"The Scourge of B'Moth" by Bertram Russell / From the Library of R'lyeh

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@HorrorBabble 2 ай бұрын

Artwork by the fabulous Vishnu Prasad: instagram.com/artgeek09 Series playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLeNNKRLWxwoMIyYSdiYkITs16aHqjHY6b

@OskinsBob 2 ай бұрын

TOP NEWS IN THE INTRO..OUTSTANDING NEWS. THANK YOU IAN..

@Dinamittin 2 ай бұрын

I learned 3 things from this video: 1. I am a fool 2. Warren is dead 3. Ian Gordon's narration is a blessing for the horror fans

@MrsCaranAmy 2 ай бұрын

I just love the way the older stories read. The descriptive language is marvelous. This was an amazing story experience. Brilliant narration @Ian. Thank you ❤️ 🤗🌟

@Tome_of_Fire 2 ай бұрын

When I see these 1+ hour videos drop, I know exactly what I'll be listening to as I wind down before bed that night. Looking forward to consuming this tale this evening! Ian, Jennifer - you are THE BEST. I am always recommending HorrorBabble to friends and family. Thank you for every ounce of time and energy you put into these stories.

@scoutrifle6827 2 ай бұрын

So Bertram Russell was one of the best mathematicians and philosophers of his generation, and also wrote Lovecraft-eque horror? I had no idea...another great one, Ian!

@Eris123451 2 ай бұрын

Apparently not, (different guy, Bertrand Russell,) yet somehow I feel that wouldn't necessarily have surprise me. if it had been the Symbolic Logic bloke. It would seem strangely in character; he was more than a bit like a horror story protagonist himself even if you just look a the old photos of him. If there's something strange In your neighborhood Who you gonna call? Bertrand Russell, If there's something weird And it don't look good Who you gonna call? Bertrand Russell,

@miarencrowsdaughter6434 2 ай бұрын

@@Eris123451 If you've ever tried to navigate the Principia Mathematica, you have a good sense of all of those incomprehensible eldritch tomes. (I'm saying this with a degree in mathematics.)😆

@Eris123451 2 ай бұрын

I've never tackled the Principia , (my math isn't nearly good enough,) but I have had a good look at Symbolic Logic and I agree with you completely. Who you gonna call?

@HorrorBabble 2 ай бұрын

Two very similar names, easily confused!

@Eris123451 2 ай бұрын

@@HorrorBabble Principia Mathematica and Necronomicon ?

@donaldmccleary9015 2 ай бұрын

What a story! This is a great one. I really like it. I love the descriptions and imagery interwoven with history and lore. The glowing/iridescent water keeps sticking in my head. Thanks for introducing me to yet another author who puts out of their modern counterparts to shame. When I heard "I stood there stupidly," I cracked up. As always, well done! Thanks!

@szabolcsmezei4088 2 ай бұрын

This new, haunting piece of music during the introduction, and the cadence of Russell's words is just exquisite. Also that cheeky "The night was exceptionally dark..." made me grin. Fun read!

@GreenTeaViewer 2 ай бұрын

what's cheeky about "The night was exceptionally dark..."?

@szabolcsmezei4088 2 ай бұрын

@@GreenTeaViewer It sounds to me almost like a fourth wall break both on the author's and Ian's side. It's not really a straight line to my ears, but it is super fun.

@GreenTeaViewer 2 ай бұрын

@@szabolcsmezei4088 could be...I'm not saying you're wrong to see it that way. But this was pulp writing from 1924, I don't think they did a lot of camp intentionally, and it's not a particularly outrageous line to me.

@szabolcsmezei4088 2 ай бұрын

@@GreenTeaViewer oh it's my subjective listening experience. It may not be an intentionally camp or meta line for Russell, but to me, and in Ian's delivery it comes across as such, and better for it.

@GreenTeaViewer 2 ай бұрын

@@szabolcsmezei4088 enjoy your weird fiction in post modern fashion with my blessing, Magyar bro.

@StudioThirtyEight 2 ай бұрын

Yo Warren wake up New HorrorBabble just dropped . . . Warren?

@ryangreen6255 2 ай бұрын

You Fool! Warren cannot come to the phone right now. But if you'll leave your name and number, he'll get back to you as soon as he can. Thanks. *Beeeeep!*

@winstonsmith8597 2 ай бұрын

@@ryangreen6255Good one 😂

@CrypticCocktails 2 ай бұрын

Only clever use of this comment trope I have ever seen, kudos

@StudioThirtyEight 2 ай бұрын

@@ryangreen6255 Thanks man this was hilarious

@mikec63136 2 ай бұрын

Is Warren ok?

@anthonyfreeman3165 2 ай бұрын

What a wonderful gift this was. Thank you for sharing this amazing story with us Brother!😊👍

@tooladdict85 2 ай бұрын

I really liked the 80s sounding horror intro music. The story was quite exciting! It was very war of the worlds in a sense.

@AnthonyBarnwell-vt5gd 2 ай бұрын

Sweet thanks g Man you're the best bro 😊

@HorrorBabble 2 ай бұрын

Cheers, Anthony!

@AnthonyBarnwell-vt5gd 2 ай бұрын

@@HorrorBabble likewise

@ELDENRANGOON 2 ай бұрын

Yessss let’s gooooooo ! Drawing ✍️

@benwrigley6176 2 ай бұрын

Thank you to you all at HorrorBabble for being a fantastic guide to apsolufe gems of the weird genre. I learnt about Cthulu Mythos through you, and i am eternally grateful for this. 😊🎉

@BWP-u3y 2 ай бұрын

Ian... Thank you SO much for this... This!!! Such great writing, read with your terrific voice! ✨

@ShirleyPearl-n9z 2 ай бұрын

The weird tales are the best .👍

@ScullyPop 2 ай бұрын

Love the narrations over here.

@ManWhorse 2 ай бұрын

I can’t believe I found this channel/podcast on the 1st of October. The spirits of Spooky Season have given me such a gift.

@HorrorBabble 2 ай бұрын

Welcome!

@4ms301 2 ай бұрын

Missed the premiere. At least i have some time to listen as i wind down for the evening. A story I'm looking forward to, with a narrator i respect. Good end to the day. Thank you!

@daveglass7396 2 ай бұрын

Excellent reading as always

@GreenMochi420 2 ай бұрын

The manuscript calling the master the “devourer” was a good twist. 😱💚

@Boogie_the_cat 2 ай бұрын

I enjoyed the previous Bertram Russel story i heard. Glad to hear another one courtesy of HB. 👍🏽

@OskinsBob 2 ай бұрын

BRILLIANT. NICE ONE IAN THANKS 😊 👍

@soulreaver1983 2 ай бұрын

Another epic video as always many thanks Ian!😊

@cmdr_thrudd 2 ай бұрын

Cool! This is going to be a great series

@benwrigley6176 2 ай бұрын

Thanks

@HorrorBabble 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

@RaimoKangasniemi 2 ай бұрын

According to ISFDB, the author's real name is L. H. Hardingham. Hardingham is relatively rare name apparently. There was a Lawrence H. Hardingham, who was living in Contra Costa, California both in 1930 and 1940 censuses. Possibly same person as Lawrence Hardingham, who was buried in Oakland, California, in 1971 and was recorded as being born in 1897. A L. H. Hardinghan, "wireless engineer" serving aboard a ship, wrote about his experiences in a short article published in a New Zealand newspaper in 1920 and is likely the same as L. H. Hardingham, "radio operator" mentioned in a trade journal in 1930. In latter case he had just moved from a Seattle radio station to a new job in Richmond, California. There's also L. H. Hardingham, who is reported to have arrived from UK to USA in 1923 and being born in 1898.

@benwrigley6176 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Ian

@danielmeredith4222 2 ай бұрын

Im back at this story once more i fell asleep last time as i was so tired after work but im gonna listen till the end as i do xo cheers and thankyou so much Ian Gordon

@cody1570 2 ай бұрын

Fun fact. Back just after ww2 the military who set the buoy's during the war didnt have the funding or the man power to set up sonar stations all throughout the oceans. So they "let" commercial companies world wide do it for them as they traded from country to country. The military had access to them and the commercial companies got paid to set up the routes and sonar stations. Thats when we picked up the "bloop" look it up if your interested. Thats how i found out that sound could kill someone by liquifying you. An ice berg from the polar caps ground off Almost the size of road island and the people ten miles out went deff for about 10 minutes as the sound wave made its way across the water. They said if they were closer then 1 mile or so they would have been killed

@VictorReynolds 2 ай бұрын

Enjoyed the story while working; especially the open ending!

@davidbudge8359 2 ай бұрын

Warren's not dead he's just resting. 😊

@KRYTEN451 2 ай бұрын

We get that pet shop reference.😂

@sarge4455 2 ай бұрын

Don’t be a fool

@princesscandlewax5170 2 ай бұрын

He’s pining for the fjords.

@kathyorourke9273 2 ай бұрын

The LONG nap.

@scottishguard 2 ай бұрын

Dirt nap.

@merlapittman5034 2 ай бұрын

This was a great addition to the Cthulu mythos!

@paulcateiii 2 ай бұрын

nice - thank you

@lovely1762 2 ай бұрын

I just love your voice its very hypnotic and haunting, reminds me of Vincent Price.

@garysuarez9614 2 ай бұрын

Great job Ian! I hope Warren's bad case of deceasement gets better...some fresh air might do him good!

@Aroundthesquarebowl 2 ай бұрын

Thank you ❤

@NoWheyHombre 2 ай бұрын

the opening music is great

@HorrorBabble 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@colemarie9262 2 ай бұрын

More mythos!! Loving the intro music too 🤗

@ryanjohnson3615 2 ай бұрын

The beeping (right on my threshold of hearing) @0:53 made me think a truck was backing up outside or that I had some electronics alarming though.. had me pausing playback to listen a couple times.

@cheesewiz9087 2 ай бұрын

I love these mythos expanding stories and have definitely been jonesing for new ones. Gives me hope we might here an Eihort story at some point!

@HorrorBabble 2 ай бұрын

It isn't beyond the realm of possibility.

@cheesewiz9087 2 ай бұрын

@HorrorBabble lol don't tease me like that Ian!

@andreasfilis9001 2 ай бұрын

Well, it was a victory over the ancient beasts. We should celebrate and thank Ian for this story.

@TransRoofKorean 2 ай бұрын

Man that story got so confused at the end, like he just didn't know what to do with it and wanted to get it over with ASAP. Why focus on the attack from the ocean? Well, because that's where you've described B'Moth. What's he attack with? Well, since he's in the ocean, a bunch of giant fish-like things, I guess. What do they do? Do they just attack ships? Nah, they gotta go on land to threaten people, somehow. Okay, I guess it's just amphibious sea monsters. Alright. The attack comes, and he just decides to not describe them any further. Where do they attack? He describes the Presidio at San Francisco. Somehow, this apparently-intelligent attack targets a naval fort. Why? Who knows. I guess because it's the only way the narrator can describe enough firepower in one place to take the horde on. So what's been the point of all those human cultists? I guess to summon him, because it clearly was not to gain knowledge of what weaknesses and strengths human civilization has. After all, B'Moth didn't seem to know any better what to attack and not to attack. Speaking of which, where'd the cultists go in the attack? Were they all feverish in bed, like Prendergast? What about all those ones at the meetings? Why was no warning sent out the week beforehand to stay on watch for the cultists? Aren't the human B'Moth followers that you've described as being so wide-spread a problem? Why not have them seize some armories? Nope, they seem simply forgotten. What happened to the attack in the rest of the world? Well, I guess it was just turned back everywhere. When it wasn't the ocean, it came from the jungle. No real explanation as to how the African nations turned back the attacks from the jungle in the early 1900s, of, y'know, animals much more capable of launching an attack on land: they just did; and that's not to mention the attacks from the ocean in places where they didn't have such powerful bases... they just did. I guess. (Or is it that they had decided to just launch everything in the world's ocean at San Francisco??) LOOK, THE MOVIE RAN OUT OF BUDGET! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ THE END

@MrMusicfan28 2 ай бұрын

I distinctly remember always dreaming about water. Even in waking moments, feeling a strange cool water like sensation that went through my body. Never could explain how and why. So this story really got me together haha

@Lambda3141 2 ай бұрын

What an interesting Tale. Reminds me of more modern stories about confronting the supernatural with guns and bombs...

@toxicmelon6836 2 ай бұрын

Brilliant as ever Ian 😄

@paulross225 2 ай бұрын

From the get-go,I read the title as Vermouth - and kept hearing it at first as such too!😅

@tamlandipper29 2 ай бұрын

The eldritch horror of the wet martini?

@Eris123451 2 ай бұрын

@@tamlandipper29 Brrrrrrrrrrr........................

@TheJimbomull1 2 ай бұрын

‘You dead, Warren is a fool”

@laurahenriksen19 2 ай бұрын

Fabulous tale x

@DustyCarlyon 2 ай бұрын

I fell asleep listening to this only to be woken up in a feverish sweat to the sound of loud chanting. Turns out a nearby school was having its sports day and all of the children were cheering for their respective houses. 😂😅

@HorrorBabble 2 ай бұрын

Yikes!

@BackWhereYouStarted 2 ай бұрын

this one was fun! should be made into a movie!

@CountingHouse 2 ай бұрын

Been hoping youd read this one 😊

@brograb898 2 ай бұрын

New opening music for spooky times!

@thelastsausage635 2 ай бұрын

While on a trip around a local baked goods factory Warren tripped and fell into vat of dough - the foreman yelled out in an anguished voice, ‘Warren is bread!!!!!!!’

@justnice4701 2 ай бұрын

For the algorithm.

@Eris123451 2 ай бұрын

OK so my favorite weird/horror story ? The one that sprung immediately and unbidden to mind, (which is an indication of how good and how memorable it is,) is, was The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis" by Clark Ashton Smith. There's a reason why Lovecraft, Ashton-Smith, Howard, Hope-Hodgeson, James, Blackwood, Bierce, et al are all still remembered so well and with so much regard and affection; that's because their stories are so good and were constantly much better than those of other writers of the genre, (pat and current,) nonetheless although the other more obscure writers remain interesting and indeed many of them had their, "moments of genius, as well stories such as The Vaults.... come close to something like perfection. That's what I think anyway.

@HorrorBabble 2 ай бұрын

Yoh-Vombis is a terrifying tale indeed.

@nathanharper5670 2 ай бұрын

And a lot of people are currently freaking out over a baby pygmy hippo - coincidence... or B'Moth?!?

@ElsieWard-m6m 2 ай бұрын

Old Warren's dead, but Gordon's alive

@danielmeredith4222 2 ай бұрын

Well this looks very interesting im going to be up all night with this one xo

@fionbharrbutler3373 2 ай бұрын

A sacrifice to the Al Gor Ithm 🙌🏻

@Lucid_Death 2 ай бұрын

That music at the beginning slapped

@zednotzee7 2 ай бұрын

Most enjoyable ! Living on the coast as I do.I can say that we are well used to weird, bizarre and unusual creatures turning up on the beaches. Strange things they are, at first appearing to have a covering of deathly pale and unhealthy skin, that so vile looking it makes you feel quite ill to look at it. After a while though, their skin takes on a vibrant red colour and they give out loud animalistic groans and angry sounding cries if anything ( including one of their own species ) should touch them. Eventually though, as if called by some unknown demonic force, they disappear back to whatever evil nether region it is that they call home, leaving a horrible detritus behind them. This happens at least once every year, so we are, as I have said, used to it. Holiday Makers I believe they are called...

@mjpope1012 2 ай бұрын

Warren is alive & well. I saw him on a Ldn bus to Green Park yesterday.

@Eris123451 2 ай бұрын

That was most likly his much less well known twin bother from Scotland, Harley Sporran.

@mjpope1012 2 ай бұрын

He was eating a bacon roll & I gave him a look of astonished surprise just seeing him like that when all presumed him dead..

@Ornstein_Smough_ 2 ай бұрын

What an amazing story! And also very well read. It made me feel uneasy and unsettled

@czcrossman 2 ай бұрын

EARLY! Just in time for bed! :)

@howardhavardramberg333 2 ай бұрын

🙏🙏

@funkyd3321 2 ай бұрын

Playing Dark Souls 3, and what an excellent story to have on in the background

@ethanh5978 2 ай бұрын

Me: A fool Warren: Dead Hotel: Trivago

@CrypticMurmursChannel 2 ай бұрын

I know what I'll be listening to on my cycle to work!

@blindvoyager 2 ай бұрын

Is this written by the philosopher Bertrand Russel?

@AlexanderEllis-kr6tv 2 ай бұрын

I wondered the same thing. Turns out no, these are different people from the early 20th century. It is quite difficult to find anything else about Bertram Russell since he was so obscure.

@HorrorBabble 2 ай бұрын

Not quite. 'Bertram'.

@the-reclining-roleplayer 2 ай бұрын

This is a great little tale-not a huge fan of the ending wherein the militaries of the world beat back the horde since that feels a little less than traditional Lovecraft (definitely prefer the ‘Dunwich Horror’ kind of victory where it’s a small group of people) but beyond that the description of creeping insanity at the start is delightful!

@jonathanpashley4845 Ай бұрын

Thanks most informative.(UK). When first using it how many times a day would you recommend?😊 Is a scoop close to a heaped tablespoon.Regards Jonathan

@robbabcock_ 2 ай бұрын

Great story! But I briefly wondered why such an esteemed philosopher dabbled in horror!😲😂👻🐙😉

@HorrorBabble 2 ай бұрын

I think we can rest easy knowing that the two are completely unrelated.

@kgb333m3 2 ай бұрын

By any chance did you ever do a reading of “the grinning ghoul” it’s a story about a doctor treating a patient who has a reoccurring nightmare about a cemetery and so the doctor decides to bring him to the cemetery to prove its nonsense. I’ve been looking everywhere for the story after listening to it a while back by can’t find it anywhere.

@HorrorBabble 2 ай бұрын

It's a great story. Not sure about its copyright status though.

@BriarLeaf00 2 ай бұрын

Warren, don't get on that flying saucer, you fool!

@williamfawkes8379 2 ай бұрын

Something Something talons gripping tender flesh. Splashes of sound filter through the crying of the gulls. It's singing, as by a children's choir. I carefully straighten my collar and walk briskly to the railing of the boardwalk. In the distance, I can make out the smoke streaming from a huge ocean liner hanging on the blue horizon.

@kristinacable 2 ай бұрын

❤❤lovely

@profailure8465 2 ай бұрын

My brain keeps making B’Moth into B’Mothman when I hear it. The B’Mothman is far scarier than either one and I can’t stop thinking about it. Nothing has helped this idea go away. You now bear this curse. Enjoy.

@ReveredRot 2 ай бұрын

I hope you record 'The Lurker At The Threshold' by August Derleth at some point

@HorrorBabble 2 ай бұрын

Derleth's stuff isn't in the public domain, but you never know...

@ReveredRot 2 ай бұрын

@@HorrorBabble that's a shame. I didn't realize that

@michaellee6489 2 ай бұрын

How many times must Warren die ?!?!

@Wombats555 2 ай бұрын

Amazing there is room for dead Warrens in the ocean between Bmoth, Cthulhu, Big Willy Hope Hodgson's chatty crabs, rats, kraken and naughty mould... actually Big Willy is the main culprit, let's face it :)

@ronaldashby935 2 ай бұрын

Didn't Godzilla fight this big moth critter back in the 60's. I was just a little kid but seems like the big moth thing had two little tiny girls singing it's praise throughout the movie.

@lovely1762 2 ай бұрын

It was Mothra and the two princesses, I 🤔

@ronaldashby935 Ай бұрын

@@lovely1762Thanks have a great day .

@kevinfogle7929 2 ай бұрын

Cthulu!!!!

@abhijit-sarkar 2 ай бұрын

So, the protagonist just happens to have a friend who not only knows all about a secret, millennia old, ritual, but also has seen it while on a cruise trip? This can certainly be made into a Hollywood movie now, it’s got a big enough plot hole to quality.

@BubblesXplode Ай бұрын

Am I the only one here that was rooting for thwe wildlife in the end?

@simonbarabash2151 2 ай бұрын

Man, B'Moth got its shit pushed in. Shouldn't have waited until humans were armed to the teeth

@dr.jimeagleii4108 2 ай бұрын

You fool! Warren is Ned!

@miarencrowsdaughter6434 2 ай бұрын

I feel oddly better-informed than the 'doctors' in this story. Is it really so far a leap from 'B'moth' to the biblical 'Behemoth'?

@miarencrowsdaughter6434 2 ай бұрын

Just to add - the doc finally reached the biblical reference after I commented, but it took *such* a roundabout route. Imagine me as a stereotypical librarian tut-tutting as this guy spends three hours in the 'Forbidden Tomes' room when the KJV is sitting out on a second-floor public lectern.