The HorrorBabble Podcast

"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

"Blind Man's Buff" is a short story by H. Russell Wakefield, first published in Others Who Returned in 1929. It's a cheap piece of real estate, but there's a very good reason Mr. Cort is getting such a fabulous deal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Haunter of the Graveyard" is a Cthulhu Mythos tale by J. Vernon Shea, first published in Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos in 1969. It tells the story of a TV presenter who encounters a malign spirit in a cemetery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A Case of Eavesdropping" is a tale by British author, Algernon Blackwood, from his "The Empty House" collection. In the story, a man, who believes himself to be the only tenant in an old house, continually hears brash and vicious arguments in the room next door. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Death in Twenty Minutes" is a Weird Tale penned by Charles Henry Mackintosh. The story deals with Doctor Graeme, an individual who could have never known how his death's-head spider plot would redound on his own head. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Eyes for the Blind" is a short story by the English author, Frederick Cowles. The tale first appeared in his 1936 collection, The Horror of Abbot's Grange and Other Stories. “Who had not heard of John Dangerfield? The monster had been convicted of the most vile crimes. His mania was to attack unsuspecting persons, often children, and gouge out their eyes…” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Suicide in the Study" first appeared in Weird Tales in its June 1935 edition. It tells of a modern sorcerer, and his efforts to obtain a state of 'dual personality'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Interlopers" is a short story by British author, Saki. The tale takes place in the dramatic Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe, wherein a pair of feuding landowners vow to put an end to one another. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Blood Drips: An Unsolved Mystery" is a short horror story by British writer, Dick Donovan (aka James Edward Preston Muddock). The story first appeared in Donovan’s 1889 collection, Stories, Weird and Wonderful, and tells of an old, dilapidated house, haunted by something terrible and mysterious. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Furnished Room" is a short story by American author, O. Henry. In the story, the new tenant of a timeworn apartment seeks to discover the identity of its previous occupant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Clutching Hands of Death" is a short story by the prolific Weird Tales author, Harold Ward. As described in the March 1935 edition of WT: “A tale of terror—of a weird surgical operation performed in France—and a ghastly horror that stalked by night…” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Demon Spell" is a short story by Scottish-born novelist and artist, James Hume Nisbet. The tale tells of a strange seance, a rare coin, and a Kandian dagger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Floor Above" is a short story by the one-time Weird Tales author, M. Humphreys. Having first appeared in the May 1923 edition of the magazine, the story tells, through a series of diary entries, of a man's troubling stay with an old friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Old Bugs" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, probably written shortly before July 1919. It was first published in the Arkham House book The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces (1959). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Look" is a short story by the French writer, Maurice Level. The story, which first appeared in the French publication, Le Journal, in 1906, tells of a dreadful deed committed by a man and his wife… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Coat" is a short story by English civil servant, A. E. D. Smith. The tale appeared in Famous Fantastic Mysteries in December 1952, and tells of a curious item of clothing encountered in an old chateau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Voice in the Dawn" (also known as "The Call in the Dawn") is a Sargasso Sea story by the British writer, William Hope Hodgson, first published in The Premier Magazine, November 1920. A strange voice greets the crew at dawn... but from where does it originate? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Theater Upstairs" is a short story by Manly Wade Wellman. The work was first published in the December 1936 edition of Weird Tales, and was described as follows: “A weird and uncanny story about a motion-picture show, in which dead actors and actresses flickered across the silver screen…” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Crooked Smile" is a short Weird Tale by the little-known author, Bryan Irvine. In the story, a man seeks retribution, with unfortunate consequences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"House of the Griffin" is a short story by Will Garth, the 'house pseudonym’, used by numerous Strange Stories authors, including August Derleth, Edmond Hamilton, and Henry Kuttner, to name but a few. The story first appeared in Strange Stories in its October 1939 edition. “Forces of Terror Strike from, the Void to Be Stayed Only by Stronger Forces for Good!” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices