"The Pit Golems" is an original, Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder story, written by Ian Gordon, based on characters and themes created by British author, William Hope Hodgson. Synopsis: Carnacki is called to investigate a series of bizarre sightings revolving around a small, isolated village in the hills of West Yorkshire. Queer-looking strangers have been seen wandering the streets after dark, pilfering livestock. The villagers claim the interlopers are coming from an abandoned mine in the hills-a colliery said to have once been occupied by a practitioner of the dark arts. Chapters: 00:14 - Introduction 01:24 - The Pit Golems 42:33 - Further Listening Bandcamp link: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-pit-golems Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble Music and production by Ian Gordon & Jennifer Gill With thanks to our producers: Ashley Lindsay, Wes Sale, Camerin Seigars, and Cody Stec This recording is dedicated to our Cthulhu and Yellow Level HorrorBabblers: 'General' Dipper, Bernard Mulligan, Brandon, Chris Epplett, DCB, Galen Hoffman, Jacob Louwerse, Jessica Mari, Kickweed, L. Harris, Logan Kilcullen, Madison Scythe, Patrick, Philip R Aden, Richard WB Feigen, Till fraser, Zontar Zee AND Adam Beckner, Adriana Alexander, al doty, Allan Smulling, Andrew, Andrew Moffat, Ann Bassano, Art Wagner, Austen Jones, Charles Bossler, Christian N. Collier, Dmitri Gorjatse, Dovauk, Ian Adly Bin Iskandar Dzakurnain, James Dunne, Jason Shayer, Jeffrey Bunn, John Michael, Jon Tiburzi, Joshua Camp, Larna Dennis, Laura, Laura Scarlett, Mark R Patterson, Mike Chaney, Miri P. Weaver, Nero, Pete Nixon, Philippe Lavoie, Quench Smith, Robert Daniel Pickard, Ross Coyle, Samuel A. Mortensen, Sandy Hale, Sean Lorentzen, Shanna Syn, Simon Eckert, SolaceInChains, Thomas Scott, TwirlyWolf, Veronica LoCurto, Willow Wright Become a HorrorBabbler here on KZfaq: kzfaq.infojoin 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

Honestly. No matter how many of these stories I hear, I can't get over how it delights me that you've personified Carnacki's chums so much more than the originals with the use of their accents and backstories... You're a fine author Mr Gordon ✌️

'Do Golems dream of clay sheeps?'...

I have to admit, your Carnacki stories are actually better then the originals. Thank you.

Oh Horror Babble, you had me at rumored dark arts and missing livestock!

"Can you imagine it, fellows? They keep making great stories using a time assured, fantastic model! Can you?" Ashing his cigar he looked at the John Silence collection on the shelf and gesticulated, "Maybe they should try that lad, he'd make a glorious work!"

If I hadn’t known it, I’d have have thought this was an original Hodgson story, and one of the better ones. Thank you much.

Arkwright ! Arf !! “Fer-fetch a ger-gollum, Ger-Granville...” Great story Mr. G - I couldn’t help picturing Kenneth Williams in Carry On Screaming. “Infamy, infamy....”

Oh boy another Ian't Carnacki? Very well done sir. I am not easily pleased but I believe you are indeed doing justice to this character. Please consider more of these

Thank you for this imaginative and original story which remains, in my opinion, quite faithful to the style of Hodgson. Also, I like how Carnacki's guests are given an active role - the implications of the story are explored and given more depth through their questions at the end. And, of course, their unique accents and characters are wonderfully voiced.

HorrorBabble Originals are the best. Thank you!

The narration is impeccable, it truly makes it so enjoyable listen to...my nightly ritual for a while now!

These are fantastic. The writing is very true the feel of the originals and the story was immediately engrossing. Oh, and Stellar performance as always, Ian!

Thank you so much for your content over the years and the increased rate of release of new stories recently. Your readings keep me dreaming positively about this wonderful world we live in. Best regards.

I do enjoy these Carnaki tales. Picturing him as a portly gent in Harris tweed and a monacle. Braving the moors in search of... The unknown. 🎩 Nicely done.

A most excellent Carnacki tale. Well done!!

Just got to finishing this book... My friend and I are in West Yorkshire (home county) and suggested we find a cave somewhere. After listening to this I'm telling him right where to stick his caving expedition! 💪🏻 Great book. Had me gripped throughout. Love the Shamalanian Sci-fi twist too!

This story was fantastic! I would've thought it was really from the early 20th century if you hadn't told us otherwise.

I love your Carnacki stories!

This was an excellent mystery. I thoroughly enjoyed this. I do hope you will delight us with more of these. Thank you. I hope that you and Jenn are doing well. Everything fine here.

Great timing, i just finished listening to your narration of "a Whisperer in Darkness."

Listening to this again. I love it. Carnacki is my fave. Please write more. You did a fantastic job.

I LOVE Carnacki I can't wait to see how you bring the character to life. On a semi related note, A Carnaki movie is looong overdue.

That was excellent. HorrorBabble has made my evenings the best time of the day

Very well done! Well written and well narrated. Thank you!

This was a great story. As usual the voice acting and narrating were great.

I was thinking a week ago I love Carnaki! I hope you do more!!!!!! (My daughter asked me why I was screaming --- I heard Ian say another original!)

Fantastic as always, you really ought to do more of these stories.

Holy Crap, this was even better than the first one you made. I was hard pressed to think you could have topped that. But you did.

Oh Yeah!!! Luv me some Carnacki Ghost Finder goodness!!!!

this is my second listening and i JUST realized you wrote it, Ian. Excellent job. I really liked this one.

Very good. Thank you Mr.Gordon and Horror Babble. Excellent, as always. Until next time.

Makes me recall that old Twilight Zone episode where the beautiful Anne Francis played a mannekin that was allowed to leave the dept. store for one month. She was a day late getting back because she forgot what she was.....

Great job, Ian! Love it!

"and I would have gotten away with it, too, If it wasn't for you pesky kids"

Such a cool intro; very fitting. Great story!

“Introduced to the smothering fabric of space” I love that

I do enjoy your additions to Karnak. It'd be neat if van Melton crossed paths with karnacki. A crossover, joining for dinner, or full a passing at a tea shop Edit: I realized I spelt Carnacki wrong but even if they are not in the times, it would be a neat reference to the other. I feel the two would definitely connect if they met.

Maybe it's my British ancestry but Ian Gordon is an equally amazing author as he is a narrator.

Amazing!! Thank you very much!!

Finally able to listen to it all the way through, you did the character justice, At first the Smallie lass not having any lines or comments made her seem more like a prop than a fleshed out human being, which I found offputting..but in hindsight it actually lends to her character, She probably wouldn't say much except the bare minimum. And respond only when spoken to and straight to the point information. As far as the dude with prosthetic leg..him not talking at all was weird, and after the ending I'm not sure he is who they thought he was..I have a feeling that Doc Smalls is far more cunning than Carnaki first realized. A sequel is in order ol' chap!

Really good story and well read. I would love to get a hold of a few Carnacki parodies that are out there.

Ian Gordon is a god! he’s the best there is!!! this channel never ceases to amaze me

Why doesn’t Carnacki adopt Janet? Great story. 😁

I'm from West Yorkshire. So, obviously, I love this!

Carnacki is quite safe in your hands, Ian Also, this is first time Ive noticed new theme. I very much dig it

Loved the story Ian. Intro and exit music is pretty awesome too

Great work! Thank you!

I prefer this story to all of the Hodgson originals!

i have this book with 8 stories, its a good intro to all tbat is horror and spirit,thanks for reading to us

Awesome video! ☺

Thank you. Loved the story. Two thumbs up.

Wonderful stuff!

Loved it!

This went remarkably Lovecraft, in the shape of eldritch technology mixed with ancient sorcery.

Yeesssssssss! Keep these up! Love it

The music in the intro I loved it idk y but that music !! 🎶 the story was great il have yo look up the first story

Hi, Ian. I thought this story was on par with the other, more established content on your channel (Lovecraft, Chambers, and the like)-so much so, in fact, that I actually mistook this for a work by a well-known author like Hodgson.

I really love your personal carnaki stories i hope you write more

👍👍👍

Smalley LIVES!

We need to find that doctor so he can make me a wi- I mean.. figure out what he's up to... Yeah.

Great story 👍

I do hope we get a sequel to this wonderful yarn and/or a team up with the great detective Holmes himself?

a colliery was a coal production facility with mines and steam-age processing technology. I know because I had to look. it up. Nothing to do with corollaries. Who would've guessed? Just feeling pedantic. :)

Cool😎 Great narrator

Good story

One slip. The writer said flashlight. Someone from England would have called it a torch.

Ooh I adore the plot twist.

Ian I had massive phone problems but thankfully money solved my issues and low behold my first look on the intraweb got me some fresh carnaki. I do doff my invisible hat to you

That mad scientist deserves a Nobel Prize

Carnacki!! 😁

Carnaki is like a very educated Scooby doo

The Flashlight during the years this story took place did not work the way you described, they actually flashed on and off, not a steady beam of light, mainly due to the state of battery technology at that time not allowing for enough power to maintain a steady beam of light. Usually only used by Police and not likely to be available for purchase in a rural store.

Interesting. So, the doctor wasn't necessarily evil, but he was uncaring as to the consequences of his actions. Kind of like Herbert West - more like destructively amoral than wicked. Even attempting to have Carnacki and the daughter killed was out of practicality, not out of malice. When it failed, he (or an accomplice) were more than willing to simply destroy the worksite and start over. Speculating on the doctor's motives, he doesn't strike me as the cultist/devoted type. He's probably a man of science whose eyes have been opened to great truths that he could verify with his own skills and deductive reasoning. Personally, I think he wants to give the entities from outside a body simply for the purpose of talking to them. Imagine the secrets they could divulge! Even the scraps in the Spectacle of Toth let the doctor create "life", restore a limb to a man who was crippled - what more could be found from the source itself? An end to disease, a true Panacea? Crops that would regenerate themselves overnight to satisfy the hunger of the world? Maybe even...immortality, consignment of the Grim Reaper to children's stories and legend? Of course, he doesn't have a proper idea as to what he's doing or getting himself into...

Will you ever record the works of Oliver Onions ( great name)

I found another I. Gordon. Joy!!

Carnacki

Could Dr. Smawley (sp?) be Carnacki's Moriarty?

Not very seemly for Carnacki to spend the night alone with the librarian.

I hope Jessop behaves himself this time!

Is that the Golem from Lord Of the rings???