Lovecraft H.P. The Nameless City 

"AND DON'T COME BACK"-nameless reptiles

Guy: Finds a highly detailed and obviously literal pictorial history of a race of IRL Lizard People in an IRL Lizard People City. Also Guy: "Ah yes, religious/allegorical representations of humans!"

I can see the influence this story had on Dark Souls and Bloodborne.

For those who enjoy the illustrations. I can strongly recommend you Gou Tanabe's lovecraftian Comics. His style, somewhat similar to Juni Ito, nails the dark and morbid atmosphere in HP's stories perfect!

Driving my empty Uber cab around this Coronae induced deserted streets, scaring myself even more with Lovecraftian madnesses.

This seriously deserves more views

I found lovecraft decades ago, in darkened forgotten cellars beneath my collegel ibrary, an isolate spot in New England- and no i'm not making that up seriously I was in such a creepy place to read this stuff-but this is the first I've heard of this story. probably because it falls outside the usual Cthulhu mythos.

“Too horrible to describe “, then proceeds to describe them

The nameless City is talked of around campfires! I wanna be around that fire!!

Everytime lovecraft needs to describe something imaginative, it's always "beyond description."

Lovecraft's masterful usage of English transports his writing above and beyond the ordinary; in the first sentence or two, the reader has already wandered far beyond familiar ground...

My god, this is the first time I'm discovering H.P. Lovecraft... All the wasted years... The illustrations and sound effects are awesome by the way! It really adds to the narration.

I love how the illustrator managed to interpret something that at times appears seal, crocodile, bull dog, cat. Much like a human with a large dome head, no nose and jaw like an alligator. I mean how the fuck do you interpret that?

even though the detail is mushy and lack of any specification the MERE FACT that he tried to put anything remotely baroque or artistic on that ceiling mirror amazes me, the amount of time he must of spend making that big ceiling leaves me in awe, this man is truly a marvel of an artist

I’ve named the city Greg.

I've heard great things about Lovecraft and I'm happy to discover the stories in this way.

Thanks for posting. I learned to write suspense and horror by studying HP Lovecraft stories, and this one was particularly instructive. Listening to it in bed during a story brought back so many memories of my days as a creative writing student.

This is a damn near perfect reading, the ambience really enhances it!

This story made me feel cold curious and cautious all at once. I felt like I could see everything he saw when I first read it. This was wonderfully illustrated!!!!

They built this city on rock... This was a great telling of the tale. Thank you

Excellent narrator.

Great reading of lovecraft! Thanks. I live with in 10 minutes walk of 2 of the addresses in Providence where he lived/grew up. Great stories

Excellent reading, thank you!

Outstanding! Your productions are extremely satisfying.

I wonder if Lovecraft is somewhere--maybe a spirit--and realizes posthumously how much his literature affected the world. I hope so. No great artist deserves to miss the impact his work creates.

Well done 👍. Love it, thanks for your show.

This was always one of my favorites. I have found myself rereading it, along with a few dozen others, over the years. I enjoyed your narration and the artwork. It was interesting to compare what I see in my mind eye to the renderings presented here. Thank you.

Same as everyone else. This is fantastic! Thank you.

Great read - thank you. What an extraordinary visionary Lovecraft was for his time.

These videos are works of art. Thank you.

Excellent narration, excellent illustration. A really formidable tribute to the man. Well done.

This is wonderful ,thank you..

I would love to see the dreams of unknown Qadathe

Very well done! Thank you so much. A huge fan. 🦑♾🤘

Simply incredible stuff.

phenomenal work, deserves more exposure... ~I cannot imagine lovecraft wanting his material portrayed any other way than this.~

March 28 2020 -- not mad from isolation yet. But when he said sandstorm I thought of Darude.

Boccaccio, Poe, Lovecraft, Camus.....Great tales for these bleak, virus days.....

I love all the metallic music happening in this nameless city

Hope to see a lot more of these. Thank you!

Thank you for the Gou Tanabe illustrations. Just got his translated graphic novel "The Hound and Other Stories". Very enjoyable.

Exceedingly well done. I didn't look at the pics, just listened. The reader infused Lovecraft's prose with a poetry like I've never heard. Great stuff.

this is awesome

I look forward to the illustrations of the display cases

Nicely done.

Awesome. edit that's a really interesting interpretation of the city inhabitants; this has always been one of the few descriptions in HPL stories that I can never get a proper mental image of as it's just too obscure and disjointed, like the byakhee in 'the Festival'.

Well done!!!

I just figured I had missed to exit the freeway while listening to your story

....Superb artistry...Colossal writer....

Thank you so much.. so damn good!

Excellent lovecraft video dude!!!!! 10/10!!!!!!!!😃👍

I would love to see Lovecraft’s In the Walls of Eryx done this way.

Even death may die great narration

Thank you

Lovecraft was a master of that unspeakable horror so beyond mere human ability to deal with it. Whatever his faults of racism, which is true and does appear in his writings though obliquely. When it confirmed how racist he was, it seemed the news that water was wet. I love how he could describe creatures which look at humans as nothing more ants. We barely register in their thoughts and we meet humans crumble in our insignificance and go insane. Lovecraft was the master of horror and otherworldly creatures. He always found a way to make it seem real and possible.

"It was... completely indescribable" *draws picture*

"Hey, Abdul! Check this out! See this angle of the stonework here? Taaaaaacky. I don't like it."

I always wondered if I'd see an illustration of HP Lovecraft's nameless city, for I read it several times. These illustrations are great. If only they were in color, but I'm not complaining- it's a great video.

Amazing

The Nameless City is one of my favorite chapters.

This would be even better if the archeologist was Imbiamba Jombes.

All Lovecraft fans should see these videos

I have begun this video only 30 seconds ago... Or was it two days.. I no longer know.. but.. but this strange feeling.. this strange feeling tells me that this narrator has been the voice in my head this whole time..

Fear the Old Blood

I have a name for the city considering it’s location and inhabitants “madinat altanin” that’s Arabic for City 🌃 Of Dragons 🐉 and for the cities inhabitants “sukkan altinin” or Dragon Dwellers rather fitting if you think about it (course it may also be The Iram Of Pillars)

Supreme 😊

Nice😊

Maybe my favourite among his stories :)

Superb

Probably not the best thing to listen to while going for a walk in the night. Outstanding work though. I have always thought there had been hyper advanced civilizations prior to us

i wish my highschool English was good enough to understand it on first listen

the voice is really good in this one :)

Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!

Fuck Gou Tanabes comics are too good gonna have to buy them all as physical copies, rip my wallet.

Man this channel should do the mound next

Like the game: The town with no name. "Come back Shane!". "Mah name is not Shane kid". *pew*

The ancient ruins of Carthage are even more mysterious in aeons earlier than the Phoenician era. Something about what existed as life other than we can discover in fossils.

Anyone who enjoys this would love the story called " The cursed sands", read by Dr. Creepen. Seems like that story got its inspiration from here.

I just recently read this story and from my understanding the protagonist doesn't survive. From the last paragraphs I understood that the door closed behind him, ceiling the protagonist with the lizard people. Is my understanding wrong? Great illustrations, helped me visual the story better.

Lovecraft rhymes like crazy XD

10:40 This is the part where i would've nope'd the fuck out. NO WAY i'm going down there.

The city name is IRAM !

lol I love how Lovecraft would always try and make the implications of ancient ruins inherently horrifying on their own, like in Cthulhu and Rats in the walls and this too. The idea of the unknown pushed to the most sinister inklings possible definitely seems like one of Lovecrafts favorite weapons in his literary arsenal.

This is going to serve as inspiration for my next D&D campaign: the adventurers discovering the ancient civilization of the kobolds. And likely not too dissimilar from their reactions, if they're like the sterotypical set of murder-hobos. Edit: No, even better! The players get to *be* the kobolds, living in a simple hunter-gatherer lifestyle while just trying to survive in a desperately hostile world. Then they come across the Ruin, and with this world-shattering revelation of their past, and of a future destiny that might yet be, the entire theme of the campaign changes.

Music by Kammarheit at the background.

I think the exploring parts of the ruins, are direct reference to the Chalice Dungeon in Bloodborne.

Agree classic stories new sub share everything I watch

I think this story proves Lovecraft wasn't exactly the straight up racist people today believe he was. You don't have to read any further if you cant be talked out of that opinion, but this story is special among his works because of the narrator's perspective. Regardless, hopefully it is something to consider, whether you agree or not. In this tale, the narrator fancies himself an educated guy. He believes he is in the upper echelons of human intelligence, having studied anthropology, science, and other scholarly pursuits. You can tell by his immediate dismissal of what he is seeing once he makes it to the lizard people tombs. It is obvious to us, the reader, that the narrator is far beyond his depth as he rationalizes what he is seeing with what he "knows" to be true. This boils down to two main ideas. The first is that the narrator starts out believing the tomb complex creatures must be a version of something humans have already created, like totem spirits or mythological iconography. Maybe this mistaken belief is enhanced by the mastery of art that the lizard people seem to have. They are great artists, so it isn't a huge leap to believe the bodies are just weird but amazingly detailed art. Imagine a Celtic Briton or barbarian from Gaul seeing Rome for the first time. The marble statues would be so lifelike they might believe they are actual humans turned to stone. The massive stone buildings would have to be recontextualized into a form the barbarian would understand, but only through visual clues. They wouldn't know the coliseum was a massive fighting arena for all purpose entertainment and punishment. Maybe they would understand it was a giant fighting pit, but they wouldn't be able to fathom much more because they had never seen anything like it before. How would the nomadic tribes of Mongolia see the Pyramids in Egypt? They would see the giant structure, the paintings, and hieroglyphics, and inversely to this story, believe that those snake and jackal headed beings must exist for such beautiful and expressive art to be made of them. (I realize Gauls and Mongols had their own cool stuff, but Egypt and Rome were on a level well beyond their cultures. The examples are based on the gap, and not the years they existed.) The second idea is that the narrator is absolutely mistaken about the first idea. In the words of Nick Fury, He "finds out that he is hopelessly... hilariously outgunned(unprepared)..." for the truth. He is the one who is mistaken. He is the one who is so far out to sea that he, and by extention human culture, is like a toddler with a bubble gun barging into a DARPA convention hosted by Einstein, Tesla, and DaVinci, featuring Tony Stark and Batman as guest speakers. When the two ideas are combined, you get a surprisingly empathetic take on what people from historically tribal or undereducated cultures might have felt when they immigrated to the USA. (No, I'm not saying that all Irish, African, South American, and Southeast Asian immigrants were haughty, backwards tribesmen. I'm not even saying any of them were.) Additionally, you can tell the narrator is used to being at the top of the cultural food chain by his descriptions and thoughts. He looks at the tombs like they are his to investigate. He is so secure and confident in his intelligence that he was mentally unprepared when learning the truth. The narrator might be smart, but he doesn't win in the end. The entire story could be used as a PSA for hubris and understanding how newly arrived immigrants might feel.

COVID-19, giving me time to finally explore Lovecraft... Trying to stay sane by exploring insanity!

HE DIDN'T DIED IN THAT CRYPT i've read it today and the book is like an diary, but if he died as we are suppose to think, how would we read it? like, no one would find it in that crypt. Of course it is just an book or novel, but in the way lovecraft writes he does it like it is real, like an lost file, so, sounds more logical that this is like an lost diary from a man who probably commited suicide after getting out of that place somehow and someone (we) are reading it after finding it

Something happens to the video at about 4:10, and it seems that the audio and video go out of sync after that.

I just can't believe this guy die in poverty...

Were these things the ones ripped Andul Al-Hazrad into pieces? Do you think the man depicted in the mural was him?

"Unreal City ... City Unreal' / Lovecraft's story published around the time of Eliot's masterpiece. Great sound, images, and esp reading--slower would be better but this is common problem with narration.

Fuck it, I’m falling asleep to this tonight.

A man has fallen in Nameless City, Nameless City.

So the lizard people still alive ?

He sounds like a videgame NPC

Not my first exposer to this story (but to this stelling), and with that perspective, this telling is good quality. I did notice at least one or to small changes, but not so much to change to context nor change the original intent. My main gripe is that the spoken word and the images are not entirely in sync. When I am typing this comment, I am paused and 22:00. Here, images of the explorer looking over an inexplainable, clouded cliff, but the words are at least a paragraph or two behind. Despite my above gripe about the editing, I do highly enjoy this rendition of this Lovecraft story.