People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Cosmic Horror, Lovecraft, Weird Fiction

People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Cosmic Horror, Lovecraft, Weird Fiction

People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos is a long-running podcast exploring cosmic horror, weird fiction, and the strange worlds inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and his contemporaries. Hosted by DB Spitzer with co-hosts Farmer Dave and Aunt Gore, the show dives into myth, monsters, movies, and the legacy of the Mythos with humor and insight. Join us for our audiobook episodes. Episodes drop weekly.

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December 10, 2025 109 mins

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit...

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William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit...

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William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit...

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December 5, 2025 48 mins

"The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written between 5–9 November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of Weird Tales (Vol. 28, No. 5, p. 538–53). 

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William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit...

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William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit...

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William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit...

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December 1, 2025 74 mins

"Mr. Spaceship" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in Imagination in January 1953.

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November 28, 2025 53 mins

 

The Whisperer in Darkness is a novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written February–September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931.

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November 24, 2025 117 mins

"The Variable Man" is a science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick, which he wrote and sold before he had an agent. It was first published in Space Science Fiction September 1953.

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"The Dunwich Horror" is a cosmic horror novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales.

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November 17, 2025 115 mins

"The Variable Man" is a science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick, which he wrote and sold before he had an agent. It was first published in Space Science Fiction September 1953

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"The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales.

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"The Hanging Stranger" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in December 1953 issue of Science Fiction Adventures. "The Eyes Have It" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953 June Science Fiction Stories. "The Gun" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1952 September issue of Planet S...

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Bruce Bethke 1980, 1997 "Cyberpunk" was first published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, Volume 57, Number 4, November 1983. >>>LINK TO SHORT STORY<<<

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November 3, 2025 96 mins

 

"Piper in the Woods" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in the February 1953 edition of Imagination.  "The Crystal Crypt" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in the January 1954 edition of Planet Stories.

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The Seven Geases is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith, and forms part of his Hyperborean cycle. It was first published in Weird Tales in October 1934.

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"Beyond the Door" is a low fantasy short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in the January 1954 issue of Fantastic Universe. "Tony and the Beetles" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in Orbit Science Fiction, No.2, in 1953.

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The May 1932 issue of Weird Tales featured stories like Robert E. Howard's "The Horror from the Mound," Clark Ashton Smith's "The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis," and Hugh B. Cave's "The Brotherhood of Blood". The issue, edited by Farnsworth Wright, also included works by Edmond Hamilton, David H. Keller, and Seabury Quinn, among others. 

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Beyond Lies the Wub & The Skull by Philip K. Dick "The Skull" by Philip K. Dick. Originally published in the September 1952 issue of If. "Beyond Lies the Wub" originally appearing in Planet Stories in July 1952.

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