The HorrorBabble Podcast

"The Faceless God" is a mythos short by Robert Bloch, first published in the May 1936 edition of Weird Tales. "A fearful trek across the Egyptian desert, and the malignant stone idol that waited for the doctor's return."

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"The Withered Heart" is a short story by the English author, G. G. Pendarves, first published in the November 1939 edition of Weird Tales. "Summoned to an isolated manor by an old friend, a man finds himself drawn into a midnight rite whose promise of ancestral power may conceal a far darker inheritance."

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"Finis" is a science fiction story by the American author, Frank L. Pollock. It was first published in the June 1906 edition of The Argosy. "There, in crimson and orange, flamed the last dawn that human eyes would ever see."

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"The Vampire Maid" is a short story by Hume Nisbet. The tale, set on the wild, British moors, tells of a man who falls in a love with a vampire.

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"The Crawling Corpse" is a novelette by Eli Colter, first published in the December 1939 edition of Strange Stories. "High on a rocky knoll, hidden from the eyes of men, a house of incredible evil rots in the mire of souls forever damned!"

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"The Bottomless Pool" is a short story by the American author, Ralph Milne Farley. First published in the April 1939 edition of Strange Stories, the story tells of a strange black pool at the heart of a festering swamp.

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"The Box from the Stars" is a tale of cosmic horror by Amelia Reynolds Long, first published in the April 1939 edition of Strange Stories. "It was hollow, but not empty; nothing was in it, but nothing was—something!"

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"A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in the September 1917 issue of the United Amateur, under the pseudonym Humphrey Littlewit, Esq.

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"Legacy in Crystal" is a mythos short story by James Causey, first published in the July 1943 edition of Weird Tales. "Never accept a gift from a necromancer or demon. Steal it or buy it, but do not accept it as a gift ... or legacy."

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"The Secret of the Vault" is a short story by J. Wesley Rosenquest, first published in Weird Tales, May 1938. "What dread mystery lurked in that charnel chamber beneath the cellars of the old house, and what impious rites of life and death were performed there?"

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"The Brotherhood of Blood" is a short story by Hugh B. Cave, first published in the May 1932 edition of Weird Tales. "The sensational story of a beautiful vampire doomed to prey upon the living."

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"The Tomb" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It tells the story of Jervas Dudley, who becomes obsessed with a mausoleum near his childhood home.

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"The Antimacassar" is a short story by Greye La Spina, first published in the May 1949 edition of Weird Tales. "A house of secret happenings, a night of creeping horror."

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"Caverns of Horror" is a Stranger Club short story by Laurence Manning, first published in the March 1934 edition of Wonder Stories. “Well, then, how about devils? Might they really exist down below?”

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"The Witchcraft of Ulua" is a Zothique Cycle story by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in the February 1934 edition of Weird Tales. "A bizarre and fantastic tale of the weird sendings of a wicked woman, and the luckless youth who became entangled in her toils."

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"Two Plus Two Makes Crazy" was written by American writer, Walter J. Sheldon, and was first published in Fantastic Universe in March of 1954. Are computers infallible? Or are they in fact more akin to their creators? A simple question was all it took to find out.

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"Dead Giveaway" is a mythos story by J. Vernon Shea, first published in the May 1976 edition of Outré. The story is a sequel to "The Haunter of the Graveyard". "On Halloween night, Old Dethshill Cemetery stirs... and something ancient answers the call."

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Penned by American writer, Kurt Vonnegut in 1953, "The Big Trip Up Yonder" tells of an overpopulated world, in which food and resources are scarce, owing to certain medical advances in the field of anti-aging.

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"The Ghoul and the Corpse" is a short story by the one-time Weird Tales author G. A. Wells, published in the very first issue of the magazine -- March 1923. "Entombed for uncounted ages in the blue heart of an Arctic glacier, the knife-clutching corpse of a prehistoric man awakens by firelight."

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"August Heat" is a short story by British author, W. F. Harvey. The tale tells of two strangers, whose futures are, potentially, intertwined in the most terrible way.

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"The Scarlet Citadel" is a Conan the Cimmerian novelette by Robert E. Howard, first published in the January 1933 edition of Weird Tales. "A shuddery story of weird monstrosities in the underground crypts of Tsotha-lanti the magician—a tale of eery powers and red battle."

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"Old Rambling House" was written by American writer, Frank Herbert, and first published in 1958. The story tells of the Grahams - all they wanted was a home they could call their own ... but what did the home want?

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"The Inn by Doomsday Falls" is a short story by Allison V. Harding, first published in the November 1947 edition of Weird Tales. "A haunted inn, a cursed falls, and an evil being who should have been but dust in a grave centuries ago."

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"Guarded" by American author Mearle Prout, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in March 1938. The story of a murder—and its unforeseen consequences—in the mountains of Tennessee.

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"Sacrilege" is a short story by Wallace West, first published in Magazine of Horror in its June 1965 edition. "Let me explain: I am dead. Mather was dead, although not dead enough yet."

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"A Thing of Beauty" is a short story by Wallace West, first published in Magazine of Horror in its August 1963 edition. "Short, you see, was in charge of the brine vat.

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"John Lehmann Alone" is a short story by the American author, David Kaufman, first published in the Mid-December 1987 edition of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. "As floodwaters rise around a quiet rural community, an old farmer recalls the unsettling events that forever changed the lives of his closest friends."

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"The Moonstone Mass" is a short story by Harriet Prescott Spofford, first appearing in Harper’s magazine in October 1868. The story describes an unnamed narrator’s attempt to cross the Northwest Passage, which, unsurprisingly, results in a series of unusual events.

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"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, first published in the October 1927 edition of Weird Tales. "Unutterable monstrosities crept out from the crumbling walls of the cellars in an old New England city."

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"Four Wooden Stakes" is a short story by Victor Rowan, first published in the February 1925 edition of Weird Tales. "A tale of vampirism at the remote Holroyd estate."

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"Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy's Curse" by Louisa May Alcott was first published in The New World in 1869. The story tells of an encounter with something ancient under the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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"The Crawling Horror" is a short story by Thorp McClusky, first published in the November 1936 edition of Weird Tales. "A grim tale of the weird terror that wrought death and panic at Brubaker Farm."

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"The Nightmare Road" by Florence Crow first appeared in Weird Tales in March 1934. The story was described by the magazine as: "A sensational story of a vampire-infested region in the Hartz Mountains of Germany."

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"The Minister's Black Veil" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The black veil represents 'secret sin', and how terrible human nature can be.

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"The Church at Garlock's Bend" is a short story by the American author, David Kaufman, first published in the April 1987 edition of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. "A mathematician returns to the abandoned town of Garlock's Bend and uncovers disturbing clues that suggest the mysterious force responsible for a decades-old tragedy may still lurk beneath the river."

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"Vampire Village" is a short story by Edmond Hamilton, first published in the November 1932 edition of Weird Tales. "A strange story of the ghoul-haunted village of Wieslant, and the eerie adventure of two American travellers."

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"The Master of the Crabs" is a Zothique Cycle story by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in the March 1948 edition of Weird Tales. "Strange books, they were, containing the erudition of buried aeons."

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"The Room in the Tower" is a short story by English writer, E. F. Benson, first published in 1912. The story tells of a young man and his recurring nightmare involving a terrifying room in the house of a friend.

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"The Man Who Was Saved" by B. W. Sliney, first appeared in Weird Tales in May 1926. In the story, the sole survivor of a wrecked ship tells of a terrifying encounter with a mysterious sea creature.

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"The White People" is a horror short story by Welsh author Arthur Machen. The tale centres around a young girl's initiation into a supernatural cult.

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