"Out of the Aeons" by H. P. Lovecraft / Artifacts of Horror

[@AmericanMartyr720]

I never get tired of hearing "the dreaded and monstrous necronomicon, of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred"

[@David-og7di]

13.55 brilliant blasphemy.

[@無教会内村]

After listening to several of these, I'm convinced "The Dreaded and Monstrous Necronomicon, of the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred[™️]" is the only proper way to refer to it now.

[@nicholaschamberlain6239]

I prefer to call it "The black book of the Mad Arab, Abdhul al-Hazred and his wicked findings".

[@FirCorred]

@@nicholaschamberlain6239 Is it acceptable to call it "I want to read that!"?

[@zhollamychalis4252]

Yeah but does this book really permit itself to be read?

[@sterlingnilssen5812]

I'm addicted to the narrations with this voice. They help me sleep when sleep feels impossible.

[@michaeljorden8968]

We

[@RolandWieffering1]

The same with me, and especially the Cthulhu mythos stories. They bring me in a twilight, zone close to sleep.... Welcome to the club.

[@robertjohnson-kj8vj]

The shwarmi putra guy is randolph carter after he comes back to earth in the bug body from i think yuggoth. (Gate of the silver key)The description of him fits perfectly.

[@MalcolmBrenner]

More like a crustacean than an insect, I think. I wonder if he had to have his antennae trimmed to fit in that waxen human mask? Must have been painful...

[@Xbalanque84]

I figured the "swami" was a worm that walks, like the mute wizard from The Festival.

[@bobbymarcum772]

Yes, who wears absurd white mittens these days aside from wax-like swamis

[@tonlito22]

The oldest and most powerful emotion is fear, and the oldest and most powerful fear is fear of museum patrons.

[@Plankensen]

as seen in ancient cave-paintings about the ancient horrors: Alien taxmen, queues, bureaucrats writing on stone-slabs. and the above-mentioned horrible...inexplainable terror that comes from the museum patrons

[@AndrewMaksym]

Lon strickler?

[@icecremeswirlieeee]

Is this Night Vale?

[@MalcolmBrenner]

@@Plankensen Pardon me, but the whole story about proto-bureaucrats "writing on stone slabs" is not only preposterous, but unscientific! The earliest example of real writing we have is in early Babylonian curneiform on a clay tablet, and appears to be a piece of graffiti: "The King has a drinking problem, the High Priest gets high, and the Queen has a K9 lover." The significance of the symbol for K9 isn't known, but experts believe it relates to a worshipper of Anubis, the jackal-headed god.

[@Plankensen]

@@MalcolmBrenner It's a joke. :P i thought that was very self-said, yet here we are.

[@matineemike]

Thank you, Ian; you are simply the best curator and narrator of weird tales!

[@katdroidd]

Another thoroughly enjoyable reading from Ian! Also, I do not consider any tale officially Lovecraftian until I hear the word "cyclopian".

[@labellafleur6262]

Not to mention non-euclidian

[@StarboyXL9]

its almost Lovecraft's signature

[@JamesMC04]

Or "blasphemous".

[@StrikeTheSkyline]

You almost forgot cacodaemoniacal

[@kdoran04]

Gambrel roofs is everywhere.

[@primus7776]

I love falling asleep to this stuff. Best nightcap ever!

[@corinnejohnson8501]

That's what I'm doing right now :)

[@adsmithh2578]

Same it's perfect!

[@helenwhite2066]

If your lucky it may inform your dreams and engender an interesting nightmare.

[@chrishalliday8371]

One of the finest tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, superbly delivered. Delicious!

[@urbex_cr5063]

This is isn't his most famous work, but is definitely my favorite! This story is so captivating and intriguing, I love that fact that makes you want a 2nd part, but that would ruin all the mystery and imagination where your mind takes you after finishing it.

[@corygiesbrecht5423]

Just wanted to say, "thank you for sharing your time and talent to produce this channel".

[@HorrorBabble]

Thank you Cory!

[@micahfoley9572]

preach, brother

[@TheHappyhorus]

Many thanks again team, where would our nights be without you. ❤❤

[@donrussell1606]

My goodness, I've just been going through your archives. You have so many horror tales I do believe I can spend the rest of my like listening to one a day. Thank you so much. I love horror tales. I believe I'll work on Edgar Allan Poe next. He has always been a favorite of mine

[@HorrorBabble]

And there's plenty more yet to come Don - thanks for joining us on the journey! Ian

[@karehhartig7287]

Don Russell ha ha ha ! Right !?

[@AnAmericanComposer]

Cancel all my appointments for the next hour!!

[@SwedetasticGames]

This is by far the most terrifying work of H.P.L I've heard until now. What an absolute masterpiece.

[@HorrorBabble]

It's one of my favourites too, Jonathan. Ian

[@MalcolmBrenner]

I remember how, as a 10-year-old, the Hans Christian Anderson story "The Little Girl Who Stood On The Loaf," which has a similar theme of a transgressive person frozen for aeons in the same position, utterly terrified me! And I was a boy, who really didn't need to add morbid fears to his long list of problems! I am sure if I'd encountered this HPL story at that age, it would have made me even more neurotic than I am!

[@NGRevenant]

being trapped in your own mind for 175,000 years doesn't sound very fun

[@MalcolmBrenner]

@@NGRevenant May I remind you that you're never alone with a schizophrenic?

[@CJM-rg5rt]

​@@NGRevenantit's so disturbing that as they were passing around the scroll they said the mummies eyes were bulging. Knowing it was right there in front of him.

[@Beastinvader]

This would make for such a good movie. The problem with Lovecraft in movie is showing the evil being. In this story you never have to show it. Only glimpse it once.

[@R.I.H]

Just in case you haven't heard of saw this game called bloodborne Check it out I think some of the monsters are as close as you can get to describing the indescribable horror Game loosely based on certain Lovecraft stories

[@johnphilipfelipe4542]

OH my eyes are open. Fear the blood, fear the old blood.

[@orangeiceice12]

My only problem with horror babble's lovecraft collection is finding something I haven't listened to at least twice.

[@KatherineMathiowetz]

Yeah I sadly he died way before his time if he was 47 That's only 2 years older than I am now so imagine what he could have wrote if he lived longer but I never get tired of hearing him most I have trouble with knowing what once he wrote by himself and wrote with other people I need to find something to help me distinguish between the two

[@andromalius9595]

Didn't expect it to be as good as it was. Also isnt it weird how everyone in Lovecraft's stories know about the necronomicon dispite it supposedly being a rare and secret text?

[@LTPottenger]

Merely knowing about it puts you in the ranks of the accursed

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

It is in several major universities so it is probably well known among occult students of the setting.

[@MarcusHCrawford]

It’s a common enough book among academics-especially those at Arkham University. There are other volumes and folios that are less known and much more dangerous within the mythos, but the Necronomicon seems to be one of those books skeptics refuse to indulge, the superstitious are scared to, and the knowing acolytes of the occult who trade in secrets are unwilling to publicize that such a simple and mundane thing could contain such revelations as it does. This combination of factors seems to keep it in circulation, despite most not knowing what evil lurks within its pages. - Me rationalizing a bit of inconsistency on something so dangerous and powerful being so common.

[@0therun1t21]

That's one hell of a living sculpture in the video, if I'm seeing it right. This story crept into my dream in the form of my cat's paws, they had tentacle like suction power and my cat was like the mummy but still adorable. He kept hunting my hand and trapping my fingers between his paws, it felt really weird, my ex was there and I woke up.

[@melparadise7378]

homeboy had no mouth and he needed to scream. hoohoohoo

[@colefranklin27]

Mel Paradise the matrix borrowed from this..

[@TransRoofKorean]

Yeah, that was my thought revisiting this story, that it's very reminiscent of that story. Presaged it by a few decades.

[@davidwhite7294]

Well done Ian. I asked for this one a while back because there is no other decent narration of this story. The only trouble is that, as with the Dreams in the Witch House with Brown Jenkin, l now want my own Ghatanathoa so l can take him out for a waddle down the High Street where he can bring terror and petrifaction to the inhabitants of Deptford.....excellent.

[@stevepalpatine2828]

Genetically engineered Brown Jenkin companions are the pet of the future.

[@jamiecameron7615]

Finishing off this brilliant series with H.P is just perfect. You have made my day!! Thank you very much!!

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks as always Jamie! Ian

[@skywyzeparanormal7934]

This is my favorite Lovecraft story. Thank you for reading it and this channel.

[@Runeinc]

THANK YOU! My favourite of all of Lovecrafts work!

[@hellhammer7444]

I'll never be able to read Lovecraft without hearing your voice narrating it. Thank you for all your hard work.

[@donaldmccleary9015]

This is an amazing story. This story NEVER gets old! I listened to it slowly today and rewound parts to pick out all the details. This is an amazing work of art. This is a well-written story. I love the links and references to other mythos stories and "books of the mythos." There are many links to other stories included in this. Fantastic narration, as always. To be that way for 173,000+ years! Well-done!

[@philbertdez3863]

Great Scott! Brilliant production values and an excellent voice/reader make this adaptation well worth listening to. Keep up the awesome work.

[@austencobine864]

I have been waiting for this for a while. Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@RolandWieffering1]

Very good how the healing power of the Real Scroll is described. Without mentioning it straight out. Everybody who reads it knows that the strange stiffening feeling disappeared after handling the true Scroll. Well done, it's one of my favorite stories by HPL and HH. I still hope for the Trail of Cthulhu, complete. There are some loose stories available. I would like to hear from "The House on Curwen street" up to the "Black Island". But Copy right is probably difficult. All the best to you Both.

[@HorrorBabble]

Artifacts of Horror Episode 6: Out of the Aeons Written by American authors, H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, the tale focuses on a Boston museum that displays an ancient mummy recovered from a sunken island. Chapters: 00:27 - Introduction 00:58 - Part One 14:59 - Part Two 21:53 - Part Three 39:41 - Part Four 53:43 - Part Five Bandcamp link: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-the-aeons Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble Music: "Red Limbo Spread" by Ian Gordon Support us on Bandcamp or Patreon: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com www.patreon.com/horrorbabble HorrorBabble MERCH: teespring.com/stores/horrorbabble-merch Search HORRORBABBLE to find us on: AUDIBLE / ITUNES / SPOTIFY Home: www.horrorbabble.com Rue Morgue: www.rue-morgue.com Social Media: facebook.com/HorrorBabble instagram.com/horrorbabble twitter.com/HorrorBabble

[@truthspirit4433]

The Doors - 5 to 1 H.o P.e Lovecraft ^ Hazel Heal'd Are You Hip to the Stars? StarsHip kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaWrgaamncxsrsUsi=f9Spmy3YfTsTqO7L Waiting For The Sun 🌞 ☀️ 🌅

[@MTheBasementReader]

I think I found my new favorite channel 😀❤

[@kenneth83DK]

Thx for another wierd and wonderful tale, told as if it came from the crypt itself.

[@bittybitty8233]

I'm so happy to see your sub's growing !! 😸

[@JohnLemieux]

If you enjoyed this I recommend a film called the autopsy of Jane doe which I suspect drew inspiration from this story

[@HorrorBabble]

Love that film, John!

[@jerryjohnson8485]

It had to have! A lot of inspiration

[@Xbalanque84]

Thanks for the recommendation. Will have to check it out later.

[@strange1420]

I love that Pickmans curator position was mentioned here to broaden the lore

[@mahorosan1]

fuuuuuuuuuuu man that last part still sends shivers up my spine. legit couldn't finish it till the next day

[@bittybitty8233]

Me too !! 💜💚💛💙💕😸😸😸. I've enjoyed this series SOOO. MUCH.....TY 😳

[@fnamelname9077]

I love this one. Great reading, as well!

[@prince-solomon]

This story is fascinating & well narrated.

[@ernestschultz5065]

Excellent

[@smegcity]

Just Listened to This, What can i say?. Fantastic That's What!! Strength to Strength Ian🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@HorrorBabble]

Thank you once again, sir! This is one of my favourites. Ian

[@christyrollins8009]

Scary geez wtf but awesome nonethe less thanks for the great story excellent reading

[@Tekel-Upharsin]

Possibly the scariest, most disturbing, body horror story of all time. I remember being highly disturbed by Cain's brain scene in the 1990 Sci-fi film RoboCop 2 the first time I watched it as a kid (sadly I can't link to the video directly in this comment because it's flagged as mature content - but you can easily find the scene via a simple KZbin search). Lovecraft was somehow able to take a similar disturbing concept to a completely different level 55 years prior. Hazel Heald couldn't have selected a better author to collaborate with. I don't know how much of the story Lovecraft had to edit and adapt to get the final result, but her foundation was obviously solid enough for Lovecraft to turn it into a masterpiece.

[@doktorwyvern2883]

Wonderful

[@NightAngelus]

Keep coming back to this one since you guys posted it. So awesome and the ending man. Love your channel. Sucks what happened to you guys. So messed up hopefully you can find a solution that works the best for you.

[@daviddanielducker5446]

what happened?

[@vero0992]

I keep trying to listen to this one (and I think I've read it before) but that mummy is freaking me out! 😅 I'm laughing at myself over it. I'll try again during daylight hours!

[@HorrorBabble]

It *is* pretty appalling Vero! Ha! Ian

[@Mi-yc3oy]

“curator pickman”? 🎩 surely, that’s not by accident.

[@chrisrobo1]

He did manage to become a gouhl. Is a meusiam curator that far off?

[@Calvin300clan]

Its in a lot of my favorite stories 2

[@Xbalanque84]

I think there's more than one Pickman in New England.

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Became? Wasn't he a changeling and a born ghoul?

[@ExterminatusDeliveryService]

17:23 I love this. Just absolute murder of newspaper coverage.

[@vero0992]

Hey guys great thanks a lot (spoilers) It was more horrible than I thought! The picture of that mummy matches the description perfectly AND there was a dude trapped in it at the end?? Eww! I hate the thought of being trapped in an inanimate object for all eternity. And when I was a kid my mom took my took me to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, which I'm just reading now was founded by the esoteric Rosicrucian Order, and they had a freaky mummy and all kinds of other stuff. There was actually an ad for it in one of the old "Weird Tales" I looked up. What! Thanks mom! Excellent reading!

[@HorrorBabble]

Sounds like the kind of thing my mum would have exposed me to if she had had the chance! No wonder we have such 'dark' interests nowadays...! Ian

[@seanchds9750]

Amazing story, especially the ending

[@Aroundthesquarebowl]

Thank you ❤

[@tommeakin1732]

I've only just started listening to some of Lovecraft's stories, and I've just realised how many Lovecraft references there are in Fallout 4.... ^^

[@highatlastdabs8000]

Tom Meakin yup there’s a whole lot in fallout 3 and 4

[@Keiththebullfrog1916]

Not to mention far harbor dlc

[@MalcolmBrenner]

Woe betide those who have ripped-off The Master, ever since Roger Corman in the early 1960's! Now. Lovecraftiana has become a major media industry!

[@tommeakin1732]

@@MalcolmBrenner I may be misunderstanding, but it sounds like you're implying that references to Lovecraft equate to ripping-off Lovecraft? I appreciate that there can be a fine line between paying homage, building upon something revolutionary, and just plain copying - but the things I'm referring to are most definitely homage

[@MalcolmBrenner]

@@tommeakin1732 It's sarcasm, of a sort, because it's true. Lovecraft is popular, in large part, is because nobody pays royalties to use his stories.

[@robbabcock_]

Terrific performance!

[@bingomat1980]

Without further ado...................... ..................................... lol. Had me hanging. Thanks for the vid.

[@HorrorBabble]

We do that a lot...!

[@scottmitchell1974]

Wow! Awesome! That one was really good.

[@Folker46590]

This one could be made into a short film very easily.

[@Minerva734]

I like the ghost writings he did with Hazel Heald. All of them =-)

[@philipclements8505]

Recently discovered and loving every minute of it .

[@michellesanctuary9089]

Amazing Work! ☕

[@MrsCaranAmy]

This was an incredible tale. Fantastic reading. Thanks Ian.

[@Lucid_Death]

One of Lovecrafts best IMLTHO. Great job Ian/HB.

[@pbr-streetgang]

Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼🖖🏼

[@andilucas6926]

What a perfect image to illustrate this story! (shudder)

[@G1ace]

H.P Lovecraft is AWESOME!

[@micahfoley9572]

I wish my name came with an awesome title like, "the mad arab". That's basically exactly as i want to be remembered. Seriously, coolest title in weird literature. Even cooler than "the crawling chaos", which is already double awesome.

[@slim-yin]

Thanks again.

[@Mality]

Imagining the suffering of Ty'og gave me a rough night. What a horrible fate!

[@jacksonvillereclaimedwood6709]

This guy is s great reader. He could make the phone book sound great!

[@PoFFizdaMan]

Wow.. the descriptions of the cult in the 3rd section are on par with Tolkien's lore in names and terminology.

[@DieselWeazel]

Great read.

[@PlayNiceFolks]

I enjoy strolling the lonesome nite within the woods of Red Dead Redemption 2 while listening to such tales.

[@Morboeatspeople]

Went through the ages intact, just to be vivisected :( I wonder if this was on King's mind, when he wrote Autopsy Room(?)...

[@iunary]

Wow this is terrifying^^ well done

[@danbreeden1801]

Great story and well told

[@guilledcf1547]

ghatanothoa is such an underrated eldritch abomination

[@MusKubium]

the gravity of what they found is so well laid out by the story after they open the skull at the end, I would probably have shit myself if i were in the room while it happened

[@DeadHix]

How I wish I have a voice like yours Ian

[@HorrorBabble]

You probably haven't heard me in the real world...!

[@DeadHix]

I could imagine you talk like when you are reading in real world.

[@tomchips8297]

5:48 fear and loathing

[@autystycznybudda5012]

When I hear your voice I imagine Alex Delarge from Clockwork Orange

[@thomfarrell9567]

Singin' in the rain? 👽

[@MalcolmBrenner]

And the foolish claim that Stanley Kubrick is dead!

[@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979]

Press 1 for most excellent story Press 2 for most excellent non fiction story

[@vivanecrosis]

I dreamt last night of hellish demonic abominations that would make any a sane man weep in horror. Obviously caused by listening to your videos until 5am, and then going to bed. I thank you.

[@nicholaschamberlain6239]

I always loved H.P. Lovecraft stories, in fact, I have been thinking of writing a little novel series in a similar style as both the author and Edgar Allan Poe, however, I have not thought of a title..... yet but I'm not giving up on it, although, one idea gives me the name "Dark Alleys of Cthulu and the bar of the Outer Gods." Idk, give me feedback by comment.

[@darkkrafter]

I cant wait to listen to it

[@bravingsirens2804]

Thanks for introducing me to Lovecraft's works. What's the name of this image?

[@HorrorBabble]

It's a photograph of a mummy found in Peru I believe.

[@primus7776]

Oh I LOVE this! Read it first in the early 80's. Fabulous1

[@dvynthetraveler9509]

take a shot every time Lovecraft uses the word "cyclopean" in any of his stories. JFC lol

[@michaelchitwood389]

When i can afford a 4 day hangover, i shall get right on it!

[@Kitsaplorax]

So long as it is eldritch, squamous, non-euclidean and indescribable, it's good with me.

[@StarboyXL9]

He does tend to repeat himself, which funny enough has given me cause to try and deliberately make liberal use of a thesaurus while writing. I'm not a fan of constantly repeating myself using the same diction, and thanks to the Internet I can have a thesaurus on demand at any time.

[@micahfoley9572]

I do a happy dance whenever ian says "the mad arab". Coolest epitaph EVER.

[@notinspectorgadget]

that's what happens when you get paid by syllable.

[@countiblis1246]

Eleven uses of the word cyclopean. Even for Lovecraft that's laying it on pretty thick.

[@Scenereans]

@horrorbabble Thank you for your lovely videos, as always! I wanted to ask if you've ever done Lovecrafts "The picture in the house?" I can't seem to find one that I like as much as your narrations.

[@HorrorBabble]

Hi Rena - it's scheduled for December! :) Ian

[@johnfrickstad4945]

It is interesting that Science pushes back human history with every new discovery..... Once again, fiction precedes discovery of the natural world. I wonder what Lovecraft and others would make of these new discoveries....

[@MalcolmBrenner]

Stories, my friend, wonderful, horrible, gut-wrenching, mind-melting stories of eldritch things, which have no names, bursting from the primordial, ooze-filled depths of the fecund Earth!

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Poor ancient heroic and tragic priest, he did not deserve such a horrid end.

[@vgamedude12]

Then these idiot humans cut him open and operate on him when one of the guys knew with 90 percent certainty he was alive. Absolutely horrible. Then they don't even try to save them with the scroll even after everything they saw. Unbelievable ignorance.

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Morally repugnant is what they are. If they hadn't dissected them, they could be saved at a later date at least.

[@Calvin300clan]

Thank you

[@maunderjape8365]

Thank you for your hard work. What is that an image of? Creepy as hell.

[@TheTalemaster]

Out of the Aeons...I'm coming for you!

[@HorrorBabble]

I'd love to hear your take on this one, sir!

[@Courage_girl13]

*final thing happens* Me: was not expecting that. But then again I expect the unexpected so it doesn't count

[@RolandWieffering1]

If something this contagious would break out, only can be cured by a scroll.... Man that would be something...

[@HorrorBabble]

Yikes...

[@RolandWieffering1]

@@HorrorBabble That would be the right reaction in such a situation...... Yikes! (with a tongue in cheek) have a good day pal. (Laughing is the best medicine there is) C. U.

[@questorincompetus8841]

They sound like detective halligen from mystery of the druids.

[@MissChristine-wo6vp]

What is the name of the sculpture used for this audiobook? Does anyone know?

[@robertwalker-smith2739]

This is like HPL writing a Lovecraft pastiche. Almost embarrassingly entertaining.

[@WowUsernameAvailable]

An interesting take on the Medusa mythos.

[@Kine-re6nq]

Does anyone know whats up with that screaming mummy image?