I am delighted that it was the Polish witch Kazia who introduced the hero (and possibly Lovecraft himself) to this universe of another dimensions. Greetings from Poland.
Great story and narration! I love all the nods and cameos of the Elder Things in this one! I love the connections to other places, names, characters, and beings of other stories he wrote. This is one of his best. I wonder what caused the footprints that looked like a chair leg foot cut in half...😊 (if you know you know). I read this various times in the past and picked up a few things in Tony's narration that I breezed by without recognition while reading before. Curse my ADD!! I love your chat at the end. They are all great, but this one is something special! Great job Tony! This is a fantastic Halloween story. Talk about a haunted and scary house! Thanks!
I was wondering about the footprints too and thought maybe i missed the part where it was explained. My prediction was that the black man would be revealed to have goats hooves or something similar.
This is one of my absolute top stories, by Lovecraft or other, and is the "Weird Tale" I revisit most often. The use of mathematical concepts so early in the day, dark & complex vocabulary, and the abstract visualizations... Love it. Brown Jerkin is unforgettable and a character/creature I see out of the corner of my eye driving early morning streets in New Orleans FQ. I think yours is a fantastic rendition and I thank you sincerely.
I'm saving this for tonight (it's 3:10 PM in California). Thank you very much Tony. Brown Jenkin is my favorite Lovecraft creation. And yeah, pretty horrific how he ****************************** SPOILER ALERT ****************************** SPOILER ALERT ****************************** burrows a hole through to Gilman's heart Pretty hardcore for the 1920s-30s Have a wonderful Halloween all !
Gonna get into this later. Finished Japer earlier, finishing up another Tony story I am in the middle of, and then putting this gem on. Thanks! This is one of the greats!
Love your voice, the tone and timber, your precise enunciation, subtle pauses, pacing. However....I do have the oddest dreams if I fall asleep while listening. Tonight it feels appropriate.
Oh, thank you, Tony, for this lovely deep swig of Shoggoth's Old Peculiar! I'm in Mississippi, and our upcoming political race keeps making me think of words like "squamous" and "eldritch". I hope your upcoming week is less, um, fulsome than ours here!
Stumbled upon this upload, got hooked and listened to the entire book in one sitting. Amazing narration and Lovecraft's description of such psychedelic themes is astonishing.
Mr. Tony, now that story was wickedly weird and horrifying!! I had never heard or read this story. I kept getting a chuckle everytime he said that a "nerve specialist was needed." Too late now!! Excellent narration, as usual!! I hope that you and yours had a wonderfully weird and happy Halloween!!
Great narration! H.P. Lovecraft is an author I would really like to enjoy, great mood, setting, characters and plot potential. I keep giving it a go. But man, I have never read so many adjectives used to describe how indescribable the nature of the Lovecraftian universe is. “Ancient unknowable gods”, “hidden depths”, furtive beings”, “unworldly phantoms”, “unspeakable monstrosity”, “indescribably grotesque”… it’s like a game of vague scrabble. There’s a fine line between suspense and the fear of the unknown, vs using suspense as a shielding mechanism against creative world building.
One of Lovecraft's classics, and an excellent choice for Halloween! I don't suppose it would have done poor Gilman any good to tell his nightly visitors to kindly Yog Sod-off... Repulsive as Brown Jenkin is, however, I was personally more scared by "The Shunned House" and "The Mound"--not two of Lovecraft's better known tales, admittedly.
Generally I am not a Lovecraft fan, but because it's you, Tony, I'll try to give it a listen. I have a suggestion, if you MUST do Lovecraft, I like The Picture in the House.
OMG Tony you have outdone yourself. I know this is fictional - but wasn’t Elwood a good friend. Poor Gilmore - (hope I’ve got the name correct) I knew it wouldn’t end well. Brilliantly read. Absolutely first class. Thank you so much.
I love Lovecraft's ornate prose. I don't know what that says about me. But then again one of my prized possessions is a thesaurus so there you go. My mom was a nurse who spoke of everything in its Greek or Latin nomenclature, medicine, animals, plants. So maybe it's heritary! 😂
Dreams in The Witch House one of HPLs best . (His best of course has something to do with some painter from Boston) Did you know that one of the Elder Things from “ATMOM”. (My 2nd fave story) makes an appearance as a statue in Dreams.
Do the British pronounce Haverhill as it is spelled? My Boston relatives once sent me on an errand, with directions to take the Avril (by pronunciation) exit. After driving up and down the freeway, I stopped to ask and the kind person who helped wrote Haverhill, with the explanation that Bostonians used the English pronunciation. Tony threw me for a loop saying it as it is spelled!
I don't know the place. Haverhill means barley hill and sounds like a northern name as haver is Scandinvian. It could be hayver hill or havver hill I spose
@ClassicGhost I never questioned it because of Beauchamp/Beecham, Taliaferro/ Toliver, and the like. I just think it's funny if they think they're sounding British and they aren't.
@ClassicGhost I should add that I grew up in a place where Notres is pronounced No Trees and Grauwyler is Garwheeler. Texans refuse to pronounce anything "foreign".
I fell asleep and drempt that there was a monster who had a ghost child over its shoulder as well as some patch people who were stalking the person tracking the monster, suddenly a chimney fell and the monster appeared and disappeared
So, I have been told that picture resolution officially has no impact on sound quality according to RUclips. I shelled out in a recording studio for this! This was professionally recorded and edited. But you think it's not as good as my normal stuff? My patreons had an early listen and they thought it was good. What's the sound issue in your view? Sincereley interested
Why did lovecraft not write happy endings to his books where the powers of hell win the pain, suffering, death, extinction and souls of all life forms in the heavens and on earth. I thought lovecraft was supposed to be an evil Satanist type.
Good narrator, but Lovecraft was truly, for the most part, a dreadful writer. Boring, dry, and lazy with often repeated use of fantastical description that sometimes does not work. His mythology is very interesting, I'll give him that. I do wonder if his name was John Brown and not Lovecraft. Would he have been as popular? I have yet to find any of his works that I enjoy except for The Thing on the Doorstep.
I have read nearly everything written by Lovecraft over the course my life, but by now I consider his vocabulary so obscure and contrived as to be absolutely comical. It detracts from the story, and it negates his "mythos". And not just today, as our language and vocabularies continue to degrade. It detracted from the stories at the time they were published. I burst out laughing several times while you were narrating. "Eldritch" indeed.
I am delighted that it was the Polish witch Kazia who introduced the hero (and possibly Lovecraft himself) to this universe of another dimensions. Greetings from Poland.
It’s actually a very Polish story 🇵🇱
Just have realised it's Kasia, short from Katarzyna
@@IlyaLevinsky most of the characters are Polish i think
I used to date a girl called Kasia 🤦🏻♂️😆
Nice one Tony!!
Yay a new audiobook! This has made my Halloween day 🎃
Great story and narration! I love all the nods and cameos of the Elder Things in this one!
I love the connections to other places, names, characters, and beings of other stories he wrote. This is one of his best.
I wonder what caused the footprints that looked like a chair leg foot cut in half...😊 (if you know you know).
I read this various times in the past and picked up a few things in Tony's narration that I breezed by without recognition while reading before. Curse my ADD!!
I love your chat at the end. They are all great, but this one is something special!
Great job Tony! This is a fantastic Halloween story. Talk about a haunted and scary house!
Thanks!
I was wondering about the footprints too and thought maybe i missed the part where it was explained. My prediction was that the black man would be revealed to have goats hooves or something similar.
This is one of my absolute top stories, by Lovecraft or other, and is the "Weird Tale" I revisit most often. The use of mathematical concepts so early in the day, dark & complex vocabulary, and the abstract visualizations... Love it.
Brown Jerkin is unforgettable and a character/creature I see out of the corner of my eye driving early morning streets in New Orleans FQ.
I think yours is a fantastic rendition and I thank you sincerely.
You spoil us, Tony! So grateful for your giving heart and great talent at bringing yours and others stories alive. Especially tonight 🧙♀️🧙♀️
Another treat, Just finished Jasper's and now it's Tony's, perfect Halloween. Thanks Tony.
Happy Samhain! Your stories are bewitching ❤
Brilliant! One story is a good surprise! You're the best, Tony!
I'm saving this for tonight (it's 3:10 PM in California). Thank you very much Tony.
Brown Jenkin is my favorite Lovecraft creation.
And yeah, pretty horrific how he
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burrows a hole through to Gilman's heart
Pretty hardcore for the 1920s-30s
Have a wonderful Halloween all !
This was a great listen on Halloween 🎃. Thanks, Tony!
What a treat! One of my favourite stories. 🍂🍁🦇🍁
I've always loved this one. I love how the magic that Hezekiah used was just ultra-advanced mathematics.
Oh this is a good one! It’s been awhile since I read this, so it’s perfect to listen to as I drift off to sleep on Halloween… 🎃
Thanks, Tony! I love this story. I recently read The Hound and I think it is my favorite H.P. Lovecraft tale. It has a Baudelaire vibe.
It does. It is tres gothique (my autocorrect made that it is tres hottie . I changed it back )
Gonna get into this later. Finished Japer earlier, finishing up another Tony story I am in the middle of, and then putting this gem on.
Thanks! This is one of the greats!
Saving this so I can enjoy these tales from "cover-to-cover". Thank you, Tony. Much appreciated.
This is a great great channel
Your voice does good things for my nerves. Thank you.
as long as they’re good things
Thank you for your content, been a horror babble fan ,only just found you,nice to have another great narrator.
Love your voice, the tone and timber, your precise enunciation, subtle pauses, pacing. However....I do have the oddest dreams if I fall asleep while listening. Tonight it feels appropriate.
let me know what you dreamed of !
Truly one of Lovecraft’s best stories.
I enjoyed this immensely. As the story progressed, it morphed into a twisted, horrifying tale. I also loved that it was a longer story. A++++++
Splendid story! Thanks so much for your excellent narration!
I missed this at Halloween but am enjoying it so much Dec. 1st. Thank you, Tony!
Great story and reading. I also listen to Ian, but really like the history you give after reading.
I'm beyond happy that I've found this channel. Listening in Tennessee, after a long work shift 🚑
Glad to have you here
Oh, thank you, Tony, for this lovely deep swig of Shoggoth's Old Peculiar! I'm in Mississippi, and our upcoming political race keeps making me think of words like "squamous" and "eldritch". I hope your upcoming week is less, um, fulsome than ours here!
Stumbled upon this upload, got hooked and listened to the entire book in one sitting. Amazing narration and Lovecraft's description of such psychedelic themes is astonishing.
Thanks for the Halloween treat 😊
Mr. Tony, now that story was wickedly weird and horrifying!! I had never heard or read this story.
I kept getting a chuckle everytime he said that a "nerve specialist was needed." Too late now!!
Excellent narration, as usual!!
I hope that you and yours had a wonderfully weird and happy Halloween!!
Great narration!
H.P. Lovecraft is an author I would really like to enjoy, great mood, setting, characters and plot potential. I keep giving it a go.
But man, I have never read so many adjectives used to describe how indescribable the nature of the Lovecraftian universe is. “Ancient unknowable gods”, “hidden depths”, furtive beings”, “unworldly phantoms”, “unspeakable monstrosity”, “indescribably grotesque”… it’s like a game of vague scrabble. There’s a fine line between suspense and the fear of the unknown, vs using suspense as a shielding mechanism against creative world building.
Amazing! Thank you so much!
One of Lovecraft's classics, and an excellent choice for Halloween! I don't suppose it would have done poor Gilman any good to tell his nightly visitors to kindly Yog Sod-off...
Repulsive as Brown Jenkin is, however, I was personally more scared by "The Shunned House" and "The Mound"--not two of Lovecraft's better known tales, admittedly.
Checking in from South Alabama. Thanks 🎃
Welcome!
Checking in from Norwich UK
Thank you sir 😊❤
Generally I am not a Lovecraft fan, but because it's you, Tony, I'll try to give it a listen. I have a suggestion, if you MUST do Lovecraft, I like The Picture in the House.
OMG Tony you have outdone yourself. I know this is fictional - but wasn’t Elwood a good friend. Poor Gilmore - (hope I’ve got the name correct) I knew it wouldn’t end well. Brilliantly read. Absolutely first class. Thank you so much.
Greatings from South Yorkshire Pal, I love Lovecraft but you and your voice are the topic in here. Ehhh. Thank you.
A very happy Halloween to all 🎃👻🦇🎃☠️
Great reading, thank you
I love Lovecraft's ornate prose. I don't know what that says about me. But then again one of my prized possessions is a thesaurus so there you go.
My mom was a nurse who spoke of everything in its Greek or Latin nomenclature, medicine, animals, plants. So maybe it's heritary! 😂
Hello white rabbit 🐰
One of my favorite Lovecraft stories!
Great reading
Keep up the good work ❤!
Thank you for this
Dreams in The Witch House one of HPLs best . (His best of course has something to do with some painter from Boston) Did you know that one of the Elder Things from “ATMOM”. (My 2nd fave story) makes an appearance as a statue in Dreams.
Yup. Elder Thing cameo!!
Pickman's Model? drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dcpu4nq1Ilv_Dvf-HfosjzPmA13Z2LWY?usp=sharing
Ty what an end to Halloween listening to this 🎃👻🩶
That's what I hoped
great story!
Cuddles from Brown Jenkin
Brown Jenkins rocks!
I love that
Thank you so much and happy Halloween! I enjoyed the story and your desert ation afterwards. 👽🦇🧟🎃🧚♂️🌕🪦🧡💀⚰️👻
Same to you! I notice the pumkins have been thrown out and the Christmas decorations are up today.
I have had it with these downward slanting ceilings and these inward slanting walls!
I enjoyed the debrief on this one
thanks 🤩
Did he just say he’s tossing on the iron bed ? 😳
He did Brian :)
Have ra hill is how that small Massachusetts town is pronounced
+@josephsmith6777 thank you . It was a false friend in that there’s a place near where I live called Haverigg and that is pronounced have a rig
Lovecraft must have been from Massachusetts he always uses towns and other geography from the state
Oh goodie!
Do the British pronounce Haverhill as it is spelled? My Boston relatives once sent me on an errand, with directions to take the Avril (by pronunciation) exit. After driving up and down the freeway, I stopped to ask and the kind person who helped wrote Haverhill, with the explanation that Bostonians used the English pronunciation. Tony threw me for a loop saying it as it is spelled!
I don't know the place. Haverhill means barley hill and sounds like a northern name as haver is Scandinvian. It could be hayver hill or havver hill I spose
@ClassicGhost I never questioned it because of Beauchamp/Beecham, Taliaferro/ Toliver, and the like. I just think it's funny if they think they're sounding British and they aren't.
@ClassicGhost I should add that I grew up in a place where Notres is pronounced No Trees and Grauwyler is Garwheeler. Texans refuse to pronounce anything "foreign".
Erstwhile Bostonian here. Haverhill is pronounced HAY-vrill.
@laurencercone3199 Thank you! Maybe my hearing was already going. I'd have sworn they dropped the haitch. I drove around for ages...
I wonder if HP realized that most rat's paws are pretty human hand like
true fact
LOVECRAFT!! ❤❤❤
I fell asleep and drempt that there was a monster who had a ghost child over its shoulder as well as some patch people who were stalking the person tracking the monster, suddenly a chimney fell and the monster appeared and disappeared
my favourite stories
Darting little furry object 💓cute...& small furry things😊!
eldritch brown houses
❤❤❤
I hug trees yall peace
Need to start uploading in 720 or 1080p for sound quality and less audio compression,this is horrible on ears. Great voice though
So, I have been told that picture resolution officially has no impact on sound quality according to RUclips. I shelled out in a recording studio for this! This was professionally recorded and edited. But you think it's not as good as my normal stuff? My patreons had an early listen and they thought it was good. What's the sound issue in your view? Sincereley interested
Why did lovecraft not write happy endings to his books where the powers of hell win the pain, suffering, death, extinction and souls of all life forms in the heavens and on earth. I thought lovecraft was supposed to be an evil Satanist type.
Good narrator, but Lovecraft was truly, for the most part, a dreadful writer. Boring, dry, and lazy with often repeated use of fantastical description that sometimes does not work. His mythology is very interesting, I'll give him that. I do wonder if his name was John Brown and not Lovecraft. Would he have been as popular? I have yet to find any of his works that I enjoy except for The Thing on the Doorstep.
You mispronounced Haverhill
is that all you’ve gotta say after all that work I put in?
ADD🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔
waste of time
Boring
There is an Role-playing game inspired by the Works of H P Lovecraft
I have read nearly everything written by Lovecraft over the course my life, but by now I consider his vocabulary so obscure and contrived as to be absolutely comical.
It detracts from the story, and it negates his "mythos". And not just today, as our language and vocabularies continue to degrade. It detracted from the stories at the time they were published. I burst out laughing several times while you were narrating. "Eldritch" indeed.