The HorrorBabble Podcast

"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

"The Underbody" is a short story by the American author, Allison V. Harding. The story first appeared in Weird Tales in November 1949, and was described as follows: “A thing that was not a man, yet could not be anything else…” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Tobermory" is a short story by British author, Saki. What if cats could speak? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Murder Man" is a short story by Ewen Whyte. First published in the November 1949 edition of Weird Tales, the story was given the following synopsis: "The one perfect thing in an unbelievably imperfect life would be this perfect killing." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Fire in the Galley Stove" is a horror story of the sea by the little-known author and captain, William Outerson. First appearing in the May 1937 edition of The Atlantic Monthly, the story tells of a terrible attack on the crew of the ship 'Unicorn'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Human Chair" is a short story by Japanese author and critic Edogawa Ranpo. It was published in the October 1925 edition of the literature magazine Kuraku. Text translated by James B. Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Lupa" is a short story by the American author, Robert Barbour Johnson. First appeared in Weird Tales in its January 1941 edition, the story was described as follows: "Lupa Dzarkas was a tender, lovable woman—but what was that shape of horror that was found dead on the couch in her room?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Doom of the House of Duryea" by American author Earl Peirce, Jr., first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in October 1936. In the story, a man and his father are keen to put to rest certain dark legends concerning their ancestry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Shingler" is a short story by the one-time Weird Tales writer, E. L. Wright. The tale first appeared in the magazine in its January 1941 edition. "Next time you have work done on your house, be sure you don’t get the Shingler!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Horror at Martin's Beach" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Sonia H. Greene, which first appeared in Weird Tales in November 1923. The story tells of a horrifying creature killed by sailors at sea, and of the resulting act of vengeance on behalf of the creature’s mother. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Ghost Hunt" is a short story by the British writer, H. Russell Wakefield. The story first appeared in Weird Tales in March 1948. "Twice before the Ghost Hunters had tried unsuccessfully to find their quarry. This was the third—and LAST—attempt!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Demons of the Film Colony" by Theodore LeBerthon first appeared in Weird Tales in October 1932. The story was described by the magazine thusly: "A gigantic hoax was perpetrated on the author by 'Dracula' Lugosi and 'Frankenstein' Karloff." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Six Flights to Terror" is a short story by Manly Banister. The story first appeared in the September 1946 edition of Weird Tales, with the following description: "It was a dead thing, and dead things should be buried—but how do you bury a building?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Oval Portrait" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Red Balloon" is a short story by Q. Patrick (the pen name of detective fiction writers Richard Wilson Webb and Hugh Callingham Wheeler). The story first appeared in Weird Tales in November 1953. “Only facts would interest the head of the Homicide Bureau; not fantasy.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Country House" is a horror story by the little-known author, Ewen Whyte. First published in the September 1949 edition of Weird Tales, the story was described as follows: “A strange rendezvous with the beauty of the country … and the terror of the darkness!” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Levitation" is a short story by American writer Joseph Payne Brennan. It tells of the final performance of a disgruntled hypnotist, and the fate of his reluctant volunteer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Jonah" by Guy Pain, first surfaced in Weird Tales in its August 1925 edition. It tells of a disreputable bosun, and a murder, with a touch of maritime superstition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices