"It's utterly ghastly, but I've got to know." Spoken like a true (if unwary) scientist.

“They came for Thomas last night. They did not take all of him…” Right, so that’s the nightlight being plugged back in…

You fool I'm listening to Horror Babble 😁

Thank you for the work you do.

Frank Belknap Long! What a treat to make Monday better! Thanks! ❤️

Nice I was just listening to the hounds of tindalos for the nth time.

Another outstanding stories story to enjoy many thanks Ian hope you're having an awesome day!😎👍

Damn Frank Belknap is great!! the whole craziness equals insight trope is always fun and i love me some cosmic horror no matter who its from!! Daddy lovecraft would understand. "Everyone dancing seems crazy to those who can't hear the music"

Love being on the sea⚓ Another brilliant tale,as usual Thank you Sir😊

Excellent as always Sir, so until next time!!!🙏👍⚓👻

Great story! Thank you for your narration!

Outstanding job as always, Ian! Great story to play for my mom as she is still in a coma, so hopefully it's entertaining her. Much appreciated the work that you all do!

Had this one confused with the Space-Eaters story for a moment, which was coincidentally written by the same guy. Funny, that. EDIT: Now that I've listened to it, I wonder if the two stories are connected. The creature's descriptions seem to have some similarities.

Great!!! ...more Ocean dread. I see another collection in the works. I hope. 💀

Thanks

When I first glimpsed this offering, I thought the title was "The Bone-Eaters" -- perhaps because I have a bone to pick with Carter! Cheers Warren, whose brain is already eaten away...

Very good! The story was original and interesting too. I will share this with my friends. Good work

The story tonight was amazing. Ocean stories are always my favorites Thank you. Have a marvelous day 😊🌟💖

My favorite genre. Multi dimensional sci-fi horror. Thanks and give me more Ian.

This is an automatic new favorite from FBL. Thanks for the reading!

Another great nautical story and narration! I enjoy this every time I listen to it!

really nice. you can see how weird fiction inspired stuff we have nowadays. like these guys share so much with the dungeons and dragons braineaters it's very likely they were the inspiration. amazing read. i love when Ian does this accent, it's hilarious and atmospheric too

Poor Warren

“I can still hear, in memory, those coolly spoken words; and I can still remember my remonstrances…..’Ian. Stop using this bloody intro! I’m running out of quotations from the Statement!’” Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!

I'm more disoriented than usual! -- I've mixed up Space & Brains! Cheers Warren, who, to be Frank, is Long dead & who now enjoying a Belle Nap!

Excellent accents in this one. You practically brought the tale to life - uh oh 😱

Sounds like the inspiration for the D&D illithids/"Mindflayers". Another fantastic reading!

_"Hut Hut!_ *HUT!* _"_ Jake Steele, star the Washington ReSkins star quarterback, fell behind the line of scrimmage. At on 4th and long at the Reskins' 35 yard line with seconds left in the game and a Reskins 5 point deficit this was IT. If he didn't get a touchdown the Reskins would lose to arguably one of the worst teams in pro football history. Time crawled as he watched his offensive line collide with the Detroit Lion defensive line. Jake pumped the ball left then right as his receivers raced down field. A Lions lineman broke through, arms outstretched, his red face in a grimace of sweaty hate. Jake dodged left as the brute swept by. Jake looked left, and side eyed right to see his receiver Kareem Malcom X McGiver jinking past a defender into the end zone, hand raised high. Stepping back in a wide stance, Jake hurled the pigskin 70 yards, the red "Warren," the ball maker's name, as it sailed off. He felt good about it but the looming defensive lineman eclipsed the feeling. 350 pounds of meat hit Jake at what felt like 100 mph; he smacked the astroturf like he fell off the moon with the moon on top of him. When visions of dead relatives he never met faded, he groggily wondered if Kareem caught the ball. Staring into the blue sky, the Goodyear Blimp sailed over and its Jumbotron flashed the news to cheering Detroit fans. *YOU FOOL! Warren is DEAD!*

Had high expectations and it did not disappoint, thank you!

Every recording is just perfectly presented, amazing stories told in the best way possible. You can't get better than that!

Eerie with a sliver of the grotesque. Delicious! Reminiscent of Hodgeson's seafaring tales. Thanks Ian. 😀

Fabulous choice! The more FBL the better, love his stuff :)

Quite a nice little tale.

Alright this will spoil my supper. 😂

Very good story! It reminded me a story I had read years ago. There was a coach driver who was attacked. But this is a far better story. Lovecraft would approved it with compliments.

Love it - but can't help getting the Monty Python vibe when I hear more sophisticated language delivered in working class accents 😆

Thank You!

Love me some Frank Belknap Long

Outrageously good!

Brilliant 🥰

Lovely

Thank you once again Ian.

Awesome

Gosh, I sure do hope Warren is okay

I thought they were heaving up and readying the body to throw towards him. I have no idea why I thought that, I must think that's scarier.

One of my favorite narrators.

“ Old Kranon, the burgomaster, swore that the dark folk had taken the cats away in revenge for the killing of Menes’ kitten; and cursed the caravan and the little boy. But Nith, the lean notary, declared that the old cotter and his wife were more likely persons to suspect; for their hatred of cats was notorious and increasingly bold.” In the far distance a faint cry can just about be heard or was it a scream I can’t quite be sure but anyway it’s time once again for cocoa and unspeakable horror; so goodnight Harley, goodnight Randolph, goodnight Ian and Jen, goodnight The cats of Ulthar and the Night Gaunts, goodnight to everyone wherever you are, whatever you are goodnight.

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They take brain essence like the skeksis!!! Delicious sailor brains….. yum yum. 🧠🕸🪸🏴‍☠️

Mmmmm delicious spongiform encephalopathy

OK so I'm trying to find a story that I'm wondering if I dreamt... a guy is riding through a foggy forest an something from the sky trys to eat his brain like tentacles out of the fog ... I remember them spooking the horse in the story..

They said I was insane.Their brain amoeba,

How many horrorbabble productions are based on true stories?

Who is warren and why and how did he die

Very enjoyable. Just one observation ic I may. I think voicing the diary in a Cockney accent didn't really work. I think it said he was an officer and a gentleman so he probably wouldn't have spoken like that and if he was not an officer but an able seaman from that era I doubt he would have had the education to write with such eloquence. As I say, just an observation.

Wait, was this published before or after The Space Eaters?

Can't go wrong with Long, sorry about the rhyme.

This one was very creepy, in an icky sexual way, not overtly, but there is only so much throbbing, sucking, slimy, and tentacular probing that a brain can withstand, whilst an alien is achieving an experience of spectacular ecstasy on luminous waves amidst the blackness of another dimension. Of course, I could be wrong, but wetting your cosmic appetite seems like a euphemism for some sort of naughty things. 😜

"Utterly", the most overused adverb in about 150 years of literature.

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adrea--crome??

Spoiler brains are eaten

Oh my god!!! 🤮

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