Nyarlathotep - H P Lovecraft

[@Gisburne2000]

@GirLuffer I've been criticised elsewhere for using what has been described as a monotone, but 'emotionless' is exactly the effect I am looking for. I love reading HPL out loud and that's how I interpret this kind of story. Thanks for listening :o)

[@IulianusTabernarius]

Nyarlathotep is easily my favorite lovcraftian deity, an ageless shape shifting Pharaoh incarnation of chaos who brings with him knowledge that drives all insane, whereas others in the mythos are beyond human, beyond human concerns, and beyond comprehension Nyarlathotep waxes diabolical, he comes in the form of a man, and he comes with a message for man, and that message destroys men. We fear Cthulhu and azathoth for their form, we fear nyarlathotep for his nature.

[@campetrie6562]

yeah I am all about Nyar.

[@confusedwolf7157]

You hsve met this deity?

[@JanusHoW]

Nyarlathotep has some pretty scary, sanity-demolishing forms in his repertoire - The God of the Bloody Tongue, The Haunter of the Dark, The Bloated Woman, The Dark Demon, and others. He just likes to appear human because he enjoys toying with us.

[@_usamimi]

Your voice is amazing - the "emotionless" sound gives it a serious, yet creepy vibe. Nice job!

[@reptomicus]

What I like about this story is that it seems almost like an epilogue to his mythos stories. The mythos in his other stories( like Call of Cthulhu, Dunwich, etc.) sort of has rumblings that the end is sort of inching slowly toward us, but here the end has been blown wide open in a gaping abyss and is swallowing us up even as the narrator tells the story. In making a Lovecraft anthology, I'd stick this story at the end of the book.

[@Luciffrit]

Your voice is not monotone but is very constant. Your phrasing and annunciation makes it so easy to understand which is the most important aspect of reading aloud.

[@jeffkais]

Nyarlathotep is the most fascinating due to his interest and involvement in human affairs he is the horror within

[@faktumstream1beatz335]

im in 2 minutes and ive heard like 10 new adjectives ive never heard of before

[@AniKaiful]

The first moment I was about to dismiss this, but then the story caught on, almost hypnotic... and I couldn't stop listening...

[@Gripfang]

@Gisburne2000 I'm really enjoying what you're doing at the moment. Maybe other Mythos authors? Your voice is so wonderfully suited to read Lovecraft. If I really had to make a request: Rats in the Walls or The Cats of Ulthar.

[@9digitNo]

Nyarlathotep for president !

[@TheDustyMuffinsss]

pretty sure Donald Trump is already running

[@J_Tramel]

+TheDustyMuffinsss What if Nyarlethotep IS Trump?!

[@MonoXideAtWork]

I love your readings. Please keep them up. Lovecraft is timeless.

[@drkinferno72]

Enough of Cthulhu, I want to know more about Nyarlathotep.

[@Chinaboatman]

+drkinferno72 Then read 'Dream Quest of unknown Kadath', 'The Haunter of the Dark', 'The Whisperer in Darkness' and 'Dreams in the Witch House'.

[@Neotokyovibes-WelcomeHome]

+Chinaboatman can you explain this story to me?

[@Chinaboatman]

'Nyarlathotep'? Or one of the ones I mentioned?

[@Neotokyovibes-WelcomeHome]

Chinaboatman nyarlathotep

[@attreusmani-iu5586]

It's about how Nyarlathotep destroys humanity by fulfilling its greatest aspirations.

[@theleninistplaysgames1682]

the piping and drumming of the servants of the mindless demon sultan Azathoth whose harbinger is Nyarlathotep

[@chinchin2121]

They're not his followers. They are desperatly trying to keep him asleep.

[@DeathG4n]

Nyarlathotep is insanely powerful

[@ShoggothPhaedra]

Read with excellent intonation and enunciation, creating atmosphere.

[@ArchOfOblihvion]

This was simply amazing Nick. Thank you so much for giving us so much amazing work. If I may suggest another Lovecraftian piece to tackle if you feel the urge, could it be "The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath"? I know its a tad long, but I will assure you your fans will rejoice :D

[@robertofranco]

All the intro... is the feeling we have this days with the Corona virus. A strange feeling of constant apprehension.. In the control of unknown gods or forces

[@gargoyles9999]

Little Cthulhu visits egypt to see little Nyarlathotep, he's called the crawling chaos cause he can't walk yet. Adventures of Lil Cthulhu

[@Gisburne2000]

@NullspaceNomad It's something I've thought about but it's very hard work and I'm a very lazy person! I also make a lot of mistakes when I'm reading out loud - the editing involved is horrendous, so doing that kind of work for someone else wouldn't be very productive. However if I find a way of overcoming all these obstacles I'll definitely be up for it. Thanks for your comment.

[@jamessimmons8657]

Gisburne2000, what?

[@Gisburne2000]

I really got into this one, which is why the volume is higher than normal! Big thanks to ZachValkyrie for suggesting I record it.

[@NFT2]

The Outsider was always my favorite Lovecraft story- you should read that one, Nick. The end really throws you for a loop.

[@luthermcgee432]

The voice alone keeps me transfixed. Better than many another.

[@Gisburne2000]

@NFT2 It's on my list now - I'll see what I can do as soon as I can. More doom, fear and chaos will follow!

[@jamessimmons8657]

Doom, fear and chaos! What! Bullshit!

[@ssgoko88]

Oh wow. I listened to the dream theater song "Dark Eternal Night" and wowie was i shocked to hear "through the stifling night and up the endless stairs into the choking room. And shadowed on a screen, I saw hooded forms amidst ruins, and yellow evil faces peering from behind fallen monuments" that's almost word for word lines from the song. Really cool!

[@jamessteckel5379]

Lot of Lovecraft influences have been in metal songs. Metallica 'thing that should not be' is my favorite example.

[@drhexagonapus]

funny that's my least favorite example

[@jamessteckel5379]

drhexagonapus opinions are neat like that.

[@johnbella2422]

FUN FACT: The term " yellow evil faces" has been used in literature between the 1850's and the 1950's. It Refers to jaundice and sin-pitted faces, not race.

[@Chinaboatman]

@soulhunter59 For sure, the story is surreal and open to interpretation, which is probably why you get little response about it.

[@Artisanprophet]

you really made my skin crawl from horror...your gifted

[@Gisburne2000]

@ZachValkyrie Yep, I was in the mood today! I think that's the first time I've ever made 3 videos in one day. More Lovecraft to come... unless anyone has any other requests?

[@jamessimmons8657]

Gisburne2000, your voice is magnificent! Wow!

[@NullspaceNomad]

Simply outstanding...

[@Infraclear]

That was absolutely powerful.

[@elrollo]

listen to this in another tab while watching this, epic creepiness ensues

[@MariusThePaladin]

Haiyore !, Nyaruko-san !!!

[@jamessimmons8657]

What is that?

[@tairahurtubise6642]

Barnes & Noble online if you happen to be American, Chapters online if Canadian, Pages if in the UK. May I recommend the Necronomicon collection, as well as Eldritch Tales - both of these will give you a complete HPL collection.

[@nyarlathotepthecrawlingcha1844]

Glorious...

[@Fudgaboutit]

Okay, now this is a reading I like. I don't like how "The Call of Cthulhu" is read elsewhere on youtube, but this is an example of a good reading. Great voice, and great reading. I found this to be a particularly disturbing Lovecraft story, and your reading helps recapture the feeling of reading it the first time. I can't say enough how well this was done. This reading is almost perfect.

[@jamessimmons8657]

Humph!

[@machinezerosixty]

amazing, subbed without thinking... was it even me... am I in control of my mind, my choices, are they my own...

[@CarpeMetus]

Very good read! I put this on while working and in an otherwise dead silent room it was a totally creep read well done!

[@jamessimmons8657]

CarpeMetus, humph!

[@DancerVeiled]

You have an exceptional gift for reading and narrating. I am however, somewhat distraught that despite H.P. Lovecraft's fame, I find his works so incredibly pretentious that reading them myself is almost painful. Thanks.

[@omaralmeyda942]

+DancerVeiled I loath to agree. But "pretentious" hits the nail right on the head. Reminds me of everything I envision Victorian era pseudo-aristocracy to be. I know not why. Its amazing, and very creative. But it does seem almost smug in a way. Quite the observation there. I will have to agree.

[@tenhirankei]

It seems at times while he wrote he thought to himself, "I am more intelligent than the drooling mass of humanity. I dare them to try to understand my brilliance which will blind their eyes." It is fortunate for him that he contained this often enough to manage to be popular among "the drooling mass". Otherwise his would be a sad footnote in literary history.

[@tenhirankei]

Maybe the problem with it is in its brevity. Lovecraft tried to cram so much into something so short that it comes out as a "tongue-twister" for the mind. (Did I say that right?)

[@unrulycrow6299]

DancerVeiled While I agree with you (no matter how much it annoys me haha), I must say that his writing style in itself is at least less pretentious than R. Scott Bakker (The Prince of Nothing/The Aspect-Emperor series). I mean. I really like Bakker's lore but I find his writing style both awesome and on a new level of intellectual masturbation (basically, a love/hate relationship with this guy's work). On the other hand, I appreciate very much that Lovecraft decided to go to the point in his stories.

[@cha5]

Visitormassacre I don’t either, On the other hand J.R.R Tolkien at times grates on me unlike any other writer when it comes to sanctimoniousness and pomposity at times even though I do respect his Hobbi book and LOTR trilogy.

[@Mictla155]

Very well done.

[@zytigon]

Have you tried the superb books by Robert M Price: 'The new lovecraft circle' & Ramsay Campbell, "Tales of the lovecraft mythos" & "Ashes & others H.P. lovecraft & divers hands". Another excellent book by R. M. Price is, ' The reason driven life '

[@ZachValkyrie]

Damn! That was quick!

[@CHRIS1974100]

Nice reading

[@Chinaboatman]

@soulhunter59 This is, in my opinion, is Lovecraft's most horific story by far. It is also one of his best pieces of writing; I feel his ideas are better than his somewhat ponderous writing a lot of the time, but not here. It's short and sweet and not too overblown with adjective. There is not enough scope in KZbin comments to adequately discuss the story but if you PM me I will be happy to, when I have some free time to do so (it could be a while before I respond, which i apologize for).

[@soulhunter59]

So what is Nyarlathotep brainwashing the people in the room turning them into his followers? Are they seeing things that have not yet happened but see the world what it will be? Are the flutes sirens when a city is being attacked? Is the city he is in devastated by war? I read Lovecraft when I'm asked to but when it comes time to discuss the work the people who told me to read it can't seem to talk about it. Come on guys let's talk about why it's scary?

[@antwan1357]

I discovered that hp lovecraft seems to purposefully leave certain well placed things up for the reader to interpret for themselves so you get two people who can read the same book and each will have what they think is the scarier idea ,but in a way creates problems for fact fanatics , but the casual reader delights more from the smoother transition to the mind while unburdened with major facts and just enjoys sentence to sentence the methodical poetic scare.

[@antwan1357]

Sorry I meant to say minor facts not major facts

[@metabog]

Aaaaah, so cool.

[@Vintagevanessa99]

Love this story.

[@Necro32]

As much as I love this, you should add some low music in the background, athmospheric that is. Hearing the same voice constantly for 10 minutes gets abit dull. Only a preferance from my part though, none the less - keep it up(Y)

[@colemarie9262]

That was great, thank you!

[@TheRhuen]

I'll have to check on that, Cthulhu was chief among the old ones, but those are below the Elder gods. So things like Yog Sothoth and of course Azathoth are stronger. Not sure about the general Old One population, or those in the expanded material. Thinking about it, it might just be most of the higher ups just arn't named only described.

[@littlemrpinkness295]

Lovecraft has a tendancy to get carried away with himself. This one started out great and was going along just fine, then he got overwrought and it turned abstract and ridiculous. He had me good and creeped out and then messed up and I was just giggling. It's like he just doesn't know when to stop and leave it alone.

[@cha5]

Heh, For me that's a complaint I have about J.R.R. Tolkien more often than not when it comes to sanctimonious purple prose, which for me grates far more than anything I've ever found in Lovecraft's works. I always find Nyarlathotep to be an almost poetic work of Lovecraft's, especially since it was a nightmare he had involving HIM that gave us Yogsothery in the first place.

[@anger7717]

I will tell the audient void.......

[@TheRhuen]

so are most Lovecraft's entities. Cthulhu is just the most famous.

[@NullspaceNomad]

Nick, if you're not already a voice actor you really need to look into it...especially for audiobooks. You would rule...

[@DeathG4n]

Yeah I used to be a cthulhu fanboy too but after hours of convincing I accepted that Nyarlathotep is in fact more powerful than cthulhu. Look it up.

[@elhombremo7404]

"I recall that the people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies which no one dared consciously repeat or acknowledge to himself that he had heard." I wonder. If NO ONE dares repeat or acknowledge, even to himself what he has heard, then who is whispering these warnings and prophecies?

[@NeginManhwa]

Your version makes mine sound lame. :D You should be a voice actor. :) Great job!

[@andrewdensmore4019]

To Nick guisburne your reading of nyarathotep by hp lovecraft is verry good I loved it is pulpy swet but I think that there should be a reading of erle Stanley Gardners the cat woman and come and get it two of the Ed jeinkins the phantom theif pulp stories and thank you for recommending the black Lizard big book of black mask stories

[@jefthereaper]

Not American, thats the main problem I guess, seems that in America there is a shop for everything and anything over here you can be lucky if you find what you are looking for, and have to remember well what you saw in the shop so that if you ever need it you know thats basically the only shop that sells the specific item in a large area. Its pretty annoying well at some point somebody will swap every page online at any rate, its just a waiting game.

[@madsli]

Do "cats and dogs".

[@SnMluvr]

caution: viewing the above comment while trying to listen to this story produces deluded laughter X3

[@Gisburne2000]

@madsli Woof woof. Miaow. Eeek eeek eeek ow! (Threw in the 3 Blind Mice as well)

[@TheEyeWatching]

I want your voice.

[@jefthereaper]

very nice voice, seriously want to read these books, but like usual normal book stores don't sell this, the usual bull about the books being too "creepy" or something seriously still waiting for society to grow some balls.

[@hehehenyxnyxnyx]

Nyarko-san

[@jamessimmons8657]

Nyx Assassin, what is that?

[@AlmightyAtheismo]

"Nyarlathotep" Gesundheit.

[@jamessimmons8657]

AlmightyAtheismo, humph! Translation: Bullshit!

[@stop-the-greed]

This could well be now ;)

[@DeathG4n]

no. There is only 3 more powerful than him including nyarlathotep

[@UrineBubbles]

And where Urine_Bubbles went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of a nightmare.

[@katk2265]

Is randall flagg nyarlathotep?

[@CadmusVFX]

I think he is an avatar of Nyarlathotep.

[@linguisticallyoversight8685]

katja knorr kind of one could say that was what Stephen King was drawing inspiration from when he created Randall Flagg however most people take that as a interpretation of the Antichrist I tend to think of it as an adaptation of Nyarlathoep

[@FookMi69]

*Nyarlathotep breathes too hard.* *Thanos is split like 2 and 3, from 5.*

[@jasoncoker1625]

🤘

[@randomguardsman3075]

Try Cthulhu

[@zaberfang]

For some reason, hearing your voice then imagining it passing through loud respirator. I feel the Dark Side pulling into me...XD. YOU RULE!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Mictla155]

Very well done.