The HorrorBabble Podcast

The HorrorBabble Podcast

The official HorrorBabble podcast: a home for horror classics and rare weird tales.

Episodes

"The Cave of Spiders" by William R. Hickey

December 2, 2025 • 25 mins
"The Cave of Spiders" is a short story by the little-known Weird Tales author, William R. Hickey. The story was first published in the November 1928 issue of the magazine. "An expedition into the haunted heights of the Peruvian Andes yields a tale of ominous signs, forbidden passions, and a death far stranger than the survivors first claimed." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"A Secret of the South Pole" by Hamilton Drummond

November 25, 2025 • 43 mins
"A Secret of the South Pole" is a tale of Antarctica by the little-known Irish author, Hamilton Drummond, first published in the April 1902 edition of The Windsor Magazine. "Three castaways encounter a centuries-lost ship from the polar depths, its silent cabin holding hints of a strange fate no living man can explain." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"My Father, the Cat" by Henry Slesar

November 18, 2025 • 22 mins
"My Father, the Cat" is a short story by American author, Henry Slesar. As described by Fantastic Universe in December 1957: Here is an off-trail story that is guaranteed to make some of you take a very searching second look at some of the young men you know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The Buzzards" by Edward Lucas White

November 11, 2025 • 19 mins
"The Buzzards" is a short story by Edward Lucas White, first published in the July 25th 1908 edition of The Bellman. "In the shadow of circling buzzards and mounting dread, a young woman races against fate across a sun-scorched Virginia farm." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"At the Gate" by Myla Jo Closser

November 4, 2025 • 17 mins
"At the Gate", by the little-known author, Myla Jo Closser, offers an answer to the long-held question: what happens to our beloved dogs when they (and we) pass on? The tale first appeared in the March 1917 edition of CENTURY MAGAZINE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"A Rendezvous in Averoigne" by Clark Ashton Smith

October 28, 2025 • 45 mins
"A Rendezvous in Averoigne" is the second story in Clark Ashton Smith's Averoigne series, first published in the April-May 1931 edition of Weird Tales. "An unusual host was the Sieur du Malinbois—a strange story of the undead." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The Phantom Woman" | A Traditional Ghost Story

October 21, 2025 • 20 mins
"The Phantom Woman", which is generally regarded as a traditional British ghost story, first appeared in Bob Holland’s 1904 collection, Twenty-Five Ghost Stories. The tale tells of a man and his inexplicable attraction to a mysterious lady glimpsed in the window of an old house.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"Lead Soldiers" by Robert Barbour Johnson

October 14, 2025 • 17 mins
"Lead Soldiers" is a short story by Robert Barbour Johnson, first published in the December 1935 edition of Weird Tales. "A strange doom closed round the Dictator who sought to achieve his destiny through a bloody war." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"Red Shadows" by Robert E. Howard

October 7, 2025 • 80 mins
"Red Shadows" is a Solomon Kane story by Robert E. Howard, first published in the August 1928 edition of Weird Tales. Described as follows: "Thrilling adventures and blood-freezing perils—red shadows on black trails—savage witchcraft and the Black God." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The Aquarium" by Carl Jacobi

September 30, 2025 • 30 mins
"The Aquarium" is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Carl Jacobi, first published in DARK MIND, DARK HEART in 1962. "When a painter and her friend move into a spacious London house, the strange aquarium left behind by its former owner begins to exude an influence both unnatural and terrifying." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"Vine Terror" by Howard Wandrei

September 23, 2025 • 67 mins
"Vine Terror" is a short story by Howard Wandrei, first published in the September 1934 edition of Weird Tales. Described as follows: "An unusual weird-scientific tale, about vegetable vampires that lusted for animal and human food." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The Silver Knife" by Ralph Allen Lang

September 16, 2025 • 17 mins
"The Silver Knife" is a short story by American author, Ralph Allen Lang, which first appeared in Weird Tales in January 1932 -- one of three tales the writer contributed to the magazine throughout the 1930s. The story tells of a man pursued by a wolf across the polar wastes of the far north. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The Diary of a Madman" by Guy de Maupassant

September 9, 2025 • 18 mins
"The Diary of a Madman" is a short story by French author, Guy de Maupassant. The tale is told through a series of diary entries, detailing the intimate thoughts of an undiscovered murderer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The Shining Hand" by Dick Donovan

September 2, 2025 • 34 mins
"The Shining Hand" is an 1889 ghost story by Dick Donovan (James Edward Preston Muddock). "On a storm-swept night at a desolate inn near Solway Moss, a travelling merchant loses his trusted servant and a fortune in gold." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The White Villa" by Ralph Adams Cram

August 26, 2025 • 35 mins
"The White Villa" is a horror short story by American author, Ralph Adams Cram, first published in his book, Black Spirits and White, in 1895. The story tells of two travellers exploring southern Italy, who are forced to spend the night in a remote, haunted villa, after missing the last train to Naples. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The Accursed Isle" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman

August 19, 2025 • 35 mins
"The Accursed Isle" is a short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman, first published in the November 1933 edition of Weird Tales. "A hideous fear clutched the hearts of the seven castaways on that accursed isle as they were slain, one by one." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"Whispers" by Robert S. Carr

August 12, 2025 • 52 mins
"Whispers" is a short story by Robert S. Carr, first published in Weird Tales in April 1928. "In the festering swamps of Taggardsville, something unseen stirs in the night." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The Eighth Green Man" by G. G. Pendarves

August 5, 2025 • 45 mins
"The Eighth Green Man" is a weird tale by the Cornish author, Gladys Trenery, writing as G. G. Pendarves. First appearing in Weird Tales in its March 1928 edition, the story was described as follows: "An uncanny horror befell the guests of the innkeeper when the Green Men held their revels." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"Sagasta's Last" by Carl Jacobi

July 29, 2025 • 25 mins
"Sagasta's Last" is a short story by Carl Jacobi, first published in the August 1939 edition of Strange Stories. "An augmented eye pierces the mist-wall that rises skyward from the grave!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The Stranger from Kurdistan" by E. Hoffmann Price

July 22, 2025 • 21 mins
"The Stranger from Kurdistan" is a short story by E. Hoffmann Price, first published in the July 1925 edition of Weird Tales. "An enigmatic stranger infiltrates a secret gathering of devil-worshipers in the haunted depths of an ancient tower." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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