H P Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls, Audiobook

[@bazzjedimaster]

I just realize Darkest Dungeon is basically an expanded adaptation of this short story.

[@Alan_The_Jaguar]

They have a Cat named Nword man on darkest Dungeon?

[@jeremyreagan9085]

I love Lovecraft's use of language it is so musical in its sense impacts like a piece of music so good that you can hear it millions of times and it never ceases to thrill you with terror. He was a true genius in my humble view.

[@KingLightDividing]

14:10 best superhero name ever

[@maunderjape8365]

His cat knew him as Crackers, but none ever asks.

[@GentlemanLife-Beyotch]

Ask

[@renwulf1695]

😂

[@nowhereman6019]

Lmao, nice.

[@better_dead_than_red]

Pathetic of you

[@nowhereman6019]

God, that ending. The way his madness slowly takes over. The way his speech gradually devolves into older accents, older dialects, older languages, inhuman sounds, all paralleling Exham Priory's deep, ancient history built on older and older generations and civilizations, all drawn into this madness, into this cannibalism. Probably the scariest moment in all of Lovecraft's stories.

[@DrBrothBaist]

It's my favorite lovecraft story foe just that reason.

[@pip_brogan2733]

All jokes aside, it’s a very nice book : )

[@randomdudebro8892]

yup.

[@newt4050]

Yeah I read it last month, it was a good read. Highly recommended.

[@TudorNecula]

in the walls...in the NY tunnels.

[@Nick-qf7vt]

14:10 is what you want

[@fisher3317]

Yes, yes it is...

[@RockySmithsen]

Thank you

[@burgerkang4518]

I didn't quite hear it - what was the cat's name again?

[@Nick-qf7vt]

@@burgerkang4518 It's name was *[REDACTED]*

[@kejiri3593]

@@Nick-qf7vt Think they should have called him " Lucius" or something more sinister. Black Tom just doesnt sound like a normal name.

[@Amoebaaaaaa]

Currently trying to go sleep in a room that really has mice in the walls. Figured I'd roll with the ambiance.

[@DoggyBingBong]

30:23 🤫🧏‍♂️

[@thedesertofthereel.1321]

Lovecraft is the best. Simple as that.

[@RailwayRunaway]

Aside from being utterly mad and having baffling notions of what constitutes a decent name for a cat, you mean?

[@GentlemanLife-Beyotch]

@@RailwayRunaway No, he was simply the best.

[@masonsteven77]

Thank you! Great narration.

[@austinflynn5374]

First time I hear the cat’s name: Yikes. Well, things were different back then. Fifth time hearing the cat’s name: Okay, he was a little TOO proud of that name.

[@Bizarro69]

LMFAO

[@GentlemanLife-Beyotch]

Truly unique!

[@ivanasukjadic1423]

That was normal for his time. Lots of white people named their pets the N-word. Besides, why make a big deal out of it? Stop being a SJW snowflake.

[@LawandOrderCyraxxVictimsUnit]

The way I understand is that was a very common name for a black animal for quite a while

[@APSAfortheUSA]

The only people who get mad about words are, well, frankly they're....

[@sofaking1611]

Is this Dagoth Ur?

[@thomashorinek5430]

Oh thats where they startet to call em desolates

[@daniellewis2133]

43:00

[@MsMtheory]

How long after drinking can i safely take diazepam?? Last drink was 10am, its 6 pm now..i already took 5mg.. im shaking anxious af and dont wanna die! I am absolutely quitting! Been binge drinking for 15 years.. im so scared and want this to stop! I don't wanna dt/seizure... haven't yet, but stage just below that 😢

[@Liboo52]

I hope things went okay with the diazepam. How are you doing now?

[@RailwayRunaway]

When was this recorded?

[@Bizarro69]

Eons ago.

[@szeltovivarsydroxan9944]

1921

[@gabrielblanchard3921]

Apart from the cat's name (siiighh), this might be the single best Lovecraft short story there is.

[@barrybusch]

Can't decide between this and shadow over innsmouth. Both are sooooo Good

[@LivebythecodeVJLEE]

Why do you have to complain about such an insignificant thing?

[@jabootiimcfrootii1636]

@@LivebythecodeVJLEE people will always fixate on hot-button issues of the day, it takes maturity get over those things and understand the character the writer portrays

[@ivanasukjadic1423]

What's wrong with the cat's name? The cat is dark in colour, so the name fits.

[@gabrielblanchard3921]

@@ivanasukjadic1423 Unfortunately, despite the neutral origin of the word in Latin, the *English* word is a highly insulting and inflammatory racial slur. It would be nice to hope that Lovecraft didn't know this, or that it was considered normal in his day; but, well, all writers have flaws, and one of his was being *very* racist even by the standards of the 1920s and '30s, which were a lot more permissive. It doesn't ruin his stories for me or anything -- hell, that's why I tune on videos like this one in the first place; like I said, this one is a particular favorite of mine -- but it's frustrating to be insistently reminded of a petty nastiness an author you like freely indulged. (Things might be different if the cat having that specific name contributed to the story in some way. But obviously in this case you could change the cat's name to, well, anything *not* a racial slur, and the story would stay intact.)

[@hectorlamar806]

LOL cats name

[@jeremyreagan9085]

As a born blind listener, I find it difficult to comprehend some authors like Lovecraft and their obsession with the supposed racial origins of various peoples as either low or high born for in my life rich or poor I have a low opinion of humans as a whole. Perhaps, it is due to my visional impairment that I was not socialized as my sighted counterparts. All I know for certain is that everybody lies so to me we are inside the same a mixture of good and evil and it is only which part we cultivate the good or the evil within us all already. I vainly hope that in the future if humans make it through the 21st century that these negative aspects will lessen however, history makes plain we are still enthrall with the worst elements of our nature and do not as we should cultivate a more positive society.

[@NateB]

You have lead a sheltered life if you have not experienced the behavioral differences of different “demographics”.

[@jeremyreagan9085]

@@NateB Blind people do life isolated lives not sheltered as you so glibbly put it.

[@MineCraftGuy11]

HIS ELDEST CAT WHATNOW ??? HELLLLLL NAWWWW

[@better_dead_than_red]

I'm a racist.

[@jimc.goodfellas]

Congratulations

[@better_dead_than_red]

@@jimc.goodfellas thanks

[@kingderelict1758]

Lovecraft's racism was moderate compared to most people at that time in history. His wife was Jewish.

[@bunniboiler1458]

so his anti-semetism was moderate. he was extremely racist

[@kingderelict1758]

@@bunniboiler1458 by today's standards, yes.

[@HonkyTonkFishTank]

@@kingderelict1758 would highly recommend checking out the video “in the praise of shadows” recently did on HP. One of the most honest and vulnerable takes I’ve seen.

[@RailwayRunaway]

Still wouldn't take his advice on cat naming.

[@SatyreIkon]

Sonia Greene was Jewish, but Lovecraft apparently told her regularly how she had somehow managed to "graduate" from her otherwise lowly and loathsome race. I only just read Leslie Klinger's annotated collection of Lovecraft's stories and it contains some info on that, and more concerning the forms his racism took. It was a long way from "moderate".

[@tomg4324]

Strike down the prodigious bullocks that so encumbered my lower regions since the early years of my life and forced innumerable trysts with all feminine connections that crossed my path. Such a hindrance the long physically exhausting sessions of love making that it would be better to smooth the area in its whole no matter any certain consequence.