Great narration and story. I find myself questioning the intelligence of the two main characters. Even if you didn't believe in vampires, there was clearly something off about that second town.
The novel Blind Sight has one of the best explanations of vampires I've read in many years. They were an offshoot of humanity's evolution with many more higher functions cerebrally and the sight of collective right angles called what they describe as 'The crucifix glitch' caused them gran mal seizures. This with the rise of humanity's architecture with it's many straight lines and right angles led to their eventual extinction. It's a very fascinating take, and a very good novel.
@@darrenp9454 Peter Watts and Blindsight is one word. My bad. It's a sci-fi so don't let the fact there is vampires mislead you. It touches on themes of first contact, AI, and biology (it's written by a marine biologist and it shows). Hands down one of the best newer sci-fi books I've read in a great while!
Hello from winter-saddled New England...Had our first snow fall today and there's no better way to wile away the evening than with another spooky yarn. Thank you for cont. to upload quality material from a wide ranging spectrum of Authors...Happy Holidays.
Oooh. They do not slay vampires generally, but imprison them, and once a year all of them break out? I'll have to remember this one for D&D, it is perfect for Barovia.
I swear, the protagonists in every single one of these vampire stories are the most impressive skeptics. This and the nightmare road are the two most egregious examples I can think of. You could have God himself descend part the heavens and reorder the earth and they would ask what kind of special effects He was using to create such a perfect illusion that affects sight, touch, sound and smell. "Hmm, everyone in this country is talking about vampires and is keeping us out of their villages out of fear, but this one single village is accepting us wholeheartedly. Wonderful!" "Hmm, the eyes of these people are crimson and they all look overly happy to see us. All the jolly people in Transylvania must have moved here and they're happy to see travellers." "Hmm, they're avoiding me because I have a cross. They almost seem repelled by force- must not be fans of devout Christians, to the point of it being a complex." "Hmm, they're smiling at us like we're on the wrong side of a joke when we ask about this vampire village legend. I wonder why... it must be a funny story or something!" And so on, for thirty minutes. I'll remember to carry a cross when I visit Romania.
When you said Resident Evil Village, my first thought was "Did videogames already exist when they recorded this?" then I instantly corrected myself, remembering Horror Babble was a modern day production. That's how good you guys are :--D
Very fun story and wonderfully narrated as usual. The dialogue and inner monologue is what made it for me. Indeed, Ian, it does have a few similarities with RE: Village.
As always, "Edge of Your Seat" tale and stellar reading, Y'all! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😬🙌🏾 🤔...Trips me out how a WHOLE village had to LITERALLY be "at their throats" before these men realize, "Well, that's odd!"...😩🤦🏾♀️ This colorful crowd's hungry eyes, and Munchkin-esque giggling during Story Time, would've had me sitting by the fire, clutching that cross, drinking coffee, watching them aaaaaalll night! "No Funny Business on MY watch!" 👀✝️🤣🤣🤣 As Always, Thank You, HorrorBabble! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😄
What’s a ghosts favorite Christmas entertainment? A phantomime. Did u hear about Dracula’s Christmas party? It was a scream. Best I could find on short notice.
Nice to see the old patch getting a shout out! I've always been a sucker for the old neighborhood! Cheers Warren, who is sometimes referred to as "Undead!"
@@andreasfilis9001 Well, it used to be somewhat of a big deal. It's basically the night when all the evil spirits can roam the Earth(also there are a lot of myths about wolves and this particular day). This includes vampire-like entities of which there are several in Romanian folklore(there are dead and alive vampires, and also those that can change shape and who can't - those that can are further classified by the animal in which they change shape) - tho the term vampire isn't used and is Serbian. Some similar traditions regarding Saint Andrew's night are also present elsewhere in the region, I think even some Germans have it as well, and also Ukrainians. As far as I know however, Hungarians don't have any specific vampire-related traditions for either Saint Andrew's or Saint George's, tho any Hungarians please feel free to correct me. I would think that in Transylvania with constant contact many Hungarians would've gotten the bad connotation of Saint Andrew's from Romanians - plenty of such ideas did get shared. I don't know however of any hard proof of that and it's not really a tradition that was kept alive so that one could check.I also don't know if the Transylvanian Saxons had any similar traditions. In any case, many tales similar to this one are sort of ruined for me just because I think the suspension of disbelief kind of relies on Transylvania being a far off mystical land where one would suppose things would look in a certain way but as it's my homeland and I live here it's very hard to think of it that way.
@@jach99 Thank you for your answer. In the greek tradition, no saint is related with vampires as it would seem sacrilegious for a God's person to be correlated with evil beings. Also, there was a different perception of the Vampires. They were thought as being of limited brain activity, with no special powers. Usually they were considered to throw stones at people and if a vampire calls you by your name, you should ignore him and you woyuld be safe. They could not also cross water. The similarity with the common perception is that they could not enter a house without an invitation from within. The explanation given for vampiric activities is that couples of lovers used the superstition of the others to meet safely. So, in case that someone approsached them, they pretended to be vampires, call him by name or throw stones. It seems that it worked allright.
@@andreasfilis9001 Well, in old Romanian folk tales you find saying such as not even God can counter the power of witches so not much concern about sacrilege. In gener, Romanian folklore has the tendency of making positive characters lucky idiots, while negative characters tend to be unlucky geniuses so the limited brain capacity is also not really a factor.
Great story, narration and theme. Plus my surroundings. 2cm of snow fell on the hill surrounded by forrest, on which we have a house. By the way, we have a chappel in our yard. It all adds to atmosphere, but I guess I would be safe in there if vampires came to visit.
This tale came on the heels of the release of "Dracula" (1931). This story has all the earmarks of certain Hammer vampire films. By the way, that melodic music at the intro and end is quite mesmerizing.
The playlist is growing... twill be vast I imagine, time all is done. I must add my voice to a request for a longer version of the new intro/outro theme, perhaps on Ian's channel? 😁well done
This story is OK. It was respectful of its source material, which is good, but was a little too safe and obvious. Somehow "Dracula's Guest", which is superficially rather similar, seems to add more to the genre. (Indeed, the Feast of St. George is only about a week later than Walpurgisnacht.) Maybe it was the menace -- these villagers seem to be rather slow and ineffective, spending most of the night more like conventional, if evil, ghosts than like vampires.
Yeah. There could be a plot twist that they needed the inn for its toilet because they couldn't find their own ar5es in the dark. Still, nicely told by one of the best.
Great read, but the blind ineptitude of the main characters was perplexing to say the least..but then again, without gullible and clueless characters, we wouldn’t have a story..lol
These stories love to take stuff straight from Dracula. Though four wooden stakes was much more egregious with taking sentences verbatim from brams work lol
Night of St. George? Is this so-called "Saint" George [1] some sort of anti-saint? I know (for instance) St. Nicholas is called the patron saint of thieves, but a patron saint of vampires seems to be taking the Christian forgiveness thing a bit far. [1] There are at least a dozen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_(disambiguation)
The classic Vampire tale perfectly executed but those two fellows lol they remind me of every Hollywood horror victim 🤣
Great narration and story. I find myself questioning the intelligence of the two main characters. Even if you didn't believe in vampires, there was clearly something off about that second town.
No doubt! There are too many true stories of people with nothing supernatural about them at all who deceived, murdered, and robbed travelers.
Protagonists were certainly very trusting back in the day...
@@HorrorBabble you make a very good point. The closer I look at stories from that timeframe, the truer that statement seems to become.
Agreed. "Oh people in this Transylvaian town hate crosses. I'm sure that can't be a problem."
@@HorrorBabble ROFL.
I like that old fashioned cassette tape logo you use in the lower left ...cool retro *Ian & Jennifer w/HorrorBabble* 👍👍👍👍👍📼
I love it, too! But I bet some listeners have to ask older friends what they are!
I love that too
@@marianparoo1544 🙄🙃 perhaps
Merch idea, Ian
@@marianparoo1544 If anybody the same height as me ever points at a cassette tape and asks me what it is I will shoot myself
I’m a simple man. I see HorrorBabble and VAMPIRES in the title, I click.
You fool! You’re channel is the best! 👍🏼👍🏼
Great telling Ian. Predictable but really enjoyed it. The atmosphere was very well written and told Ian. Well done.
The novel Blind Sight has one of the best explanations of vampires I've read in many years. They were an offshoot of humanity's evolution with many more higher functions cerebrally and the sight of collective right angles called what they describe as 'The crucifix glitch' caused them gran mal seizures. This with the rise of humanity's architecture with it's many straight lines and right angles led to their eventual extinction. It's a very fascinating take, and a very good novel.
They're not extinct, they just went to live in R'lyeh where the architecture is non-Euclidean.
@@lucienthurston366 Cthulhu don't mind, as long as they chip in on the bills
Who's the author?
@@darrenp9454 Peter Watts and Blindsight is one word. My bad. It's a sci-fi so don't let the fact there is vampires mislead you. It touches on themes of first contact, AI, and biology (it's written by a marine biologist and it shows). Hands down one of the best newer sci-fi books I've read in a great while!
Sounds like a horrible explanation.. opinion of course.
Fun story!! Read perfectly. Thanks for the short escape from stark raving reality.
As always absolutely outstanding thanks Ian and everyone 😀
Talk abt clueless 🤦🏾♀️ ...Ian makes any story sound just wonderful 👏🏿 i can listen to him all day
Hello from winter-saddled New England...Had our first snow fall today and there's no better way to wile away the evening than with another spooky yarn. Thank you for cont. to upload quality material from a wide ranging spectrum of Authors...Happy Holidays.
Made me think of C. A. Smith story.
At least as good as CAS...!
As did we in Kentucky. Bourbon neat and a good story are just what’s needed.
Same to you, Brian!
Oooh. They do not slay vampires generally, but imprison them, and once a year all of them break out?
I'll have to remember this one for D&D, it is perfect for Barovia.
“ You fool! …. “ …. Ah, …giving me a rest for advent and my birthday I see!
What more evocative words are there than "Vampire Village"? Loved it. Excellent as always. Thanks!
I swear, the protagonists in every single one of these vampire stories are the most impressive skeptics. This and the nightmare road are the two most egregious examples I can think of. You could have God himself descend part the heavens and reorder the earth and they would ask what kind of special effects He was using to create such a perfect illusion that affects sight, touch, sound and smell.
"Hmm, everyone in this country is talking about vampires and is keeping us out of their villages out of fear, but this one single village is accepting us wholeheartedly. Wonderful!"
"Hmm, the eyes of these people are crimson and they all look overly happy to see us. All the jolly people in Transylvania must have moved here and they're happy to see travellers."
"Hmm, they're avoiding me because I have a cross. They almost seem repelled by force- must not be fans of devout Christians, to the point of it being a complex."
"Hmm, they're smiling at us like we're on the wrong side of a joke when we ask about this vampire village legend. I wonder why... it must be a funny story or something!"
And so on, for thirty minutes. I'll remember to carry a cross when I visit Romania.
Right. These two protagonists in particular, were denser than uranium at 0 kelvin.
Ha!
When you said Resident Evil Village, my first thought was "Did videogames already exist when they recorded this?" then I instantly corrected myself, remembering Horror Babble was a modern day production. That's how good you guys are :--D
Very fun story and wonderfully narrated as usual. The dialogue and inner monologue is what made it for me. Indeed, Ian, it does have a few similarities with RE: Village.
This one is awesome! I love the setting and story as a whole.
Great narration, as always! These older stories are always so good!
Is it just me or does this story give off An American Werewolf in London vibes?
Always a good thing...
"Off we go" w/ Ian & HorrorBabble 🧛♀️🩸 nice intro/outro music🎼📽
Hope you get more views👍👍👍👍👍These early 1900s tales are very good.PS.Iv subscribed faved some vids.Hope it helps.PPS.Great voice!!!!
Excellent. Time for a glass of wine and a pillow.
Thanks for putting the idea of Vampire Village People into my head. Now how do I get it out?
Ha!
As always, "Edge of Your Seat" tale and stellar reading, Y'all!
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😬🙌🏾
🤔...Trips me out how a WHOLE village had to LITERALLY be "at their throats" before these men realize, "Well, that's odd!"...😩🤦🏾♀️
This colorful crowd's hungry eyes, and Munchkin-esque giggling during Story Time, would've had me sitting by the fire, clutching that cross, drinking coffee, watching them aaaaaalll night!
"No Funny Business on MY watch!" 👀✝️🤣🤣🤣
As Always, Thank You, HorrorBabble! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😄
Just in time
Wow. Great read, I love hearing your voice. Haven't had a chance to listen lately. I'm glad I listened today and great story. And as always great job.
What’s a ghosts favorite Christmas entertainment? A phantomime. Did u hear about Dracula’s Christmas party? It was a scream. Best I could find on short notice.
The friend who gets pulled by two romanian girls and they steal his soul. Classic
Nice to see the old patch getting a shout out! I've always been a sucker for the old neighborhood! Cheers Warren, who is sometimes referred to as "Undead!"
The title practically gives it away but it's still so goooooood
Great job!
My appreciation for this channel burns like the Fire of Asshurbanipal.🤟💌🤟
Thank you!
Fantastic..🙂
Story was a bit too obvious, but your narration is always a delight! Happy Halloween! 👻🎃👻🎃
Ok but yo mama
yes, I like vamps, so I think I'm going to like this story too!
Life is good, life is great! A *long* story, told in your inimitable way!
Ihave read some of Edmond Hamiltons stories.This is one I had not heard .I loved it
As a Transylvanian myself I have to say it's Saint Andrew's night, not Saint George's!
Really? On your name day ( and mine as well)? Is it linked with some tradition?
My grandparents were Transylvanian. They would agree with you.
@@andreasfilis9001 Well, it used to be somewhat of a big deal. It's basically the night when all the evil spirits can roam the Earth(also there are a lot of myths about wolves and this particular day). This includes vampire-like entities of which there are several in Romanian folklore(there are dead and alive vampires, and also those that can change shape and who can't - those that can are further classified by the animal in which they change shape) - tho the term vampire isn't used and is Serbian. Some similar traditions regarding Saint Andrew's night are also present elsewhere in the region, I think even some Germans have it as well, and also Ukrainians. As far as I know however, Hungarians don't have any specific vampire-related traditions for either Saint Andrew's or Saint George's, tho any Hungarians please feel free to correct me. I would think that in Transylvania with constant contact many Hungarians would've gotten the bad connotation of Saint Andrew's from Romanians - plenty of such ideas did get shared. I don't know however of any hard proof of that and it's not really a tradition that was kept alive so that one could check.I also don't know if the Transylvanian Saxons had any similar traditions.
In any case, many tales similar to this one are sort of ruined for me just because I think the suspension of disbelief kind of relies on Transylvania being a far off mystical land where one would suppose things would look in a certain way but as it's my homeland and I live here it's very hard to think of it that way.
@@jach99 Thank you for your answer. In the greek tradition, no saint is related with vampires as it would seem sacrilegious for a God's person to be correlated with evil beings. Also, there was a different perception of the Vampires. They were thought as being of limited brain activity, with no special powers. Usually they were considered to throw stones at people and if a vampire calls you by your name, you should ignore him and you woyuld be safe. They could not also cross water. The similarity with the common perception is that they could not enter a house without an invitation from within. The explanation given for vampiric activities is that couples of lovers used the superstition of the others to meet safely. So, in case that someone approsached them, they pretended to be vampires, call him by name or throw stones. It seems that it worked allright.
@@andreasfilis9001 Well, in old Romanian folk tales you find saying such as not even God can counter the power of witches so not much concern about sacrilege. In gener, Romanian folklore has the tendency of making positive characters lucky idiots, while negative characters tend to be unlucky geniuses so the limited brain capacity is also not really a factor.
I'm happy to have heard this one in daylight!! Maybe I should wear my cross. 😄
Thanks!
Thank you!
Great Narration! Great history! Your voice vibration remind me the style of D. C. Douglas!
Great story, narration and theme.
Plus my surroundings. 2cm of snow fell on the hill surrounded by forrest, on which we have a house. By the way, we have a chappel in our yard. It all adds to atmosphere, but I guess I would be safe in there if vampires came to visit.
Your home sounds fabulous, Ivan!
@@HorrorBabble Thanks. It s. Not many people have 'top of the hill-sweetspot.' I'm lucky I guess... 🙂
Bravo! Excellent vampire tale excellently told as usual...
That was fun! Thank you so much.
This tale came on the heels of the release of "Dracula" (1931). This story has all the earmarks of certain Hammer vampire films. By the way, that melodic music at the intro and end is quite mesmerizing.
Oh baby
I mean….the vamp didn’t reveal any clues about his identity when he got zapped by the religious artefact 😂. Great fun story though 👌🏽👍🏿
Amazing how the 1932 magazine knew about Resident Evil.
Ha!
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The playlist is growing... twill be vast I imagine, time all is done. I must add my voice to a request for a longer version of the new intro/outro theme, perhaps on Ian's channel? 😁well done
Thanks, Mark! We'll see about the theme -- it was only composed for this particular series, though.
I loved this story
I do believe I would be paying those villagers another visit.....they intentionally sent them to that vampire village!!!!
Thank you for the wonderful narration.
Glad you enjoyed it!
A pain in the neck...
Sounds like my home town in Essex.
We have 2 pm i think today i'll sleep again with your great story 🙋♀️❤🖤‼
Brilliant!
Amazing story!
This story is OK. It was respectful of its source material, which is good, but was a little too safe and obvious. Somehow "Dracula's Guest", which is superficially rather similar, seems to add more to the genre. (Indeed, the Feast of St. George is only about a week later than Walpurgisnacht.) Maybe it was the menace -- these villagers seem to be rather slow and ineffective, spending most of the night more like conventional, if evil, ghosts than like vampires.
Fair comments here.
Yay more vampires!!!! ♥️♥️♥️
The densest protagonists ever.
Yeah. There could be a plot twist that they needed the inn for its toilet because they couldn't find their own ar5es in the dark.
Still, nicely told by one of the best.
The plot twist should have been the two travelers ARE the vampires, imo.
Listening from the uk wales ❤️
Very impressive!
Good story.
Thanks
There should be a part 2 where they go back to the first village and inflict justice on the innkeeper that sent them there.👍🌲
Or maybe discover that the innkeeper has been sucked dry by vampires as a result of losing the cross from his front door!
Absolutely!
Wonderful narration as usual ‘but those two main characters Are a clueless pair
Never actually listened to a Ed Hamilton story.
nice one
Does anyone know why St. George's night was correlated with vampires?
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I know some Goths that would insist on a tour. 🖤
Resident Evil 4 or Village? I think 4 had the "vampires" if I remember correctly.
It was more of a reference to Village in terms of its setting -- and Lady Dimitrescu, of course...!
Nah that would be 8, 4 had infected by plagas villagers.
@@HorrorBabble Haha of course how could we forget Lady D
Done
The English abroad. Tut, Tut, Tut!
Great read, but the blind ineptitude of the main characters was perplexing to say the least..but then again, without gullible and clueless characters, we wouldn’t have a story..lol
These stories love to take stuff straight from Dracula. Though four wooden stakes was much more egregious with taking sentences verbatim from brams work lol
Such an influential work.
Has this been re-uploaded? I am very sure I listened to it before.
First time!
Whoo-hoo! I didn't see that coming! (That is sarcasm.)
We often have to wonder how predictable readers thought these stories were back in the day...
@@HorrorBabble indeed! Maybe the tales were "fresher" back in the day and readers not as exposed to a wide range of works.
Agreed.
I really enjoyed this story but the ending left it in mid-air.
Old School.
Isn't Transylvania in Romania not Hungary?
Hungary controlled the area at different times.
Its next to Ohio! Warren!
@@TheLordUrban - That makes sense.
Transylvania is in Romania. It's known as, "the land beyond the forest." My mother and her family were from there.
This was great... But so why didn't the vampires just kill them at the start? I mean just to have fun I suppose..but just silly kinda 😂
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Hello.
Hello, David!
Night of St. George? Is this so-called "Saint" George [1] some sort of anti-saint? I know (for instance) St. Nicholas is called the patron saint of thieves, but a patron saint of vampires seems to be taking the Christian forgiveness thing a bit far.
[1] There are at least a dozen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_(disambiguation)
good read but predictable story. the minute the cross was mentioned, i knew those village folk were vampires.