The HorrorBabble Podcast

"The Tree's Wife" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (Weird Tales, March 1950). A curious yarn involving a tryst, and a tree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Ye Goode Olde Ghoste Storie" by William A. P. White first appeared in Weird Tales in January 1927. The magazine described the tale as: "The Chilling Chamber of Fantomheath Fields; or, The Winning of Alicia, the Beautiful." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Mandarin's Canaries" first appeared in Weird Tales in its September 1938 edition. The story tells of a torture-mad Chinese ruler, and his aptly named Garden of Pain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Epiphany of Death" (also known as 'Who Are the Living?') is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale, which first appeared in The Fantasy Fan in its July 1934 edition, tells of a shocking revelation in the catacombs of Ptolemides. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Horror in the Hold" by American author Frank Belknap Long, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in February 1932. The magazine described the tale as follows: "A tale of the old adventurous days when Spain and England fought for the supremacy of the seas.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Mommy" is a short story by American writer, Mary Elizabeth Counselman. The story tells of a little girl in an orphanage, who claims to have been visited by her dead mother. It first appeared in Weird Tales in April 1939. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Tree-Men of M'Bwa" by Donald Wandrei first appeared in Weird Tales in February 1932. The magazine described the tale as: "A startling story of Africa, strange monstrosities, and the weird power of the Whirling Flux." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Vallisneria Madness” by Ralph Milne Farley, first crawled up out of the earth in the May 1937 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The tale was described as follows: “A strange and curious little story, about the moonlight mating of flowers.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The City of Lost Souls" by Genevieve Larsson first appeared in Weird Tales in October 1928. This is how the magazine described the tale: "Weirdly terrible was the punishment of the twelve who avenged a brutal murder in a spectacular way." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Seed from the Sepulchre" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale, which first appeared in Weird Tales in October 1933, was described by the magazine as follows: “A horror tale of the Venezuelan jungle, and a diabolical plant that lived on human life.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Drone" is a short story by Abraham Merritt. The tale explores two rather unusual cases of metamorphosis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Spirits' Mountain" is a story by Spanish author, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, included as part of his collection, "Romantic Legends of Spain." In the tale, a young man is tasked with the retrieval of a scarf from a haunted mountain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Transgressor" is a short story by Henry Kuttner. The tale, which first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in its February 1939 edition, tells of an individual whose curious invention proves to be terribly successful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The House of Living Music" is a short story by the regular Weird Tales author, Edmond Hamilton. The story, which first appeared in Weird Tales in January 1938, was described as follows: “A strange weird-scientific story with a tragic denouement—about a great composer who could re-create all living things in sound.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Pale Man" is a short story by American writer, Julius Long. The story tells of the eccentric behavior of a strange guest in a country hotel. It first appeared in Weird Tales in September 1934. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Glamour of the Snow" is a short story by British author, Algernon Blackwood. It tells of a writer who falls in love with a ghostly ice-skater in the Valais Alps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The House of the Worm" is a Cthulhu Mythos story by the American author, Mearle Prout. It first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in October 1933. The story tells of two men, and their struggle against an otherworldly blight that originated in a bleak forest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"I, the Vampire" is a horror short story by American author, Henry Kuttner. The story first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in February of 1937. It tells of a vampire loose in Hollywood, feasting on the stars of the silver screen. But is there more to this vampire than simple bloodlust? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Smee" by British author, A. M. Burrage, is a classic ghost story, in which a group of youngsters decide to play a game of hide and seek in an old, haunted house. It was first published in Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine, in December 1929. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The House of Shadows" is a short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman. First published in Weird Tales Magazine in April 1933, the story tells of a family whose images would not reflect in the mirror. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A Terribly Strange Bed" is a short story by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1852 in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens. It was written near the beginning of his writing career, his first published book having appeared in 1848. Collins met Dickens in 1851, and this story was the first contribution by Collins to Dickens's magazine Household Words. After several more pieces for...

"The Red God Laughed" by American author Thorp McClusky, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in April 1939. The story tells of the extinction of the human race, and of he who came to survey the Earth following our demise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“When the Flame-Flowers Blossomed” by Leslie F. Stone, first sought sunlight in the November 1935 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The tale was described as follows: “A bizarre fantasy about strange life found on Venus by two explorers from Earth.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Till A’ the Seas” is a post-apocalyptic short story by H. P. Lovecraft and R. H. Barlow. The story, which describes a dying world, was first published in The Californian in 1935. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Evening Primrose" is a short story by British-born author, John Collier. It tells of a poet who seeks solace and privacy in the forgotten corners of a department store. To his horror, he discovers that he is not alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices