"The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft / 2023 Recording + Subtitles

Thanks for listening, folks. Just a couple more oldies to re-record, and that'll be it for the mythos do-overs.

Ian Gordon has to be one of my most favorite readers! I've got a number of Audible recordings of him reading, mainly Lovecraft. Such a mellow and fruity voice that is wonderful to hear! His reading of The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath is something I listen to over and over again! So entertaining. I've subscribed to this and plan on enjoying it as well! 🙂

I have no clue why but this helps me sleep maybe he's calling me

You know what is the best damn thing about this upload? It's VOLUME! You know what's second best? It's narrated by a male. Third, it's not a fake blimey accent. My highest compliments!!!!

Thanks for posting this incredible story. I had to listen to this twice before understanding the ship was backed up to chew on the monster with propellers. I'm easily influenced by such stories so I don't listen to Lovecraft before going to bed. This is one dreamscape I don't want to experience.

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Thank you for this amazing reading.

Cthu-cthu Cthulhu!

Fantastic narration

You fool! warren is dead! dude, im just getting in to h.p. lovecraft and your channel is amazing. Its probably also the only time dunedin is ever mentioned by someone that isnt a kiwi xD

'Bas relief' is pronounced 'bah relief' not 'bass relief'. Every time you mispronounced it it broke the spell created by your voice.

Matilda
Panzer III

❤thanks

Hell muthafu*kin yeah! Appreciate it bub 🎩

This is super awesome. I'm currently using it to practice my English pronounciation in an entertaining way by stepwise reading a sentence aloud and then listening to it on here. It also makes me appreciate the amazingly high skill that when into reading it, particulary the pacing and emphasis of the sentences and the little sub-sentences. Lovecraft seems to not use as many commas as modern day writers do, so the sentences can be sometimes challenging to deconstruct into nice understandable chunks.

Re-listening to this has brought a revelation to me, much like Lovecraft wrote in the beginning of this story, his works are much more horrifying when you've collected enough pieces from each one to link things in each story to every other story and horrible truth, which is why whenever I heard of shoggoths or the void where azathoth lays first, I didn't think much of it, but now I get goosebumps whenever someone mentions those malign and horrible flutes and drums that keep the demon sultan asleep, and the same goes for those nightmare creatures fashioned by the elder things.

A true classic, presented once again by the best. This is a story that will forever be timeless, and will exist and be told long after we have all shuffled off this mortal coil.

Perfect timing! I was just going to listen to call of Cthulhu on your channel about a week ago after I bought a collection of Lovecraft's most popular works, and the first volume of a manga version of "The Mountains of Madness" by Gou Tanabe. It seems he also has a manga version of The Call of Cthulhu as well, although I'm not sure if it's translated into English. I can read Japanese but the wording/kanji is quite difficult and mostly above my level of reading.
And then, I see my favorite channel post a re-recording of TCoC. Truly perfect timing.
Thank you so much for doing these, no one could do them better than you! ❤🎉❤❤🎉🎉❤❤

I love the casual racism of HPL, and the apparent blindness to the fact that these "primitive native superstitions" are (in the story context) a genuine religion of a provably real Cosmic God

Two Cajuns were walkin in de bayou outside New Orleans. One looked at the other and say "Me, last night I saw KTHULHU right here, right in dis very swamp! His friend cast both eye on him and say " For R'lyeah??" 😂😂 He say I GAAAUURRRONNTEE you think I'm told you a lie?"

You KNEW I would be here Sir Ian...thank you my friend😁

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn—
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. The horror lives on.

Lovely 🫶🏼

YOU FOOL, WARREN has ilhis own song! You fool Warren is dead by the Hillside crickets. Thanks HB for your great work and as always keep it babbly 👍🇦🇺👍

Thank you

Fabulous reading, Ian.

Yeah! a classic story . I like the introduction. The Lovecraftian horror In a paragraph.

They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.

I must have read this story two dozen times but your excellent narration makes it an absolute joy to experience it again.

I'm sorry, did you say original Mythos stories? 🎉🎉🎉

Great re-recording! I love both your readings. Thank you for leaving both up.

Thank you, Ian and Jennifer. ❤

The Best 🐙🐙 Thanks 🐙🐙 love you !! 🐙🐙

Now I want him to read SCP Lord Blackwood stories....

Cthulhu after waking up from his nap to resume rule of earth like its just another tuesday

Ah,, that was worth re-visiting. Nice, thanks.
"Let me write this thing that I hope no one ever reads" is quite a strange trope.

dangit Ian. it's pronounced [bah-relief]

Who else is well up for the Gordo original stuff he’s been teasing everyone’s minges with then ?!!?

I lost my Babble virginity to the old version of this and sounds like I’m not alone.

Thanks. I hope the coming original works contain a sci-fi story

NIce!

Really looking forward to hearing the next one.with regards and thanks.

Excellent narration of one of the best stories. Thanks so much.

You fool, Warren is dead <3 <3 <3

This is my lullaby.

I have this PlayStation game it’s awesome

That is not dead that sleeping lies
And in strange aeons even death may die
Except Warren, he's dead.
You fool.

Fantastic x