"The Nameless City" by H. P. Lovecraft / 2023 Recording 

Lovecraft: “Their grotesqueness rendered the vile creatures impossible to describe by mere human lexicon.” Also Lovecraft: **Proceeds to give awesome description of the creatures**

Just to reiterate: we won't be deleting the old versions of these stories -- we're simply re-recording a selection of mythos stories. AND, because a few people have asked below, we're not modifying or censoring the original texts in any way. We will be making a video on the subject in due course.

Such a badass phrase. That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange eons even death may die.

This story would have made a really good point and click adventure game in the 90s

I regard this story as one of the most fear-inducing and claustrophobic of Lovecraft's stories. In my mind, I see a whole moving picture of the images and sensations as if it was a righteous, faithful reproduction of the horrifically mysterious literary material! It is glorious and full of fear-- just as HPL wanted!

Amazing story and narration. These classics never get old! I love this story, especially the descriptions of the architecture and inhabitants of the city. These classic tales will never be lost because of these recordings. Thanks!

Considering that HP. L. spent most of his time in his rooms writing this stuff , his stories are remarkably prescient considering the amount of documentaries (on RU-vid) about recently discovered incredibly ancient temples, tombs etc, whose construction is of baffling sophistication.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for not censoring! 🙏

I for one, am more then happy to hear these stories re-recorded. As ever, thank you all so much 🙏

l hope you're not replacing the old recording. l listen to your Nameless City once a week. Your voice is perfect for HP's prose.

A man discovers an ancient society and learns of their ways by deciphering their art might be the most Lovecraft plot device there is. And he makes it work every time. What a delightful weirdo he was.

Οne of my favoured stories! The deepness of time, life before humanity, a strange adventurer with apocryphal knowledge and THE TERROR! All elements are here.

Excellent re-recording of one of my favorite Lovecraft stories.

One of my favorites. This story combined with the origin of necronomicon and RE Howard's Azurbanipal would make an interesting film adaptation... Still waiting for Ian's recital of the Transition of Juan Romero

I ENCOURAGE ALL TO LISTEN

I remember first hearing this here and I recall this as one of the best mythos stories

Can never have too many amazingly narrated versions of the Cthulhu Mythos stories!

I love your work.

Hey HorrorBabble, if you're looking for more cosmic or Lovecraftian horror, I strongly recommend these stories by Thomas Ligotti: Nethescurial, The Mystics of Muelenburg, In the Shadow of Another World, The Flowers of the Abyss, The Shadow at the Bottom of the World, and The Last Feast of Harlequin. Take care. :)

Haha last weekend I bindged on the love craft playlist 🎉 I was thinking how your narrations have changed you so much more relaxed and with a lot passionate about your characters 🎉 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💓

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) is best remembered as the inventor of HP Sauce, that popular condiment which bears his initials, (still being made to his original recipe; from tomatoes, tamarind extract and a brown ichor which he obtained from the putrefying flesh of human corpses and which gives it a distinctive smell and color.) He was also was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. Erispeadia

My first story of this channel that makes me fall in love with channels

This new recording is fantastic!

one of my favourites of your readings! I'v watched the older vid easily 10 times over the months while i'm working away, I've no qualms doing the same again.

I imagine hearing these on a Victrola, not a Walkman. 😀

Outstanding as always many thanks Ian 🙂👍

Loved this. Very well rendered.

I don't know which version I like best... Fantastic work 👍

Oh wonderful!

This was the first Lovecraft story I read as I was some 11 year old morbidly curious kid. I remember being terrified and fascinated at the same time.

Absolutely brilliant. It’s gets better every time I hear it!

thank you guys for your hard work for me it all the cthulhu mythos story i love so much not to say all your work is so amzing

These tales always do it for me!

I really like the OG lovecraft stories and use them as inspirations for my D&D campaigns for maybe 4 years now and still going strong!! Keep it up and thank you for the new version!

Best weird tales narration on the Internet! I enjoyed this version very much. Thanks HB!

I’ve got a lot affection for this story. I tend to agree with Lin Carter on this one. Marvellous recording btw!

Very much hyped for the rest of HPL mythos, keep up the good work !

I love this story, thanks!

Thank you ☺️

One of my favorites.

Wow Ian, this is like listening to the latest remix of the White Album... both the original and the revised versions are great. The only problem is, I can't decide which I like the best! Keep up the good work!

A lorenzetti pipe stuffed with star of the east and a martini awaits the recitation.

Thank you Ian and Jennifer

What a treat! 🥰☺

An excellent presentation. My thanks.

what lovely dinner listening, thank you for this

awesome! The original recording of this story was the first video of your guys work i listened to.

Had a busy few days, lost track of Warren….. apologies.

Love it! Love you GUYS 💓💓💓

Thank you Ian

I remember finding the first reading of this a few years ago, along with "the mound" and enjoying both immensely, made me a new fan of lovecraft's work. Glad to see them both revisited.

I'm really happy to learn English with cthulhu 👾 thanks a lot!

This story, The Rats in the Walls, and the Color out of Space were the stories of Lovecraft that first enchanted me.

Superb!

AMAZING !

this new recordings, or as I would love to call a remastered 😅 is a welcome addition, thanks much for all of this

Arcade day so everyone here at Flashback are listening to H.P. Lovecraft on Horrorbabble. 💀

Wonderful narration 👍🙂💕

YEET!

As long as it was built on rock and roll

+1 new subscriber

Fantastic:) thanks for keeping the oldies this is better but your old voice is great, too! The higher pitch in the early recordings matches Lovecraft's tone wonderfully.

Excellent. I hope Reanimator and Dexter Ward make the list. 😁

I’m so excited to listen to all of the new HPL recordings Ian and Jen! I have some questions about how y’all plan on organizing the playlist, but I’ll save them till after the video you said will cover these topics soon. I’m really stoked though, I listen to these videos while doing my art commissions and want to know where to submit some fan art. Maybe you could use it for the background of one of your amazing yarns.

It might just be me but having read the story and heard the old recording three or more times I put it on in the background while I did something else and I definitely noticed certain elements more vividly this time. I didn't think there was anything wrong with the original, but I believe something like the overall cadence and better enunciation of words has improved.

Also, this story got me into the story of the lost city of Iram and how people have tried and maybe even found it.

The original was already perfect, I can only imagine how good this one is. Starting to listen now

Hi Horrorbabble, the transcript & captions for this is for The Call of Chtulhu instead of The Nameless City. Just letting you know. Captions might help any new listeners who haven't known this story by heart or still learning English. And thank you, I can't count how many times I've listened to this (and the old recording) as sleep stories.

A sacrifice to the Al gor ithm. 🙌

Wow

Thanks so much for posting. HPL really was some author, wasn’t he?

I thought I lived in the nameless city but my girlfriend says I actually live in Leeds.

The King of Horror!

Thank you for another addition to The Mythos, Mr. Gordon, When, if ever, are you going to get around to making a recording of Lovecraft's 1920 short-story *_Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family,_* or, *_The White Ape?_*

Redolent of the hideous stories recorded before the bricks of babylon were baked, updated with the blasphemous mysteries of unnamed eons

Das ist gut!! (schpeak: this is good)

Nice. Are you re-recording all the Cthulhu mythos stories or just select ones?

I picture tiny deathclaws

Poor Warren

I cannot wait to hear the Dream Cycle if you do them. I hate to say it, but I am not a fan of how you narrated the original videos. You have become my absolute favorite audiobook channel since then

What exactly are you changing in the re-recordings? Are you just updating the sound quality? or are you making revisions of some kind?

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When you recite Thomas Moore you become too affraid to recite more. 38:30

I'm sorry to say it, but this protagonist is probably straightly the single biggest bonehead of any of Lovecraft's explorers of the unknown. The basic stupidities he commits across the course of this story are so numerous he was clearly insane before he even set out in the first place. He: -Decided to visit some ruins that he knew full well were shunned by the locals without doing any research on why they were shunned or sponging local lore on them to try and get clues to why the place is shunned, and thus what dangers to maybe be ready for. -Decided to travel out, _totally alone_ into an unfamiliar sandy desert to find these ruins, without a native guide, because none would go with him. -took only a _map. And. Compass._ to help him navigate a _landmarkless sandy desert._ -He pokes around for ten minutes in the buildings and discovers and straightly notes they are really, really wierd if they had been built by humans, right off the bat, unless for some wierd reason they just _looooved_ uncomfortably stooping over and crawling all the time. -he discovers paintings and frescoes of stooped semi-quadroped croco lizard people wearing jewelery and clothes and shit whose bodies as depicted would absolutely gel with every wierd aspect of the building designs in the ruins, pictured alongside normal-ass humans for comparison. Dismisses them immediately purely as 'venerated animals' or 'symbolic representations of humans' despite the mounds of archeological evidence he's standing in... and the fact he has supposedly read lots of dem ol' freaky books from the Miskatonic collection, which should give him at least _some_ consideration the depiction might be literal. Finds a _staircase_ that is so squat he can barely crawl into it and so steep that no human could ascend or descend it without _crawling..._ and decides, just a normal feature of human building design, staircase favoring squat quadruped traversal, perfectly normal for upright bipedal humans to make. -Descends into this unlit probably unstable underground complex of unknown size and complexity, without any means of marking his way back out, and only _one single torch._ _-finds more of these freezes depicting crocolizardmen interacting with humans,_ and dismisses them as purely symbolic _again._ _-Actually finds countless sarcophagi containing the _*_clothed_*_ and _*_bejeweled_*_ MUMMIES_ of what couldn't possibly be anything other than the crocolizardmen from the paintings and friezes he has thus far seen in abundance all over every inch of everything. _Dismisses. The goddamn. MUMMIES. As just venerated animals._ AGAIN flying in the face of supposedly having read a lot of The Usual Literature... and the fact that despite having obviously found a burial complex there ain't a _single human mummy to be found,_ indicating a human population presence of either 'zero' or 'food'. -Somehow doesn't piece together or even consider the idea that this was a crocolizardman city _until he is literally panic fleeing being hunted in the dark by their devolved CHUD-turned descendants._ I am sorry, but when this guy's skullbones fused as a baby, they had to have fused solidly _ALL THE WAY TO HIS NECK_ due to the total lack of brain in the way!

Are the audio versions available for purchase anywhere? Audible…?

Was this just re-recorded or did you edit the original text too? If the latter, what changes were made exactly?

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Lovecraft's iconic couplet becomes less epic when you realize that rhyme doesn't work in Arabic.

Goody a other story. Have you done any lin Carter stories even through he didn't do much chuthlu.

What story is “You fool! Warren is dead” from

Warren might be dead or might not be dead. It’s hard to tell since he took off for the Empty Quarter... In sha'Allah the Djinn and the giant camel spiders will let him return.

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"As Memnon hails it, from the depths of the Nile." I know Lovecraft loves all things archaic, but Memnon died in Troy, not Egypt.

102 years aol and still no video game adaptation smh lol

I thought I was going to hate Lovecraft Country but it's actually pretty good.

😂ভালো তো, ভূতের তাড়া খেয়ে তারাপীঠ, কালীঘাট, দক্ষিনেশ্বর সঅব বেড়ানো হয়ে গেল। আবার সাধু 🙏আর পুরোহিতের বেশ দক্ষিনা পাওয়া হলো। সত্যি নেগেটিভ এনার্জি ওভাবে যেত না।

If you're serious about re-recording, you might want to double-check the pronunciation on some of the prehistoric animals listed in the fossil assemblage from _At the Mountains of Madness._ Love that story, but as a zoology major who once had dreams of being a paleontologist, hearing you mispronounce some of those taxon names was like nails on a chalkboard. For future reference, fossil mammal taxa were/are often identified with the suffix "-there," (pronounced "theer"), Greek for "beast." When mentioned in plural ("-theres"), they are pronounced like "theers," not "thairees" like you said in your previous reading. Granted, that was an understandable mistake, one I've heard many people make over the years when reading about Cenozoic mammals for the first time. In any case, just thought you might want to know that if/when you decide to re-record _Mountains of Madness._ Keep up the good work, man :)

I don’t know what the big deal is. I've walked down stairs before.

I picture tiny deathclaws