The HorrorBabble Podcast

"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

Written by French author, George G. Toudouze, "Three Skeleton Key" tells of a lighthouse keeper's terrifying ordeal whilst stationed at a remote light on an infamous rock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Signal-Man" is a short story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The tale tells of a railway signal-man who relates the details of a ghost that has been haunting him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Screaming Skull" is a short story by American author, Francis Marion Crawford, first published in the magazine, Collier’s, in 1908. The story, told in first-person, tells of a curious, haunted skull, and of the teller’s possible link to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature"; and was written by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. Originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, it was first collected in Bierce's 1891 book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. The story, which is set during the Civil War, is famous for its irregular time sequence and twist ending. Bierce's abandonment of strict linear narration in favor of the internal mind of the protagonist is considered an early example of experimentation with stream of consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis" is a short story by the American author, Clark Ashton Smith. In the story, which first appeared in Weird Tales in May 1932, a group of explorers on Mars venture into the subterranean passages of a long-abandoned city ... with unfortunate consequences Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In "Count Magnus", a traveler in Sweden stumbles upon the history of a mysterious and ominous figure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penned by American writer, Andre Alice Norton, "All Cats Are Gray" tells the story of Steena of the Spaceways, and her search for the derelict pleasure-ship, the Empress of Mars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penned by American writer, Clark Ashton Smith, "The Dweller in the Gulf" tells of three earthmen exploring a mysterious cave system on Mars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penned by Welsh writer, Arthur Machen, "The Shining Pyramid" tells of mysterious stones that begin to appear in unusual arrangements on the edge of a man's land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"It Will Grow on You" is a short story by Donald Wandrei. A peculiar tale of body horror, the story first appeared in Esquire Magazine in its April 1942 edition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Written by British writer, Edith Nesbit, The Ebony Frame is the story of a beautiful and curiously carved picture frame, imbued with a mysterious allure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Empty House" is a ghost story by Algernon Blackwood. In the tale, a young man and his elderly aunt explore an abandoned house with a nefarious history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A:B:O." is a short story by Walter de la Mare, written under the pen name, Walter Ramal. The story first appeared in The Cornhill Magazine in the late 1890s. It tells of the discovery and excavation of a strange, metallic chest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Written by American writer, Philip K. Dick in 1953, the tale tells of a boy who has befriended the native inhabitants of an alien planet conquered by human beings. But his relationship with the beetle-like creatures is about to be tested. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Demons of the Sea" is a short story by British author, William Hope Hodgson. The tale tells of ship’s terrifying encounter with something altogether monstrous, in the humid, sea mists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Death of Halpin Frayser" is a short story by American author, Ambrose Bierce. The tale tells of a man, who, out in the wilderness, apparently dies at the hands of his deceased mother. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Caterpillars" is a short story by British author, E. F. Benson, from his 1912 collection, The Room in the Tower and Other Stories. The story tells of the Villa Cascana in Italy, in which a former guest recites a tale involving the truly terrible things he witnessed belonging to a certain room on a certain landing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"An Unnatural Feud" by British author, Norman Douglas, first appeared in The Cavalier in December 1908. The tale tells of a toxic relationship, between mother and son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices