HORROR AT SEA Volume 2: More Nautical Nightmares

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Five more weird tales set at sea...
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:02 - THE DERELICT (William Hope Hodgson)
1:10:02 - GHOULS OF THE SEA (J. B. S. Fullilove)
1:23:50 - THE BLACK, DEAD THING (Frank Belknap Long)
1:46:44 - THE LURE OF ATLANTIS (Joel Martin Nichols, Jr.)
2:41:49 - THE NIGHT OCEAN (H. P. Lovecraft)
3:42:58 - Further Listening
"The Derelict" is a short story by British writer, William Hope Hodgson, first published in THE RED MAGAZINE in its December 1st edition, 1912. The classic tale tells of the discovery and subsequent investigation of a mysterious, derelict vessel...
"Ghouls of the Sea" is a rare weird tale by the American author, J. B. S. Fullilove. Appearing in the March 1934 edition of Weird Tales, the story asks what it was that came up out of the sea, spreading death aboard the freighter "Kay Marie"...
"The Black, Dead Thing" by Frank Belknap Long first appeared in Weird Tales in October 1933. The story was described by the magazine as: "A weird sea-tale, about the utterly horrible thing that came aboard a ship on the second night out."
"The Lure of Atlantis" by the five-time Weird Tales contributor, Joel Martin Nichols, Jr., debuted in WT in its April 1925 edition. The story tells of an expedition into the heart of the lost city of Atlantis...
"The Night Ocean" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and R. H. Barlow. Barlow drafted the tale, and handed it to Lovecraft to edit in the summer of 1936. It first appeared in the magazine The Californian, in its Winter 1936 edition. It tells of an unnamed artist, who, whilst vacationing by the beach, becomes increasingly unsettled by the presence of the ocean...
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[@sallythomson7525]

I am a sailor. This is very frighting as mold and mildew always lurks in old lockers, clings to ones clothes...Good story!! Thank you!! Aloha from Hawaii!

[@garysuarez9614]

Pearl Harbor?

[@nebraskatpp]

Are these stories really focused on professional mariners? Sailing primarily. I was one for 27 years, but I only want to listen for around 30minutes a time. Does KZbin have a timing system?

[@SacredTide]

Aloha from Maui! The mold is a constant battle in Haiku. As the wet season thrives, so too the living nuisance creeps to an overwhelming reminder. That we are not alone and one's house welcomes all that dwells in a lurking battle of constant diligence to wipe and deter all that feeds on the comfort of one's own

[@DonSmith2323]

Being in the middle of the ocean, on a haunted ship, in dirty weather, is there a more helpless and terrified feeling.Thats why almost every old sea horror tale is tops in my opinion

[@dorndy1]

Only floating at night in that same open ocean would be scarier imo, but just enough to keep you on the boat lol.

[@JasonJason210]

I remember reading "The Derelict" many years ago and thought it was very suspenseful with a surprisingly good ending. The captain was a proper hero. His words "Be smart lads" stuck in my mind ever since.

[@ralex737]

KiLookslglo

[@NathanTarantlawriter]

Yeah, it's one of the stories I've heard before but it doesn't seem to get old here.

[@AcornElectron]

“Our lanterns disclosed the top of a flight of stone steps, dripping with some detestable ichor of the inner earth, and bordered by moist walls encrusted with nitre…” Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!

[@Eris123451]

"Sorry I'm Late," Warren.

[@RolandWieffering1]

Yes, it made me think of, "The Statement of Randolph Carter"....... Fool, Warren is Dead......

[@mortuarycookiezshane4192]

Ocean horror stories are some of my favorite ( haha at this point what isn’t my favorite?). And they are 100 times better when read by such a talented story teller!

[@markmark6408]

It's like horror in outer space. When the crap hits the fan, where do you run? Nowhere.

[@fredgervinm.p.3315]

A talented storyteller can make the Bible exciting...

[@Crossword131]

I am far more excited than I should be about this installation. SHIPS!! YESSSSS!!! Thank you, Babble. You are a valued friend.

[@davidwhelan1545]

The first story is just phenomenally, English...brilliant to hear, narrated so well!

[@kelevra558]

That first one was one of the best stories ive heard on your channel. Awesome man, just awesome.

[@0therun1t21]

I've always been suspicious of fungii, now I'm suspicious of jelly too. Wax is looking kind of sketchy now that I think about it. Seaweed, don't even get me started!

[@rosiemcnaughton9933]

Thank you for all your work on these offerings. Imagine staying under the ocean for 4 hours. Some equipment they had in The Lure of Atlantis, huh?

[@linnmatthews8615]

Love stories set on Ships st sea. Appreciate this collection. Thank you for producing these.

[@mattkoonts3007]

I love falling asleep to these!! I need to someday listen to them conciously :)

[@williestreiff9314]

Good luck

[@fredgervinm.p.3315]

His voice is Soothing...

[@Arwcwb]

Always good to see a collection - thanks for the entertainment!

[@subliminal-damage]

Woke up and this was playing... Explains why I suddenly had a dream about horrific undead corpsea from the sea

[@gerry5134]

Brilliant stories well told ! Thank you for these. 👍🏼👍🏼

[@shroompicn-shrooman]

My new favorite channel. You do a great job 👏. ✌🍄👍

[@randocalrissian347]

How have I just found your channel??? Your voice is fabulous for this genre ❤

[@edwardspencer3906]

Every time I start listening to one of these collections, I come away so impressed with your choice of stories.. familiar with some of them, that's what got my attention but DAMN it's the ones im not familiar with that are knocking me out! Thank You 😊

[@CasualApostate]

I first found this channel narrating the king in yellow, it’s the best narration for suspense or horror I’ve ever heard.

[@natalya9821]

Sheer joy on Sunday evening. Thanks. Hello from Moscow.

[@bustedhonda]

Open water with no land in sight is enough to give me nightmares

[@justinehayward2553]

Good gracious, I spent a night at a table with a thirsty Scotsman and several good bottles. Two days later with my bed as my world, I'm grateful for this well-told tale.

[@catlover788]

HIGH HORRORBABBLE!!!! IT'S PEOPLE LIKE U THAT MAKE LIFE THRILLING!!!! I LOVE UR STORIES AND U!!!! GOD B WITH U AND YOURS ALWAYS DEAR HORRROBABBLE!!!!

[@leonaheraty3760]

Love this channel! Keep up the great work! 👻😊

[@opalfishsparklequasar8663]

Thank you. 💖💐 I never read Lovecraft before, & this is one of the most beautifully written & frightening things I've come across. Makes me wonder what else I'm missing. You are singular & I'm blessed to have found you. You bring vivid treasures to exquisite life.

[@TEQNEEK]

A LOT

[@leonaheraty3760]

Thanks for sharing! 😊

[@Satans_Little_Helper]

Love the story choices and your reading voice! I'm glad I subscribed.

[@soulreaver1983]

Outstanding right on time thanks Ian 😎👍

[@jfrancis98]

I grew up in Friday Harbor and sadly we lost 2 friends that were coming back from White Rock in Canada at night. Never found them or the 27 foot boat. Just gone. Miss those guys. Prayers to these families.

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Amazing stories and narration! As you know, I love these yarns of the sea and coast! Listening to this type of story is similar to the tales i have heard from old and taciturn sailors once you earn their trust. Just like a story told by "The Terrible Old Man"! This channel is amazing!

[@walterfechter8080]

"Look ye into its deeps." -- Ahab to Starbuck

[@jill3343]

Excellent! Thank you, HB🙂🖖🏼

[@rmooreg]

She was fortunate to have friends and family who cared for and loved her enough to forego the folly and nonsense she cultivated, and were able to keep her safe, buffered for the most part, from rhe harsh reality of life. She lived in a fantasy, in which she was a juggernaut, a dynamo who masterfully dealt with any challenges expertly and who always triumphed. She died, presumably believing she was on top of the world, and in that sense, she was. We should all be so lucky.

[@nancynickerson4341]

"Mounds of mould." Music to a mycologist's ears!

[@steveharrison76]

Makes me glad I didn’t end up joining the royal navy as I’d planned. I love the sea, but by Christ it’s unnerving out there. This quintet, or I suppose shoal might be a better noun, of tales taps into that feeling. Nothing more intimidating than the sea when you’re alone with your own mind, I think. There’s nobody else about, other than your crew, who are quite literally in the same boat as you. And then there’s only rather tenuous and knife-edge physics, a distressingly few thin sheets of metal and your own lung capacity between you and a crushing, choking doom that nobody really knows anything about, because at depth, there are no bodies to be found… Heh. Anyway: Brava! A nautical marathon of perturbation! Grand stuff!

[@chrisfisher2469]

Excellent articulation and nuance ian your top notch a calling aside youve found may millions find u and yer tales

[@tishahouse846]

Listening from the ukwales❤️

[@Eris123451]

“ It was fully a week before the villagers noticed that no lights were appearing at dusk in the windows of the cottage under the trees. Then the lean Nith remarked that no one had seen the old man or his wife since the night the cats were away. In another week the burgomaster decided to overcome his fears and call at the strangely silent dwelling as a matter of duty, though in so doing he was careful to take with him Shang the blacksmith and Thul the cutter of stone as witnesses. ” So as the late summer gloaming is disturbed; first by the faint plop and hiss of someone dropping their Peterson Pipe into their pint of Old Shoggoth, to be followed immediately by several minutes of loud, aggressive and perfectly astonishing invective, I’ll just take this opportunity bid everyone here a safe and warm goodnight.

[@Vampiir4726]

Excellent bed time stories and an excellent voice!

[@cherylelainewilliams6449]

Beautiful naration. Raising a glass in homage.

[@joz6683]

Another long one, I love these collection, this will help me relax for the next few days. And as always thanks to everyone involved for your tireless work 👍

[@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979]

Human beings don’t get tired anymore- it’s inappropriate and unacceptable.

[@Eris123451]

@@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 Heh.

[@DaughterOfIreland]

Why have you only got 185K followers? Your voice is amazing, relaxing and you speak so clearly. I ❤ you! X

[@HorrorBabble]

Thank you!

[@DarkLightSwordFight]

I absolutely love getting stoned and vibing out to this stuff. I also thinks it's hilarious that people manage to get into arguments over the dumbest shit in the comments. 💀💀🖤🖤

[@deirdrewhelan9393]

Mr babble.only you can pull these stories off. Fantastic.

[@glynnphillips9703]

Wonderful story thank you for telling it for us all

[@TheodoreDorado]

Thank you so much. I would never know these tales nor authors without you

[@charlesflint9048]

Perfect bedtime stories!.

[@the_birthday_skeleton]

i've read this in a collection of Hodgson's work (Carnaki being a particular fav of mine) quite a long while back, but you're narration adds such an awesome atmospheric milieu to it, so improved from my initial reading. would love some *submarine-horror* stories (assuming you haven't already compiled a collection) please?

[@richardportman8912]

I like these stories. Thank you.

[@Trivial_Whim]

For a few moments I was confused as I remembered this coming out months ago. Yet the story list was different. I thought I was losing my mind for a moment when at last I noticed… I realized this is Horror At Sea 2 and not Ocean Dread 2.

[@chucknora4194]

Great storytelling!

[@chikaka2012]

I have read the Black Dead Thing by Belknap Long with the title Second Night Out, I believe.

[@chriswhite2151]

It is listed as such in my old favorite book, "Davy Jones Haunted Locker". I actually just looked it up.

[@MY1BLACKCAT]

the last story -it is my favorite - HP Lovecraft is my favorite writer of all horror - even though it isnt completely his work - it has its unmistakeable touch of his magic use of words to paint a picture

[@dianen407]

Great tales of the unknown and mysterious sea. Your narration is perfect

[@armphidiic2609]

A nice grouping of stories, two of which I hadn't heard before. As wonderfully atmospheric as The Night Ocean is, I do wish something actually happened in the damn story.

[@williestreiff9314]

Hilarious

[@philipcahill4190]

What a exceptional voice

[@BarbaraRademacher]

Interesting and engrossing stories.

[@cyrillagvanec9151]

Check out "Fire in the Galley Stove" Read it almost 50 years ago, just once, and it still haunts me.

[@HorrorBabble]

We managed to track this one down, Cyril. We're going to make a recording of it very soon.

[@jeffashley5512]

Ian I have two new pipes and some Drexel tobacco and hours of Horrorbabble!!! The perfect afternoon. 💀

[@CS-hu5be]

Same for me. Except its a cigar :3

[@LangstonDev]

Congrats on the new pipes, new pipe day is always exciting for someone with PAD! I've never tried Drexel but it sounds like a good English, will have to try it. Happy piping! 😀

[@FrozzenK]

Lung cancer

[@louiehoughton5553]

@@FrozzenK Congrats on been today's holier-than-thou bellend.

[@FrozzenK]

​@@louiehoughton5553 Well I am always working towards being a better human being, thank you. I know you're being sarcastic because that's just the sort of person you are, but that is okay. I will take the compliment nonetheless and continue to try to be a better person even though the wicked might be offended.

[@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979]

Did I leave a comment of appreciation- this is a good collection

[@user-rg8bu8qp9r]

Erm

[@CraigStephens777]

Good Day Brethren. Subbed, Wa State👍I piloted a Destroyer for 15 years. Shell Back, And Golden Shell Back. 😊

[@everstomp]

Yes superb!!

[@EricDaMAJ]

The professor flipped the slide and droned, _”And here we have the colors of the notorious pirate captain Mad Wullie McDongle, whose ship_ The Flying Vomit _terrorized the Spanish silver fleets of the Peruvian coast. Legend has it the skeleton riding a cannon on bifurcated black field with cutlass, rum bottle, copulating pigs with inscription design was made after capturing the Spanish galleon_ St. Marie Louisa Hildago Guadalupe del Cajones. _Apparently Captain Wullie was unhappy that the Spanish weren’t impressed with his flag and sought to design one more terrifying. Foolishly, he ordered this during the bout of celebratory drinking. The crew put together these colors using the Spanish captain’s trousers. The enraged and hungover Captain Wullie had the design committee flogged. But as it was the only black fabric aboard, the colors couldn’t be changed. Despite Captain Wullie’s dissatisfaction, they worked well. The flag’s nonsensical motto, taken from the ravings of a heat stroked Spanish sailor,_ *“¡TONTO! ¡Conejera ha MUERTO!”* _proved the final push to panic future Spanish crews. Captain Wullie and crew prospered all the way up to the regrettable penguin incident of 1763._

[@UAPReportingCenter]

Amazing narrator

[@topcat2069]

I Love H.P. Lovecraft, but I've listened to almost all of him that you have. I'm glad I started to listen to other stories. My days just fly by.

[@monkeytron5061]

I loved the first one, now the second

[@EBDavis111]

Would love to hear you narrate more William Hope Hodgson. He's got quite the selection of nautical horror.

[@HorrorBabble]

Take a look at our Hodgson playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLeNNKRLWxwoPcvLwIOL0nAwdWNxIPXGvd

[@EBDavis111]

@@HorrorBabble I'm familiar, hence the suggestion. That's a lot of his land based material You've only scratched the tip of the iceberge of his nautical horor.

[@marklambert9864]

Go you good thing!!!🕊❤️

[@monkeytron5061]

“The Night Ocean” is such a great story. Nothing happens of course but that’s not stopping me listening again right now. I’d quite like to live in that house yer know. I’d get a dog of course.

[@tinklvsme]

It's all in the voice. I prefer an English accent, but it's not calming & clear I'll pass. I just found u but I have heard u reading 📚 so I'm in ✌️

[@user-rg8bu8qp9r]

Mr perfect lets hear your rap haha joking

[@andromedajacobson2520]

Ian, this is a lovely collection. Any chance you could record The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?

[@jeski82]

that guy in The Night Ocean probably should have just got some curtains

[@danstella6996]

Coming out with the heat!

[@medi2649]

Turning out the lights, loading up Barotrauma on the other monitor. I am ready for the next three hours and forty-three minutes of my life.

[@boldbearings]

The intro music😍

[@cody1570]

Dude i play warhammer and play ad genestealers. My cult is literally cthulhu, the patriarch looks like him (you cant mistake it if you looked at him) and i made my color scheme based on fish green for the deep ones and the mutant inhabitance of innsmouth. Love listing yo horrorbabble while painting them up

[@ginabeena6757]

Ocean Dread 2? Please and thank you! 🤗

[@HorrorBabble]

That one is over here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHqyk4mHr9-Ugrc :)

[@IntlPublications]

Babble: to talk or say something in a quick, confused, excited, or silly way.

[@HorrorBabble]

We’ll go with ‘excited’ (and occasionally ‘silly’)…

[@duckman12569]

The atlantis story was quite something good

[@anthonyochocki6535]

Thanks for this over-all enjoyable post; these tales would have made for good TV in the old "Night Gallery'' series. The tale of ''Lure of Atlantis'' was for myself---in the armchair of the 21st Century, rather just 'amusing' rather than a good 'tale of Horror from the Sea'. Too much a reminder of Haggard's ''SHE', with a man besotted under the psycho-sexual 'spell' of some ancient, exotic beauty...lying in a 'Lucite' entombment. So a testament to the Freudian influence in popular Pulp Fiction. "The Night Ocean", far too verbose. A reaching for poetic art, that in the end is basically just a monologue about one man's temporary bout with Depression. lol...

[@williestreiff9314]

Im getting seasick, Im barfing up CHUTHULU LARVAE

[@HorrorBabble]

Yikes!

[@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979]

I think At The Mountains of Madness qualified for ocean dread story It starts and ends with ships

[@the_birthday_skeleton]

plus it essentially takes place 90% on the ice of a frozen ocean

[@thethirdchimpanzee]

A short story (that can be found online in audiobook form) is "The Things" by Peter Watts, and it tells the story of the 80's John Carpenter film, but from the perspective of the alien creature...who at first is confused and disgusted and horrified by *is*, because it doesn't comprehend the idea of an individual...who is *trapped* in one mind and one body and one form, one shape...unable to "share" and experience "communion" with other life...because that it HOW is communicates. It can't even comprehend our bizarre kind of like, because IT'S KIND of life if the most common in the universe. We are a kind of abomination to it. It doesn't understand that being a single isolated - limited - thing is possible. (Also, during the original crash, over 80% of it's original biomass - it's self, memories, facilities, abilities...so it is a weakened, broken, disabled, dumbed-down version of itself, so it's attempts at communication, at "communion", are disastrous. I mean this is a being that in its full capacity could travel the stars...now it can barely survive. Of course, once realizes that it is weak and that we are scared of it and are trying to kill it, it becomes panicky...figures its only hope is to acquire as much biomass as quick as possible...and to get as much if *us* under control as soon as possible. And if it can just get off of Antarctica, it can "fix" Earth and make its biosphere self-aware.

[@HorrorBabble]

Interesting!

[@miskatonicuniversityavclub202]

Thank you for contributing to me not killing myself, I tried 2x since end of July and almost did it with a glock 40 a cpl nights ago. Its a long story but first attempt I taped a hose to the exhaust pipe of my car. Wasn't strong enough woke up with a horrible migraine. Don't remember the second one mixed antidepressants and alc, stabbed myself 2x chest and arm aimed for my lung I guess and the artery between bicep and tricep but only Nicked it enough to squirt some. The glock would have worked 40 cal to the temple is not something you can mess up, that's where you come in. I decided to listen to some of your videos first and to get lovecraft on the brain hoping I'd end up in a dream state made of those elements. I ended up changing my mind and becoming semi rational. It motivated me to write and record music instead. I won't get into why bug a long time wife is involved. Turns out reconciliation is possible as well so extra bonus reason I'm glad I held off. Thank you so much for everything!

[@Eris123451]

Funny old world eh, take care and look after yourself.

[@HorrorBabble]

Echoing Eris123 here: thanks for sharing, and take care of yourself.

[@CJM-rg5rt]

I love this channel.. especially Algernon Blackwood. Check out HB's playlist of him, it really calms my mind to drift into those ones. All the Frank Belknap Long and Henry Kuttner ones are great too. So many good people are going through exactly what you are so don't feel alone or weird because you aren't at all.

[@rev.dr.dayspring7805]

​@@CJM-rg5rtwhy didn't you tell them about ween and the boognish?

[@heatrayzvideo3007]

I love nautical horror.

[@teddydog6229]

Warren is dead ?? Well now I do feel foolish. I'll come back when he's feeling better.

[@BaldingClamydia]

3:30:30 I'm watching this on Sept 23! lol 0.0

[@adamdrach5394]

Hi lee. Sorry I was late.

[@sassymessmess9110]

Is the narrator Chancellor Palpatine?? That's who he sounds like!

[@HorrorBabble]

Your overconfidence is your weakness.

[@gozinta82]

OOOOoooooooooohhhhhhh!!!! I Dread the Sea!

[@garybobst9107]

I never did like jellyfish very much...

[@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979]

🚢 🌊 👻

[@stephenking1362]

Fun! LOVE this season. Found a bunch more great Ghost stories at kzbin.info

[@tanguyvandaele9390]

You can smell it. ......

[@lundondadony2618]

Room Occupancy

[@lancetranter5695]

What am i listening to?

[@lundondadony2618]

1-1356

[@davelowe1977]

1:36:42

[@tonygary7611]

👍👍

[@lundondadony2618]

A.L.D.