"The Festival" by H. P. Lovecraft / 2023 Recording

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This is the 2023 HorrorBabble recording of TF
"The Festival" is a story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 edition of Weird Tales. The tale tells of a sinister Yuletide procession through the ancient streets of Kingsport.
00:00 - Introduction
00:40 - The Festival
26:47 - Further Listening
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@itzybitzyspyder 9 месяцев назад

I like this one. The slow winding path from holiday tidings to Eldritch gatherings. Over the river and through the veil to grandmother's house we go!

@GordonHouston-Smith 9 месяцев назад

The first H.P.L. story that I read, some 40+ years ago, I was hooked. Still one of my favourites. Narration second to none.

@klausbuck7069 6 месяцев назад

It was one of my first Lovecraft stories, too. Every Christmastide, my family listens to The Festival, either read by one of us or on Hororbabble.

@falgalhutkinsmarzcal3962 9 месяцев назад

"Unmentionable Necronomicon," he mentioned.

@bertorosso5377 9 месяцев назад

Yep. My mind has been shattered.

@donaldmccleary9015 5 месяцев назад

A wonderful tale that never gets old. I listen to every version of this you record. I love the descriptions of the old houses, architecture, and interiors. This story perfectly describes old New England this time of year (I love it every time I hear it). Great tale for a cold winter night (they all are)! Thanks!

@ImCarolB 9 месяцев назад

That last line is a gem!

@andreasfilis9001 9 месяцев назад

One of the finest stories. I really love it.

@rubberduck306 8 месяцев назад

A wonderful reading of one of Lovecraft's best eldritch tales

@tellket 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for the post.

@mortuarycookiezshane4192 9 месяцев назад

I always forget how much I like this one until I hear it or read it in a collection again. Thanks as always!

@spackretired 7 месяцев назад

My favorite Christmas story... Every year under the Christmas tree...🧟‍♂️

@robbabcock_ 6 месяцев назад

Wondrous tale! 👏

@jessisage4708 9 месяцев назад

Yay! Love this one so much i know parts of it by heart❤❤❤ thanks for the treat!

@BellusVerus 9 месяцев назад

Reminds me of my hometown,Newport, Rhode Island and the areas known as cliff walk and Ocean Drive. Aside from the casual drunken university student, I’ve seen some odd things there at night, similar in theme, that other locals sometimes would talk about. Nothing to this extent of course though lol. Always look forward to your uploads and fantastic narration! Keep up the great work!

@midknightgeek6629 6 месяцев назад

The first Lovecraft story I ever read back in High School in the early 80's, immediately followed by "The Tomb"...was completely hooked! Still. Thank you for the reading. Give it a whole new dimension and atmosphere! 😎👍

@thefisherking78 9 месяцев назад

One of those stories I keep coming back to over and over again

@soulreaver1983 9 месяцев назад

Many thanks for another masterpiece Ian!😎👍🏻

@ruth_southernstar 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much. I really enjoyed this tale, and your narration. From Ruth x

@litaholic4572 8 месяцев назад

One of the best Lovecraftian tales I've experienced so far. It exerts a drawing yet haunting pull that you are unable to be free of and get taken thorough the course despite its chilling air.

@tellket 6 месяцев назад

Love to curl up to a good reading. Thank you for all your posts and merry Christmas to you and all yours. ❤

@stevesimz0017 9 месяцев назад

My favorite. Want to visit Marblehead one day.

@tellket 6 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@HorrorBabble 6 месяцев назад

Thank you very much!

@Eddy929292 7 месяцев назад

One of my favourite weird tales

@Driven2Beers 9 месяцев назад

Still better than Christmas with my in-laws!

@thefisherking78 9 месяцев назад

Hahahaha

@teslastellar 9 месяцев назад

A wonderful story and perfect narration 👍 Thank you Ian 🙂💕

@AcornElectron 9 месяцев назад

“I now observed that I had with me an electric lantern and two spades, whilst my companion was supplied with a similar lantern and a portable telephone outfit…..” Re-recordings are always welcome if they improve on the original. Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!

@Ronirvan 9 месяцев назад

Great reading master. I long to see another recording of The Dunwich Horror, my favorite.

@HorrorBabble 9 месяцев назад

There's a new rendition in the works, being recorded specifically for our upcoming expanded Cthulhu Mythos collection.

@Ronirvan 9 месяцев назад

@@HorrorBabble My utmost thanks sir!

@paulandreotti1639 9 месяцев назад

@Horrorbabble 1:57 Respectfully requesting a sequel written for Horrorbabble's Christmas special and the 100th anniversary of this story.

@HorrorBabble 9 месяцев назад

We're returning to Winter Hill this Christmas... But there are many more Christmases to follow!

@user-rd3rf3ft8e 9 месяцев назад

you are hitting one home run after the other! great job

@scotleoqueen704 Месяц назад

YT just recommended your channel, so far I'm eerily thrilled & can't wait to explore further creepy stories Great thumbnails even tho some of em make my spine squirm

@szabolcsmezei4088 9 месяцев назад

Thank you, thiis is probably my favourite Lovecraft story, alongside The Strange High House in the Mist. I hope to hear that in your performance too. Oh, you have recorded it, and I have listened to it... how quickly memory fills anew.

@nownowpippo 9 месяцев назад

that ending is chillin

@edmundkempin3170 6 месяцев назад

Excellent reading. One of ny favourite Weird Tales for sure

@nancyM1313 9 месяцев назад

❤ Horror Babble

@Nanosuit37 9 месяцев назад

Well done. Very good. Excellent as always. Thank you Mr. Gordon and Horror Babble. Until next time.

@samsonsoturian6013 9 месяцев назад

The truth behind this horror is Christmas really had diverged REALLY far away from its earliest known origins in Saternalia. Originally new years, the winter solstice, and the holiday were on the same day but two calendar corrections destroyed that.

@accelerationquanta5816 9 месяцев назад

Christianity and it's consequences have been a disaster for the white race.

@HorrorBabble 9 месяцев назад

Interesting...

@0therun1t21 9 месяцев назад

Oh hell yes, thank you!

@laurahenriksen19 9 месяцев назад

Always like this one x

@anthonybarnwell767 9 месяцев назад

Today is my birthday 🎉🎉

@ImCarolB 9 месяцев назад

Happy birthday to you!

@HorrorBabble 9 месяцев назад

Happy Birthday for yesterday!

@anthonybarnwell767 9 месяцев назад

Thank you mr Gordon

@psychkosys 9 месяцев назад

With several books to choose from while he waits, he goes stampeding right to the Necronomicon. Must have had a nice looking dust jacket. 😂

@Mare_Man 8 месяцев назад

I think this is one of the best entry points into Lovecraft's work

@bigsarge2085 9 месяцев назад

❤‍🔥

@joannewatts9892 9 месяцев назад

One of my favorite Lovecraft stories .. I discovered an entire nest of rattlesnakes under my old deck , so I'm hold up in my room terrified . I had to hear an Ian Gordon story with a seditive to calm me down tonight 🐍🐍🏚️🏞️🐿️🐦 I'm afraid for my squirrel & bird friends ♠️🐍

@accelerationquanta5816 9 месяцев назад

Kill 'em.

@ZephaniahL 9 месяцев назад

Dear Lord. Have those demon spawn burnt alive!

@joannewatts9892 9 месяцев назад

@@ZephaniahL that would be cruel ! I've encountered rattlesnakes before & they're not out to get you . They eat mice & rats & I have a problem with mice , so I'll live & let live.. it's just a bit shocking at first , but just back away from them & you'll be okay 🐍🐍🏚️❣️

@sub-jec-tiv 9 месяцев назад

Ask them to play maracas on your disco track.

@guaporeturns9472 9 месяцев назад

@@sub-jec-tivGreat idea!!

@joshstarling9422 6 месяцев назад

I'm here from signalis.

@brandontadday6288 12 дней назад

“Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl.”

@Shamalamalam 9 месяцев назад

Classic, Robert E Howard ties some unheard westerns into the Mythos.. might be worth checking out.

@HorrorBabble 9 месяцев назад

Indeed!

@PlayNiceFolks 9 месяцев назад

I have an idea. Do some of HPL's letters. There's a couple of gems in there.

@HorrorBabble 9 месяцев назад

I'm not sure letters would be relevant here, unless included as part of a new story perhaps.

@Bbergster 9 месяцев назад

Family….

@tamlandipper29 9 месяцев назад

Listening again, is there a link here to A Long Weekend at Happy Chambers?

@HorrorBabble 9 месяцев назад

Very possibly: "The eyes never moved, and the skin was too like wax. Finally I was sure it was not a face at all, but a fiendishly cunning mask."

@Eris123451 9 месяцев назад

If you keep that up you'll putting Acorn Electron out of a job.

@Slechy_Lesh 8 месяцев назад

12:26

@tctheunbeliever 8 месяцев назад

I don't know why, but among all the horrors of this story something about the old woman at the spinning wheel really unsettles me. That's honestly not meant to be a pun.

@Khomatone 8 месяцев назад

I am Providence.

@unclesam1756 9 месяцев назад

This was good, but I actually like the older recording a bit better.

@HorrorBabble 9 месяцев назад

I can't argue with that.

@nathanharper5670 9 месяцев назад

You can tell it's his earlier work because his padding is clumsier and lacking his sesquipedalian prose. Also, thanks for being a real human, unlike the robots at Gates of Imagination.

@HorrorBabble 9 месяцев назад

AI?

@nathanharper5670 9 месяцев назад

Gates of Imagination certainly is - unless you, as a person, would see 6 asterisks on a page and say the word "asterisk" the exact same way six times in a row. (I commented on their "The Lair of the White Worm" video with a timestamp, if you're interested to hear it yourself.) It also struggles with words where the letter E has an I sound, and vice-versa. And they put out waaay too much content to be paying humans and a recording studio (unless they're somehow making a ton of money with them). It's a pretty good AI, but still can't get emphasis right, like - for instance - you do.

@HorrorBabble 9 месяцев назад

Oh dear... There's a time and place for AI, but that sounds like overkill to me.

@nathanharper5670 9 месяцев назад

Indeed. THE ROBOTS ARE COMING FOR US!!!