HorrorBabble's THE DUNWICH HORROR: A Dramatic Adaptation 

I've stipulated in my will, If the need should ever arise... Ian Gordon is my designated life narrator. lol

This is the best adaptation of Dunwich Horror ever made, bar none. A superb gem. I've listened to others since finding this one, and I always come back to this.

Hard to fall asleep without my Horrorbabble. The HP Lovecraft I thoroughly enjoy. Thank you for all the hours of enjoyment, Horrorbabble.

I adore the readings on this channel, but because I use them to fall asleep to, I keep losing my place!!! You have no idea how long Mountains of Madness took! 😅 I especially love the dramatisation in this one!

One of horrorbabbles best pieces of work. You really respected the text, and your own dramatic touches blended seamlessly with it. Much better than most of the stuff on TV.

We neeeeed a dramatic adaptation for the shadow over Innsmouth

I loved this! At the same time the bartender said “Mother Nature doesn’t like this” a real storm started outside my house. Started with a loud peel of thunder that scared the crap out of me.

Excellent as always! Loved the horror babble theme playing on the rickety piano in the background. Another drink gentlemen? AYE!!

"Aye" Cracks my up every time he says it.

This feels more like the style of reading Lovecrafts' stories where meant for. Drama. Exclamation. Suspense. All of it animated in the imagination with the aid of theatrics. Well done. : D

Damn right, comfortable place to sleep, missus asleep but no matter, she will be spared the fear and madness, head phones are on and I'm going to delve deep into the Dunwich Horror, thank you again for your fantastic Audio renditions of Lovecraft!

I love the dunwich horror. It's one of my favorite cosmic horror stories. I listen to the audio books all the time. I need to dust off my book of lovercraft stories and read them again.

Aw, I like Larry and his monosyllabic utterances 😄

This version is so good. I come back to it often.

I listen to this atleast once a week, sometimes more. Superb! The different characters, sound effects, the art, that groovin original track. Kinda criminal how few click gets imo. Also, When the dog barks again at the end, too good

Turn out the lights? Yeah, right. I'm listening to this in the middle of the day with all the lights turned on. 😂

We now gather, using the beer and whiskey schedule, to listen. Larry, we love you.

Can’t wrap my mind around how awesome this video is. Thanks for keeping my entertained at night.

I have been listening to these at work - thank you! You have a gift of reading, you convey the stories really well & it helps me pass the time. I greatly appreciate it. Cheers!

What a skilled salesman, that bartender. Sold thrice the volume he normally would have, with a captivated audience.

I love that HPL directly mentions Machen's The Great God Pan, which makes such elegant, expressive, engaging, sophisticated, emotive & excellent use of written English & which clearly inspired HPL & many others. Top-notch adaptation, HB!

Just plain amazing,keep up the great work and keep the Lovecraftian alive

because of my familiarity with this story since i was 11, i didn't pay this much attention. However, i'm quite glad i did. Despite having read it and heard it read MANY times, you, the wonderful Horrorbabble team, put together a version that was a wonderful and even refreshing treat to listen to. Brilliant as always, Ian

This recording is just so amazing, I must’ve listened to it at least 10 times, please do more of these dramatic adaptations, they set the scene so well

Love your videos, actually use them as background noice to fall asleep because your voice is soothing. So thank you for your anti insomnia voice. (Also listen to them when reading the Necronomicon)

WOW listen to your first rendition of this you did 7 years ago. Man you have really have come it to your own. In another 7 years it will be Sir Ian Gordon 👺☠️

Wow, this is the best friday late night thing to watch while alone and no one is there to hear the horror. I loved it at full.

I listened to this after listening to your original recording yesterday, and seeing the improvement side by side is mind blowing! The way you bring the characters to life is amazing!

Excellent thanks ❤

This being my favorite (Well, tied with Charles Dexter Ward) Lovecraft tale, I'm so happy that you gave it this dramatic adaptation. I dare say Lovecraft himself would approve. And all the music is PERFECT. I love this so much! Thank you.

1:13:20 the best voice acting I've ever heard. Loved the dramatization! I really get the picture better when it's spoken to me like I'm there!

When the demon spoke... Absolutely amazing imagination of the dialect that was to be used I must say. Considering it's an unspeakable language but you did an amazing job to recreate or create I guess the proper somewhat sound. Absolutely terrifying it was

All I can say is WOW WOW fecking WOW

Wonderful work! Very impressive to keep the voices so distinct. 😎🔥🐙

Wow, Ian's American accent totally threw me for a loop haha. Well done!

11/10. Y’alls dramatic adaptations are absolutely spectacular.

The best reading of this story.❤

lovecraft himself would be pleased...thank you horrorbable for helping me sleep!

This is still easily my favorite upload, and one I return to often. In fact, this is the same video that brought me to the channel. What a voice for narration!

The song at the very end was epic!

I listen to your readings to go to sleep! I find your voice relaxing and I love horror stories, especially Lovecraft. Win win!

This is...*chef’s kiss*

This might be one of HBs best works, the respect for the original text but with a personal touch that I really really like. The whole traveling man stops at an Inn, with the barkeep retelling the story instills the whole story with another creepy layer. Thank you HB for all your hard work!

This is an absolute masterpiece

Fantastic. I loved this.

Wonderful production! As a radio person I know the work that goes into sfx in drama and you've brought this story to life beautifully. Lovecraft would be proud.

Outstanding!

I found that your RU-vid channel is so wonderful, I became a member; this is the only channel that I have supported.👻👻👻

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This Was AWESOME👏

Ian Gordon is outstanding

Heavens to Betsy, hearing the heavy breathing and vocalisations of the tentacled thing outside the museum- that was terrifying! Well made!

What a way to begin the night...

Utterly Brilliant. You've done it again Ian, Good show!

wow. how many voice actors were involved?! Just two... !? It sounds like an ensemble cast. This is outstanding work HorrorBabble. A narration that draws you into another world...

Thank you for the awesome time brothers!!!!!

A great way to show that adaptation can be a deeply creative endeavour. Congratulations and many thanks for your work.

Like how you snuck in the theme on that tack piano.

My favourite Lovecraft tale . And favourite version Excellent 🤘🤠🇬🇧

Delightful sinister for this early September. I would love to hear more but must save the unnamed terror for another time definitely going to have sub for more.

1:25:19 one of the best parts of this. horrorbabble is becoming one of favorites

Sounds like Larry needs to lay off the neat whisky. That said he's a first rate pianist.

Yup I would get my audiobooks from a collection of other channels but after hearing this, my first story with you guys, I done found where I belong!!! Amazing work!!! New sub. New member. Whatever you guys need…I’m in!!!!

A lovely addition to my afternoon! Thank you for all your great work!! Cheers!

This is great to play on a rainy night in the fall with candles burning and 45 degree weather...BTW in New England we pronounce it "Dunnich"

Very good then, most excellent.

I love the music that plays at the end of Part One

The part Henry is describing the dying Wilbert, I would expect he would say: " Stop describing me as a freak you stupid human and help me! I'm bleeding! " Are you familiar with the Necronomion sir? I'm a shoe salesman, not a sorcerer

Wow! You two are amazingly talented. This is so great, dramatic adaptations for Lovecraftian works.

I love you guys. You offer some real fantastic content.

Magnificent. That's all there is to say.

This is a good one this

Perfect ♥

My evening close is always great

thankyou I've lost count how often I've listened to this its wonderful

Delicious adaptation of this HPL classic! Thank you, HorrorBabble. Babble-on, Babylon!

Loving this. I began ,adapting Lovecraft and others for campfires, years ago.

Yeah I can't sleep without hearing your lovecraft mythos playlist

1:31:17 for everyone else wanting to bump the outro again

Just found your channel this past week, awesome readings, I’m hooked!

TL;DR 7/10 Great reading and loved the production! Still prefer the 2015 reading though. Recommend everyone go listen to it I've been waiting for this for quite a while now. Your original 2015 recording of TDH is by far my favorite among your readings, I've probably listened to it over 30 times now and I fall asleep to it frequently. I even noticed that you kept the original recording of Wilbur's brother speaking at the end (or did the most perfect recreation I've ever seen.) so I'm very biased in my review of this Dramatic Reading. I actually still prefer the original. But I don't think this is inferior by any means. The intro to the reading is absolutely perfect. The description of the country gets you imagining very rural and backwoods people which we can all imagine. Then the theme song comes in and invades with a very alien tune and gives the sensation of unease that I'm sure the people of Dunwich were feeling upon being confronted by such an unknown being. It really got me right in the mood. One of the very few things I don't like was the lack of Ian voice acting Old Whately and Wilbur. These had me becoming resentful of George for stealing these away.(lol) Also throughout the story I kept wondering how George had such first hand accounts about so many intimate moments dealing with the Whately's and the whole ordeal. I half expected George to be a twist villain at the end. That maybe Wilbur survived and decided to torment people who talked about the incident. I felt that the part that succeeded the best was the discovery of Wilbur at the college. The shriek from Wilbur, the sounds of the breathing in the background, and the final words with their distortions. All of it was perfect and made me feel like I was right there. Any extra background sounds that are added in always get my imagination flowing and allow me to visualize the story much better. I wish there was more when there were descriptions of the invisible horror bending the trees or maybe for the final call of missus Fry. Overall I give it a 7/10. My biggest complaint is that I simply want more of your impressions. I hope you'll take that as a compliment! Keep up the good work guys!

Very enjoyable….the shoe salesman sounds like George W. Bush ! 😀

Ah. One of my favorites.

Just when you thought it couldn't be better. Wonderful opening, great voices, and gorgeous background music. The pacing is masterly. You have outdone yourself.

Excellent job! You guys went all out on this one.

Masterfully done, I love the dramatic readings of HP so much!!! Thank you!!

The music at the end of the story reminds me of the movie "Phantasm".

6:43 Haha hey, I never noticed that in the background, there's a Honky-Tonk rendition of HorrorBabble's theme playing!

I think Larry has this story memorised by now ..

fantastic!!!!

42:28 made me bust a gut with laughter.

A wonderful adaptation and reading! As a native New Englander, I'm always interested in the accents used by non-local readers. The landlord is quite good. The salesman is definitely a southerner. "r" should be more like English, "ah" or "eh". "Right" should be more like "roight".

I can honestly say this is the best audiobook I’ve ever listened to. Even gave me a nightmare or two.

I love this version. I play it over and over again.

Fantastic production! This was like a Radio 4 play from the good old days.

Cleaning the house this weekend. Made this the perfect length as I worked. Great job.

Marvelous stuff!

Holy cow man this is still my fave of Lovecrafts works. The way you interpret the speech of the horror honestly sent chills all over my body. An amazing piece of work!

I normally listen to Lovecraft to sleep because his long prose can be soothing. Not when read like this apparently, thoroughly creeped out and full of tension. H.P. would be proud.

Ohhhh jeez! Just found this!