"The White Sybil" by Clark Ashton Smith / Hyperborean Cycle

[@HorrorBabble]

The Complete Hyperborean Cycle: fantasybabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-hyperborean-cycle

[@lonnytucker1345]

Your channel introduced me to CAS about a year ago. I am now a big fan and collector of his books. Thank you for that, and all the work you do bringing these classics back to life.

[@--enyo--]

I want to read more.

[@lonnytucker1345]

The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis is a good story to read or listen to if you haven’t already. One of my favorites

[@PhilipBelcher-qn3wf]

I must admit Clark Ashton Smith is becoming my favourite author 😊

[@AcornElectron]

Hmmmm, that sounds like heretic babble…. Got my eye on you! HP

[@gregbors8364]

@@AcornElectronHP would understand

[@shannonandsheila1403]

Their is none better.

[@rileyrosewriter]

Love the story and the tie-in to normal relationships at the very end. This is probably the best possible outcome for a guy who looks upon an ethereal goddess of forecasting doom and thinks to himself, "I can fix her."

[@Hunrakku3]

I read along with the narration, but my copy of the story differed... having some added words, lines, paragraphs... and the ending was different. Having no comely woman, the protagonist remains haunted by vague memories.

[@bobbymarcum772]

CAS is really underappreciateed nowadays i think. Thank you Ian for introducing him to me. I believe the first magical story i knew of is your favorite, as you wrote or spake when posting your reading of it...i cannot recall the name, but if your favorite CAS story is about a survivor of an exploratory spaceship crew piloting his craft around ...Venus(?) and either evading or attacking a giant, terraforming grub. Or blob.

[@donaldmccleary9015]

You can never get enough CAS. His world creation, lore, and stories are amazing. This is a world and lore building story, and I love it! I am so thankful your channel brought me tons of CAS. I was introduced to him in depth by your channel, and I thank you for that. I soooo love his stories! Fantastic story and narration! I listened to it four times in a row. Many authors don't write 'em like this anymore!!

[@walterfechter8080]

What a well-composed story. What a great reading. The artwork is magnificent. That rendering of "The White Sybil" brings to my mind the beautiful fair wavy-haired vampire bride in the novel, "Dracula." Many thanks, Ian.

[@dragonkeeper19600]

The art is AI-generated. You can tell by the hands. That means it's trash.

[@user-ln3kh3ku4u]

What a beautiful picture goes so well with the story .

[@michaelkottler]

"The White Sybil", replete with CAS' typical precise and celebratory use of written English at a very high level is an engaging & satisfying read/listen and a welcome addition to your already vast library of compelling stories. Excellent again, HB.

[@AcornElectron]

“It is true that I have for five years been his closest friend, and a partial sharer of his terrible researches into the unknown……” Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!

[@Eris123451]

I still miss Konix Multisystem.

[@gregoryblack8109]

Top 3 favorite stories that CAS ever wrote. Its a bitter sweet but beautiful story with some of my favorite descriptions in any story of his

[@gregbors8364]

My top 2 are “Genius Loci” and “The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis”

[@ryanrobison8973]

He is an absolutely insane author. Definitely one of my favs of his.

[@Nanosuit37]

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

[@robertwalker-smith2739]

This was published almost a decade before "The White Goddess" by Robert Graves. I wonder if the latter author had read this evocative and poetic exaltation?

[@justletmelistthese]

Don't give up on Warren yet, he is very resourceful.

[@GodOfPlague]

I'm rooting for him!

[@anthonybarnwell767]

Another splendid job Mr Gordon

[@justifan]

I run tabletop fantasy role-playing games, and I always had difficulty trying to verbally express a physical appearance of deity in a properly epic and awesome fashion, until now. I will always use this story as a reference to show the revealing of a god among mortals!

[@Hunrakku3]

The printed version I have of the story differs slightly, and one bit mentions that when he meets her in the valley with no shadows she leaves no tracks in the flowers, though he had crushed them as he walked through them. So there's another detail to hand out to PCs who hang with supernatural beings.

[@justifan]

@@Hunrakku3 Thank you!

[@andersschmich8600]

Smith is a godsend to fantasy RPG DMs.

[@WhoCares69]

Aha …. So this is where Sybil went when she wasn’t at Fawlty Towers 😂

[@rhoddryice5412]

More like a the gorgon. Basil’s little nest of vipers.

[@ToddiGreat-le2qu]

Didn't "Are you being served" ?, come on right before FT on Sunday evenings on PBS ?

[@williestreiff9314]

Clark Ashton Smith stories are cool, Robert e Howard wrote about Conan in hyperboria, I'm pretty sure I think,,, great job narrating horror babble, thanks

[@Cryptyd_]

Good for you Cybil for keeping your boundaries. Why is it when a lady is having a lovely time with a guy then he has to go and ruin the whole thing by being a sexual predator.

[@GodOfPlague]

The tale of satampra zeiros referenced the white sybil and her prophecy. I like that story alot. I always wondered what she was.

[@moirajamiechuma5149]

Right in time for bedtime 😊❤️ thank you!

[@obsidiancurse429]

The premise seems similar to a Conan story, the Frosts Giants Daughter, I think it’s called, except this is serene and poetic as opposed to Howard’s energetic violence.

[@hoverpantsz262]

That was odd for a Ashton smith story most of them end in utter horror. Much thanks.

[@andreasfilis9001]

Astonishing story by Clark Ashton Smith! It was the most enjoyable!

[@thefisherking78]

Gonna savor this inside after a hard day of labor, while the sky storms outside 😁

[@tishahouse846]

Listening from the ukwales ❤

[@lonnytucker1345]

Listening from Kuparuk, Alaska

[@evelanpatton]

PNW, just below Vancouver, B.C. Canada.

[@VictorReynolds]

Another gem from CAS!

[@drazster]

Wow! That last line! 😂

[@louithrottler]

Can't be long now before you can input all of these old stories (or for Ian, his own) and have the text come to life in video format. I look forward to City of the Singing Flame as a video story for sure.

[@evelanpatton]

If you want to find a HUMAN DOING JUST THIS, check out this channel: I think it’s better to support a fellow human being whose work is nuanced & unique rather than “literary & regurgitated”- just saying.

[@katdroidd]

Lovely story

[@robbabcock_]

What a great story! CAS was a phenom.

[@soulreaver1983]

Outstanding video thanks Ian

[@dla1509]

Poor, poor Warren…

[@edwardnimerowski7577]

You could serialize Warren Peace😊

[@evelanpatton]

Moon cooled eyes or Moon cold eyes, both are lovely to be found at the kiss to take you to the otherworld. 🧖🏿‍♀️🪐🧖🏻‍♂️ 🤍💋. Thank you for the excellently produced otherworldly Horror Babble- & many thanks for staying true to your format & for all that you do to tell these tales! ☠️👹💀

[@epiendless1128]

That was a cracking final line.

[@Arwcwb]

Thank you!

[@myidvarchive889]

Can you make a Playlist of hyperborea because I just don't know where to start listening and whenever I stumble upon one it's just confusing

[@HorrorBabble]

I was going to wait until all of the stories were recorded before creating a playlist, but I’ll get it done tomorrow. One thing to note: there’s no particular order to them.

[@HillbillyHijinks]

Thank you sincerely! I think a lot of us will be enjoying that Playlist.

[@evelanpatton]

Perfect. Same thought, thank you! Horror Babble you are still my favorite 4X sweatshirt dress!!!

[@HorrorBabble]

Here it is: kzbin.info/aero/PLeNNKRLWxwoNrOhnqT9nV0Vr88XKAdX6c

[@tamlandipper29]

Nice one. ​@@HorrorBabble

[@joannewatts9892]

Lovely story 🌼💗

[@4skynRotter]

YEEAAAHHHHH WOOOOOO, FUCKIN AWESOME. I am slowly piecing the dots together, the puzzle is coming together AND I LOVE IT. Cant wait for the next one

[@Han-tg7zn]

cthulhu style of romantic

[@bigsarge2085]

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[@kristinacable]

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[@MsMtheory]

CAS LETS GOOOO! 😊

[@johnnyblaze4546]

Spoiler alert. Do you think the cybil sent him to the girl to find mortal love or was it chance???

[@cheesewiz9087]

Ian, you beautiful bastard, you've done it again! This is how you start a Friday

[@Wombats555]

As much Clark Ashton Smith as you can record without being banned for the rude bits, please :)

[@dirkbruere]

I can't stand it any more. One Clark Ashton Smith story a year is my max before I succumb to terminal verbiage.

[@hunterhobday6363]

Poor Warren, he's got Kennys Syndrome

[@jill3343]

❤🖖🏼

[@dawwe8869]

Eyy

[@EricDaMAJ]

The Chinese government, uncertain of his origins, lodged angry formal complaints to the US, British, Indian and Argentinian embassies concerning Warren’s unwelcome incursion into China. All four governments officially denied knowledge of him and disclaimed any responsibility for his movements or actions. Unofficially, the British embassy’s cultural attaché - actually an MI6 agent - angrily informed a Chinese Ministry of State Security official over tea, _”You fool! Warren is dead!”_

[@peterjgreaves]

Dr Frankenstein I have an interesting proposal for warren

[@leebennett1821]

Second 😢😢😢😢

[@williestreiff9314]

Clark Ashton Smith stories are cool, Robert e Howard wrote about Conan in hyperboria, I'm pretty sure I think,,, great job narrating horror babble, thanks

[@howardhavardramberg333]

❤‍🔥