"The Grinning Ghoul" by Robert Bloch / Cthulhu Mythos

[@nicklindberg90]

The Grinning Ghoul is a great name for a DnD tavern

[@SouthernSultan阿力]

Lol Nyarlathotep inversely works psychologist with mind bombs of necromancy and .....😊

[@barbiedahl]

💯🎯

[@Gary-zq3pz]

And ..the Grinning Ghouls would be a great name for a shock rock band.

[@profailure8465]

Toss it into a Strahd campaign. Or something where people play as “monster” races.

[@terrybeal2252]

In a very rough neighborhood. 🧙‍♂️

[@MarcusHCrawford]

My night isn’t complete without that opening piano sting and an update on Warren. Thanks again, Mr. Gordon.

[@cmcapps1963]

Yes! I check in on Warren regularly.

[@silentfangirl1176]

Poor guy dies more than Kenny.

[@pyxlle]

His condition is remarkably stable

[@rileyrosewriter]

I absolutely love the way this author does descriptions such as "minutes that crawl by like maggots." An excellent way to establish the mood and setting even before anything truly scary happens. A beautifully grotesque story. Thanks for sharing.

[@fnunez]

Robert Bloch is one of the masters of horror. I have yet to read a story of his I didn't like.

[@paulcateiii]

you've been kicking out the narrations this last week - thanks Ian and Jennifer

[@AcornElectron]

I miss Jen in the narration 😢. I don’t care what the re-record says, Zadok Allen is Jen and Jen is Zadok Allen. Eeeeeuuurrrggghhh! ❤

[@andreasfilis9001]

I could feel the agony of the person. You excell yourself Ian.

[@Lacoleccionistamisterios]

Curiously this story is known in Spanish as The vampire's laughter. I always have believed it was about a vampire, omg, it was a ghoul, why did they change the title? Thanks for your wonderful version, Ian, a great story with a great narrator

[@HorrorBabble]

Interesting!

[@leoncaw326]

Aww, he was just a Changeling being called home. Got to love the wording in these old stories. "He was some kind of foreigner. Not that I thought to ask my patient about his history or anything."

[@HorrorBabble]

Ah, the thirties.

[@mindlessfool42]

These are so soothing at bedtime

[@OnslowFats]

The art and audio of this channel just get better and better.

[@AcornElectron]

“But I do not fear him now, for I suspect that he has known horrors beyond my ken. Now I fear *for* him…” Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!

[@madmorgo6233]

"YOU FOOL...!" bro perfect! I was thinking about that very story earlier this week. Will be glad to hear this one, bless y'all and stay safe out there! 🙏🏻

[@DawnOfMutilation]

Thanks! Never enough Bloch .)

[@paulcateiii]

Thanks!

[@HorrorBabble]

Thank you, Paul!

[@paulcateiii]

you're welcome

[@SunChaserXVII]

Bloch's descriptive prose is timeless. Thanks for this one, it's a favourite!

[@soulreaver1983]

Thanks once again for fantastic Robert Bloch video Ian😊

[@benjuhmuhn]

Well - this recording got THIS ghoul grinning!

[@jackal27]

LOVE to see some actual artwork instead of the AI slop! Great stuff!

[@zednotzee7]

Another great story, we're being spoiled this week without a doubt. I used to work in a cemetery many years ago. Thankfully we didn't have any creepy tombs there, and nothing untoward happened other than the usual weirdness. 🤣

[@Richard-f4b4r]

Thank you for the story! I'm going to make some popcorn and listen to it now!

[@howardhavardramberg333]

Robert Bloch, the legend!

[@robbabcock_]

Another terrific tale! Robert Bloch and HorrorBabble are a winning combination! 😎🔥🙌

[@nanphx2038]

Ah Robert Bloch...thanks!

[@anthonyfreeman3165]

What a wonderful way to enjoy my evening. Thank you, brother, for this wonderful story!😊👍

[@shokmusic_AC]

Excellent tale and excellent narration!

[@GreenTeaViewer]

Robert Bloch is underrated. He does get some recognition, but is sometimes considered a bit of a hack. He's one of the best second-tier weird/horror writers though. The reason for this placement is that he writes well-crafted stories, but that they simply aren't very original.

[@MrsCaranAmy]

This was an excellent story tonight. Your narration brings the description of this grim place alive. Thank you. Have a wonderful evening ❤🤗🌟

[@ombra711]

Dude realized in the end Mr. Chopin was setting him up

[@JensLarsson-vi5py]

Thanks for another great one ! Nice twist also .

[@jennyteaganballejo733]

Some serious Iron Maiden vibes from the thumbnail

[@HorrorBabble]

Eddie lives!

[@revolutionaryhamburger]

The ghoul got me.

[@hezekiahcross88]

Thanksgiving and I've got a cold pint and a new Clark Ashton Smith story, thank you Horrorbabble ❤

[@Nanosuit37]

Very good. Thank you Mr Gordon and Horror Babble. Excellent as always. Until next time.

[@ShirleyPearl-n9z]

Absolutely spot on ian .

[@EricDaMAJ]

The Turkey in the oven is named Warren. He is dead but he’s not done yet.

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Warren is stuffed

[@benwrigley6176]

Thank you to your good selves.❤😊

[@paullevine1813]

You Fools, Warren is not dead,!!! he wishes all of us a Happy Holidays.

[@howardhavardramberg333]

You ghoul! Lauren is wed.

[@davidblanton5407]

You're a Wit..I'm still laughing!

[@denisehiggs8938]

You are the only channel I will listen to for story narration. Fab as always❤

[@erginbozun1755]

Love me some Robert Bloch 🧟‍♂️🖤

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Great story and narration. Bloch's writing is soooo good. It is a fantastic story! Thanks!!

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Comment to feed He Who Shall Not Be Named (das algorithm)

[@AcornElectron]

Shub Ngurrath ❤

[@sasqetshenkley1190]

@AcornElectron ...Are we omitting the *ig* from *Shub Niggurath* as a preemptive measure to avert a lovecraftian aneurism down at the OAO (KZbin Office of the Arbitrarily Offended) or has a post-aneurism edict already been issued?

[@mikehoncho8004]

It's doubtful that Al Gore has any rhythm.

[@SouthernSultan阿力]

My next story to write ' the opening of the gate and broken seal that imprisoned Cthulhu '

[@soulreaver1983]

Sounds awesome!

[@SouthernSultan阿力]

@soulreaver1983 cheers, I'm thinking of space junk falling from orbot hitting urlay out sheer chance along those lines ,👍

[@SouthernSultan阿力]

@soulreaver1983 'lance in a transfix gaze watched with horror the swirling and steady tempest of the hurricanes reaching landfall near Florida on the earth surrounded by the Sturgeon void around it peering in delectable fright out of the port hole of the international space station on its final day of habitability, the leaks of precious air and time sapping the final vestiges of hope from the crew.......' Maybe a start to the story

[@goodfellow9607]

Another ghoul tale to add to my ever-growing collection.

[@jojomc4407]

I love your channel and listen to EVERYTHING you post ❤ your VERY talented writer im surprised your not doing Tv/radio advertising /voice-overs / audio books your voice is perfect for it. I can't sleep without your bedtime stories. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK 😊

[@andreasfilis9001]

1936?Well this story has the same age with my mother.

[@petere5826]

Pickman’s Ghouls, obviously. Chopin had just changed so I doubt he would have had the dog-like features of the others. … yet

[@sirguy6678]

Fantastic reading!

[@terrybeal2252]

Another excellent reading of a creepy classic. 🧟‍♂️ 💀

[@hedgewitch59]

There's something about the Victorian narrative. So wonderful read. Thank you. 🙏

[@RonaldLivingston-n2d]

Good one shades of Lovecraft 😮

[@dirkbruere]

Laughing, grinning... well at least he seems happy

[@bigsarge2085]

💀

[@collettemilligan604]

Let's get started warren 😂

[@TheCuttingBureau]

"Sounds like my kind of place." 😊

[@winstonsmith8597]

maybe it’s just me, but the stories that start in mental asylums just invoke those warm and homey feelings from bygone days. They say i’m better now. This was excellent. The night attendant is coming, I have to go.

[@2001Tavis]

Warren is a Zombie!!! 😂

[@alexanderimmortal4354]

MORE CTHULU MYTHOS CONTENT 🤘💪❤️☠️👌

[@bholdr----0]

WOW... I had thought that I was familiar with most of Bloch's Mythos stories, but I have never heard of this one... Apparently, I still have a ways to go- thanks for this one, Horrorbabble! It's a good reading, too- when is the VanMelson compilation coming out? I'll definitely pick up a hard copy! (Especially if it includes 'The Translucents', which is one of my recent favorites.) Cheers!

[@HorrorBabble]

Thank you! I'll get to VM Volume 2 in the new year I think.

[@jamesfindice2871]

Hail!

[@feralbluee]

Hi Ian - I was just watching a few videos re: t-rump👹 They were sickening, nauseating, and disgusted me. They were scary. I wanted peace. My instinct was to listen to you - grounded, safe, and calming. And you’re not here in amerika! You and your family are safe in England. Thank you for being who you are. I’ve ‘known’ you for along time and that’s part of it, too. 🌷🌱 And now Back to the tale of that ghoul thingie. :)

[@rebeccagrotta510]

Good and creepy

[@prophetic0311]

I hope Warren is ok.

[@SouthernSultan阿力]

I love Lovecraft 👍

[@Eris123451]

Is this story why some people believe that Harley Warren became a Ghoul ? Personally I still think Harley's fate works much better without any clarification of what actually happened to him.

[@HorrorBabble]

I'm with you on that one, Eris.

[@kgreen242424]

(Insert witty Warren joke). (Insert profound statement). Thanks Ian. I hope you like that Warren joke. Took me hours to craft that. You are welcome. Lol

[@TheBiggyJMan]

I always wish there were further ado.

[@HorrorBabble]

There's a lot of it in the archive!

[@annamopfeet]

I bite my lip at you sir

[@scottfree2248]

Never doubt the dark truths of the Necronomicon. 🌌💀🌌

[@SouthernSultan阿力]

a short story previously unpublished By HP Lovecraft Found in the Sydney archaeological department From the city of Aylya d Laying in the ambient heat half dazed in a Looking out of me bed not pay attention but aware of the clock that seemed to read 8.80 though I could not tell what side of midnight or noon....... I riled sleep for the memory of the rotten shoul was hysterical addictive yet horrible in its carnality, great Cthulhu great In size yet seeming oblivious to those denZins of that City city of rotten death, blackwater of a place as seeming inconceivable mix that challenged the mind of dark mucky sludge of darkened blood, ripped and contorted objects from what prior owners trudged on and fought over whatever rotten edibles left, dust from the decaying destroyed builds that appear as Abaddon has ordered it so. The great Cthulhu clashs though gigantic crawling chaos smashing all asunder. The city of it seems semitic in nature is awash with blood death rot despair mania debauchery and stench for it seems hundreds of miles in all directions this goes. Cthulhu great In his might tears though the streets crushing destroying all in his path it seems to reach place halve buried just a wall with a temple upon top of the mounds that bury it. A great call so powerful its deafening clarion and unearthly sound of something not of a terrestrial nature reverberated from the great Cthulhu that seemed to go on for I could not say, a stillness but awareness seems of suddenly yet a shock form whatever perceived it reeled as if the air itself was a consciousness and it replies with a Shrek so shrill and surprised it's fear and shear terror was aware to all for as far as the eye could have seen, The Cthulhu with the greatest speed of any reflex the mind can register seems either to glide and yet still displace of the mix around him smashed his great fist into the mounds of the temple and wall with such force a blast shattered all in a sudden moments that I could not tell if but with one blow or many, a terrible cry of something beyond anything of this world rang out as a sudden light flash manifested from the strike and with was a figure of what seemed a man in a shroud of yellow and a crown that I could only describe as a masked depiction from hell that Upon it's top dawn it's crown of insidious and vile design. The man or whatever it truly was has been struck as by a killing blow was bleeding out a mix tendrils of splattering and splitting black foul rotten blood And then Light I awaken with my city home in the light And in my mind I hear the words Taman Shud It's finished Short story By ........... The Sultan of Chaos

[@HorrorBabble]

I'll give you a heart anyway.

[@fahbs]

😁

[@EDee20NINE]

I pray that your voice can be heard when iam on my deathbed,and maybe beyond?

[@returnradio3584]

So is the jury still out on Warren or is he definitely dead

[@alantaylor353]

Hey.!!!.. Warren was fine the last time I was with him.!!! It seems like you were the last one to see him.!! We all know you had a problem with him, you never liked Warren did you.!? WHAT DID YOU DO TO WARREN.!?!?? I'm telling on you.!!

[@GaryByrnecorpsefedzombie0saku3]

You fool warren is de...wait, just a sec... just a second...yes? Ha yes, YES warren IS dead...phew.

[@ViktoriousDead]

190th

[@charlieb1575]

Sensual nostrils? That's a new one.