"The Testament of Athammaus" by Clark Ashton Smith / Hyperborean Cycle

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @HorrorBabble
    @HorrorBabble  2 месяца назад +1

    The Complete Hyperborean Cycle: fantasybabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-hyperborean-cycle

  • @Sophiewimmer443
    @Sophiewimmer443 6 месяцев назад +48

    "Why don't we try burning the body this time?" "Nonsense, burry him again!"

    • @gwendolyn2001
      @gwendolyn2001 6 месяцев назад

      I was just going to write that although I am a weak modern woman who can't wield a sword, my thought after the initial resurrection would have been, "Let's burn this sucker." Maybe women needed more positions of responsibility.

    • @johannageisel5390
      @johannageisel5390 5 месяцев назад +10

      "And after we buried it - what shall we do?"
      "Keep watch over it."
      "Ok, but we'll drink ourselves senseless while doing so, yes?"
      "Naturally. Can't risk keeping our situational awareness."

    • @rneustel388
      @rneustel388 5 месяцев назад +4

      It seems like common sense would tell you to do that, or put the body in a vat of burning oil!

    • @Off-Brand_Devin
      @Off-Brand_Devin 5 месяцев назад +4

      I enjoyed the story, but that was driving me crazy. Just burn it!

    • @michaelhoffmann2891
      @michaelhoffmann2891 2 месяца назад +3

      @@Off-Brand_Devin Just like their inactivity in fighting the thing because they might hurt some caught citizens that were already literally being eaten and were doomed. I kept waiting for some plot justification, but it seems the monster had some amazing plot *armour*.

  • @TheMrCougarful
    @TheMrCougarful 6 месяцев назад +67

    Poor Warren, never catches a break.

    • @CharlieMartini222
      @CharlieMartini222 6 месяцев назад +6

      Rip

    • @davidbudge8359
      @davidbudge8359 6 месяцев назад +7

      Warren is fine, it's Randolph Carter that's in trouble.

    • @VeaKrea
      @VeaKrea 6 месяцев назад

      Time to call the undertaker?

    • @davidbudge8359
      @davidbudge8359 6 месяцев назад

      @@VeaKrea there is no body.

    • @VeaKrea
      @VeaKrea 6 месяцев назад

      @@davidbudge8359 then we'll have to bury an emty casket...

  • @donaldmccleary9015
    @donaldmccleary9015 6 месяцев назад +14

    Fantastic story and narration!
    This story is a true gem. CAS built wonderful worlds and filled them with terrible beasts. I always wondered how the city became abandoned while listening to it being mentioned in his other stories. This tale tells how that happened.
    This is a truly splendid yarn!
    Thanks!

  • @Wastelandman7000
    @Wastelandman7000 6 месяцев назад +41

    Clark Ashton Smith was a true word smith, even more so than Lovecraft. Always love to see his stuff narrated.

    • @bobbymarcum772
      @bobbymarcum772 6 месяцев назад +6

      yes i once read as quote from him by which very modestly explained his idea of colossal vocabulary used as style, in words i could scarcely spell much less understand.

    • @АртёмДубравин-ы6у
      @АртёмДубравин-ы6у 6 месяцев назад +5

      He was the rizzler sigma going harder than baby gronk 💀 ☠️ 💀 lovecraft edged so klarkashton could goon

    • @timthetiny7538
      @timthetiny7538 6 месяцев назад

      I hate that i understand this​@@АртёмДубравин-ы6у

    • @xxRipjawsxx
      @xxRipjawsxx 4 месяца назад +1

      @@АртёмДубравин-ы6у I cant tell if i hate the statement for what it is or myself for understanding it...... XD

  • @nathanharper5670
    @nathanharper5670 6 месяцев назад +9

    You elevate the material you read - thanks for your work.

  • @twt2718
    @twt2718 6 месяцев назад +10

    Another excellent narrative. I’ve only been listening for a little over a year now, and everything I’ve heard is great. I only wish, I’d found this channel sooner. Oh well. More material to listen to!!

    • @thefisherking78
      @thefisherking78 6 месяцев назад +2

      In the immortal words of John McClane, "welcome to the party pal!"

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ 6 месяцев назад +5

    What a truly weird tale! Thanks for a wonderful performance.

  • @Cyburaiguy
    @Cyburaiguy 6 месяцев назад +9

    Excellent writing and narration

  • @Jaazaniah1
    @Jaazaniah1 6 месяцев назад +13

    Hoping for more of the "Commoriom myth-cycle preserved by the Atlantean high-priest Klarkash-Ton." 😉

    • @OskinsBob
      @OskinsBob 2 месяца назад

      HAHAHA NICE ONE 👍

  • @stuff6218
    @stuff6218 6 месяцев назад +6

    Fantastic. The description of the monster makes me think of the baddies in Resident Evil.

    • @KhanGirey
      @KhanGirey 6 месяцев назад

      That was literally my first thought too

    • @randallbesch2424
      @randallbesch2424 5 месяцев назад

      It is in fact alien related to Tsathaggua the god from Saturn or perhaps more alien climes.

  • @justincase9282
    @justincase9282 6 месяцев назад +28

    I apparently picked a good time to load up youtube.

    • @rickyhurtt5568
      @rickyhurtt5568 6 месяцев назад

      Yep. Seems there's more good channels out there than ever

  • @MarkGoldfine
    @MarkGoldfine 6 месяцев назад +6

    Love this story.
    Thanks for covering it, Ian 🤘

  • @CountingHouse
    @CountingHouse 6 месяцев назад +11

    Time to shut out the world and escape into fantasy again 😊

  • @Eris123451
    @Eris123451 6 месяцев назад +15

    Harley Warren and Randolph Carter pressed ever on, descending even deeper into the Stygian gloom of that aeons old forgotten crypt.
    "Not much further now, Gandalf," said Warren.
    "Will you please stop doing that," said Randolph Carter, "' I've asked you repeatedly not to."
    "Stop doing what," asked Harley Warren archly ?
    "Stop calling me Gandalf, " said Randolph Carter, " it’s really starting to get on my nerves."

  • @TheSpiritOf97
    @TheSpiritOf97 6 месяцев назад +3

    YES! I've been looking forward to you tackling this one! Great Story, Great Read!

  • @Arwcwb
    @Arwcwb 6 месяцев назад +7

    Thanks!

  • @jayfox28
    @jayfox28 6 месяцев назад +1

    I can't wait to hear my 2 most favorite RUclips artists - Ian G. AND Tony Walker- together on the same production on the 29th! Thank you, Ian, for including him! Love both your channels equally for a while now!

  • @Aroundthesquarebowl
    @Aroundthesquarebowl 6 месяцев назад +7

    Thank you ❤

  • @BertieShaul-mn4qc
    @BertieShaul-mn4qc 6 месяцев назад +10

    Thank you, Great Story! I love Clark Aston Smith!

  • @soulreaver1983
    @soulreaver1983 6 месяцев назад +5

    Absolutely epic many thanks Ian!😎👊

  • @jolenelittlewood7978
    @jolenelittlewood7978 6 месяцев назад +2

    Classic c.a.s, always a bedtime treat

  • @Andrew-if3sd
    @Andrew-if3sd 6 месяцев назад +2

    Weirdly interesting, thanks!

  • @DemienC.
    @DemienC. 6 месяцев назад +1

    Always interesting to hear "backstory" of places name-dropped in other books.

  • @Wombats555
    @Wombats555 6 месяцев назад +7

    Love CAS...guess this explains why Commoria is long abandoned by The Tale of Satampra Zeiros?

    • @GodOfPlague
      @GodOfPlague 6 месяцев назад +3

      Satampra Zeiros is my default I need something to listen to and fall asleep story. I've listened to it so much.

    • @Wombats555
      @Wombats555 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@GodOfPlague have you tried The Abominations of Yondo?

    • @extremetea
      @extremetea 6 месяцев назад

      Wth does Close Air Support have to do with a head chopper story my friend? My ignorance is large i know but... I'm just not seeing it.

    • @guaporeturns9472
      @guaporeturns9472 6 месяцев назад

      @@extremeteaOh , was that supposed to be humor?

    • @extremetea
      @extremetea 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@guaporeturns9472 yeah. Actually it was. Sorry my set isn't up to your standards homie. In my defense I've spent the last few years over at your mom's house. Stuffing her Turkey like yo daddy never could. Sorry to break the bad news but I'll be your new, unfunny, dad in a week or two. Let the go cut me a switch boy begin.

  • @toxicmelon6836
    @toxicmelon6836 6 месяцев назад

    Why only 109 (110 now XD) comments. This channel should have millions for the great work Ian does bringing these stories alive!

  • @MsRexsmurphy
    @MsRexsmurphy 6 месяцев назад +1

    Very lovecraftian. Had to check the title. ✨

  • @gerry5134
    @gerry5134 6 месяцев назад +1

    I would never have believed that a magazine like Weird Tales would have existed in the 1930s ! 😮

    • @camojoe83
      @camojoe83 6 месяцев назад +1

      Why is that?

    • @steveholmes3471
      @steveholmes3471 6 месяцев назад

      I wish i could fly.

    • @polarvortex3294
      @polarvortex3294 6 месяцев назад +3

      There was a lot of dark and fantastic horror years back -- plus true crime, film noir, liberal sexuality, etc., until a reaction against it, and against dark comics especially, occurred -- inspired, perhaps, by the real-life horror overdose of the Depression, followed by WWII, followed by the Cold War and the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation. Things loosened up some in the late fifties through the early eighties -- then changed again for a while due to the rise of AIDS and other factors, such as violent crime & drugs spinning out of control. Anyway, things seem to go through cycles. There were wild times in the twenties; and prostitution, was, for example, much more open and accepted during parts of the 1800's -- the years of riverboat gamblers & the wild West. Hell, cocaine and meth were legal for many years!
      Even in Roman times, as I understand it, there were emperors who instituted moral reforms, and emperors who loved to party to the max. We tend to think of things sort of evolving gradually, and usually getting looser and freer. But history seems to never show for long a straight line.

  • @cheesewiz9087
    @cheesewiz9087 6 месяцев назад +2

    What a great day to be subscribed

  • @ScullyPop
    @ScullyPop 6 месяцев назад +4

    Babble Meister!

  • @ninocuric5290
    @ninocuric5290 6 месяцев назад +1

    Going to sleep, new HB video perfection 👌

  • @davidhunt8685
    @davidhunt8685 Месяц назад

    Thanks

  • @alisonkirkland6132
    @alisonkirkland6132 6 месяцев назад +1

    I think Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun must have owed something to this story!

  • @АртёмДубравин-ы6у
    @АртёмДубравин-ы6у 6 месяцев назад

    Another timeless gem from Ian a.k.a. patrick bateman of rizz a.k.a. the rizz king. Not much beats having a goon sesh and mewing while enjoying the tale narrated by the most sigma voice on youtube

  • @tishahouse846
    @tishahouse846 5 месяцев назад

    Listening from the ukwales ❤

  • @patrickberg3443
    @patrickberg3443 6 месяцев назад

    Good choice!

  • @valerie2158
    @valerie2158 6 месяцев назад +1

    Sapha Goo-ah was in The Mound. That’s what my memory is telling me.

  • @kgreen242424
    @kgreen242424 6 месяцев назад +3

    I read the baddies name like it was Jonathan. Naga is a snake man so Naga-than made sense to me. Lol.

  • @justletmelistthese
    @justletmelistthese 6 месяцев назад +1

    "You fool, it was not Warren you killed! Warren is I! It was me all along." ゴゴゴゴ
    ゴゴゴゴ
    ゴゴゴ
    ゴゴ
    ゴ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @tamlandipper29
      @tamlandipper29 6 месяцев назад +1

      I have to ask - what the hell is that character?

    • @justletmelistthese
      @justletmelistthese 6 месяцев назад

      @@tamlandipper29 ruclips.net/video/Zgl4F9ThaNs/видео.html

    • @krusader357
      @krusader357 6 месяцев назад

      Yig.

  • @randallbesch2424
    @randallbesch2424 5 месяцев назад

    That non-human creature is incredible and loathsomely redolent of alien spheres of evolution.

  • @anthonybarnwell767
    @anthonybarnwell767 6 месяцев назад +1

    Hooray 🎊🎊

  • @louithrottler
    @louithrottler 6 месяцев назад

    Ian next time C.A.S comes up, can you do 'The Kingdom Of The Worm' ? Cheers dude

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 месяцев назад

      It's on the list! "The Coming of the White Worm" will be the next 'worm' tale though.

  • @Bbergster
    @Bbergster 6 месяцев назад

    In Moothoo land, everyday is Halloween. I love it. Mu thu…. ?

    • @randallbesch2424
      @randallbesch2424 5 месяцев назад

      Mu-Thulan the merest tip is what we call Greenland today...

  • @PlexusCaeruleum
    @PlexusCaeruleum 3 месяца назад

    Breaking News: Local lovecraftian cannibal hybrid too hungry to die.

  • @aaronweaver9751
    @aaronweaver9751 6 месяцев назад +2

    You fool, Warren is dead.
    Slain by an anthrophagic 'orror, um horror.
    I wonder if cremation would've changed things.
    Imagine if some explorer found the ruins of the city and the remains of the creature and then they brought it to a major museum.
    Would the British Museum lose even more of its charm?
    Kudos to the narrator and author 🎉🎉🎉

  • @alexok3056
    @alexok3056 6 месяцев назад

    Can you do Fear by Achmed Abdullah? I think your voice would fit perfectly

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 месяцев назад +1

      Hmm... I'm not familiar with that one. I'll check it out.

  • @iandalzell1226
    @iandalzell1226 6 месяцев назад +1

    "sir why not try burning him?"

    • @randallbesch2424
      @randallbesch2424 5 месяцев назад

      One wonders at such and experiment would produce.

  • @WhiteLongSword7
    @WhiteLongSword7 5 месяцев назад

    Dang they just left the monster there. We need a sequel where they try to destroy it lol

  • @dgage1776
    @dgage1776 5 месяцев назад

    This reminds me of Conan. I wonder if it's set in the same world? I know the Conan universe is set in Post-Atlantean Hyperborea

    • @PlexusCaeruleum
      @PlexusCaeruleum 3 месяца назад

      No, this is a different Hyperborea. The one in the Conan stories was one of the countries constituting the Hyborian continent. This Hyperborea is itself a continent.

  • @monke3842
    @monke3842 6 месяцев назад

    Where does the artwork in the video come from? Is it human made, it looks artificial to me, it feels slightly off

  • @bigsarge2085
    @bigsarge2085 6 месяцев назад +1

    ❤️‍🔥

  • @boxfox2945
    @boxfox2945 6 месяцев назад

    Where's the beef'? 😅 - story of a guy, loosing his head. While eating out. Devouring life' and' living like he's gonna die' tommorow. As society' keeps him coming back' for more. He's a prime example. For the longevity, benifits. Of sticking to the atkin's diet. He liked that town so much, he just ate it up.

  • @Shineon83
    @Shineon83 6 месяцев назад +1

    ….I am so glad I haven’t eaten today…

  • @TransRoofKorean
    @TransRoofKorean 6 месяцев назад

    7:25 am I hearing random autotune in the middle of that sentence?!
    that's just confusing

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 месяцев назад

      Ha! No - though admittedly it appears that I sang that particular word.

  • @andreasfilis9001
    @andreasfilis9001 6 месяцев назад

    If they gave him a life sentence, all this would not have happen.

    • @LarsOfTheMohicans
      @LarsOfTheMohicans 6 месяцев назад

      They could've simply cut up the body and cremated it.

    • @randallbesch2424
      @randallbesch2424 5 месяцев назад

      He would have still escaped.

    • @randallbesch2424
      @randallbesch2424 5 месяцев назад

      @@LarsOfTheMohicans only if it can burn and if it can then the fire would be smothered and they would disappear.

  • @dawwe8869
    @dawwe8869 6 месяцев назад

    Eyy

  • @EDee20NINE
    @EDee20NINE 25 дней назад

    CAS is a deity.

  • @jamieundead1232
    @jamieundead1232 4 месяца назад

    Omg they killed Warren, you bastards!

  • @williamfawkes8379
    @williamfawkes8379 6 месяцев назад

    He had a middle name. It was parthenogenesis.

  • @thurayya8905
    @thurayya8905 6 месяцев назад

    His humor peeks out even in this tale of doom. I wonder if this monster finally died a natural death or still roams.

  • @boxfox2945
    @boxfox2945 6 месяцев назад

    Gotta find a dictionary, somewhere'🤔😕🙃

  • @dirkbruere
    @dirkbruere 6 месяцев назад +6

    I think my ears are bleeding from the overblown verbosity

    • @tamlandipper29
      @tamlandipper29 6 месяцев назад +3

      You have to remember that a lot of these chaps in the pulp days were literally remunerated financially by the word. It's quite fun to try writing with the maximum number of words. But I agree, it could use tightening up.

    • @dirkbruere
      @dirkbruere 6 месяцев назад

      @@tamlandipper29 It's the bloated vocabulary that's the problem

    • @biggusdickus5986
      @biggusdickus5986 6 месяцев назад

      Its the verbals that l come for, to hear again and in fact for the first time and the comedy, he ate the features of one of his accusers, larious. 😂

    • @biggusdickus5986
      @biggusdickus5986 6 месяцев назад

      Think of the thick ear growls and cliches grunted by your mates downa pub then glory in the rich pictoral ephistles heard hear.

    • @randallbesch2424
      @randallbesch2424 5 месяцев назад

      @@dirkbruere that is not a problem.

  • @boxfox2945
    @boxfox2945 6 месяцев назад

    BUURRP'''

  • @anuleonce8568
    @anuleonce8568 6 месяцев назад

    First

  • @billsales3235
    @billsales3235 5 месяцев назад

    human ... vs ... invincible, sadistic monster of galactic origin ... = ... dead or humbled human. SMITH!!! = Most enchanting phrase-master EVER!!!

  • @CatEnthusiast-gr3cv
    @CatEnthusiast-gr3cv 6 месяцев назад

    Hyper boring is right. The people want to hear stories about kung fu and bad trips on ketamine.