"Hell on Earth" / The Weird Tales of Robert Bloch: Episode 6

[@nitayrafowicz5934]

This is. Without a doubt. THE best Robert Bloch story. It has everything I love about him Romantic interest that actually speak and do stuff, check. An interesting plot that involve temptations and earthly desires helped by supernatural forces that never "Force" their will. Only offer you the possibility to use it, ✔. Hubris. ✔ Humor. ✔. Its just a great story. Highly recommended.

[@Deathjams4trashcans]

Death is anneleph is great too

[@lisawhite-pagano3455]

I could listen to Bloch every day!

[@Memnoch67]

it's nice to have a different narrator every now and then I found devoting one's self to any single entity makes the mind become complacent. your avatar for example is breathtaking.

[@TheWhimsicalMimzy]

I'd love to hear you read the ghostly and hilarious Skeleton in the Closet. Bloch had a marvelous sense of humor.

[@TheodoreDorado]

Howard Phillips and Co., HorrorBabble, and Rue Morgue magazine are likely top three favorite things ever >:). The pic for this video is a close fourth. Thanks again Ian; your work is so very appreciated.

[@silent_boi7787]

More robert bloch finally, thank you.

[@HorrorBabble]

Every Wednesday through to Dec 2nd! :)

[@silent_boi7787]

@@HorrorBabble I have been keeping up with it, bloch is definitely my favorite writer that was in lovecraft's inner circle.

[@Wombats555]

@@silent_boi7787 his best stuff isn't particularly Lovecraftian...it is great to see him going from mythos training wheels to his own shtick. Half a century?

[@fairclothretrievers2614]

@@HorrorBabble Nice!! Thanks

[@slackvariable7295]

The tape deck image is really bothering me. The left wheel seems stuck which means any moment it's going to start spewing tape.

[@Godzillaaaaa11]

fOuNd thE bOoMeR In all seriousness, with how careless I can be I'm so glad I was born RIGHT when cassettes were on their way out (97) otherwise I'd have wasted a ton of tapes.

[@blixten2928]

@@Godzillaaaaa11 Yeah, tape decks were not so much fun. Nor were LPs. On the other hand, one appreciated, VERY much, the music one heard - not so readily available, really got to know certain pieces and performances well. Now, when one can listen to anything anytime... just different.

[@bronx72a]

Half way through I keep thinking it should reverse direction and say "Side B."

[@madkow007]

just keep your pencil ready

[@Ettrick8]

@@bronx72a you are posh. I had to eject and turn the tape over. lol

[@Boogie_the_cat]

I just noticed that the reels of the casette move during playback. Nice touch!

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Interesting story and narration. Thanks!

[@philippel.9086]

I took me a month to finally listen to it, but I’m glad I did!!

[@jamesmccormick354]

What an incredible incredible story!!!

[@craigwarner6156]

A new sub right here. Nice narrating. Thank you.

[@HorrorBabble]

Welcome aboard!

[@jctrevi89]

Should title this “My Trip to CERN” Beautiful job as usual, Ian

[@chrisu7022]

Thank you for this extravagant masterfully told story. More like this please

[@czcrossman]

I always thought this would make THE BEST movie adaptation!

[@FIONA21ful]

Such a wonderful story, this was a gorgeous experience thankyou Ian.

[@Ettrick8]

Well done. This is your best reading yet. I was riveted to this wonderful story.

[@br41nc3ll]

Literally one of my favorite writers

[@gozinta82]

Such a great tale! Thank you for reinvigorating these stories!

[@fairclothretrievers2614]

Just found this channel by accident & I really enjoyed this video esp seeing Robert Bloch in the Title. I' subbed! Thanks for sharing 😌

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks for stopping by!

[@lacyhart2043]

Dude you will love it here good to see you.

[@daniellez.2462]

Fantastic story. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@czcrossman]

Thanks for this, amazing reading as usual Ian. This is actually the third time I’ve listened haha

[@scoutrifle6827]

Ian's reading + Robert Bloch's writing=tremendous!

[@steelemccrimmon5169]

Margarita-mancy sounds right up my alley 1:35:15

[@xabaya3294]

Fantastic reading of a great story, just what i needed to get through a tedious afternoon at work

[@monstersaint]

Very good.

[@timfreckman5227]

Another excellent story! Well done!

[@Mi-yc3oy]

I even look forward to Wednesdays now. Thank you! 👍🥃

[@TheBenjaman]

Damn what a story! Glad I decided to listen to it

[@ralf7568]

Great story and even greater narration. Thanks HorrorBabble

[@robbabcock_]

Perhaps Bloch's best story!👿🔥👏

[@lacyhart2043]

So very good thank you. Sitting in bed drinking Gin love stories like this I need more of the magic stories please.

[@Julieanne0917]

Thank you Horrorbabble

[@montgumryburns4868]

What a great channel

[@Echosinfireify]

I really enjoyed this, thanks for posting!

[@feralbluee]

this was really a good one! :) i have now listened to four stories in a row i haven’t heard before - so much fun! i don’t know how i missed this one. things are slowly improving here in the US and New York - beginning to feel a little more freedom. hope the same is going on over there :) 🌷🇬🇧

[@zobop]

DC Comics did a great adaptation of this - so I can now visualize its amazing Keith Giffen artwork with your excellent narration 😀😀😀

[@TdawnT]

Great story and Love the ending!

[@rumham2834]

Superb. Loved every moment. I do wish it ended @ 1:58:04 though.

[@neckcutter2592]

Amazing story and narration thank you.

[@adamfox1669]

Very nicely done ! I can't wait until my day is over so I can listen to full story! Have a great day. Thanks

[@nickread2833]

Thank you

[@juansantos-lq2kz]

Reminds me of “Black Easter” by James Blish. That would make a good Horrorbabble reading!

[@0therun1t21]

This is such an amazing story, I don't think I'll get back to sleep. Glad there's a rewind function! I've done magick the same way twice and got the same result twice, that's good enough proof for me.

[@GoatOfTheWoods]

What happened?

[@0therun1t21]

@@GoatOfTheWoods I've made people that were making my life extra stressful fight each othe instead of me, that one always works and it's always ok because I'm just redirecting their own bs to another person that wants to fight, so everyone wins. A long time ago I did some money ritual and it worked twice but it wasn't worth it. That's about all I can talk about without crossing a line, hope that's ok.

[@GoatOfTheWoods]

@@0therun1t21 Hey, thanks for actually answering, i'm not a believer but i respect your views. Good luck and stay safe!

[@0therun1t21]

@@GoatOfTheWoods Thanks, you too!

[@seanmurphy6480]

BRILLIANT IAN..AND IN THESE TIMES HIGHLY RELEVANT 🥸👍🎯

[@zaijal1572]

This was an awesome listen - I don't like all of Bloch's tales, but I think it's because I often hear him alongside authors like Lovecraft, CAS, or Howard who are perhaps a cut above in writing style. Still, you cannot discount this mans ability to weave a tale - wicked story!

[@Ravewolf24]

I initially assumed that Margaritomancy must be a joke, but evidently it's a thing.

[@frankmcgovern5445]

Oh it’s no joke. When exercised responsibly by a true adept in the field, a session of margaritamancy invokes ecstasy, bravery, and the realization that you are hilarious, confident, and attractive. In the wrong hands, or when practiced by the uninitiated, it can lead to the conjuration of maudlin, embarrassing messages sent through the very aether via the mighty Towers of Cell at 2 am to ex-girlfriends or attractive acquaintances. It can result in a possession in which your mind is displaced by that of an obnoxious loudmouth who says things to people that REALLY should not have been said. One who humiliatingly, inappropriately flirts with or declares love to people who should be told those things not. Many an untrained apprentice has overestimated their command of this powerful rite, lost control over the power of margaritamancy and woken up the next day, their mind and body wracked by the hellish aftereffects. Sometimes even having been somehow transported into the bedroom of an unsettling stranger. Its power must never be wielded lightly.

[@JamesMC04]

Divination by pearls seems no more unreasonable than divination by arrows, oil, animal livers, birds, or grains of millet. To name a few.

[@cherylwhite1163]

excellent!

[@martinjohnston6685]

This is excellent ,your voice reminds me at times of Clive barker.

[@franbenson5805]

Excellent 🐎🐎👍

[@justinjex1]

Need Bruce Campbell to do this as a movie. Would be awesome I think

[@sarge4455]

Bruce

[@rogaltriggs4704]

That'are you crazy'line had me in a fit of giggles but I know it'll get serious it has to if R.Bloch has anything to do with it but power of this magnitude has a body count-I never heard this Ian you and babble do a service,cheers

[@typhonviserys8288]

Anyone here know the name of a short story (I believe it was by Robert Bloch) were a knight comes upon a mission in the middle of nowhere and is taken in by the nuns who run the place. And middle middle middle... Towards the end, all of the crosses assume the St. Peter position and the knight discovers that the nuns are actually the baddies. I know this was a terrible description, but I haven't read it in over 20 years. Thanks in advance. :D EDIT: Holey Moley, I was way off. The Feast In the Abby, was the story I was looking for (and found, thanks to this channel). Lol

[@CountingHouse]

Sounds like a Monty Python retelling of the Feast in the Abbey

[@SedDelMar]

Quite good!

[@ragnarlothbrok8001]

This was an absolutely brilliant video beautifully written but the only issue that I have personally was when they named off all of those names and titles that are all different individuals they are not all the same individual.

[@c0461-e1s]

what's the name of the music from 0:08?

[@HorrorBabble]

It's just a piece of music I wrote for the series called, 'Bloch'. Ian

[@jehovasabettor9080]

That's one weird Doom fan fiction

[@spiderblackwidow8747]

Great 👍 story 🖤 🕷 🕷 Horrorbabbel is the best 🖤

[@askwhy2030]

Bloch one of the best.

[@1usdto1millionusd83]

I love to hear your voice😍

[@lachousalle31]

Doomguy: loads shotgun with malicious intent.

[@TheXodiacKiller]

11:44 “flying cacodemon”

[@doctorpretorious4196]

Nice. But very distracting whilst I’m trying to work on reanimating the dead ! 🧟‍♀️ Damn. Igor has dropped another brain 🧠 there goes another potential girl friend 😜

[@blowitoutyourcunt7675]

Lol, just watched Re-Animator and this comment is priceless! Cheers mate!

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

Why would you put a brain into a girlfriend?

[@pittypatterputzzler5311]

I would like to order a speciment of the female kind. The age should be 35 and a voluptuous bottom would be a ++++++. I would not mind a mute. Thank you for your hard work.

[@rttakezo2000]

I have one here from an Abby Normal you can use...

[@guilledcf1547]

it's Ygor

[@teddydog6229]

Just curious - did Robert Bloch and HP Lovecraft ever meet or correspond ? Lovecraft was about a generation older than Bloch I think but Bloch was famously accessible to his fellow horror authors. I haven't read his 'Paycho' novel but have been told that the literary and celluloid Norman Bates are very different.

[@teddydog6229]

Oh no. You don't want to greet Lucifer with a hail of gunfire. He'll lay your soul to waste, I guarantee it !

[@consimjim8271]

I Believe they corresponded because Lovecraft "killed" Robert Bloch in one of his stories the haunter in the dark. Which I believe was at Bloch's request.

[@teddydog6229]

@@consimjim8271 Some friends express it in the weirdest way but that said I'd have been thrilled to be killed off by Lovecraft myself.

[@dewayneweaver2744]

H.P. Lovecraft was a prolific letter ✉ writer. He corresponded with many pulp magazine authors. Many of his fans wish he had spent less ⌚ time on his letters and more time writing stories. Letter writing was much more common in his time. Indeed it was the Email of that time period. I think that there was a cross fertilization of creativity that benefited all involved. Ghost 👻 writing Co-authoring, and Editing was also a source of income for the often cash strapped Lovecraft. He also worked the night shift as a ticket seller at the local 🎥 movie theater 🎭.

[@teddydog6229]

@@dewayneweaver2744 Some publisher somewhere is asleep at the wheel. As far as I know there’s no ‘Letters of HP Lovecraft’ out there and the bits and pieces I’ve read in various bios get as intense and carried away as his fiction. To hazard a guess it was his raging racism which blurted out of him like a severe case of Tourette’s. Maybe they’re a bit gun-shy.

[@youtubecensors5419]

Okokokok! I'm watching it!

[@feralbluee]

great story - just the way i like them to turn out, too. btw, i listen a lot, just not commenting much any more. just so you know we're all still out here. big kiss mwah. Keep safe!!!!! :} 🌷🕊 (your Prime Minister is so thrilled with Biden - i just love it :}

[@GoatOfTheWoods]

When you reach 100k i'll have a glass near old Poe's resting place

[@jaymeVos]

How was that drink?!

[@GoatOfTheWoods]

@@jaymeVos As solemn as can be :)

[@jaymeVos]

@@GoatOfTheWoods I am only *slightly* jealous ;)

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Aphex Twin rules!

[@czcrossman]

And Simon Pegg as the narrator!

[@kaministquiamahackamack336]

"Malignant, triumphant, the black goat pranced, it's eyes shown with evil merriment, with a sort of added animation." Sounds hilarious to me!

[@youngop]

Whos the artist in the thumbnail?

[@HorrorBabble]

It's the cover art from Weird Tales March 1942, by Hannes Bok: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Bok

[@youngop]

HorrorBabble awesome!

[@yellowbelly7863]

Could this be some inspiration for a movie called "The Devils Advocate" staring Keanue Reeves and Al Pacino?

[@fiendishlybilly]

Who is RUE MORGUE? I've seen HB do plenty of collaborations with them and I'm just curious.

[@HorrorBabble]

Hi Billy. Here's a link: www.rue-morgue.com

[@kylejarrett1621]

Brilliant...😍 things happen Innpain 👉sight lol

[@kylejarrett1621]

I mean what I say in my comment

[@turtleanton6539]

👿👿👿👿👿👿bloch 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@fahbs]

"I had no donkey's head to sprinkle with live coals." I think we've all been there.

[@mikereilly7629]

The word goetia is pronounced go she a.The crux ansata is an old term for the the Egyptian symbol for life...the Ankh.crux ansata means hooded cross. Good author, good story, good narration.

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks for the tip, Mike!

[@kaministquiamahackamack336]

Im the preview image - it's Sinestro!

[@typhonviserys8288]

Kaministquia Mahackamack of Earth, you have the ability to instill great fear. Welcome to the Sinestro Corps.

[@JamesMC04]

I can't believe the idiocy of the people in the story. I'm beginning chapter 4, & curious to see what will happen.

[@gda295]

As her red lips 👄 uttered the first syllables that broke the silence...

[@miarencrowsdaughter6434]

Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still But he told us where we stand.

[@blakmajk3512]

👍🏼👍🏼

[@pocadon]

I'm a skeptic but a lot of these guys who claim to be skeptical are actually terrified. The "scientific" reasons are usually crazier than what they are trying to disprove. Plus these stories are so old that the scientific facts are bunk now. A fact doesn't change...that's an opinion.

[@kidkurmudgeon-0_o]

did you raise the dead? ... but the car's ok?

[@lacyhart2043]

The Simpsons

[@colinglass7929]

Has anyone read Lord Halifax Ghost stories I hope I can get it on audio books ,got this second hand paperback book at a market place can't seem to find it now .Im a great fan of the genre horror stories The pan book of horror stories by Herbert von thal Great fan of Dennis Wheatly novels not many of his novels are on audiobooks The devil rides out . The haunting of Toby jug are the only ones I could find so far. Scific stories like ."The silkie" The moon is a harsh mistress A scent of new mown hay . Other books I had partly read A copy of the Golden Bowl by Henry James I thought that book very very dull. But I'm determined to listen to the whole book. again on audio books IF possible.There's also a book called the Sunflower Highly recomened I think it's a thriller.

[@DOKTORPUSZ]

Bookmark 20:00

[@dirkbruere]

Another opportunity to raise the hordes of Hell and rule the Eath squandered by weak fools!

[@lacyhart2043]

Yeah well we are all just waiting on you lol

[@dirkbruere]

@@lacyhart2043 Not quite as facetious as it may seem

[@lisawhite-pagano3455]

I’m probably in the minority but Lovecraft just isn’t my thing. I’ve tried every story you’ve done; I want to like him! But, I just can’t do it.

[@Wombats555]

Try gibbering under a gibbbous moon. You'll get the hang of it! The Abominations of Yondo is beautifully poetic.

[@caryblack5985]

Also not a Lovecraft fan except for The Shunned House and stories that don't feature cosmic horrors. I feel he tries too hard to scare me with an excess of adjectives and out dated words and weird names and phrases. The harder he tries the less frightening I find him.

[@eldkniver]

There’s nothing else that speaks to a deeply departed part of my being like “shadow out of time, whisperer in darkness, beyond the wall of sleep, and the the silver key” stories. The way he uses words is very visual as well as psychological. If it’s one thing I’ve learned in a visual art field it’s that not everyone thinks visually. Which is completely ok. You don’t have to like it. We are free to not like what we don’t want to like. Weather something is appealing or not isn’t a universal truth. In all cases, it’s opinion.

[@Insomnolant1335]

This story wasn't written by Lovecraft, it was written by Robert Bloch. Lovecraft wasn't a very good writer.

[@turtleanton6539]

@@caryblack5985 this is true

[@EmoryM]

So let me get this straight - you were surrounded by minions but decided to move all the furniture by yourself? C'mon.

[@5tsumi13]

$10,000 in hell, works out to $1.00 per year. As one who is sentenced at all spends one shift of ten thousand years…

[@devinmorse9112]

Horror to WelcomeBabble!

[@mariecarie1]

Nice work, Lily. You had one job. Way to represent the ladies 🙄

[@thomfarrell9567]

It seems Robert Bloch has extensive knowledge of the occult. Would that be from research, personal experience, or a combo of both?

[@frederickbrock2740]

Ian great job again put the story a lot of conversation a lot of conversation too much conversation about nothing

[@czcrossman]

Daniel Craig or Tom Hardy as Dr. Keith!

[@frankmcgovern5445]

Lol I love these old stories where like casual sexual harassment is just considered charming. “She was a LADY DOCTOR! But not like some ugly mannish one. Her hair was styled in a sexually appealing way, thank Christ, rather than in a practical but less sexy bun or something that would have looked gross. And thankfully she was wearing enough makeup... in the lab. Plus, not even her lab coat could hide her body. She was STACKED, bro. I accidentally harassed her a little, but she was into it.” I love Robert Bloch, but damn.

[@blixten2928]

Yeah, it's a bit dated that: their intended audience, I guess, is male pre-adolescents and adolescents. But the casual extreme racism is evenmore depressing, especially in the stories that have to do with Voodoo and Exploring Darking Africa (and here, I'll just leave out Lovecraft). I'd hate to be an African-American and having to put up with my features being called repulsive, thicklipped, rolling eyes, kinky hair, whatnot. So much horror literature is riddled with this stuff...

[@derekreer8625]

Robert Bloch is good, but I am sad that he never got around to writing a proper book. You can clearly tell that this is a "wierd tales" story because Satan acts with all the forethought of a child. I assume this must be for the convenience of writing a short story to be published in pulp, because there were much more cunning tricks that any human could have pulled in The Archenemies position than those shown here.

[@czcrossman]

Margot Robbie as Doctor Ross :D

[@bunyipz2040]

Good story needs more mancy and demons

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

And here i thought Lovecraft was scientifically illiterate and hated progress. Bloch takes both of these to 11.

[@johnpatterson8697]

styxhexenhammer episode

[@thesinofpride9433]

*clank*

[@lacyhart2043]

Clank

[@listerjne]

WERK INHERENT FEMININE VANITY

[@listerjne]

was gonna comment again on the natural female vanity part but i was pleased to realise i had already said all that needed to be said (werk)

[@jhope9860]

👄 hello dayzofwar are you still feeling it?

[@ConanDuke]

Absurd.