The HorrorBabble Podcast

"The Nameless Offspring" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale, which first appeared in Strange Tales of Mystery in Terror back in June 1932, tells of a man's troubling stay at a remote property in the English countryside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Uncharted Isle" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale tells of a sailor lost at sea, who happens upon an island previously unknown to man. The story first appeared in the November 1930 issue of Weird Tales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in August–September 1923, it was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924. The story tells of an American named Delapore, who restores an ancestral estate in rural England following the death of his son in the First World War. Unfortunately, and to the dismay of his neighbours, Delapore—with the exception of his cat—isn't the priory's only occupant... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Warning Wings" by the mysterious author, Arlton Eadie, first appeared in the September 1929 edition of Weird Tales. In the story, a man recounts an experience he once had involving a seemingly insignificant white moth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Suzanne” by J. Joseph-Renaud, first started to bloom in the April 1930 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The tale was described as follows: “A grisly plant horror was spawned in the steaming vapors of Dr. Salzmann’s nursery—a giant, man-eating Nepenthes.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Abductor Minimi Digit" is a short story by the little-known author, Ralph Milne Farley. It first appeared in Weird Tales in its January 1932 edition, described as “A peculiar little story about a man who learned how to move his left little toe by will-power.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In "The Dream Snake", first published in the February 1928 edition of Weird Tales Magazine, a terrified individual recounts the details of a strange, recurring nightmare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by American writer H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first Cthulhu Mythos story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Grave" by the one-time Weird Tales contributor, Orville R. Emerson, tells of a soldier who finds himself buried alive in Flanders. The story appeared in the first ever edition of Weird Tales magazine, in March of 1923. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Damned Thing" is a horror short story written by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in Tales from New York Town Topics on December 7, 1893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Gorgon" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale, which first appeared in Weird Tales back in April 1932, was described as follows: “A thrill-tale of the snaky-locked Medusa and a fantastic adventure in modern London.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penned by British writer, William Hope Hodgson, "The Voice in the Night" tells of a schooner at sea, approached in the middle of the night by a small rowboat. The passenger aboard the boat, who refuses to bring his boat close alongside and requests that the sailors on the schooner put away their lanterns, tells a disturbing tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Parasitic Hand" is a short story by the author and editor, R. Anthony. A work of body horror, the tale first appeared in Weird Tales in its November 1926 edition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Open Window" tells the tale of Framton Nuttel, a nervous man, who has come to stay in the country for his health. His sister, who thinks he should socialise while he is there, has given him letters of introduction to families in the neighbourhood whom she got to know when she was staying there a few years previously. Framton goes to visit Mrs Sappleton and, while he is waiting for her to come down, is entertained by her fifteen-year-old, witty niece. The niece tells him that the French window is kept open, even though it is October, because Mrs Sappleton believes that her husband and her brothers, who were killed in a shooting accident three years before, will come back one day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Horla" is an 1887 horror story by French author, Guy de Maupassant. In the tale, a man is haunted by an invisible presence, an entity with attributes and motivations beyond his capability to comprehend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Dark Mummery" is a short story by the American author, Thorp McClusky. It first appeared in Weird Tales in November 1944, and was given the following synopsis: "Beware of a 'reputedly' haunted house. The reputation may be well earned." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A Hunger Artist" (German: "Ein Hungerkünstler") is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in Die neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist (Ein Hungerkünstler), the last book Kafka prepared for publication, printed by Verlag Die Schmiede after Kafka's death. The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is an archetypical creation of Kafka: an individual marginalized and victimized by society at large. The title of the story has been translated also to "A Fasting Artist" and "A Starvation Artist". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Silver Coffin" by American author, Robert Barbour Johnson, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine back in January 1939. The story tells of an ancient, metal coffin, and the legend surrounding what lies within. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"In Amundsen's Tent" is a short story by American writer, John Martin Leahy. It first appeared in Weird Tales in January 1928. Highly reminiscent of "The Thing", the tale tells of a horrifying discovery in the wilds of Antarctica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Hand" is a short story written in 1883 by French author, Guy de Maupassant. The story centres around the death of an Englishman, who kept a severed hand attached to the wall of his drawing room. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Malice of Inanimate Objects" is a short work by British author, M. R. James, first published in the magazine The Masquerade, June 1933. The work explores a rather interesting and unusual idea: the notion that 'inanimate objects' are out to harm us, in a variety of ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Hall Bedroom" is a short story by American author, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. It's the tale of a peculiar room in a boarding house, told through the journal entries of a missing boarder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Masquerade" is the third published tale by the mysterious author, Mearle Prout (author of THE HOUSE OF THE WORM). This one, which appeared in WT in February 1937, was described by the magazine as follows: "A brief tale of a struggle against stark horror in a lantern-lit garden." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Ensouled Violin" is a work of horror fiction by Russian occultist and Theosophy founder, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. In great depth, the story explores the relationship between man and music, and the enduring concept of entering into a bargain with the devil to achieve mastery of a musical instrument. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"House of Hate" is a short story by the American author, Allison V. Harding. The story first appeared in Weird Tales back in January 1944, and was described as follows: "An evil house begets evil dwellers—and silently revels in the black deeds perpetrated within its walls." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Demon Lover" is a story by Irish novelist and short story writer, Elizabeth Bowen. The tale tells of a lady, who, during the Second World War, discovers a letter, reminding her of an appointment she made with a soldier many years earlier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"In the Walls of Eryx" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Co-written with the American physician, Kenneth Sterling, the tale revolves around the experiences of a prospector on Venus who becomes trapped within an invisible, mazelike structure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Last Incarnation" by the American science fiction author, Wallace West, first appeared in Weird Tales in October 1930. The story tells of an evil presence lingering close to the dying form of a little boy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Abyss" is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Robert W. Lowndes. The story was described by Stirring Science Stories back in February 1941 as follows: "A tale of a ghastly journey down a little strip in the center of a rug!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Vulthoom" is a short story by the American author, Clark Ashton Smith. In the story, which first appeared in Weird Tales in September 1935, two Earthmen on Mars find themselves trapped in the heart of a vast, underground city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penned by American writer, Philip K. Dick, "The Hanging Stranger" tells of Ed Loyce, an ordinary salesman who happens upon a body suspended from a lamppost on his way to work. The story was adapted by Dee Rees into the episode "Kill All Others" or "K.A.O." for the 2017 television series, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Black Crusader" by British author, Alicia Ramsey, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in January 1926. The story tells of a furtive thief, who, following his despoiling of a legendary tomb, is about to be appropriately punished for his crimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Invaders" is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Henry Kuttner. Written under the pseudonym Keith Hammond, it was first published in the February 1939 edition of Strange Stories. The tale tells of a unique writer, who accidentally unleashes the hellspawn of a forgotten age upon the Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Church in the Jungles" tells of a fortuitous discovery in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Black Kiss" is a short story by Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner. The story, which first appeared in Weird Tales in June 1937, tells of the thing that swam in the black waters off California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Lukundoo" by American author Edward Lucas White, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in November 1925. In this terrifying tale of body horror, an intrepid explorer incurs the wrath of a witch doctor, in deepest Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder" is a collection of occult detective short stories by English writer William Hope Hodgson. In "The House Among the Laurels", a deserted mansion in Ireland displays signs of haunting, including what appears to be blood dripping from the ceiling, and several men have been found dead in the house. Is it a prank or a haunting? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Lost Hearts" tells of a young orphan boy, summoned by an older cousin to live with him at a remote country mansion. The boy begins to question his cousin's intentions, following a spell of mysterious visions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Cat-Woman" is a short story by American author, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, first published in Weird Tales in October 1933. The tale involves an unusual case of anthropomorphism in a quiet boarding house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. The story tells of the antiquarian, Randolph Carter, and the strange disappearance of his friend in an ancient graveyard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Thing in the Cellar" is a short story by American author, David H. Keller. The story, which first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in March of 1932, tells of a terrified little boy, and his fear of what might be lurking in the basement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Trap" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and the regular Weird Tales contributor, Henry S. Whitehead. The story, which first appeared in the publication, Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, in its March 1932 edition, tells of a curious mirror, and the boy who took an unfortunate interest in it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Far Below" is a short story by the American author, Robert Barbour Johnson. The story, which first surfaced in the June-July 1939 edition of Weird Tales, tells of dreadful creatures burrowing up into the New York subway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Red Lodge" is a classic ghost story by British author, H. Russell Wakefield, which first appeared in his 1928 collection, THEY RETURN AT EVENING. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Disinterment of Venus" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale, which first debuted in Weird Tales in its July 1934 edition, tells of a curious statue unearthed in the grounds of a monastery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Sredni Vashtar" is a short story written by Saki between 1900 and 1911 and initially published in his book The Chronicles of Clovis. The tale tells of a sickly boy by the name of Conradin, who keeps a curious secret locked away in the garden shed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, first published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales. It is considered to be one of the first of his Cthulhu Mythos stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penned by American writer, Ray Bradbury, "The Pendulum" tells of an unusual punishment bestowed upon a scientist responsible for the deaths of his contemporaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Written by British writer, A. M. Burrage, "The Waxwork" tells of a journalist who chooses to spend the night alone in a wax museum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"In the Forest of Villefére" is a tale of lycanthropy by Robert E. Howard. One of Howard’s earliest offerings, the story first appeared in Weird Tales back in August 1925. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices