The HorrorBabble Podcast

"The Damned Thing" is a horror short story written by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in Tales from New York Town Topics on December 7, 1893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Gorgon" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale, which first appeared in Weird Tales back in April 1932, was described as follows: “A thrill-tale of the snaky-locked Medusa and a fantastic adventure in modern London.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penned by British writer, William Hope Hodgson, "The Voice in the Night" tells of a schooner at sea, approached in the middle of the night by a small rowboat. The passenger aboard the boat, who refuses to bring his boat close alongside and requests that the sailors on the schooner put away their lanterns, tells a disturbing tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Parasitic Hand" is a short story by the author and editor, R. Anthony. A work of body horror, the tale first appeared in Weird Tales in its November 1926 edition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Open Window" tells the tale of Framton Nuttel, a nervous man, who has come to stay in the country for his health. His sister, who thinks he should socialise while he is there, has given him letters of introduction to families in the neighbourhood whom she got to know when she was staying there a few years previously. Framton goes to visit Mrs Sappleton and, while he is waiting for her to come...

"The Horla" is an 1887 horror story by French author, Guy de Maupassant. In the tale, a man is haunted by an invisible presence, an entity with attributes and motivations beyond his capability to comprehend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Dark Mummery" is a short story by the American author, Thorp McClusky. It first appeared in Weird Tales in November 1944, and was given the following synopsis: "Beware of a 'reputedly' haunted house. The reputation may be well earned." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A Hunger Artist" (German: "Ein Hungerkünstler") is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in Die neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist (Ein Hungerkünstler), the last book Kafka prepared for publication, printed by Verlag Die Schmiede after Kafka's death. The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft,...

"The Silver Coffin" by American author, Robert Barbour Johnson, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine back in January 1939. The story tells of an ancient, metal coffin, and the legend surrounding what lies within. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"In Amundsen's Tent" is a short story by American writer, John Martin Leahy. It first appeared in Weird Tales in January 1928. Highly reminiscent of "The Thing", the tale tells of a horrifying discovery in the wilds of Antarctica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Hand" is a short story written in 1883 by French author, Guy de Maupassant. The story centres around the death of an Englishman, who kept a severed hand attached to the wall of his drawing room. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Malice of Inanimate Objects" is a short work by British author, M. R. James, first published in the magazine The Masquerade, June 1933. The work explores a rather interesting and unusual idea: the notion that 'inanimate objects' are out to harm us, in a variety of ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Hall Bedroom" is a short story by American author, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. It's the tale of a peculiar room in a boarding house, told through the journal entries of a missing boarder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Masquerade" is the third published tale by the mysterious author, Mearle Prout (author of THE HOUSE OF THE WORM). This one, which appeared in WT in February 1937, was described by the magazine as follows: "A brief tale of a struggle against stark horror in a lantern-lit garden." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Ensouled Violin" is a work of horror fiction by Russian occultist and Theosophy founder, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. In great depth, the story explores the relationship between man and music, and the enduring concept of entering into a bargain with the devil to achieve mastery of a musical instrument. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"House of Hate" is a short story by the American author, Allison V. Harding. The story first appeared in Weird Tales back in January 1944, and was described as follows: "An evil house begets evil dwellers—and silently revels in the black deeds perpetrated within its walls." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Demon Lover" is a story by Irish novelist and short story writer, Elizabeth Bowen. The tale tells of a lady, who, during the Second World War, discovers a letter, reminding her of an appointment she made with a soldier many years earlier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"In the Walls of Eryx" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Co-written with the American physician, Kenneth Sterling, the tale revolves around the experiences of a prospector on Venus who becomes trapped within an invisible, mazelike structure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Last Incarnation" by the American science fiction author, Wallace West, first appeared in Weird Tales in October 1930. The story tells of an evil presence lingering close to the dying form of a little boy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Abyss" is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Robert W. Lowndes. The story was described by Stirring Science Stories back in February 1941 as follows: "A tale of a ghastly journey down a little strip in the center of a rug!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Vulthoom" is a short story by the American author, Clark Ashton Smith. In the story, which first appeared in Weird Tales in September 1935, two Earthmen on Mars find themselves trapped in the heart of a vast, underground city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penned by American writer, Philip K. Dick, "The Hanging Stranger" tells of Ed Loyce, an ordinary salesman who happens upon a body suspended from a lamppost on his way to work. The story was adapted by Dee Rees into the episode "Kill All Others" or "K.A.O." for the 2017 television series, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Black Crusader" by British author, Alicia Ramsey, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in January 1926. The story tells of a furtive thief, who, following his despoiling of a legendary tomb, is about to be appropriately punished for his crimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Invaders" is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Henry Kuttner. Written under the pseudonym Keith Hammond, it was first published in the February 1939 edition of Strange Stories. The tale tells of a unique writer, who accidentally unleashes the hellspawn of a forgotten age upon the Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Church in the Jungles" tells of a fortuitous discovery in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices