The HorrorBabble Podcast

"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

"The Seance" is a ghost story by the American author, Ronal Kayser. As the title suggests, the story, which first appeared in Weird Tales in April 1936, tells of an unusual seance conducted by a fake medium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Haunted Dolls' House" is a short story by British author, M. R. James. The tale first appeared in the British magazine, Empire Review, in March of 1923, and tells of an individual who acquires a curiously low-priced antique dolls’ house, complete with a family of ‘ghostly’ figurines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Brain-Eaters" is a short story by the American author, Frank Belknap Long. First published in the June 1932 edition of Weird Tales, the story tells of dead men who sat in a boat, and a weird horror from four-dimensional space… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Phantom Coach" is a classic ghost story by English author, Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892). The tale tells of a young man who becomes lost on the moors during a snow storm. He seeks shelter with a strange and reclusive scientist, who tells him of a stage coach that might be able to take him home... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Hunters from Beyond" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. Highly reminiscent of Lovecraft’s Pickman’s Model, the tale first appeared in the October 1932 edition of STRANGE TALES OF MYSTERY AND TERROR. “Living gargoyles, most hideous, come to the sculptor Sincaul from outland realms of evil.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Green Meadow" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson. The tale, which first appeared in The Vagrant in 1927, tells of a small notebook discovered within a meteorite in Maine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A Night of Horror" is a short story by the British writer, Dick Donovan. The tale, which first appeared in Donovan’s 1899 collection, TALES OF TERROR, is a classic ghost story, set in a haunted castle in the remote hills of Wales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Hey, You Down There!" is a short story by Harold Rolseth. Little is known about the author. It tells of a peculiar discovery at the bottom of a dried up old well… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The House of the Golden Eyes" is a short story by the little-known author, Theda Kenyon, first published in the September 1930 edition of Weird Tales. “There was something bloated, parboiled to a dull red, sliding toward him…” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Return to the Sabbath" is a short story by Robert Bloch. The work, which first appeared in Weird Tales in its July 1938 edition (and published under the pseudonym, Tarleton Fiske), is a tale of Hollywood, and something gruesome that emerged from a burial crypt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Destroying Horde" is a short horror story by the American author, Donald Wandrei. Described as "a tale of giant one-celled organisms spawned in a chemist’s laboratory, and an orgy of hideous death", the story was originally published in the June 1935 edition of Weird Tales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Cats of Ulthar" is a Dream Cycle short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in June 1920. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Marmot" is a short story by the American author, Allison V. Harding. The work was first published in the March 1944 edition of Weird Tales Magazine, and was described as follows: "Such a harmless looking tiny creature—but animals possess strange abilities beyond our ken!” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Fearsome Touch of Death" is a short story by Robert E. Howard. In the story, first published in the February 1930 edition of Weird Tales Magazine, a man spends a night alone with a corpse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Thing in the Weeds" is a Sargasso Sea horror story by the British writer, William Hope Hodgson, first published in the January 1913 edition of The Story-teller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Written by American writer, Thomas Kent West, "The Rose-Colored Glasses" is the tale of a mysterious pair of spectacles, the wearing of which affects one's perception in a most curious manner... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A Question of Identity" is a short story by Robert Bloch (writing as Tarleton Fiske). The story, which tells of a man's quest to recall an uncertain past, first appeared in the April 1939 edition of Strange Stories -- "No pang of hunger nor torment of thirst can stifle the questions of who, where and what!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Shadow on the Moor" by Stuart Strauss first appeared in Weird Tales in February 1928. The magazine described the tale as: "A creepy tale of the pre-Druidistic ruins of England—out on the moor were dancing, and strange wild music, and death.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"In the Vault" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on September 18, 1925 and first published in the November 1925 issue of the amateur press journal Tryout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Night They Crashed the Party" is a short story by American author, Robert Bloch, first published by Weird Tales Magazine in 1951. The story tells of a party, in which the guests, expecting to watch a televised wrestling match, are subjected to an unsettling and impromptu live broadcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"In the World's Dusk" is a short story by Edmond Hamilton. The story first surfaced in the March 1936 edition of Weird Tales magazine, and was described as follows: “A gripping tale of the last survivor of the human race and his attempts to repopulate the world…” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"What Is It?" is a work of flash fiction by the one-time Weird Tales author, Charles M. Morris. The story first appeared in the magazine in its January 1933 edition, and was described as follows: “Retribution, swift and terrible, struck the man who had committed the sin of Cain…” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Man Who Chained the Lightning" is a short story by the American author, Paul Ernst. It is the second story in Ernst's DOCTOR SATAN series (Weird Tales, September 1935). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Seeds from Outside" is a short story by Edmond Hamilton. First published in Weird Tales in March 1937, the magazine described the story as follows: “A strange and curious weird-scientific fantasy about two beings that came to earth in a meteor.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Way Home" is a short story by the obscure author, Paul Frederick Stern. In the author’s only published work, we learn of a man suffering from amnesia, wandering a city street after dark, soaked to the skin, searching for answers… First published in Weird Tales, November 1935. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Watcher at the Door" is a short story by Henry Kuttner. First published in Weird Tales in its May 1939 edition, the story concerns the horrible dreams of a man called Edward Keene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Malignant Invader" is a short story by Frank Belknap Long. Lovecraftian in flavour, the story tells of a horrifying encounter with a strange creature from the bowels of the earth. First published in the January 1932 edition of Weird Tales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Bed of Shadows" is a short story by the little-known author, Fred R. Farrow, Jr. Having debuted in the May 1929 edition of Weird Tales, the story asks: What lurked above the man in the bed? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Hollow Moon" is a work of horror/sci-fi by the great Everil Worrell. First appearing in Weird Tales in May 1939, it was given the following synopsis: “A fascinating tale of a lunar vampire and strange icebergs in the Pacific Ocean.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Man in a Hurry" is a classic Weird Tale by Alan Nelson, having first appeared in the magazine in its May 1944 edition. "For 20 years the pudgy little man was always hurrying, as though to some appointment for which he was already late…" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices