The HorrorBabble Podcast

”The Gray Killer” / Diary Horror by Everil Worrell

"The Gray Killer" is a short story by Everil Worrell. First appearing in Weird Tales in its November 1929 edition, the story was given the following synopsis: “Through the wards of a hospital slithered a strange, horrifying creature, carrying shocking death to his victims…”

”The Artist and the Door” by Dorothy Quick

"The Artist and the Door" is a short story by the American author, Dorothy Quick. It was first published in the November 1952 edition of Weird Tales. "The house and contents had been exorcised of evil—but maybe the door had been left open, the holy words lost outside."

”Medusan Madness” by E. H. Visiak

"Medusan Madness" is a short story by the British author, E. H. Visiak. It was first published in the 1934 anthology, New Tales of Horror by Eminent Authors. "The tall woman continued to stalk in the side-path, looking queer and ghostly in the distance..."

”The Tunnel” by John Metcalfe

"The Tunnel" is a short story by the British author, John Metcalfe. First published in "The Outlook" in March 1925, the story tells of a man, wrongly imprisoned, who spends years digging a tunnel to freedom…

”The Gong Ringers” by Hasan Vokine

"The Gong Ringers" by the mysterious author, Hasan Vokine, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in January 1926. The story tells of a band of travellers, who unwittingly stumble upon a trap set by the most unlikely of suspects.

”Casting the Runes” by M. R. James

"Casting the Runes" is a short story by M. R. James, first published in his 1911 collection, More Ghost Stories. In the story, a researcher for the British Museum investigates a curse connected to a curious paper on the subject of alchemy.

”Vale of the Corbies” by Arthur J. Burks

"Vale of the Corbies" by American author Arthur J. Burks, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in November 1925. The story tells of a man and his terrible nightmares, involving an unkindness of ravens.

”The Chuckler” by Donald Wandrei

"The Chuckler" is a short story by Donald Wandrei. The tale, inspired by Lovecraft's "The Statement of Randolph Carter", first appeared in Fantasy Magazine in its September 1934 edition.

”The Cairn on the Headland” by Robert E. Howard

"The Cairn on the Headland" is a short story by the American author, Robert E. Howard. First appearing in Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror in its January 1933 edition, the story tells of a troubled historian, who discovers an ancient, shunned cairn on the outskirts of Dublin.

”The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavours to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed.