"Tales of Vampirism" is a collection of HorrorBabble recordings featuring various interpretations of the 'vampire' and/or the 'vampire legend'. Including the works of Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, M. R. James, Henry Kuttner, Earl Peirce, Jr., Aleksey Tolstoy, and Donald Wandrei. Chapters: 0:00:06 - Count Magnus (M. R. James) 0:33:41 - Doom of the House of Duryea (Earl Peirce, Jr.) 1:10:12 - The Family of the Vourdalak (Aleksey Tolstoy) 2:13:25 - The Feast in the Abbey (Robert Bloch) 2:31:07 - The Fire Vampires (Donald Wandrei) 3:14:20 - The Horror from the Mound (Robert E. Howard) 3:59:20 - I, the Vampire (Henry Kuttner) Bandcamp link: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/tales-of-vampirism-a-collection Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble Music and production by Ian Gordon 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
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I would love to hear more tales of vampires & also werewolves of olden times. These particular story's are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing them. Vincent.
These stories are amazing. I have listened to many of them on your channel before, but decided to give them another listen here. The picture of the old and ruined church is amazing, beautiful, and well-fitting for these stories. Fantastic narration! The rain in the background of "The Feast in the Abbey" is amazing. I also listened to "The Horror from the Mound" three times this weekend. You, my friend, are a master!
Listen to the portion of _"The Feast in the Abbey"_ and note how similar the wording is to that used by H.P. Lovecraft in his description of a similar feast in his short story _"The Doom that came to Sarnath."_ This makes far more sense when you realize that Lovecraft was in fact Robert Bloch's literary mentor.
The Family of the Vourdalak~one of the best of the genre also one of my fav Mario Bava adaptations in his "Black Sabbath" 3rilogy or triptych movie~thanx again
I love vampire stories. Fire vampires and I vampire are my favorite so far. I love all of them lol but those are my top 2 hahaha keep up the good work. Your channel keeps me sane while at work. Thank you!!!!!
I was just reading in the comments section of "The Family of the Vourdalak" that someone was very keen on you releasing a collection of vampire related stories. I can't remember exactly who that was, but I'm sure you've made them (as well as I, ofc) very happy. Uncanny timing, hm?
Some suggestions for Volume II: The End Of The Story (C Ashton Smith); The Tomb Of Sarah (F.G. Loring); Revelations In Black (Carl Jacobi); When It Was Moonlight (Manly Wade Wellman); The Canal (Everil Worrall); The Death Of Ilalotha (C Ashton Smith); The Room In The Tower (E.F.Benson); and The Old Man's Story (Walter Starkie). In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet - Yeats. ;-) xxx
dear horrible I'm listening to your vampire collection walking on my way to an appointment a mile and a half away truly this is the umpteenth time I'm listening I enjoy it each time better I truly hope you add more vampire story collections or even Dracula no one can tell it like you sir have a super duper day your real fan AKA black widow spider👍🕸🕷
As a Scanian whose mother is a Swedish noble of minor status, I find this tale most intriguing and amusing. Count Magnus, is of course the tale I mean, in case that was mysteriously unclear.
Ian Gordon is damn good!! I had listened to all the Greg Wagland A.Conan Doyle storries. Hundreds of times. This dude is a pleasent change of pace. Thanks Guv´nor
I just stumbled upon your channel and I have to say I'm glad. All these stories were excellent and the narration was perfect. I had to subscribe. Thank you so much. I really enjoyed this video.
Recently I read about the reason why we have an almost automatic impulse to put our finger cut or pricked and issuing blood into our mouth and maybe suck it. That comes from our very ancient animal ancestors. Blood was so precious for the organism that it was very bad to just let it drop freely on the ground and be wasted. It had to be returned back to the organism, even if just an additional nourishment.
i'm glad you approve of my thoughts on your undeniably awesome work Ian {& associates}keep it up please~i luv your channel ~& thanx so much 4 listening it means a lot to me!!
Great work, as always! I really looove Horror Babble, I'd even more thorougly enjoy it as a traditional podcast with an rss feed, ever considered doing that? :)
oh my gosh thank you thank you thank you I have been asking for stories on vampirism for a very long time other than doctor creeping and Otis jari I haven't heard it thank you thank you made me so happy God bless you you're the best Storyteller ever👍👍👍💕
Brian Geeslin is it the one with the woman and sexual denuding of life force or the quick fast juicy human being into leather bag cruncy dusty human being with awful spec effects
I love your readings, they are a diamond in the rough of youtube, and I need to become a patron soon. I've listened to every recording on your channel, since early on. I've always felt you deserve 100 times the viewership per your skill. Never give up. P.S. Is it possible the demonetization is due to the background tones you wrote? I mean no offence when I say, perhaps to an algorithm, the tones are basic enough that it assumes someone else wrote some of them when used on another channel, by mistake? (they are perfect, and more complexity would harm the effect). I believe the sound and songs you write are responsible for the bot's mistakes. It's possible someone else even stole your effect's for their own purpose, and the algorithmic bot's went overboard in the wrong direction.
Thank you, sir! Anything is possible, which is what makes this situation so frustrating. We've made major changes before, which of course only resulted in us getting demonetized a second time. The key to the whole thing, simply, is not to rely on monetization moving forward.
It's curious how story #6 represents a very outdated set of values: an insolent greedy cowboy lacking forethought causes the death of an innocent man, then wrestles an obviously better equipped creature with his bare hands and comes out on top because he's just so fierce and cowboyish. Ugh. Reminded me of a story in which a cowboy saved a Spanish heiress and rid her castle of ghosts, which were no ghosts but her abominable suitor's tricks. Yay brave gringo saves the day! Plot development leaves much to be desired as well as the nature of what is happening is immediately clear to the reader, yet the hero insists on being stupid about it. Compare this to a marvellous story called The Hanging Stranger found on this very channel, which keeps you wondering whether you're reading about an invasion or paranoia. End of rant XD Thanks for superb narration, I'm totally hooked.
The Tolstoy story was included in a film trilogy made in the 60's called Black Sabbath. Of course it ends less tragically than this original. You guys should check it out.
An excellent companion as I weave my majicke based on hallow'd soldering iron and KYnar weilding until the brash blackebyrde doth sing earlie in the morning...
I used to make up some stories for my daughter; she thought they were good and so I thought. Original Stories: Red shoes; Grass king, those are two that seep with evil Americana.
It comes from beyond A Centauri and "streaks" across the sky and they think it's a comet? I would have thought that humans a few hundred years in the future would know comets at least as well as we do!
People always heap scorn on "native superstition" in these sort of stories, but given how often they're right, it begins to seem like sheer thickheaded-ness.
Like the variations on the vampire theme here. Have you considered doing one called "Mrs. Amworth"? I'm afraid I can't recall the author's name. I think it would sound great read by you.
*The Feast in the Abbey* that is a horror to babble about!!! *The Fire Vampires* reminds me of the Stat Trek episode... *Crystalline Entity* I'm sure they *borrowed* this idea from *Donald Wandrei* ... *Star Trek Next Generation*
Like. Read most, but still it's nice to listen. A great job. "Magnus" though, is not a pure vampirism, but something broader, even with an Near East pre-Islamic connection. A domesticated ghoul did the dirty job?
If you are new to this Chanel and enjoyed this......check out how horrorbabble did Lovecraft Charles Dexter Ward. IMHO pest presentation of it ever. That was my two cents , punching out.
"Tales of Vampirism" is a collection of HorrorBabble recordings featuring various interpretations of the 'vampire' and/or the 'vampire legend'. Including the works of Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, M. R. James, Henry Kuttner, Earl Peirce, Jr., Aleksey Tolstoy, and Donald Wandrei.
Chapters:
0:00:06 - Count Magnus (M. R. James)
0:33:41 - Doom of the House of Duryea (Earl Peirce, Jr.)
1:10:12 - The Family of the Vourdalak (Aleksey Tolstoy)
2:13:25 - The Feast in the Abbey (Robert Bloch)
2:31:07 - The Fire Vampires (Donald Wandrei)
3:14:20 - The Horror from the Mound (Robert E. Howard)
3:59:20 - I, the Vampire (Henry Kuttner)
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Thank you 4 the heart. I really like your Narrative voice. And the subject's are my favorite. The Doreyah story the best 4 myself.👌❗🕷🕸👍
@@sissyblackwidowspider7529 Thanks for listening! We appreciate it. I was also asking if you'd seen my response RE you wanting to know how to find new videos. Anyway, to access new uploads, you just need to keep an eye on this page: ruclips.net/user/horrorbabblevideos
this is wonderful,Ian. Your mastery of many voices amazes me on a daily basis. Only you bring these stories to life. Thank you.
Very well done😁 We love the old "mundane" monsters, Mark and I.
"For the Dead...travel fast"....Bram Stokers Dracula
I would love to hear more tales of vampires & also werewolves of olden times.
These particular story's are amazing.
Thank you so much for sharing them.
Vincent.
Thanks for these "hidden gems", HB! Several of these authors were completely unknown to me.
These stories are amazing. I have listened to many of them on your channel before, but decided to give them another listen here.
The picture of the old and ruined church is amazing, beautiful, and well-fitting for these stories.
Fantastic narration! The rain in the background of "The Feast in the Abbey" is amazing.
I also listened to "The Horror from the Mound" three times this weekend.
You, my friend, are a master!
I adore M.R James and can't think of a
better narrator and storyteller than this: superb stuff.
Narrator is Ian Gordon a Lancastrian .
@@jameswebb4593 He's brilliant with both James and Lovecraft. Quite a feat.
Listen to the portion of _"The Feast in the Abbey"_ and note how similar the wording is to that used by H.P. Lovecraft in his description of a similar feast in his short story _"The Doom that came to Sarnath."_ This makes far more sense when you realize that Lovecraft was in fact Robert Bloch's literary mentor.
I would imagine that HPL himself was in turn influenced by Algernon Blackwood's tale "Secret Worship".
Ty guys, my darn hip is out and now after I listen to mortis , I've got plenty to listen too.⭐💜🙋💜👍
I hope you're making progress, KB!
The Family of the Vourdalak~one of the best of the genre also one of my fav Mario Bava adaptations in his "Black Sabbath" 3rilogy or triptych movie~thanx again
Ijii
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I love vampire stories. Fire vampires and I vampire are my favorite so far. I love all of them lol but those are my top 2 hahaha keep up the good work. Your channel keeps me sane while at work. Thank you!!!!!
have you read any of Brian Lumley's Necroscope series? Makes all other vamps look like Twighlight in my opinion. True monsters.
@@mikeyb8040 oh cool. I'll make sure to check it out. thank you!!!
This channel is wonderful!
Love these collections!! Thanks for your hard work HorrorBabble!
M R James rocks.
Also, Mrs Riddell is my favorite writer of ghost stories; I hope you can record a few of her stories.
All seven being excellent choices for a collective. Very nice.☺️
I was just reading in the comments section of "The Family of the Vourdalak" that someone was very keen on you releasing a collection of vampire related stories. I can't remember exactly who that was, but I'm sure you've made them (as well as I, ofc) very happy. Uncanny timing, hm?
Yes, I sort of requested and suggested that?
A wonderful collection, thank you very much!!
These are always narrated really well which makes a change these days. It's refreshing to hear someone who reads English prose competently!
Some suggestions for Volume II: The End Of The Story (C Ashton Smith); The Tomb Of Sarah (F.G. Loring); Revelations In Black (Carl Jacobi); When It Was Moonlight (Manly Wade Wellman); The Canal (Everil Worrall); The Death Of Ilalotha (C Ashton Smith); The Room In The Tower (E.F.Benson); and The Old Man's Story (Walter Starkie).
In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli
Bodies of holy men and women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
But under heavy loads of trampled clay
Lie bodies of vampires full of blood;
Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet
- Yeats.
;-) xxx
Omg
Thats a turn on 😇
Where does this quote come from? It's beautiful!
I could listen to your voice all day. :)
The climax of The Horror from the Mound... just WOW!!! If that isn't pure badassery characteristic of the father of both Solomon Kane and Conan!!
dear horrible I'm listening to your vampire collection walking on my way to an appointment a mile and a half away truly this is the umpteenth time I'm listening I enjoy it each time better I truly hope you add more vampire story collections or even Dracula no one can tell it like you sir have a super duper day your real fan AKA black widow spider👍🕸🕷
Can’t wait to listen to this! Gotta love a good vampire story.
love it!!!
your work is great!!!
thank you for all🙏🏻
As a Scanian whose mother is a Swedish noble of minor status, I find this tale most intriguing and amusing.
Count Magnus, is of course the tale I mean, in case that was mysteriously unclear.
Fabulous collection of stories!
Ian Gordon is damn good!! I had listened to all the Greg Wagland A.Conan Doyle storries. Hundreds of times. This dude is a pleasent change of pace. Thanks Guv´nor
I just stumbled upon your channel and I have to say I'm glad. All these stories were excellent and the narration was perfect. I had to subscribe. Thank you so much. I really enjoyed this video.
Welcome aboard!
The reader is flawless :) well done
Recently I read about the reason why we have an almost automatic impulse to put our finger cut or pricked and issuing blood into our mouth and maybe suck it. That comes from our very ancient animal ancestors. Blood was so precious for the organism that it was very bad to just let it drop freely on the ground and be wasted. It had to be returned back to the organism, even if just an additional nourishment.
LOL XD hahahaha 🤣😂
Indeed Mr Nicholas Sir ,
After all The Blood Is The Life 😊🧛💀😈👹👺☠️👻🎃🌝🤘
That is true, as someone who spent years on a farm, chickens and cows do similar things.
i'm glad you approve of my thoughts on your undeniably awesome work Ian {& associates}keep it up please~i luv your channel ~& thanx so much 4 listening it means a lot to me!!
Great work, as always!
I really looove Horror Babble, I'd even more thorougly enjoy it as a traditional podcast with an rss feed, ever considered doing that? :)
Thanks, Roman! And yes, we have. We'll see how things go over the coming months.
oh my gosh thank you thank you thank you I have been asking for stories on vampirism for a very long time other than doctor creeping and Otis jari I haven't heard it thank you thank you made me so happy God bless you you're the best Storyteller ever👍👍👍💕
Thank you so much for sharing ❤ 💕...lovely narration..
Thank you very much.
Great production and fine selection, keep it up & have a happy new year.
Don’t have time yet for this. But thank you so much in advance! Vampires had fascinated me eversince.
There is a movie called LIFE FORCE. Pretty good, for a B movie.
It's a classic, Brian!
There is another called Black Sabbath (1964) starring Boris Karloff, the third story in the film apparently based on the Tolsoy story above.
OMFW! That vampire (Life Force) was hot! ;)
Brian Geeslin is it the one with the woman and sexual denuding of life force or the quick fast juicy human being into leather bag cruncy dusty human being with awful spec effects
I love your readings, they are a diamond in the rough of youtube, and I need to become a patron soon. I've listened to every recording on your channel, since early on. I've always felt you deserve 100 times the viewership per your skill. Never give up.
P.S. Is it possible the demonetization is due to the background tones you wrote? I mean no offence when I say, perhaps to an algorithm, the tones are basic enough that it assumes someone else wrote some of them when used on another channel, by mistake? (they are perfect, and more complexity would harm the effect). I believe the sound and songs you write are responsible for the bot's mistakes.
It's possible someone else even stole your effect's for their own purpose, and the algorithmic bot's went overboard in the wrong direction.
Thank you, sir! Anything is possible, which is what makes this situation so frustrating. We've made major changes before, which of course only resulted in us getting demonetized a second time. The key to the whole thing, simply, is not to rely on monetization moving forward.
Luv it 🦇. ("I, The Vampire" Story)
It's curious how story #6 represents a very outdated set of values: an insolent greedy cowboy lacking forethought causes the death of an innocent man, then wrestles an obviously better equipped creature with his bare hands and comes out on top because he's just so fierce and cowboyish. Ugh. Reminded me of a story in which a cowboy saved a Spanish heiress and rid her castle of ghosts, which were no ghosts but her abominable suitor's tricks. Yay brave gringo saves the day!
Plot development leaves much to be desired as well as the nature of what is happening is immediately clear to the reader, yet the hero insists on being stupid about it. Compare this to a marvellous story called The Hanging Stranger found on this very channel, which keeps you wondering whether you're reading about an invasion or paranoia.
End of rant XD Thanks for superb narration, I'm totally hooked.
The Tolstoy story was included in a film trilogy made in the 60's called Black Sabbath. Of course it ends less tragically than this original. You guys should check it out.
Black Sabbath is one of my favorite trilogies! Still scary!
@@teenaapperson5880 🤙
Pretty goog stories......nicely narrated !!!!!! 👍
Huge fan, just wanted to say you're awesome and I've even bought a few of you audiobook collections on Audible. You are 3 of 4 that I've bought lol.
Wow, thank you! Sorry in advance if the audiobooks you purchased lacked chapter titles. Audible won't allow us to update older releases... yet!
@@HorrorBabble Dude...you are awesome. I'm not worried about the chapter titles. Thank you so much for the response, literally made my night.
Hey. I love Vampires. I love Horrorbabble. I love to binge horrorbabble. Is this my birthday? (It isn't but this is amazing)
fire vampires was amazing 🖤🌠
Great story telling!
So enjoy listening to the stories. This vampire set is great. Any collections about werewolves?
Excellent, thank you.
An excellent companion as I weave my majicke based on hallow'd soldering iron and KYnar weilding until the brash blackebyrde doth sing earlie in the morning...
The Peirce is my first encounter with your American accent-- nicely done!
The best of the best
Thank you 💜
Salem or?
Love em. Thank you.
Love these stories.
Guys voice is perfect for this medium
Outstanding reads as usual.
Id love to hear "The true story of a Vampire" by Count Steinbeck
Great narrator
Thanks Tony!
You are great treat. 🤔📖🦊🎃🕯
😁🙌🏼
Brian Lumley - Necroscope series pleaseeeeeeeee!!! :D
Now we're talking. Although they might be a bit x-rated in parts for this narrator.
My 7th time I really love this 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Fabulous
Your American accent is perfect.
The Tolstoy story clearly inspired the TV show The Strain. Well worth a look.
We've fancied it for a while, Tam. Thanks for reminding us!
Back 2 listen 4 the umpteenth time.it is so.good 4 my walk.thank You Sir.👍👌👣👣🖤🕷🕸👣👣👣👣👣👣🖤
I know all about being in a family assumed to be vampires. Ancestors are good at that.
I used to make up some stories for my daughter; she thought they were good and so I thought. Original Stories: Red shoes; Grass king, those are two that seep with evil Americana.
Which one was your favorite story, guys?
"Lolly Parsons" LOL was that really the name they called Louella by? never heard it before. . . (4:01:00)
In horror from the mound, its spelled mesquite but pronounced "mis-keet". Sorry, native Texan here. Love the stories!
Wait, I already listened to the Horror From the Mound.
It comes from beyond A Centauri and "streaks" across the sky and they think it's a comet? I would have thought that humans a few hundred years in the future would know comets at least as well as we do!
blame it on the public school system! ;)
more Brian lumley necroscope?,where can one listen audiobooks?
People always heap scorn on "native superstition" in these sort of stories, but given how often they're right, it begins to seem like sheer thickheaded-ness.
Fire vampires from the interstellar empire riding a comet. What is Donald Wandrei smoking? It must be something from out of the space.
A beautiful woman with the name of Stanker 😅
I watched the movie on RUclips called Night of the Devils, her name was Simfka.
Shtenka
Nice!!
Like the variations on the vampire theme here. Have you considered doing one called "Mrs. Amworth"? I'm afraid I can't recall the author's name. I think it would sound great read by you.
Hi Jackie - thanks for the tip. If you can recall the author, please send a suggestion via the website: www.horrorbabble.com
Starting vid now 🌠🖤
Great name💙💙💙💙💙👍
*The Feast in the Abbey* that is a horror to babble about!!! *The Fire Vampires* reminds me of the Stat Trek episode... *Crystalline Entity* I'm sure they *borrowed* this idea from *Donald Wandrei* ... *Star Trek Next Generation*
Did you guys get remonetized yet, or how's that appeal going?
Hi Lee - we'll be posting an update video tomorrow. But no, I doubt we'll be remonetized anytime soon.
@@HorrorBabble Dammit!!😳
Isn't a shade of reddish blue just purple?
is that a bucks or berkshire accent love the stories
I haven't a clue, Benny... it just sort of evolved over the years. Ian
M.R. James: the cure for insomnia.
I recognise our local; landmark in the pic lol
Like. Read most, but still it's nice to listen. A great job. "Magnus" though, is not a pure vampirism, but something broader, even with an Near East pre-Islamic connection. A domesticated ghoul did the dirty job?
HB: The vampire Count Magnus!
Me: … Like from Vampire Hunter D?
Oh THANK YOU! I expect this list will grow too😎!
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SCARY-AS-SHIT AND CREEPY HELL COOL!!!☻🖤☠💀🦇👻🕷🕸
Double knee replacement starting next week
მე თაყვანს ვცემ თქვენს ვამპირულ ისტორიებს
The stories were alright, real heavy Goth theme. I just wish it was a little more Vampiric.
If you are new to this Chanel and enjoyed this......check out how horrorbabble did Lovecraft Charles Dexter Ward. IMHO pest presentation of it ever. That was my two cents , punching out.
Vikings were the first here!!
I apologize for liking this video. At the time of listening, you had 666 likes. A particularly strange number indeed (but still too low).
OMG!!! A marijuana jag? Perish the thought!!
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Well well I am back again this is the only group of Vampire storys that are so good thank you
Horror bible babble lol 😂
The rainy windshield lately open because sister-in-law currently deliver qua a rebel pea. broad, jolly afterthought
Way too much descriptive narration, get to the story.