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Sunday Feb 13, 2022
”The Shadow from the Steeple” by Robert Bloch / A Cthulhu Mythos Story
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
"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".

Thursday Feb 10, 2022
”The Jelly-Fish” / A Weird Tale by David H. Keller
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
"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.

Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
”Ghouls of the Sea” / A Weird Tale by J. B. S. Fullilove
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
"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".

Sunday Feb 06, 2022
”Grotesquerie” / A Rare Weird Tale by Harold Lawlor
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
"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.”

Thursday Feb 03, 2022
”Seedling of Mars” / A Mars Cycle Story by Clark Ashton Smith
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
"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.

Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
”The Terrible Old Man” by H. P. Lovecraft
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
"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.

Sunday Jan 30, 2022
”The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows” by W. B. Yeats
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
"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.

Friday Jan 21, 2022
”Sleigh Bells” by Hasan Vokine / Arctic Horror (5/5)
Friday Jan 21, 2022
Friday Jan 21, 2022
"Sleigh Bells" by the mysterious writer, Hasan Vokine, first appeared in the April 1925 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The story takes place in deepest Siberia, where two men are besieged by wolves in an isolated hut.

Thursday Jan 20, 2022
”The Earth Draws” by Jonas Lie / Arctic Horror (4/5)
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
"The Earth Draws" by Norwegian author Jonas Lie, first appeared in his 1893 collection, Weird Tales from Northern Seas. The story tells of a series of strange events surrounding a young salesman’s visit to a remote fishing station.

Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
”The Arctic Death” by Wilford Allen / Arctic Horror (3/5)
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
"The Arctic Death" by American author Wilford Allen, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in June 1927. Out of the North it came, that dread death that touched every living thing with a killing cold.