"When the Door Finally Buckles" by Ian Gordon / Van Melsen Mythos

[@HorrorBabble]

If you enjoy Van Melsen's exploits, please consider picking up the first eBook collection: UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CGXFZCH5 USA: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGXFZCH5 DE: www.amazon.de/dp/B0CGXFZCH5 CA: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CGXFZCH5 AU: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CGXFZCH5 The Van Melsen Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLeNNKRLWxwoO0VCrw61QeyrZk_DQYZycx

[@dennisthornton4434]

Already did.

[@DawnDee-bp9dv]

Ian you are so talented!! Love the way you write and your narrating is the best I've heard in a long time!!! Way to go on the novel 💓💓💓 Thank You for sharing your AWESOMENESS 😘💯💞

[@Aurora-fn6bp]

Cane needs bionic hands.

[@codelicious6590]

For myself personally, the appeal of Van Melson has always been his, "man out of time" aura and the fact that he lives in this very same modern world. Therefor, I always enjoy when, in any story of Van Melson's, there are little reminders of his setting such as the mention of a cell phone or other such modern amenities as we all enjoy and suffer equally. For me, this always seems to reinforce the feeling that Van Melson is a man, both of another world, yet still existing in this one.

[@Nanosuit37]

Well done Mr. Gordon and Horror Babble. Peter Van Melsen is my favorite of yours. Thank you so very much. Excellent, as always. Until next time.

[@benjaminirwin1988]

VanMelsen stories are the best things I've come across in years, thank you.

[@MoonLitChild]

Ahhhh new Van Melsen! I needed this after being miserable with a migraine all last night. Van Melsen is soup for the weird fiction soul.

[@HorrorBabble]

I hope your head's a bit better -- I know the feeling.

[@MoonLitChild]

@@HorrorBabble Modern medicine has thankfully belayed it at last. I *loved* this one. There's a hint of The Transgressor in it, which you did a great reading of ages ago. I hope Kane kept the dog-- ngl, my heart was in my mouth when he leapt at the zombie--I thought he'd turn to dust when he attacked it. But then I remember Night of the Nucklevee, where nothing bad happened to the dog. Another corker of a tale!

[@Night-lh9xj]

Yay, van Melsen again!

[@joz6683]

Thanks in advance for another Van Melsen story.

[@soulreaver1983]

Outstanding as always good sir!😊

[@zednotzee7]

A brand new Van Melsen story ! Excellent !Guess what I'm going to be listening to in bed tonight !

[@RolandWieffering1]

As usual a marvelous good story of Peter Van Melsen and his friends. I am really getting hooked on the PVM stories. I hope you have many in store for us. You made my day with this Tale. Can't wait for the next one, many thanks and all the best from the other side of the North Sea. 👏🏻👻☠️ And these ones are for Peter 🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks again, Roland!

[@donaldmccleary9015]

What a good story! I really like it. Pete and Norman are awesome. Now, we have Buck! Hope to hear more of him. They really are a "dynamic duo." Fantastic narration, sounds, and music.

[@tigeranne4051]

Yeah, Norman must have kept Buck, right? There's no way Francis Juniper will return from his exploration unless someone goes to rescue him somehow. Poor goodboi.

[@donaldmccleary9015]

@tigeranne4051 hope so and agree!

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

I see Ian, I click 😊

[@HorrorBabble]

You have my thanks. :)

[@picklerick.n.666]

God bless you and your work and team sir ❤❤❤

[@paulcateiii]

thank you , thank you, thank you

[@japesdoom2150]

Cheers ian appreciated as always. So happy for another van melson . Your racking them up and there all awsome. Love this series

[@ocsananox]

Hooked on Van Melson. Can't wait until the next story

[@carwashadamcooper1538]

Excellent! Thank you, Ian!!

[@ScullyPop]

One of the best readers on the platform.

[@benjuhmuhn]

Wonderful yarn! A real treat on this Monday afternoon!

[@shelleymarquis2887]

Love me some Van Melsen. Thanks Ian. 😊

[@codelicious6590]

The triumphant return of Van Melson! Just what I needed, thank you so much! My local weather will soon be conducive to a return into unknown K'Dath as well, I think Ill pick a sufficiently dreary grey day and listen to HB's Dream Cycle (Lovecraft, of course) here quite soon! Cheers.

[@Eris123451]

Still love The Dream Cycle.

[@chrismorales2508]

I have a hard time wandering far from Lovecraft these days. Your writing and narrations have given me reprieve where it is hard to find. Thank you for your imaginations!!

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks, Chris!

[@Slingshot_IL]

Excellent music lead in

[@HorrorBabble]

Cane's favourite tune!

[@Lacoleccionistamisterios]

At last Van Melsen has returned! A novel is coming! That's really good news❤

[@NookoftheNorth]

6:32 'Bashful Bibliophile' nice alliteration 😊❤

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Ian’s alliteration is always a good time. There’s something to be said for playfulness in writing.

[@kristinacable]

Ha! I was thinking the same. I used to introduce myself as such.....but so many people believe that any word with 'phile on the end is bad, so I stopped. Its a cl3ver alliteration 📚😍💖🤟 ▪︎B¤¤klover f0r lif3 ❣▪︎

[@NookoftheNorth]

@kristinacable oh no. Ignorance is rampant, and from what I hear, it is quite blissful for those fortunate enough to have such a gift.

[@carolduvall111]

Absolutely wonderfilled😊❤

[@carolduvall111]

I spelt it that way to make a funny, but do love it😊❤

[@tooladdict85]

It loaded on this this week!! 🤘🤘

[@maxredjasper55]

One day Warren... one day, you shall be resurrected! For in strange aeons even death may die.

[@ProbablyOnLSD69]

Not sure that’s the right quote to imply eventual resurrection lol

[@Wombats555]

Throws another Warren on the pile. Fools!

[@winstonsmith8597]

@@Wombats555hehehe

[@romonaricketts]

What happened to Warren anyways?

[@Wombats555]

@@romonaricketts Listen to The Statement of Randolph Carter narrated by our glorious narrator Ian who is brave and handsome and definitely doesn't commit human sacrifice every KZbin video to appease the algorithm. Pay no attention to the small hill of expired Warrens

[@BWP-u3y]

Dig that crazy intro music, Ian! 😎

[@HorrorBabble]

Plays on loop in Cane's Rare Books!

[@robbabcock_]

A great tale! It's always good to get another chapter of Van Melsen.😎🔥🙌

[@JKkindasorta]

Van Melson story! Excellent!

[@ryangooseling]

SCORE🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thank you, I love the V.M. stories❤❤❤😊

[@itzybitzyspyder]

Excellent timing!

[@cheesewiz9087]

You know, I feel like Peter should get his own TV series

[@KellyJacob-qb8ji]

I loved this SO MUCH!!!! I love that a DOG starred in it!! Keep dog in story please!!🐶🐶🐶🐶

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Always great to see more Van Melsen fiction. Looking forward to hearing about Peter’s early years, when he was the lead guitarist of leading rock band *Van Melsen*

[@HorrorBabble]

What a life he could have lived...!

[@amandalee215]

Wonderful stuff. Thank you

[@sarge4455]

I think I like your stories the best

[@HorrorBabble]

Appreciated, sarge.

[@raylauderback5126]

Thank you for another excellent Van Melsen story! Continued good fortune with you future releases! 🖤

[@BeastlyEwok]

What a frightening story. We're left with so many questions. Probably the most enigmatic Van Melsen case yet. The monster's voice caught me off guard with the spine-tingling vocal layering. To be honest I haven't been startled like that since the end of your GrandDad story. It's quite refreshing to see the banter between Cane and Van Melsen in this story. Not that of Sherlock and Watson, but of two men put in a harrowing predicament. Keep up the stellar work Ian. Here's to 40 more years of Van Melsen tales.

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks as always, BE!

[@merlapittman5034]

A new Van Melsen story! Hooray, hooray, hooray!!!

[@DemienC.]

You have talent to give intriguing mystery and absolutely refuse to even hint about its nature😏 Great story regardless.

[@tonymuir4715]

Wonderful yet again Ian! Many thanks for another gem.

[@thom-novi]

Oh heck yeah!

[@ConnorAllen-c1m]

Been waiting for the next one!!

[@Eckyredtheunready]

That was excellent, very atmospheric and thoroughly absorbing. thank you!

[@mortuarycookiezshane4192]

Oooo love Van Melsen!!! Looking forward to the novel as well.

[@howardhavardramberg333]

HorrorBabble is the best channel on KZbin. No pressure, Ian! 😉

[@HorrorBabble]

Thanks, Howard!

[@AcornElectron]

“After an interval, however, we approached the pit again, and found the exhalations less unbearable….” Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!

[@Eris123451]

You too.

[@tooladdict85]

What happens to cane in the post office!!! Unforgettable!

[@HorrorBabble]

A tale too thrilling to tell!

[@mauricedavis2160]

Encore my good friend!🙏👌🦉❤️

[@mariamcgee4462]

I thoroughly enjoyed this tale! What a great word vitrify! Reminds me of Carry On Screaming.

[@FergieTheTaurus]

I always enjoy your Van Melsen stories. I'm definitely adding them to my book collection!

[@beitodesstrafe]

I greatly enjoyed that, thank you! Always love a new VM story!

[@StandingDeadWood]

Fantastic as always

[@maggoli67]

"It's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." Felt this when the contents were enumerated.

[@AcornElectron]

5:00 Dunsop Bridge eh? Quite an upper middle class area outside of the more established population. Only a few miles away from where I stay.

[@HorrorBabble]

A pleasant escape from civilisation.

[@MarcusHCrawford]

More Van Melsen. Sweet.

[@The.Original.Mr.X]

Very entertaining! Thank you.

[@JamesMadison-dw9kk]

Thanks you again for excellent narration of classic horror - Thalia for no AI 🤖 too

[@amgroves76]

Yayayay 💚🇬🇧

[@hangingwithmatty9465]

Great story

[@carwashadamcooper1538]

Don't worry. Warren may be "dead" but he's still just fine. I saw him this very afternoon at the pub. He declined my offer of a pint, and kept staring at my neck.. I left him to his own devices when a rather innocent young lady walked in and immediately fell into his quite charming company.

[@TheFirefishe]

I’m a bit perplexed. Was the mound and the 45° liquid some sort of portal, like a faerie mound might be?

[@HorrorBabble]

...

[@billielyons-super70]

Mr. Ian, I love your Cane voice.

[@HorrorBabble]

That’ll be my brother, Gary!

[@szaszs]

Love a good Van Melsen story! Will he ever go on international adventures? 🤔

[@zednotzee7]

I listened to this last night and really enjoyed it. I would say it's slightly different from the usual Van Melsen story For one particular reason lol. It was still very good though, and as I said, I really enjoyed it. And i'm looking forward to the novel !

[@HorrorBabble]

Particular reason? Even I'm stumped there...

[@zednotzee7]

@@HorrorBabble lol, it's because for once Van Melsen doesn't know - and can't work out - the full story of what's happening. As in, how did that feller from the future get stuck in that goo in what must have been his past ( or indeed what that goo actually was), and who were the hunters that nobody seemed to know or care about lol. I'm assuming they were also from the future ?

[@Bbergster]

That was fun. My labradoodle was mauled by two Pitt bulls. He’s ok but has stitches and ptsd. Look forward to your book! That’s great.

[@HorrorBabble]

Sorry to hear that -- glad he survived.

[@Bbergster]

@ was a savage scene ! People say that they were watching their parents dog! He’s in the witness protection program for dirty dogs. 😹. Thanks! He just shook his limp today. Getting better ❤️‍🩹

[@DJF1947]

The jars in the illustration look more like Kilner jars than screw-top.

[@Andrew-if3sd]

They do seem to have a latch handle, and maybe a rubber ring seal on the cap?

[@DJF1947]

@@Andrew-if3sd Like they say, "if the cap fits ..."

[@NookoftheNorth]

29:22 It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago. We have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses...Hit it! 😎

[@HorrorBabble]

I haven't seen that movie for a very long time!

[@NookoftheNorth]

@HorrorBabble LOL. A true classic. Your cadence in that section reminded of that scene. 😊

[@kevinfogle7929]

Novel!!!

[@AND-od5jt]

I hope you are aware that this shouts for a sequel :) I kinda like the more humanly flawed van Melsen, let's see his weak and his strong sides. Am a bit sad (or is it disappointed?) that nothing came of the tree named rooms/persons... Thanks very much!

[@HorrorBabble]

The labelled classrooms thing was a nod to my primary school.

[@Lucid_Death]

Ty

[@tamlandipper29]

Such a great title. You could sell a movie on the title alone.

[@clint8050]

Great story. It would make a great Dr who episode. hope you will narrate some more. Im confused about buck’s timeline. It seems to me, that he should have remained in 2007? Hoping theres more to our furry friend than we think 🤔.

[@HorrorBabble]

It might help to know that the framework of the story (Gill visiting the shop), takes place in 2019.

[@Peachfuzz-xi9dx]

Had to interrupt listening to say - I almost moved to Dunsop Bridge! Now I have to listen and find out what disaster I dodged 😂

[@HorrorBabble]

Got to be careful up there!

[@Eidridin]

Another awesome Van Melsen story. Listened all the way two or three times during my warehouse shift trying to catch some hints. Also, I know he's got his hands full with all the cryptids in the UK, but I'm really hoping Peter takes advantage of his EU citizenship or updates his passport to find some cosmic horror abroad. Imagine Van Melsen with the wrong brand of cigarettes, or no tea! The true horror!

[@shadownet3d]

Van Melsen! Oh yeah! Nuff said!

[@libertycowboy2495]

1:06:35 because November 5 is when bonfires are hottest? LoL. Love the story, but thought this a rather strange reference. Love Van Melson though. I alway imagine him as played by Peter Cushing. And what happened to Buck??

[@HorrorBabble]

November 5th is Bonfire Night here in the UK (a reference to the Gunpowder Plot) -- so more about the imagery of a bonfire itself, as opposed to the heat one gives off.

[@wayneralph945]

@@libertycowboy2495 I like to watch V for vendetta on November the 5th.

[@wayneralph945]

I was literally wondering if We were due a New Van Melson earlier and what's the 1st thing I find tonight when I go on KZbin?😊

[@karenbanks5985]

❤🎉😊❤🎉

[@GameraSoup]

Warren f’thagn!

[@momoka9983]

Nice

[@jessicaloggins8057]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!

[@Whalewraith]

Confused , what happened to Buck? Was the German Shepard in the photo ( from Bucks point of view ) earlier in his time line?

[@HorrorBabble]

I'd like to explain, but alas...

[@charlesbennett7484]

At least tell us if Buck is currently fine.

[@jamesm9560]

I hope I can buy that novel via Audible.

[@HorrorBabble]

Eventually, I'm sure!

[@GodOfPlague]

Has Warren considered a career as a zombie?

[@DemienC.]

According to Lovecraft Warren became a ghoul.

[@Eris123451]

@@DemienC. I've never been entirely clear about that ?

[@HorrorBabble]

Unfortunately he's overqualified.

[@NookoftheNorth]

38:43 Agent 006 1/2...Codename: Dark Trousers

[@JaneA-r2c]

What happened to their new companion?

[@deniseindoung4514]

How are you going to get all the way to the end of this story without telling us what happened to Buck?

[@StandingDeadWood]

I gotta ask, is Peter van-Nelson an incredibly sly nod to a certain prof. Peter van-nostrand?

[@HorrorBabble]

I’m sorry to say that I haven’t heard of that professor!

[@coltenofarrell3312]

Good story but so full of mysteries so many questions like why was he in prison who in prison the man and what happened to the dog what do they do with him please tell me the latest stories are going to keep the dog like maybe wax keeps him

[@frankcassetta5145]

Love Horrorbabble. However, the voice of Kane sounded like it was dubbed in afterward and I found it distracting.

[@HorrorBabble]

He's supposed to sound a bit 'out there' -- sorry if it makes it difficult to follow!

[@andreasfilis9001]

It is not easy to trap Van Melsen. Even worse if he has a dog on his side.

[@tishahouse846]

Ukwales❤

[@dennisthornton4434]

Nothing in 2020 or later.

[@HorrorBabble]

We'll get there.

[@swordsmen8856]

First

[@leebennett1821]

Sounds like Bleeding Dalek 😂😂😂😂

[@HorrorBabble]

Was there a Dalek called Bleeding? ;)

[@BrianNineTails]

I'll comment here, but I have to go back to the beginning before I proceed any further. I feel I've done myself a great service by avoiding the horror genre until most recently. Its as if a dark, yet inviting, form... entices me further. Further. Through the Door. Side note, writing for your own monologuing is singular. Also I love Wayne June, of Darkest Dungeon fame. I spend a lot of time with Wayne...ha, I told him so. Great work as always, now its back to square one for me

[@Andrew-if3sd]

Hmmm, I wonder if there are going to be any girl companions with emerald or sapphire eyes 👀 📗📘 Was one called Amanda? I think she went to another dimension?