"The Lurking Fear" by H. P. Lovecraft / A HorrorBabble Production

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Hi Ian. This story brought back memories from the early 90's. It was a text adventure, The Lurking Horror, by the long gone, but loved, Infocom. Infocom games have a place in computer game history. They we're the master of the text adventure. The practically kickstarted it.
In this game, the creature was hardly seen. Just once, just in the form of a tentacle. But the game was frightening!
That was 35 years ago.
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Faithful AND muscular men, you say?

I was just informed that my mother's grandfather was from the region and had the last name of Martin, which is a different spelling, but I still had to come here and share that piece of data. I just think it's neat.

I have always had a voice in my head that narrates as I go about my daily life—-at this point, I’m 99.99999% sure it’s Ian.

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“Degenerate squatters” and “native mongrels in shabby villages” in “decadent communities.” it’s hilarious how Lovecraft transforms rural New Yorkers into what urban New Yorkers imagine of Appalachian hillbillies in “Deliverance.” As if traveling up the Hudson was like the journey up the river in Heart of Darkness. HPL is labeled racist but it wasn’t just that. he is a “classist”: the mongrels in this story are wholly Europeans. His snobbery is much like Ivy educated coastal elites in America seeing the rest of the nation as “flyover country” and its people as stupid “deplorables.”

Another excellent reading. Thank you.

Seems Lovecraft did not like his visit to Norfolk

I love the phrase "digging idiotically"

I love his writing but I can't help but get angry sometimes at how judgmental Lovecraft was when it comes to human bloodlines and race. I understand that the idea of equality was not exactly the standard at the time BUT I can't help but think "dude, you would be so fucking cool if you weren't so up your own ass about ancestry"

I am very much enjoying going back to the old stuff.

Amazing narration as usual

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I like how this story has a slight slow burn and then picks up. That ending was a surprise! Thanks for sharing a great story!

This is among my top five favorite H P Lovecraft stories. Thanks for the broadcast.

Does anybody know how Warren is doing?

Thank you Mr. Gordon and Horror Babble. Excellent as always.

Another excellent reading Sir, as always thank you!!!🙏👌👻❣️

Lovecraft is the master of horror. His stories would make great movies if they kept to the original writing, settings and time periods.

I'm having a hard time following this one

i play games while you narate wonderful stories. it makes life possible. thank you sir.

Great story. I wonder if there's an origin or "first" in the whole "people devolved into underground creatures" style of stories... you can certainly see how modern script writers have certainly taken cues from stories like these.

Awwwwww yeah

Angle caves is another good subterranean degeneration story

This voice is good cus I feel like he wouldn’t be in favor of women’s suffrage

"a loathsome, night-spawned flood of organic corruption, more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity..."

HPL always adapts into the best RPGs.

Nice bedtime stories for junior.

Absolutely stunning work 🙌🙏

As I heard the description of the creature, I thought, "Tom Savini must have read this story." Good old ravenous, "Fluffy."

Fantastic narration, thank you for sharing such an enthralling story

Christopher meloni the actor from oz and svu???

Even knowing the plot, this story is remarkably solid. Is this what people think of that even Lovecraft's dutchmen are evil?

"Marston" is close to a metathesis of "Martense," so perhaps Stephen King and others were indebted to Lovecraft -- in fact I think it is a sure bet, even if through intermediaries. Coincidence or not, the dark pervert Marsden Hartley, whom Massachusetts reprobates are now not surprisingly trying to rehabilitate, lived up in Massachusetts and painted in Lovecraft's time.

Christopher Meloni from law and order?? Lit

Absolutely awesome thanks Ian.

This is, to me, a clear sign that HPL had a distaste for homogeny, and insular reproduction. The family was of proper renown until they began their inbreeding. I don't see it as a singular criticism of backcountry Americans, but also as a warning against a community or family becoming so socially isolated that they devolve in their attempt to stay "pure," going so far as to murder those who deviate.

Man he's tearin' though the sidekicks.

Those alliterations in his descriptions were a very specific kind of poetry!!

I deadass just realized after literal decades of reading this very story, despite how many deem them "man eating moles", listening just now I feel they may infact be wendigos.

"The Lurking Fear"(1928) is a horror story masterpiece, and probably this is the most scariest story by H.P.Lovecraft!

At first I thought this was an autobiography about my boss

As always Ian amazing read thank you for sharing your amazing voice

Congratulations, Ian! A truly superb reading of this remarkable classic. It has long been my favorite Lovecraft story, and it's a thrill to hear it read with such well-studied comprehension and interpretation.

Monstrous, inbred degenerates with heterochromia, huh? Boy, this story sure hits different now...

Thanks for another great narration of a good horror story!