The Garden of Fear by Robert E. Howard (Audiobook)

[@TheEldritchArchives]

If you'd like to buy the MP3s of this audiobook and help support the channel you can do so here: eldritcharchives.bandcamp.com/album/the-garden-of-fear-by-robert-e-howard

[@BenSHammonds]

a really good story and subject matter, previous lives is an interesting thing

[@alswann2702]

Great yarn. Two Gun Bob never disappoints. Lots of elements and characters from other stories reworked as Howard so often did. The hero is straight outta Marchers of Valhalla as is his race and their wandering drift. His modern counterpart is from many other tales, the bard was big on reincarnation and racial memories.The flowers are reminiscent of a Conan story, Vale of the Lost Women,I believe and the tower like that in Tower of the Elephant, another Conan tale. The creature reminds me of the winged ape, sole survivor of it's pre human race, in Queen of the Black Coast. Crom, man!! Thanks for your rendition.

[@MikeWhiskyTango]

I found Howard in a bookshop in an Adelaide backstreet in 1975. I still recall both of us lost, leaving the wrappers blowing down the alley and opening that grating door into a second hand bookshop. We entered darkness, like walking into a black pit, bottomless as space, haunted with all its cobwebbed forgotten shadows. I could smell the dusty tomes, the yellow aged pages, the books filled with faraway lands and mysteries and it was as if I could feel the trickle of jungle sweat from those primordial unknown places, hear the strange drone of insects, smell the poisonous lotus blossoms and see huge steel rockets riding on pillars of fire, and see charging horsemen in glittering armour, their hooves shaking the ground. I held my breath, slowly letting our eyes adjust to the gloom, but before I could stop my friend, he had stepped forward, his eyes widening, arms reaching for a pile of comics as if drawn to a great and ancient treasure. I had seen something else and I tried to move forward, to grab, to snatch it from the timber shelf. It was a green paperback with a Frazetta painting on the front, a picture of Conan and behind him a great slavering ape leaping onto his muscular back in a red cloaked swirl of fangs. But I found I could not move. Not a muscle. I was frozen in horror. Between the aisles of worn spines and stacked magazines I saw a dark shape, vulture hunched and peering at me with slit ember eyes. The madman began cackling at me for he knew he had caught us both, captivating us both forever using Hyborian wizards to hypnotise and multi limbed creatures of Barsoom to grab us, sink their claws into us and pin us...

[@OQuinlan-nz1md]

Great memories...I've still got my original ace paperbacks including that one from 75..

[@Eduardo_Ventura]

Thanks man! I still listen "Almuric" for sleep. Never thought I'd actually "read" the story. Thank you!

[@ichbifeuertrunk]

Here are some interesting public domain REH stories that have never been put into audio form (as far as I know): "The Blood of Belshazzar" (Cormac Fitzgeoffrey) "Swords of the Red Brotherhood" (Black Vulmea) "Black Vulmea's Vengeance (Black Vulmea, obviously) "The Grisly Horror" "Black Hound of Death" "Red Blades of Black Cathay" "Lord of Samarcand" "The Lion of Tiberias" "The Treasure of Tartary" "Gates of Empire" "The Isle of Pirate's Doom" "Spear and Fang" "The Voice of El-Lil" "Witch from Hell's Kitchen" These are all available (only in written form) at REH's wikisource page, as well as many, many other public domain stories, just waiting for a great narrator like you.

[@TheEldritchArchives]

Thanks!! I plan to do Gates of Empire soon. I will take a look through these and hopefully get to them all in the future :) The very next REH story I will do is called The Curse of the Golden Skull (its a very short story). And then I will move onto this list!

[@alswann2702]

@@TheEldritchArchives The El Borak tales deserve to be brought to life to. Nothing like an Arizona gunfighter leading a pack if cutthroat Afgan tribesmen to new heights of red ruin!

[@jacksonvega7751]

Oh yes pls, the more REH the better, CAS is also excellent

[@OQuinlan-nz1md]

Cormac Mac Art...I demand it!!!...please😊

[@lizboychuk6365]

Aloha from Hawaii! What a fantastic story and read. Superb!

[@paulboserup463]

Excellent!

[@ichbifeuertrunk]

Great story, great narration, but this has already been put into audiobook form before. It's in "People of the Dark: The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard Volume 2", published by Audio Realms, May, 2009.

[@waynemcauliffe2362]

Cheers mate well read

[@mzeewatk846]

This is great. I knew this story was out there, but I’ve never come across before. Thanks so much. What about a reading of Howard’s ‘purple pulps’? : )

[@Kagato100]

Pigeons from Hell - Robert E Howard

[@alswann2702]

Black Canaan

[@terryquinlan499]

Thank you.

[@michelelyons9410]

Marvelous story! Most people only know the Robert E. Howard stories featuring Conan, but he wrote many other stories including many barbarian fantasies and horror stories.

[@MikeWhiskyTango]

Boxing stories, oriental stories, pirates, outlaws and cowboys. The man was a legend.

[@tobypack6328]

And an amazing poet

[@ichbifeuertrunk]

YES!

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

If you like this story, check out the brand new Conan novel _The Cult of the Obsidian Moon_ by James Lovegrove