 I sometimes view HPL's writing as a window into that special period when scientists were just discovering how much they didn't know, before those discoveries became the groundwork for the advances which defined the postwar era. If he did live to the time of nukes though I could see him portraying that in a similar vein to Re-animator, people messing with powers they're unequipped to truly deal with (a common sentiment at the time) .

[@oscarlove4394]

@@bludrahven9781 that's Charles Stross though, not HP lovecraft. HollowDestruction is wondering how HP Lovecraft would feel about the nuclear bombs or the Mass Extinctions, because they certainly match Lovecrafts tone of human insignificance.

[@LtDan-gt6vz]

I read a number of these in a small compendium of stories. Didn't sleep for a week, and developed a genuine terror of dark places I didn't have before.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Well, you are not alone. Lovecraft is the master of terror. ;)

[@madisoncarpenter5552]

Always been a H.P. Lovecraft fan. These audiobooks help me sleep.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening!

[@GabagoolGang]

Same here.

[@davemaier68]

YES!. These stories (and the reader's voice) are a lullaby. Not only to sleep, but to mind expanding and otherworldy dreams. I just listened to THE VAULTS OF YOH-VOMBIS written by Clark Ashton Smith and read by Iker Rivercast. If you like his strong accent (I did) you will LOVE this story as well..

[@andrewjohnson6038]

Excellent story, excellent naration. honestly, I wish more stories were this daring

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening!

[@rakaman27]

"grotesque penguins" Damn, HP, why you gotta do 'em like that?

[@benwinter2420]

Nobody can copy . . was the dingy sign I woke in fear muttering , the shop I entered in sleep

[@caseyhawkins3216]

Discovered these by chance a week ago. Totally obsessed. Ill prolly listen to all at least twice cause i know im missing things.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Once you go Lovecraft, there's no way out! :D

[@Fakan]

I've always had a love-hate relationship with this story. The expedition, the discoveries, the mystery and horror and suspense, all awesome. Then the hard stop of world building and history comes and I struggle to get through it. Believe me, I love Lovecraft's writing and I enjoy the world building in his other stories, especially in The Shadow Out of Time, but in AtMoM, it just goes on and on and on. In Shadow, the story alternated back and forth between the narrator's research and exploration and his dream memories of his time in the alien body, which helps keep everything moving. I'm sure I'm in the minority, considering how revered this particular story is, but it is what it is. =P

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting and listening. Cheers!

[@richardravenclaw318]

this reader (wayne june?) has a perfect voice for this story. he is soothing yet powerfull. i think it's helpful that in over 4 hours there is not a single line of dialog. a narrator's paradise. in fact there isnt any dialog in most lovecraft stories but they dont suffer any lack for that. it enhances their hypnotic moodiness.

[@PJAGB156]

The narrator is Conrad Feininger

[@recklessjelly1484]

End of side five, to continue turn the cassette over- H. P. Lovecraft

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting and listening!

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Intellectual Exercise I see your still responding. If you could respond to this, could you tell me who the reader is for these videos? I’ve watched them all on this channel but have had a hard time finding the name of the narrator. Really appreciate a straight name if you ever see this, thank you!

[@satanissima]

I love the narrator's voice, it's exactly what I have imagined while reading the book!

[@TheRecluseeee]

+Saatana Thanks for listening!

[@Yggi11]

I'll wonder what Danforth saw for the rest of my life. Fiction has a funny effect on one. Tekeli-li.

[@TheFoggyjones]

Seeing a huge naked portrait of Piglet pursing me would drive me nuts as well.

[@AdamStJamesStJames]

The maddening portrait of Bea Arthur. Maybe it was anonymously painted by Pickman?

[@FarFromEquilibrium]

A larger than life Hillary Clinton, screeching, convulsing and scaring the poor penguins.

[@Eddie-0102]

Joe A. Verage hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahah

[@6473c10wn]

pretty sure he saw Yog-Sothoth

[@theonewiththeface6258]

I'm so glad I've recently found your channel. Every night I end it with your readings and my dreams are wonderfully madness and beautiful. Please keep doing this ❤️🤘

[@conantroutman76]

this is my absolute favorite Lovecraft story. thank you for the upload!

[@TheRecluseeee]

+conantroutman76 My pleasure!

[@lancecorporalbigretard6408]

I love listening to this one with some of the ambient tracks on the Silent Hill 2 album playing faintly in the background. It's oddly fitting with Lovecraft's descriptions of the foreboding Arctic setting.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Your Daddy Atmosphere wise, that combination does make sense. Good choice.

[@communist-hippie]

Ha havnt tried or thought about it, but seems like a nice thing to do.

[@johnoliva5153]

Love this stuff.I spent so much time driving around New England looking for some of these places.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@Tadesan]

If you run a spectrogram while this guy is narrating the pauses stand out clearly. He's a machine: Two seconds divide sentences in prose. Three seconds between prose and dictation. One second during the excited messages. Sometimes after switching pauses they will be short or long for a sentence or two, but he always brings them right back in. A machine.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for your feedback and thanks for visiting. Cheers!

[@Tadesan]

And by "machine" I mean an impressively skillful and apt performance. Thanks and bravo!

[@heathenly_aesthetic7233]

Thank goodness, this channel exists. Great ambiance 😊🖤

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting and listening!

[@ZarathustrasCrown]

Possibly his best story all around, this one always seemed oddly central, sort of a sun around which the other stories kind of orbit. Maybe it's just my deep-seated hatred of cold, but the atmosphere of this one just always got under my skin somehow in a way none of the others did. There's another short story he did, I think he ghost wrote it, with a guy who's given pain meds and goes into a bizarre dream in which he's in a house surrounded by ocean eroding the ground around him, then is carried away by angelic beings of some sort and told "don't look back", of course he does and bad things happen...I can't remember the name of that, but it always gave me a creepy feeling too.

[@lordfunkbottom9541]

I don't think you can rate his stories in that way everyone will have their peculiar favorite while I enjoy madness my favorites are the whisperer in darkness and the dream quest of unknown kadath

[@orangeiceice12]

I am totally in agreement with you, Zarathustra

[@PsilocyephMagricriiMaster]

I agree, this story is central, as with Kadath, the whisperer in darkness, both shadows (innsmouth and out of time) and the case of Charles Dexter Ward.. Lovecraft's style of writing and horror is best introduced in the Call of Cthulhu, which exposes the true terror lovecraft wrote about.. connecting the dots, like a grand conspiracy theory, makes almost all of his stories tie together with an eerie realism I've yet to find matched by any other writer dealing with this kind of material.

[@GAMBOLMC]

Master Psilocyeph In my humble opinion I believe "The Dunwich Horror" should be on that list for sure, as I feel It really does a great job in portraying the unfathomable chaotic nature the outer gods, Yog-Sothoth in particular. I would also put "The Dreams in The Witch House" on there too. Mostly because its a personal favorite of mine, but it does provide an interesting view of witchcraft being tied to Azathoth and mathmatics as well as a look at Nyarlathotep performing his duties as messenger and servant to the previously mentioned outer gods. (I interpreted "The Black Man" to be another avatar/form of the crawling chaos)

[@PsilocyephMagricriiMaster]

GAMBOLMC I do like the Dunwich Horror, though, I would contest that it displays more the chaotic reality of dealing with outer beings rather than the nature of the beings themselves. I haven't read The dreams in the witch house very many times, one of my personal favorites being "the dream quest of unknown Kadath" which includes my favorite view of Nyarlathotep. But that's neither here nor there. I agree, Dunwich is another core Lovecraft story, along with "the thing on the doorstep", "Nyarlathotep", "the crawling chaos" and "the book" (I think "the crawling chaos" is that story ZarathustraCrown mentioned at the end of their comment)

[@daltonlandis7707]

considerably queer cyclopian bas relief.

[@stingiestmoth27]

Dafuq

[@The_Sock_]

*b a s r e l i e f*

[@BlightTempest]

BAS RELIEF FATHAGN YEE

[@yuggoth777]

Peak Lovecraft

[@AkiKii519]

that's what I call 'reading'. great voice, particularly for Lovecraft.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@cuteboy9469]

Such a detailed story, a re read or re listen is a MUST.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Yes, I have been re-reading/listening for a long time as well! Cheers!

[@dichebach]

Thanks for this. I read it about 25 years ago as a young man and it is indelibly in my memory, though of such inconsequence that I would not wish to read the thing a second time. The narrator is not a good story teller shall we say :) Insane people rarely are . . .

[@TheRecluseeee]

Diche Bach I'm glad that you like the upload!

[@higherground711]

HP Lovecraft has inspired me to expand my vocabulary. ^_^ I'm also now inspired to read that book on philosophy I bought. His stories are great and keep me listening to the end. I have to google some of the words, but still the stories are easy to follow and take me to other worlds.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Because of Lovecraft, English dictionary became my close friend. :D

[@higherground711]

Lol That's to be expected. Many fun words.

[@graham3368]

It has taken me fuckin 4 weeks to listen to this i keep Fallin asleep

[@TheRecluseeee]

This is the best background soundtrack to sleep! Chilling dreams and cheers!

[@lutherross1979]

I am reminded of that book " The coming race" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton somehow...

[@TheRecluseeee]

Hi, that actually makes some sense. Also, I have uploaded the book 'The Coming Race' on my channel for those who are interested. Check out the following video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKrYc6qanb6fhpI

[@TheodoreDorado]

This was the coolest shit ever.

[@TheRecluseeee]

themanticore07 Thanks for listening!

[@ciaputyouhand1012]

Hey!

[@jedifrontc]

This is a documentary.

[@CorrosiveColin]

dank meme God I hope not.

[@jmpsthrufyre]

I hope so.

[@AltronT]

You are not wrong

[@raksh9]

If this is a documentary, humans are screwed

[@codyrichards6153]

@@AltronT r4ss4-=@#@==-

[@allaboutdmagic]

Would've loved to hear Christopher Lee read this.

[@TheRecluseeee]

allaboutdmagic That would be epic!

[@grizzlywhisker]

vincent price for me. the orator in this is really good though.

[@hectorlamar806]

Bela Lugosi would be great

[@shoeflytoo]

I'll give this a listen. I stumbled across this by accident but I just happen to be reading the story now, at the point they're exploring the city, just after finding the decapitated old ones. It's become so tedious that I don't want to continue reading it. So I'll give this a shot.

[@Revan-ek3su]

3:24:07. Just posting my time to remember.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening!

[@charlethemagne5466]

1:02:20 dumping mine here too

[@TheRedverb]

1:55:26. What the hay, might as well... To be resumed at a later time.

[@ladyowl8732]

I wish there was a crackling fireplace in the background, for listening on a stormy night☕🌒

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting and listening! Cheers!

[@stickyy_fingaas]

Chapter 1 0:01 Chapter 2 22:00 Chapter 3 1:00:50 Chapter 4 1:23:18 Chapter 5 1:42:06 Chapter 6 2:09:14 Chapter 7 2:24:51 Chapter 8 2:45:36 Chapter 9 3:02:28 Chapter 10 3:24:02 Chapter 11 3:39:29 Chapter 12 3:59:23

[@raginald7mars408]

.. 100 more Chapters and still Fascinating Addicting

[@woodlockflick1436]

The beauty of this man’s mind is the ability to articulate the true nature of fear even though it’s fiction. You’ll never know unless you read between the lines..Don’t go mad

[@TheRecluseeee]

Lovecraft was a genius. Cheers!

[@bleat222]

My go to sleep audiobook. Started this so many times and dropped off. Are there penguins in it?

[@TheRecluseeee]

Yes, penguins from hell are there. :D

[@WORDENVISION420]

I swear everyone who falls asleep do it around the penguins.

[@noelienoelie8425]

Grotesque penguin's.

[@Lorkhanable]

Really does remind me of The shadow out of time, almost like Lovecraft wrote this one but with a different take on it. Gotta say I enjoy this one more.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@johnmcdonald1237]

sheer Poerty..classic stuff!

[@TheRecluseeee]

+John Mcdonald Thanks for listening!

[@GAMBOLMC]

Thank you for uploading this! Now I can enjoy Lovecraft's brilliant take on cosmic horror while playing Dead Space(evil alien party!) or cleaning...or doing whatever. thanks again!

[@TheRecluseeee]

GAMBOLMC My pleasure! :)

[@patricks1560]

You can like Hemmingway and Lovecraft. Horses for courses, as they say.

[@dsanders755]

thank you for the reading... blessings

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@rgsworld999]

Howard Philips Lovecraft was the best writer ever!

[@TheRecluseeee]

Hard to argue with that! :)

[@mwellnow5016]

where is this audio from originally? the closest thing I can find is a tape in the library of Congress website. Would like to find an original cassette, however unlikely.

[@iangiovanni6555]

opinions are like assholes ... everyone who doesn't share my opinion is obviously an asshole.

[@med111cen]

This has to be my favorite Lovecraft story by far. I could say a whole lot about it, as many people in the comments section have, regarding it's unique pacing and descriptiveness and approach, but I mainly want to call attention to the fact that this is one of the few Lovecraft stories that doesn't openly and directly encourage a xenophobic reaction from the reader. If anything, it asks you sympathize or empathize with cultures and peoples alien to our own. What a weird turn for him to make so late in his life, but I'm glad for it. A lot of his work reads like racist epithet, even some of his most well-recognized stories, and I think it contributes a lot to his legacy, both as a science writer and as a human being; one with a complex and, to say the least, sheltered view on culture and identity.

[@devindailey598]

While this was playing as I slept, I had a dream that I was being home invaded. I woke up at 3am and hear something out in my living room. I go to check on it and suddenly I hear scampering and scratching heavily in my wall. It was rodents in the wall. Scared the ever living shit out of me...

[@TheRecluseeee]

Well, I listen to Lovecraft's books before falling asleep time to time and it does have interesting effects for sure!

[@devindailey598]

Free Audio Books for Intellectual Exercise thanks for the upload!

[@davidm6960]

Oh, then you should definitely listen to this one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXPMfoyedp6Wg7s

[@devindailey598]

Yeah, I really should finish this tonight. I still hear them from time to time.

[@heathjohnson2698]

Are you sure you didn’t fall asleep listening to rats in the walls

[@jdogpayne238]

I'm genuinely glad I decided to listen to this. I'll be honest, the apprehension at that one part near the end (people who have already listened/read know what I'm talking about) actually instilled a real sense of fear in me.

[@jdogpayne238]

That terrifying realization of what is really going on.

[@TheRecluseeee]

+Joshua Payne Thanks for listening!

[@jdogpayne238]

Free Audio Books for Intellectual Exercise Ended up buying the entire 160+ collection of Mr. Lovecraft's works for 99 cents. Digital of course.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Joshua Payne Yes, that 99 cents deal is a great one. Cheers!

[@micahfoley9572]

Yay! Lovecraft without a stupid fake accent! I'm all for character voices, but when the whole of the text is in an accent that isn't the performer's natural accent, it gets really distracting. GJ!

[@shadowdragon1414]

thanks man! Been looking for the full version everywhere.

[@eligreenwald3965]

was the film "The Thing" inspired by this story?

[@lukecimment-sibscrobe5205]

+Eli Greenwald It's possible. John Carpenter is a big Lovecraft fan.

[@MistaGify]

Yes, it was. This story is very influential. Know what else it inspired? Alien (1979)

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

+MistaGify The relation isn't as obvious, but it's true that just about every horror writer of the past hundred years has taken a leaf out of Lovecraft's book, like Stephen King, including writers of horror games like Eternal Darkness and Amnesia: the Dark Descent.

[@eligreenwald3965]

+SwolllenGoat thanks! I'll definitely check it out.

[@sebode87]

+Eli Greenwald no

[@noelienoelie8425]

This is my favourite story. The thing is my favourite movie.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@HotaruZoku]

These things are so old they've forgotten their own golden ages before humanity was genetically identifiable. Jesus. But why? How? It's a neat story, but how the hell do you just "forget" how to do something as impressive and useful as Interstellar travel, or the infinitely valuable trick of A-biogenisis? They're described as basically immortal geniuses, apparently capable of at least relief construction that lasted half a billion years. Where the hell did they find the time to forget their own God-hood? Also - Am I the only one who secretly fears humanity is simply a shape taken for so long we've forgotten -we- ARE the Shoggath?

[@TheRecluseeee]

You are not alone in having some suspicion on the true nature of humanity.

[@PsilocyephMagricriiMaster]

have you heard/read 'beyond the veil of sleep'? but to touch on your question of how you forget such vital skills, consider the vast amount of time and then factor trauma and damage from the conflicts with Cthulhu spawn among other invading species. I would be more shocked if they hadn't lost knowledge just from lethargy alone during the eons, but much knowledge is lost during conflicts of a devastating nature.

[@HotaruZoku]

I could see them loosing the capacity to create such convoluted art, as was described by the descending quality of the reliefs being studied, but those are corner stones of a civilization described as wise before Earth had even fully cooled. It strikes me as us one day just forgetting how electricity works, or failing to recall how fulcrums and levers are applied. Maybe I'm just being picky. If I could create slave races out of thin air or physically traverse the void of space, I think I'd do a better job keeping up with the details, even including the wars.

[@lordfunkbottom9541]

HotaruZoku think of the stuff humans have forgotten in the relatively short time of a few thousand years. We can no longer create the monolithic stone monuments from our past, because easier or cheaper technologies took their place over time.Why teach your children how to dress stone when you can teach them how to pour concrete.And when you factor in the probable loss of skills through combat attrition it seems likely they would forget how to do things that had nothing to do with the defense of their society

[@HotaruZoku]

But in the example you give, that's a case of, at least debatably, progress. For it to compare here, it would have to be an entire art form lost, like waking up one day and just flat forgetting how to paint at all, or work metals into other forms.

[@ultraman5026]

Thank you for the upload

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@definitelycortez3408]

1:23:21. Always enjoy Lovecraft. Definitely before his time.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Yes, he was definitely a genius.

[@TheodoreDorado]

I'm not sure if I can properly and/or concisely express this, but I LOVE this man's work because, for an individual known somewhat notoriously for his implicit sense of climactic expression (i.e., leaving perhaps the most horrible or intense instances to the imagination), H.P.'s descriptions are b e y o n d off the chain. Specifically, my man DOES NOT hesitate to blast you with the most astute, top-shelf descriptions loaded with the most seemingly ideal adjectives, painting quite the vivid picture . He tells you--physically (mostly), emotionally, or otherwise--precisely what and to exactly what magnitude is any of that pertinent shit going down. He keeps his cosmic horrors vague, implicit and impending, while his descriptions of things and situations are succinct, scrupulous, and poignant as f*ck. P.S. The narrators between this videos and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (among others--I wish I could recall their names to give them credit) may be the best or at least most fitting I've ever heard. P.P.S. Thank you Int. Ex. for all your wonderful uploads and associated efforts. Cheers.

[@RochesFan]

FYI, the narrator for this video is Conrad Feininger. Love your comment, by the way.

[@felixshaw7859]

Who else came here on recommendation from Isaac Arthur? (by the way great channel about what distant future might be like)

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend!

[@OwenLucas1973]

I've just finished reading the Necronomicon collection of his books/stories and, after a brief aside of The Silmarillion, am about to read The Eldritch Tales collection. Some of HP Lovecraft's material is a bit heavy going, but once you get into it, it does change your view on things a bit and, if you believe in such things, makes you think about life itself. This guy who reads the majority of the Lovecraft stuff that I've found is great. If you like a short stab of Lovecraft, search for The Street.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Owen Lucas Thanks for listening!

[@merrittanimation7721]

TEKEL-LI ! TEKEL-LI !

[@alexanderx33]

The diction in this makes me giddy. Every time Lovecraft waxes poetic in a description it emotes a tingling surge of sensation like countless nameless parasites traversing the nerve endings of ones nether regions.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting and listening!

[@mileshawkins6225]

It's insane that these audio books make me dream the way I do when i listen to them while falling asleep. Have no idea what the books about but i dreamt of demonic winds coming down off of mountains and possessing dogs..which in turn killed people. Then the people mutated into creatures with wings 😂

[@lindaquemasda5927]

Wow...cool.

[@gutsofmud]

Thanks for posting.

[@BobBob-ld2yz]

Free Audio Books and Recordings,.. who's that voice ? :)

[@Davidlee37101]

A very Lovecraftian concept is that cats and ghosts communicate by droping random objects on the ground

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting and listening! :D