"The Dweller in the Gulf" by Clark Ashton Smith / Horror Meets Sci-Fi

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @johnoliva5153
    @johnoliva5153 6 лет назад +52

    This is the reason I don't go poking into caves on Mars.Well done.

  • @jamiecameron7615
    @jamiecameron7615 6 лет назад +43

    I'm so excited for this series, I absolutely love Sci-Fi Horror as a genre and to kick it of with Clark Ashton Smith is simply amazing. "All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe".

  • @winterhaydn5640
    @winterhaydn5640 6 лет назад +60

    This is a Librivox recording... All Librivox recordings are in the -- AHHHHHh! AHHHHHHH! PUT THE KNIFE DOWN! AhHHHHHHHH! -- "Ahem. Welcome to HorrorBabble. Today I will be reading Death of a Narrator. By Yours Truly."

    • @pigwillnot8281
      @pigwillnot8281 6 лет назад +5

      ha ha ha good one !!

    • @kathyorourke9273
      @kathyorourke9273 5 лет назад +2

      Brings back memories, memories of some of the best and the worst narration. But I got to hear some of my favorite books.

    • @greatpower6063
      @greatpower6063 5 лет назад +4

      The librivox recording lady and cthulhu had a baby and it was horrorbabble xD

  • @joz6683
    @joz6683 3 года назад +11

    As a lover of hard science fiction. I had never heard of ACS. Now I have listen to 3 stories in a row. A new guilty pleasure. Love the stories set on Mars, Venus and the other planets of a solar system that alas never existed outside of fiction. Maybe that for the best given the horrors that await the unexpected earthmen... Thanks for these stories of science fiction/horror set in the future/past. I have subscribed and set the reminder for all notifications... Thanks once again.

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  3 года назад +2

      Welcome aboard! :)

    • @VelvetMetrolink
      @VelvetMetrolink Год назад +2

      Never feel guilty about pleasure.

    • @sub-jec-tiv
      @sub-jec-tiv Год назад +1

      @@VelvetMetrolinkunless you’re Hannibal Lecter, of course.

  • @Tazirai
    @Tazirai 5 лет назад +5

    Love revisiting old readings.

  • @Akiroslice
    @Akiroslice 6 лет назад +11

    Nice subtle cave echo Ian. You are a true artist. I am sorry for your monetary woes, and will always listen to your sterling performances when you post them.

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 лет назад +2

      Much appreciated Quin - thank you! Ian

  • @giginovak8027
    @giginovak8027 6 лет назад +15

    I just wanted to let you know that you have ruined me for any other narrators, the only exception being the guy who read the discworld series, I wish to hear only you. And to top it off you are an incredible writer as well! You deserve way more subs, and you should seriously consider a career in narration. Thank you for all of your time and efforts. You are just awesome.

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 лет назад +3

      Thank you for the kind words gigi! It's always good to hear from you. As long as I'm in the game I'll do my best! Thanks again, Ian.

    • @ryleeguy2763
      @ryleeguy2763 2 года назад +2

      Same sentiments exactly. Best narration channel ever.

  • @edvfya9922
    @edvfya9922 3 года назад +4

    I really like the intro song. Well done Ian!

  • @pigwillnot8281
    @pigwillnot8281 6 лет назад +4

    HORROR BABBLE reads the most obscure old school stories i always heard about (and many i never heard of) but never got around to read. thanx for your cultured plethora of stories. your helping me to become a proper learned horror aficionado !! PS and especially for helping satisfy my HOWARD PHILLIPS addiction !!!!!

  • @Kaloi5150
    @Kaloi5150 5 лет назад +6

    "I'm beginning to feel creepy" lol I Love it!!

  • @Julian-bq9qv
    @Julian-bq9qv 6 лет назад +6

    Excellent narration for a good story/ Clark Ashton Smith was doing a very good job of continuing and expanding Lovecrafts's dark horrors - in this case, if ONLY the explorers had known of Gibbs' Ninth Rule - Never Go Anywhere Without a Knife!

  • @HorrorBabble
    @HorrorBabble  6 лет назад +2

    When Horror Meets Science Fiction
    Episode 1: The Dweller in the Gulf
    Penned by American writer, Clark Ashton Smith, The Dweller in the Gulf tells of three earthmen exploring a mysterious cave system on Mars.
    Chapters:
    00:43 - The Dweller in the Gulf
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  • @danbreeden1801
    @danbreeden1801 3 года назад +2

    Great tales in the golden age of pulp science fiction and fantasy

  • @joshuazane3210
    @joshuazane3210 6 лет назад +12

    Always a treat to hear you cover some C.A.S. 😃

  • @SVCleary1980
    @SVCleary1980 6 лет назад +2

    I've been looking forward to this week since the poll was announced. Terrific as always!!

  • @echohoneybee7529
    @echohoneybee7529 6 лет назад +2

    Just wanted to say that I recently found your channel and I listen to it in playlist form while I sleep and I have vivid dreams of the story lines. I am one of those weird people who enjoy obscure nightmares. Keep up the great content.

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 лет назад +1

      Great to hear from you - we especially love weird people. :) Ian

  • @justincase9282
    @justincase9282 4 года назад +1

    This was on the top of my recommended list. Listening to this on my drive home seems strangely fitting.

  • @AnAmericanComposer
    @AnAmericanComposer 6 лет назад +22

    Oh yes, this will be excellent for driving to. And it's so topical given the recent discovery of organic matter on Mars!

  • @mjrchapin
    @mjrchapin Год назад +1

    These kinds of expeditions never end well. NEVER.

  • @donaldmccleary9015
    @donaldmccleary9015 Год назад

    16:48 "Lord, what a ghastly crew!"
    Awesome story and narration! CAS never ceases to amaze me. His stories of Mars are very interesting. I believe he uses the same races, animals, and species in his works, correct?
    Talk about terror......

  • @chrisu7022
    @chrisu7022 4 года назад +3

    This was spectacular i never expected this. Love C.A.S.

  • @AcornElectron
    @AcornElectron 3 года назад

    I’m doing a Clark marathon today before England take on Italy this evening. Keep up the good work fella and stay safe

  • @myinfinity309
    @myinfinity309 4 года назад +1

    I too absolutely love your voice Ian Gordon.

  • @jimmyshrimbe9361
    @jimmyshrimbe9361 6 лет назад +3

    Just what I was looking for! Heck yes!!

  • @derekrawls4518
    @derekrawls4518 6 лет назад +9

    More Clark Aston smith awsome!

  • @frederickbrock2740
    @frederickbrock2740 Месяц назад

    Somnolent, vigilant, implacable, and eyeless shape..
    😮
    Drowning of nebulae and voids beneath the universe..
    😮
    Blind and cosmic Babel😢
    In half narcotized pain..
    My, my, what linguistics !!😊

  • @MrsCaranAmy
    @MrsCaranAmy 5 лет назад

    Ah, yes. This does fit quite nicely into a truly science fiction horror story. The narration was superb. Right up my alley. Thank you.

  • @Nanosuit37
    @Nanosuit37 Год назад

    Excellent. Thank you.

  • @Saheeb138
    @Saheeb138 6 лет назад +3

    Thank You!!! For Science!!!

  • @richardvaldes3959
    @richardvaldes3959 6 лет назад +2

    I can listening to anything Ian reads

  • @camille-jeanhelou4444
    @camille-jeanhelou4444 3 года назад +1

    I love this channel

  • @nvfury13
    @nvfury13 6 лет назад +11

    Been quite a while sinceI read this...and it indicates I play a bit much Skyrim, as I kept picturing the cave-martians as Falmer.

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 лет назад +2

      Now I can't see them as anything else! Thanks Nick. Ian

  • @laurelwells-georgia7124
    @laurelwells-georgia7124 6 лет назад +2

    Awesome story, more please! 😍

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 лет назад

      Thanks Laurel! Next episode Wednesday 20th at 1pm (est)!

  • @ericshipley8488
    @ericshipley8488 6 лет назад +3

    The typewriter effect is classic, but I do dig that jazzier intro.

  • @anonymousbosch9265
    @anonymousbosch9265 5 лет назад +1

    This is a great service!

  • @stevecausey545
    @stevecausey545 3 года назад +1

    This story embedded me in a scrofulous nadir of catalepsy....lol
    Great narration!

  • @itzybitzyspyder
    @itzybitzyspyder 3 года назад +1

    Was absolutely certain that this was about a man living in his Volkswagen Gulf...

  • @rayswoop4947
    @rayswoop4947 6 лет назад +2

    Hey there Ian, master of the narrative; I can't wait till you hit up "The Man Whom The Trees Loved" you are just awesome!!! You were made for this, and if I may suggest another read that maybe you will come across one day for personal and maybe move you to narrate a story or two out of these cluster of great reads like these gems you've covered so far is "The Watcher By The Threshold" by a magnificent Scottish author by the name of John Buchan from which I happen to learn of the mysterious "Picts" of Scotland within the first story that I think you'd thoroughly enjoy my good man! Just thought I'd suggest it for you, for these stories of his greatly inspired me, anyway, God bless and keep you, and thank you! ☺

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 лет назад +2

      Thanks again Jesse - always good to hear from you! If you wouldn't mind sending your request via the website, that would be very helpful: www.horrorbabble.com/contact Much appreciated, sir! Ian

  • @wesleysale1052
    @wesleysale1052 6 лет назад +5

    A wonderful story, I will try to get $20 to you thru Patreon later tonight. Going to try and share it with however many folks show up at the Innsmouth Campfire tonight, on SecondLife.

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 лет назад

      Thank you Wesley, that is incredibly generous of you. Enjoy the flames this evening! Ian

  • @elric101
    @elric101 4 года назад

    Awesome narration as always bro. Please do Klarkash-Ton's Vaults of Yoh Vombis!

  • @jonathanwpressman
    @jonathanwpressman 5 лет назад +3

    This one creeps me out.

  • @0therun1t21
    @0therun1t21 4 года назад

    Reminds me of that weird spider alien picture of Mars, it looks a lot like the chest burster from Alien.
    And glyptodons are extra weird too!

  • @faust13301
    @faust13301 3 года назад

    “Silent as the slumber of dead worlds.” How beautifully dreadful. CAS’s prose is nigh untouchable.

  • @bittybitty8233
    @bittybitty8233 6 лет назад +8

    Have I ever mentioned I love your voice ?? 🤓

  • @ryleeguy2763
    @ryleeguy2763 Год назад

    I feel like that movie The Devil Below totally ripped us off, especially the climax

  • @Kojoanna
    @Kojoanna 5 лет назад +1

    Interesting story😊

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ Год назад +2

    I chuckle at the thought of Elon suffering this fate!😂🐙😁

  • @stewartlancaster6155
    @stewartlancaster6155 2 месяца назад

    is the ending missing ? seems to cut off mid flow. No resolution to the narrative.

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  2 месяца назад

      The ending isn't missing, but there are two versions of the last part of the story. The issue is explained, here: www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/55/the-dweller-in-the-gulf

  • @greatpower6063
    @greatpower6063 5 лет назад +1

    What if every dark room you ever entered was under the watch of some unseen force, to ensnare you? The darkness, imperceptibly different from any normal preponderance of shadow to the naked human eye, falling silently under supernatural influence of some wicked master and becoming a yawning, darkened maw within whose confines you abide and which ultimately consumes you.

  • @pbr-streetgang
    @pbr-streetgang 3 года назад +1

    Love me some C.A.S.

  • @Flood520
    @Flood520 6 лет назад +3

    Horror/Sci-fi? Do I dare hope for "Who Goes There?"

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 лет назад +4

      Not in this series - but we will record it eventually! (public domain status permitting)

    • @willhuey4891
      @willhuey4891 4 года назад

      and its best known adaptation is the 1982 classic john carpenters the thing.

  • @Anthropomorphic
    @Anthropomorphic 4 года назад

    I wonder when it became common knowledge that other planets typically didn't have air or fauna?

  • @brandonw3499
    @brandonw3499 6 лет назад

    Any ideas why the creature wanted the eyes?

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 лет назад +1

      No... not knowing makes it all the more disturbing...!

    • @pharaohanakaris
      @pharaohanakaris 6 лет назад +2

      my take is that it gives them the choice of either blindly running, endlessly lost, guaranteed to die...... or to stay and be shepherded as they were, to be provided for and enslaved for the rest of their lives.
      truly that last sentence is one of the most horrifying images i've experienced in fiction

  • @Duchess_Van_Hoof
    @Duchess_Van_Hoof 2 года назад

    I want a Wortlorp!

  • @saulgoodman7858
    @saulgoodman7858 2 месяца назад

    Note to self: dont travel down cave paths.

  • @Duchess_Van_Hoof
    @Duchess_Van_Hoof 2 года назад

    We are on Mars again?

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 5 лет назад

    this one, for some reason, i find i am totally unable ti finish when the horrible things take them to the ugly, ugly ‘god’. it makes one feel absolutely helpless and it makes me too anxious.
    let me know if they get away, which is wholely impossible.

  • @gerry5134
    @gerry5134 6 лет назад +4

    They should have been wearing safety goggles ! 😊

  • @CFkatehudson
    @CFkatehudson Год назад

    i can watch the drivel offered by hollywood,play solataire or listen to pure gold tyvm for this third and superior option.

  • @AL4LVE79
    @AL4LVE79 4 года назад

    "The Dweller in the Gulf" by Clark Ashton Smith 1/7 . where are 2-7 ??? :(

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  4 года назад

      Hi Frank! The 1/7 denotes that the story is episode 1 in the *Horror Meets Sci-Fi* series.

  • @SpaghettiGuyRevisited-xo3gy
    @SpaghettiGuyRevisited-xo3gy 8 месяцев назад

    My all time favorite. Been listening to it regularly since 2021

  • @lordzaboem
    @lordzaboem 6 лет назад +1

    Great horror story! It had me wondering if this story might perhaps be the origin of the word troglodyte. Would anyone like to take bets before I look up the etymology?

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 лет назад +1

      Thanks Scott - I'd imagine it was a much older term, but I'm no expert! Ian

    • @lordzaboem
      @lordzaboem 6 лет назад +1

      You were correct. The word dates back at least to the late 15th Century.

    • @joshuaalach9431
      @joshuaalach9431 Год назад

      Troglodyte originates from an ancient Greek word for the North African Garamantes, who lived in caves (or were believed to) iirc

  • @JamesMC04
    @JamesMC04 6 лет назад +1

    Not for the squeamish, this one.

  • @kenneth83DK
    @kenneth83DK 6 лет назад

    Let's try something other then H.P lovecraft, title sounds promising.

  • @bittybitty8233
    @bittybitty8233 6 лет назад +1

    Where's MY heart ? What,....you don't like compliments on your voice....? 😟

    • @HorrorBabble
      @HorrorBabble  6 лет назад

      Sorry KB - I missed some of the early comments on this post, as it was the same day we got the 'demonetisation' news...! I'll remedy it immediately!

  • @Turtles21
    @Turtles21 4 года назад

    Yuo*

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 5 лет назад

    so well read, - but, i think, not so good a story

  • @markgouthro7375
    @markgouthro7375 4 года назад

    Wow, that was terrible. An endless stream of adjectives and adverbs drowning the mind in nonsensical nonsense.