The HorrorBabble Podcast

"It All Came True in the Woods" is a short story by American author, Manly Wade Wellman. If first appeared in the July 1941 edition of Weird Tales Magazine... “If you should speak in the woods of Amasookit, your words are clothed with flesh and blood. So the Indians believed…” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Black Was the Night" is a rare weird tale by the little-known author, Laurence Bour, Jr. The story, which first appeared in Weird Tales in May 1940, tells of a long-awaited encounter in a crumbling, haunted house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Polar Vortex" is a short story by the obscure American author, Malcolm Ferguson. The story first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in September 1946. The magazine described the story as follows: "A curiously terrible experiment of blasphemous implications!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Night Ocean" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and R. H. Barlow. Barlow drafted the tale, and handed it to Lovecraft to edit in the summer of 1936. It first appeared in the magazine The Californian, in its Winter 1936 edition. It tells of an unnamed artist, who, whilst vacationing by the beach, becomes increasingly unsettled by the presence of the ocean. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

"Candle-Light" is a rare tale by the little-known author, Louise Garwood. A classic ghost story, the work debuted in the November 1925 edition of Weird Tales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Green Flame" is a short story by Donald Wandrei. The tale, which tells of a strange jewel, debuted in Weird Tales Magazine in July 1930. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Fessenden's Worlds" is a tale of cosmic horror by Edmond Hamilton. The story, which first appeared in Weird Tales in April 1937, was described as follows: “Like a young god, Fessenden created a miniature universe, but his unholy meddling with the lives and destinies of his creations brought about a startling catastrophe…” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Thing on the Doorstep" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe. It was written in August 1933, and first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Body Snatcher" is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). First published in the Pall Mall Christmas "Extra" in December 1884, its characters were based on criminals in the employ of real-life surgeon Robert Knox (1791–1862) around the time of the notorious Burke and Hare murders (1828). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A Neighbour's Landmark" is a short story by M. R. James, from his collection, 'A Warning to the Curious'. It is often cited as a classic example of 'Sylvan Dread', the inexplicable fear of woods or forests. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Night Wire", by American author, H. F. Arnold, tells of two night wire operators, one of whom receives a disturbing report of a mysterious fog enveloping a small, unfamiliar town by the name of Xebico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Magic Mirror" is a short story by the British author, Algernon Blackwood. The tale, which first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in September 1938, tells of a stranger from Tibet, and a peculiar devil-mirror famed for bringing both death and riches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Lure of Atlantis" by the five-time Weird Tales contributor, Joel Martin Nichols, Jr., debuted in WT in its April 1925 edition. The story tells of an expedition into the heart of the lost city of Atlantis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Horror in the Lighthouse" is a finished version of Poe's last work, "The Light-House". Robert Bloch, who quite literally picked up where Poe left off, completed the story and saw it published in the magazine FANTASTIC in 1953. The 2019 movie "The Lighthouse" began as an attempt to adapt Poe’s fragment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Uneasy Lie the Drowned" is a short story by Donald Wandrei. The tale, concerning a troubling lake crossing, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in December 1937. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Nameless Offspring" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale, which first appeared in Strange Tales of Mystery in Terror back in June 1932, tells of a man's troubling stay at a remote property in the English countryside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Uncharted Isle" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale tells of a sailor lost at sea, who happens upon an island previously unknown to man. The story first appeared in the November 1930 issue of Weird Tales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in August–September 1923, it was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924. The story tells of an American named Delapore, who restores an ancestral estate in rural England following the death of his son in the First World War. Unfortunately, and to the dismay of his neighbours, Delapore—with the exception of his...

"Warning Wings" by the mysterious author, Arlton Eadie, first appeared in the September 1929 edition of Weird Tales. In the story, a man recounts an experience he once had involving a seemingly insignificant white moth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Suzanne” by J. Joseph-Renaud, first started to bloom in the April 1930 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The tale was described as follows: “A grisly plant horror was spawned in the steaming vapors of Dr. Salzmann’s nursery—a giant, man-eating Nepenthes.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Abductor Minimi Digit" is a short story by the little-known author, Ralph Milne Farley. It first appeared in Weird Tales in its January 1932 edition, described as “A peculiar little story about a man who learned how to move his left little toe by will-power.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In "The Dream Snake", first published in the February 1928 edition of Weird Tales Magazine, a terrified individual recounts the details of a strange, recurring nightmare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by American writer H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first Cthulhu Mythos story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Grave" by the one-time Weird Tales contributor, Orville R. Emerson, tells of a soldier who finds himself buried alive in Flanders. The story appeared in the first ever edition of Weird Tales magazine, in March of 1923. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices