Nightshade Diary

Nightshade Diary

Podcasts of classic ghost and adventure stories, set in lonely churchyards or empty mansions, all in the tradition of classic authors such as M. R. James, H.P. Lovecraft and the most popular sci-fi pulp fiction writers. Narrated by M.P. Pellicer Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

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September 11, 2025 72 mins
The Repairer of Reputations is the first story in Chambers' collection The King in Yellow and which contains the motif of the Yellow Sign. It is about a man, Hildred, and takes place in New York City in the 1920's. He keeps company with a deformed man known as Mr. Wilde, which it's inferred he is the author of King in Yellow, and is known as the Repairer of Reputations. This means that people tell him ways in which their reputation...
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This is a horror short story by Robert Bloch that was first published in Weird Tales in 1947. The story is about a lawyer who investigates his brother's treatment of his niece. A little, blonde girl appears to be the victim of a savage parent, but in truth who is the victim?

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August 28, 2025 22 mins
A death curse is like a landmine you've stepped on, there's just no way to escape unscathed. Carl Jacobi's work "The Kite" is mentioned in several sources. It was first published in 1937 and is also known under the variant title "Satan's Kite". 

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Childhood memories are often the sweetest, but even in childhood there are evil things that find their way to you. "Moonlight, Starlight" is a ghost story written by Virginia Layefsky, which was included in an anthology called "Ladies Of Horror, Two Centuries Of Horror By The Gentle Sex".

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What if an extraterrestrial could take over your mind? Is it real, or your descent into madness?

PRNDLL by Robert F. Young

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August 9, 2025 62 mins
"It sat alone, might and shaggy on the hilltop, and the warm breeze swayed it. For four billion years, step by step, it had been aborning. Now it was finished, complete." It is into this world that a colony of humans escaping a nuclear-blasted Earth land, and realize this idyllic setting is in reality hell.

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The Ghost of Two Forks by Elmer Kelton: "A railroad was often a blessing to early Texas towns, but it could as easily be a curse. But other towns, once prosperous, withered and died because the Eastern money counters and the surveyors favored a route that bypassed them. Such a town was Two Forks, for years a county seat." What happens to a town when all the living leave?

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"The realization he’d been in this canyon before hit him like being kicked by a mule. If he remembered right, it was about twenty years before." There are some memories you can never forget or outrun.

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July 19, 2025 47 mins
What predator could claim as prey a fully-grown, great white shark? There is only one that comes to mind, but you see it's supposed to be extinct.

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Two Texan saddle tramps come upon a ghost town, that at first glance seems deserted, but turns out it's not.

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"The House of the Nightmare" is a short story by Edward Lucas White, originally published in 1906. The narrative follows a man who, after crashing his car, seeks shelter in a peculiar house for the night. The story is known for its eerie atmosphere. Edward Lucas White (1866-1934) was an American writer and poet, best remembered for his fantasy horror stories inspired by his nightmares. He authored several historical novels...
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Three stories from Elliott O'Donnell's Casebook of Ghosts. True stories from the files of one of the world's greatest ghost hunters.
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  • From the Cellar It Came,
  • The Hindu Child,
  • The Red Fingers
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Two exotic strangers capture the admiration and curiosity of New York elites, each for their own reason. One is a brilliant conductor with a tail, and the other a beautiful member of a foreign royal family. But jealousy is not called the green-eyed monster for no reason.

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First published in 1934, the story tells the tale of a scientist who conducts an experiment that brings dragons back to the modern world, leading to the destruction of humanity. Written by Guy Endore, who is best known for his novel "The Werewolf of Paris" (1933).

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A Most Unusual Murder by Robert Bloch
This is a short story by Robert Bloch written in 1961. The story combines elements of Jack the Ripper with time travel, featuring a mysterious antique shop that serves as a gateway to different periods where the Ripper's presence can be felt.

The Haunted Chair by Stephen F. Wilcox
What could keep a ghost tied to its favorite chair, familiarity or something nefarious?

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May 27, 2025 30 mins
In order to lay a ghost, sometimes it comes down to asking the right questions.

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Needle in the Heart by Richard Matheson 
Therese and Millicent have a difficult relationship, and one of them finds only one solution for the dilemma.


The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone by Ray Bradbury
The story revolves around the eventual fate of a successful author named Dudley Stone, and the reason he stopped writing at the height of his fame. A long time fan sets out to find the truth.

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  • The Chadwick Pit by Carl Jacobi
  • The Return of Andrew Bailey by August W. Derleth and Mark Schorer (a short story included in their collection Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People.
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  • Slaughter House by Richard Matheson
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They Bite and Mr. Lipescu, both written by Anthony Boucher, a prolific writer of mystery novels, short stories, science fiction and radio dramas. His story Nine Times Nine was voted the best locked room master of all time. Boucher founded the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and edited it from 1949 to 1958. He was a friend and mentor of Philip K. Dick. His first story was published in 1927 in Weird Tales when he was 15. It w...
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