"The Opener of the Way" / A Weird Tale of Egypt by Robert Bloch

[@jeffashley5512]

All that was Egypt holds so much unknowns that horror is almost a given. Wonderful Ian. You never fail to deliver.

[@ScullyPop]

The Egyptian tales will make a good series.

[@graceonthewater]

I am in full support of this idea :)

[@TheMhm821]

Me too amazing idea 👍👍👍👍👍

[@vingarcia942]

@@graceonthewater no

[@polarisnebro2074]

oneday.... oneday Ian will scare us severely by saying WARREN LIVES!!!

[@kevinhayes3672]

Oh noes!

[@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves]

HERE I AM! Warren!

[@Paxtonparsnip]

@@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves not you. The real one.

[@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves]

@@Paxtonparsnip -- Ha! I'm real! That's as bad as saying I'm dead! Warren!

[@Eris123451]

@@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves "What do you know, you're just a talking head ?"

[@kidkurmudgeon-0_o]

speaking of Bastet - even my cat has started curling up at the sound of you voice =^+^=

[@TheMhm821]

Aaaaaaawwwwwwwwww

[@TheMhm821]

That is CUTE

[@lolitah8560]

😍🐈

[@JennyLane8666]

A fellow Bastet owner :) her purr is mighty as mountains

[@danbreeden5481]

Robert bloch stories are wonderful

[@tobypack6328]

By Amen-Ra! Simply Fantastic 👏

[@MarkSpaceAvenger]

Bloch's tales of Egypt are fantastic and your narration is excellent. Very atmospheric.

[@nitayrafowicz5934]

You know me.. I see a bloch, I run into a brick wolch. I just love his tales! Extremely enjoyable! Keep it going!

[@GeorgiaPeachHolly]

This narrator is a true professional!

[@chrisu7022]

This is auch ana amzing story, and so perfectly read. I dont think i wouldve loved it without you reading it! You should do an egyptian horror collection thank you

[@hektorlitch4993]

This was good, I love the dark Egyptian stories.

[@strangelitgirl]

Do you have any recommendations? I enjoy them too ❤️

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Would love to hear any other Bloch Egypt tales! 👏 Your reading always hits the mark. Great job.

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Amazing story. Listened to it twice in one day. My goodness, this is well-written. I never read this one before. It is amazing!! I love this story! Great job Ian! Fantastic narration. Thanks. The lands of the ancients hold so many stories and history.

[@charumathis5029]

Thanks Ian! Listening to this was a privilege as your voice made the entire story- images, sequences, human and nonhuman elements- come alive in the eyes of my mind. Of course, this was a good one from Bloch.

[@AcornElectron]

Something in the boyish slang of my evidently stricken companion unleashed my faculties. I formed and shouted a resolution, “Warren, brace up! I’m coming down!” But at this offer the tone of my auditor changed to a scream of utter despair: “Keep up the good work fella and stay safe!”

[@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves]

You were a big help Carter...yeah! Cheers Warren, who lives in spite of youse!

[@AcornElectron]

@@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves damned if I do and damned if I don’t. Next time I won’t even offer to come with you never mind come down and drag you out of that sepulchral crypt. Some people! Especially you Harley!

[@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves]

@@AcornElectron -- Tut, tut, Carter, don't you know you shouldn't speak ill of the dead! Even if we're alive! Cheers, the eternal Warren, who thrives on ambiguity!

[@mshistory1000]

For a moment there, I thought he was going to sacrifice Peter

[@wyntersteele1a]

I believe he still did. I have listened to the ending several times and I believe his father still planned this.

[@dondawson2174]

So glad I joined this channel. Ian and Jill never disappoint me.

[@dondawson2174]

MY APOLOGY..... JENNIFER NOT JILL.

[@robbabcock_]

What a terrific story!

[@nancyM1313]

Perfect!! Listening right now. Thank you Warren😃lol! 📚Thanks a bunch Ian⚘

[@soulreaver1983]

Thanks Nancy! ☺I've been busy working in my garden planting roses! Hope you have an awesome day too!😊

[@nancyM1313]

@@soulreaver1983 🌹🌹🌹

[@soulreaver1983]

@@nancyM1313 😊💙🍀🌈

[@stuff6218]

I really appreciate the subtle sound design in this one. Great telling.

[@charlesReed239]

Dude... This is another story my grandfather read to me as a child. Maybe that's why I've always liked the darker side of life. Lol. Always have been a horror fan, my older siblings too. They snuck me into see Jason, Freddie, and Michel Myers movies back in the late 70's and early 80's. Anyways, thanks for another great reading and good memories.

[@MsMtheory]

I'm so Addicted to this author 😍..ty HB!

[@grahamturner1290]

The Pyramids : built by a clever Giza. 🐪

[@Sepulchral_Swoon]

Yet another good one! Cheers

[@larrybuzbee7344]

"The bats battened on the bloodied bodies of the beasts". wow!

[@rabbits.plinketty-plink.1276]

Fantastically narrated, as always. This had _extra_ awesomeness, than usual, having the Ancient Egypt & her deities, etc! Even more so, to me.. for including BAAST! etc.🤗 🐾 My profile pic is my almost (November) ..22 HUMAN Yrs old, cat..which converts to *104* feline yrs!! 'Shadow' has always been really switched on, & ultra fine tuned in. My little familiar. 🌛🌕🌜 Thank you, thank you, yet again, for sharing this!!!! 💞 Much love, & well wishes, from just outside *Melbourne..Australia* 🤗🍃🌸🐨🌸🍃

[@catherinelh1979]

Awww 🥰 I love his/her little jumper. 🐱

[@davidkelly5899]

The creeping horror!!! Awesome.

[@TheMarauderOfficial]

Yessssssss exactly what I wanted to see this morning

[@XxFilthMagnetxX]

Another good one Ian, thank you! I would like to ask though, I remember listening to a story that was set in what I believe was an Egyptian tomb as well, with an archaeologist following a priest down a long set of corridors that had different tapestries/paintings on one wall that showed scenes through time, that the priest revealed one by one to the archaeologist, and the final one showed the priest killing the archaeologist...which he then did. I'd like to listen to it again, do you, or anyone else know what I'm talking about? I hope my description was good enough! Thank you to anyone who can help!

[@svitztraveler]

it’s called fane of the black pharaoh!

[@rvfiasco]

I wanna say it's by Frank Belknap Long but that's probably a different Egyptian Story...

[@katdroidd]

Outstanding reading! Also apparently “cyclopean” was not used solely by Lovecraft.

[@jonshepherd2550]

Well no of course... erm polyphemus and Odysseus?? No? Thousands of years earlier? Homer?

[@Eris123451]

@@jonshepherd2550 You fool, Polyphemus is dead and so is Odysseus.

[@jonshepherd2550]

@@Eris123451 yes but Warren's alive mwah an ha

[@EndofanAge]

"He was one of the youngest members of the Lovecraft Circle; Lovecraft was Bloch's mentor and one of the first to seriously encourage his talent."

[@thefisherking78]

That was awesome! Thank you

[@libertyprime6932]

Great work as always. Love your narration 😍

[@DesertWolfSurvival]

Fantastic 🔥❤️🔥

[@KiilMu]

About to go to bed, *brushes teeth in sofa while scrolling yt, sees this in feed* Me: Oooh! Sofa: Ay, clean that up!

[@Zinnsei]

Gotta love Egyptian horror. ❤️

[@strangelitgirl]

Love it ❤️ …do u have any recommendations?

[@cobrachicken07]

Excellent!

[@alswann2702]

Poor Warren.

[@graceonthewater]

This was a great story, very spooky! Does anyone know of any other Egyptian-themed weird tales? I've also read "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs," but that's all thus far.

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Try Fane of the Black Pharoah and The Fire of Ashurbanipal.

[@johns1625]

This was a great one! Creepy and disturbing ending!

[@scottmiller2591]

"...evoking dark and obscure gods such as Matshishkapeu..."

[@VictorReynolds]

Good story with a killer climax (no pun intended)!

[@ImCarolB]

There was that moment, "We'll rule the world, I tell you! The world!"

[@Saturnchild56]

You're such an incredible voice

[@the7saviors276]

I could be wrong but I'm fairly sure the true form of the "Opener of the Way" is none other than good old Yog-Sothoth.

[@0therun1t21]

Great story! I wonder what Anubis thought about the makers of such a blasphemous statue, I hope they found out before making any more!

[@mnirwin5112]

Very creepy ... I just finished reading this exact story. :)

[@andreasfilis9001]

it seems that there were more people imprisoned in the land of the Pharaohs.

[@dranimations7902]

Very good!.

[@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves]

Those fellas should have lit a Camel & gone to the Oasis Bar instead! Cheers Warren, who lives -- & works there part time as a dishwasher! Hobart, anyone!

[@geoffreyraleigh1674]

Mucho Cheerios!

[@Kojoanna]

A good one

[@grannykiminalaska]

Thrilling

[@bluesow]

I wonder if Bloch was influenced by Lovecraft's "Imprisoned With The Pharaohs" when he wrote this?

[@GRasputin91]

Makes one want to go try to find that tomb now. Who knows what else is buried underneath those truly cyclopean pyramids?

[@iunary]

"Tomb kings trailer" Thats how i expected this to go ... to be honest

[@gohboy56]

I can't understand why so many characters want to " rule the world!" The World??

[@Boogie_the_cat]

I know, how quaint 🐵

[@john_blues]

" thing was a glistening array of vampiric flowers, with gelid, protoplasmic petals that seemed to weave in blob-like thirst for blood"...Say WHAT???? Wonderfully descriptive use of language.

[@Haerleif]

Im unsure about the ending.. what way was opened? For who.. great read though,as always!

[@feralbluee]

written by religious western man. the tombs of Egypt are not “unhallowed”. they’ve been blessed by Egyptian priests of the time. they are “hallowed”!

[@sub-jec-tiv]

These authors were definitely of their time. Lovecraft also, always comparing non-whites to ‘savages’ etc. Even Italian immigrants sometimes get this treatment. It’s a shame they were using the fear of other cultures as a way of getting audiences to feel uneasy. The other more horrific elements of their stories are enough!

[@BlorkTDork]

My ears pricked up at that line too.

[@sindarpeacheyeisacommie8688]

Warren status check complete.

[@tv-obscure306]

Seth and Anubis are interesting

[@ChiefSmackahoLLC]

Doggy gonna play some cyclopean mini-golf.

[@Tazirai]

He suffered Warren's fate. Definitely dead.

[@jonathanwpressman]

Ian, could you please do The Faceless God? Thanks.

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks Jonathan -- please send the details via our website if possible: www.horrorbabble.com

[@RogersGirl88]

The Burrower Beneath…

[@soulreaver1983]

Awesome as always!!!!! 😈👍

[@nancyM1313]

Hello Mark📚 Enjoy!! Have a great day too.

[@rickyhurtt5568]

700 feet down? Long assed way

[@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979]

Are you sure it’s not The Hounds of Tinderlos moonlighting?

[@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979]

Wages of sin is death/ newBus holds the door to the tomb , wow

[@tv-obscure306]

🌛🌚🌜

[@lonapopoki1181]

🌺 Aloha Bravo Sad his son didn't "open the door and then slap" his father from his trance ice cold body or not What is there inside that next chamber??