CTHULHU LIVES: New Tales of the Mythos

[@pb6703]

What a marvelous collection. Thank you for everything you do.

[@stardiganagain]

I have to say, the Happy Chambers story totally freaked me out. It's super rare that I get creeped out by horror anymore, but that was a terrifying trip.

[@EricDaMAJ]

Warren is - alas! - no longer with us. A chance encounter with a feral hound on the moors during a moonlit hike put him to an untimely end. A consulting London detective and his physician associate are looking into the tragedy.

[@JamesDavis-zr8ro]

DVD Ff0

[@Esme-gf4jd]

That's not the way I heard it. Warren was reciting a spell from an ancient tome found in a crypt and WHAM- A rantegoth appeared and done ate him up, shoes belt buckle and all. That's what I heard.

[@rodrigosilvero5749]

L

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

I'm almost certain there were Eldritch powers involved

[@CruzDX]

​@@Esme-gf4jd😂

[@ddkus8082]

The first story might be one of my favorite horror stories I ever heard.

[@paulsmart4672]

Your voice and narration style is so well suited to old-timey horror stories that it's like it completes the bridge from the old Mythos stories to these newer ones.

[@sub-jec-tiv]

This is now the 3rd time i’ve put on Tomb of the White Baron. It’s holds up to repeat listens like the older classics.

[@tamlandipper29]

Glad you have enjoyed it a few times, and grateful for you taking time to let me know.

[@robertb1792]

I love that stories like this are still being written and later told on great channels such as this.

[@Samuel91beyond]

Your voice and the way in which you read! the pauses, the voice changes, the accent everything is perfection! Never thought I could listen to a story reading for hours on end! thank you from all your fans!

[@HorrorBabble]

Thank you once again! I really appreciate that.

[@skohtihamilton9443]

Happy Chaimbers is almost in Burroughs territory. Loved it ❤

[@CygusBlackwood]

Oh Hell yes! Gonna be a GREAT night. Thanks a bunch Ian! ❤❤❤

[@micahsmith7286]

YOU FOOL IAN IS DEAD!

[@samann518]

“In the Tomb of the White Baron” is my new favorite! The accent is perfect and makes you embody the story completely. It puts me right in the middle of the action and I can’t get enough - I listen every single night at bedtime. Also I love the whole story but I especially LOVE that “no base” tape recording in the Black Stone story - again in takes me right there, right thru the earth itself! Thank you all for giving me so much each and every night (for six years now, I started with your “The Signalman”) it has meant more than I can say ❤

[@BlackGateMedia55]

I agree Samantha, "In the Tomb of the White Baron" is an amazing story, my favourite too. I'm really pleased you liked Black Stone.

[@tamlandipper29]

Very kind of you to say so. I hope you now also enjoyed Porcelain Blood here on the channel? The Whispering Deep out later this year.

[@ChrissyOverkiller]

I gorge my ears continuously during the long nights with your readings and I thank you for getting this insomniac through the lasting dark. I’m not sure how many times I’ve listened to Long Weekend, leave it at many. It’s one of the most brill stories I’ve heard in awhile and your voice brings it right home. Thank you

[@johngleeman8347]

The elder gods never work together, with the sole exception of sharing intelligence on the most effective ways of hunting down and killing Warren in every reality. XD

[@fredg.sanford634]

I thought the Elder Gods were the "good guys," with the Great Old Ones and the Elder Things being the creeps?

[@michaelkottler]

A welcome collection of engaging contemporary takes on familiar CH narratives all of which successfully maintain the vital essence of the genre while adding enough new/variant material to make it well worthwhile. An apex-mode production & very much-appreciated. Excellent again, HB.

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

The chill of the autumnal cold seeping through my gaping window, the crisp death-rattle of flittering leaves in October winds, the bittersweet aroma of slow, foliaceous decay, and now? I've nigh five hours worth of Ian's soothing Britannic voice in the pattern of ghoulish tales inspired by The Mythos of my favorite, BASED melancholiac...ah yes, I shall sleep cozy 'neath my comforters and dream deep tonight. Take me, Nodens! Carry me, Night Gaunts! The Dreamlands await!!! Thank you, Mr. Gordon. More refined than CreepyPasta and far less unsettling than Thomas Ligotti, not too juvenile, not too jaded, your narrations are just right.

[@tamlandipper29]

Sir, this is a superficially unremarkable second-hand bookshop in Nuneaton.

[@donaldmccleary9015]

These are all great stories. I listened to them all as you released them. Thanks!

[@kristinacable]

Perfection! I have my night sorted!❤❤😊

[@Wombats555]

I can't pick a favourite these are all so good. Thankyou!

[@AcornElectron]

*“I’m sorry to have to ask you to stay on the surface,” he said, “but it would be a crime to let anyone with your frail nerves go down there. You can’t imagine, even from what you have read and from what I’ve told you, the things I shall have to see and do…”.* Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!

[@merlapittman5034]

A wonderful collection of new tales, marvelously narrated. Thank you!

[@HobbesFTW]

Nice, going to enjoy this tonight. Thanks for uploading!

[@AliceBowie]

Baron Roman von Ungern Sternberg is my favorite historical personage.

[@robbabcock_]

Wonderful and eerie work! 🐙🔥👻

[@Denuhm]

that last story had some banger words that really needed someone to have an IPA guide handy...

[@guilledcf1547]

"...and with strange aeons, even Warren may die".

[@PHDWhom]

This is exciting! I would encourage you to do a search for the works of Willum Hopfrog Pugmire, a writer with a Pacific Northwest bent to the mythos. Sadly, he passed a while ago, but he was a sweet human being and a great author.

[@tamlandipper29]

I hope you see this response. I idly checked him out, and wow. How did I not know the name. Seems like a really sweet guy, and reviews of his work seem glowing. Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire... I'll mention it to HB, see if we can get him into rotation. Although I don't see him in print. Weird.

[@PHDWhom]

@@tamlandipper29 good morning! He was a charming and brilliantly loving human being, and very complicated. Keep in touch and I will see what I can do about finding sources.

[@adamwoodhouse7865]

as always a great listen , thank you

[@LoneKharnivore]

That first one's a banger.

[@duckwifboots]

Oh wow I’m early! Thanks as always for top tier horror narration!

[@soulreaver1983]

Awesome keep em coming thanks Ian!😎👊

[@michellecook-hill]

Thank you ❤

[@Kenton_Stills]

Just in time to listen to while I play World of Horror. Hope everyone gives it a look.

[@jonbauml225]

Don't take the brown acid. Especially when it comes from thorny flowers that grab you

[@brograb898]

Just after I “sleep listened” to all of “Skull-face” over four nights!

[@kgreen242424]

This is a bit of a random tangent but it's about the cassette tape in the bottom left corner. Great graphic design choice. The left roller is empty while the right appears full. What if over the duration of the video, the tape actually wound spool to spool. You could achieve the effect pretty easily by having a reducing large circle on the left and a small enlarging circle on the right. We can only see the bottom of the tape so it would be subtle but i think it would be cool. Seeing the tape creates the idea that what we are hearing some old recordings to me. Obviously the audio is whats important but after looking at it wind for 48 minutes, i began to wonder if they were offset in their spin like a real tape. That gave me the idea that it would be cool if it behaved like a real tape would visually. Just a thought

[@idjtoal]

Having the speed of the reels change correctly would be the real trick. The right one stays constant while the left one increases, I think ? Small wheel pulling against large one, then both the same, then large wheel pulling small. The animation would run for the whole video, so it'd change quicker for the short ones. And you'd have to know the length of the video to set that up beforehand. Winding down and then resetting wouldn't be as polished. Lots of work, for a subtle effect, ?

[@kgreen242424]

@@idjtoal The tape must be set to a duration already in order for the wheels to spin the whole time. If I was creating the animated graphic, I would use something like Adobe After Effects. I would create a mask for the label so I could put 2 circles under it as to only show the bottom of the reel. Frame one on the time line, i set the circle to be x size. Then halfway through the project I would set a finished size for the circle. The in-between frames of the size transformation are done for me. Add 2 circles. Circle A starts at a size of 100 reducing to 50 before it is no longer visible beneath the label. Circle B starts at a size of 50 growing to 100. You wouldn't need to animate the tape spooling up, just an opaque fraction of total circle growing from below the label. Lots of work? Upfront, sure. But once it is made, changing a value of something like the transform time is a couple keystrokes. The text and spool duration are different on every vid so it would follow that a template has been made that just requires a couple edits

[@HorrorBabble]

If only those old tapes could handle 5 hours of material! Thanks for the suggestion -- we'll probably look at reworking some of our visuals next year.

[@kgreen242424]

Lol. Suspension of disbelief is vital to enjoying the material. I should just disbelieve that the tape isn't preforming these actions. Hahahahaha. Problem solved. I got mesmerized by the spinning and began to consider you having incorporated an "easter egg" so to speak, into the visuals. Something to reward the astute listener. Alas, i fear this too to have been a flight of fancy. Good day, gentlemen. Lol@@HorrorBabble

[@tamlandipper29]

Are you aware the HB is running a raffle to get some actual HB tapes? Check channel announcements. Not sure when contest closes.

[@steveervin3354]

Wonderful!!! Thanks for a great Halloween treat!

[@Nerodrgn]

Ah a nice collection of the new tales

[@Sigma10-c1k]

I have actually been to this Butlins

[@juliusvaidila2058]

Great stuff!

[@mendmywings7238]

Omg yes new cthulhu mythos. Thank you!

[@tamlandipper29]

If you see this, HB has even more out now.

[@ronald5439]

Wow just wow I feel like I heard some lost Lovecraft stories 😎

[@BlackGateMedia55]

🙂 Great to hear!

[@IndustrialBonecraft]

I knew I'd heard that voice before - I have The King in Yellow on Audible!

[@HorrorBabble]

Awesome!

[@tamlandipper29]

The Repairer of Reputations is top in that collection. Note that HB also do collected Cthulhu on audible. It's gargantuan for only one credit.

[@Jason-ng2vf]

Hallelujah!

[@Whalewraith]

Just been to the bar & saw a guy with a Cthulhu T shirt, got talking I've sent him your way. 😆

[@HorrorBabble]

Thank you!

[@paulsmart4672]

The shadow over Innsmouth, except its Karen vs a Sarkic SCP. All sorts of influences colliding there. Innsmouth the most, I think, but the monsters get an upgrade into something scarier than fish-frogs. That playground sounds rad, though.

[@problynah]

Thankyou

[@williestreiff9314]

Yeah Man, seriously what happened to Warren

[@DancinDane]

2:11:48 - just a (s)bookmark, don't mind me 👻

[@NookoftheNorth]

C'thulu never died. Unlike my poor friend Warren. 😉

[@michaelhoffmann2891]

Flower Dancer and Beyond the Black Stone and found the most horrifying for some reason. Maybe because they were set so close to "modernity": the characters were much more relatable, than some musty early-20th century-and-before scholar, artist or other protagonist. BtBS could have been the setting for a video game a la System Shock. FD was just tragic, with 2 gay lovers pre-Stonewall, and then ominous (it would explain a lot about modern US politics: I guess They have finally taken over :P )

[@maxe1969]

Candleman was good

[@grannybird7365]

And this is exactly why I’m a cat person.

[@prophetic0311]

I hope Warren is ok.

[@mschokesondik103]

😱❤️

[@bigsarge2085]

❤‍🔥

[@elvynjones2489]

Warren Warren, are you here? Come toward the light and pierce thru the veil of darknesd. You are safe among us, Warren. Speak to us Warren. I feel your presence Warren, speak to us. What have you to say to us? I --urg --the pain. WARREN IS DEAD. WE FEASTED ON HIS MEAGER SOUL AS WELL HIS PORTLY FLESH. OUR UNSATED HUNGER HAS ANSWERED YOUR CALL.

[@Lucern2112]

😈 what evil fun indeed.

[@warlich666]

The likes were at 666 and I didn't wanna ruin that but the like is too deserved so I'm sorry... sorta... I guess

[@HorrorBabble]

Ha!

[@AcornElectron]

20:52 absolutely not. 😂

[@HorrorBabble]

Ha!

[@anthonybarnwell767]

Awwww yeah bro

[@starmezzo]

Well, I can’t say I really liked this one, alas. It was way too long, ponderous, and definitely stream of consciousness.

[@tamlandipper29]

Which one in the collection?

[@dennisthornton4434]

Yeah i'm first.🎉

[@infowars.com.fakenews8663]

Hahaha

[@HorrorBabble]

Almost, Dennis!

[@dennisthornton4434]

I was in there 53 seconds after it came on.

[@dawwe8869]

Eyy

[@soulreaver1983]

😎👍

[@HorrorBabble]

Man, you're quick!

[@crispknob]

Ew story 2 is so wack I'm out

[@brianagray6940]

You're missing out - stories 3 to 5 are amazing.

[@Sigma10-c1k]

Yeah it was crap on every level.