The Pit Golems: A Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder Story

[@HorrorBabble]

"The Pit Golems" is an original, Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder story, written by Ian Gordon, based on characters and themes created by British author, William Hope Hodgson. Synopsis: Carnacki is called to investigate a series of bizarre sightings revolving around a small, isolated village in the hills of West Yorkshire. Queer-looking strangers have been seen wandering the streets after dark, pilfering livestock. The villagers claim the interlopers are coming from an abandoned mine in the hills-a colliery said to have once been occupied by a practitioner of the dark arts. Chapters: 00:14 - Introduction 01:24 - The Pit Golems 42:33 - Further Listening Bandcamp link: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-pit-golems Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble Music and production by Ian Gordon & Jennifer Gill With thanks to our producers: Ashley Lindsay, Wes Sale, Camerin Seigars, and Cody Stec This recording is dedicated to our Cthulhu and Yellow Level HorrorBabblers: 'General' Dipper, Bernard Mulligan, Brandon, Chris Epplett, DCB, Galen Hoffman, Jacob Louwerse, Jessica Mari, Kickweed, L. Harris, Logan Kilcullen, Madison Scythe, Patrick, Philip R Aden, Richard WB Feigen, Till fraser, Zontar Zee AND Adam Beckner, Adriana Alexander, al doty, Allan Smulling, Andrew, Andrew Moffat, Ann Bassano, Art Wagner, Austen Jones, Charles Bossler, Christian N. Collier, Dmitri Gorjatse, Dovauk, Ian Adly Bin Iskandar Dzakurnain, James Dunne, Jason Shayer, Jeffrey Bunn, John Michael, Jon Tiburzi, Joshua Camp, Larna Dennis, Laura, Laura Scarlett, Mark R Patterson, Mike Chaney, Miri P. Weaver, Nero, Pete Nixon, Philippe Lavoie, Quench Smith, Robert Daniel Pickard, Ross Coyle, Samuel A. Mortensen, Sandy Hale, Sean Lorentzen, Shanna Syn, Simon Eckert, SolaceInChains, Thomas Scott, TwirlyWolf, Veronica LoCurto, Willow Wright Become a HorrorBabbler here on KZbin: kzbin.infojoin Support us on Bandcamp or Patreon: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com www.patreon.com/horrorbabble HorrorBabble MERCH: teespring.com/stores/horrorbabble-merch Search HORRORBABBLE to find us on: AUDIBLE / ITUNES / SPOTIFY Home: www.horrorbabble.com Rue Morgue: www.rue-morgue.com Social Media: facebook.com/HorrorBabble instagram.com/horrorbabble twitter.com/HorrorBabble

[@ecoleman5690]

Yhhhhyyyyuuyyyy

[@Wombats555]

@@ecoleman5690 is being eaten by an itinerant golem! Someone call Carnacki's editor and put on the kettle!

[@jasoncookman3158]

Pardon my ignorance here, so is Carnacki a character that was already created but you write stories revolving around him and his universe? If so, that's damn bold, but if you know it well enough, why not 😁

[@wolfieworby5653]

Honestly. No matter how many of these stories I hear, I can't get over how it delights me that you've personified Carnacki's chums so much more than the originals with the use of their accents and backstories... You're a fine author Mr Gordon ✌️

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks Wolfie!

[@lesliereed-xt5zr]

Don't know how I ever got to sleep - before finding HorrorBabble! Cheers, Les. @@HorrorBabble

[@CJ-uf6xl]

I have to admit, your Carnacki stories are actually better then the originals. Thank you.

[@HorrorBabble]

I doubt that, but still, very kind of you to say! Ian

[@Wombats555]

@@HorrorBabble doubt not. Write more :) This is like Hodgson with a much needed editor!

[@frankmcgovern5445]

For real

[@mzeewatk846]

HorrorBabble ...I love your narrations. Few things sadder than a good story badly told. Few thing better than a good story well told. :)

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you.

[@audreym2082]

Listening to this again. I love it. Carnacki is my fave. Please write more. You did a fantastic job.

[@HorrorBabble]

Thank you!

[@rneustel388]

A most excellent Carnacki tale. Well done!!

[@colemarie9262]

Oh Horror Babble, you had me at rumored dark arts and missing livestock!

[@HorrorBabble]

Ha!

[@christyrollins6547]

Said in a brit accent

[@MACNAOIS]

If I hadn’t known it, I’d have have thought this was an original Hodgson story, and one of the better ones. Thank you much.

[@rzarco01]

Thank you for this imaginative and original story which remains, in my opinion, quite faithful to the style of Hodgson. Also, I like how Carnacki's guests are given an active role - the implications of the story are explored and given more depth through their questions at the end. And, of course, their unique accents and characters are wonderfully voiced.

[@fudgefudge8913]

HorrorBabble Originals are the best. Thank you!

[@Cuban20]

Holy Crap, this was even better than the first one you made. I was hard pressed to think you could have topped that. But you did.

[@HorrorBabble]

Thank you, Juan!

[@Cuban20]

@@HorrorBabble Will the good Doctor be an arch nemesis to Carnacki? An Evil Carnacki perhaps?

[@jaydurr8513]

The narration is impeccable, it truly makes it so enjoyable listen to...my nightly ritual for a while now!

[@OssamabinKenny]

Oh boy another Ian't Carnacki? Very well done sir. I am not easily pleased but I believe you are indeed doing justice to this character. Please consider more of these

[@henryk123]

'Do Golems dream of clay sheeps?'...

[@erginbozun1755]

I see what you did there 🙂

[@henryk123]

​@@erginbozun1755I also got one comment waiting for a story where antagonist reveals that he is protagonist father...

[@henryk123]

@@erginbozun1755 Thanks. 'I understood that reference' also would be acceptable ;)

[@aidangeis4686]

This comment makes me very happy. Thank you.

[@ripplerbr]

Thank you so much for your content over the years and the increased rate of release of new stories recently. Your readings keep me dreaming positively about this wonderful world we live in. Best regards.

[@ms.scream2248]

You would definitely enjoy my creepy story narrations as much!

[@jeremygriffin620]

"Can you imagine it, fellows? They keep making great stories using a time assured, fantastic model! Can you?" Ashing his cigar he looked at the John Silence collection on the shelf and gesticulated, "Maybe they should try that lad, he'd make a glorious work!"

[@cnkclark]

I can scarce imagine such an undertaking!

[@michellebastiani6470]

I second the undertaking! There isn't any finer writer I could imagine doing it 😉✌

[@12201185234]

These are fantastic. The writing is very true the feel of the originals and the story was immediately engrossing. Oh, and Stellar performance as always, Ian!

[@ms.scream2248]

If you liked these, then you'd love my super scary horror stories narrations

[@Boogie_the_cat]

this is my second listening and i JUST realized you wrote it, Ian. Excellent job. I really liked this one.

[@HorrorBabble]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@parkeaudio1338]

I love your Carnacki stories!

[@sailhammer8042]

Very well done! Well written and well narrated. Thank you!

[@R.ion64]

That was excellent. HorrorBabble has made my evenings the best time of the day

[@GodOfPlague]

This was a great story. As usual the voice acting and narrating were great.

[@Flood520]

Great job, Ian! Love it!

[@tackedon3569]

Fantastic as always, you really ought to do more of these stories.

[@ms.scream2248]

If you like these stories, then I bet you'd really like my horror story narrations

[@graceonthewater]

This story was fantastic! I would've thought it was really from the early 20th century if you hadn't told us otherwise.

[@pbr-streetgang]

Thank you. Loved the story. Two thumbs up.

[@MrsCaranAmy]

This was an excellent mystery. I thoroughly enjoyed this. I do hope you will delight us with more of these. Thank you. I hope that you and Jenn are doing well. Everything fine here.

[@HorrorBabble]

We're doing well - good to hear you are too, Amy!

[@MrsCaranAmy]

@@HorrorBabble ♡

[@Nanosuit37]

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

[@jamiecameron7615]

Amazing!! Thank you very much!!

[@wolfieworby5653]

Just got to finishing this book... My friend and I are in West Yorkshire (home county) and suggested we find a cave somewhere. After listening to this I'm telling him right where to stick his caving expedition! 💪🏻 Great book. Had me gripped throughout. Love the Shamalanian Sci-fi twist too!

[@WhiteLongSword7]

Such a cool intro; very fitting. Great story!

[@justincase9282]

Great timing, i just finished listening to your narration of "a Whisperer in Darkness."

[@BlaqueCzar]

I LOVE Carnacki I can't wait to see how you bring the character to life. On a semi related note, A Carnaki movie is looong overdue.

[@samann518]

BlaqueCzar who would you like to see play Carnacki?

[@cha5]

BlaqueCzar Daniel Day Lewis? Liam Neilson? a complete unknown?

[@BlaqueCzar]

@@samann518 Its funny I can't come up with a single person who I think could encompass the character!

[@BlaqueCzar]

@@cha5 A complete unknown, although Daniel Day Lewis could literally play a complete unknown while simultaneously playing Carnaki.

[@jlworrad]

I’ve always wanted a tv series. I’d bloody love that. Benedict Cumberbatch would have been good in a movie but he’s too associated with Doctor Strange now.

[@thomasswafford250]

Really good story and well read. I would love to get a hold of a few Carnacki parodies that are out there.

[@justicepie314]

Great work! Thank you!

[@dondawson2174]

Maybe it's my British ancestry but Ian Gordon is an equally amazing author as he is a narrator.

[@johncools5424]

Loved the story Ian. Intro and exit music is pretty awesome too

[@soulreaver1983]

Awesome video! ☺

[@lifewladye]

Loved it!

[@Paxtonparsnip]

Wonderful stuff!

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

I was thinking a week ago I love Carnaki! I hope you do more!!!!!! (My daughter asked me why I was screaming --- I heard Ian say another original!)

[@HorrorBabble]

Ha! Thanks again for listening, Veronica! :) Ian

[@derriet6806]

I'm from West Yorkshire. So, obviously, I love this!

[@michaelgreaves2375]

Oh Yeah!!! Luv me some Carnacki Ghost Finder goodness!!!!

[@foofy3406]

Ian Gordon is a god! he’s the best there is!!! this channel never ceases to amaze me

[@robertmiller6467]

Makes me recall that old Twilight Zone episode where the beautiful Anne Francis played a mannekin that was allowed to leave the dept. store for one month. She was a day late getting back because she forgot what she was.....

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

This went remarkably Lovecraft, in the shape of eldritch technology mixed with ancient sorcery.

[@BlaqueCzar]

Finally able to listen to it all the way through, you did the character justice, At first the Smallie lass not having any lines or comments made her seem more like a prop than a fleshed out human being, which I found offputting..but in hindsight it actually lends to her character, She probably wouldn't say much except the bare minimum. And respond only when spoken to and straight to the point information. As far as the dude with prosthetic leg..him not talking at all was weird, and after the ending I'm not sure he is who they thought he was..I have a feeling that Doc Smalls is far more cunning than Carnaki first realized. A sequel is in order ol' chap!

[@DesmondScifo]

i have this book with 8 stories, its a good intro to all tbat is horror and spirit,thanks for reading to us

[@madderhat5852]

"and I would have gotten away with it, too, If it wasn't for you pesky kids"

[@Mike_of_the_Sonora]

I really love your personal carnaki stories i hope you write more

[@HorrorBabble]

I've got at least one more up my sleeve, Mike.

[@Mike_of_the_Sonora]

@@HorrorBabble i greatly look forward to it! I love your channel. It gives me alot of inspiration for my own writing.

[@Blayze1017]

“Introduced to the smothering fabric of space” I love that

[@adamfabing8250]

Yeesssssssss! Keep these up! Love it

[@raymondgerman6671]

Why doesn’t Carnacki adopt Janet? Great story. 😁

[@jctrevi89]

Carnacki is quite safe in your hands, Ian Also, this is first time Ive noticed new theme. I very much dig it

[@HorrorBabble]

Ah, that's Carnacki's theme!

[@cnkclark]

@@HorrorBabble This is stellar work, sir. The likes of W. H. Hodgson and M.R. James were spinetingling favorites of my childhood, and you have everything one could hope for to do them justice. The voice, the manner, the spirit... you bring them to life more vividly than any practitioner of the dark arts! I am devouring these new Carnacki tales, it's as if you've refined the essence of what made the originals so enjoyable. Now where did I leave that decanter? My glass is due for a refill...

[@lucasshaw6934]

The music in the intro I loved it idk y but that music !! 🎶 the story was great il have yo look up the first story

[@Haerleif]

Great story 👍

[@AndrewLawsonjughead67]

Cool😎 Great narrator

[@russellcalvert]

I prefer this story to all of the Hodgson originals!

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks for the kind words, Russell!

[@tooladdict85]

I do enjoy your additions to Karnak. It'd be neat if van Melton crossed paths with karnacki. A crossover, joining for dinner, or full a passing at a tea shop Edit: I realized I spelt Carnacki wrong but even if they are not in the times, it would be a neat reference to the other. I feel the two would definitely connect if they met.

[@DrakeBarrow]

Interesting. So, the doctor wasn't necessarily evil, but he was uncaring as to the consequences of his actions. Kind of like Herbert West - more like destructively amoral than wicked. Even attempting to have Carnacki and the daughter killed was out of practicality, not out of malice. When it failed, he (or an accomplice) were more than willing to simply destroy the worksite and start over. Speculating on the doctor's motives, he doesn't strike me as the cultist/devoted type. He's probably a man of science whose eyes have been opened to great truths that he could verify with his own skills and deductive reasoning. Personally, I think he wants to give the entities from outside a body simply for the purpose of talking to them. Imagine the secrets they could divulge! Even the scraps in the Spectacle of Toth let the doctor create "life", restore a limb to a man who was crippled - what more could be found from the source itself? An end to disease, a true Panacea? Crops that would regenerate themselves overnight to satisfy the hunger of the world? Maybe even...immortality, consignment of the Grim Reaper to children's stories and legend? Of course, he doesn't have a proper idea as to what he's doing or getting himself into...

[@joshuagordon4267]

We need to find that doctor so he can make me a wi- I mean.. figure out what he's up to... Yeah.

[@Thomas-wn7cl]

👍👍👍

[@austinmorgan6114]

Hi, Ian. I thought this story was on par with the other, more established content on your channel (Lovecraft, Chambers, and the like)-so much so, in fact, that I actually mistook this for a work by a well-known author like Hodgson.

[@mzeewatk846]

a colliery was a coal production facility with mines and steam-age processing technology. I know because I had to look. it up. Nothing to do with corollaries. Who would've guessed? Just feeling pedantic. :)

[@Kojoanna]

Good story

[@Thevampman24]

I do hope we get a sequel to this wonderful yarn and/or a team up with the great detective Holmes himself?

[@HorrorBabble]

You never know!

[@Thevampman24]

@@HorrorBabble Wonderful, Simply WOnderful.

[@frankmcgovern5445]

Smalley LIVES!

[@laurenpurdum9315]

Carnacki!! 😁

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Ooh I adore the plot twist.

[@thomasswafford250]

One slip. The writer said flashlight. Someone from England would have called it a torch.

[@HorrorBabble]

Not so, Thomas! Hodgson used the term flashlight regularly in the original Carnacki stories.

[@thomasswafford250]

@@HorrorBabble I am amazed. Even in the Quartermass movies I hear them being called a torch. Odd he used the term flashlight especially way back then.

[@joels1184]

Carnacki only used flashlight in reference to flash bulbs for photography though, which is why he was always blinded after using them. That was my only issue with this otherwise wonderful story

[@rogaltriggs4704]

Ian I had massive phone problems but thankfully money solved my issues and low behold my first look on the intraweb got me some fresh carnaki. I do doff my invisible hat to you

[@dirkbruere]

That mad scientist deserves a Nobel Prize

[@johnnyboy5004]

Carnacki

[@christyrollins6547]

Carnaki is like a very educated Scooby doo

[@TheWorpler]

Will you ever record the works of Oliver Onions ( great name)

[@christopherwilson5671]

The Flashlight during the years this story took place did not work the way you described, they actually flashed on and off, not a steady beam of light, mainly due to the state of battery technology at that time not allowing for enough power to maintain a steady beam of light. Usually only used by Police and not likely to be available for purchase in a rural store.

[@blixten2928]

I found another I. Gordon. Joy!!

[@richardwilliams5387]

Could Dr. Smawley (sp?) be Carnacki's Moriarty?

[@hydroknight01]

Curious if we'll ever see a sequel to this one; surely, the mischief of Dr. Smalley isn't over yet. And a man of stout constitution like Carnacki would seek to resolve the matter with some more-concrete finality, I'd have thought.

[@HorrorBabble]

I’ve given it some thought, but have yet to find the right opportunity to revisit the concept.

[@TheLordUrban]

Not very seemly for Carnacki to spend the night alone with the librarian.

[@BryinWillis-e8g]

Complete

[@Eurobunneh]

I hope Jessop behaves himself this time!

[@julielevinge266]

Is that the Golem from Lord Of the rings???

[@HorrorBabble]

No - you're thinking of 'Gollum'.

[@jasoncookman3158]

LOL

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Its from the Thalmud I believe, an old hebrew document, and certain stories in south-eastern Europe.