The first time I read 'The Nameless City' was during this recording, so I had no idea what was going to happen. By the end of it I was gripping my seat so hard my arms ached when I finally let go :o)
Lovecraft's nephew came and stayed with us for a week in the 1980's. He worked as a Russian orthodox priest in London. Sitting in the garden he told me that one time a parishioner had asked him and the head priest of his church to stay in their house over night because things were moving around in the house. So they went into the place and sat in the living room all night. They heard things dragging across the floor of the bedroom upstairs which was the ceiling they sat under, yet they were the only one's present in the house. The next night they went back but sat in the bedroom from whence the noises had come. After awhile he claims that they both saw objects lift up into the air, travel across the room and then come to rest as if being placed. I can't remember what they did or what was the result. Sorry about that. The other first person account of a paranormal incident I've been told was a Mother and son 20 yrs old who both told me in all seriousness that they had seen a a long cigar shaped craft floating above a field in the Oregon countryside. They were alone on a back road. They stopped the car and looked. They proceeded forward and the craft moved in parallel with them. They stopped and it stopped. And so it went when all of sudden it suddenly and silently whisked away at a tremendous speed. I had to drag the story out of the them as they had no particular interest in relating it. They had no disagreement between them as they both answered questions from me as we stood in their bicycle shop in Sylva NC. My mother knew a commercial airline pilot that flew to NZ via Tahiti from LA. He told her one time out over the vastness of the Pacific a few craft showed up and rapidly darted around his 747 above him then below then to right then to the left for awhile, then accelerated away faster than any craft he was familiar with. One would hope that top drawer commercial jet pilots are rational, intelligent and truthful. Well there you go, some first person personally related private conversational accounts of odd goings on. Still this is all the kind of stuff that you have to see to believe and I've never seen anything even remotely odd.
Oh...how I adore Lovecraft!* . * Marvellous work, Nick Gisburne! And I guess the Ancient Aliens guys (History channel) would like this...would surely make an episode!
@@GabyGeorge1996 I alone have seen it, and that is why no other face bears such hideous lines of fear as mine; why no other man shivers so horribly when the night-wind rattles
I've been listening to your videos as part of my Halloween HP Lovecraft Marathon. You do excellent work delivering the words and the moods. Keep it up the grand work, my friend.
Absolutely AMAZING story! Indescribable sense of dread, and almost unbelievably well-written. Your reading of it was superb, and conveyed so well the sense of Lovecraft. Bravo to H.P., and bravo to you sir!
It's easy to criticize anything.and narration is an art with many flavors. I enjoyed it. Thank you, sir. I am a fan of a Lovecraft too, which is why I appreciate another tale being narrated. Read it yourself if you don't like it.
your readings are always a treat, Mr. Gisburne. Though I must admit, the cool, steady tone you adopt for these better suits poetry than long stories. Not that I would complain about your work. you are amazing.
This is a wonderful reading. I have a rather severe case of ADD, and English isn't my native language, so I become quite confused if I just try to read Lovecraft's "unusual" prose. But by reading "The Nameless City" whilst listening to your steady, deep, soothing narration and mouthing the words I can not only follow (most of the time) but also enjoy. Thank you. Just one little correction to a wonderful piece: the Ch in Chaldea is pronounced as in chemistry.
I would have lost my mind when the torch burnt out. and when he definitely heard the noise. Nick's voice really creeped me out at that part. lovely. I'm confused tho... what was happening to the race portrayed in the pictures as he travelled down the hall? was there two separate races? I recall him reading "as the she wolf to the Romans" and who was that human in the final picture? need to listen again but would love someone's take on all this
In the distant past, there was a race a reptiles that established the city and, when the desert spread and consumed the city, the reptiles moved underground. The narrator was trying to make logical sense of it and thought at first that he had found a race of men that worshipped reptiles, only to discover that he was wrong.
The "ch" in Chaldea, as pronounced in modern English is as in chemistry, but this is because the represent confusion between the orthographic and spoken form for a sound that does not exist in English. They both start with the Greek letter chi, written close to "x". This sound is more like the "ch" in "Ich", and most "ch-sounds-like-k" words are due to this. Not able to say the sound, and already confused about what "x" does elsewhere in the word, "ch" was used at the start of the words.
An Unaware sacrifice plunging headlong towards destruction at the hands of a long dead race angry because they no longer live in the world. above but are given tantalizing glimpses of that living world between sunset and sunrise. Nicely read.
To the nick gissburne website can you please add these four pulp hero titles 1the murdrer brotherhood and the death roses by Clifford Goodrich 2land of the long juju and satan is a sailor Kenneth Robeson and Wallace brooker 3justice inc and the yellow hoard by Paul Ernst writting as Kenneth Robeson 4brand of the werewolf and fear cay plus an added doc savage short story by lester dent writting as Kenneth Robeson
It sounds like obviously he survived despite being clawed at for what it sounded like however making first contact and being mauled isn't usually ideal.
@Gisburne2000 Simply incredible,great reading! Though I must admit that when ever I read Lovecraft I imagine a strong New England accent so at first I was somewhat reluctant to continue.Luckily I did...
Lovecraft is dead, obviously, but that wasn't the author in question. Ramsey Campbell is the man who wrote 'The Plain of Sound' and he is very much alive.
To nick gissburne as well as the horor stories of hp lovecraft why don't you read the pulp stories of lester dent when' he used pen name of Kenneth Robeson
Lovecraft did not live in and was not inspired by a vacuum. What he did was abstract an incomprehensible, "alien" quality, of different cultures separated by geography and time, to the point of intense hyperbole, so that a man's imagination and lack of familiarity overpower his rational mind, and conjure demons from that which he cannot reconcile due to lack of more intimate experience.
Mr. Gisburne, is there a chance you might do a reading of the Colour Out of Space, or The Whisperer in the Darkness? You have a great tone for Lovecraft and I'd like to listen to more.
It's a story. Demons and reptilians (and I assume you're not talking about reptiles in nature) are not real and have no basis in history. History does not get 'removed from public view'.
