The HorrorBabble Podcast

"No Eye-Witnesses" is a August 1932 Weird Tale by the American author, Henry S. Whitehead. "Everard Simon had a weird experience in Flatbush when his shoes were caked with blood and forest mold from the slaying of Jerry the Wolf." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Worms of the Earth" is a Bran Mak Morn story by Robert E. Howard. As described by Weird Tales in its November 1932 edition: "A grim, shuddery tale of the days when Roman legions ruled in Britain—a powerful story of Bran Mak Morn, king of the Picts, and a gruesome horror from the bowels of the earth." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Transition of Juan Romero" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, first published in Marginalia, a 1944 Arkham House collection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Terror" is a horror short story by French author, Guy de Maupassant. The story tells of an individual who has taken the decision to marry due to an overbearing fear of loneliness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith that takes place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea. The story, which is the second story to feature the character Satampra Zeiros, was first published under the title, THE POWDER OF HYPERBOREA, in the March 1958 edition of Saturn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The House Party at Smoky Island" is a short story by Canadian author, L. M. Montgomery. The tale first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in August 1935. The story revolves around an unusual house party in the wilds of central Ontario, in which ghost stories are exchanged. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Time-Fuse" is a short story by the English author, John Metcalfe. Published in the 1931 collection "Judas and Other Stories", tells of a séance hosted by a lady with a more than casual interest in spiritualism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Up Under the Roof" is a short story by American writer, Manly Wade Wellman, which first appeared in Weird Tales in October 1938. The tale tells of something stalking the space between the roof-peak and the ceiling, in an old, shabby house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A Tropical Horror" is a short story by William Hope Hodgson. First published in The Grand Magazine in its June 1905 edition, the tale tells of a ship attacked by a monstrous sea creature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"King of the Forgotten People" is a short story by Robert E. Howard, first appearing in Magazine of Horror in its Summer 1966 edition, incorrectly titled, VALLEY OF THE LOST. The story tells of Jim Brill, and his strange journey into the hidden city of Khor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Man of Stone" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald. Published in the October 1932 issue of Wonder Stories, it tells of two friends who go in search of several peculiarly life-like stone statues in the remote Adirondack Mountains of New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Demon of the Flower" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. First published in the December 1933 edition of Astounding Stories, the story tells of a desperate king's attempt to save his betrothed from an unusually macabre fate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh" is a short story by the little-known author, H. Sivia. First appearing in the October 1937 edition of Weird Tales, the story was described as follows: "DeBrugh was dead, but he still regarded his promise as a sacred duty to be fulfilled." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Man Who Lost His Head" is a short story by the English author, Thomas Burke, first published in the Blue Book Magazine, November 1935. "Something had happened which didn't happen; something out of nature; something against the sun." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Creeper in the Crypt" is a short story by American writer, Robert Bloch. First appearing in Weird Tales in July 1937, the story tells of an unusual case of kidnapping in witch-haunted Arkham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Shattered Timbrel" by American author Wallace J. Knapp, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in January 1935. The story tells of a desperate scientist, whose experiments in resurrection yield unfortunate results… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Coming of the White Worm" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith that takes place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea. The tale, which was first published in the April 1941 issue of Stirring Science Stories, and sometimes includes the subtitle, "Chapter IX of the Book of Eibon", concerns the victim of a monstrous entity’s scourge, and his quest to unravel the secret of the beast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Music of Erich Zann" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. First published in National Amateur in its March 1922 edition, the story tells of a peculiar musician who occupies the attic room of an ancient house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Written by British writer, M. R. James, "The Mezzotint" tells of a strange engraving, with even stranger properties… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Testament of Athammaus" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith that takes place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea. The tale was first published in the October 1932 issue of Weird Tales Magazine, described as follows: "The state executioner's story of an incredible monstrosity that struck terror to an entire city." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Piecemeal" is a short story by the British author, Oscar Cook. Published in Weird Tales in February 1930, the following sinister synopsis preceded the yarn: “He slipped in a pool of blood that had dripped from the severed head.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Horror Undying" is a short story by the American author, Manly Wade Wellman. The story first appeared in Weird Tales in May 1936, and was described by the magazine as follows: “A grim and gruesome story of a strange appetite—the tale of a grisly horror.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The White Sybil" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith that takes place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea. The tale was first published alongside David H. Keller's "Men of Avalon" by Fantasy Publications in 1934. "He knew that he had seen the White Sybil, that mysterious being who was rumored to come and go as if by some preterhuman agency in the cities of Hyperborea." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. After his death, it was published in the April 1939 issue of Weird Tales as a short story. The tale centres around an ancient house, in the attic of which a terrible fate met its former occupant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Tzo-Lin’s Nightingales" is a short story by Ben Belitt. Published in Weird Tales in February 1931, it was given the following intriguing synopsis: "It was an unostentatious little Chinese shop, yet it was the scene of an incredible madness and a weird horror." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penned by American writer, Kurt Vonnegut, "2 B R 0 2 B" tells of a dystopian future, in which death has become a voluntary act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Rats" is a short story by M. R. James. The tale, which first appeared in At Random Magazine in March 1929, tells of the mystery surrounding a locked room in an isolated inn on the Suffolk Coast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Door to Saturn" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith that takes place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea. First published in the January 1932 edition of Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, the story was described as follows: "Beyond sea and sky the wizard Eibon pursues his outlandish wanderings." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Mist-Monster" is a short story by Granville S. Hoss. Published in Weird Tales in February 1928, it was described as follows: "A weird mist billowed up from the cave—and horrible was the thing that it did." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Living Eyes" is a May 1953 Weird Tale by the American author, Justin Dowling. "Mrs. Weir might die; her eyes would live forever..." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Keeping His Promise", which first appeared in Blackwood's 1906 collection, The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, tells of an unusual pact, and a visit from an old friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Urbanite" is a short story by the little-known author, Ewen Whyte. First published in the January 1950 edition of Weird Tales, it was described as follows: “The great City is never still, for even when it sleeps under darkness it stirs unceasingly with nightmare thoughts.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Mother of Toads" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith, originally featured in the July 1938 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The story tells of a young apothecary's assistant and his encounters with an unusual witch in the deep forest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"An Inhabitant of Carcosa" is a short story by Ambrose Bierce, first published in the San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser, Dec 25, 1886. The story, which tells of the wanderings of a man through a strange desert, introduces several elements to the Cthulhu Mythos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Feast in the Abbey" is a short story by American author Robert Bloch. First published in Weird Tales in January 1935, the story tells of a macabre horror encountered in a strange monastery deep in the woods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Thing From the Grave" is a short story by the American writer, Harold Ward. First published in the July 1933 edition of Weird Tales, the story was described as follows: "A goose-flesh story of the hideous fate that befell a judge who had sentenced a murderer to death." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Strange High House in the Mist" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on November 9, 1926, it was first published in the October 1931 issue of Weird Tales. It concerns a character traveling to the titular house which is perched on the top of cliff which seems inaccessible both by land and sea, yet is apparently inhabited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Through the Alien Angle" is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Elwin G. Powers. Little is known about the author, nor the publication history of the story, though ISFDB suggests it was written in 1941. The brief yarn tells of a man and his quest for a book that will assist him with a class paper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Number 13" is a short story by the British author, M. R. James, from his 1904 anthology, Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary. Something in room 13 is keeping the guests at The Golden Lion awake at night… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Out of the Jar" is a Cthulhu Mythos story by the American author, Charles R. Tanner. First appearing in the February 1941 edition of Stirring Science Stories, the tale was given the following synopsis: “Are you inquisitive too? Do you want to know things? Too many things?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Immeasurable Horror" is a science fiction horror story written by Clark Ashton Smith. It tells of an expedition to Venus, and of the weird and wonderful flora and fauna encountered there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The House of the Nightmare" is a ghost story by the American author, Edward Lucas White. First appearing in Smith's Magazine in its September 1906 edition, the story tells of a man forced to spend the night at a remote country house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Haita the Shepherd" is a short story by Ambrose Bierce, first published in The Wave, Jan 24, 1891. The story, which tells of the naive worshipper of the god, Hastur, introduces several elements to the Cthulhu Mythos." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Gray Killer" is a short story by Everil Worrell. First appearing in Weird Tales in its November 1929 edition, the story was given the following synopsis: “Through the wards of a hospital slithered a strange, horrifying creature, carrying shocking death to his victims…” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Artist and the Door" is a short story by the American author, Dorothy Quick. It was first published in the November 1952 edition of Weird Tales. "The house and contents had been exorcised of evil—but maybe the door had been left open, the holy words lost outside." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Medusan Madness" is a short story by the British author, E. H. Visiak. It was first published in the 1934 anthology, New Tales of Horror by Eminent Authors. "The tall woman continued to stalk in the side-path, looking queer and ghostly in the distance..." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Tunnel" is a short story by the British author, John Metcalfe. First published in "The Outlook" in March 1925, the story tells of a man, wrongly imprisoned, who spends years digging a tunnel to freedom… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Gong Ringers" by the mysterious author, Hasan Vokine, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in January 1926. The story tells of a band of travellers, who unwittingly stumble upon a trap set by the most unlikely of suspects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Casting the Runes" is a short story by M. R. James, first published in his 1911 collection, More Ghost Stories. In the story, a researcher for the British Museum investigates a curse connected to a curious paper on the subject of alchemy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Vale of the Corbies" by American author Arthur J. Burks, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in November 1925. The story tells of a man and his terrible nightmares, involving an unkindness of ravens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices