Y'm-bhi: The House in the Magnolias By August Derleth
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- These, Gll'-Hthaa-Ynn explained, were what men called the y'm-bhi-organisms which had died, but which had been mechanically reanimated for industrial purposes by means of atomic energy and thought-power.
Those which most repelled Zamacona were those whose mutilations were greatest; for some were wholly headless, while others had suffered singular and seemingly capricious subtractions, distortions, transpositions, and graftings in various places. The Spaniard could not account for this condition, but Gll'-Hthaa-Ynn made it clear that these were slaves who had been used for the amusement of the people in some of the vast arenas.
HP Lovecraft The Mound.
The Y'm-bhi are corpses reanimated by the people of K'n-yan to perform basic physical labour. Most are taken from the mortal slave-class but some are the remains of disgraced Freemen and captured humans.
Described as being more manlike in shape than the gyaa-yothn slaves, the y'm-bhi are closely comparable to classic zombies with unnatural, mechanical movements. Despite many of them suffering terrible injuries before death they do not seem to decay as even after 400 years one example's body still retained most of its skin and hair.
The y'm-bhi are reanimated with atomic energy and thought power by their K'n-yanian masters. The rites to create them were thought to be lost to time; however, they found their way to an occultist in this story.
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A Derleth story I'd not heard before - what a treat! This seemed almost more like a REH pastiche than a HPL one.
Thank you, these are all a real treat! My family and I appreciate your hard work very much.
Southern gothic is my jam
I hear so much vitriol aimed at AD and I believe it is so unfair.. some of his stories are very derivative but his good ones are worth the Effort to read... Thanks for posting these tales..
I think he gets vitriol because he used Lovecraft's name on a lot of his (Derleth's) stories.
Derleth was Lovecraft's literary executor, and received all of Lovecraft's notes after death.
Supposedly, certain stories in which Derleth used Lovecraft's name were based on the notes Lovecraft left, but this has not been proven.
It's just a little slimy to use a more popular author's name on your stories, but overall, AD does have some interesting stuff.
I actually quite enjoy most of his work
He (Derleth) DID corrupt the Mythos into his unimaginative cliché of good gods vs evil gods paradigm, which is completely missing the point of HPL's concept of the utter indifference of his cosmic horror(s), and their complete disregard for such. (In addition to not 'getting it' Derleth ghoulishly (pun intended) capitalized on HPL's work, with his 'posthumous collaborations'- HPL would be rolling in his grave on Yuggoth if he knew, EXCEPT-
Derleth DID keep the torch of the original weird tales burning! Without Derleth and Arkham House, HPL may well have continued to fade into obscurity and may be almost completely forgotten today, eh?
Derleth's relationship with Lovecraft's legacy is complicated, but, I suppose, on the whole it has been positive, and we all may owe our appreciation of cosmic horror partly to his efforts, no matter how poorly executed they may be... So, yeah, I've read all of his stuff, and it is what is- a critical link to HPL, F B. Long, Smith, Barbour, etc, and he had some, honestly, pretty well written stories in his own idiom...
Cheers!
(It's complicated!)
@@bholdr----0 you kinda make my point for me... with a LOT more words! Anyway, just Glad they are all still available!
Like you I am glad the stories are available. I wished someone collected all of Derleth's stories, including the ones he collaborated with other writers. I've read really good stories by August Derleth.
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A great read & story by August & Mark, without their diligence & help we may not have had all the HP Lovecraft stories we have now. Thanks to them & Arkham House. Not sure why so many images of Lovecraft's creatures & not the Zombies the story is really about but they were cool images anyway, some i have seen before & all well done. 💀💀
Really good story !! thanks for sharing
Great story, one I hadn't heard before. I love these stories by August Derleth...
New to me as well! Always excited to see a new mythos story.
@@colemarie9262 so am I.
The source material was, imo, an early foray into part of HPL's transition from fantastic horror to almost its science fiction aspect of his cosmicisim (atomic power and the high technology of the antagnoists (see: Mountains of Madness- an essential component of that transition)... Its not so much of that as 'in the walls of eryx', etc, insofar as it is part of the extended mythos 'colaborations,' with Bishop, et. al.)
Though, Derleth... Derleth.. ugh. At least he kept the fire of Lovecraft's genius burning through Arkham House, even though he conventionalized and simplified (and thus corrupted) the essense of the mythos by introducing concepts like 'good and evil'...
Such are anathema to the spirit of HPL's ontological qualia... (Does such remind anyone else of the early story: 'The Transition Of Juan Romero'?(
It strikes me that way.
Nor a Lovecraft story at all. Just the unnecessary taking from The Mound in the title and beginning. A rip off to sell the story as it is just a voodoo zombies in the South as slaves. What if the South had been killing slaves to reanimate them as zombies to labor 24 hours a day? Marx's "dead labor" writ large.
August Derlth understood weird fiction, but never understood cosmic horror.
The first story I heard from you impressed me thanks
Rosamunda sounds hot AF
Lovecraft would never
Yeah... Am I messed up for thinking Aseneth Waite is hot? (A: yeah, probably!)
@@bholdr----0 she has the body of a 10 year old boy
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You deserve way more listeners, amazing voice for this type of stories.
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And this is why he gets vitriol. No Lovecraft relation just a Haitian zombie story. He used that bit in the title to sell the story. A real cad. He did the bad but also helped Lovecraft so he gets some slack for that.
This is about using zombies not Lovecraft at all.
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Anyone know the narrator?
AI? Phrasing is strange sometimes.