Obscure Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: A Collection

A collection of five lesser-known mythos tales.
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:28 - The Guardian of the Book by Henry Hasse
1:19:48 - Fane of the Black Pharaoh by Robert Bloch
2:09:34 - Settler's Wall by Robert Lowndes
3:15:26 - The Haunter of the Graveyard by J. Vernon Shea
3:52:30 - The Spawn of the Green Abyss by C. Hall Thompson
6:08:05 - Further Listening
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This series was put together in celebration of the great Rue Morgue Mag turning 25 this year: www.rue-morgue.com

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[@sub-jec-tiv]

I always smile at the laundry list of evil tomes. Lovecraft bingo. Nameless Cults… Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred… Cults des Ghoules… BINGO!

[@MrJedimedic]

And anything Pnakotic!

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This was literally nail biting. This voice actor is amazing. The stories are bone chilling. I LOVE this.

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💯 does someone know who did the narration!?

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This is one of those compilations that somehow always seems to end up back in my queue again 😁

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Ian Gordon your voice is perfect for this style of storytelling and I have enjoyed listening to your narration very much. Thank you for the content I look forward to more like this!

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[@BeautifulStrangeMyst]

arcade? As in, games? That's so cool, i've never been to one!!

[@NathanTarantlawriter]

Fantastic. An entire day's worth of Lovecraftian tales. Splendid!

[@williestreiff9314]

That's really nice

[@sonnetlikely]

That final tale! 🖤 these were all marvellous- thanks for the compilation!

[@adamwoodhouse7865]

Such a good series coupled with superb narration

[@jmesangeau]

Wonderful voice acting. A big thank you from France

[@allansimba64]

Always been a fan of Lovecraft's work....now I listen to it, and everything from his worlds as I work, and I couldn't be more satisfied.

[@blakmajk3512]

I was lurking in the shadows, waiting for this one! 🐙

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You are mommy now? Hungry.

[@blakmajk3512]

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[@joz6683]

Bedtime listen for the next week. I have listen to a few on the day they were uploading but saved a few for this group upload. I cannot say how much I love these longer collections. Thanks to all involved both Ian, Jennifer and everyone else involved, both in front of and behind the microphone.

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Agree

[@ToddWaid1]

Sweet this will cover a good portion of my drive from Richmond to Chicago. Thx

[@colinmcom14]

Wow these are some great stories! It’s crazy seeing all the ways people took what Lovecraft did and ran with it.

[@ivegotbadtaste9181]

Thanks for getting me through a night shift. This made the time fly by

[@MrsCaranAmy]

This is quite a nice collection of macabre stories you have put together for us. It is wonderful that they are all together now. Thank you. Have a marvelous day 🥰💖🤗🌟

[@StoneInMySandal]

The narration of these stories is superb.

[@Wombats555]

Loved this. Looking forward to Obscure Tales 2!

[@br41nc3ll]

I'm definitely looking forward to this! Thank you so much 😁

[@blowitoutyourcunt7675]

Excellent compilation, will greedily enjoy this! Thanks for all your hard work on these, Cheers all!

[@andreasfilis9001]

All the stories in one! Absolutely perfect.

[@LTPottenger]

There's thousands of miles of mysterious walls in New England. They are supposed to be from early settlers but the sheer amount and the remote locations makes this unlikely.

[@dannymaurice5543]

Ay what where tell me more dude

[@etcetc3800]

Music of Erich Zan

[@kevincaruthers5412]

Just finished the first story. Awesome!

[@johanneswestman935]

Was crossing my fingers and hoping that this would be in a British accent. Don’t know why but it just makes it better.

[@robertcreighton4635]

I'm slowing making my way through H.P. lovecraft stories so this is a fantastic upload I'll listen tonight. Cheers

[@bruhmomentos6548]

perfect for my overnight shift while the client sleeps, thank you so much and phenomenal voice!

[@folarin95]

This voice fits so much that I started to imagine how it'd been if some other read this. Thanks from Nigeria.

[@harrissteve25]

The one about the wall should be made into a movie I could definitely see it being vary good if done right

[@desertparanormal2791]

I remember reading his books when I was like 12 and being amazed at the imagination. This should be amazing.

[@toolbag-sy9ij]

Amazing

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Thank you so much for all the exquisite narrations! 😇🙌

[@jasonshumate6456]

My Mind is blown. Incredible narrator, but the Words, but like the Knowledge the Characters seek, I can't stop listening, because I want that Knowledge.

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Suuuuuper excited for this one! Thank you!

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I could have danced all night.....instead I think I will listen to some good stories all night. Thank you.

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This will be a favorite collection

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I'm a huge fan of the cthulu mythos

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Thank you so much. Once again you've smashed it.

[@the-trustees]

H.P. inspired so many authors to create works in the awesome and horrifying world he created. I'm not sure that anyone else has inspired more works from others in their universe.

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Cheers for all the Cthulu Mythos! Been listening to them all at work.

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ah wonderful the collection together

[@MrJedimedic]

“Not even a dragon’s fire could harm that book…”

[@bigyellowplumes]

Very talented sir. Your readings are greatly appreciated.

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Wonderful stories and narration! Great job! These are sooooo good. Lesser-known , but excellent! Thanks!

[@AwakeAtTheWheel]

This is spectacular!!!

[@RonRon1772]

Just wrapping up the Guardian of the Book, and I'm stoked for the rest of this video. I have been doing deep dives into other Weird fiction that isn't Lovecraft for inspiration in Delta Green. I am copying an outline of it for a random scene to slot into my campaigns.

[@bigsarge2085]

Incredible!

[@rae4772]

I'm truly enjoying your channel. You have a wonderful voice, Ian.

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks for listening!

[@ZacHalls]

I really like settlers wall, anything to do with oddball sci-fi paradox stories :)

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Now this is some great content!!

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Love from south Africa

[@telepathy90]

Phenomenal stories. All of them are really good listens.

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Wonderful,. Thank you.

[@AcornElectron]

6 hours, 9 minutes and 6 seconds well spent. Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!

[@Eris123451]

And lo; the abyss entered into him also and as each second became as millennia to him, he heard a sound like unto a tiny voice and it sounded like this, "...............Oh bugger I knew I should have taken that first left after Watford."

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Thank you so much 😊

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Thank you kindly !

[@kgb333m3]

Please do “the very old folk” it gets no love

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Wow,I really liked it,and the voice is splendor.

[@johnnikyecole9114]

Aweeeee man that intro... When I hear that 1st note of that intro I get a warm feeling of home.

[@yanwain9454]

so nice to hear an older sounding dude reading this and not some young dude who sounds like they are congested from eating too much processed cheese.

[@the_birthday_skeleton]

I listen to your channel every night Thanks for wonderful readings of my fave author

[@brograb898]

Can someone please draw one of the old gods watching the wall “swim” away with a thumbs up? I love ambiguity; life is ambiguous. I loved the story up to that end. Why can’t we just be like “yeah that wall is crazy.” “What do you think it means?” “Look inward”

[@irateastartes1206]

The guy from the first story is that rarest of things a guy who comes through a brush with the uncanny not only safe but a bit more sane than he started (anyone who wants to read the Necronomicon is crazy by definition.)

[@nebojsag.5871]

Id read the Necronomicon. The world is fucked anyway due to global warming automation and antibiotic resistant bacteria. Might as well have some fun.

[@riphopfer5816]

‘Settler’s Wall’ is like a blend of Lovecraft and *House Of Leaves*. Utterly disturbing. There is nothing so much in all of fiction, film, and life itself that unsettles me to nearly the degree as does non-Euclidean geometry in greater than three dimensions.

[@googletoldme2666]

New sleep aid acquired ty 🙌🏽

[@trejrco]

Prayers indeed, for all of us left behind. Vote Cthulhu 2024.

[@lunabellsprout]

oh boy !! 👽🖤

[@Scynthor]

Is there a collection of stories read from the wider Dream Cycle? This edition is fantastic because I've been looking for non-core Mythos stories, but I'd also love a compilation of Dreamlands material not written by Lovecraft himself :)

[@exoblivione6086]

Can you recommend the names of any? They sound cool.

[@jeffkenamon1806]

@@exoblivione6086 Check out Brian Lumley. He wrote a few novels that take place in the Dreamlands.

[@snappa_tv]

I know Ian has made a complete dream cycle video. But I am unsure if there are any authors in it other than lovecraft. Definitely worth a watch though if you haven’t seen it yet

[@samuelesanfilippo222]

is there any compiled whole of the dream cicle and various collection made by lovecraft and affiliate?

[@sigmasix3719]

@@jeffkenamon1806 god no they are awful 😵‍💫

[@reyesraine]

I'm trying real hard to listen to the Guardian of the Book tale, I really am, but the second it was established the Old Ones treated this as some game, the entire time the main character was trying to fight reading the book I kept imagining the old ones like some college frat group sitting around a dusty basement with their red solo cups of beer shouting READ READ READ- and groaning in defeat whenever he held back XD

[@ScullyPopASMR]

ONe of the best narrators.

[@Kai-er4yh]

I fell asleep TWICE and I had a dream about a deathclaw outside my window.

[@scottmiller2591]

2:50:05 - President Calvin Coolidge was known as "Silent Cal."

[@nebojsag.5871]

The Guardian of the Book is surprisingly good. A modern take on the motif of Faustus selling his soul for knowledge.

[@tikkidaddy]

Well.done mon ami😎😁

[@benwrigley6176]

Nice.

[@lyrianmaximus4561]

Vote Cthulhu 2024!

[@Jamb13]

I can't help but notice how much the cthulhu mythos and Lovecraft's other works parallel certain aspects of metaphysics and spirituality Dream like mystical experiences and altered states of consciousness, revealing forbidden knowledge and indescribable encounters with that which lies outside reality... Azathoth the blind idiot God dreaming up the Universe? Strange coincidence 👀

[@sooner3034]

ty

[@BandyAndysExcellentEssays]

I love how Settlers Wall mentions things within the mythos without calling them by name, so you only get the reference if you're paying attention

[@elizabthharris6741]

Ok, these really help my sleep. I don't really dream, due to trauma and insomnia/night terrors. Trained myself to not dream...., but have a few times with these readings lately. Thank you!

[@Bonphomet]

Surprisingly this stuff is better than asmr and I love listening

[@sigmasix3719]

asmr?"?

[@sigmasix3719]

It reminds me of gyzq.

[@sigmasix3719]

Could even be bfnsyxt don't you think

[@pantherdddjvdgx]

2:28:00 lol a reference to the annoying part of my favorite tale, the Shadow Over Innsmouth

[@calvinmaynardtmt]

There’s a neat Easter Egg at 2:20:08 for any Steven King fans!

[@pantherdddjvdgx]

Please upload this to spotify.

[@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves]

Aren't all Cthulhu Mythos tales obscure, if not occult? Cheers from the obscurity of death -- Warren!

[@Eris123451]

"Wait what was that; was that a rabbit Warren ?"

[@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves]

@@Eris123451 -- Whatever it was, it would appeal to HPL, as he was always burrowing under the earth! Cheers Wrascally Warren, who yet lives but is currently La Bas!

[@Xbalanque84]

You should read _The Plain of Sound_ by Ramsey Campbell.

[@HorrorBabble]

We’ve been trying to secure permission to record some RC stories for a while now… You never know!

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@@HorrorBabblewon't he go along with it ?

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Who does the stellar artwork for Horror Babble?

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No single artist really -- we've been using Midjourney lately, alongside the usual reworked public domain images, in additional to a handful of artists who we work with when we can afford to: Duncan Kay, Noah Herring, M. Grant Kellermeyer, Vishnu Prasad, amongst others.

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@@HorrorBabble haha I knew it! I was messing around with midjourney like 6 months ago and thought it would be an awesome resource for a channel like yours. I’ve got some neat king in yellow images out of it.

[@PaladinOfNerds]

“I don’t think I want to read the Necronomicon, after all.” Sounds like the title of a manga.

[@sigmasix3719]

Manga is a cosmic abomination of pure drivel

[@GamingNinja132]

If anyone needs an idea for something to doodle, I want to get a Lovecraft sleeve tattoo. The only real idea I have at the moment is having Cthulhu or some other central creature, head on my shoulder with several other monsters lined up down my arm, like a Cartoon Network crossover announcement if that helps at all. Don't have any money to pay for it, but if you're bored and wanna draw, would much appreciate some basic doodles

[@BubblesXplode]

Right, can someone help me? I'm confused as to what happened to the wall.

[@jameelalihosein187]

I didn't watch the time...thinking it'll be like those 20min videos..nice

[@colingarber2121]

My man

[@RaptorTroll360]

That last story was so predictable from the beginning, brain surgeon gets cucked by big fish cawck. Once you go fish, you never go back. Cassandra gets F I S H E D. The meme potential of the story unveiled by my broken sense of humor ruined any suspense or sense of horror, still I enjoyed it immensely.

[@unseenuniversity9832]

Anyone know the name of the story where it ends with the person not remembering if they closed a box before throwing it into the depths?

[@3lue_Lynx]

Bookmark 1:56:22

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

If I could trouble you, Mr. Ian, what were you attempting to pronounce at 08:10 , in reference to forbidden literature? The closed captions describe it as "researcher" but, that's not what you said. Thank you.

[@HorrorBabble]

That'll be "recherché"

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

@@HorrorBabble Thank you for that, and for all of your content, sir. Do keep up the good work; we appreciate it and the audio-literary service you've done for horror aficionados the world over. Gods bless you and your family this coming holiday season and may you have enough petrol and wood to endure the winter! 👍

[@sigmasix3719]

@@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.it means wanted

[@ukcats82]

In "Settlers Wall" did anyone catch the Derry reference? I dont know if its King's Derry though

[@HArryvajonas]

Can anyone recommend modern writers or books that resemble H.P. Lovecraft?

[@AceneDean]

Personally, I loved The Fisherman by John Langan. I haven't read his other stuff, but that one was great. Brian Lumley isn't entirely modern, but he is VERY Lovecraftian and more modern than Lovecraft.

[@HArryvajonas]

@@AceneDean Thanks, I think Jeff VanDermeer's Southern Reach trilogy and a couple books by Peter Clines, are the closest I have found for contemporary writers. I will look up your recommendation. To add, Jeff VanDermeer's Amerbgris short story anthology, is also Lovecraftian with the added bonus of small mushroom people, being the main protagonists. ( kind of reminiscent of a Dark Tower// Lovecraft story, very cool).

[@AceneDean]

@@HArryvajonas Don't forget good ol' Ian Gordon. ;)

[@jrobertlysaght]

Caitlin Kiernan has some fantastic stories. "Andromeda among the stones" being my favorite. The trilogy starting with Threshold have the feel of innsmouth to it. And if you want direct tributes to Lovecraft, I recommend the series of short stories collected by S.T. Josti titled "Black Wings of Cthulhu" six big collections, enough for some to be hit or miss but still give you a lot of great entries. And last but not least, Ellen Datlow's 'The Devil and the Deep" collection has some amazing stories in it.

[@HArryvajonas]

@@jrobertlysaght Great, thank you!