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

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...

The Defenders — Philip K. Dick Story Humanity believes it wages endless war underground while robots fight above. When the truth surfaces, the machines reveal they have quietly preserved Earth—and manipulated humans into survival through comforting lies. Dick probes reality, trust, and whether salvation still counts if it’s engineered deception. First appearance Published in Galaxy Science Fiction...

The Coffin Cure — Alan E. Nourse Story A bleak medical future where burial becomes therapy. The “coffin cure” is a sanctioned psychological treatment—patients sealed away to shock them back into compliance. Nourse uses clinical calm to expose how medicine, stripped of empathy, can become ritualized cruelty dressed up as care. First appearance Published in April 1957 issue of Galaxy magazine. Autho...

Dave talks about ultraterrestrials. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]  

Dave talks about the monsters in Cabin in the woods. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]  

"The Picture in the House" is a short story written by  H. P. Lovecraft . It was written on December 12, 1920. INSTAGRAM Facebook Apple

Indrid Cold (later known as the Grinning Man or Smiling Man) is a legendary humanoid being who originated in 20th century folklore, and became a stock character in certain works of fiction. He is usually associated with tales of the  Mothman  from  Point Pleasant, West Virginia  in the 1960s. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending.

"The Outsider" is a short story by American  horror  writer  H. P. Lovecraft . Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in  Weird Tales , April 1926. INSTAGRAM Facebook Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that fa...

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that fa...