The HorrorBabble Podcast

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

Episodes

June 9, 2026 37 mins
"Bells of Oceana" by Arthur J. Burks, was first published in the December 1927 edition of Weird Tales. The story tells of an encounter with something deadly in the uncharted waters of the North Pacific. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"Take the Z-Train" is a March 1953 Weird Tale by the American author, Allison V. Harding. “A ghostly train that never was, heads for a ghastly destination that couldn’t be..." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"Death of the Kraken" by American author David H. Keller, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in March 1942. The magazine described the tale as follows: “In the Sargasso Sea Are Many Monsters . . . Human Ones!” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The Piper from Bhutan" by American author David Bernard, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in February 1938. The story tells of an elderly piper from Bhutan, who claims to be able restore vitality to the recently deceased. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"Necromancy in Naat" is a Zothique Cycle story by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in the July 1936 edition of Weird Tales. "A strange, spine-chilling story about the dead people that swam in the ocean and served the sorcerers of Naat." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"I've Got to Believe It" is a short story by Bruce Walker, first published in Strange Stories, October 1940. "Out of the eerie confines of a house of fear, a mortal's ghost arises from a thirty year's sleep!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"In the Lake at Garlock's Bend" is a short story by the American author, David Kaufman, first published in the July 1985 edition of Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. In an abandoned lakeside town, a witness recounts the horrifying night a local drifter became trapped by an unseen force. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 15, 2026 31 mins
"Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker first appeared in Weird Tales in December 1927. The story was originally intended to be part of the book, "Dracula," but was excised before the book was published. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The Noseless Horror" is a short story by Robert E. Howard, first published in the February 1970 edition of Magazine of Horror. According to Glenn Lord, who submitted the story to MoH, it was written prior to 1930. "At a remote manor, a guest is drawn into a murder and a terrifying mystery linked to a stolen mummy and an old betrayal." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"Threshold of Endurance" is a work of short fiction by the little-known author, Betsy Emmons. First published in the September 1946 edition of Weird Tales, the story was described as follows: "One who has Long Endur’d may of a sudden break the Bounds of Reason." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"The Will of Claude Ashur" is a Cthulhu Mythos novelette by C. Hall Thompson, first published in the July 1947 edition of Weird Tales. "Evil legends hang over this ancient coastal village and its infamous secret more terrible than all the terrors of night." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"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!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"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." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"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). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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"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… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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