the Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long 

Never do drugs on Math.

That's a really nice rendition of Hounds, one of the best I've heard 👏 It always makes me smile to think of the unfortunate journal-writer actually spelling out his final 'aaaagh...'

NOW you're talking , Tony , this is gonna be great !! I envy anyone hearing this for the first time....enjoy ! I know this one was in the locked drawer , WASN'T IT ?!?!? 💀🎱💀

Thanks Tony! Glad you are feeling better.

One of favourites, but I've always wondered how the narrator got out of the door to leave the plastered up room

Your choice of material is impeccable. Belknap Long is now forgotten outside those familiar with Lovecraft's small circle. I take my hat off to you. We need to help some of these old masters resurface for the appreciation of modern readers - or listeners. Thank you.

Another fine reading of another superb old story from the 'Weird Tales' era of horror pulps (I first read it in a 1970s Michel Parry anthology 'Dream Trips')...this story is probably FBL's best, love the arcane metaphysics of straight and curvilinear geometries and how Chalmers ties this into the mythos of the Fall. Time to ingest a pellet of Liao...

Taking an unknown drug to go back in time. Hmmm. What could possibly go wrong?!

I read the story and didn't think much of it, but your narration brought it to life! Your vocal flourishes allowed me to see the characters in my mind with clarity. I can now appreciate the story as, I think, the author intended. I also enjoyed your comments afterwards. Mind creates matter. Believing is seeing. Life is but a dream. Thank you!

Ditto this time around, Tony. Thank you!

Extraordinary & far out! To bring it to the modern vernacular, it's like David Foster Wallace and Hunter S. Thompson got together, indulged in their favorite substances and took a stab at creating a Lovecraftian tale. Great performance Tony, take a bow! !!

Excellent story. Loved it. I always have my science classes read a science fiction story and relate it to science, this one will be added to my book list. 💜💜

Any plans to do some Robert Aickman stories?

1) HPL's pen of choice was the Waterman fountain pen. He spent an afternoon in a stationary store, one of his acolytes in tow (I want to say Samuel Loveman, but maybe it was Robert Bloch), looking and writing samples from different Waterman pens, until he found the right one. 2) Still can't believe someone would take the time to write out "Aaarrgggh."

I've listened to this 3 times now. Just fantastically narrated ❤️👍☺️

Halpin is actually an Irish Name...Great Story! I love Frank Belknap Long's work especially his Cthulhu Mythos stories.

Thank you Toni for all the time you put in to entertain us. Enjoy your stories so much!

I love the intro. It certainly sets the mood.

Thank you Tony, I really enjoyed this story!

Even my Birds enjoy your tender voice patterns! I haven't heard this tale yet, how lovely!

It is very easy to chew the scenery with some of these lines, but you did beautifully. Hope you had fun with it.

A few minutes in, I realized I've encountered this story before, but I decided to stick with it. The story itself doesn't do a lot for me, so the performance was the draw here, and the increasingly wild overacting really made this a fun listen! I don't know accents, but whatever accent you chose for the drug-tripping friend was amazing... was that RP? It made him sound like a hilariously posh dilettante to me... I may be projecting. Thank you for making this guy's bad drug trip sound so entertaining. This was a great time. While I'm at it I'll tag on a suggestion for Edith Wharton's The House of the Dead Hand. There's only one neglected reading of it on RU-vid, probably because it's not spooky until the very very end. But there's an overbearing professor character you'd turn into something special, I'm sure, and I thought the end was striking. Anyway, here's a vote for that one if you ever want to do another Wharton story. Thanks again for making fifty minutes fly by.

I am dying for this. One of my FAVORITE stories by the most excellent narrator. Thank you! The only other thing that could make me feel even more excited is if you ever read The House On The Borderland by William Hope Hodgson.

Fantastic job as usual Tony! You did a great job with Dracula! So much better than the film! Really and truly honestly! I recommend this channel to everybody I know and to a lot of people that I don’t really know on RU-vid! I think I should get commission! Seriously I have this interview on the 5th of May and I am expecting to get a good result on this venture financially and if it all comes off I will finally be able to help this channel financially! God knows you deserve it! 🦋💎🦋

Brilliant, I loved the wail at the end. Thank you for another superb reading

I really appreciate you and your choices of stories---because this is not a genre I would read just on my own. What makes it work for me are your comments afterwards. Mostly, the entire Cthulhu Thing just makes me massively roll my eyes and clamp my mouth shut (yeah, I hate it). Actually, listening to this author's similar style story makes me know my own good sense is accurate and that my prejudice is entirely justified! LOL! I say this with a smile---live and let live. Thanks as always, Tony---and I hope by now you and Shiela are entirely better from your illness.

I quite enjoyed the extea sound effects, i think they added well to the dramatization

I do love this story, despite Belknap Long sending it into parody with the “aaaah!” at the end. This is a great rendition. I especially enjoyed your commentary at the end, which was a delightful unexpected bonus 😊

That was fantastic!! Thank you Tony!

Ditto, ditto, this time around. Masterful, Tony! Lots of thumbs up! Thank you!!!!

That was exceptional Tony. I love how these stories open worlds of other authors to me, and have a pretty encyclopedic (cyclopean?) knowledge of the genre. Thanks T

This is a wild story! Seriously spooky! Wow, Frank was born the same year as my grandfather but he didn't live nearly as long as Frank. My grandfather died in his early 70s. Great story! My grandfather was a science teacher and a Principal at a Junior H.S. When he retired, he bought a house a block from the beach in New Jersey with his wife, my grandmother. He had mercury, I remember going up in the attic with my brothers and sister and seeing it. He was a very nice man. Too bad I was a little girl when he died. I miss my Grampy! His father immigrated from England with his wife who was Irish, oddly enough. He was a very warm and friendly man who read stories like Where the Wild Things are to me. I was his youngest grandchild.

Great story. This is one of the best renditions out there! Keep up the good work! It's a timeless classic! Thanks for doing this. Great job! Like the comment on Fortean Times. I subscribed to that magazine for years.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who speaks stream of consciousness, ALL the time! I also go around the world getting to the point and relate seemingly unrelated events. If my listeners wait, they'll be rewarded. All my my stories have a point. I can't help if they don't know how to throw a big loop. My memory is episodic rather than date linear. I remember the unboring parts and change my stories to suit my audience. I get nagged sometimes to write them down. I'm a story teller not a writer. I tell of my adventures for my enjoyment. If I wrote them down, they'd cease to live and stop being fun. For me. 😏 I'm insanely self centered to the point of telling stories to people who were there, too. When I get called on my rudeness, I remind folks they don't have to listen and I don't tell them how to remember and relate. I'm loving terse, cogent stories followed by ragged, wandering insight with quite a personal touch. I wonder if I was born this way, did too much meth and psychedelics, drank too long, took a few too many shots to the head or what? All the etoh/drugs are gone 40 yrs. I suspect 20 yrs of working at MH caused the real damage.😉 My old running buddy died of hiv on Tuesday. Yes, we shared needles. I didn't get it, genetic immunity, got the HepC. So far no problem. He used to tell me life is for those who can say, "Next!" He was so right by me. Thanks. Say, you're a terrific therapist!

I really loved your commentary and ramblings, especially about the dog and cat and having Covid. Thanks

Just, amazingly read ❤️

so well done, again :)

Congratulations on another fantastic classic ghost story reading, Tony! Speaking of this story and computer games, have you ever played SOMA, by Frictional Games? I'm not sure what your favored genre of game is, but unless you really despise the 'walking simulator' narrative-driven stuff I have a feeling you'd enjoy it (it's ~$5 US on Steam right now, usually on MS GamePass, etc). There are a few distinct similar narrative threads in both that game and this story -- in some ways, your Darkworlds series too. There are some jumpscares in SOMA, but the thing to be most wary of is the long-ranging existential crisis. It was released 5 or 6 years ago but still lives rent-free in my head. Not to be the devil on your shoulder urging you to get into more video games, or anything.

I love Crabbies Alcoholic Gingerbeer too! Best ginger beer in the world

Just read "Caterpillar " by E.F. Benson. Great story!

This is the STRANGEST comparison to make, but I just listened to the Nilsen Tapes (mass murderer- very nasty business) and forgive an ignorant American for saying so, but for some reason his accent reminded me of Tony’s! Sorry Tony 🙀🙈 p.s. I’ve been listening on RU-vid and Spotify to boost your numbers. Hope it’s working!

Did he actually write "AAAAAHHHHH!"?

Wow! Really truly WEIRD! Science turned on its snobby head and given a much deserved shake. "Reality is Not What It Seems" says quantum gravity physicst. Now I believe him. Take that, Einstein!!!Thumbs up, Tony! Love your expression--howl away

@5:20 the protagonist is describing the Akashic records! I have been able to access these Akashit records since I was a teenager 1950's by Eating Belladonna [in Asmadrour Cigarettes sold for Asthmatics, no tobacco, just Dried Belladonna] In the religion of theosophy and the philosophical school called anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life forms, not just human

🌟 the hounds of tindalis now know your location 🌟

One hopes. One knows.

I believe it

Minor point; It’s Hounds of Tindalos, not ‘Tindalis.’ Great reading either way! Well done. :-)

The dao is all and all is dao.

Poor Jordan Peterson...

Truly weird story. I was certain Chalmers suffered a bad trip then madness, but the slime...

Think I’m back again. Take heart, this must mean I’m resilient & will make it through 9 years of death & PATRIARCHY DIES |\| X. (Someday my ship will come in, & you are a shipman on my docks back into reality of living (sans old shadows & new egos); life is so strange…but re:member i |\|G Imagination we can expand, again, whole.

The narrator may be one of the first trip-sitters in fiction. Not one of the most helpful ones, though.