Under the Pyramids

[@The053199]

Im addicted to listening to these before i sleep

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting and listening!

[@badas45]

I am curiously addicted as well, sometimes it concerns me. "When you look long into the abyss it looks into you''

[@caseynorman20xx]

Same

[@fuzrock8148]

Same

[@Lorkhanable]

same. I know almost all stories first 15 minutes by heart now. the later parts almost feel like new stories when I get to them

[@MalakiaLaGattaNera]

One of my favourite tales by old good HPL. I love how detailed and vivid the description of Cairo is, as if the author had really visited the city. The narrator's voice and reading speed are perfect, which makes these recordings very easy to understand and enjoy even for those who aren't native English speakers like myself. Thanks for the upload!

[@TheRecluseeee]

MalakiaLaGatta My pleasure!

[@fredriko.zachrisson9711]

I agree.

[@pagesegovia2026]

Listening half asleep, this thoroughly freaked me out more than any contemporary horror tale i've encountered. It almost reads like these things actually exist and Lovecraft is trying do a sort of soft disclosure to humanity through these "stories"

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting and listening! Cheers!

[@tylerw.5458]

Yes indeed, love hearing tales like this. It definitely reminds me of reading about the initiation rituals of ancient mystery schools.

[@robbyfaulkner50]

H.P's discriptive is amazing. Loving all his stuff and the narrator is class. Thanks.

[@TheRecluseeee]

robby faulkner My pleasure!

[@dianal.clausen8118]

OMGosh, did I love this one. To begin with, I'm addicted to Egyptology. And the reader was absolutely wonderful. Would that it were the author, H.:P. Lovecraft! Thank you, thank you for this fabulous escape. Diana/Chicago, Ill USA

[@TheRecluseeee]

Diana L. Clausen I'm glad that you enjoyed this one as well! When one combines Lovecraft and Egyptology, you can't go wrong! Since you love Egyptology, please check out following uploads and I think you might enjoy them. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGrVZKCjnbB2irM and kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGTFnpSqp5Wde80 and kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqXRlYachqyJaJY and kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKHIeX6wrcllrZo and kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIKmeKaGe5KDqZI

[@houseonahillok]

@@TheRecluseeee All of those links are now unavailable. Now I'm really curious lol

[@darth_wager]

@@houseonahillok just go to his channel and go to the bottom of his videos tab. Ton of hp their d

[@scottthompson-ez1hz]

I love how the English language used to be. lovecraft truly had a beautiful grasp of it. I had to laugh when the two men had a "spirited scuffle"

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@greyjoycooks75]

Great story, excellent narrator. Thanks.

[@TheRecluseeee]

+Greyjoy cooks Thanks for listening!

[@jomic9060]

that was some dream h.p. "all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"----- Edgar Allan Poe

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@happyshopper1806]

Love a bit of H.P. during this latest lockdown

[@yogi2.057]

This would make a interesting college course e.g., to listen carefully to A Sampling of H.P. Lovecraft Audio Books, write impressions and summaries of the author's style, and then discuss their main themes in class. It certainly would broaden many vocabularies and spark and an appreciation for this literary genre. Great stuff as always!

[@JuanWonOne]

They do have them, its called English class. You read the story, write your impressions and discuss themes, overtones and literary devices used by the author in class. Then hand in your work to be graded. I'm pretty sure they called them book reports back in the day.

[@Linda-wn9ul]

Thanks for uploading this one. I started reading Lovecraft after Stephen King admitted to being influenced by him. I am so glad I read about that, Lovecraft is an amazing writer and I can see his influence in so many places.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Lovecraft influenced so many writers yet not many admit it. ;)

[@MisterLandofLakes]

I find that puzzling that not many but some do cite Lovecraft as their influence. He has greatly influenced me as well as Shakespeare. Lovecraft is amazing

[@frogaroach]

definitely going to record and place this on a cd

[@joeessig3550]

I have a pet theory, that the true test of a writer's ability, is how well their words work when read out loud----and listening to these particular narrations, I think HP Lovecraft almost HAS TO BE read out loud---especially with a narrator who matches the Biblical tone of Lovecraft. I had always kind of thought HP Lovecraft created a profound and deservedly-influential mythosphere---but I never thought his writing style delivered his vision as well as I wanted it to. I FINALLY GET IT NOW. Just was reading him with the wrong tone in my head, lol. It's like a Greek Drama, a Darwinian field journal, and post-colonial pulp-fiction---all wrapped into one---and then having it read to you, over the radio, by Orson Welles. Fucking great stuff, thanks for posting these, m8 Edit: Also---crazy that HP Lovecraft collaborated with Harry Houdini. Lol, never really got the impression that Lovecraft would want to work with a Hungarian-born immigrant and entertainer.....Really cool friendship, both of them being two leading figures of 1900s American Occultism, but I had no idea they knew each other.

[@MsMtheory]

Wat. Why wouldn't you think he wouldn't have a relationship with someone of that culture? He blatantly has appreciation for certain cultures, Black(Congolese, african etc) Indian, .... most actually, he describes them as foreign and even "Savage" etc.. I am Canadian indigenous myself, and its a tad rough on my ears and non racism.. But I love his works and despite the language of the "Era.." he comes from, I enjoy his stories.

[@greyjoycooks75]

Love this story, excellent read sir. Thank you.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening!

[@gino2868]

After all the horrors the narrator describes, realizing that the five headed dreadful creature was only the forepaw of the real monster behind the crevice... that makes you imagine what it really looks like, the sphinx, and it fucks your mind up. Excellent story.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@Not-Ap]

@@TheRecluseeee What happened to the rest of your videos? Especially the Manly P Hal recordings and all the history of rome recordings. It looks like your channel has been gutted.

[@antondavidovic3996]

They weren't actual heads, they were toes. They just seemed like heads because he didn't immediately grasp that it was just a giant paw. The "rigid tentacles" that came out of the "heads" were it's claws. It probably looks like the Sphinx itself, a giant lion's body with a human head

[@NotWithinNormalLimits]

I wish he made more stories like this; settings that take place in times of ancient cultures or their creations intertwined with his Cthulhu mythos

[@TheRecluseeee]

+TheADPHI Thanks for listening!

[@Eric-ot7en]

And using Houdini was really something

[@vedicpagan8852]

Ive been listening to these to help me sleep too like guy below its so calming listening to lovecraft horror storys before drifting away lol

[@jordanrodriguez01]

Lovecraaft is one of my favorite in horror fiction

[@TheRecluseeee]

Same here. Cheers!

[@OswaldBeef]

Loved this one, thanks

[@TheRecluseeee]

Oswald Reef My pleasure!

[@216V0]

end of side 8. change side selector switch.this book is continued on the next cassette. side 9. page 230

[@recklessjelly1484]

-Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 192?

[@1950Chimaera]

I wonder if there are any voice recordings, of any kind, of HP Lovecraft, that have survived the times since... I started reading HPL when I was about 12 in 1962, and happy to see him become such a legend. I think he can be imagined as a reincarnation of Edgar Allan Poe... Poe was the greatest, (another early discovery in my earliest teens), of the 19th century, and Lovecraft owns the 20th. A lifetime of the BEST and most prolific works to read and re-read, between the two geniuses.

[@anthonytindle5758]

I'm interested about anything pharaoh not for education, but just in amazement and find most of these videos calming so I fall asleep sat watching the videos whilst sat in a chair listening with the stories of moses to Howard Carter or michael palin

[@hurricanekingsandsomebodyn7799]

Best story yet, what a Genius

[@feralbluee]

This guy is fantastic - held me spellbound - and what a tale! - really good story and well written ! :} more of whoever the reader is, please. . .

[@rayrevolta6198]

I just found out today that Lovecraft wrote this story in collaboration with Harry Houdini

[@TheJaranggigi]

So long story short, Lovecraft and Houdini hate furries.

[@TheRecluseeee]

LOL

[@chaosdecides]

Sounds like my kind of people! ;)

[@ACanOfBakedBeans]

Hopefully they hate bronies and Fortnite too

[@SuperTonyony]

Lovecraft hated anyone who wasn’t an upper class Anglo-Saxon.

[@littlenikki1105]

I pretty sure I now dream of these I've listen to these ti sleep for s couple of months now

[@DizGuys]

The greatest narrator EVER!!

[@TheRecluseeee]

Glad that you liked the upload!

[@Mark-fv8vt]

It sounds like the narrator, Gordon Gould, averages 160 words per minute. Perfectly paced for a weird fiction story of 11,000 words.

[@donaldvisconti5483]

I started reading H.P. Lovecraft in college; "The Haunter of the Dark" was the very first story of his, which I read. Soon afterwards, I read all of his works. I haven't listened to the above narration, but I have read "Imprisoned With the Pharaohs" , which is the title this story was published under. That phrase, "...and that of which it is the merest forepaw" will always be memorable!! H.P. Lovecraft is my favorite author, and he has influenced modern authors Stephen King, and I believe, Peter Straub.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Donald Visconti Yes, Lovecraft influenced Straub as well.

[@scottthompson-ez1hz]

speaking of straub read a dark matter if you have not already. it has some weird other world deities in it that are very memorable

[@dashinvaine]

Great stuff!

[@TheRecluseeee]

Glad you like the video! Cheers!

[@charlesburgess6323]

14:00

[@Misterioso]

human men should not have the heads of crocodiles!

[@miroslavniemi2824]

+Misterioso that would make things more interesting

[@TheCorrodedMan]

+Mika Nieminen hey bob,ya bite anyone today?(bob)just one guy,tried to steal my wallet so I bit his head right off.(me)huh,we'll see ya?(snaps croc head jaws)

[@owenwalker1774]

Composite mummies for the win!

[@Mungo658]

have you tried DMT?

[@SummerYeti]

So sayeth the tribes of Abraham

[@kronoscamron7412]

enjoyed, lovecraft is a genius.

[@gargoyles9999]

Lovecraft was simply warning us about the greatest force of evil the world has ever known ANCIENT EGYPT!!!

[@Dvnllnvg]

much thanks for the upload.

[@leiffasten5426]

I remember" The rats in the wall". Great story.

[@psychicflora]

one of the best crossovers

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@KeithDec25]

GREAT READING!...I was listening to something else then dozed off and your audiobook came on..Normally do not listen to HPL-the racism grates "the dark cradle of civilization"...However your professional reading helped over the rough spots...In fact some of the unintentional humor came through "Men should not have the heads of crocodiles!"...I may give your other readings a listen....

[@shredwarfare5446]

Sherlock Holmes would fit well in a Lovecraft story if done right.

[@ingold1470]

So that's where Blizzard got Ahn'Qiraj from. They took this setting and added giant insects.

[@rugilockk2708]

+Eric Guier It makes sense

[@JordanGoretology]

Eric Guier All the Old Gods are based on Lovecraft's Old Ones also.

[@tikaseptik7088]

could anyone please tell me, Who Is The Narrator? he's damn good

[@DizGuys]

Gordon Gould

[@tikaseptik7088]

@@DizGuys why, thank you dear~~

[@cuteboy9469]

This is one of my favorite stories. Does anyone know any stories that speak more of or flesh out the massive monster at the end in which the sphinx was made in?

[@mattronimus]

the dunwich horror

[@LenkyLad]

apparently this got renamed into 'imprisoned with the pharaos' the the dagonbytes website. I recently checked it thinking it was a lost follow up to this story.

[@genedryer-bivins8314]

The editor of Weird Tales changed the title when the story was published.

[@mrjroc318]

What is the reader's name for this particular audiobook?

[@leonkennedy7638]

Leeroy Jenkins

[@DizGuys]

It certainly isn't leeroy jenkins

[@MsMtheory]

😂🙃

[@magicman9218]

Herbert West

[@miroslavniemi2824]

Lovecraft rocks. Too bad very few of his stories have been made to film

[@TheRecluseeee]

+Mika Nieminen Indeed! Lovecraft's stories are really difficult to put into screen.

[@chaosdecides]

Stuart Gordon is probably to blame. He has butchered enough of Lovecraft's stories to last a lifetime.

[@scottthompson-ez1hz]

the true horror is ones that have. while amusing most were just the basic scenario of the stories. the most faithful ones I have seen are the short movies here on youtube . most are animated or live action projected onto scenery, but the scripts are the stories read directly from the books. one day maybe a director like del toro will try to direct a movie in faithful reproduction of lovecraft.

[@jmpsthrufyre]

scott thompson Del Toro was going to. or wanted to tackle At the Mountains of Madness. But that's a tall order.

[@norwardradtke1361]

Honestly to me his stories are infinitly better than every movie ever made, they can't come close to his narrative

[@omgutubeismylife]

there are subliminals in this audio recording

[@CMorse-xn3fs]

+omgutubeismylife ?

[@tonybello4445]

yeah I heard it every time he talked or at every pause

[@tonybello4445]

it's cool you noticed

[@xthe_nojx5820]

omgutubeismylife I'm glad someone else noticed. I thought that acid was finally kicking in...

[@jasonm.shepard3641]

Does this story contain Nyarlethotep? Hence the pharoh reference?

[@DoomKitteh]

No

[@cha5]

Actually some Lovecraft scholars feel that the narrator’s guide “Abdul” is very likely to be Nyarlathotep, especially his description of being “a shaven, peculiarly hollow-voiced, and relatively cleanly fellow who looked like a Pharaoh.”

[@rcala1980]

Beyond the Tanarian Hills...

[@loreleishannon]

Wonderful. Who is the narrator, and what year was it recorded?

[@sandman0545]

Lorelei Shannon the narrator is Gordon Gould.

[@naysebtc]

this is awesome. thanks for the upload i will sleep well tonight. when was it originally recorded?

[@nf5973]

It don't get much iller than this gentleman

[@laurieconelly2192]

This story was written for Lovecrafts friend Harry Houdini

[@Jeffrey314159]

Laurie Conelly Was not H.P. Lovecraft allegedly an antisemite?

[@laurieconelly2192]

Jeffrey314159 Yes, but his wife was jewish as well. A man of many contradictions

[@gaspersb]

Laurie Conelly I believe he revised his opinions somewhat through his life, but only so much. He accepted his wife because she was somewhat "assimilated", I.E. Jewish, but not very Jewish, if that makes sense. She was a Jew, but was as said, assimilated. It's interesting to speculate how he would have reacted if he felt that way about an African or Asian woman. He probably wouldn't have had a problem if he'd fallen for an Italian or Eastern European woman if she was intellectual, and a writer, and not overly "ethnic" culturally or whatever. As it is they separated, although that's complicated too. It's not for instance, as if he was "bad" in that way, she commented that he was "adequately excellent" as a lover, so he at least wasn't bad, and at worst was probably average. Although being a gentleman and reserved, he would never have talked about it. Besides being you know, a product of his period of New England. Which is why she talked about that part of their relationship and I'm not sure if anyone has anything to that effect from him.

[@EXTREEEEEEEEEME]

hp is thr goat

[@SchwagFarve]

Does anyone know who's narrating this?

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

Its probably a librivox recording, maybe you can find something through the app or on a website, sometimes they state their name at the beginning of the original recording ... yeah he is good

[@DavenH]

Garret Brubaker, perhaps? Though, I cannot find other reference for this.

[@JeffersonDinedAlone]

The story is not titled Under the Pyramids.

[@xthe_nojx5820]

JeffersonDinedAlone It was Lovecraft's original title for it but it was renamed for it's publication in Weird Tales magazine.

[@riddim7774]

These are the bones, bones from the grave of Houdini

[@FuelAirSparkTime]

But how did he actually escape the pyramid? He ran up the stairs into the dark and unfamiliar.. And then said he just ended up in the sand and fresh air. Otherwise it was really good

[@WarDogMadness]

the sphinx was original carved as a giant lion .

[@vejymonsta3006]

Is this the origin of the ancient Egyptian horror story?

[@davidwhite7294]

VejyMonsta no , the first I can find is by Poe though it was a comedy. The first Mummy gets up and goes around killing people story l can find is Conan Doyle’s the Mummy.

[@magicman9218]

I'm sure ancient Egyptians were the inventors of ancient Egyptian horror

[@Mark-fv8vt]

Read Theophile Gautier.

[@jamescampbell39]

Why all the griping This tale was about Houdini being trapped under the pyramids,

[@xthe_nojx5820]

James Campbell Supposedly, the story was a blatant fabrication. Lovecraft is said to have done a bit of research into Houdini's tale and came to the conclusion it was unabashedly BS. As a result, he opted to alter whatever he felt necessary and fictionalized the entire account. At least, that's what I read in a Compendium of HPL's work. But who really knows.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for your input. Cheers!

[@DavidLovins67]

Epic fail using closed captions for H.P. It misses so many of his words, haha. Better to read along with a book.

[@TheRecluseeee]

David Lovins Thanks for your feedback!

[@vincelee1996]

Lovecraft , I believe, was a ''prophet'' of sorts, regardless of what or who showed him his dreams and gave him his ideas., Yes i know he read the Bible and 18th century Stories and history. But there other elements that i believe he drew from.

[@omgutubeismylife]

+salty .cats what about it?

[@sketchstevens5859]

+fake name Different time, different time

[@rockking05]

Aliens gave him "Secret Knowledge " of whats to come.

[@jacksonmyers3187]

Yes, he also drew from von Junzt's Black Book (i.e. "Unaussprechlichen Kulten") , the frightful Book of Eiban, and of course, the forbidden Necronomicon, by the mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred.

[@beautifullovelyday]

I got sucked in, the narrator is great, great story too

[@thefallensatellites2762]

Errands peculiarly repellent...!

[@dabbo4205]

I shit myself

[@dabbo4205]

@@TheRecluseeee why would you reply to this

[@SD-de4do]

10:00

[@issshanesmart8480]

Long story short Lovecraft expected me with strange eons even death may die I don't think he exactly expected this he might not have had any clue but I hope he is right why do I get confused when I ask myself if I'm autistic if the answer is yes :( does this mean I am God or death itself as well as being both autistic and psychic this explains why women like me and why men are terrified once they figure out that I am autistic I'm okay with just saying I like dick [speech to text error] that too it's just easier as a concept to understand by saying I am autistic

[@scottthompson-ez1hz]

strange when I was in boston they talked of riding in caa's but they didn't look Egyptian, more pasty white.

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for visiting!

[@MrZimrak]

Usually the finals lines of his stories have some great reveal, this was kind of anti-climatic. After all the shit he’s seen, he’s shocked that this last creature has 4 paws? Like how was that the thing that shocked him?

[@tonybello4445]

READ ISSAC ASIMOV SHORT STORY - THE MULTIVAC

[@killianoshaughnessy1174]

i love that

[@yourbookishbae]

23:35

[@TheRecluseeee]

Thanks for listening! Cheers!

[@happyshopper1806]

16.43

[@gda295]

harry houdini met and took an instant dislike to conan doyle

[@SuperStrik9]

+gda295 They were supposedly friends at first but when Houdini found out that Doyle was into the spiritual movement and believed in it, Houdini was disappointed in Doyle and they had a falling out.

[@gda295]

Yes, but I read somewhere that adjective instant...and it stuck but forget i where I saw it :)

[@mattronimus]

ok that was a waste of time...1:12 it could have been 20 minutes...I'm pretty new to lovecraft, but now I understand the " purple prose" critisism. waaaaay to much set up and description.

[@cha5]

For me Tolkien is the king of purple prose at times far more so than Lovecraft, The Silmarillion was for me a slog and I just couldn’t finish it.

[@Piledriver86]

Jeez, did bedouins kill Lovecrafts dog or something? He keeps calling them "filthy"

[@laurieconelly2192]

Henrik Magnusson Haha, probably not. But it has been documented that he was a very racist man, even more than could be excused for being the spirit of the time. The deep ones raping humans is suposed to be an analogy for racemixing I'm told. Great stories regardless.

[@Lorlic1138]

Laurie Conelly He was more xenophobic than racist I think. He didn't trust foreigners.

[@Lorlic1138]

***** Xenophobia is not a mental illness, its a phobia, I thought the suffix would give that away.

[@Rubashow]

***** That may be true. But Xenophobia is just a buzzword. Your run of the mill xenophobe will not be incapacitated by the presence of people of a different race. He just doesn't like them. Xenophobia is not a recognized mental illness.

[@robertjonsson684]

+Lorlic1138 No he was very much racist. Read his books. BTW xenophobic is another word for racist. It means the same thing....

[@Raynayk]

"Black soul of Egypt"... how appropriate.

[@SD-de4do]

Some maddening overtones after every other sentence ends. Can't keep listening

[@DavenH]

yew what?

[@declassified1]

Worst Lovecraft story ever. Don't waste your time. 90 % of the words are pointless

[@tomg4324]

Hoary whorish horrors laid in wait for those accursed few who dared trespass against the sanctimony of the church.

[@SD-de4do]

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