There are still small town drug stores across the Midwest that sell ice cream sundaes, but not 10 cent cigars...Unless maybe if you adjust for inflation?
It’s also hard to imagine a pharmacist buddy who will just hook you up with IV morphine when you’re feeling edgy. Pharmacists weren’t playing back in the day.
For me this was a story of a man who wanted notoriety and wealth, but went about it in a greedy an unwise way. Bloch is one of old masters at weaving a fine tale. Thank you. Stay safe and healthy ♡
Yeah, only Hans Christian Andersen did it before him and _he_ was in turn inspired by Adelbert von Chamisso. ^ ^ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_(fairy_tale)
Wow...a writer of the lovecraft circle waiting almost a half hour for that kind of reveal is shocking! Even more surpising to me is that each story chosen for this series is one I haven't read. Oh, are we spoiled here!
also the way this man cannot possibly fathom someone acquiring money. and the guy didnt become more confident to him he just had "a mouth trumpet for ordering expensive food".
Me, during the introduction of this story: This protagonist is an unlikeable asshole. Also me: I immediately identify with this protagonist completely.
"Once in a while I got a fat boy"🤣Sorry, when making pancakes last night I burst out laughing,I had headphones on and kept saying it aloud only to turn my head and notice my wife and kids looking at me like I was crazy...I'M NOT!
Great story and narration! This one is great and I like the ending. I like the sequence of events. To see the look on the main character's eyes when he realizes what is going on. Mr. Bloch's tales are always solid.
@@nitayrafowicz5934 Clark Ashton Smith used to play judgemental pranks on his characters (The Seven Geaseseses is on Horrorbabble) which reminds me of Bloch. Lovecraft is quite impersonal. Bloch can get mean. Nice to have both. The Shambler From The Stars is Bloch's sequel (?) to The Haunter of the Dark which is Lovecraft at the top of his writing game...takes balls!
@@Wombats555 I have already read almost all stories by CAS (he Is my favorite mythos writer thus far and his Zothique tales are amazing!! I created a whole D&D campaign based solely on Hyperborea and Zothique)
Probably Steven king has admitted he get most of idea from h.p Lovecraft and you can see were princess of mars was inspired Star Wars Lucas even got the name Jedi from there from jadac the leader of there city's
Hans Christian Andersen wrote a fairy tale in 1847, which was inspired by a story by Adelbert von Chamisso from 1814. This story here seems to be a combination of elements of those earlier works. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_(fairy_tale)
Well-crafted piece that reminds one of Poe, Lovecraft and, to a lesser extent, some might suggest, the Jungian shadow-self. But this shadow is a fully external, infernal entity indeed, summoned from outside the self, not projected from within. In short, a great Poe-ish horror story w/supernatural elements & one of Bloch's more approachable works.
The is a work by Hans Christian Andersen ("The Shadow"), which is in turn inspired by a work by Adelbert von Chamisso "Peter Schlemihl's Miraculous Story". This story here seems like it just combined the premises of the two.
"Who was that shadow I saw you with last night?" "That was no shadow. That was my wife." Nyuk nyuk nyuk .. 😂😂 .. 😁😁 .. 😞 Lemme just slide out of here like this
I had an encounter with a ghost when I was 15, it was a pink dress from the civil war era standing at the foot of my queen size bed filled out as if someone were wearing it. I was six feet tall and weighed 214 pounds, I turned over and shoved my face into my pillow and started crying and praying as my bed started shaking as if it were surrounded by ten men trying to shake me off of it. The shaking stopped after a few seconds but I was too afraid to look up, I woke up the next morning still in an ostrich defense with my face still shoved into the pillow.
@@rayheath3045 no idea, my face was deeply imprinted into the pillow when I woke up. Every time I remember the event I wonder the same thing, I must have gotten an adrenaline boost that helped with decreased oxygen from constricted breathing because I was tunneling into my pillow face first
Excellent story, very creepy! It takes us back to another world------it's hard for people today to grasp that a "drug store" used to serve ice cream and sodas at a counter and had seats to sit in. The protagonist of the story is a miserable, ugly, and very unsympathetic person. He is a very unlikeable person, and as a reader, you feel no sympathy for what he suffers. This was a terrific story of an old classic idea: the devil's bargain. And as usual, the one that makes the bargain does not appreciate the cost of the bargain. The bargain was chilling, a man stalked and devoured by his own shadow. But the ending is a bit unsatisfying-----the protagonist sees the end of the man who made the bargain-----but then the story abruptly cuts off. What happened next? With a gun being fired, the police would show up, how did they explain? And what happened to the cursed book? It would have been a more satisfying ending if the protagonist took the book. Then you would be left to wonder if he would use it, despite having seen the cost of it. He is such a miserable, unhappy character you can easily see that he might talk himself into it. And that is the lure of the devil's bargain.
Wait, I've heard this premise before. It's a variation of the fairy tale "The Shadow" by Hans Christian Andersen mixed with elements from the earlier story "Peter Schlemihl's Miraculous Story" by Adelbert von Chamisso, which inspired Andersen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_(fairy_tale)
I laughed out loud when he said he went in the back room and drank the sedative he'd mixed up for himself too, lol.
It's 2020 now. Hard to imagine a time when a drug store sold ice cream sundaes and the expensive cigars were 10 cents.
There are still small town drug stores across the Midwest that sell ice cream sundaes, but not 10 cent cigars...Unless maybe if you adjust for inflation?
It’s also hard to imagine a pharmacist buddy who will just hook you up with IV morphine when you’re feeling edgy.
Pharmacists weren’t playing back in the day.
I remember when a pizza slice was 20 cents…penny candy 🍭 &
Woolworths ice cream bar…!!!
Those were the days…!!
For me this was a story of a man who wanted notoriety and wealth, but went about it in a greedy an unwise way. Bloch is one of old masters at weaving a fine tale. Thank you. Stay safe and healthy ♡
BLOCH IS A LEGEND AND A TITAN OF HORROR
🐢
Yeah, only Hans Christian Andersen did it before him and _he_ was in turn inspired by Adelbert von Chamisso. ^ ^
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_(fairy_tale)
Excellent reading; love how you find these hidden horror gems!
Fantastic!I'm hooked on this channel,Ian your narration on everything I've heard is incredible.
Now I want to read, "The Double Shadow".
By CAS? It’s a good one.
Yes! I hope we eventually get it narrated.
Wow...a writer of the lovecraft circle waiting almost a half hour for that kind of reveal is shocking!
Even more surpising to me is that each story chosen for this series is one I haven't read. Oh, are we spoiled here!
"but my feet hurt, so i went home" thats a wise man right there
also the way this man cannot possibly fathom someone acquiring money. and the guy didnt become more confident to him he just had "a mouth trumpet for ordering expensive food".
robert bloch i love you thank you for injecting every story with the fact that ur a rascal
"it was his shadow alright. which was fine with me, because i didnt want it"
characters name is milktoast and not milftits which i obviously didnt hear for some reason
Me, during the introduction of this story: This protagonist is an unlikeable asshole.
Also me: I immediately identify with this protagonist completely.
Worked in retail for any length of time, and he becomes much easier to identify with.
"Once in a while I got a fat boy"🤣Sorry, when making pancakes last night I burst out laughing,I had headphones on and kept saying it aloud only to turn my head and notice my wife and kids looking at me like I was crazy...I'M NOT!
Great story and narration! This one is great and I like the ending. I like the sequence of events. To see the look on the main character's eyes when he realizes what is going on.
Mr. Bloch's tales are always solid.
Been waiting all week for this lol
" Dark dungeons of dreams" . Very few writers can use the English language like that anymore.
🥳🎉Just in time for dessert. Thank you! 🥃
Anyone alse feels the themes of bloch as in meeting the devil, being unappreciated compared to those "born with talent" and revenge for hubris?
I think Bloch does much better with Christian morality than he did with his Lovecraft pastiches. Not that both aren't well worth your time.
@@Wombats555 After reading all of these stories I have a newfound respect for the other circle writers and friends of Howard's.
@@nitayrafowicz5934 Clark Ashton Smith used to play judgemental pranks on his characters (The Seven Geaseseses is on Horrorbabble) which reminds me of Bloch. Lovecraft is quite impersonal. Bloch can get mean. Nice to have both. The Shambler From The Stars is Bloch's sequel (?) to The Haunter of the Dark which is Lovecraft at the top of his writing game...takes balls!
@@Wombats555 I have already read almost all stories by CAS (he Is my favorite mythos writer thus far and his Zothique tales are amazing!! I created a whole D&D campaign based solely on Hyperborea and Zothique)
And shambler from the stars came before haunter, and then bloch made the shadow from the steeple
Amazing as always!!!
"I'm not even supposed to be here today!"
-Dante, Clerks 1942
I'm wondering how much of this story was inspired by Carl Jung's idea of absorbing your "shadow."
I'm about to hit play but look up Thomas Ligotti's The Darkness, The Shadow it sounds like a riff on the same concept. Grimscribe is a good channel.
Well, given Jung’s ideas tend to be as attached to reality as most cosmic horror, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Probably Steven king has admitted he get most of idea from h.p Lovecraft and you can see were princess of mars was inspired Star Wars Lucas even got the name Jedi from there from jadac the leader of there city's
Hans Christian Andersen wrote a fairy tale in 1847, which was inspired by a story by Adelbert von Chamisso from 1814. This story here seems to be a combination of elements of those earlier works.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_(fairy_tale)
Warren: I’m hanging out in the rue morgue stuff, pretending to be dead 🤫
Warren: They still haven't caught on, tee hee!
@@mariecarie1 love your name
Ewe fuel! Warren IS dead! Dead happy he can prank call his friends from beyond the grave due to this new fangled tellyfone contraption!
This one was great. Loved the author. Funny how he mentioned Dale Carnegie.
happy wednesday!!! best part of hump day !
Outstanding story!
Blazin' brilliant !
Am so pleased to be # 800.
🐾🌏🕰❤️🌕
This is the dark, adult, equivalent to Peter Pan. 😂
Elegantly told tale!
I’ve made bargains with things before. It’s funnier than you’d expect it to be.
Would you elaborate?
Echoes of "How Love Came To Professor Guildea"
Great story
The 🐐! 👍🏼👍🏼
Well-crafted piece that reminds one of Poe, Lovecraft and, to a lesser extent, some might suggest, the Jungian shadow-self. But this shadow is a fully external, infernal entity indeed, summoned from outside the self, not projected from within. In short, a great Poe-ish horror story w/supernatural elements & one of Bloch's more approachable works.
The is a work by Hans Christian Andersen ("The Shadow"), which is in turn inspired by a work by Adelbert von Chamisso "Peter Schlemihl's Miraculous Story".
This story here seems like it just combined the premises of the two.
Love me some bloch
Sounds like the work of Nyarlethotep. 💀
The shadow wore glasses but it didn’t wear any underwear! OK… OK… I get that.
"Who was that shadow I saw you with last night?"
"That was no shadow. That was my wife."
Nyuk nyuk nyuk .. 😂😂 .. 😁😁 .. 😞 Lemme just slide out of here like this
LOL!😁
Something of a continuation of the dualism theme of “The Suicide in the Study” if you ask me.
When he no more scotch for me it struck a vein lol
I had an encounter with a ghost when I was 15, it was a pink dress from the civil war era standing at the foot of my queen size bed filled out as if someone were wearing it. I was six feet tall and weighed 214 pounds, I turned over and shoved my face into my pillow and started crying and praying as my bed started shaking as if it were surrounded by ten men trying to shake me off of it. The shaking stopped after a few seconds but I was too afraid to look up, I woke up the next morning still in an ostrich defense with my face still shoved into the pillow.
Shrek is love. Shrek is life.
How did you manage to breathe with your face shoved into the pillow for so long?
@@rayheath3045 no idea, my face was deeply imprinted into the pillow when I woke up. Every time I remember the event I wonder the same thing, I must have gotten an adrenaline boost that helped with decreased oxygen from constricted breathing because I was tunneling into my pillow face first
how many more bloch tales are there?
2 more in this series.
Fritz (Frederic)'s initiation
Or get a good sleeping potion without a prescription !
Sit down at my table
Put your mind at ease
If you relax it will enable me
To do anything I please
Good morning dear Ian.
Could you please explain if I a n is an English name?
Who are your parents?
Thank you very much.
Enjoy your Thursday!🇬🇧🇷🇺
👍👍👍👍👍😲
This one is pretty good - guy needs to work on his assertive negotiaton skills though.
Excellent story, very creepy! It takes us back to another world------it's hard for people today to grasp that a "drug store" used to serve ice cream and sodas at a counter and had seats to sit in. The protagonist of the story is a miserable, ugly, and very unsympathetic person. He is a very unlikeable person, and as a reader, you feel no sympathy for what he suffers. This was a terrific story of an old classic idea: the devil's bargain. And as usual, the one that makes the bargain does not appreciate the cost of the bargain. The bargain was chilling, a man stalked and devoured by his own shadow. But the ending is a bit unsatisfying-----the protagonist sees the end of the man who made the bargain-----but then the story abruptly cuts off. What happened next? With a gun being fired, the police would show up, how did they explain? And what happened to the cursed book? It would have been a more satisfying ending if the protagonist took the book. Then you would be left to wonder if he would use it, despite having seen the cost of it. He is such a miserable, unhappy character you can easily see that he might talk himself into it. And that is the lure of the devil's bargain.
2nd Amendment for the win.
I 2nd that.
Hmm, I think you're shooting in the dark with that one.
Wait, I've heard this premise before.
It's a variation of the fairy tale "The Shadow" by Hans Christian Andersen mixed with elements from the earlier story "Peter Schlemihl's Miraculous Story" by Adelbert von Chamisso, which inspired Andersen.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_(fairy_tale)