0:00:00 Chapter I
0:17:18 Chapter II
0:45:46 Chapter III
0:50:00 Chapter IV
1:09:08 Chapter V
1:21:04 Chapter VI
1:36:49 Chapter VII
1:46:01 Chapter VIII
2:00:45 Chapter IX

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This story was published in 1910.

15 miles = 24 kilometers

Rat Portage is an old name for a city now called Kenora, in western Ontario, right close to the border with Manitoba. In fact, the city was renamed to Kenora in 1905, so it's not been called Rat Portage for a very long time...

Fifty Island Water: the only references I can find to this are to this story, I can't find any real world reference to it. Now it might be that it's such an old name that nobody has used in so long that it never got documented in a way that made it onto the internet. More likely, however, is that it is just made up.

There is a Garden Lake, and it is in Ontario, but far, far east of Rat Portage, not north of it, so clearly not the same place. I suppose there could be some other Garden Lake elsewhere in Ontario, but more than likely, another case of a made up name.

The pictures used are:

Chapter 1: "Almost end of the day - Algonquin provincial park, Ontario, Canada" by Sean X Liu, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).

Chapter 2: The picture used is "Fall colour on Ragged Lake in Algonquin Park" by Mark Totten, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/).

Chapter 3: The picture used is of the Oregon Badlands Wilderness, by the Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).

Chapter 4: public domain image of a snowy forest

Chapter 5: public domain image of a misty forest

Chapter 6: The picture used is "Cox Lake Campfire" by Martin Cathrae, used here under the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/). There are many lakes in Canada by the name of Cox Lake, but this one is in Ontario.

Chapter 7: The picture used is "Winter Campfire - Klondike Derby" by George Pankewytch, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).

Chapter 8: The picture used is an illustration by Matt Fox for the story published in the June 1944 edition of "Famous Fantastic Mysteries".

Chapter 9: The picture used is "Wendigo" by JakubJagoda, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

To follow along: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10897/pg10897-images.html

0:00:00 Chapter 1 - The Coming of the Stone Beast
0:50:13 Chapter 2 - The Atrocity at the Museum
1:26:06 Chapter 3 - An Archaeological Digression
1:35:55 Chapter 4 - The Horror on the Hills
1:37:56 Chapter 5 - Little's Dream
2:20:58 Chapter 6 - The Time-Space Machine
2:38:40 Chapter 7 - A Cure for Scepticism
2:42:48 Chapter 8 - What Happened in the Laboratory
2:51:33 Chapter 9 - The Horror Moves
3:05:22 Chapter 10 - Little's Explanation

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This story was published in 1931. It is considered part of the Cthulhu mythos, so if it feels Lovecraftian, there's a reason for it.

The whole aspect of Chaugnar Faugn is Lovecraftian, but there are other little details that are extremely Lovecraftian but super subtle to those not well versed in the lore. Like the statue being made of a black stone with a greenish sheen. Things like that show just how much Long was into the lore himself.

Speaking of Chaugnar Faugn, it is worth bearing in mind that according to Lovecraft himself, the pronunciation of these names by humans can never be correct as we lack the biological physiognomy to make the necessary sounds. Which is to say, if you don't like my pronunciation, it doesn't matter, yours would also necessarily be wrong regardless :-P

Chapter 5 was told in its own entirely separate story by H.P. Lovecraft entitled "The Very Old Folk"

The pictures used are:

Chapter 1: "Chaugnar Faugn" by jsantiagogutierrez, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)

Chapter 2: postcard of the Museum of Natural History, circa 1930

Chapter 3: Nkisi Nkondi, Kongo people, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19th century. Room 25, British Museum. Ethno 1905.5-25.3

Chapter 4: "The Pyrenees mountains in December" by Mike McBey, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Chapter 5: a re-enactor depicting a Roman Centurio 70 a.C. during a show of Legio XV from Pram, Austria Weinstock als Rangabzeichen Beinschienen, by Medium69, used here under the Creative Commons ttribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)

Chapter 6: "The time travel cabin" by AI-Postcards, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)

Chapter 7: Byrant Park some time in the 1920s or very early 30s. That's the rear of the New York Public Library at the east end of the park

Chapter 8: the boardwalk and band pavilion in Asbury Park, circa 1930

Chapter 9: "View south across Sand Marsh from Cape May County 619 (Ocean Drive) in Stone Harbor, Cape May County, New Jersey" by Famartin, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)

Chapter 10: Thomas Edison's assistants—(left to right) George Hill, Ch

0:00:00 Chapter 1
0:40:01 Chapter 2
0:47:46 Chapter 3
0:57:58 Chapter 4
1:56:22 Chapter 5

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This story was published in 1907, so we're talking pre-WW1 Austro-Hungarian Empire here. I would be quite shocked if this area of swampland described in this story still exists, or at least exists as described herein. Do we have anybody in the audience with recent personal experience of the Danube between Bratislava and Budapest? To be sure, the descriptions here in this chapter are absolutely amazing! I'd love to know if there is any stretch of the river still anything remotely like this?

As this is the Austro-Hungarian Empire period, the names are mostly in German, where today they are no longer known by their German names, so:

Preßburg: the German name for Bratislava
Pozsóny: the Hungarian name for Bratislava

Komorn is the German name for what is today the Hungarian city of Komárom. This helps us to better pin down their location, being north of Komárom, but south of Bratislava.

Gran is the German name for what is today the Hungarian city of Esztergom. Gran is 50km east of Komorn.

When you look on google maps between Bratislava and Komárom the Danube does look to get all weird and complex, which comports with what is suggested in this story. Although it also looks a lot more developed than it would have been 120 years ago.

12 kph = 7.5 mph
100 kilometers = 62 miles

50 miles = 80 kilometers

Undine: a water nymph

paling: a pale (i.e. picket) for a fence

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The pictures used are:

Ch 1: the Danube River near Bratislava - Slovakia, by ferobanjo, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/).

Ch 2: an illustration by Lawrence Sterne Stevens. The text with the image suggests chapter 1, but the imagery is clearly chapter 2.

Ch 3: an illustration by Lawrence Sterne Stevens for the story.

Ch 4: "Landscape with Willows and Sun Shining Through the Clouds" (1884) by Vincent van Gogh.

Ch 5: "Lower Danube wetlands, shot from a moving train on the way to the Romanian seaside" by Gabriel (https://www.flickr.com/photos/8628950@N06/5885324176) used here under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/). Sure, it's Romania, not Hungary, but I wanted a shot of the Danube looking more pleasant rather than creepy, and this is what I found.

To follow along: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11438/pg11438-images.html

Trehagobol, described a couple stories back (in the story entitled "Pegana"), is one of the three great mountains of Pegana, indeed the highest of the three.

The picture used is "The End of Time" by mumu0909, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#THE_BIRD_OF_DOOM_AND_THE_END

The picture used is of the Li River in Guilin, China. I know the River of Silence isn't a river of water (or of flame!), but this stretch of the Li River has a very mystical quality to it that I really liked.

I already used the Ship of Yoharneth-Lahai back when Yoharneth-Lahai was first introduced. Oops.

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#THE_RIVER

The picture used is "雪の金閣寺 Kinkakuji in snow" by Takeshi Kuboki, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#OF_OOD

The picture used is "Elijah is led to his confrontation with King Ahab." Elijah had a better time of it than did Imbaun, but still, it's a Prophet v. King image, so there you go.

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#OF_HOW_IMBAUN_SPAKE_OF_DEATH_TO_THE_KING

The picture used is "The Prophet Jeremiah", photograph by Ian Scott. The prophet Jeremiahat the foot of the Colonna dell'Immacolata, at the end of the Piazza di spagna, Rome (1857). Used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#THE_SAYINGS_OF_IMBAUN

Putting words into the mouths of the gods in order to protect your own sinecure? Hmmm.... Well, this isn't the last we hear of Imbaun, so we'll find out here soon enough how that little stunt went for him.

The picture used is "Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden" by Wenzel Peter, from the Vatican Museum, photo taken by faungg's photos, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/).

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#PEGANA

The picture used is the Annunciation to the Shepherds, from the medieval Book of Hours, written in the late 14th century.

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#OF_HOW_IMBAUN_MET_ZODRAK

The title bar is six characters to short for me to put the entirety of it into. Grrr! Full title is: "The Gods of Pegāna: Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet In Aradec Of All The Gods Save One" by Lord Dunsany

The picture used is "At the End of the Universe" by TehAngelsCry, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#OF_HOW_IMBAUN_BECAME_HIGH_PROPHET_IN_ARADEC_OF_ALL

I could come up with a host of possible pronunciations for Sidith, as the 'i' in English has many options. *sigh*

(The very same night I'm recording this, I am listening to a podcast with General Anthony Tata. How do you think Tata should be pronounced? Turns out tay-tah. Each of the two 'a's gets a different pronunciation. Which makes me feel better about how I did the pronunciation here of Sidith.)

The picture used is "The angel stopped at the threshing floor of Araunah and asks for God to stop the plague."

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#OF_HOW_THE_GODS_WHELMED_SIDITH

Full title, which is too long for Youtube's title length limit: "Of the Calamity that Befel Yun-Ilara by the Sea, and of the Building of the Tower of the Ending of Days"

The picture used is of Dunstanburgh Castle by Dbrooke1829, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en).

It's the remains of a tower overlooking the sea. Obviously this is not Yun-Ilara in his prime, but much, much, MUCH later...

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#OF_THE_CALAMITY_THAT_BEFEL_YUN-ILARA_BY_THE_SEA_AND_OF_THE

Shall a man curse a god, indeed...

The picture used is "Sermon and Deeds of the Antichrist" (1501) by Luca Signorelli. Note in particular in the front just right of center, the devil whispering to the antichrist. As Kabok claims Mung whispers to him. But, Kabok is just another false prophet, like the Antichrist is sometimes said to be.

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#KABOK_THE_PROPHET

The picture used is "The Fall of Simon Magus" (1421) by Benozzo Gozzoli. Like Elymas for Yonath, we have another false prophet, Simon Magus, to represent Alhireth-Hotep. What is with the people of this milieu that they simply ask someone to be a prophet for them, and that person is just like "sure thing!" LOL!

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#ALHIRETH-HOTEP_THE_PROPHET

The picture used is "The Blinding of Elymas" (1516) by Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi). Elymas (a.k.a. Bar-Jesus) is a Biblical figure described as a mágos or sorcerer, i.e. a false prophet. Since Yug clearly isn't a legitimate prophet...

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#YUG_THE_PROPHET

The picture used is lithograph by William Blake of Enoch, done in 1807. If I am not mistaken, Enoch is the first prophet mentioned in the Bible?

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#YONATH_THE_PROPHET

The picture used is an illustration by Sidney Sime for the 1911 edition of the book.

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#OF_THE_THING_THAT_IS_NEITHER_GOD_NOR_BEAST

The picture used is an illustration by Sidney Sime for the 1911 edition of the book.

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#THE_EYE_IN_THE_WASTE

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#OF_DOROZHAND

A leap day video! W00t!

The picture used is "Three River Gods" by Salvator Rosa (17th century)

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#THE_REVOLT_OF_THE_HOME_GODS

The stories are really starting build up one upon the other now.

The picture used is of Zao Jun (灶君), the Kitchen God. But imagine if you will instead that it is Roon, and the small ones at his feet are the little gods of the hearth and home.

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#OF_ROON_THE_GOD_OF_GOING_AND_THE_THOUSAND_HOME_GODS

The picture used is an illustration by Sidney Sime for the 1911 edition of the book.

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#OF_YOHARNETH-LAHAI

The picture used is a linocut by by Klytie Pate entitled "Limpang Tung".

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#THE_SAYINGS_OF_LIMPANG-TUNG

The picture used is "The Dance of Death", a 16th century German painting by an unknown artist.

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#THE_CHAUNT_OF_THE_PRIESTS