The HorrorBabble Podcast

"It Will Grow on You" is a short story by Donald Wandrei. A peculiar tale of body horror, the story first appeared in Esquire Magazine in its April 1942 edition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Written by British writer, Edith Nesbit, The Ebony Frame is the story of a beautiful and curiously carved picture frame, imbued with a mysterious allure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Empty House" is a ghost story by Algernon Blackwood. In the tale, a young man and his elderly aunt explore an abandoned house with a nefarious history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A:B:O." is a short story by Walter de la Mare, written under the pen name, Walter Ramal. The story first appeared in The Cornhill Magazine in the late 1890s. It tells of the discovery and excavation of a strange, metallic chest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Written by American writer, Philip K. Dick in 1953, the tale tells of a boy who has befriended the native inhabitants of an alien planet conquered by human beings. But his relationship with the beetle-like creatures is about to be tested. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Demons of the Sea" is a short story by British author, William Hope Hodgson. The tale tells of ship’s terrifying encounter with something altogether monstrous, in the humid, sea mists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Death of Halpin Frayser" is a short story by American author, Ambrose Bierce. The tale tells of a man, who, out in the wilderness, apparently dies at the hands of his deceased mother. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Caterpillars" is a short story by British author, E. F. Benson, from his 1912 collection, The Room in the Tower and Other Stories. The story tells of the Villa Cascana in Italy, in which a former guest recites a tale involving the truly terrible things he witnessed belonging to a certain room on a certain landing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"An Unnatural Feud" by British author, Norman Douglas, first appeared in The Cavalier in December 1908. The tale tells of a toxic relationship, between mother and son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Hound" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the Necronomicon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"To Build a Fire" is a short story by American author Jack London. This is the 1908 version, an oft-cited example of the naturalist movement that portrays the conflict of man vs. nature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Catnip" is a short story by American author, Robert Bloch, first published by Weird Tales Magazine in March 1948. The story tells of a young boy, who accidentally burns down the house of an evil old woman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A Suspicious Gift" is a short story by Algernon Blackwood, included as part of his collection, 'The Empty House', first printed in 1906. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While investigating a Templar ruin for a colleague, a Cambridge professor stumbles upon a whistle bearing two unusual inscriptions. What should happen if he blows it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Crawling Chaos" is a short story by American author, H. P. Lovecraft, based on a dream once described to him by fellow-author, Winifred V. Jackson, in which the consequences of dabbling with opium were experienced. It was first published in the 1943 collection, Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Chickamauga" is a short story by American author, Ambrose Bierce. A child strays into the forest, only to become embroiled in something beyond his comprehension. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Thing From the Barrens" is a short story by the American author, Jim Kjelgaard. The tale, which first appeared in Weird Tales in September 1945, tells of a strange entity that made its way into a small town in Northern Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Robert E. Howard's "The Horror from the Mound", first published in the May 1932 edition of Weird Tales Magazine, we learn of a screaming fear, let loose from bondage after having been buried for more than three hundred years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder" is a collection of occult detective short stories by English writer William Hope Hodgson. "The Gateway of the Monster" - In an ancient mansion, the bedroom known as the Grey Room was the site of a grisly murder generations ago. Carnacki is summoned to investigate a noisy spirit that tears off the bedclothes and slams the door(s). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

"The Lurking Fear" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of Home Brew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Mandrakes" is a short story by American horror fiction writer Clark Ashton Smith, first published in the February 1933 issue of Weird Tales Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Stranger at Dusk" is a short story by the little-known author, Malcolm Kenneth Murchie. The story, which first emerged in the November 1949 edition of Weird Tales, follows the plight of a small boy who is visited by a mysterious stranger in black. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Mr. Hyde—and Seek" by American author Malcolm Ferguson, is the second story to feature Thomas Chadwick, a character inspired by William Hope Hodgson’s paranormal investigator, Thomas Carnacki. The story, which appeared in the May 1950 edition of Weird Tales, concerns paranormal activity in a New England farmhouse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A Ghost" is a short story by French author, Guy de Maupassant. The tale tells of a suspected case of haunting in a remote, deserted chateau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices