The HorrorBabble Podcast
The HorrorBabble Podcast — classic horror and forgotten weird fiction. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring the anomalous, the luminous, and the numinous. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevision
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May 1, 2026 • 41 mins
"The Horror of the Heights" is a short story by British author, Arthur Conan Doyle. The tale is told through the blood-stained pages of a notebook found on the edge of a farm, which tells of a strange flight into the jungles of the upper air.
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April 28, 2026 • 58 mins
"The Follower" is a short story by the American writer, Allison V. Harding, first published in the September 1948 edition of Weird Tales. In the story, a young doctor grows increasingly uneasy when a terrified patient insists he is being pursued by an unseen presence.
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April 24, 2026 • 46 mins
"Night of Impossible Shadows" is a short story by the American author, Allison V. Harding. The story first appeared in Weird Tales in September 1945, and was described as follows: "A land where shadows ruled, shadows gone mad, doing things not meant to be done or utterly impossible!"
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April 21, 2026 • 45 mins
"The Isle of the Torturers" is a Zothique Cycle story by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in the March 1933 edition of Weird Tales. "A powerful story of terrific torments, and the strange, sudden onslaught of the Silver Death."
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April 17, 2026 • 123 mins
"The Wendigo" is based on Algernon Blackwood's experiences hunting in the backwoods of Canada. A group of men deep in the Northern wilderness are visited by a terrifying creature from Native American legend.
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April 14, 2026 • 82 mins
"Hollywood Horror" is a short story by the American author, Paul Ernst. It is the third story in Ernst's DOCTOR SATAN series (Weird Tales, October 1935).
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April 10, 2026 • 11 mins
"The Hedge" by Alfred I. Tooke, first took shape in the December 1935 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The tale was described as follows: "A quaint little story, about the gardener who spent his whole life clipping a hedge."
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April 7, 2026 • 65 mins
"Horror at Vecra" is a Cthulhu Mythos story by the American author, Henry Hasse, first published in The Acolyte, in its Fall 1943 edition. "After losing their way, two travellers arrive in the eerie village of Vecra, where strange books, unsettling dreams, and a sealed crypt hint at something ancient waiting to be unearthed."
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April 3, 2026 • 11 mins
"The Pool of the Stone God" is a short story by Abraham Merritt, writing as W. Fenimore. In the tale, which was first published in AMERICAN WEEKLY in September 1923, a professor relates the circumstances surrounding an encounter with a strange statue on a remote island in the Pacific…
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March 31, 2026 • 33 mins
"The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" is a short story by American author, Clark Ashton Smith, which first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in November 1931. The story tells of a thief and his companion in search of treasure in the former capital of Hyperborea. Unfortunately, something ancient and terrible watches over the temple the pair intend to loot…
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March 27, 2026 • 17 mins
"The Gray Rider" by American author, Charles Hilan Craig, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in November 1927. The story tells of a famous racing driver, who is about to be put to the test, one last time.
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March 24, 2026 • 44 mins
"The Shadow on the Screen" is a short story by Henry Kuttner, first published in the March 1938 edition of Weird Tales. "A weird story of Hollywood, and the grisly horror that cast its dreadful shadow across the silver screen as an incredible motion-picture was run off."
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March 20, 2026 • 22 mins
"The Survivors" is a short story by Algernon Blackwood, first published in his 1935 collection, SHOCKS. "After a dramatic accident, a man wanders through London observing subtle but unsettling changes in himself and the world around him."
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March 17, 2026 • 54 mins
"Xeethra" is a Zothique Cycle story by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in the December 1934 edition of Weird Tales. "A strange tale about a goatherd who had been king in the olden days, and how he regained and lost again his kingship."
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March 13, 2026 • 65 mins
"The Crib of Hell" is a short story by Arthur Pendragon, first published in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, May 1965. "He could never erase from his memory the evil face of the child of horror . . . the loathsome thing that waited in . . . the Crib of Hell."
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March 10, 2026 • 1 min
Would you like to immerse yourself in the world of weird fiction?
The grimy weird is speculative fiction at its finest — a realm of horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy.
Coming to you from SpectreVision Radio, is The HorrorBabble Podcast. We produce recordings of stories by the pioneers of the genre — H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard — while breathing new life into forgotten classics penned by lesser...
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March 10, 2026 • 44 mins
"Dispossession" is a short story by the English author, C. H. B. Kitchin, published in the 1929 anthology, SHUDDERS. "A carefree London man is shaken when sudden blackouts and missing days begin to fracture his routine life."
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March 6, 2026 • 52 mins
"The People of the Pit" by A. Merritt, first appeared in All-Story Weekly in its January 1918 edition, and tells of a man's return from a terrifying voyage into the depths of the Earth.
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February 24, 2026 • 28 mins
"The Spirits of the Lake" is a short story by Alonzo Deen Cole, author and director of the 1930s radio series, The Witch's Tale. The story first appeared in the November 1941 edition of Weird Tales. "Was it at the bidding of the 'Old Ones' that slime—loathsome, hideously green—rose from the lake's dreadful depths?"
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February 17, 2026 • 36 mins
"The Weaver in the Vault" is a Zothique Cycle story by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in the January 1934 edition of Weird Tales. "A story of the weird and ghastly-beautiful horror that came upon the searchers in the eery tombs of Chaon Gacca."
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