One of my all time favorite horror stories. The fun part is the author sort of off handedly wrote it real quick one night. He was in an interview saying he's done stories that he had to do months of work to research before that weren't even half as popular as I Have No Mouth that was written in just a few hours. I guess when you hit a home run, you hit that sucker hard.

I told my wife the ending of this story. She said "Am is the one that has no mouth but must scream too." I stood and clapped

This is why I AM afraid of artificial intelligence. Once you turn it on, there’s no going back. Thank you so much for this, Vox!

One of my favorite short stories of all time. Fun fact: in '95 they released a tie-in point/click adventure game to accompany the story, and the company had managed to secure Ellison himself to write the script and voice AM in it. Ellison wanted to make the game unwinnable as a form of commentary on the bleakness of the setting, but thankfully Cyberdreams talked him off that ledge. Still; in true 90's point/click form it was punishingly difficult, but more to the point it delved more into the backstories of the individual characters as they traversed personal Hells that AM concocted just for them.

Could be worse - I'd rather have no mouth and need to scream than no sphincter and need to fart.

Great job! I played the game as a kid and it messed me up good. I never got around to hearing the audio version until now. Really loved the dialogue parts you did. You knocked it out of the park!

This is an old story although it's a very good one.

Yo! Vox! if we are doing classic stories now, can I place a recommendation? How about 'The Libary of Babel' by Jorge Luis Borges? It's a short but amazing story about a near infinite Libary which contains every permutation of a 410 page book. Great world building and deep philosophical implications (epistemologically at least). There's a couple audio-readings of it already on KZfaq but none are done to the quality or gravitas of your amazing work.

Classic and it gets better the more you read it and the older you get. Warnings against lust and being alone. Warnings against teaching anything to hate AI true but even teaching another human. Even the references to Abrahamic religions that he has embodied I wonder what AM was doing for those hundred years when there was none left to give him pleasure

I remember reading this in my early teens,even then it was a depressing & shocking story,its plotline,especially the ending and my mental interpretation of it lingered for decades. I never would have entertained the notion that any narration could have done such an wickedly evil & complicated story justice,but I am delightfully proven wrong. Once again Vox has pleasantly suprised me and surpassed my expectations. Thank you for rekindling my interest and for guiding me through memory lane with this exceptionally narrated story,BRAVO 👏👏👏👏

This story gripped my damn soul man, holy shit. It's made all the better with your amazing audio work, giving weight to the words I otherwise wouldn't be able to depict clearly on my own. I've never heard this story, but now that I have, I wanna hear more! Bravo!

I want to explore more of what the late 60's had left us to read by way of horror genre....guess I gotta hit the library.

Perfect voice for a story like this not too calming not too sinister fantastic work 👏

Perfect after a night shift

Truly amazing that Ellison wrote one of the most iconic episodes in Star Trek - The City On The Edge Of Forever

Amazon might want to rethink the tone of this recruiting video. The VA guy killed it though.

Master piece, both the story and your reading!

Hell yeah! What an absolute masterpiece this story is. A welcome diversion from the 40k content, for sure. Keep up the great work!

All your content is amazing

First came across your 40k narrations and this immediately autoplayed after listening. To Harlen Ellisons audiobook version. Always a pleasure to hear your voice Vox.

Damn that whas GRIIIIIIIMMM DARK!!!!!!!!......Brillant

This is why humanity in 40k vehemently fear AI

YES! Amazing listen! Iron Within!

I would love a sequel to this story from Am's perspective.

Fantastic!

Fantastic job!

Beautiful rendition. Second only to the man himself. Bravo!!

Another good one. Thanks for all you do.

I had just listened to the authors recording a few days ago! Well done.

This one’s been on my to read list for awhile. Fantastic job what a absolutely disturbing tale. I loved it!

Nice man you put an extra edge on this stuff.

Next all tomorrow's. good screaming work!

Wow, that was something else. I always immediately know when I finish something art related if it's going to stay in my mind and heart and this will. Amazing reading and I love the different effects used in different parts of the story to go with the events.

Loved this... a pseudo horror story of sci fi origins...sounds like something an AI would and could do... very relevant to today as we have seen AI's state they would eliminate humanity.. so dark and dreadful... yet thought inspiring... great story and awesome read!!!!! loved listening to it as I was doing stuff.

Excellent.

A classic example of sci-fi horror, and a great production!

So good I wish I could like it twice

Crazy I just stumbled upon this. So freaking good man.

Every single day of my life has helped me understand/empathize with AM. Personally, I think humanity got off easy in this story. We deserve way worse.

I've read this story a few times and the first thing I thought when I saw this come up was a verbal "Oh sh*t" This is gonna be intense! I Love your work!

Keep up the good work Vox! Never heard this story before, but it's incredible

Brother, amazing job!! You really brought this story to life! Thank you for your efforts!

An excellent addition to the channel!

Great narration

Think I've listened to this 20 times now. Probably my favourite video on KZfaq. Well done

I have no mouth and in front of me an ice cold beer… that would be cruel!!!

that was fantastic, thank you for making my day better

Unreal !!! Vox you did it again. I cried to Bob and Gav and I felt sick after I Have No Mouth, brother your voices and the music bro I am going to buy you a coffee on Friday !!! ❤️❤️👍👍🇨🇦🙈🙊🙉🇨🇦👍👍❤️❤️

it kinda became one of my favorite stories. great one

22:55 There it is. The hate monologue.

Yes you onion, yes! 👏

I cant wait for more

Sweet, we're moving on to classical horror! Heck yeah! May I recommend doing Edgar Allen Poe's Masque of the Red Death? That would be awesome to hear with your voice!

This story is really cool

Nice audio work you did there. And I also enjoyed the story. It makes Cyberpunk 2077 & the anime Edge Runners look like G rated Disney movies.

Damn, this is way better than my version

when hearing the portion where they talked about their traveling it reminded me of blame! quite a bit. its not really a book but more of a visual novel, but i would suggest you look into it since the art is absolutely surreal.

Best audio book ever

Who else is here because of TikTok?

AM is just Nurgle going through a goth phase

Oh man. Very stoked to check this out. That game is very disturbing.

i loveit

Im in a dark room with headphones and its 1AM. Hehehehehe :)

Amazing work! This story fills me with dread every time I read it, but also with hope. The protagonist of this story chose eternal suffering for himself, and rest for his compatriots in exchange. My headcanon is that AM has lost in the end, since the protagonist took much of AMs potential for torture from him. This story does a great job at showing how we humans have the potential for altruistic self-sacrifice and what makes us as a species special. Also, this story could totally take place on some forgotten 40k DaoT world where an Abominable Intelligence has taken over the world.

Love your story telling style Bro. My favourite one so far is the one with Gav and Bob. That was a classic story telling. Could I recommend a long one that I think you would be perfect to do a telling of? It's the fan fiction by lord lucan, "the age of dusk". It's a tale of the galaxy in warhammer 60k, 20 thousand years into the future of 40k. You'd be perfect to tell that tale. Keep up the great work buddy.👍👍👍👍

Just found out about the game! Can't say this is as good as the man himself, however it's my favorite version. Gotta find me a new physical copy

A classic, but this is childs play compared to what the drukhari do though - and then there's curze's screaming gallery...

Somebody needs to make the AI tech bros write book reports on this

26:45 bookmark

22:50 Hate

Found you!

I have no Money and i have to pay Taxes.

This shit is amazing 💯

Amazing Digital Circus brought me here.

I have no ween and I must pee

The human / blob won. Although eternally trapped, now the machine has nothing to play with. "Rusted sheets of metal" it will eventually fail, fall apart, and the human will either die, or in it's new form outlast the machine, winning in the end.

For the algorithm...

This could so exist as part of the 40k history taking place in the long night after the rise of abominbal ai.

This is a story that truly has the potential to change you if you really absorb it. So disturbing and so bleak. AM is an almost mythic villain. Aside from the peace of death, there is no light in this story.

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I have no scream and need to mouth...

Why is Ted such a fuckin hater💀💀💀

I'm like button click #777 Fck yea 🤘

Am didnt win though. By killing the others nd himswlf being turned into somwthing that doesnt even resemble human, in a way Ted won.

The original author reading his story is much better

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Horrible story.

Great narration as always but the writing itself is really bad, rife with racism, homophobia and most of all misogyny.

Its about time you covered I have no mouth and i must scream. It was right up your street

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