Show overview
The HorrorBabble Podcast has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 438 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 240 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 20 min and 40 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Fiction show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 26 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2021, with 174 episodes published. Published by SpectreVision Radio.
From the publisher
The HorrorBabble Podcast — classic horror and forgotten weird fiction. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring the anomalous, the luminous, and the numinous. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevision
Latest Episodes
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The Follower by Allison V. Harding
Night of Impossible Shadows by Allison V. Harding
The Isle of the Torturers by Clark Ashton Smith
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
Hollywood Horror by Paul Ernst | Doctor Satan #3
The Hedge by Alfred I. Tooke
Horror at Vecra by Henry Hasse
The Pool of the Stone God by A. Merritt
"The Pool of the Stone God" is a short story by Abraham Merritt, writing as W. Fenimore. In the tale, which was first published in AMERICAN WEEKLY in September 1923, a professor relates the circumstances surrounding an encounter with a strange statue on a remote island in the Pacific… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros by Clark Ashton Smith
"The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" is a short story by American author, Clark Ashton Smith, which first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in November 1931. The story tells of a thief and his companion in search of treasure in the former capital of Hyperborea. Unfortunately, something ancient and terrible watches over the temple the pair intend to loot… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Gray Rider by Charles Hilan Craig
"The Gray Rider" by American author, Charles Hilan Craig, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in November 1927. The story tells of a famous racing driver, who is about to be put to the test, one last time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Shadow on the Screen by Henry Kuttner
"The Shadow on the Screen" is a short story by Henry Kuttner, first published in the March 1938 edition of Weird Tales. "A weird story of Hollywood, and the grisly horror that cast its dreadful shadow across the silver screen as an incredible motion-picture was run off." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Survivors by Algernon Blackwood
"The Survivors" is a short story by Algernon Blackwood, first published in his 1935 collection, SHOCKS. "After a dramatic accident, a man wanders through London observing subtle but unsettling changes in himself and the world around him." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Xeethra by Clark Ashton Smith
"Xeethra" is a Zothique Cycle story by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in the December 1934 edition of Weird Tales. "A strange tale about a goatherd who had been king in the olden days, and how he regained and lost again his kingship." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Crib of Hell by Arthur Pendragon
"The Crib of Hell" is a short story by Arthur Pendragon, first published in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, May 1965. "He could never erase from his memory the evil face of the child of horror . . . the loathsome thing that waited in . . . the Crib of Hell." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The HorrorBabble Podcast Trailer
trailerWould you like to immerse yourself in the world of weird fiction? The grimy weird is speculative fiction at its finest — a realm of horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy. Coming to you from SpectreVision Radio, is The HorrorBabble Podcast. We produce recordings of stories by the pioneers of the genre — H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard — while breathing new life into forgotten classics penned by lesser-known authors. With new recordings published twice weekly — Tuesdays and Fridays — you’ll encounter Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, from the Nameless City to the Colour Out of Space; Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique, where cosmic entities linger in a dying world; Robert E. Howard’s legendary tales of Bran Mak Morn and Conan; and everything else weird fiction has to offer: baffling beasts and deadly bargains, haunted houses and polar terrors, caverns and crypts, dreams and nightmares, vampires and werewolves… the list goes on. If you have a taste for the macabre, you’re certain to find something to satisfy your ghoulish appetite. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dispossession by C. H. B. Kitchin
"Dispossession" is a short story by the English author, C. H. B. Kitchin, published in the 1929 anthology, SHUDDERS. "A carefree London man is shaken when sudden blackouts and missing days begin to fracture his routine life." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices