So basically he's the bravest main character in a Lovecraft story ever. He seeks out the horror. Has a creature basically lying on top of him in the house and loses two bodyguard companions there. Loses yet another companion weeks later in the cabin who gets his face chewed off. Has an encounter with a creature in the tunnel beneath the house and realizes there's more than one, yet he goes back to the house AGAIN and witnesses hundreds/thousands of those things crawling from the hole. He then even shoots and kills one. Escapes the house and hires a team of people to blow up the mansion, trees and holes in and around the area with dynamite... And he doesn't off himself or go insane on the end. He just takes some morphine when the there's a thunderstorm. What a badass.

Lovecraft is the master of horror. His stories would make great movies if they kept to the original writing, settings and time periods.

The thunderstorms are real up there. On a trip from the Philadelphia area to Biston, when I was 7, my dad choose a route through the Catskills and in particular Bear Mountain. It was night and what a terrific storm! We had to stop in a Bates like motel. We stopped at a roadside dinosaur land where I got a collection of minerals, which I still have at age 63.

This one of H.P Lovecraft's would make a great movie. Visually terrifying. Great narration Ian.

"The Lurking Fear"(1928) is a horror story masterpiece, and probably this is the most scariest story by H.P.Lovecraft!

Listening to this durning a thunderstorm.

"sit back, relax and enjoy" yes sure " relax with hpl

THE Christopher Meloni?

I really like your work and the slight but surrounding ambiance music and sounds you use... They really bring the story altogether

should be "sit back, relax, and enjoy terrifying vistas of reality"

"The Lurking Fear" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of Home Brew. This reading is dedicated to Christopher Moloney. Chapters: 00:15 - Opening Credits 01:00 - I. The Shadow on the Chimney 14:42 - II. A Passer in the Storm 27:40 - III. What the Red Glare Meant 41:26 - IV. The Horror in the Eyes 55:20 - Closing Credits Bandcamp link: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-lurking-fear Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble Intro music and production by Ian Gordon Music 'Relentless Part One' by Glenn Alexander: glenalexander2.bandcamp.com/album/relentless-berlin-1975 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

Another excellent reading. Thank you.

If there is one HP Lovecraft story that would make a truly terrifying horror movie, it's the Lurking Fear. Think of it: an abandoned mansion in the middle of nowhere. Falling apart. Caked in darkness. Unkempt for decades. Seems like it has been left behind with time, like some aged relic. All that lurks inside are grotesque deformed blasphemies of nature, which are out for your blood.. and each other's. There was a great game I played a few years ago that reminded me a lot of this story. It is called ''Haunted Memories: Welcome Home''.

This was amazing from beginning to end, I loved the build up and couldn't wait for him to go back and explore that mansion. Theres nothing better than horrorbabble!!

Fantastic narration, thank you for sharing such an enthralling story

I am very much enjoying going back to the old stuff.

i play games while you narate wonderful stories. it makes life possible. thank you sir.

This is among my top five favorite H P Lovecraft stories. Thanks for the broadcast.

One of the best and most scary stories of all times! Hello from Athens Greece!

One of Lovecrafts best spine tinglers for night time reading. I am loving listening to them on audio now. Such a different experience between reading them and listening to them. Both howber are equally pleasurable.

Absolutely stunning work 🙌🙏

Another one of my favorite Lovecraft stories. Stellar performance again

Thanks for helping me through another lonesome night shift.

This has become my new favorite Lovecraft tale to fade to sleep with, thank you Ian!

I always felt that "The Descent", and more specifically the sequel to it, took some of the elements of this story for its own. The end of the sequel makes much more sense if you think of a certain character, which I'll leave unnamed, as a visually uncorrupted member of the Martense family. As for the reading itself, excellent as always. I expect I've heard your readings of HPL often enough now any time I read them myself it will be your voice that forms to the words in my head.

Congratulations, Ian! A truly superb reading of this remarkable classic. It has long been my favorite Lovecraft story, and it's a thrill to hear it read with such well-studied comprehension and interpretation.

Another excellent reading Sir, as always thank you!!!🙏👌👻❣️

Ian, I believe this is the best reading I've ever heard you do! The passion was absolutely nerve wracking as it rose to the crescendo !! What I love is that I come back & rediscover what I might have missed before, a word here , a phrase there, and receive such immense pleasure again . Y'all don't know the excitement I feel when I see you post, esp. A long one, I know I'm ready for a thrill, no matter what it is, you always choose such excitement !! Thank you both for all the joy you bring an old lady.... 💙💙😸

Excellent reading mate , this has become my third favourite just behind The dreams in the Witch House and the Horror at Red Hook......The Furkin’ leer.......Splendid.

I always crrack up at "what a claw!"

So chilling...Thanks for the upload

Great stuff Ian. Thank you!

Thank you Mr. Gordon and Horror Babble. Excellent as always.

Another one from Lovecraft that I really enjoyed...Thank you HorrorBabble.

I like how this story has a slight slow burn and then picks up. That ending was a surprise! Thanks for sharing a great story!

Lovecraft really seems to love the word 'eldritch'...!

Absolute bliss...this guys voice is golden!

Great work, Ian.

It’s been some time since I’ve last commented, but I’ve been listening. You do such great work! Thank you Ian!

Absolutely awesome thanks Ian.

Fantastic reading, wonderfully atmospheric! This is such a beautiful way to enjoy these stories.

Enjoyed that amazing story 👍😊👍

This is a *seriously* messed up story. Suffice it to say, it's in my top 10 from HPL.

superb as usual

"a loathsome, night-spawned flood of organic corruption, more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity..."

It seems I forgot to turn on notifications for the channel. Certainly was a pleasant surprise though to hear another lovecraft telling. Brilliant work as always Ian I thoroughly enjoyed this one; although it did clearly illustrate how it was a different time when they wrote a lot of these tales. Can't wait for the next upload. :)

As always Ian amazing read thank you for sharing your amazing voice

This is definitely one of the more descriptive stories that Lovecraft has written. I picture this monster from hell looking similar to DC comics Etrigan the Demon.

I'm so happy I found this channel! This is great! Thanks a lot for the amazing content.

Thanks for another great narration of a good horror story!

very nicely done

Those alliterations in his descriptions were a very specific kind of poetry!!

Awwwwww yeah

That was excellent!!

Awesome 👍👍👍

Amazing narration as usual

Personally Ian, I loved it, thanks. ☺. ( but it has been voted that I have to use headphones at night time from now on)

One of my favourite H.P stories. Thank you very much!

I love the phrase "digging idiotically"

Thank you very much! I've listened to it many times! It's so good! It's my favorite! Please read Medusa's Coil. It's great and there is no such recording on the KZfaq. And good luck on your own book! All the best!

Man he's tearin' though the sidekicks.

As I heard the description of the creature, I thought, "Tom Savini must have read this story." Good old ravenous, "Fluffy."

HPL always adapts into the best RPGs.

Lovecraft was still developing as a writer when he put this down on paper. To me, this is right on the edge of being its own parody, and a parody of his own writing habits, though the idea is interesting and fairly well-developed (just an opinion). If he'd have had the mind to, would've been great if Lovecraft thought to go back some years down the road and tweak-edited his earlier works....I mean maybe instead of writing so many letters, but what's the use of wondering about how that would've turned out? Letter-writing was his sustenance.

Thanks!

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Great trout fishing in the famous Beaverkill. Never saw the demon or those mongrels when I fished it, lol.

Great story. I wonder if there's an origin or "first" in the whole "people devolved into underground creatures" style of stories... you can certainly see how modern script writers have certainly taken cues from stories like these.

Christopher Meloni from law and order?? Lit

Nice bedtime stories for junior.

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it’s always great when i come across a new one to listen to. not realising (in amurica it’s ‘realizing’ and these days sometimes my spellings, and sometimes my phrases cross the ‘pond’ :) - so not realising it was a Lovecraft, i listened. this is a good one. i was really caught up in your very dramatic reading - thanks Ian. :)

Top notch governor top notch

Even knowing the plot, this story is remarkably solid. Is this what people think of that even Lovecraft's dutchmen are evil?

I think the monster was in love with the main character lol

At first I thought this was an autobiography about my boss

Great job Ian. Just a heads up im about 40-50% done with my first novel, Of Ash and Void. And I would have no other readers than you two to display it to the world.

Love your readings! Such a good voice for reading horror stories and bringing them to life! Would be awesome if you did The Shadow Out of Time :=)

Not Mr.Meloni of Law and Order: SVU fame surely? Also, what a great tale to read, tonight's bedtime story for sure.

The turn of the screw, story par exelaunte

This is the one

I deadass just realized after literal decades of reading this very story, despite how many deem them "man eating moles", listening just now I feel they may infact be wendigos.

As always awesome reading! Do you have any plans on doing “the thing on the doorstep” anytime soon? Thanks again for all the great readings and I’m looking forward to more :)

"Marston" is close to a metathesis of "Martense," so perhaps Stephen King and others were indebted to Lovecraft -- in fact I think it is a sure bet, even if through intermediaries. Coincidence or not, the dark pervert Marsden Hartley, whom Massachusetts reprobates are now not surprisingly trying to rehabilitate, lived up in Massachusetts and painted in Lovecraft's time.

Sounds like Malcolm Mcdowall

i’m sorry, but those alliterations at the end were hilarious, even though you read them so well. or maybe because you read them so well. LOL 😋🐲

Time stamps: *2* 14:42 *3* 27:40 *4* 41:27

Seems Lovecraft did not like his visit to Norfolk

Bookmark, 24:37

Christopher meloni the actor from oz and svu???

Not Chris Maroney of Mars Anomalies?

tell Elliot that Olivia misses her partner

Are u using a rush intro as background ambience ? Temples of syrinx? If so it fits perfectly let me know if im right or wrong cheers

Is there anywhere I can get or listen to the ambient music that's playing in this one and the mountains of madness reading?

I've been enjoying most of these stories but my one real issue is that sometimes the descriptions go on for so long that I lose track of what's being described. But I suppose I've heard that to be a common issue with lovecraft's works.

Hmm, Wonder if we're distantly related... Then again, I'm more GoofyBabble than horrific. Oh well, all that matters is that Lovecraft's works are amazing at developing a beautiful tension.

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"Purple Fulgurous sky"