People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Horror Stories, Weird Fiction, and Film Reviews

After London; Or, Wild England: In Two Parts: Part 1 – The Relapse into Barbarism; Part II – Wild England is a novel by  Richard Jefferies , published in 1885 by  Cassell and Company . It is an early work of  science fiction , set in  near future  England, near sunk  London , a century after a mysterious disaster caused the fall of modern civilization and reverted English society to the medieval l...

 The Bodymaster by Harold Ward. Read in English by Ben Tucker Horror author Harold Ward is perhaps most well-known for his Doctor Death series of stories published in the 1930s. Before that, Ward released a series of horrific and strange stories in the earliest days of Weird Tales magazine. Settle in for a sinister pair of stories that delve into the heart of the macabre! - Summary by Ben Tucker C...

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is an 1890 short story by American writer and  American Civil War  veteran  Ambrose Bierce Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

 Weird Tales Double Feature: The Skull and The Bodymaster by Harold Ward. Read in English by Ben Tucker Horror author Harold Ward is perhaps most well-known for his Doctor Death series of stories published in the 1930s. Before that, Ward released a series of horrific and strange stories in the earliest days of Weird Tales magazine. Settle in for a sinister pair of stories that delve into the heart...

The Murder Machine by Hugh B. Cave is a classic 1930 science fiction short story about a device that uses hypnotic thought-waves to turn ordinary people into murderers, first published in Astounding Stories magazine. It's a tale of mind control and murder, where a mad scientist creates a machine that can manipulate the minds of "law-abiding citizens," making them commit violent acts without their...

"Second Variety" is a  science fiction   novelette  by American writer  Philip K. Dick , first published in  Space Science Fiction  magazine, in May 1953, with illustrations by  Alex Ebel . Set in a world where a war between the  Soviet Union  and the  United Nations  has reduced most of the world to a barren wasteland, the story concerns the discovery, by the few remaining soldiers left, that  se...

"Second Variety" is a  science fiction   novelette  by American writer  Philip K. Dick , first published in  Space Science Fiction  magazine, in May 1953, with illustrations by  Alex Ebel . Set in a world where a war between the  Soviet Union  and the  United Nations  has reduced most of the world to a barren wasteland, the story concerns the discovery, by the few remaining soldiers left, that  se...

   "The Treader of the Dust" is a short story written by  Clark Ashton Smith  and first published in the August 1935 issue of  Weird Tales.   Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]  

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The spirit of dark priestess  Abigail Prinn , executed during the Salem Witch Trials, is awakened when a man moves into her old home and uncovers her secret "Witch Room" hidden beneath. In order to wreak her vengeance on the descendants of the townsfolk responsible for her death, Abigail attempts to summon forth a dark evil in the form of the  Great Old One  known as  Nyogtha , using the Witch Roo...

"The Red Hand" (1895): short detective/horror story featuring the main characters from The Three Impostors. It focuses on a murder performed with an ancient stone axe. Written by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]    

The Great God Pan is an 1894  horror  and  fantasy   novella  by Welsh writer  Arthur Machen . Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]    

"The Colour Out of Space" is a  science fiction/horror   short story  by American author  H. P. Lovecraft , written in March 1927.   Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]  

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Before Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard created Kull the Conqueror, revealed later by Howard to be an ancestor of Conan. Kull, like Conan is a vicious and bloodthirsty barbarian but in some ways is a more contemplative and thoughtful character. In these, the first two Kull stories Howard published, we find Kull dealing with a conspiracy to murder him by a race of shapeshifting lizard people i...

Oscar Schisgallon's Death Pit from the November 1923 Weird Tales. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]    

"The White People" is a classic, influential horror short story by Welsh author Arthur Machen, first published in 1904, presented as a young girl's diary detailing her secret initiation into a world of folklore, magic, and otherworldly beings, guided by her nurse, culminating in an abrupt, unsettling ending that suggests a profound, supernatural transformation. Check out this link to buy DB's Book...

The Terror (1917) by Arthur Machen is a short horror novel set during World War I, where a series of bizarre and gruesome deaths in rural Wales are linked to animals turning against humans, suggesting a cosmic horror unleashed by the war's disruption of the natural order. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]    

The Terror (1917) by Arthur Machen is a short horror novel set during World War I, where a series of bizarre and gruesome deaths in rural Wales are linked to animals turning against humans, suggesting a cosmic horror unleashed by the war's disruption of the natural order. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]    

The Terror (1917) by Arthur Machen is a short horror novel set during World War I, where a series of bizarre and gruesome deaths in rural Wales are linked to animals turning against humans, suggesting a cosmic horror unleashed by the war's disruption of the natural order. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]    

The Terror (1917) by Arthur Machen is a short horror novel set during World War I, where a series of bizarre and gruesome deaths in rural Wales are linked to animals turning against humans, suggesting a cosmic horror unleashed by the war's disruption of the natural order. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]    

"Vulthoom" was first published in the September 1935 edition of  Weird Tales . It has since appeared in a multitude of publications and has been translated into Dutch, German, French and Italian. INSTAGRAM Facebook Apple

  "Time and Time Again" is a  science fiction   short story  by American writer  H Beam Piper , first published in April 1947, Astounding Science Fiction magazine.  "The Tunnel under the World" is a  science fiction   short story  by American writer  Frederik Pohl , first published in 1955 in  Galaxy  magazine. It has frequently been anthologized, for example in The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus...

  "The Old Die Rich" is a science fiction story by H.L. Gold. It was first published in Galaxy in March 1953. "project mastodon" is a  science fiction   short story by Clifford D Simak. It was first published in Galaxy in March 1955, and has appeared in several collections since then. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]    

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short  horror novel  (51,500 words) by American writer  H. P. Lovecraft , written in early 1927, but not published during the author's lifetime. Set in Lovecraft's hometown of  Providence ,  Rhode Island , it was first published (in abridged form) in the May and July issues of  Weird Tales  in 1941; the first complete publication was in  Arkham House 's Beyond...