The HorrorBabble Podcast

"The Night Wire" by H. F. Arnold / A HorrorBabble Special Edition

"The Night Wire", by American author, H. F. Arnold, tells of two night wire operators, one of whom receives a disturbing report of a mysterious fog enveloping a small, unfamiliar town by the name of Xebico.

This "Special Edition" production is a reworking of our original 2017 recording, including sound effects and ambient music.

Sound Design by Jennifer Gill
Narration and Ambient Music by Ian Gordon

"The Magic Mirror" / A Tale of Monte Carlo by Algernon Blackwood

"The Magic Mirror" is a short story by the British author, Algernon Blackwood. The tale, which first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in September 1938, tells of a stranger from Tibet, and a peculiar devil-mirror famed for bringing both death and riches.

"The Lure of Atlantis" by J. M. Nichols, Jr.

"The Lure of Atlantis" by the five-time Weird Tales contributor, Joel Martin Nichols, Jr., debuted in WT in its April 1925 edition. The story tells of an expedition into the heart of the lost city of Atlantis.

"The Horror in the Lighthouse" by Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Bloch

"The Horror in the Lighthouse" is a finished version of Poe's last work, "The Light-House". Robert Bloch, who quite literally picked up where Poe left off, completed the story and saw it published in the magazine FANTASTIC in 1953. The 2019 movie "The Lighthouse" began as an attempt to adapt Poe’s fragment.

"Uneasy Lie the Drowned" by Donald Wandrei

"Uneasy Lie the Drowned" is a short story by Donald Wandrei. The tale, concerning a troubling lake crossing, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in December 1937.

"The Nameless Offspring" / A Classic Weird Tale by Clark Ashton Smith

"The Nameless Offspring" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale, which first appeared in Strange Tales of Mystery in Terror back in June 1932, tells of a man's troubling stay at a remote property in the English countryside.

"The Uncharted Isle" by Clark Ashton Smith

"The Uncharted Isle" is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale tells of a sailor lost at sea, who happens upon an island previously unknown to man. The story first appeared in the November 1930 issue of Weird Tales.

"The Rats in the Walls" by H. P. Lovecraft

"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in August–September 1923, it was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924. The story tells of an American named Delapore, who restores an ancestral estate in rural England following the death of his son in the First World War. Unfortunately, and to the dismay of his neighbours, Delapore—with the exception of his cat—isn't the priory's only occupant...

"Warning Wings" by Arlton Eadie

"Warning Wings" by the mysterious author, Arlton Eadie, first appeared in the September 1929 edition of Weird Tales. In the story, a man recounts an experience he once had involving a seemingly insignificant white moth.

"Suzanne" / A Tale of Botanical Horror by J. Joseph-Renaud

“Suzanne” by J. Joseph-Renaud, first started to bloom in the April 1930 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The tale was described as follows: “A grisly plant horror was spawned in the steaming vapors of Dr. Salzmann’s nursery—a giant, man-eating Nepenthes.”