The Lexicon Of Dread

The Lexicon of Dread is thrilled to present our first ever completely original story! In “Pizza Demon”, a humble delivery driver takes an order of food to a mundane address…and ends up with a lot more than he bargained for. Enjoy all the twists and turns, thrills, chills, and spills that our morbid little tale has to offer! If you would like to support the show and the creator, go to  https:/...

Lexicon of Dread presents an unabridged rendition of H.P Lovecraft legendary cosmic horror tale. On the outskirts of the city of Arkham, a dam surveyor comes upon a very strange sight: a sprawling expanse of grey dust, with the ruined remnant of a house in the center. A place known to the locals as “the blasted heath”. The curious surveyor seeks answers from an elderly hermit who lives nearby. The...

Lexicon of Dread is back from the dead! Well…from hiatus. In this behind the scenes special, John talks about his creative process, and how he makes the creepy music for the series. Listen to the end for a surprise! Check out some more of John’s music on his Bandcamp page:  https://hawkesriver.bandcamp.com .  

In a little village in colonial New England, there lives a clergyman, the Reverend Mr. Hooper. Mr. Hooper is widely respected in his town and regarded as a beloved spiritual advisor. But one day, Mr. Hooper arrives at his church…with a black veil on his face. He never removes it, and never explains why he’s wearing it. Now, the people see Mr. Hooper in a different light. Respec...

Two of the beasts that haunt Tempest Mountain are now dead, but how many remain?   As the narrator reflects on the nightmare he has endured, he suddenly realizes the significance of the countless mounds of earth that surround the mountain. He races back to the Martense Mansion to end the mystery once and for all.   But are safety and sanity even possible…after the Lurking Fear’s true ide...

The Lexicon of Dread is on PayPal. If you would like to support the show and the creator, go to  https://www.thelexiconofdread.com/support-the-lexicon-of-dread/ , and contribute whatever you like. Thank you to all of our listeners. Scary Christmas! 

After Arthur Munroe’s grisly death, the narrator’s mental state starts to break down.   Now convinced that what he is hunting (and what is hunting him) is an angry spirit, he digs in an ancient grave. As he does, we learn the history of the mysterious Martense family.   But instead of a corpse, he discovers the entrance to a network of underground tunnels. And as he explores them, he fin...

Still reeling from his horrific encounter in the mansion, the narrator continues to seek answers.   He finds a sympathetic ear in an investigative journalist, and the pair canvass the area around Tempest Mountain together. But a ferocious freak storm traps them in the village the Fear destroyed.   The duo find shelter in a nearby cabin…but the storm carries something worse than rain and...

Lexicon of Dread proudly presents HP Lovecraft’s The Lurking Fear, adapted for broadcast 100 years after its original publication in 1923.   In a remote area of upstate New York, evil stalks the night. An isolated village vanishes after a violent thunderstorm, leaving behind a scene of hideous carnage. An eager paranormal investigator leads his team into the mountains, determined to uncover t...

The creator and host of the Lexicon of Dread crawls out of his coffin to tease Season Two, reveal what he's been up to since the end of Season One, and discuss ways you can support the show.

  The Lexicon of Dread kicks off its return from the dead with a rendition of Edgar Allan Poe’s apocalyptic fever dream, The Masque of the Red Death.   The lands of Prince Prospero are ravaged by a mysterious, incurable disease, as grotesque as it is lethal. As the world dies around him, the prince and his cohorts isolate themselves in a fortified palace, preoccupying themselves with deb...

Lock your doors. Latch your windows. Look beneath the bed and check the closet... IT'S BACK! The Lexicon of Dread podcast returns for a new season of fear.   Featuring more of the greatest horror stories ever written, with even more chilling music.   Lexicon of Dread's second season will rise from the grave on November 18th.  Beware of things that slither and bump in the d...

Lexicon of Dread returns with a rendition of “The Voice in the Night” by William Hope Hodgson. In the middle of a fog-shrouded night, somewhere in the Pacific, an isolated fishing schooner is visited by a strange entity. With a coarse, inhuman voice, he pleads with the crew for desperately needed supplies of food. After his request is granted, he tells the crew a harrowing story of shipwreck and s...

LOD's creator/narrator/composer wishes everyone a Happy New Year, thanks a bunch of people, and talks about the future of the podcast. 

After narrowly escaping the Shoggoth, Dyer and Danforth return to their plane, determined to leave the Antarctic behind forever. The clouds part just long enough to offer a glimpse of those other, distant, supernaturally huge mountains...and the mysterious light they emit. As they fly away into the raging wind, Danforth witnesses something which causes him to lose his mind. Dyer ends his story by...

Everything has changed. There is only one goal now: leave, and leave very, very fast. As Dyer and Danforth run for their lives, they can hear their pursuer not far behind them. But the identity of that pursuer is worse than they could have ever imagined.

Gedney has been found...at least, what's left of him. Dyer and Danforth have barely recovered from the shock, when another reveals itself. Life in this unhallowed place exists in the form of a vast colony of blind albino penguins. The final refuge of the Old Ones can't be far away now. But what are those strange shapes lying motionless in the tunnel ahead?

Dyer and Danforth are not alone in the dark. As they near the tunnel to the abyss, they discover items from Lake's camp. This includes paper on which drawings have been made: drawings that match the style of the Old Ones' carvings exactly. When they finally discover the source of this debris, the final mystery of the murdered Lake expedition is solved.

The carvings, which are growing more "decadent" and debased, continue to tell the Old Ones' story. Climate change and dwindling resources drove the Old Ones underground. The carvings reveal the presence of a vast subterranean sea beneath the city, where the Old Ones built a refuge. But that's that all: not far away lie mountains that dwarf those that shield the city. And these mountains are the ho...

Based on his and Danforth's observations, Dyer tells the story of the alien civilization, as revealed by the carvings. He tells of the creatures (dubbed the Old Ones) coming to the newly formed earth from deep space, their building of a globe-spanning civilization, their creation of all life on Earth (including the ancestors of humans), and their wars with other extraterrestrial entities. It is cl...

Beneath the ancient city, Dyer and Danforth discover an elaborate series of carvings, which tell the city's history in pictorial form. These carvings also reveal the identity of those who built the city, and dwelt there. Whatever they were, they were not human. And what does all this have to do with those strange objects Lake found in the cave?

It wasn't a mirage. The dead city is real. Unthinkably massive, with bizarre, arcane architecture, it has lain hidden from the world for aeons. The city is a relic of a time when the earth was young, and the Antarctic was a tropical paradise. Who could possibly have built something like this? Dyer and Danforth search for answers, exploring the ruins before descending into the catacombs beneath the...

Reeling from the gruesome discovery, the shocked rescue team set themselves to the task of locating Gedney, the one member of Lake's crew not found among the butchered bodies. No one can understand why some of the prehistoric creatures were buried in crude snow graves...and why the rest are missing. Dyer and his research assistant, Danforth, decide to take an airplane journey through the massive m...

It's the day after the incredible discovery, and all communication with Lake's camp has been lost. Fearing for his colleague's life, Dyer leads a rescue mission to Lake's last known location. When the team sights the gargantuan mountains Lake discovered, they witness an incredible projection from the past: the ragged ghost of a bygone age. And when they find the camp, they find themselves in a nig...

Professor Lake, the expedition's resident biologist, becomes increasingly obsessed by the enigmatic fossils. Ultimately, he leads his own party on a sub-expedition to find their origin. Through the radio on his plane, Lake tells Dyer and the others of his sighting of a colossal mountain range; his team's discovery of an ancient cave filled with fossils; and, most stunning of all, their finding a c...