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The HorrorBabble Podcast

SpectreVision Radio

The HorrorBabble Podcast — classic horror and forgotten weird fiction. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring the anomalous, the luminous, and the numinous. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠ ⁠linktr.ee/spectrevision⁠

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25:26

”The Ocean Ogre” by Dana Carroll

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/03/13

"The Ocean Ogre" by American author Dana Carroll, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in July 1937. The story, told through a series of journal entries, tells of a ship stranded at sea, and of the stranger who came to its aid.

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01:09:22

”Out of the Aeons” by H. P. Lovecraft

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/03/10

Written by American authors, H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, "Out of the Aeons" focuses on a Boston museum that displays an ancient mummy recovered from a sunken island.

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12:08

”The Boarded Window” by Ambrose Bierce

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/03/08

"The Boarded Window: An Incident in the Life of an Ohio Pioneer" is a short story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was first published in The San Francisco Examiner on April 12, 1891 and was reprinted the same year in Bierce's collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.

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34:25

”The Wood of the Dead” by Algernon Blackwood

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/03/06

"The Wood of the Dead" is a short story by British author, Algernon Blackwood, included in the collection "The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories". In the story, a visitor to the West Country comes upon the ghost of an old man, whose appearance is an omen of death, which spells doom for the residents of a small mountain village.

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13:56

”The Werewolf Snarls” by M. W. Wellman

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/03/03

"The Werewolf Snarls" is a short story by Manly Wade Wellman. The story appeared in Weird Tales in March 1937, with the synopsis: “A brief story, with a breath of icy horror in it.”

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20:55

”Outside the Door” / A Classic Ghost Story by E. F....

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/03/01

"Outside the Door" is a short story by the British writer, E. F. Benson. The tale first surfaced in Benson’s 1912 collection, THE ROOM IN THE TOWER, and explores the intriguing and often worrying phenomenon of phantom footsteps heard at night.

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10:04

”The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/02/27

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition

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29:49

”The Oblong Box” / A Macabre Tale by Edgar Allan Poe

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/02/24

"The Oblong Box" was first published in the Dollar Newspaper, back in August 1844. Quite simply, the story tells of a sea voyage and a peculiar, pine box.

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16:09

”The Abominations of Yondo” / A Tale of the Desert by...

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/02/22

Taken from "The Abominations of Yondo", a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories by author Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1960 and was the author's fourth collection of stories published by Arkham House.

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31:49

”The Black Stone Statue” by Mary Elizabeth Counselman

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/02/20

"The Black Stone Statue" is a short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman. It first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in December 1937, described as "An amazing tale of weird sculpture–the story of a weird deception practised on the world by an obscure artist."

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25:26

”Moxon’s Master” / A Classic Weird Tale by Ambrose...

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/02/17

"Moxon's Master" is a short story by Ambrose Bierce. First published in the San Francisco Examiner in April 1899, the tale is notable in that it contains one of the first descriptions of a robot to be written in English Language literature. The story itself tells of an inventor, whose curious invention could have profound implications for humanity.

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38:42

”The Challenge from Beyond” by H. P. Lovecraft

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/02/15

"The Challenge from Beyond" is a work of collaborative fiction by C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long. The tale describes the discovery a strange artefact - an unusual stone imbued with the power to transport its possessor to distant worlds.

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54:42

”The Shadow from the Steeple” by Robert Bloch / A...

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/02/13

"The Shadow from the Steeple" is a short story by American author, Robert Bloch, first published in 1950. It completes a series of tales started by Bloch in 1935 with The Shambler from the Stars, and continued by H. P. Lovecraft in 1936 with The Haunter of the Dark. The story concludes the mystery surrounding the "Shining Trapezohedron".

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12:16

”The Jelly-Fish” / A Weird Tale by David H. Keller

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/02/10

"The Jelly-Fish" is a short story by American author, David H. Keller. First appearing in Weird Tales in its January 1929 edition, the story tells of an obnoxious professor and a wild experiment under the microscope.

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14:04

”Ghouls of the Sea” / A Weird Tale by J. B. S. Fullilove

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/02/09

"Ghouls of the Sea" is a rare weird tale by the American author, J. B. S. Fullilove. Appearing in the March 1934 edition of Weird Tales, the story asks what it was that came up out of the sea, spreading death aboard the freighter "Kay Marie".

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51:01

”Grotesquerie” / A Rare Weird Tale by Harold Lawlor

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/02/06

"Grotesquerie" is a short story by the little-known author, Harold Lawlor. First appearing in Weird Tales in its November 1950 edition, the story was described by the magazine as follows: “The inmates of the house scuttled away in the purposely kept dimly lighted halls; the latest comer was never seen about at all.”

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01:50:16

”Seedling of Mars” / A Mars Cycle Story by Clark...

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/02/03

"Seedling of Mars", which explores the idea of Martian canals being much more than mere waterways, was first published as THE PLANET ENTITY in the Fall 1931 edition of Wonder Stories Quarterly. The story was the result of an Interplanetary Plot Contest, in which readers of Wonder Stories were invited to outline plots for established authors to develop.

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08:48

”The Terrible Old Man” by H. P. Lovecraft

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/02/01

"The Terrible Old Man" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on January 28, 1920, and first published in the Tryout, an amateur press publication, in July 1921. The tale tells of the fate of three robbers who attempt to burgle an old man's house.

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17:23

”The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows” by W. B....

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/01/30

"The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows" is a short story by the poet William Butler Yeats, it is based on the true story of Sir Frederick Hamilton's burning of Sligo Abbey in 1642. Yeats tells a story of the soldiers who participated being hunted by vengeful sidhe.

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13:06

”Haita the Shepherd” / A Cthulhu Mythos Story by...

The HorrorBabble Podcast ·

2022/01/27

From Bierce's "Can Such Things Be?" collection. Haita is a naive shepherd who prays at the shrine of Hastur, god of shepherds, and knows nothing of his origin. When great storms threaten to drown the cities of the valleys, he threatens to abandon his worship, blackmailing Hastur into saving them by transforming the water into the sea. He cares for a holy hermit living an hour away and he enlightens him as to the identity of the maiden he has met.

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