HorrorBabble's LOVECRAFT CIRCLE CTHULHU MYTHOS

[@HorrorBabble]

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[@lieutenantdan1413]

When I first found this channel almost a year ago, I had just had my wisdom teeth removed, then I got influenza. So hopped up on pain pills and in the midst of a high fever I listened to literally everything on the channel on binge while sitting in an armchair drinking several gallons of tea. It was quite the experience... no regrets.

[@HorrorBabble]

We hope you're feeling better these days, Dan!

[@lieutenantdan1413]

@@HorrorBabble healthy as an ox now. Thankyou for the great audiobook readings.

[@toddtaylor4649]

I know what you mean. There has not been a day when I do not enjoy...and oft re-enjoy the tales and delicate voice work here at the HB.

[@MGTOW222]

Quite the experiences is more fitting. What goes in must come out. Strong pain relief plus 7 gallons of tea thinking you were sitting in an armchair? More like you fell asleep on the shitter lol. I'm just messing with you, and I agree it's a well narrated channel that takes us into the past or into the future with ease.

[@lieutenantdan1413]

@@MGTOW222 lol many trips were made. But as a sigma male, i pee standing.

[@topcat2069]

Thanks!

[@HorrorBabble]

Thank you, topcat!

[@calviniscool]

The Space-Eaters is a great way to start the collection. Masterfully recited, well done!

[@siroctavianjefferspinlll]

Listen to your audiobooks to help fall asleep, it’s honestly best channel for me to experience lovecraft’s work through because of how well paced your narration is. You do fantastic work and I’m grateful for what you do.

[@toddtaylor4649]

Same here!!! Well said.

[@jasemalvis2140]

What a beautiful gift for the night shift security guard

[@brokeheartwolf3733]

Whatever you do. If you find the door unlocked to the morgue on your security check. Don’t open it. When I was a security guard at a hospital, I was actually told this...😳

[@mbgocrazy]

Swing shift gets in on this too!! Hahaha

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

You said it brother

[@allenhonaker4107]

True only until the manager decides to come in at 330in the morning for his forgotten folder and is greeted by a hail of bullets 😂

[@rileymoore2967]

@@brokeheartwolf3733 tell us more XD

[@calvinfranklyn5499]

Can't wait to give this a listen. Thank you, as always, Horrorbabble.

[@alswann2702]

Thanks for sharing. I started down this dark path forty-five years ago and still can't get enough, especially of Two Gun Bob Howard! Crom!

[@bobbymarcum772]

By the hilt, KZbin wants me to pay to get rid of these obnoxious ads but I PAY MY WAY WITH STEEL!!

[@NightAngelus]

Yes! im stuck at work for 10 hours today. something to make it more bearable. thank you.

[@williestreiff9314]

These are really cool lovecraftian story's,thank you horror babble for being so cool in are lives

[@martywood8543]

9 fantastacal hours...Thank you HB.

[@slewis9602]

This will keep me busy for awhile! Thanks HB

[@WilliamSmith-iz2kl]

Thank you. I listen as I sleep. I have always slept lightly, and I dream about what I am listening to. All of your productions are wonderful. I am a diehard fan. 🐙🦑☺️

[@trumanwalls3668]

"A match to warm our little brains!" I didn't expect that line, I laughed out loud...

[@CJM-rg5rt]

Frank Belknap Long is awesome, all HB's covers of his are great.

[@curtisgriffith2976]

Wonderful, another selection of perfect weird tales. Thank you HorrorBabble..

[@H_412]

Holy crumbs, more Cthulu stories! You're the best by far!

[@mngirl5437]

Ty for making these collections. It is really nice to have my favorites at a touch!

[@Redbeardblondie]

Excellent! Thank you so much!

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Great stories! This is one of the finest compilations of stories out there! Each of these is fantastic. Great narration and artwork!! I could keep this one on repeat for days!! Thanks!

[@jerrywbrice]

The Space Eaters is a hilarious story. The brain! The braaain! I got dozens of great laughs from that one.

[@jamiecameron7615]

A brilliant collection!! You did such a great job on this!!

[@pbr-streetgang]

As always, thanks much for the production.

[@MrsCaranAmy]

Good Evening. Since you have recorded these all together I will listen to each one by story. The first one was quite chilling. Thank you for putting these together.

[@MrsCaranAmy]

The narration that you did of "The Hounds " was absolutely brilliant. You made the story come alive.

[@olalustig5397]

Please Ian release new cthulu mythos stories,already listened to these like 5 times already,because they are so damn good

[@HorrorBabble]

We've got a brand new Cthulhu Mythos story scheduled for Monday March 2nd...!

[@patrickmcpherson97]

A wonderful collection of stories. Aided by Ian's impeccable narration. A great video Thank you.

[@Mindboggles]

Amazing video, thank you so much for your work. I just finished the video with Lovecraft's own work, so now it's time for this one. The Space Eaters was great! I am thrilled to hear the rest. Your content is amazing and I really hope you and the channel all the best :)

[@spritenox5986]

Still loving y'all and I hope to expose more horror fans to the joy of your narrations at a Cthulhu LARP this weekend! Keep up the creep!

[@donaldmccleary9015]

These are all excellent stories! Each is a gem! Thabks for narrating these! As always, the narration is utterly amazing!

[@andrusman100]

Love everything you guys do, keep up the amazing work.

[@illmade2]

Excellent narration. I was going to try to stretch this out over a few days, didn't happen. The Howard stories as always are my favorite, I hope someday you will be able to do a collection of all his stories about "the children of the night" and his other Lovecraftesque stories.

[@cheesewiz9087]

This is what I'm talking about. Your reading of The Seven Geases is unparalleled. It's one of my absolute favorites from Clark Ashton Smith. Your reading of the Dweller in the Gulf is what got me started on his work

[@scottygilmer691]

So Awesome! Thanks so much!!!

[@ReadOut]

I saw 9 hours of Lovecraft. I think I went mad then.

[@bobbymarcum772]

I've been going mad a lot since I became a Cthulu enthusiast. I've been strolling down the sidewalk, listening to Horrorbabble on earpods, and realize, "krikey, I just went mad again!!! Thats twice this morning alrwady!"

[@heatrayzvideo3007]

Madness is inevitable, we humans can't cope with the old gods

[@turtleanton6539]

Supreme readings and choiche of stories

[@illmade2]

Great reading, a couple of nights of cosmic horror, who could ask for more.

[@RolandWieffering1]

This is one of my favorite collections of Mythos stories. I wish you would make more of these Cthulhu Mythos collections preferably with the more unknown tales. Like you did with the "fringe" selection. It gets more difficult when you've read nearly all there is to read in that Genre..... Thanks for the fantastic tales and all the best from Holland.🍻😎👍🏻 3:00:31

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks Roland! We've pretty much exhausted everything in the public domain, which leaves us with very little to work with. We have a 'New Tales of the Mythos' series on the horizon though.

[@jaycehudson]

I love that you do these collections. Keeps me having to search for them! Thank you, so much.

[@zaijal1572]

I think my favourite of the offshoot Mythos would have to be the Hyperborean Cycle from Clark Ashton Smith. I love that you cover 3 of the best ones too.

[@HorrorBabble]

We'll be recording more of the HC stories in the future for sure.

[@Austrian_blood]

Fabulous stories, thank you.

[@RolandWieffering1]

One of the very best Collections you've made....! I hope you will do a second Lovecraft Circle Tales. And you could include some of the new by Lovecraft Inspired Mythos tales.From writers like Brian Lumley, David Drake, Karl Edward Wagner, Steve Duffy, Ramsey Campbell, T.E.D. Klein, A Scot Glancy and so on.....

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks, Roland! If only their works were in the public domain!

[@glenncheetham2907]

It's been a few years since I read these but can't find my books. I like to re-read these on occasion but this is Better! Thanks so much.

[@pbr-streetgang]

Thanks for the reading.👍🏼👍🏼🖖🏼

[@williestreiff9314]

When I first found out about this podcast I sighed in relief and said yea there really is a god, an outer God

[@keithkrazy]

this is awesome, ... thanks for this

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Love how the dude writes out his own final scream in Hounds. 😂

[@HorrorBabble]

A classic ending, indeed!

[@sub-jec-tiv]

My favorite ending like that is The Haunter of the Dark. One of HPL’s best, i think.

[@blakespier7856]

Dude thank you so much for content like this.

[@firstacheronqueen4256]

u r so great 😍😍 your amazing!!!👍🤘👍

[@Bbergster]

These have been arranged in an informative order. It really helps the listener tie some of the similar reoccuring themes together. Does anyone know if any of the books are based on real books? Book of Ibon, Mysteries of the worm, Necronomicon....... Not on zamazon. Manuscripts, I must have the manuscripts.

[@jamesgarside2001]

you do know that Lovecraft based his fiction on dreams that he had. In the 70's a dubious version of the Necronomicon was published by Avon of all places. It was supposedly translated by an individual that simply called Simon. It's generally called the "Simon Necronomicon." I'm skeptical about it's authenticity. Most of the other tomes in the Mythos, I'm not sure of their historical veracity. The real question is "Why would you want to study these tomes. If Blake had used the appropriate the rituals and banishings associated with the evocation of Barbarous Entities. You need a circle of protection and a triangle of manifestation where the B.S. is imprisoned by "benign dietific and angelic entities." As long as the B.S. stays in the triangle of manifestation it is the literal slave of the magician that presided over the evocation. If you would like to summon metaphysical barbarity into your world you should start with Book 4 (Dover Edition) by Crowley to learn the basics of Ceremonial Magick. Magick in Theory and Practice (the Kenneth Grant edition of Crowley's massive contribution to Occult Studies) would be the next stop. You should also read the Liber Al vel Legis (The Book of. the Law) which seems to have been dictated to Crowley by an Angelic Entity named Aiwass who had taken possession of a "dark man in a white suit" to complete the transmission. There is also Liber E and Liber O, which also offer good instruction for the mental preparation and the ritual skills to be successful. If you're really interested in instruction and practice of the types of Magick that Lovecraft wrote about, Google the Ordo A.'.A.'.. Be careful with which branches that you decide to make contact. I suggest first attending a Gnostic Mass at the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, the public arm of the Masonic Order that Crowley was given to reform by it's leader/founder. It's continental European Masonry, which is not identical to the Blue Lodge Masons, or they York and Scottish Rite. It's part of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Freemasonry and involves the use of Sex Magick, Bloody Offerings as well as a form of Biological Alchemy using bodily fluids. Crowley and Lovecraft never knew or read each other, but there is an uncanny similarity in there basic outlook. Don't forget that Lovecraft was a self-professed atheist. What atheist meant to him, I do not know. If you want to learn about how to blend Crowley and Lovecraft, you look into the writing of Kenneth Grant. You can find many of these writings online at hermetic.com. I would like to point out that Gerald Garderner (the founder of Wicca) used Crowley to help him write the Original Book of Shadows for the first "Wiccan Cultus." It's really to Crowley's credit that any of these materials were available to the first Neo-Pagans in the 70's and 80's. If you want good fiction to read, Lovecraft is perfect. If you want to learn how to summon entities that don't abide on our plane of material reality, you need a teacher from an uncorrupted branch of the Ordo A.'.A.'.. Be careful though. There are Black Lodges and the Gods will blame, curse and punish YOU for not being smart or informed enough to know the distinction. Crowley was my teacher's teacher was Soror Meral, her teacher was Soror Estai--who's teacher was Crowley himself. There are even letters where Soror Estai asked if she was qualified enough to act as the teacher of a Probationer, in this case Soror Meral. Crowley consented. So, Soror Meral's initiation was approved by Crowley himself. She was the only person who could actually provide the proof necessary to revive the Ordo A.'.A.'. after a hibernation of like 30 years. The Ordo A.'.A.'. is the oldest of the Occult Orders founded in the 20th Century. It's 112 years old. If those books that you are looking for are indeed in existence you may want to start in Grant's Typhonian Order. They blend Thelema (Crowley's form of Ritual Magick) with insights gained from the Lovecraft Mythos, since Lovecraft himself has almost become mythological himself. Crowley did not practice Black Magick or worship Satan. He called himself the Great Beast because that was what his mother called him whenever he defied her. She was an insane and abusive religious zealot. The Victorian version of a Pentecostal or racist Southern Baptist. He thought Satan was a fiction created by the Church for social control and only fools worshipped him. Lucifer, Set, Saturn and Pluto were all pre-Christian--so Crowley thought that the nature of these dieties was ambiguous and respected them. Liber Astarte is where he offers advice on how to practice "bhakti-yoga" with a specific being. The Astarte can be dangerous if performed by the lazy, stupid or the addicted (recovered or not.) Abstinence is the denial of the Will. If you have a drinking or drug problem at the start your practice that doesn't get banished by the end of your first year of practice, you are probably not fit to practice magick. Magick often requires the non-abusive, magickal use of mind-altering drugs and the consumption of Alcohol. If you cannot do those things, better luck next life. Sorry for the length. Something about your question disturbed me. Be careful and if you are going to summon beings, learn how to do so from a qualified teacher. Be careful, there are prices to pay for knowledge. My mother died around the first year of practice. As did two of my first cousins who died by there own hands. My last cousin to die shot his wife and two children before he shot himself. So all together, I lost 6 very close family members in a year. My mother's death by aneurysm, being the only natural cause of death. I'm not saying that my practice has a causal relationship to my early period of practice. But, the correlation is uncanny. Forbidden knowledge is NOT given away for free and Magick will NEVER be the solution to your problems. Curiosity offends the Gods more than disrespect. They are not animals in a zoo to be gawked at.

[@danbreeden1801]

Excellent collection

[@snappa_tv]

How do I double or triple like this video. The reading is so good!

[@chumaktv5386]

Lmao that drug trip begun so funny, perfect voice:”GOD IN HEAVEN! I SEE!” Hahahah

[@DarthHastur]

Keep up your eldritch knowledge

[@RolandWieffering1]

I would love to hear more Cthulhu Mythos stories. And this is my kind of playlist. Great you started now with the Robert Bloch series. I still hope you'll one day do the August Derlerth's "Mask of Cthulhu" ( a series of stories) and the "Trail of Cthulhu" the best series Lovecraftian stories in my opinion. Anyway Thanks for this outstanding series of stories.

[@twicecookedporkins3235]

I'm guessing there's about 3 hours of cut recordings of trying to say "Voormithadreth".

[@williestreiff9314]

The narrator is really good with changing his voice and accents

[@change2spare]

Wow Thanks so much!

[@huntervandyke4347]

The knocking on the door spooked me

[@glenncheetham2907]

Me too!

[@darkstarnova5846]

🌠💥🌠 thank you

[@peterpocaji5754]

One of the genuinely terrifying mythos stories.

[@optimus_tango]

Loved #2! "Don't be an asinine old woman!"

[@jimmyjones6672]

I LOVE a imaginative scientific horrific horror story h p lovecraft it's CRAZY Imagination is the blood of the oldest GODS

[@adrianpetyt9167]

Chalmers took the time to write "Aagh" while he was being killed?

[@BeastlyEwok]

Dream come true!!!

[@kristinacable]

Lovely ☆《•♡•》☆

[@ADITADDICTS]

No Geases were injured during the listening of this list.

[@CountingHouse]

I've heard they can break a man's arm just by speaking suggestively.

[@ADITADDICTS]

@@CountingHouse I hope you said that of your own free will.😨😅

[@jpraise6771]

hello to you random viewer. In this dark world, i thought i'd just let you know God loves you, and to always love yourself

[@steel8231]

The Children of the Night sounds like when it was written the horror was supposed to be a tribe of lizard people in Wales. But the horror now is that all it takes for the guy to become a homicidal psychopath determined to murder a friend is a concussion.

[@BobblinTheGoblin]

Love it

[@johannageisel5390]

Honestly, Ralibar Vooz had it coming!

[@eugenebelford4340]

Do you have any Derleth stories read? He had a few I think set in Wisconsin backwoods where he was from

[@HorrorBabble]

Hardly anything of Derleth's is in the public domain. The Vanishing of Simmons forms part of this collection, though: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/three-weeks-of-weird-a-collection

[@johannageisel5390]

Robert E. Howard would probably be very surprised about the findings of paleo-genetics regarding the settlement waves into Europe. XD

[@Voodoomaria]

The first story ["The Space Eaters" by Frank Belknap Long - 1928] reminds me of the movie, "Fiend Without a Face" 1958. Turns out the movie was based upon the story "The Thought Monster" by Amelia Reynolds Long [No relation] written in 1930, I wonder if HER story was inspired by "The Space Eaters"?

[@jamescampbell39]

The Space Eaters was done on either Tales from the Darkside or Monsters it was a good adaption.

[@adrianpetyt9167]

A New England doctor with a Yorkshire accent? That's a new one on me.

[@wenwilloughby8197]

Shouldn't Lovecraft's own "The Haunter of the Dark" be between "The Shambler from the Stars" and "The Shadow from the Steeple" by Bloch to make up their little back-and-forth trilogy?

[@HorrorBabble]

Chronologically that would be correct, but this collection isn't supposed to include works by Lovecraft himself.

[@RangerOfTheOrder]

Hearing Howard's words about mixed race people makes Lovecraft's writing look like a Dr. Zeuss story! At least HPL had the courtesy to bury is prejudices under allegory and symbolism.

[@Jain_Dharmanata]

Mordor (All seeing eye)plus R`lyeh(octopuss night) is Illdare and Nhqeshphatpoh-in Pleed vegan sonatas of same

[@stevencarroll5694]

I want to thank you for sparing me the embarrassment of asking how to pronounce "geas", lol. Great reading, thanks to both you and Jen.

[@HorrorBabble]

There's a lot of discussion on the subject, Steven. After some research, we opted for the common D&D pronunciation. Thanks again, sir!

[@elel3213]

Sweet dreams

[@tikkidaddy]

And the best proves excellent as usual and expected😁

[@jessetoler1032]

Do you take pay to read?

[@scienceraven1200]

When you address an audience, it is customary for the introduction to emphasize wistful words like recantations rather than recordings, because you can then develop the themes of the emphasized words in a flourashed way.

[@askwhy2030]

This is GREAT!! The hits just keep on coming!! Thank You all for your hard work and most excellent taste in authors and their tales. It's how I escape starkraving reality!! Alright no more gushing. Any more August Derleth coming up? Thanks again.

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks as always! Unfortunately, Mr. Derleth's works aren't yet in the public domain. Perhaps in the future!

[@LeoCrossChaos]

Please consider uploading a version without the sound effects. The narration is great, the sound effects add nothing tough and are an annoying distraction. Thank you.

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks for sharing your opinion here, but we don't believe the sound effects are unnecessary. Not all of our recordings include music/sound design, but when they do, we believe it adds a lot. All the best.

[@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979]

Azanoth eats the mans brain for launch 🚀

[@johannageisel5390]

"Anthropophagic inclinations"... :D

[@rachweatherilll69]

"Unclean" :-D

[@danbrown5736]

🐙👀

[@nomansgoddess]

Story one sounds like Howard wrote himself up a good dose of tulpa...

[@ns-nf9pi]

Lovecraft affect my dreams..

[@nomansgoddess]

It's obvious that though it sounds like they were high on something and both delusional that something scared the shit out of them. Lol.

[@chumaktv5386]

I hate cousin Osbourne so much

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

Your American accent is almost identical to Stephen Frye's

[@HorrorBabble]

I'll take that!

[@nomansgoddess]

It's a great story (#1). If it was drug induced, what ever they did they did too much of it...😮

[@krakenlordagtqguh-sinkcyan9622]

And in Rqpgha holy church of octolord Agqghut high priest Nhqeshphatpoh said complaint coward, cause you have reached higher level than coward if you have to complaint? Complaint is Tool of Cowards..

[@soliscrown1272]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dowpman1]

dont be an assanine old woman... ill have to remember that one lol

[@gwynbleidd1917]

How is "Lovecraft" and "Cthulu Mythos" in the title of this narration, but there's literally zero fucking HP Lovecraft stories included??? Great stories though

[@HorrorBabble]

See the video description, Tom!

[@mikekutz5776]

The last story was very. The rest fair too midland.

[@ike25young]

DMT, one hell of a drug!

[@toddtaylor4649]

Thanks!

[@HorrorBabble]

Thank you, Todd! Sorry about the late reply.

[@toddtaylor4649]

@@HorrorBabble no worries, mate. You're busy making great content and maybe even living a life. 😊