"At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft― Classic Horror Audiobook

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

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[@Nat.Dialogue]

Is there an artist's impression of the city anywhere to be seen. It would be spectacular to even attempt a visual version

[@unscrewedhorses]

i’m only about half an hour in, but I just want to give kudos to the narrator for navigating all those scientific names so flawlessly! 😆

[@robertbruce7686]

Only kudos (smile)?. It is impressive he survived !

[@CirynthLighthammer]

The narrator for this audiobook is probably one of my favorite. Same guy who did 'The Dunwich Horror' and is nothing short of awesome for both novels. Thank you Chilling tales !

[@grisha8983]

Same! I really like this narrator.

[@chonkychonk]

Im 18, never did well in school. Ive begun an intellectual renaissance, im truly enjoying these stories. I listen to stories/books during work now and have come to enjoy narrated literature. Well done!!

[@gskull4758]

This is the first time I'm listening/reading to any of lovecraft's stories of my God it's amazing

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

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[@cherryclarke4704]

I really appreciate H P Lovecraft stories your narration is Superb ty

[@thecassandraeffectvsperilo6754]

I just listened to "The Dunwich Horror" and now this..I lost a close family member this week and these stories have ironically, kept me sane..you've done well =) can't imagine how much time this one took, but kudos to your skill 💜 Prose are for the truly talented 💜

[@jackiemarini3203]

Im sorry for your loss 🙏💔🌹

[@cherryclarke4704]

I'm so sorry for your loss my prayers 🙏 for you and your family

[@napplays3205]

Bless the patience of those willing to narrate such a beast of a tale 🙏🏻❤️

[@jackiewhite4204]

😆😆😆 thanks!

[@GRasputin91]

Hell I would do it for free

[@johncohl5960]

Your crew is undefeated. That is all. 🙏

[@sdix3770]

Who would give this wonderful narration a thumbs down? Excellent narration and one of my favorite Lovecraft stories!! Thank you!!

[@pureautism2813]

My god! How did I miss this piece! This is my favorite Lovecraft story and I always wondered how you guys haven't narrated it yet... What a pleasant surprise.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

Glad you found it; it took quite a while to produce!

[@pureautism2813]

Oh, I can imagine... But that's what truly separates you from the myriad rest of youtube. The sheer quality of your productions and the talent engaged in them is amazing. On that note, Caden and Lovecraft's stories are a match made in heaven.

[@elishkabraun4606]

Caden, the best narrator that I've ever listened to!

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

He is pretty incredible. :)

[@robertwalker-smith2739]

This is an excellent example of how Lovecraft, at his best, organized his weird fiction. We start out with abundant detail, both quotidian and scientific, building up a realistic narrative. Then, when things get eldritch, squamous and/or rugose, they seem far more believable than if we had been smacked in the face by a tentacle right away.

[@luthermcgee432]

The voice makes the narrative.

[@hcanderson3787]

Incredible. Really gets under your skin. Politics aside, Lovecraft could write like no other. Thanks so much for posting.

[@garrettdawe605]

what were lovecraft's politics?

[@hcanderson3787]

@@garrettdawe605 Racist, sexist, classist, the usual. He was an extreme example of a man of his era.

[@CirynthLighthammer]

@@hcanderson3787 Gotta remember though...how he acted was really how most New Englanders acted during that time. A decent amount of them still do over in the rural parts of New England.Writers from this time I always do my best to ignore those parts... mainly because it was common place back then. Sure it is some messed up views to be sure...but that was the atmosphere of that time where he came from.

[@nickhannah9543]

@@hcanderson3787 He was more xenophobic than racist, but that's not any better

[@Nat.Dialogue]

@@nickhannah9543 it's not fair.. travelling all the way from the planet Xeno and getting nothing but negative vibes from a load of totally phobic Earthlings.

[@Turin_Inquisitor]

one of the best Lovecraft stories. thanks :3

[@noobycreeperbruh4940]

I'll be honest... It has been so long since I've last experienced this kind of terror, last time being when I was a small child afraid of the dark, mirrors and tight corners, I find those fears coming back with high amounts of suspicion of my surroundings when I hear this story, that's when I know that HP Lovecraft? he was COOKIN with these stories! Amazing narration by the way, thanks for that!

[@gioo1805]

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Great narration and LOVE the background ambience. So glad to have found this!

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@thomaswatvedt5812]

this is my favourite narration of this book, thanks!

[@cheshire_skatkat9093]

CVC reads the best! I would love more h.p. lovecraft read by him!

[@matthewmoran5297]

It's amazing that in the end, the old ones who inhabited this great city in the Arctic, were as much human as we are. Truly a chilling, but also thought-provoking story.

[@beepboop9712]

Antarctic, not Arctic.

[@SerpentineSeiđr]

I feel so sorry for the old ones! I hope the four that are unaccounted for managed to escape the Shoggoths :(

[@minabagineta2128]

The time stamps are very helpful. And the narration is very calming.

[@the1jmacify]

This is a great version of my favorite story.

[@Fielmur]

Been trying to go through that thing a hundred times but mate, I fall asleep every time. IDK what it is, it just gets me there in minutes

[@GtheMVP]

Me too. I can only follow audiobooks on a road trip when I'm driving, otherwise, it's lights out lol

[@arnabnath6601]

But it's not that long it's like 80 pages long so why it's so hard to finish it?

[@jphilology7357]

Lovecraft is/was brilliant!

[@XAmericanRenegadeX]

The Dunwich Horror, the Lurking Fear and Witch's Hollow are my three favorite Lovecraft tales. At the Mountains of Madness and Herbert West: Reanimator come in hot on their heels. I love the CTFDN presentations they are the best! Thanks for posting.

[@JustAnArrogantAlien]

As misanthropic as Lovecraft’s fiction is, I find it interesting that he gave the Old Ones a set of recognizably human characteristics: scientific curiosity, urban culture and planning, their own sacred sites, currency, and perhaps most sympathetic of all, an attempt at burying their dead. Their cruel experiments and alien appearances aside, the Old Ones aren’t too different from us in their social organization or intellectual pursuits. This seems to give humanity a little odd, and probably unintended, credit.

[@PixelSlayer247]

I have a feeling it's more like we aren't too different from them, in the Lovecraftian universe

[@bigronnie9629]

The nihilism Lovecraft wraps itself around me like a warm blanket.

[@Edubbplate]

If you go to Big Bend National Park in Texas, you'll find a place, a place of madness. A place where the river flows uphill through the stone mountain pass into Mexico. The place is maddening.

[@1Rekuiem]

my friend told me about your channel recently, just showing my love hoping more people hear your magnificent team of narrators, and audio engineers.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

Please thank your friend for us! Always nice to reach someone new! Glad you could join us!

[@HotaruZoku]

Holy crap! The audio book that got me into Lovecraft, finally read the channel and voice that got me the rest. I'd love to do something like this. Talk about mixing your loves.

[@Midnight1138]

ïa ïa ïa, SHUB-NIGGURATH!! Great narration of one of Howard's chilling (no pun intended) and haunting stories!👍👍

[@7777igloo]

Mount Erebus and Mount Terror?? So Lovecraft took inspiration from the lost expedition of Sir. Franklin in the Arctic?? Amazing !!

[@otlayr3030]

Mount Erebus and Mount Terror are actual mountains that are indeed named after Franklin's ships, but at the time they were under the command of James Ross while exploring the southern pole.

[@dickflinghammer58]

Based on years of studying anything I could find on the subject I would submit that this is hardly a work of fiction rather a dramatization of reports and discoveries from expeditions, remote viewers, and arcane occulted history.

[@angelachikaebirim8894]

Loving this channel and the podcasts!

[@8imouse]

Thank you very much for narrating this story!

[@dancingnight6856]

they should do an audiobook of "The White Ship" by HP Lovecraft. it's one of his best.

[@cherryclarke4704]

Oh!! I haven't heard of that story

[@RustyDockLight]

Excellent reading! I was really creeped out at the end and I had even read it before

[@zunipus]

This is the best reading of "At the Mountains of Madness". I've gone through all of them. I've subscribed and 'rung' them. Thank you! Very good job.

[@readdescriptionforanaughty3344]

Wonderful story

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

Thank you! 🙂

[@stormaggeden]

This was pretty good. Loved the readers voice, fit the book really well.

[@davethescrub858]

It really does. I haven't read any of Lovecraft's books but the narrator does a fantastic job, and has sold me on going out of my way to buy some! :)

[@NotLazySelectivelyMotivated]

Caden is the best at Lovecraft.

[@jw6588]

Fantastic reading of the story that got me into Lovecraft! Thanks, folks~ BTW, "non-Euclidean geometry" is hardly arcane or mysterious. It just means that the lines aren't parallel, a la hyperbolic or elliptic figures like cones or cylinders. And "Cyclopean" walls were common in Mycenaean architecture; also not that mysterious or weird. Lovecraft's phrasing sounds smarter than it is, on occasion.

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

Unlike YOUR phrasing...

[@pbr-streetgang]

Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼

[@hippiedave1362]

Great rendition

[@Digitalhunny]

Favorite Narrator! *Thank You.*

[@macgregory2854]

Ingenious rendition - God bless and reward you Bro

[@DYLEMAHD]

so good!!

[@schmeegil2240]

I forget the name of the mountains in Antarctica but if you've seen the footage of when they fly over them and the symmetric nature is far from natural, you can believe that there is truth in this stuff.

[@Aizenlucilfer2101]

I wish this is on spotify 😭

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

We'll see what we can do, Fitri!

[@Aizenlucilfer2101]

@@chillingtalesfordarknights thank you!! And the call of cthulhu too if possible. You're awesome by the way!!

[@snippycutwell9878]

Very nice.

[@d.p.s3068]

Seriously I had to restart this cause of weed and lack of focus but it's my favorite one right now.

[@jademoon5103]

This got me through a trip from macon to Savannah

[@andrewbresnan1449]

Lovecraft certainly loves the words "cyclopian" and "queer"

[@rick71999]

and hideous

[@MrJeggermanjenson]

Ever seen what he named his cat?? Probably another favorable word of his

[@HotaruZoku]

@@MrJeggermanjenson Let me guess. "DEMONIAC".

[@MrJeggermanjenson]

Oh buddy... You wish

[@Kurusan]

@@HotaruZoku let's just say in the updated, politically correct version, the cat's name is "Black Tom"

[@SupraNaturalTT]

Man your voice and that erie sound just absolutely make it.🤗🙏

[@tam.s..9131]

Enjoyable fiction..

[@andreas.9175]

Cool story bro

[@schmeegil2240]

Excellent,narrator, slightly faster than I read , in places.

[@trapbabyjoel]

bo0kmark: 2:08:00

[@colewarnerreviews5834]

Books That Need A Movie Adaptation 1. At The Mountains Of Madness (David Slade) 2. The Loch (Frank Dera Bont) 3. Parasite (Alexandre Aja) 4. Fear Street The Fire Game (Mike Flanagan) 5. The Magic Tree House (Don Bluth)

[@darkkrafter]

How in the name of yog sothoth did i miss this one

[@TheMacabrePrince]

God I need to animate this! Well done!

[@DYLEMAHD]

I can't help but imagine 'The Thing'

[@RindztheBandit]

Bookmark 2:24:32

[@cheshire_skatkat9093]

I would love for CVC to read the short story I have no mouth,and I must scream.

[@johnnywoods5549]

Is that story any good? I've only played the game, and later found out it was based on a short story.

[@cheshire_skatkat9093]

@@johnnywoods5549 I haven't played the game but watched a walk through. Not too different. There is an audio of the short story on KZbin. I liked it well enough. Interesting fact the voice of AM in the game is the author of the book.

[@MrCarlBackhausen]

Yes!

[@jayrogers3549]

Sounds like billy Zane lol I like it

[@jessicajayes8326]

I want to animate this!

[@Nat.Dialogue]

3 years work at least

[@npc-tq6yi]

You can do it mate!

[@LonnieBrewster]

Comment for the machine.

[@Civilian-st4vz]

1:05:00 placemark

[@AeternusNox.]

44:00 Okay I'm officially terrified.

[@Mishra1984]

I've listened to this audiobook now a couple of dozen times (I have severe sleeping issues, so I need something to keep my brain busy while I'm dozing off) - and I have to say, after the second time I switched the replay speed to 85%, after finding that other available versions of this story's reading are not to my liking in regard to the narrator's voice. My primary language is German, and there actually is a quite great German version of that, narrated by a popular voice actor - that might set the bar a little high, but I kinda find a reading like this here more appealing on a certain level. Whatever - what I want to say, this one would have been near perfect, if the narrator would have slowed down just a little. His reading speed is not that of a narration, but more as if he would just read it aloud to himself. I hope this is a somewhat understandable feedback in this form. :)

[@joshuacarpenter7447]

Seemed fine to me

[@Mishra1984]

@@joshuacarpenter7447 Might be just me then - or perhaps it's a general difference in the style of narration?

[@AlexandruPaloseanu]

It does feel just slightly too fast, like 10-20% too fast. Some pauses might also be useful here and there.

[@schmeegil2240]

Slightly too fast , lovecraft deserves more of a chance to taste the flavour of his words , imo.

[@jomorkenstrseth3526]

I am trying to draw sketches from the descriptions of the city, it is truly maddening, the style becomes a sort of dark Art Nouveau mixed with gothic building elements

[@Nat.Dialogue]

Now that I would love to see .. is there anywhere you can display any of your artist impressions PLEASE

[@Nat.Dialogue]

It's all I've thought about.. how it would look

[@jomorkenstrseth3526]

@@Nat.Dialogue I haven't been able to connect all the small sketches and details yet, it is really hard, so it just looks messy and experimental still. I will remeber to post if I make a picture of the sketches, for now it is more mapping out stuff and deciding on veiwpoint. I was thinking to have the viewpoint from one of the balconys, so I can put detailwork infront sort of framing it instead of trying for full overview. This way I can obscure parts of it, leaving some for imagination, as Lovecraft did

[@jomorkenstrseth3526]

@@Nat.Dialogue I will get to working it out again.

[@freddymittler8349]

4:08:18

[@darkkrafter]

TEKELI-lI TEKELI-LI

[@NNK001]

I enjoyed the story until the very end that felt so dragged out then again I just finished work

[@natemarvel2471]

Lovecraft had nothing charitable to say about penguins.

[@OuroborosChoked]

"then, quite unexpectedly, we saw certain obstructions on the polished floor ahead. Obstructions which were quite definitely... not penguins." I know that's supposed to be chilling, but you can't say something is quite definitely not a penguin in a frightening way.

[@stevepalpatine2828]

Penguins are horrifying creatures.

[@mikehughes9929]

Lovecraft had a measure of astral clairvoyance , and therefore could pick up info as to very ancient anomalies .

[@dickflinghammer58]

He had access to arcane and occulted history we proles will never see. Remote viewing is our best way.

[@notoriousjm95]

2:44:42

[@darrenanthonyshortt9157]

Long story hat must go of to the reader ,class story,,

[@dougfry7382]

God

[@sundotjolangot9937]

bm 29:15

[@jamescampbell39]

I after reading a certainI book think that Dyer was actually W H Littlejohn

[@alexciocca4451]

Flex card sounds like a con the fact is there is no money let alone have a give away someone has to pay there is no free lunch yet

[@brianjensen5661]

Dafuq are you on about?

[@HotaruZoku]

So. More and more imitative. More and more amphebius.... Humanity are Shoggoths that have forgotten what we are?

[@GarryDKing]

listening to this reminds me that Lovecraft was not a real scientist and his writing did have problems due to his extreme anti-social mannerisms that kept him inside a lot.... aka he hated anyone who wasn't him... this is especially evident in this story with how little Lovecraft understands geological time, remember folks: the Flintstones is not an accurate whatsoever, dinosaurs trilobites and mammoths did not exist at the same time....

[@NotLazySelectivelyMotivated]

Caden

[@gusgone4527]

Probably considered heresy here but I'm not a fan of the Lovecraft pros style. It's outdated and difficult to become engrossed.

[@dionmcgee5610]

There's no such thing as heresy, only opinion. Your view is the most common. Whether that is good or bad is subject to one's own preferences. Why you feel the need to point that out only you may or may not understand. On the opposite side of that. The flat, one dimensional writing that I most often come across lacks any texture or depth to keep me interested. So whenever someone thinks it's important to point out the shallowness they enjoy- I can only be thankful and think - To Each Their Own.

[@BryinWillis-e8g]

Tuesday

[@MDSBock]

HP Lovecraft definitely gets paid by adverbs and adjectives...

[@_Ooga_Booga_]

This one took me the longest to get through. So much description (X meters this, Y feet that, Z inches there). Keep getting lost. But great work nonetheless.

[@KyeEnzoden]

Stephen King is worse. I couldn't get past the first few chapters of IT because one of those chapters was just him describing a room.

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

*Grotesque Penguins...!?!?*

[@Eric-ot7en]

I get the feeling that penguins were the real horror to H.P. DAMNABLE PENQUINS! !!!!!

[@Kronical69420]

He was a weird one.

[@elviscow7287]

How old is this? Sounds like some old writing 😂

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

From Wikipedia (bit.ly/2IdTFh7): "At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories."

[@BryinWillis-e8g]

31min…

[@teejaynumber13]

I love the story, but the writing itself is unbelievably boring. Which I think is why Lovecraft is more famous for his concepts. I would have loved to see this one in movie or video game format though.

[@jaredfrahm7679]

How is the writing unbelievably boring?

[@teejaynumber13]

@@jaredfrahm7679 Well for example, he spends too much time listing things that are irrelevant to the plot (like telling every single piece of equipment they carried). He goes off topic too much (like talking about geology that has no relevance on the plot just to show us that the main character is a geologists). He says things like "as described in the Necrinomicon" without actually describing them himself. Like I said, good concept, boring writing. I seen condensed versions of the story that were great.

[@jaredfrahm7679]

@@teejaynumber13 granted he does state a lot of equipment and could cut that down but its not like he spends pages on them. Feels like you are way too invested in that little extra time for that little bit. The rest of the writing seems good but Im no expert so I could be wrong.

[@SerpentineSeiđr]

teejaynumber13 I have to agree, the descriptions of architectural and geographic minutiae detract somewhat from the tension of the narrative. I feel like a good quarter of the story is unnecessary rambling. Fabulous story though, if you have the patience to endure the rambling parts.

[@freedomslave6124]

That is because Lovecraft comes from a time where people had much longer attention spans and stronger minds able to focus on their thoughts. They did not live in a society made lazier, and lazier by telivision, video games, and the like. Work on strengthening your mind, and mental focus would be my suggestion.

[@josiewoods8986]

Bro I dare you to search up HP love crafts cats name

[@malicious81]

Haha what the hell, didn't expect that

[@joshuaizzo8893]

Decadent statues

[@johnwright7895]

Thar is worst I have heard.

[@jasemalvis2140]

"We'll mean to biology what Einstein has meant to Math and Physics!" -Dude come on.

[@sunray4389]

I am not watching any videos that force me to watch fox news propaganda before the video; or audiobook.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

We don't control which ads run on our videos, Sun.

[@joehendrix8442]

Very boring drawn out and not much action. Unless your easily amused.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

Lovecraft certainly isn't for everyone, and his tales were written at a time when entertainment was far more difficult to come by, and writers often took their time to tell their tales.

[@AeternusNox.]

Much of today’s horror, and some heavy metal tunes were inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. He brought us Cthulhu, and for that I’m forever grateful. ♾

[@dionmcgee5610]

Easily amused? Only to the unimaginative and lazy reader. Boredom resides inside, not out.

[@gioo1805]

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