The HorrorBabble Podcast

”Return to the Sabbath” / A Classic Weird Tale by Robert Bloch

"Return to the Sabbath" is a short story by Robert Bloch. The work, which first appeared in Weird Tales in its July 1938 edition (and published under the pseudonym, Tarleton Fiske), is a tale of Hollywood, and something gruesome that emerged from a burial crypt. 

”The Destroying Horde” by Donald Wandrei

"The Destroying Horde" is a short horror story by the American author, Donald Wandrei. Described as "a tale of giant one-celled organisms spawned in a chemist’s laboratory, and an orgy of hideous death", the story was originally published in the June 1935 edition of Weird Tales.

”The Cats of Ulthar” / Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle

"The Cats of Ulthar" is a DREAM CYCLE short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in June 1920.

”The Marmot” by Allison V. Harding

"The Marmot" is a short story by the American author, Allison V. Harding. The work was first published in the March 1944 edition of Weird Tales Magazine, and was described as follows: "Such a harmless looking tiny creature—but animals possess strange abilities beyond our ken!”

”The Fearsome Touch of Death” by Robert E. Howard

"The Fearsome Touch of Death" is a short story by Robert E. Howard. In the story, first published in the February 1930 edition of Weird Tales Magazine, a man spends a night alone with a corpse.

”The Thing in the Weeds” by William Hope Hodgson

"The Thing in the Weeds" is a Sargasso Sea horror story by the British writer, William Hope Hodgson, first published in the January 1913 edition of The Story-teller.

”The Rose-Colored Glasses” by Thomas Kent West

Written by American writer, Thomas Kent West, The Rose-Colored Glasses is the tale of a mysterious pair of glasses, the wearing of which affects one's perception in a most curious manner...

”A Question of Identity” by Robert Bloch

"A Question of Identity" is a short story by Robert Bloch (writing as Tarleton Fiske). The story, which tells of a man's quest to recall an uncertain past, first appeared in the April 1939 edition of Strange Stories -- "No pang of hunger nor torment of thirst can stifle the questions of who, where and what!"

”The Shadow on the Moor” by Stuart Strauss

"The Shadow on the Moor" by Stuart Strauss first appeared in Weird Tales in February 1928. The magazine described the tale as: "A creepy tale of the pre-Druidistic ruins of England—out on the moor were dancing, and strange wild music, and death.”

”In the Vault” by H. P. Lovecraft

"In the Vault" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on September 18, 1925 and first published in the November 1925 issue of the amateur press journal Tryout.