The Dreams In The Witch House: Lovecraft’s Most Horrific Tale

[@willodonnell6887]

Listening to this on Halloween night on the East Side of Providence, two streets over from where Lovecraft grew up!

[@steph6498]

What’s it like over there?

[@jamesrussell6351]

Thanks for the Halloween treat 😊

[@Audrey_1110]

Yay a new audiobook! This has made my Halloween day 🎃

[@Boogie_the_cat]

I'm saving this for tonight (it's 3:10 PM in California). Thank you very much Tony. Brown Jenkin is my favorite Lovecraft creation. And yeah, pretty horrific how he ****************************** SPOILER ALERT ****************************** SPOILER ALERT ****************************** burrows a hole through to Gilman's heart Pretty hardcore for the 1920s-30s Have a wonderful Halloween all !

[@joedge6142]

Another treat, Just finished Jasper's and now it's Tony's, perfect Halloween. Thanks Tony.

[@missholly7534]

Oh, thank you, Tony, for this lovely deep swig of Shoggoth's Old Peculiar! I'm in Mississippi, and our upcoming political race keeps making me think of words like "squamous" and "eldritch". I hope your upcoming week is less, um, fulsome than ours here!

[@AliceBowie]

I've always loved this one. I love how the magic that Hezekiah used was just ultra-advanced mathematics.

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Great story and narration! I love all the nods and cameos of the Elder Things in this one! I love the connections to other places, names, characters, and beings of other stories he wrote. This is one of his best. I wonder what caused the footprints that looked like a chair leg foot cut in half...😊 (if you know you know). I read this various times in the past and picked up a few things in Tony's narration that I breezed by without recognition while reading before. Curse my ADD!! I love your chat at the end. They are all great, but this one is something special! Great job Tony! This is a fantastic Halloween story. Talk about a haunted and scary house! Thanks!

[@dougjamesberwick2625]

Nice one Tony!!

[@time4changenow]

Happy Samhain! Your stories are bewitching ❤

[@malinbunsow9930]

What a treat! One of my favourite stories. 🍂🍁🦇🍁

[@akaLaBrujaRoja]

Oh this is a good one! It’s been awhile since I read this, so it’s perfect to listen to as I drift off to sleep on Halloween… 🎃

[@MAENADinNOLA]

This is one of my absolute top stories, by Lovecraft or other, and is the "Weird Tale" I revisit most often. The use of mathematical concepts so early in the day, dark & complex vocabulary, and the abstract visualizations... Love it. Brown Jerkin is unforgettable and a character/creature I see out of the corner of my eye driving early morning streets in New Orleans FQ. I think yours is a fantastic rendition and I thank you sincerely.

[@kathypelletier-s2v]

You spoil us, Tony! So grateful for your giving heart and great talent at bringing yours and others stories alive. Especially tonight 🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️

[@jenniferhawkins3142]

This was a great listen on Halloween 🎃. Thanks, Tony!

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Gonna get into this later. Finished Japer earlier, finishing up another Tony story I am in the middle of, and then putting this gem on. Thanks! This is one of the greats!

[@frogdogink4415]

Checking in from South Alabama. Thanks 🎃

[@ClassicGhost]

Welcome!

[@MartiWilliams-r2z]

Saving this so I can enjoy these tales from "cover-to-cover". Thank you, Tony. Much appreciated.

[@agnieszkaswietlik5322]

I am delighted that it was the Polish witch Kazia who introduced the hero (and possibly Lovecraft himself) to this universe of another dimensions. Greetings from Poland.

[@ClassicGhost]

It’s actually a very Polish story 🇵🇱

[@IlyaLevinsky]

Just have realised it's Kasia, short from Katarzyna

[@ClassicGhost]

@@IlyaLevinsky most of the characters are Polish i think

[@trixie10199]

Wishing you all the best, Tony! Thanks for all your hard work!

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you so much Trixie

[@MartiWilliams-r2z]

Brilliant! One story is a good surprise! You're the best, Tony!

[@suzannechance5876]

Love your voice, the tone and timber, your precise enunciation, subtle pauses, pacing. However....I do have the oddest dreams if I fall asleep while listening. Tonight it feels appropriate.

[@ClassicGhost]

let me know what you dreamed of !

[@raftermanvn-gl8nc]

This is a great great channel

[@EricDaMAJ]

Truly one of Lovecraft’s best stories.

[@jamesblahut5008]

Thanks, Tony! I love this story. I recently read The Hound and I think it is my favorite H.P. Lovecraft tale. It has a Baudelaire vibe.

[@ClassicGhost]

It does. It is tres gothique (my autocorrect made that it is tres hottie . I changed it back )

[@kytyrx]

Great story and reading. I also listen to Ian, but really like the history you give after reading.

[@WhiteRabbitAnne]

A very happy Halloween to all 🎃👻🦇🎃☠️

[@SMichaelDeHart]

Mr. Tony, now that story was wickedly weird and horrifying!! I had never heard or read this story. I kept getting a chuckle everytime he said that a "nerve specialist was needed." Too late now!! Excellent narration, as usual!! I hope that you and yours had a wonderfully weird and happy Halloween!!

[@missmouse20]

I enjoyed this immensely. As the story progressed, it morphed into a twisted, horrifying tale. I also loved that it was a longer story. A++++++

[@carolrios9216]

Generally I am not a Lovecraft fan, but because it's you, Tony, I'll try to give it a listen. I have a suggestion, if you MUST do Lovecraft, I like The Picture in the House.

[@SashaIsAFox]

One of my favorite Lovecraft stories!

[@petere5826]

Dreams in The Witch House one of HPLs best . (His best of course has something to do with some painter from Boston) Did you know that one of the Elder Things from “ATMOM”. (My 2nd fave story) makes an appearance as a statue in Dreams.

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Yup. Elder Thing cameo!!

[@ClassicGhost]

Pickman's Model? drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dcpu4nq1Ilv_Dvf-HfosjzPmA13Z2LWY?usp=sharing

[@edf777]

Thank you sir 😊❤

[@allysonlewis1576]

OMG Tony you have outdone yourself. I know this is fictional - but wasn’t Elwood a good friend. Poor Gilmore - (hope I’ve got the name correct) I knew it wouldn’t end well. Brilliantly read. Absolutely first class. Thank you so much.

[@johnlangis9313]

Amazing! Thank you so much!

[@Aquarius_Yaya420]

Ty what an end to Halloween listening to this 🎃👻🩶

[@ClassicGhost]

That's what I hoped

[@WhiteRabbitAnne]

I love Lovecraft's ornate prose. I don't know what that says about me. But then again one of my prized possessions is a thesaurus so there you go. My mom was a nurse who spoke of everything in its Greek or Latin nomenclature, medicine, animals, plants. So maybe it's heritary! 😂

[@ClassicGhost]

Hello white rabbit 🐰

[@tammyb8742]

great story!

[@lisap.1826]

Keep up the good work ❤!

[@liquidskin5359]

Thank you for this

[@XthegreatwhyX]

I have had it with these downward slanting ceilings and these inward slanting walls!

[@brianthesnail5452]

Did he just say he’s tossing on the iron bed ? 😳

[@ClassicGhost]

He did Brian :)

[@amandine512]

Oh goodie!

[@veronicacobb8691]

Thank you so much and happy Halloween! I enjoyed the story and your desert ation afterwards. 👽🦇🧟🎃🧚‍♂️🌕🪦🧡💀⚰️👻

[@ClassicGhost]

Same to you! I notice the pumkins have been thrown out and the Christmas decorations are up today.

[@NoWheyHombre]

I enjoyed the debrief on this one

[@ClassicGhost]

thanks 🤩

[@AlgorithmEngagementEntity]

Cuddles from Brown Jenkin

[@petere5826]

Brown Jenkins rocks!

[@ClassicGhost]

I love that

[@houseofvanity8]

❤❤❤

[@Andrew-if3sd]

Darting little furry object 💓cute...& small furry things😊!

[@missmouse20]

LOVECRAFT!! ❤❤❤

[@josephsmith6777]

Have ra hill is how that small Massachusetts town is pronounced

[@ClassicGhost]

+@josephsmith6777 thank you . It was a false friend in that there’s a place near where I live called Haverigg and that is pronounced have a rig

[@sayrewilkin-dalby619]

I wonder if HP realized that most rat's paws are pretty human hand like

[@ClassicGhost]

true fact

[@deborahlester4018]

Do the British pronounce Haverhill as it is spelled? My Boston relatives once sent me on an errand, with directions to take the Avril (by pronunciation) exit. After driving up and down the freeway, I stopped to ask and the kind person who helped wrote Haverhill, with the explanation that Bostonians used the English pronunciation. Tony threw me for a loop saying it as it is spelled!

[@ClassicGhost]

I don't know the place. Haverhill means barley hill and sounds like a northern name as haver is Scandinvian. It could be hayver hill or havver hill I spose

[@deborahlester4018]

@ClassicGhost I never questioned it because of Beauchamp/Beecham, Taliaferro/ Toliver, and the like. I just think it's funny if they think they're sounding British and they aren't.

[@deborahlester4018]

@ClassicGhost I should add that I grew up in a place where Notres is pronounced No Trees and Grauwyler is Garwheeler. Texans refuse to pronounce anything "foreign".

[@laurencercone3199]

Erstwhile Bostonian here. Haverhill is pronounced HAY-vrill.

[@deborahlester4018]

@laurencercone3199 Thank you! Maybe my hearing was already going. I'd have sworn they dropped the haitch. I drove around for ages...

[@josephsmith6777]

Lovecraft must have been from Massachusetts he always uses towns and other geography from the state

[@jessicaredfern7867]

I want to make a suggestion. This is strictly personal preference, so it's not meant to be offensive, so I apologize in advance if it comes off that way. Perhaps if you slowed down the cadence of your speech when you begin telling the story, it might be more dramatic and pleasing to the ear. Good luck! 😊

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you for your suggestion and the kind way you phrase it. I think I'm too set in my ways for this now. It's like Spaghetti Carbonara. Many don't like it, some do. If you like it you pick it, if you don't, you don't. I don't as it turns out. Thank you again for taking the time to say something in a positive way, but realistically, I'm not going to change.

[@ClassicGhost]

I should also say that if you read the comments you see that people comment I talk too slow and that it's better at 1.25 speed, while others say I talk to fast and slow it to 0.75. People just have different preferences.

[@jessicaredfern7867]

@ClassicGhost Yeah it's likely just me.

[@Skriggler]

Need to start uploading in 720 or 1080p for sound quality and less audio compression,this is horrible on ears. Great voice though

[@ClassicGhost]

So, I have been told that picture resolution officially has no impact on sound quality according to KZbin. I shelled out in a recording studio for this! This was professionally recorded and edited. But you think it's not as good as my normal stuff? My patreons had an early listen and they thought it was good. What's the sound issue in your view? Sincereley interested

[@ering7530]

You mispronounced Haverhill

[@ClassicGhost]

is that all you’ve gotta say after all that work I put in?

[@leebennett1821]

There is an Role-playing game inspired by the Works of H P Lovecraft

[@Tipi_Dan]

I have read nearly everything written by Lovecraft over the course my life, but by now I consider his vocabulary so obscure and contrived as to be absolutely comical. It detracts from the story, and it negates his "mythos". And not just today, as our language and vocabularies continue to degrade. It detracted from the stories at the time they were published. I burst out laughing several times while you were narrating. "Eldritch" indeed.