"The Tree on the Hill" by H. P. Lovecraft / Weird Wilderness 

"The Tree on the Hill" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Duane W. Rimel, which first appeared in the magazine Polaris, in 1940. The tale tells of a tree with strange properties atop an unusual hill, in the presence of which a man finds himself experiencing powerful hallucinations. Chapters: 00:12 - Introduction 00:55 - The Tree on the Hill 28:30 - Further Listening Bandcamp link: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-tree-on-the-hill This recording is dedicated to our Cthulhu and Yellow Level HorrorBabblers: 'General' Dipper, Bernard Mulligan, Bjorn Larsson, Brandon, Chris Epplett, Daniel C. Barker, Galen Hoffman, Jacob Louwerse, Jamie, Jessica Mari, Joanna Roye, Joshua Calvin Smiley, Kickweed, L. Harris, Logan Kilcullen, Madison Scythe, Patrick, Philip R Aden, Richard WB Feigen, Wes Sale, Zontar Zee AND Adam Beckner, Adriana Alexander, al doty, Andrew, Andrew Moffat, Ann Bassano, Art Wagner, Ausborn, Austen Jones, Charles Bossler, Dmitri Gorjatse, Dovauk, Ian Adly Bin Iskandar Dzakurnain, James Dunne, Jeffrey Bunn, John Michael, Larna Dennis, Laura, Laura Scarlett, Mark R Patterson, Miri P. Weaver, Nero, Philippe Lavoie, Quench Smith, Robert Daniel Pickard, Samuel A. Mortensen, Sean Lorentzen, Shanna Syn, Simon Eckert, SolaceInChains, Thomas Scott, Veronica LoCurto Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble Music and production by Ian Gordon & Jennifer Gill Image by Desertrose7: pixabay.com/users/desertrose7-752536 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

Good thing about finding this channel is that I have tons of stories that I haven’t listened to yet.

You have THE ideal voice for Mr Lovecraft's timeless, torturous, terrific tales. I've started reading the Lovecraft mythos in a bad imitation of your voice, sir. 😁

I started listening to these Horrorbabble Lovecraft stories back around Halloween, the fact that I still listen to them in February speaks volumes of the quality of the Lovecraft’s writing and Horrorbabble’s production/voice acting.

I love the voice of the narrator. It sounds like it belongs to the late 18th century, early 19th century and gives a new level of immersion to the stories.

I've been looking forward to this. Waiting in darkness, the sounds of rain falling on the roof, the wind playing with the trees. And me alone in darkness waiting for the story to come. Have a good day everyone and everything here, hope you have a good listen. :)

Nothing like a little Lovecraft with my dinner. Thanks HB for another classic story.

you're perfect for this kind of story telling, so many readers go too dramatic with it, try too hard and ruin it. but you get it just right in every story I've listened from you, just the right amount of gravitas and emotion, and you use different voices for different characters without being silly with it, it really helps with the immersion of the stories.

It amazes me how much Lovecraft wrote that I don't know about until I hear It from you, and it's always excellent, thanks again!

Have been listening to the babble for months now and still love now as much as the first day I discovered it proper job Ian

Hi! So i found your channel a few months ago when I read the Threshold book series by Peter Clines and became enthralled in Lovecraft and tales inspired by the mythos, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your channel 👍 and am grateful for the vast library of Lovecraft and other chilling tales that I am destined to spend many hours consuming.

Never enough Lovecraft

You know I always knew King's "N" (among other stories of his) had a strong Lovecraftian influence but it takes so directly from this it's pretty cool.

One of my favorite things about Lovecraft's stories is that he doesn't even touch the almost omnipresent horror trope where "only *one* person can see it," and when others try to, it's gone, and they think the person is crazy. It shows that this horror is far greater than the price of just one person's sanity; anyone else who is exposed knows they may be doomed.

Thank you so much for the incredible readings! I am finding myself more amazed and enamored by Lovecraft's work after learning so much about him and the influences behind his famous tales. This one is among the most entrancing I have heard today-especially with the Egyptology reference.

Great story. Thanks!

WHAT YA DOIN? While I’m listening to this wondrous narration I’m doing art. It works very well, a harmony of story telling and my own creativity, with neither of them fighting for my attentions. So how about you other listens. What are doing whilst listening to this modern radio?

I'm so glad for your channel. Used to be able to read for hours, but for the last couple years haven't went past two or three pages before having to quit or fall asleep on my book. Age has caught up to me I guess. Thanks again.

I didn't get to listen to this amazing one until late at night which seemed to make it much better. It kind of changes ones views of lone trees on a hill. Splendid narration. Thank you Ian.

Really good story. Can't believe I've never read nor heard it before.

Great reading of this amazing short story 👍

I'd never seen this story before - and now I'll never be the same. Thanks HB!

Did anyone else flash on, "As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor"?

You're officially the voice I think of when reading these stories. Thank you so much for bringing us a world of horror and entertainment to listen to. Do you still make music as well? Your part on Memory was amazing and I was wondering if you have a bandicamp for it as well

Great story,love this type of story.Your voice was perfect for this.Thank you.

Hmmm...here I am reading this on June 23rd. Spooky!

What a wonderful performance! 🙌🔥🐙

thank you for other great Lovecraft story, been listening to your videos for a while but now subscribing

Whatz the thing with 3 fiery eyes in the pyramid door? There were 3 suns. Cosmic horror. Venus is bright this time of year! Thought it was a plane. Lovecraft always gives u a peephole view of the situation, and leaves it up to the reader’s imagination to fill in the blanks. Thanks for another trippy one!

Oh yea! Cosmic horror at its finest! Thanks!

Love falling asleep to these! Thanks for the newest edition!

It wasn't until my third copy of "The Complete Works of HP Lovecraft" that I stumbled upon this story. As usual, great job and thank you.

Awesome I was actually just looking for a decent narration of this yesterday and couldn't find it. Thanks!

Great reading as Always, thanks

Another awesome reading per usual, thanks guys!

Thanks for all your hard work another great job

Ooo, this looks like a really good one to fall asleep to! Nighty-night...

Simply superb stuff.

I really love the accents you do during readings. Your American accents are pretty good.

Ooo I've been hopeing you would do this one. The collaborations of Lovecraft and others are usually very fun because they have a slightly new angle but still very Lovecraft in style and form. Thanks everyone at Horrorbabble!

Thank you.😖😌😔😴 Until next time

😎❤👍👍 Thanks. Love Lovecraft for bedtime stories

My cup of tea :)

You can definitely tell this story was very much inspired by The House on the Borderland.

Loved the story!

Im embarrassed to say that I just started getting in to HPLC.. I have been missing out but its better late than never in some cases.

As someone living just north of the Bitterroot, I can say that it is a beautiful country full of natural springs and crystaline rivers. It is a Mecca for fly fishers and geology buffs as they Bitterroot is neighbored by the Sapphire mountains who boast huge deposits of the mineral. Crystal mountain is also in proximity where quartz grows with an amazing rapidity that each year countless stones are pulled up from the surface of the loose earth. The City of Missoula (my current home) is a gateway to much of this wonder and is the meeting place of the Clark Fork and Bitterroot River (which flows north) before they head west to the Pacific.

You can tell that was a hybrid. Not the usual perfection of Lovecraft’s language.

"Good evening and welcome to Mysterious Theatre, I am you're host, Vincent Twice, Vincent Twice". It just reminded me of the parody from The Muppet Show. Another great tale. Thanks 💀

You can hear/read the difference between his earlier works and these later ones. He got even better.

New to the channel, love it already

It is plain to see the influence this Lovecraft story had on Stephen King's short story, "N".

'A spot, indeed, transplanted from the devils own garden...'

Excellent story😈👍

Yay, more H.P!!! Thank you very much!!!

fuck yes new lovecraft! :D just in time for bed, been awake 40+ hours xD

Not to be confused with "The Tree" by the same author.

The Jewels of Charlotte is another likely Lovecraft ghost writing... is that on the horizon? I thought I'd read all of Lovecraft's work :)

I didn't think anything could shift my small daughter's passion for The Red Room, but we have listened to this three times in the past day or so! It makes me so excited to introduce her to the larger Cthulhu Mythos ^_^ I still expect to hear The Red Room at least twice a week, but I would also love to introduce 'The Beckoning Fair One' (Oliver Onions, 1911), or 'The Night Wire' (H.F. Arnold, 1926) into our repertoire of bedtime stories. Would you consider doing either in the future? Edit: Ooh, found The Night Wire. Yay! You two are magnificently comprehensive ^_^

See I think HPL was trying to hide things in his stories. I know esoteric writings when I come across them. He didn't "imagine" all of what he wrote. He reminds me of Arthur Machen in many ways. Another author that had some insight on things that people hide from themselves.

Please add some thrilling background music..I heard this story in Midnight Horror Station....That was soo good.

Man, this thumbnail really should have been of a bristlecone pine.

By thee 3-lobed BURNING EYE, Thee Key & Thee Gate knowes where THEY came in before & where THEY will come in once again.... Íä ÍÄ.... BEHOLD with appropriate awe and terror.... Thee Opener of the Way....

It's creepy that the story takes place one year after Lovecraft's death

His buddy sounds like Jack Nicholas.

This is THE FUCK ING BEST

Ok... This shit is just straight SAVAGE

I really enjoyed this, very well read. I don't like to be negative but I was a bit frustrated at the mini synopsis at the beginning. This may be a personal thing as I dont even watch trailers for films. I just thought I would mention that.

Creepypasta authors could learn a thing or two from Lovecraft, especially when it comes to titles.

That one was WEIRD

Would you do The Doom That Came To Sarnath? It is distinct from other Lovecraft stories, and oh so wonderful.

I have read this story before and it never resonated with me. I usually tune into Horrorbabble because of their choice of good literature. So I think that the Tree, is actually a reference to what we would call a "Hellmouth" That on that lonely hill, in the desolate nowhere, resides an impartial window to the Otherside. Maybe a place that Yog or Azathoth might have touched, or even better, one of those who tried to call them. Its not Lovecrafts most terrifying story, but it adds to his mythos that maybe, the Elders exist. And there are places they can be seen.

Sandwiches!

Sounding a bit like Jack Nicholson. Thank you again.

How come HorrorBabble is listed as an "artist" rather than under podcasts on Spotify?

I would like to know why the horror from the primal days took the form of a tree?

Was this one of the inspirations for "The Soul Stealer"?

Are there any Massachusetts horror babblers hear

Ah, yes, the Lovecraft Cosmic Horror tale... I’m always anxiously anticipating the end, so the narrator can tell me all about what he can’t tell me. Lol. I always enjoy hearing described that which is too horrible to describe. That’s why I don’t like film or tv adaptations. They fill in too many gaps that are best left to the imagination. Nothing more terrible than the not knowing.

If this is adapted to film wishing the same narrator narrate the film too hes sound eldritch

Could this be Tree of Sorrows?

Never mind me i'm just a tree.

This has got to be one of the most formulaic and uninspired stories from this author.

Can't call it a "collaboration" when some unknown writer steals Lovecraftian ideas. This was terrible. Lovecraft would never sign off on such a poorly written story . This is embarrassing.