The HorrorBabble Podcast

”Hey, You Down There!” by Harold Rolseth

"Hey, You Down There!" is a short story by Harold Rolseth. Little is known about the author. It tells of a peculiar discovery at the bottom of a dried up old well…

”The House of the Golden Eyes” by Theda Kenyon

"The House of the Golden Eyes" is a short story by the little-known author, Theda Kenyon, first published in the September 1930 edition of Weird Tales. “There was something bloated, parboiled to a dull red, sliding toward him…”

”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!"