*This is the 2023 HorrorBabble recording of TNC*
“The Nameless City” is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft, first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. Adhering to Lyn Carter’s view, it is considered to be the first Cthulhu Mythos story. “It lay silent and dead under the cold desert moonlight, but what strange race inhabited the abyss under those cyclopean ruins?”
00:00 – Introduction
01:08 – The Nameless City
37:33 – Further Listening
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A sacrifice to the Al gor ithm. 🙌
what lovely dinner listening, thank you for this
Das ist gut!! (schpeak: this is good)
Was this just re-recorded or did you edit the original text too? If the latter, what changes were made exactly?
I don't know which version I like best… Fantastic work 👍
Excellent re-recording of one of my favorite Lovecraft stories.
one of my favourites of your readings! I'v watched the older vid easily 10 times over the months while i'm working away, I've no qualms doing the same again.
I love this story, thanks!
Thank you for another addition to The Mythos, Mr. Gordon,
When, if ever, are you going to get around to making a recording of Lovecraft's 1920 short-story Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, or, The White Ape?
As long as it was built on rock and roll
I’ve got a lot affection for this story. I tend to agree with Lin Carter on this one. Marvellous recording btw!
I for one, am more then happy to hear these stories re-recorded.
As ever, thank you all so much 🙏
I don’t know what the big deal is. I've walked down stairs before.
Brilliant and unparalleled presentation!
Very much hyped for the rest of HPL mythos, keep up the good work !
Best weird tales narration on the Internet! I enjoyed this version very much. Thanks HB!
These tales always do it for me!
This story would have made a really good point and click adventure game in the 90s
Warren is in prison, arrested on January 6th for wandering through the Capitol building.
Excellent. I hope Reanimator and Dexter Ward make the list. 😁
Goody a other story. Have you done any lin Carter stories even through he didn't do much chuthlu.
YEET!
Can never have too many amazingly narrated versions of the Cthulhu Mythos stories!
Warren might be dead or might not be dead. It’s hard to tell since he took off for the Empty Quarter…
In sha'Allah the Djinn and the giant camel spiders will let him return.
What exactly are you changing in the re-recordings? Are you just updating the sound quality? or are you making revisions of some kind?
Such a badass phrase. That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange eons even death may die.
Thank you ☺️
If you're serious about re-recording, you might want to double-check the pronunciation on some of the prehistoric animals listed in the fossil assemblage from At the Mountains of Madness. Love that story, but as a zoology major who once had dreams of being a paleontologist, hearing you mispronounce some of those taxon names was like nails on a chalkboard.
For future reference, fossil mammal taxa were/are often identified with the suffix "-there," (pronounced "theer"), Greek for "beast." When mentioned in plural ("-theres"), they are pronounced like "theers," not "thairees" like you said in your previous reading. Granted, that was an understandable mistake, one I've heard many people make over the years when reading about Cenozoic mammals for the first time.
In any case, just thought you might want to know that if/when you decide to re-record Mountains of Madness. Keep up the good work, man 🙂
thank you guys for your hard work for me it all the cthulhu mythos story i love so much not to say all your work is so amzing
A man discovers an ancient society and learns of their ways by deciphering their art might be the most Lovecraft plot device there is. And he makes it work every time. What a delightful weirdo he was.
I cannot wait to hear the Dream Cycle if you do them. I hate to say it, but I am not a fan of how you narrated the original videos. You have become my absolute favorite audiobook channel since then
Wow Ian, this is like listening to the latest remix of the White Album… both the original and the revised versions are great. The only problem is, I can't decide which I like the best! Keep up the good work!
Considering that HP. L. spent most of his time in his rooms writing this stuff , his stories are remarkably prescient considering the amount of documentaries (on Youtube) about recently discovered incredibly ancient temples, tombs etc, whose construction is of baffling sophistication.
THE BROADCASTING OF A STORY LIKE THIS IS A .MONSTROSITY DESIGNED TO SEND LISTENERS TO THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS. UNDOUBTEDLY A DELIBERATE ACT BY THE N.W.O.
I ENCOURAGE ALL TO LISTEN
Had a busy few days, lost track of Warren….. apologies.
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Absolutely brilliant. It’s gets better every time I hear it!
Hey HorrorBabble, if you're looking for more cosmic or Lovecraftian horror, I strongly recommend these stories by Thomas Ligotti: Nethescurial, The Mystics of Muelenburg, In the Shadow of Another World, The Flowers of the Abyss, The Shadow at the Bottom of the World, and The Last Feast of Harlequin. Take care. 🙂
When you recite Thomas Moore you become too affraid to recite more. 38:30
Redolent of the hideous stories recorded before the bricks of babylon were baked, updated with the blasphemous mysteries of unnamed eons
The original was already perfect, I can only imagine how good this one is. Starting to listen now
Superb!
Thank you Ian
Fantastic:) thanks for keeping the oldies this is better but your old voice is great, too! The higher pitch in the early recordings matches Lovecraft's tone wonderfully.
My first story of this channel that makes me fall in love with channels