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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