The HorrorBabble Podcast

"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

"The Chuckler" is a short story by Donald Wandrei. The tale, inspired by Lovecraft's "The Statement of Randolph Carter", first appeared in Fantasy Magazine in its September 1934 edition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Cairn on the Headland" is a short story by the American author, Robert E. Howard. First appearing in Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror in its January 1933 edition, the story tells of a troubled historian, who discovers an ancient, shunned cairn on the outskirts of Dublin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavours to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Thirteen Phantasms" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The work, which first appeared in the March 1936 edition of The Fantasy Magazine, tells of a series of strange visions that torment a sick man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp" is a short story by British author, Algernon Blackwood. In the tale, men on a moose hunting trip in Canada find a dead man washed ashore at Skeleton Lake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Sea Curse" by American author Robert E. Howard, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in May 1928. The magazine described the tale as follows: “John Kulrek and Lie-lip Canool felt the baneful force of the old woman’s curse—a weird tale of the sea.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"In the Dark" by Minnesotan author Ronal Kayser, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in August 1936. The story tells of man's desperate confession in the face of something strange and vengeful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Believers" is a short story by American speculative fiction writer, Robert Arthur, which first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in July 1941. The story tells of a radio host who takes the decision to broadcast a live show from the confines of crumbling, haunted mansion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake" is an October 1931 Weird Tales by the Californian author, Clark Ashton Smith. “A brief story of the terror that lurked in Avilton’s library and the tragic event that ensued.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Horror in the Museum" is a short story ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft for Hazel Heald in October 1932, published in 1933. The tale takes place in a private wax museum that specialises in the grotesque. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Secret of Kralitz" is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Henry Kuttner. The tale, which first appeared in Weird Tales in October 1936, was described as follows: “A story of the shocking revelation that came to the twenty-first Baron Kralitz.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Witch In-Grain" is a macabre tale of black magic by the English writer, R. Murray Gilchrist, first published in the National Observer in 1893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Curse of the House" is a short story by Robert Bloch, first published in Strange Stories, February 1939. "Twelve generations of evil incarnate rise to avenge the abode of secrets forbidden!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices