Your narration is truly perfect for his work, no one else could be more right for Lovecraft's material. Respect and admiration unto you from Knoxville, Tennessee, I've listened to you doing many, and The Temple about a hundred times before bed, it always insures me a great night of gloomy, nautical dreams which I always long for while drifting off to sleep l.
Amazing story and narration! Thanks, Ian! Lovecraft had a phenomenal way of describing architecture. One can picture the settings of his stories with ease while reading his works. It is almost like I am walking by these dwellings as I read or listen to his stories. Thanks for bringing these treasures to us, Ian!
Thanks Ian! today was such an awful day im going to bed at 6:30 and need something to listen to while im laying in bed. horrorbabble always cheers me up.
Exquisite narration. Absolutely top notch. I’ve been searching for a channel that hots every high note; presentation, narration, story selection. I believe I’ve found it.
Incredible narration as always and this story has to be one of my favorites on my current Lovecraft binge. He truly was masterful in balancing thrilling suspense with nerve-chilling terror.
Glad I gave this a second go round. Maybe he was at the Chelsea hotel. Bohemian villages are places to tread lightly. Lest, u stumble into……. “Him!” Need to actually read this one.
Love the narration! I have been listening to all lovecraft's work on your channel for 2 weeks solid. All i have been listening too. So well done! Bravo!
"He" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written August 1925, it was first published in Weird Tales, September 1926. The story tells of an unnamed narrator, who has moved from New England to New York City and greatly regretted it. One night, while wandering in a historic part of Greenwich Village, he happens upon a man strangely dressed in garments from the eighteenth century. The man offers to show the narrator the secrets of the town. Chapters: 00:14 - Introduction 00:55 - He 30:26 - Credits Bandcamp link: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/he Dedicated to our incredible Cthulhu and Yellow Level HorrorBabblers: Rashid, Camerin, David, Bjorn, Daniel, Joshua, 'General' Dipper, Jessica, Paul, Dan, Wes, Zontar, Andrew, Conner, Soraline, John, Bryn, Steven and Jamie Jeffrey, Michael, Ian, Jon, Shannon, Brett, Krista, John, Conner, Dylan, Pete, William, Simon, Luke, John, Hunter, Andrew, Bonnie, Myles, Adriana, Patrick and Veronica Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble Music and production by Ian Gordon Image used with the permission of M. Crassus: www.artstation.com/mcrassusart www.wyrdtree.co.uk/art-of-wyrdtree 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
outstanding job of narration. You brought the story to life indeed. I am a long time Lovecraft fan (even having an autographed book of Lovecraft) as well as running a modern role playing game (Call of Cuthlu). I am glad to have found this channel in my internet wanderings late at night when the pain keeps me awake. much success to you...
And Gibbos Moons shining down on Eldritch beings in bygone city's of arcane origins :) He's got quit a few phrases that identify the author with out reading his name in the discription.
One of my favorites of Lovecraft and wonderfully read. Quite autobiographical in thought, form and psychogeography, written during the period Lovecraft lived in New York. Of equal, even surpassing fascination is the voluminous letters he wrote during this time. Indeed Lovecraft wrote many times over in letters in comparison to the relatively small amount of fiction he produced. As fantastical as this story is, the letters which correspond to this time are even more so and worth tracking down.
my goodness, another good Lovecraft. beautifully read. and so involving being in the New York i used to know. (must be the cthulhu stories i don't particularly care for.)
Thank you, working hard, as usual. Good to see something new, thanks again 🎩❤️🙏🏽🇲🇽 I mean it, every week something new, both long or short. These readings are not hurried neither compromised in any way. This seems amazing considering the circumstances. Thanks again, I’m in.
I am guessing he wrote this based on his own experiences living in New York? I know he was not a fan of his time there and his description of it at the start felt very... personal lol
ahh, daytime New York - depression fits right in. (it's a lot cleaner and brighter now, but i remember that New York he's talking about.) New York at night can be fairy-like - very different. . . still, i think he must have been on something LOL
Thank you. Nostalgic. When the man showed the future of New York - here at 21:58, I caught myself thinking: Oh, the protagonist just glimpsed some Chinese people dancing to jazz music :-)
@@SpaceRaptor510 I grew up there. It has a lot of history but right now it is turning into shit :/ kinda like London. I'm living in Toronto right now and its so much better
@@michaelm4550I visited London for the first time 3 years ago and I thought it was a beautiful city; what about it makes you think it is turning to shit?
Not to sound impolite, but I still find "The Mountains of Madness" to be my favorite reading you have done so far, even if it is four hours and thirty eight minutes long =). I wanted to ask you, ever thought of actually reading the stories from a Necronomicon? I own two, one written by author Simon (Last name wasn't listed) and the other by Donald Tyson. Both very...fascinating and cryptic.
Thank you - it's an oldie, and certainly imperfect, but I'm glad people still enjoy it. I have a sneaking suspicion those works won't be in the public domain. If you ever want to request a PD reading though, feel free to do so here: www.horrorbabble.com/contact
Having recently watched a few documentaries and short videos on HPL, many parts of this narrator sound as if from HPL's personal diary but with a bit of 'cyclopean' flare.
I can appreciate it that - it isn't as direct as some of his other works. In my mind, The Music of Erich Zann follows the same framework, and is a much more accomplished story (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fjf8VQswWSg.html). Ian
Moon Tone, I wrote a review of He some time ago if you'd like to read it? It's really just the story of a vampire/immortal who made a dark pact using ancient Native American magic and ends up dying by their own treachery. The story is more about the mood and atmosphere and descriptions of the city, the feeling of being alone and longing for an earlier time, etc. and the idea of meeting someone extraordinarily eccentric who represents all of this and shows the narrator different moments in time and brags about their powers, only to be destroyed by their old enemies and extirpated from the world.
It's funny how Lovecraft just assumes the reader can relate to his bigotry and will likewise find the idea of a city overrun by Asians horrifying. However, a dark mass of Native American ghosts breaking down the door with tomahawks is one of the greatest visuals in literature, as is He revealing his period costume.
When I first heard it, I wondered what the narrator would think of today's New York, a future with advanced technology, culture shifts later in the century, etc.
A key story in terms of Lovecraft as a person. It not only highlights his disgust at the city he had come to live in, but also betrays his fairly obvious homosexual leanings in the figure of "He". The fear and attraction to this figure is illustrative.
Although his xenophobia must have been painful to him, it sometimes makes me laugh uproariously. A part, not all, but certainly part, of his genius was fueled by his fears.
now, that was a story with more than one hint at lovecraft's infamous intolerance of minority peoples. talking about how some blue eyed person is an innocent and the 'swarthy' people are ruining the area. yikes. but also, rats in the walls, demonstrates pretty well too, how lovecraft feels about race. ahem, the name of his seven year old cat.
Is it just me or is the strange man (the eponymous HE) appear to be a personification of Lovecraft's own rascism. Almost like he was struggling with the ideas that had been beaten into his head by his old blood aristocratic father and schizophrenic mother.
