So basically he's the bravest main character in a Lovecraft story ever. He seeks out the horror. Has a creature basically lying on top of him in the house and loses two bodyguard companions there. Loses yet another companion weeks later in the cabin who gets his face chewed off. Has an encounter with a creature in the tunnel beneath the house and realizes there's more than one, yet he goes back to the house AGAIN and witnesses hundreds/thousands of those things crawling from the hole. He then even shoots and kills one. Escapes the house and hires a team of people to blow up the mansion, trees and holes in and around the area with dynamite... And he doesn't off himself or go insane on the end. He just takes some morphine when the there's a thunderstorm. What a badass.
"The Lurking Fear" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of Home Brew. This reading is dedicated to Christopher Moloney. Chapters: 00:15 - Opening Credits 01:00 - I. The Shadow on the Chimney 14:42 - II. A Passer in the Storm 27:40 - III. What the Red Glare Meant 41:26 - IV. The Horror in the Eyes 55:20 - Closing Credits Bandcamp link: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-lurking-fear Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble Intro music and production by Ian Gordon Music 'Relentless Part One' by Glenn Alexander: glenalexander2.bandcamp.com/album/relentless-berlin-1975 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
Hi from New York - I have relatives near Athens. at the turn of the century (19th - 20th), they had a farm near there. Three Geranios brothers came to america via New Orleans. so I'm a quarter Greek. There are Geranios people around San Francisco somewhere. stay safe 🌷🌱
I always felt that "The Descent", and more specifically the sequel to it, took some of the elements of this story for its own. The end of the sequel makes much more sense if you think of a certain character, which I'll leave unnamed, as a visually uncorrupted member of the Martense family. As for the reading itself, excellent as always. I expect I've heard your readings of HPL often enough now any time I read them myself it will be your voice that forms to the words in my head.
Almost nothing he writted about sounds actually terrifying by today's standards. Even Ctulhu isn't scarier looking than a monster from a japanese 'kaiju' movie. His heritage to the horror genre is undeniable but this is like soft literature compared to horror references we have been exposed to since.
Ian, I believe this is the best reading I've ever heard you do! The passion was absolutely nerve wracking as it rose to the crescendo !! What I love is that I come back & rediscover what I might have missed before, a word here , a phrase there, and receive such immense pleasure again . Y'all don't know the excitement I feel when I see you post, esp. A long one, I know I'm ready for a thrill, no matter what it is, you always choose such excitement !! Thank you both for all the joy you bring an old lady.... 💙💙😸
Thanks KB - it wouldn't be the same without your feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed this one - it was a lot of fun to produce! But as is quite obvious, I particularly enjoy narrating Lovecraft. :) Ian
Congratulations, Ian! A truly superb reading of this remarkable classic. It has long been my favorite Lovecraft story, and it's a thrill to hear it read with such well-studied comprehension and interpretation.
it’s always great when i come across a new one to listen to. not realising (in amurica it’s ‘realizing’ and these days sometimes my spellings, and sometimes my phrases cross the ‘pond’ :) - so not realising it was a Lovecraft, i listened. this is a good one. i was really caught up in your very dramatic reading - thanks Ian. :)
Great story. I wonder if there's an origin or "first" in the whole "people devolved into underground creatures" style of stories... you can certainly see how modern script writers have certainly taken cues from stories like these.
I've been enjoying most of these stories but my one real issue is that sometimes the descriptions go on for so long that I lose track of what's being described. But I suppose I've heard that to be a common issue with lovecraft's works.
There's a link to it in the video description/pinned comment (by my good friend Glenn Alexander). As for At the Mountains of Madness, it features a drone very fleetingly.
@@Katuulu No trouble! Yes, the intro is mine. Again, it's not currently available unaccompanied. I'll have to think about putting a collection together for Bandcamp.
I always think that, I picture them but every adaptation falls short. A almost word for word transcription of his stories as a black mirror like TV show is my ultimate dream
@@chroniclex863 theres another thats a much more faithful adaptation but its practically 0 budget, haha. Like a college film project. Real charm to it though.
@exe cutiee the Colour Out of Space is my absolute favorite by a huge margin. Call of Cthulhu would be my 2nd favorite, followed by At the Mountains of Madness. The Temple and Dagon are enjoyable shorter works. The Thing on the Doorstep. I even like Horror at Red Hook despite a really appalling amount of xenophobia.
The thunderstorms are real up there. On a trip from the Philadelphia area to Biston, when I was 7, my dad choose a route through the Catskills and in particular Bear Mountain. It was night and what a terrific storm! We had to stop in a Bates like motel. We stopped at a roadside dinosaur land where I got a collection of minerals, which I still have at age 63.
I live by bear mountain I love this area it's beautiful but do you know what kind of animal is in abundance around here though ........,............................cats lots of 🐈😺 cats people just let them go up here when they are unwanted
If there is one HP Lovecraft story that would make a truly terrifying horror movie, it's the Lurking Fear. Think of it: an abandoned mansion in the middle of nowhere. Falling apart. Caked in darkness. Unkempt for decades. Seems like it has been left behind with time, like some aged relic. All that lurks inside are grotesque deformed blasphemies of nature, which are out for your blood.. and each other's. There was a great game I played a few years ago that reminded me a lot of this story. It is called ''Haunted Memories: Welcome Home''.
This was amazing from beginning to end, I loved the build up and couldn't wait for him to go back and explore that mansion. Theres nothing better than horrorbabble!!
Excellent reading mate , this has become my third favourite just behind The dreams in the Witch House and the Horror at Red Hook......The Furkin’ leer.......Splendid.
One of Lovecrafts best spine tinglers for night time reading. I am loving listening to them on audio now. Such a different experience between reading them and listening to them. Both howber are equally pleasurable.
It seems I forgot to turn on notifications for the channel. Certainly was a pleasant surprise though to hear another lovecraft telling. Brilliant work as always Ian I thoroughly enjoyed this one; although it did clearly illustrate how it was a different time when they wrote a lot of these tales. Can't wait for the next upload. :)
This is, to me, a clear sign that HPL had a distaste for homogeny, and insular reproduction. The family was of proper renown until they began their inbreeding. I don't see it as a singular criticism of backcountry Americans, but also as a warning against a community or family becoming so socially isolated that they devolve in their attempt to stay "pure," going so far as to murder those who deviate.
As always awesome reading! Do you have any plans on doing “the thing on the doorstep” anytime soon? Thanks again for all the great readings and I’m looking forward to more :)
Thanks again Golden pants! Yes, The Thing of the Doorstep is part of our work-in-progress Cthulhu Mythos series. It'll probably be recorded in January or February. Ian
Lovecraft was still developing as a writer when he put this down on paper. To me, this is right on the edge of being its own parody, and a parody of his own writing habits, though the idea is interesting and fairly well-developed (just an opinion). If he'd have had the mind to, would've been great if Lovecraft thought to go back some years down the road and tweak-edited his earlier works....I mean maybe instead of writing so many letters, but what's the use of wondering about how that would've turned out? Letter-writing was his sustenance.
This is definitely one of the more descriptive stories that Lovecraft has written. I picture this monster from hell looking similar to DC comics Etrigan the Demon.
Great job Ian. Just a heads up im about 40-50% done with my first novel, Of Ash and Void. And I would have no other readers than you two to display it to the world.
I was just informed that my mother's grandfather was from the region and had the last name of Martin, which is a different spelling, but I still had to come here and share that piece of data. I just think it's neat.
I love his writing but I can't help but get angry sometimes at how judgmental Lovecraft was when it comes to human bloodlines and race. I understand that the idea of equality was not exactly the standard at the time BUT I can't help but think "dude, you would be so fucking cool if you weren't so up your own ass about ancestry"
Thank you very much! I've listened to it many times! It's so good! It's my favorite! Please read Medusa's Coil. It's great and there is no such recording on the RU-vid. And good luck on your own book! All the best!
"Marston" is close to a metathesis of "Martense," so perhaps Stephen King and others were indebted to Lovecraft -- in fact I think it is a sure bet, even if through intermediaries. Coincidence or not, the dark pervert Marsden Hartley, whom Massachusetts reprobates are now not surprisingly trying to rehabilitate, lived up in Massachusetts and painted in Lovecraft's time.
Hmm, Wonder if we're distantly related... Then again, I'm more GoofyBabble than horrific. Oh well, all that matters is that Lovecraft's works are amazing at developing a beautiful tension.
@@HorrorBabble Quite so! I am not a horror specific channel, but, I do dabble, and I have specific followers who specifically watch my delves into the realms of terror specifically because I'm a babbling goofball. Clowning around may break the tension, but, that's what some people need. More than once I get comments along the lines of 'I'm too jumpy for horror but with you goofing around, I can watch you play it.' Some consider it antithetical to the tone of the games, but, it reaches people it otherwise might not, and games like Dark Corners of the Earth deserve all the adulation they can get.
@@HorrorBabble Well yes, when played right, Horror builds the tension, and humor is the pressure release valve. Problem is, it takes care to balance this, and most aren't going to put in that effort. Black/gallows humor is a guilty pleasure, when done well. This is why, for example, in Dead Space games, telekinesis beam + random corpse = saucy puppet show!
If you ever want to collaborate, yes, I'm mostly a gaming channel, but, there IS that new Call of Cthulhu game on the market, and a well informed co-host would mean less references were missed. Kind of hard to keep all those gibberish-named horrors straight in one;s head when focused on playing. CoC, or, really ,any horror game worthy of the title, that goes beyond BOO! I SCARED YOU, HAHA! levels of building atmosphere.
