By Night They Creep
Ripped from the pages of HORROR STORIES magazine and our PULP Classics podcast comes a tale beyond imagination. Complete for listening terror! Written by Hugh B. Cave for HORROR STORIES (February, 1935) Produced and Directed by Keith Brian Shaw [human] Our A.I. Repertory Theater Cast Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Stone Narrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Wendt Paul Lawton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Phil Bishop Mowry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zack Emerson Dr. Jonathan Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . Cecil Penwick Sgt. Jim Benson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joel Rhymes Ralph Kinney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul L. Williams Mrs. Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Uma Kelly Vincent Graham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glenn Harper Housekeeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vanessa Wendt The Monster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oscar Humphries Audio production © 2025 Keith Brian Shaw Source text is in the Public Domain
Episodes
[1/6] From the black, stinking depths of Blackwater rises a horror the Wampanoags dared not name!
When Paul Lawton’s camera catches the ghastly truth—a human face behind the green glow—madness and murder slither from the slime to claim the living!
[2/6] From the blighted heart of Blackwater Swamp comes a nightmare of deathless tribes and ghastly sacrifice!
When Paul Lawton’s fevered wound turns green and a woman’s body hangs riddled with ancient arrows, the swamp’s unholy secrets crawl once more into the light of day!
[3/6] When the green plague tightens its grip on Rillwood, vengeance rises from the grave with arrows and blood-soaked warnings!
Paul Lawton faces madness, murder, and a terror from beyond the veil that no man—or corpse—can escape!
[4/6] In a town gripped by a hideous plague, Paul Lawton races against madness and time to save the woman he loves from a fate written in green fire and death.
But when the dead rise and the living vanish into the swamp, the line between man and monster dissolves in a nightmare of horror and revenge!
[5/6] Dragged into the heart of the swamp, Paul Lawton faces the ghastly truth behind the plague—a nightmare kingdom ruled by a man who has become a monster!
As living corpses close in and the mad surgeon reveals his hideous revenge, Lawton’s only hope lies between love, horror, and the blazing fires of hell itself!
[6/6] Trapped in an underground hell of disease and death, Paul Lawton turns his torment into fury to face the monstrous master of the plague! In a climax of fire and madness, the green horror is unmasked—and the true face of evil stares back from beyond the grave!
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