That was a great Lovecraftian horror tale ! As a non-native english speaker, I also have to thank you for the effort you put in speaking slowly, and comprehensibly, which makes listening to you so much more pleasant.

I am always grateful that I have access to this channel. Your talent for tale telling keeps me entertained for hours. I listen to your stories multiple times. Thank you all!

This holiday season, I just want to give thanks to this lovely channel that presents Weird Tales and other obscure fantasy fiction from the early 20th century in audiobook format.

The Crawling Horror is when you are lying in your coffin...& your back starts to itch! Cheers Warren, who knows more than scratch about lying in coffins!

I love this illustration. I don’t think there’s a single element of it that is not unsettling.

This reminded me so much of _The Thing_ -- that is, the film's eponymous creature. That's based (apparently fairly closely) off the 1936 _Who Goes There?_ Maybe that would be an interesting one to read... I'm wondering if the inspiration for that creature came directly from this story. I found this story great but frustrating... frustrating because the doctor is listening to this story, not willing to assume anything. If he assumes the farmer is telling the truth, he should, for example, be trying to get someone else around the house to help stand watch. But he seems like he's one of those hyper-rational people willing to assume nothing without evidence. Then immediately after this thing comes to a window and then leaves that night, he's willing to make all sorts of leaps of assumption: "you can let it try to take you over and if your will is stronger then you'll beat it!" Based off what, some vaguely hinted at Slavic legends? Who knows! Argh. You half expect the monster to just take over permanently that night as soon as Hans (or whomever) goes to sleep. I feel like it was so close to a coherent story but the author just couldn't get there, so instead skipped a bunch because it didn't really make sense. S:

A BEAUTIFULLY DETAILED STORY MADE PERFECT BY YOUR VOICE

Another excellent story to enjoy many thanks as always Ian 🙂👍

I love your narration of H.P. Lovecraft. Anything and all things H.P. is a treat and your telling sets the tone theme and pace of it all, captivating our attention to a well read story

Good of the doctor to pitch in to help and get his Hans dirty.

Totally stunned! What a story! Thank you very much Ian

I've never been disappointed - great work.

Your stories always cheer me up after a long day at work. Thank you!

What a truly "absorbing" tale. Many thanks, Ian.

I listen to HB to fall asleep. It's made for some strange dreams. Ian has a nice voice for narration and I love early 20th century horror. This one however I haven't finished yet. It's a very unnerving story and it scares me too much for me to fall asleep. I'm 20 minutes in and I really want to finish the rest, but I can't have it keeping me up. I've found stories scary before but this is the first that I'm too frightened to finish.

Nice! Just in time for bed 🛏️☺️

Thanks for wrapping this series up with such a wonderfully weird tale. Love it!

Good story; it reminds me of remake of "The Thing" from 80's

I like horrorbabble. I don't have a chunk fire, nor a pipe, nor a collie dog. My feet are not toasting before the coals. But these are great stories.

Surprisingly delightful.

Nice to find a Lovecraftian horror story where the heroes actually win. Also a rather interesting monster concept.

A wonderfully Lovecraftian tale, eerie and strange!

Oooh The Verbing Noun, you know how to tease a Weird Tales fan you eldritch gibbous minx, you :)

Banger!

Thank you for you lovely and hard work .this channel is definitely becoming one of my favourites again thank you keep up the good work x

Love my Horrorbabble!

It gets more horrifying every time I listen to hit.

This one was extra creepy! Poor animals!

Wow this was great

I like the artwork on this one. Wow!

What a great tale and beautifully narrated; many thanks indeed.

another great story and another great series thanks again for all the hard work Ian

Possibly one of the best tales ever written or narrated. I was lost in it...and that takes a lot. Thank you.

I love me a good intro for getting under me blanket.

I love this tale! So creepy. Excellent narration! ❤

#942-✅👍🏻 Always, A wonderful Story. 🌹

This was a great story!

This was a real scary one 😲 Wonderfully read with vivid description and animated projection in my mind 😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊👍👍

I have just found your channel and loved this xxx thank you xx

Fantastic artwork to match a beautifully done series, thank you 🙏

Thanks!

What a chilling treat!

My fave channel!

The thing but with an incongruous supernatural element at the end that somewhat undermined an otherwise good story.

I wonder if Hans will end up like Tal Rasha. Imagine if such a creature were to appear in a urban setting. Kudos to the narrator and author.

such a good one

Excellent as always Sir, encore and Happy Holidays Horror Babble!!!☃️👻❣️

Love the illustration.

Individually, with a couple of exceptions, (Blood Drips is particularly strong,) the new illustrations aren't necessarily always that striking, however taken as a set they definitely have; something.

Did he become the monster, or did the monster become him? A terrifying tale. Thank you.

What a great story. Thanks for the narration and happy new year 🎆🎉

This is The Thing! This is more Thing than the Thing!

Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!

The Thorpinator be back !!

More!! I demand more of this amazing content!! 🤘☠️🤘

This one is so good

Haha! The blob meets Dracula!

very well done sir. As I said on another video reaction your voice fits these stories perfectly-continued success....

DO NOT read til you’ve listened!! . . . . . . . Thanks, Ian and company for this beautiful story. But i so wanted Hilda, with Hans’ help, to be the strong one to fight it off and shrivel it up!! She was such a beautiful, strong soul. but the conclusion was a man strong enough to contain the entity and join with his wife, while they both took care of the others. :). 😾🌹🌱

❤️Horror Babble❤️

I hope Warren is doing ok. We have not heard from him in some time.

Hot off the press!

crazygood horror , this should be a movie

I feel like this could have a sequel

Loved this 👏🏿👏🏿🥰

Dear HorrorBabble. Where do you get these absolutely enthralling art pieces for the thumbnail??

An amalgam of vampire, the blob and the thing with a touch of spirit capture.

Great story

Yeeeyyy.... The description of dead woman is quite vivid. Exquisit. I don't know which option is creepyer; the one where the souls of the killed ones is within that being, or that it is bluffing, and it's on the loose.

So... there were rats...in the walls? 🧐

That was good i think they should have just set light to the bloody thing though haha good stuff.

Pretty sure this is an almost hundred year old case of "you had one job. And failed, Doctor."

@2:15 "Idle Hans"

House of Horror!

Warren would say the thumbnail art is wonderfully creepy. But he’s dead, you fool!

Great reading, and that screen art...where did that come from?

Unreal story

Is Warren still dead?

This one was good. Actually had some gore in proper amounts.

❤

I did enjoy the swan. 😉

Wow he let bertha in the house why? Why didn't he send her home

The doctor tells the poor man to get attacked and defeat it in a contest of wills, on what basis does he make this recommendation?

Brubacher is a good Pennsylvania German/Amish/Mennonite name.

Good grief that got gorier than I expected. Rather made me think of the eye popping remake of The Blob.

I see where John Carpender got his ideas. Just another reminder that nothing you love is original.

By Thorp Mccussy

Is that AI art or real art?

Oh nononono! Not rats! I remember when I was in a hotel in Greece Athens, There were rats EVERYWHERE! They were in the ventilation ducts! YOU HEARD them! ...This was not a bad hotel. It was kinda nice. Merry Christmas, everyone.

A good one, somewhat let down by a convenient idiot turn by the Doctor...

You think the crawling horror is terrifying. Wait 'til you meet ... the waltzing horror.

Clueless people get easily outwitted by a monster.

A good game of pinochle can be very distracting.

***SPOILER ALERT POSSIBLY*** Would you have really let him go as a psychologist, I wonder? Ideas? What would you do? Might you get lighter fluid while they were kissing…

Muha haha ha ha

By impeachable witness do you mean like Donald Trump or Theodore Rosevelt? Because that is two totally different meanings.

A bit blobby

Why are the women always slender with slender legs and beautiful skin. Sophia Loren was gorgeous - not slender. Marilyn Monroe was not slender. Even Elizabeth Taylor was not slender. Annette Funicello was not slender and very popular. All of them had an hour glass figures. I had an hour glass figure (now I’m 78, so your figure changes.) It’s always the slender girls in stories who are beautiful or intelligent. It’s really annoying. It gives us a complex! 😼

you need a tiktok please get a tiktok

Love your narration and channel but please don't use AI art it steals from artists and harms them.