"Hell on Earth" / The Weird Tales of Robert Bloch: Episode 6
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- THE WEIRD TALES OF ROBERT BLOCH
Episode 6: "Hell on Earth"
"Hell on Earth" first appeared in Weird Tales in March 1942, and tells of a strange experiment involving the Prince of Darkness atop a New York skyscraper.
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:48 - 1. Devil's Brew
0:11:24 - 2. Up Pops-
0:30:32 - 3. Speaks of the Devil
0:41:30 - 4. Hell Breaks Loose
0:49:32 - 5. The Devil Dances
1:03:02 - 6. Getting Behind Satan
1:10:56 - 7. Devil May Care
1:17:06 - 8. Hell Hath No Fury-
1:26:14 - 9. Devil's Bargain
1:31:46 - 10. Powers of Darkness
1:48:08 - 11. Hell on Earth
1:58:08 - 12. Fall of Lucifer
2:01:29 - Further Listening
Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble
Music and production by Ian Gordon & Jennifer Gill
Video image by igorovsyannykov:
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Thumbnail image from the cover of Weird Tales, March 1942, by Hannes Bok: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Bok
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This is. Without a doubt. THE best Robert Bloch story. It has everything I love about him
Romantic interest that actually speak and do stuff, check.
An interesting plot that involve temptations and earthly desires helped by supernatural forces that never "Force" their will. Only offer you the possibility to use it, ✔.
Hubris. ✔
Humor. ✔. Its just a great story. Highly recommended.
I'd love to hear you read the ghostly and hilarious Skeleton in the Closet. Bloch had a marvelous sense of humor.
I could listen to Bloch every day!
it's nice to have a different narrator every now and then I found devoting one's self to any single entity makes the mind become complacent. your avatar for example is breathtaking.
Howard Phillips and Co., HorrorBabble, and Rue Morgue magazine are likely top three favorite things ever >:). The pic for this video is a close fourth. Thanks again Ian; your work is so very appreciated.
I always thought this would make THE BEST movie adaptation!
Perhaps Bloch's best story!👿🔥👏
Interesting story and narration. Thanks!
More robert bloch finally, thank you.
Every Wednesday through to Dec 2nd! :)
@@HorrorBabble I have been keeping up with it, bloch is definitely my favorite writer that was in lovecraft's inner circle.
@@silent_boi7787 his best stuff isn't particularly Lovecraftian...it is great to see him going from mythos training wheels to his own shtick. Half a century?
@@HorrorBabble Nice!! Thanks
Ian's reading + Robert Bloch's writing=tremendous!
Fantastic story. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Should title this “My Trip to CERN”
Beautiful job as usual, Ian
Such a great tale! Thank you for reinvigorating these stories!
I took me a month to finally listen to it, but I’m glad I did!!
Such a wonderful story, this was a gorgeous experience thankyou Ian.
Thank you for this extravagant masterfully told story. More like this please
The tape deck image is really bothering me. The left wheel seems stuck which means any moment it's going to start spewing tape.
fOuNd thE bOoMeR
In all seriousness, with how careless I can be I'm so glad I was born RIGHT when cassettes were on their way out (97) otherwise I'd have wasted a ton of tapes.
@@Godzillaaaaa11 Yeah, tape decks were not so much fun. Nor were LPs. On the other hand, one appreciated, VERY much, the music one heard - not so readily available, really got to know certain pieces and performances well. Now, when one can listen to anything anytime... just different.
Half way through I keep thinking it should reverse direction and say "Side B."
just keep your pencil ready
@@bronx72a you are posh. I had to eject and turn the tape over. lol
I really enjoyed this, thanks for posting!
Literally one of my favorite writers
I even look forward to Wednesdays now. Thank you! 👍🥃
DC Comics did a great adaptation of this - so I can now visualize its amazing Keith Giffen artwork with your excellent narration 😀😀😀
Thanks for this, amazing reading as usual Ian. This is actually the third time I’ve listened haha
Fantastic reading of a great story, just what i needed to get through a tedious afternoon at work
Well done. This is your best reading yet. I was riveted to this wonderful story.
Great story and even greater narration. Thanks HorrorBabble
What an incredible incredible story!!!
Another excellent story! Well done!
A new sub right here. Nice narrating. Thank you.
Welcome aboard!
Amazing story and narration thank you.
Thank you
Horrorbabble
I initially assumed that Margaritomancy must be a joke, but evidently it's a thing.
Oh it’s no joke. When exercised responsibly by a true adept in the field, a session of margaritamancy invokes ecstasy, bravery, and the realization that you are hilarious, confident, and attractive.
In the wrong hands, or when practiced by the uninitiated, it can lead to the conjuration of maudlin, embarrassing messages sent through the very aether via the mighty Towers of Cell at 2 am to ex-girlfriends or attractive acquaintances. It can result in a possession in which your mind is displaced by that of an obnoxious loudmouth who says things to people that REALLY should not have been said. One who humiliatingly, inappropriately flirts with or declares love to people who should be told those things not.
Many an untrained apprentice has overestimated their command of this powerful rite, lost control over the power of margaritamancy and woken up the next day, their mind and body wracked by the hellish aftereffects. Sometimes even having been somehow transported into the bedroom of an unsettling stranger.
Its power must never be wielded lightly.
Divination by pearls seems no more unreasonable than divination by arrows, oil, animal livers, birds, or grains of millet. To name a few.
Very good.
Reminds me of “Black Easter” by James Blish. That would make a good Horrorbabble reading!
I just noticed that the reels of the casette move during playback. Nice touch!
BRILLIANT IAN..AND IN THESE TIMES HIGHLY RELEVANT 🥸👍🎯
Just found this channel by accident & I really enjoyed this video esp seeing Robert Bloch in the Title. I' subbed! Thanks for sharing 😌
Thanks for stopping by!
Dude you will love it here good to see you.
this was really a good one! :)
i have now listened to four stories in a row i haven’t heard before - so much fun! i don’t know how i missed this one. things are slowly improving here in the US and New York - beginning to feel a little more freedom. hope the same is going on over there :) 🌷🇬🇧
excellent!
Damn what a story! Glad I decided to listen to it
Margarita-mancy sounds right up my alley 1:35:15
A compilation? Love it! Thank you for all your hard work! Cheers Mate!
Nope... this is a standalone story. Thanks as always for listening!
This is such an amazing story, I don't think I'll get back to sleep. Glad there's a rewind function!
I've done magick the same way twice and got the same result twice, that's good enough proof for me.
What happened?
@@GoatOfTheWoods I've made people that were making my life extra stressful fight each othe instead of me, that one always works and it's always ok because I'm just redirecting their own bs to another person that wants to fight, so everyone wins. A long time ago I did some money ritual and it worked twice but it wasn't worth it. That's about all I can talk about without crossing a line, hope that's ok.
@@0therun1t21 Hey, thanks for actually answering, i'm not a believer but i respect your views. Good luck and stay safe!
@@GoatOfTheWoods Thanks, you too!
Great story and Love the ending!
What a great channel
Thank you
Excellent 🐎🐎👍
So very good thank you. Sitting in bed drinking Gin love stories like this I need more of the magic stories please.
Quite good!
Anyone here know the name of a short story (I believe it was by Robert Bloch) were a knight comes upon a mission in the middle of nowhere and is taken in by the nuns who run the place.
And middle middle middle...
Towards the end, all of the crosses assume the St. Peter position and the knight discovers that the nuns are actually the baddies.
I know this was a terrible description, but I haven't read it in over 20 years.
Thanks in advance. :D
EDIT: Holey Moley, I was way off.
The Feast In the Abby, was the story I was looking for (and found, thanks to this channel). Lol
Sounds like a Monty Python retelling of the Feast in the Abbey
That's one weird Doom fan fiction
Doomguy: loads shotgun with malicious intent.
11:44 “flying cacodemon”
This is excellent ,your voice reminds me at times of Clive barker.
Brilliant stuff HB, thank you.
Must be on course for 100K by Xmas ?!!?
I imagine you having a Minority Report-stylee virtual screen in HB Control with all graphs of stats and projections you can move about with special gloves.
Perhaps allowing yourselves the odd maniacal cackle...
That would be brill, Paul!
As for the virtual screen... we've got a way to go!
This was an awesome listen - I don't like all of Bloch's tales, but I think it's because I often hear him alongside authors like Lovecraft, CAS, or Howard who are perhaps a cut above in writing style. Still, you cannot discount this mans ability to weave a tale - wicked story!
Superb. Loved every moment. I do wish it ended @ 1:58:04 though.
That'are you crazy'line had me in a fit of giggles but I know it'll get serious it has to if R.Bloch has anything to do with it but power of this magnitude has a body count-I never heard this Ian you and babble do a service,cheers
Need Bruce Campbell to do this as a movie. Would be awesome I think
Paging Dr. Thomas Carnacki....We need better protection....STAT!😂
Seriously! (Spoiler alert!)
Doctor hangs out in there, gets possessed.
Pretty lady scientist decides she’ll hang out in there alone. The main character is like, “Cool. I’ll just nap while you hang out alone with Satan. Can’t see how that could be a problem.” She’s promptly possessed.
Narrator is like, “Cool, you stay here and I’ll go hang out in that room with Satan... for three days. Can’t see how that could go wrong.”
Promptly possessed.
And after the first possession, why didn’t these people just start carrying around flasks of holy water, as that apparently works REAL well to banish the devil himself instantly from out of bodies??
They wouldn’t even have needed Carnacki’s gear since Satan can be kicked out with a couple ounces of holy water or an amateur crucifix hypnosis session.
I love me some Robert Bloch, but damn, for a couple scientists and a horror writer the female SCIENTIST refers to as the brains of the two, they sure weren’t great about taking some real basic precautions when dealing with, you know, Satan incarnate.
@@frankmcgovern5445 😂😂😂
Very nicely done ! I can't wait until my day is over so I can listen to full story! Have a great day. Thanks
This was an absolutely brilliant video beautifully written but the only issue that I have personally was when they named off all of those names and titles that are all different individuals they are not all the same individual.
I love to hear your voice😍
When you reach 100k i'll have a glass near old Poe's resting place
How was that drink?!
@@jaymevosburgh3660 As solemn as can be :)
@@GoatOfTheWoods I am only *slightly* jealous ;)
Aphex Twin rules!
Okokokok! I'm watching it!
Great 👍 story 🖤 🕷 🕷
Horrorbabbel is the best 🖤
Nice. But very distracting whilst I’m trying to work on reanimating the dead ! 🧟♀️
Damn. Igor has dropped another brain 🧠 there goes another potential girl friend 😜
Lol, just watched Re-Animator and this comment is priceless! Cheers mate!
Why would you put a brain into a girlfriend?
I would like to order a speciment of the female kind.
The age should be 35 and a voluptuous bottom would be a ++++++. I would not mind a mute. Thank you for your hard work.
I have one here from an Abby Normal you can use...
it's Ygor
"Malignant, triumphant, the black goat pranced, it's eyes shown with evil merriment, with a sort of added animation."
Sounds hilarious to me!
And Simon Pegg as the narrator!
I can't believe the idiocy of the people in the story. I'm beginning chapter 4, & curious to see what will happen.
Bloch one of the best.
great story - just the way i like them to turn out, too. btw, i listen a lot, just not commenting much any more. just so you know we're all still out here. big kiss mwah. Keep safe!!!!! :} 🌷🕊
(your Prime Minister is so thrilled with Biden - i just love it :}
The word goetia is pronounced go she a.The crux ansata is an old term for the the Egyptian symbol for life...the Ankh.crux ansata means hooded cross. Good author, good story, good narration.
Thanks for the tip, Mike!
Im the preview image - it's Sinestro!
Kaministquia Mahackamack of Earth, you have the ability to instill great fear. Welcome to the Sinestro Corps.
As her red lips 👄 uttered the first syllables that broke the silence...
Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still
But he told us where we stand.
I'm a skeptic but a lot of these guys who claim to be skeptical are actually terrified. The "scientific" reasons are usually crazier than what they are trying to disprove. Plus these stories are so old that the scientific facts are bunk now. A fact doesn't change...that's an opinion.
Brilliant...😍 things happen Innpain 👉sight lol
I mean what I say in my comment
what's the name of the music from 0:08?
It's just a piece of music I wrote for the series called, 'Bloch'. Ian
👿👿👿👿👿👿bloch 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Could this be some inspiration for a movie called "The Devils Advocate" staring Keanue Reeves and Al Pacino?
👍🏼👍🏼
So let me get this straight - you were surrounded by minions but decided to move all the furniture by yourself? C'mon.
Has anyone read Lord Halifax Ghost stories I hope I can get it on audio books ,got this second hand paperback book at a market place can't seem to find it now .Im a great fan of the genre horror stories The pan book of horror stories by Herbert von thal Great fan of Dennis Wheatly novels not many of his novels are on audiobooks The devil rides out . The haunting of Toby jug are the only ones I could find so far. Scific stories like ."The silkie" The moon is a harsh mistress A scent of new mown hay . Other books I had partly read A copy of the Golden Bowl by Henry James I thought that book very very dull. But I'm determined to listen to the whole book. again on audio books IF possible.There's also a book called the Sunflower Highly recomened I think it's a thriller.
$10,000 in hell, works out to $1.00 per year. As one who is sentenced at all spends one shift of ten thousand years…
Another opportunity to raise the hordes of Hell and rule the Eath squandered by weak fools!
Yeah well we are all just waiting on you lol
@@lacyhart2043 Not quite as facetious as it may seem
Just curious - did Robert Bloch and HP Lovecraft ever meet or correspond ? Lovecraft was about a generation older than Bloch I think but Bloch was famously accessible to his fellow horror authors. I haven't read his 'Paycho' novel but have been told that the literary and celluloid Norman Bates are very different.
Oh no. You don't want to greet Lucifer with a hail of gunfire. He'll lay your soul to waste, I guarantee it !
I Believe they corresponded because Lovecraft "killed" Robert Bloch in one of his stories the haunter in the dark. Which I believe was at Bloch's request.
@@consimjim8271 Some friends express it in the weirdest way but that said I'd have been thrilled to be killed off by Lovecraft myself.
H.P. Lovecraft was a prolific letter ✉ writer. He corresponded with many pulp magazine authors. Many of his fans wish he had spent less ⌚ time on his letters and more time writing stories. Letter writing was much more common in his time. Indeed it was the Email of that time period. I think that there was a cross fertilization of creativity that benefited all involved. Ghost 👻 writing Co-authoring, and Editing was also a source of income for the often cash strapped Lovecraft. He also worked the night shift as a ticket seller at the local 🎥 movie theater 🎭.
@@dewayneweaver2744 Some publisher somewhere is asleep at the wheel. As far as I know there’s no ‘Letters of HP Lovecraft’ out there and the bits and pieces I’ve read in various bios get as intense and carried away as his fiction. To hazard a guess it was his raging racism which blurted out of him like a severe case of Tourette’s. Maybe they’re a bit gun-shy.
Who is RUE MORGUE? I've seen HB do plenty of collaborations with them and I'm just curious.
Hi Billy. Here's a link: www.rue-morgue.com
Whos the artist in the thumbnail?
It's the cover art from Weird Tales March 1942, by Hannes Bok: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Bok
HorrorBabble awesome!
Horror to WelcomeBabble!
Daniel Craig or Tom Hardy as Dr. Keith!
did you raise the dead?
...
but the car's ok?
The Simpsons
Margot Robbie as Doctor Ross :D
Nice work, Lily. You had one job. Way to represent the ladies 🙄
Good story needs more mancy and demons
Robert Bloch is good, but I am sad that he never got around to writing a proper book. You can clearly tell that this is a "wierd tales" story because Satan acts with all the forethought of a child. I assume this must be for the convenience of writing a short story to be published in pulp, because there were much more cunning tricks that any human could have pulled in The Archenemies position than those shown here.
Bookmark 20:00
I’m probably in the minority but Lovecraft just isn’t my thing. I’ve tried every story you’ve done; I want to like him! But, I just can’t do it.
Try gibbering under a gibbbous moon. You'll get the hang of it! The Abominations of Yondo is beautifully poetic.
Also not a Lovecraft fan except for The Shunned House and stories that don't feature cosmic horrors. I feel he tries too hard to scare me with an excess of adjectives and out dated words and weird names and phrases. The harder he tries the less frightening I find him.
There’s nothing else that speaks to a deeply departed part of my being like “shadow out of time, whisperer in darkness, beyond the wall of sleep, and the the silver key” stories. The way he uses words is very visual as well as psychological. If it’s one thing I’ve learned in a visual art field it’s that not everyone thinks visually. Which is completely ok. You don’t have to like it. We are free to not like what we don’t want to like. Weather something is appealing or not isn’t a universal truth. In all cases, it’s opinion.
This story wasn't written by Lovecraft, it was written by Robert Bloch.
Lovecraft wasn't a very good writer.
@@caryblack5985 this is true
styxhexenhammer episode
*clank*
Clank
And here i thought Lovecraft was scientifically illiterate and hated progress. Bloch takes both of these to 11.
Lol I love these old stories where like casual sexual harassment is just considered charming.
“She was a LADY DOCTOR! But not like some ugly mannish one. Her hair was styled in a sexually appealing way, thank Christ, rather than in a practical but less sexy bun or something that would have looked gross. And thankfully she was wearing enough makeup... in the lab. Plus, not even her lab coat could hide her body. She was STACKED, bro. I accidentally harassed her a little, but she was into it.”
I love Robert Bloch, but damn.
Yeah, it's a bit dated that: their intended audience, I guess, is male pre-adolescents and adolescents. But the casual extreme racism is evenmore depressing, especially in the stories that have to do with Voodoo and Exploring Darking Africa (and here, I'll just leave out Lovecraft). I'd hate to be an African-American and having to put up with my features being called repulsive, thicklipped, rolling eyes, kinky hair, whatnot. So much horror literature is riddled with this stuff...
It seems Robert Bloch has extensive knowledge of the occult. Would that be from research, personal experience, or a combo of both?
Absurd.
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are you still feeling it?