The HorrorBabble Podcast

"Lead Soldiers" is a short story by Robert Barbour Johnson, first published in the December 1935 edition of Weird Tales. "A strange doom closed round the Dictator who sought to achieve his destiny through a bloody war." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Red Shadows" is a Solomon Kane story by Robert E. Howard, first published in the August 1928 edition of Weird Tales. Described as follows: "Thrilling adventures and blood-freezing perils—red shadows on black trails—savage witchcraft and the Black God." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Aquarium" is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Carl Jacobi, first published in DARK MIND, DARK HEART in 1962. "When a painter and her friend move into a spacious London house, the strange aquarium left behind by its former owner begins to exude an influence both unnatural and terrifying." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Vine Terror" is a short story by Howard Wandrei, first published in the September 1934 edition of Weird Tales. Described as follows: "An unusual weird-scientific tale, about vegetable vampires that lusted for animal and human food." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Silver Knife" is a short story by American author, Ralph Allen Lang, which first appeared in Weird Tales in January 1932 -- one of three tales the writer contributed to the magazine throughout the 1930s. The story tells of a man pursued by a wolf across the polar wastes of the far north. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Diary of a Madman" is a short story by French author, Guy de Maupassant. The tale is told through a series of diary entries, detailing the intimate thoughts of an undiscovered murderer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Shining Hand" is an 1889 ghost story by Dick Donovan (James Edward Preston Muddock). "On a storm-swept night at a desolate inn near Solway Moss, a travelling merchant loses his trusted servant and a fortune in gold." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The White Villa" is a horror short story by American author, Ralph Adams Cram, first published in his book, Black Spirits and White, in 1895. The story tells of two travellers exploring southern Italy, who are forced to spend the night in a remote, haunted villa, after missing the last train to Naples. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Accursed Isle" is a short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman, first published in the November 1933 edition of Weird Tales. "A hideous fear clutched the hearts of the seven castaways on that accursed isle as they were slain, one by one." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Whispers" is a short story by Robert S. Carr, first published in Weird Tales in April 1928. "In the festering swamps of Taggardsville, something unseen stirs in the night." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Eighth Green Man" is a weird tale by the Cornish author, Gladys Trenery, writing as G. G. Pendarves. First appearing in Weird Tales in its March 1928 edition, the story was described as follows: "An uncanny horror befell the guests of the innkeeper when the Green Men held their revels." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Sagasta's Last" is a short story by Carl Jacobi, first published in the August 1939 edition of Strange Stories. "An augmented eye pierces the mist-wall that rises skyward from the grave!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Stranger from Kurdistan" is a short story by E. Hoffmann Price, first published in the July 1925 edition of Weird Tales. "An enigmatic stranger infiltrates a secret gathering of devil-worshipers in the haunted depths of an ancient tower." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Lens-Shy" is a short story by the one-time Weird Tales contributor, W. M. Clayton. The story first surfaced in the June-July edition of the magazine in 1939, and tells of the odd circumstances surrounding a photographer of the dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Source of It" is a 1953 Weird Tale by the little-known author, Glen Malin. Appearing in the magazine's July edition, the story concerns the diary entries of a man who believes he is in possession of a very curious power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Witch in the Fog" by Alexander Faust first appeared in Weird Tales in September 1938. The magazine described the tale as: "A brief tale of thuggee—and a beautiful English girl." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Man-Trap" by Hamilton Craigie, first snapped its leaves in the November 1925 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The tale was described as follows: “A monstrous plant makes its kill.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First published in the May 1943 edition of Astounding Science-Fiction, Henry Kuttner's "Ghost" tells of an attempted exorcism at a centre of science in Antarctica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House" is a short story by Algernon Blackwood, appearing in his 1906 anthology, The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories. "There was something very strange about the man who lived on the floor above the doctor." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Decay" is a short story by the British author and conservationist, John Moore. The story was first collected in The Third Omnibus of Crime in 1934. "Walking between his larches today, Mr. Cotter recognized them all as old friends." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Law of the Hills" is a short story by the one-time Weird Tales author, Grace M. Campbell, first published in the August 1930 edition of the magazine. "A tragic, tender tale of the slim white shape that ran with a wolf-pack over the snow." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Thing in the Tree" is a short story by the little-known author, Harold Standish Corbin. The story first appeared in the February 1927 edition of Ghost Stories. "What influence could make a tree take on human characteristics?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Father's Vampire" is a short story by Alvin Taylor and Len J. Moffatt, first published in the May 1952 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. "Father collected things—but he wasn’t at all in a rut as to what he collected." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"In Terror of Laughing Clay" is the first of four stories concerning the fictional ghost hunter, Mark Shadow. Written by the Scottish author, Robert W. Sneddon, the story first appeared in the October 1926 edition of Ghost Stories. "No scientists experimenting ten thousand years could make a lump of potter's clay live—and yet——" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The God with Four Arms" is a work of weird fiction by the English writer, H. T. W. Bousfield, first appearing in his 1939 anthology, The God with Four Arms and Other Stories. "A shady man, owed a small fortune, takes his frustrations out on a rare bronze idol, with sinister consequences." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices