The HorrorBabble Podcast

"The Corpse Light" / The Tale of a Haunted Mill by Dick Donovan

"The Corpse Light" is a short story by British writer Dick Donovan (aka J. E. Preston Muddock). It's the tale of a sceptical physician, and a windmill known as 'The Haunted Mill'.

"The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf

"The Mark on the Wall" is a short story by British author, Virginia Woolf, in which a trivial observation triggers a tidal wave of introspection, and self-reflection. The story first appeared in 1917 as part of the collection, Two Stories.

"The Transfer" by Algernon Blackwood

"The Transfer" is a short story by Algernon Blackwood. The tale, which was first published in the magazine, Country Life, in 1911, tells of a child’s fascination with a barren patch of land in a big garden known as the Forbidden Corner.

"The Sunken Land" by George W. Bayly

"The Sunken Land" by George W. Bayly was first published in the May-June-July, 1924 edition of Weird Tales. It is the story of a strange journey into the heart of Canada's Northwest Territories.

"Sweets to the Sweet" by Robert Bloch

"Sweets to the Sweet" is a short story by Robert Bloch. The story, which first appeared in Weird Tales in March 1947, tells of an eight-year-old girl with uncanny abilities.

"Afterward" / A Classic Ghost Story by Edith Wharton

"Afterward" is a short story by Edith Wharton. It was first published in the 1910 edition of The Century Magazine and in her books, The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton and Tales of Men and Ghosts, 1910. It is an ironic ghost story about greed and retribution. The ghost comes for one of the main characters long after a business transgression where the character wronged another.

"The Lady in Gray" by Donald Wandrei

"The Lady in Gray" is a short story by the American author, Donald Wandrei. The tale first appeared in Weird Tales in its December 1933 edition, and was described by the magazine as follows: “The story of a strange woman and a loathsome gray slug that came to a sleeper in his dreams..."

"The Family of the Vourdalak" by Aleksey Tolstoy

Written in French by Russian author, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy in 1839, The Family of the Vourdalak tells a tale of vampirism in rural Serbia. 

"Rats" by F. A. M. Webster

"Rats" is a short story by the British author, F. A. M. Webster. First published under a pseudonym in the 1931 anthology, At Dead of Night, the tale tells the story of Mike Halliday, a man determined to make the most of a problematic holiday in dreary England.

"The Unnamable" by H. P. Lovecraft / A Randolph Carter Story

"The Unnamable" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. In the tale, the antiquarian Randolph Carter tells a close friend the tale of an indescribable entity that allegedly haunts a dilapidated house near an old cemetery.