"The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft / 2023 Recording + Subtitles
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- This is the second HorrorBabble recording of TCoC
"The Call of Cthulhu" is a Cthulhu Mythos story by H. P. Lovecraft. First published in Weird Tales in February 1928, it was given the following synopsis: "Slithering through the earth came the thoughts of Cthulhu, and mankind faced the rule of an obscene and incredible monstrosity."
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:52 - The Horror in Clay
0:23:14 - The Tale of Inspector Legrasse
0:58:38 - The Madness from the Sea
1:28:35 - Further Listening
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Thanks for listening, folks. Just a couple more oldies to re-record, and that'll be it for the mythos do-overs.
Hi just want to say thank for replying
Really awesome content here. My son and I sat in the dimly lit room and enjoyed a trip through this outstanding strange tale.
I wish this was just fiction…
This story is very engaging. Okay, I'm sucked in every time that I read or listen to it. Mostly because of the cyclopean ending, but the story buildup makes the package whole. Curious? Movie worthy.
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Cthulhu on Wheel of Fortune:
"I'd like to buy a vowel."
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I won't turn down listening to a classic.
You mean Combine Harvester by The Wurzels ?
Especially since it's unedited, I dislike how people change the language of a book in order to be PC.
I usually turn them up.
I'll turn it UP though! 😝
The first recording I ever heard Horrorbabble perform was this classic right here. Outstanding update!
This and Horror at Red Hook are my all-time favorites. They introduced me to the mythos, and I got hooked. Thank you for the new recording!
I'm hoping for a horror at Red Hook recording
Horror at Red Hook is a personal favorite as well.
@@kevinfogle7929They have it only on Bandcamp for now
I was so frustrated with the audiobooks as being read either too fast or without enough internal contemplation of the text. Your reading is just much more believable. An English gentleman laying out the story. Very authentic feeling. Much more even than the Lovecraft Preservation Society.
Thank you for the kind words.
This is definitely a great day!!! Had to work so now the whole arcade will listen with me to Horrorbabble. 💀
"Original unedited text" and "Lovecraft" is probably sending CZcamss censor bots into a drooling panic
We've had trouble before, but censorship is a terrible thing.
I completely agree!
thank you for every single upload@@HorrorBabble
The racism is wild though. But yeah, censorship SUCKS.
Great job! This is my favorite Lovecraft story. I'm so happy to hear the new rendition.
Thank you so much for this! I listen to dagon at 2AM this morning and was just tuning back in! Only to see you've redone call of cthulu as it's one of my favorite along with shadow over innsmouth....your delivery is impeccable the only reader i tune in for lovecraft
This makes it a great day. Thanks for keeping me focused on Lovecraft with this new series.
First series of original Cthulhu Mythos stories? How rapturous! You're right, this is a perfect way to set the mood.
We've got some great stories lined up from some wonderful new authors.
(Just started this one, but have listened to several+ of your other readings. I assume the narrator is also the channel owner.)
I'm suddenly hooked to a genre that I've never given the time of day to previously. I was always told I would love Lovecraft, in particular, but I didn't realize I was a fan of horror or Lovecraft until your channel - for I was mislead:
As a child of the '80s, to me, horror was a casual, pop culture, light affair - Freddy Krueger, Jason, and Poltergeist. Memes before memes were rendered into a concept. I assumed the entertaining depth was in sci-fi mostly because fantasy was too prone to cheap plot devices and what else is there?
Anyway, I have a century to catch up on, and I owe it to a chance encounter with you.
Thank you for your passion and perfection.
I sincerely hope you check out the Algernon Blackwood stories, The Wendigo and The Willows. Ian's talent at sound design is on full display on those recordings. If you don't have noise cancelling headphones, consider getting a pair!
Thank you very much, Steve!
@@paulandreotti1639Just listened to The Willows on an audiobook. Excellent slow burn horror and I’ve been looking into Blackwood’s other works as well now.
“Everything that I can remember, I have told with perfect candour. Nothing has been distorted or concealed, and if anything remains vague, it is only because of the dark cloud which has come over my mind-that cloud and the nebulous nature of the horrors which brought it upon me…”
Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!
Thanks as always!
I have the most vexing urge to travel to the South Pacific. So well done!
As if you had been imperiously summoned, perhaps?
Hell muthafu*kin yeah! Appreciate it bub 🎩
💜🖤H.P. Lovecraft.🖤💜 thank you Horrorbabble 🙏
Yay Lovecraft ❤! Thank you so much 🙏
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Great re-recording! I love both your readings. Thank you for leaving both up.
I love how pervasive The Mythos has come to be since Lovecraft's days. Elder gods slid into small contents or even big obvious references. So many people hearing the eldritch horrors without realizing it at all. I love it just as much as I love your recordings. Thanks again for helping me relax when I sleep or even when I don't. Y'all are my jam.
Really looking forward to hearing the next one.with regards and thanks.
Amazing I’ll wait tonight to listen I’m so glad you did this thank you for all your work Ian ❤❤❤
Loving these re-uploads from older readings
OH PERFECT! was looking for what next to watch and now I get to listen to a classic. Tyvm 😁
This is super awesome. I'm currently using it to practice my English pronounciation in an entertaining way by stepwise reading a sentence aloud and then listening to it on here. It also makes me appreciate the amazingly high skill that when into reading it, particulary the pacing and emphasis of the sentences and the little sub-sentences. Lovecraft seems to not use as many commas as modern day writers do, so the sentences can be sometimes challenging to deconstruct into nice understandable chunks.
Commenting before I listen tonight, I'm excited for some good old HorrorBabble entertainment. Once I'm done listening, I'll update.
Well folks, I'm back to update when I first subscribed to the hb I listened to his cthulhu mythos comp with all the stories, but this set has always been one of my favourites other than shadow over insmouth but well once again I've been pulled into the stories with clear understanding on what's being read but what's more important is hearing the amount of passion and love HB gives in every video not just this one keep up the amazing work and thank you for being one of the greats I listen to whilst painting my minis
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a nice re-recording a great listen for working
Yes please! 💛💛💛
Nice!
A most excellent presentation. I prefer your narration to all others. 😃
Amazing recording! Thanks
I make a playlist every day for my insomnia and am going through all your H.P. Lovecraft.
Are you sure it's not just being unable to stop listening to these stories? Maybe that's just my problem. Haha
I've sat up so many nights listening to these stories over and over.
In all seriousness, I hope you can find some way to get through insomnia if you're truly suffering. Lack of sleep is no joke and people are all too often unaware of the detriment it is to a person's well being.
Best of luck, and at least you have some great stories at hand to help.
I fully understand. That's what I'm doing too. Lol I fell asleep on chapter 2.
Always have time for a classic.
I must have read this story two dozen times but your excellent narration makes it an absolute joy to experience it again.
Another outstanding classic video many thanks as always Ian!😎👊👍
Re-listening to this has brought a revelation to me, much like Lovecraft wrote in the beginning of this story, his works are much more horrifying when you've collected enough pieces from each one to link things in each story to every other story and horrible truth, which is why whenever I heard of shoggoths or the void where azathoth lays first, I didn't think much of it, but now I get goosebumps whenever someone mentions those malign and horrible flutes and drums that keep the demon sultan asleep, and the same goes for those nightmare creatures fashioned by the elder things.
Fantastic x
Ian Gordon has to be one of my most favorite readers! I've got a number of Audible recordings of him reading, mainly Lovecraft. Such a mellow and fruity voice that is wonderful to hear! His reading of The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath is something I listen to over and over again! So entertaining. I've subscribed to this and plan on enjoying it as well! 🙂
Thank you for subscribing!
Awesome, thank you. Still a classic.
LOOOOVE LOVECRAFT CTHULHU MYTHOS 💀💀💀💜💜💜💜🔥🔥🔥🔥👌👌👌👌 KEEP IT COMING
Ohhhhh it's here! X
This is my lullaby.
Talk about the icing on the end of my day cake!
I'm so excited for next Wednesday!
Ah,, that was worth re-visiting. Nice, thanks.
"Let me write this thing that I hope no one ever reads" is quite a strange trope.
Perfect timing! I was just going to listen to call of Cthulhu on your channel about a week ago after I bought a collection of Lovecraft's most popular works, and the first volume of a manga version of "The Mountains of Madness" by Gou Tanabe. It seems he also has a manga version of The Call of Cthulhu as well, although I'm not sure if it's translated into English. I can read Japanese but the wording/kanji is quite difficult and mostly above my level of reading.
And then, I see my favorite channel post a re-recording of TCoC. Truly perfect timing.
Thank you so much for doing these, no one could do them better than you! ❤🎉❤❤🎉🎉❤❤
The first version was my introduction to your works back in 2018. Still prefer the SFX added in that one, but this one is an instant favorite as well. Great job, HB! Looking forward to your own Mythos stories.
I was tempted to keep the FX, but I think this version needed to stand on its own two tentacles.
Wonderful new recording!
Thank you , Ian , I need to hear a good story .. especially by one of my favorite narroraters くコ:彡🐙🦑🦐🦪🐚🦀🦭
Yeah! a classic story . I like the introduction. The Lovecraftian horror In a paragraph.
Well, no reason not to check it out. The old one was spectacular.
Perfect for a late evening in the guard shack. Awesome ‼️
Can't wait to listen to this recording. Not my favorite Lovecraft story but well worth a listen from everyones favorite reader.
What is your favorite HPL story?
I got the CZcams notification of Cthulhu for this video and tuned right in
I love Horror Babble ❤
We hear it even now....
Excellent narration of one of the best stories. Thanks so much.
I'm currently painting the giant cthulhu from CMONs Cthulhu death may die. So this is a nice background while I loose my mind painting the damn thing.
A true classic, presented once again by the best. This is a story that will forever be timeless, and will exist and be told long after we have all shuffled off this mortal coil.
Excellent job. My favorite
This was my first time listening to Call of Cthulhu! Was perfect will definitely be listening to again as well as other Lovecraft stories! Thanks very much for the great presentation!
I am a horror fan
I do love to hear all the stories he wrote, such an imagination. He lived it.
What a beautiful world that man had in his soul
And dont let anyone tell you otherwise. Lovecraft had one of the most vivid imaginations in fiction.
A magnificent and terrifying world, absolutely! But beautiful...? "The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom."
A terrible person but a fantastic writer
You KNEW I would be here Sir Ian...thank you my friend😁
❤thanks
Just a quibble about artistic renderings in general: Lovecraft described Cthulhu as having a face consisting of “a mass of feelers.” He never mentions eyes. Personally, I find the concept of Cthulhu as a being who doesn’t need conventional eyes, but rather relies on otherworldly senses, as more alien and creepier.
This is true, but Lovecraft also sketched the Legrasse Idol in profile in one of his letters, with a triangle of three eyes visible-suggesting six eyes in total on Great Cthulhu.
@@ShoggothLord Interesting. I wasn’t aware of that
Interesting on both fronts. I think Lovecraft did his best to keep the details vague, and with good reason.
@@ShoggothLord the "eyes" on the idol may not actually be eyes either. The idol was most likely created by human, driven mad they may be. Eyes would seem natural for a human to put on a statue to make some semblance of sense, but thats the opposite of what Cthulhu is. The things we mistook for eyes could just be some other type of organ, or maybe just bumps on the Old One's head. Hardened scales, perhaps?
Every now and then, CZcams randomly adds this to my smart downloads and I think.. yup. Every time 😁
Finally heard this late tonight! One of Lovecraft’s best!
This story is what began my obsession with Lovecraft's writing.
Lovely to hear a new reading from you
The Best 🐙🐙 Thanks 🐙🐙 love you !! 🐙🐙
Thank you
I listened to your original reading of this story in bed last night. Spooooky.
Thank you!
This narrative is top notch. Thanks sir!
I lost my Babble virginity to the old version of this and sounds like I’m not alone.
Great reading, really brought the near-century old tale to life. It hit me this time around that maybe TCOC had an influence on Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. All those people obsessed with that mountain shape (and the main character shaping it out of potato) is somewhat like that artist making a Cthulhu sculpture. Or maybe I’m reaching a bit far!
An interesting reach, though!
I always let it go to voicemail.
Fantastic! 😊
Best Cthulhu reading ever!
Babble King! Mentor!
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Thank you for this amazing reading.
Nailed it!
Lovely 🫶🏼
I await the day that a movie worthy of such writtings is made
Love that you guys are going to make your own mythos stories. Thought of it myself. Hope yours are pretty good.
One of the stories will be written by myself -- the others are by new (or should I say, 'living') authors.
You DARE mess with perfection, sir?!
How could you best your previous reading? Hahaha
I can't wait to get off work in a few hours so I can listen to this.
May azathoth bless you for making these fine readings.
Well, having listened, it's good.
Thanks again
I'm not a huge fan of my first recording of it...
@HorrorBabble no?
I can't think of a way to disagree with you without sounding like I'm fawning but, keep up the good work. It hasn't failed you yet.
Fantastic narration
Thank you for bringing back this classic! Will you be doing the others or just this one? Either way its cool.
I've done a few already. Just a couple more to go, including Innsmouth. I'll tidy up the playlists later in the year when everything is recorded.
@@HorrorBabble That sounds amazing! Thank you for your hard work! Hope your channel continues to grow.
Thanks for posting this incredible story. I had to listen to this twice before understanding the ship was backed up to chew on the monster with propellers. I'm easily influenced by such stories so I don't listen to Lovecraft before going to bed. This is one dreamscape I don't want to experience.
Two Cajuns were walkin in de bayou outside New Orleans. One looked at the other and say "Me, last night I saw KTHULHU right here, right in dis very swamp! His friend cast both eye on him and say " For R'lyeah??" 😂😂 He say I GAAAUURRRONNTEE you think I'm told you a lie?"
Love listening to this! 52:49
"Either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into a new dark age."
It's like he foresaw social media
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Ditto
🏁🤺"the lunatics have taken over *our*
little 🌎 asylum:/
NEVER SURRENDER
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*NEVER* *COMPLY.*
NIce!
Bane makes a surprisingly good narrator!
We sacrificed to Ctulhu during the eclipse. It was a regal sacrifice of beer brats, sauerkraut and potato salad. He didn't rise. Well better luck next time.
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What an amazing retelling!
Wow thanks so much love the work you do!
Fabulous reading, Ian.
Thank you.
I love hearing stuff in regards to Georgian Architecture, we do have some really awesome colonial style homes and some really awesome steepled churches here in Savannah ( my home town lol )