"Subterranea" by W. Elwyn Backus / UNDERWORLDS

[@HorrorBabble]

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[@EdThomasisCthulu]

The work you do to find new tales for us and your awesome readings are greatly appreciated!

[@winstonsmith8597]

I had some popcorn for Warren, but somebody told me he was dead

[@sarge4455]

😂

[@MarcusHCrawford]

You fool!

[@wakuaroberts2992]

He is you fool.

[@wakuaroberts2992]

@@MarcusHCrawfordyou beat me to it Marcus, you fool.

[@krusader357]

His corn was popped a long time ago friend 🤣

[@alantaylor353]

Thank you so much for this treat.!! 👍 👍 👍 Please stay safe out there & the very best wishes from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙏 ❤️

[@CPWebster]

Another knockout narration from Mr. Gordon, thank you.

[@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves]

I thought for a moment that the tag line said UNDERWEARS -- now that would be truly frightening! Cheers Warren, who never mentions his unmentionables!

[@Boogie_the_cat]

It wouldn't say underwears. Underpants in the UK are called "pants"

[@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves]

@@Boogie_the_cat -- I thought they were called Smalls! Anyway, Boogie Cat, I'm buried in the USA so its Underwears! Cheers Warren, who's smalls were Extra-Large -- till they rotted away!

[@MarcusHCrawford]

Looking forward to this. The intro is gold, and as not-a-fan of tight underground spaces, hoping for some good chills. We will see where it goes! Best narrator ever!

[@karenmcdonald7801]

I really enjoyed this epic adventure, perfectly narrated, great!

[@shadownet3d]

A great adventure! Thank you!

[@robbabcock_]

What a fantastic reading!

[@beitodesstrafe]

I very much enjoyed that. Thank you!

[@andreasfilis9001]

Excellent! It reminded me " The Mound "

[@amgroves76]

Wow really enjoyed that

[@CJ-uf6xl]

Brilliant! Thank you 🙏

[@willjennings7191]

I like that this one was organized into discrete parts.

[@GameBrain321]

Just brilliant, my favorite narrator. Thank you for another interesting story spoken so lively

[@cheesewiz9087]

This story is a delightful mix of The Mound and The Dweller in the Gulf. Great pick!

[@Shacthulhu]

Brilliant! Several tales I have yet to add to my life. Thank you all, Ian & HB! 🤘

[@rosiemcnaughton9933]

Very ambitious undertaking! Thank you. Made me think of a few stories by others especially Journey to the Center of the Earth.

[@benruniko]

Oooo quickly! Click the video!!! Wonderful, so excited to hear this new story and new series! Thank you so much :)

[@OskinsBob]

GOD BLESS YOU MAN 👍

[@4362mont]

Listened to this before sleeping last night!

[@soulreaver1983]

Another outstanding video thank you Ian!

[@jessedeeeeee]

Yessss! In time for a long overtime shift. Thanks.

[@dawnrowlands2408]

I really appreciate these stories. Thank you for an author I'd not heard of before.

[@mersmithy1269]

Mentally Lovely 😉👍

[@Wombats555]

Thank you!

[@rayfairbanks6280]

WOO HOO! LETS GO!

[@pastordeniseearley6067]

This is wonderful!🎉🎉

[@deniseindoung4514]

I'm fascinated whenever Ian does American, because i can't quite place his accent? I want to say New England. But i just listened to several KZbin videos trying to nail it down, and i can't quite. Comments from more knowledgeable opinions welcome!

[@chrispeterson3362]

I love hollow earth stuff and underground monsters. A fantastic story and excellent narration

[@anthonyfreeman3165]

I've been waiting for this! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@4ms301]

Yay!!!!! Thank you! 👍

[@nickjames205]

Just the kind of story I love. Reminds me of H Rider Haggard

[@tishahouse846]

Listening from the ukwales ❤

[@kgreen242424]

I'm supposed to be moving into my new house but the power is out. I may have just enough time to finish this treat! Lol. Who am I kidding, I would have listened regardless of the power but I tell myself that to justify my procrastination. Thanks. PS: Has anyone seen VM? He is absent again. I suppose this means there will soon be a new episode appearing here

[@HorrorBabble]

Moving is never fun! As for VM... he'll be back soon!

[@kgreen242424]

@@HorrorBabble Yes I suspect the same. It's impolite to ask too many questions but as a courtesy extended to the firm, will you please notify us when you are releasing his new episode with all due haste. It's always good for his recovery after a tough gig to catch your performance at its first airing. He so enjoys the way you craft his actual life into the incredible yarns the rest of us can't wait to hear. Fantastic, yes. Paranormal, certainly. All true though and that's a Van Melsen guarantee. (A cigarette but flops lively to the floor, sending tiny sparks of radiant brilliance dancing with the summer breeze. We are just able to discern a tall thin figure wreathed in a trench coat that's somehow even more black that the stygian surroundings. As they are slowly walking away the VM theme song begins to play. VM's rough gravely voice cuts in. "You didn't think it was over did you". Drums. Credits) Come next week for the second installment of "Where my cat?" Lol

[@Egg_Apron]

I love how the women of Subterranea are given two whole sentences: they are rarely seen outside of their houses and they're entirely devoted to their men and children. Even underground women are trapped under Patriarchy, geez.

[@OskinsBob]

IAN THE MAIN MAN 1H52MINS STONE COLD STEEL STAMINA 💎

[@bigsarge2085]

❤‍🔥

[@chbend8220]

Warren went out like a gangster.

[@kevinsumner9690]

I bought a cathulu ring becasue of this channel.

[@EricDaMAJ]

Warren isn’t dead and doesn’t plan to be. His “Live, Laugh, Toaster Bath” t-shirt is just dark humor.

[@AcornElectron]

I’m late, apologies, cmon England 😂 ⚽️

[@Eris123451]

Though not nearly as late as the as the, "late," Harley Warren who's now very late indeed. Good to have you back again, stay safe and take care.

[@HorrorBabble]

Final on Sunday! Yikes...

[@nathanielgrey4091]

I am totally using the fire mountain in a DnD campaign. That was amazinb

[@tamlandipper29]

Definitely my speed. Determined and capable protagonists. Awful monsters.

[@BigTuk]

And once again Man-things cause problems for the great-glorious Under Empire. Yeah I can't be the only one who thought this. Warhammer Fans chime in and post which clan you think this was.

[@jasonsurrette76]

Thanks again for making Americans sound like complete dorks, which we mostly are

[@OskinsBob]

NO NOT ALL O YOU

[@AnthonyBarnwell-vt5gd]

G Man you and ruemorge make a great team

[@johnjones2nd667]

Backus..... Backus..... Baccus! I wonder if his family were winemakers or wine drinkers? Probably both.

[@fabiopereira8208]

Wait! Where is Warren?

[@4everfighter]

He's dead

[@redeye2225]

Ok but who's warren

[@nsob8897]

The dead guy. If you're not joking, he's from the tale: "the statement of Randolph carter" who is a recurring character in h.p. Lovecraft stories.

[@GRAYR189]

He's the adventurer who paid with his life for a discovery made deep beneath an ancient and decrepit graveyard....

[@earlofnacho]

Not gonna lie, I’m glad I didn’t ask this or see a spoiler. I already assumed it was from a story, but man I was soo pumped when I finally stumbled on /the one/ and heard that line in context . It happened over a year after I first subbed too lol Now go listen and join the club!

[@GRAYR189]

@@redeye2225 "Again I called down, "Warren, are you there?" and in answer heard the thing which has brought this cloud over my mind. I do not try, gentlemen, to account for that thing-that voice-nor can I venture to describe it in detail, since the first words took away my consciousness and created a mental blank which reaches to the time of my awakening in the hospital. Shall I say that the voice was deep; hollow; gelatinous; remote; unearthly; inhuman; disembodied? What shall I say? It was the end of my experience, and is the end of my story. I heard it, and knew no more-heard it as I sat petrified in that unknown cemetery in the hollow, amidst the crumbling stones and the falling tombs, the rank vegetation and the miasmal vapors-heard it well up from the innermost depths of that damnable open sepulcher as I watched amorphous, necrophagous shadows dance beneath an accursed waning moon. And this is what it said: "You fool, Warren is DEAD!" In context.

[@irProspect204]

Hey

[@NerdishNature]

Pour one out for Warren

[@sabastjunberthiaume8391]

Hey can anyone help me here? I’m looking for a story that is about a person who sees a human sacrifice and then a toad god shows up briefly

[@sabastjunberthiaume8391]

Any help at all would be appreciated

[@HorrorBabble]

Sounds like something featuring Tsathoggua -- can you remember anything else about the story?

[@sabastjunberthiaume8391]

@@HorrorBabble I think it took place in Europe maybe? And the sacrifice was a baby and it described it in pretty graphic detail. There was also either big cliffs or large stones

[@gacarson]

The story you're thinking of is The Black Stone by Robert E. Howard, one of the best mythos tales by a writer other than Lovecraft.

[@Vampster19CockedD20]

I love this story but you know they probably died of brain parasites from eating snails.

[@FreedomFrog333]

Lol, I have eaten many a snail, yet I still live...for now.

[@mersmithy1269]

1.25 x speed ❤

[@laurelsilberman5705]

I love your work. But when you do an American accent, it’s a lot more convincing sounding to pick a regional accent and try to emulate that; right now when you narrate someone from America it’s this weird, mixed, kind of unsure and inconsistent pronunciation that kind of sounds like no one, and it’s very distracting. It’s like how Americans when they do a British accent it’s all over the place, not really understanding that not only are there class aspects of how strong one’s accent is, as well as the fact that someone from 20 minutes away from somewhere else can sound completely different. Like a generic east coast or Midwest is fine, it’s just really uncertain and sounds just very unnatural. I love your channel, I really do. I watch every upload. But if this is going to be an ongoing series I thought I might as well just throw some input out there.

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks, Laurel. I appreciate your feedback. With older stories like this, the idea is to go with something general, so as to avoid putting a modern or specific slant on things. The main 'voice' I use isn't my real accent of course -- it's a general British accent that doesn't represent any particular region of the country. This isn't to say that I don't want to improve my regional accents -- as I've said many times before, I'm forever a work-in-progress!

[@Eidridin]

Because the stories are early 20th century, I like to think that Ian helps immerse it with a sort of Transatlantic kind of accent. Which makes sense for traveling aristocratic American adventurers.

[@mikegiamalva321]

I think you do a good American accent.

[@earlschandelmeier751]

I love this channel but please lose the "American" accent. As an American it is as hard to listen to as an American doing a British accent. No need. Your amazing British reading voice is worth its weight in gold!!!

[@jamesduffy5980]

If the character is American he should at least try to do an American accent.

[@earlschandelmeier751]

@@jamesduffy5980 No. No. No. His voice is amazing the way it is. Why would you want a fake sounding bad impression of an American accent instead of his own voice. Honestly, if you can suspend disbelief and enjoy the story why can't you do the same and overlook the accent?

[@jamesduffy5980]

@@earlschandelmeier751 I can ask you the same question. The characters are American, so why shouldn't he do his best at imitating their accents? That's the standard for audiobooks.

[@earlschandelmeier751]

@@jamesduffy5980 I can tell you why he shouldn't do it. His American accent significantly decreases the quality of the audiobook. I don't believe in following some nonsensical rules, well that's what they do, when following that rule gives a significantly diminished product. Doesn't seem like a good way to operate a business. What kind of argument is, "well that's what they do in audiobooks" anyway? And frankly having almost 400 audiobooks in my audible library I don't necessarily even agree that that's what they do in audiobooks. Sure different characters are given different voices but seldom do I hear characters try to take on accents from different countries. It is far far too difficult to pull off. If there is a significant character who is foreign most audiobooks use multiple narrators. Same goes with female to male and vice versa.

[@jamesduffy5980]

Well I follow my own rules, so that that means I don’t follow anybody’s rules, not even my own. New rule: Ian Gordon does an American accent even if the character is British Addendum: I laugh at how angry this apparently makes you.