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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November 11, 2025 37 mins
Three tales of dark women, whose method is seduction, and whose end is death. 

Hume Nisbet is the author of three stories. First The Vampire Maid is a classic vampire story about a traveler who takes lodgings with an apparently kind landlady and her pale invalid daughter, who instantly casts a spell upon him.

The Old Portrait was first published in 1890 in Stories Weird and Wonderful. It is a supernatural mystery about an artist who ...
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The Lord of the Dead, is set in the 1930s and follows Steve Harrison, a hard-boiled detective who becomes entangled in a criminal conspiracy involving Erlik Khan, the primary antagonist and self-proclaimed "Lord of the Dead". Erlik Khan seeks to unite secret societies of the East under his rule using ancient magic and manipulation. The narrative incorporates elements of supernatural intrigue, reincarnation, and ancient vendettas, w...
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A humorous fantasy story about what happens when the line between present reality and another place some call fantasy blurs.

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Out of the sea she came, this gloriously beautiful woman, to compass a weird revenge that had been too long delayed—a sage of Heldra the lovely, Heldra the wicked. The Sea-Witch is a short story by American writer Nictzin Dyalhis, first published in 1937 in the pulp magazine Weird Tales. The story is set on the North Atlantic coast, where the narrator encounters Heldra after a violent storm, describing her as a gloriously beautiful...
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October 14, 2025 48 mins
There are cautionary tales about certain places, that without rhyme or reason should not be disturbed, but greed is known to make a person deaf to the whisper that warns you that danger is close. 

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October 5, 2025 93 mins
The ways of nature is sometimes a mystery, but never as dangerous as when it turns against mankind. 

This is a horror story by the British writer Daphne du Maurier, set in her home county of Cornwall shortly after the end of the WWII. A farmhand, his family and community come under lethal attack from flocks of birds. The story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name, released in 1963.

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"Something Had to Be Done" is a short story by David Drake. The tale is recognized for its gritty realism and its exploration of the psychological impact of violence.

"The Cookie Lady" is a horror short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is a story of terror, chilling and memorable. It tells of a chubby teenager boy called “Bubber” who visits the kindly old neighborhood lady who bakes him cookies. But what Bubber does not n...
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An alternate history where vampires have taken over, in Europe at least, and are the aristocracy. The emergence of science and technology, in the guise of a microscope, has given these vampires a reason to fear the humans they have come to dominate. Like any form of tyranny there will be those who accept it, and there will also be those who rebel.

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The Bat is My Brother is a short story by Robert Bloch, first published in the November 1944 issue of Weird Tales. The story, Graham Keene, who awakens to find himself buried alive in a pauper's grave and discovers he has become a vampire due to a recent attack. The story is recognized as one of Bloch's significant contributions to the horror genre, which also includes his famous novel Psycho.

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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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