Podcasts about Weird Tales

Raised alone in an ancient, decaying castle with no memory of family or the outside world, a lonely figure finally attempts what seems impossible: climbing the one ruined tower tall enough to reach the sky above the trees. What waits at the top — and in the strange, moonlit world beyond — builds toward one of Lovecraft's most haunting and often-cited revelations.H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer whose atmospheric horror and cosmic dread reshaped the genre, influencing generations of writers who followed. “The Outsider,” first published in Weird Tales in 1926, remains one of his most anthologized and beloved stories.If you have a story you'd like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.comBy becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely ad-free!Curator: Keith Conrad linktr.ee/keithrconradNarrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/Other shows hosted by Darren:Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymagMicro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrorsRetro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradioChurch of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A discussion of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Temple," first published in the September, 1925 issue of Weird Tales (though written in 1920), and first discussed with my attorney, wife, and congressional candidate, Claire Reynolds.Please note, this is a horror podcast, so its content may not be for everyone. This story contains several references to both homicide and suicide, war crimes, a claustrophobic entrapment aboard a disabled submarine, the undead, off-putting dolphins, Atlantean architecture, and excessive ethnocentrism and national chauvinism throughout. If these elements are likely to disturb you unduly, you are advised to skip this episode.You can read this story yourself at HPLovecraft.com.Catch that very sultry Lovecraft ASMR podcast, over here if you're on Apple, and figure it out if you're not. If you're into academia, check out https://lovecraft-conference.podsothoth.club. You can text us now. Why? That's between you and your Elder God. Support the showLike the show? Say so with money! Or just hang out with us on Mastodon, at @podsothoth@defcon.social. Or email us at hideous@podsothoth.club. Best thing? Rate us (positively!) in your favorite podcast app. That helps other people find the show!

A dying patient speaks of impossible places no uneducated man should be able to imagine, pushing one young doctor toward an experiment that could shatter everything he believes about the sleeping mind. What answers await beyond ordinary consciousness—and what might still be searching the night sky when the experiment is over? Beyond the Wall of Sleep by H. P. Lovecraft. That's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. We spend a lot of time thinking about the stories, the pacing, and giving each character a distinct voice. So this review on Apple Podcasts US from “California listeners” really hit home: “Perfectly narrated science fiction stories! Wonderful range of voices that bring each character to life, narrator with clear enunciation and pleasant resonance.” Thanks California!! It's gratifying to know those details are noticed. Thank you for listening! We hadn't planned to deliver any H. P. Lovecraft stories on the podcast, but you've made your voices heard. The requests just keep coming, so we're happy to bring you more of the Lovecraft tales you've been asking for. This story was first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919 just a few months after it was written. Almost 20 years later it appeared in the March 1938 issue of Weird Tales magazine on page 331, Beyond the Wall of Sleep by H. P. Lovecraft… Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A world that should have bloomed again instead slips beyond reach, leaving one visitor to wonder whether the greatest mistake was made long before humans ever arrived. As forgotten clues begin to fit together, an unsettling possibility emerges that no one is prepared to face. Translator's Error by Charles Dye. Lost Sci-Fi Premium - https://lostscifi.supercast.com/ Buy Me a Coffee - https://lostscifi.com/coffee Newsletter - https://lostscifi.com/free/ Facebook - https://lostscifi.com/facebook YouTube - https://lostscifi.com/youtube X - http://Lostscifi.com/x Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lostscifiguy Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/lostscifipodcast.bsky.social Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/ Thanks to Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee $200 Someone $100 Tony from the Future $75 James Van Maanenberg $50 James Van Maanenberg, MizzBassie, Anonymous Listener $25 Fintan Quigley, Curious Jon, David Bell, Steve, Miriam, Someone, Someone, Eaten by a Grue, Jeff Lussenden, Fred Sieber, Anne, Craig Hamilton, Dave Wiseman, Bromite Thrip, Marwin de Haan, Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener $15 Every Month Someone $15 Steve, Someone, SueTheLibrarian, Joannie West, Amy Özkan, Someone, Carolyn Guthleben, Patrick McLendon, Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener $10 David, Anonymous Listener $5 Every Month Eaten by a Grue $5 Tammy, Owen, Bruce, Someone, TLD, David, Denis Kalinin, Timothy Buckley, Andre'a, Martin Brown, Ron McFarlan, Tif Love, Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous Listener Listen without commercials and enjoy exclusive bonus episodes every month with Lost Sci-Fi Premium—start your free 7-day trial today. https://lostscifi.supercast.com/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Weird Tales Double Feature presents two chilling novelettes by H. P. Lovecraft, exploring the depths of horror within the Cthulhu mythos. "The Haunter in the Dark" delves into the eerie atmosphere of an old church in Providence, Rhode Island, a place shunned by the locals, while "The Thing on the Door-Step" reveals the creeping terror that builds until it manifests in a shocking climax. These stories resonate with timeless themes of fear, the unknown, and the fragility of sanity, making them enduring pieces of literature that continue to captivate listeners today. Lovecraft's mastery of weird fiction ensures that these tales remain as haunting now as they were at the time of their publication.

"Weird Tales Presents The Strange World of Harry Houdini" offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of the legendary illusionist and skeptic through a collection of stories published in the 1924 Weird Tales Magazine. This anthology not only showcases Houdini's supposed exploits but also features engaging "Ask Houdini" segments where readers pose their questions to the master of escape. The themes of curiosity, mystery, and the quest for knowledge resonate deeply today, reminding us of the timeless allure of magic and the human desire to understand the unknown.

Dive into the chilling world of "Weird Tales Presents Asylum Atrocities," a collection that explores the darkest corners of the human mind through tales of insanity and terror. This gripping anthology invites listeners to experience the unsettling atmosphere of a twisted asylum, where the line between sanity and madness blurs, and the true horrors lie within. With narratives designed to evoke fear and fascination, this audiobook is a haunting reminder of our fragile grasp on reality and the lurking shadows of our psyche. Perfect for those who enjoy psychological thrillers and tales that challenge the boundaries of the mind, this collection will leave you questioning what lies beneath the surface of sanity.

Dive into the chilling world of "Weird Tales Presents Asylum Atrocities," a collection that explores the darkest corners of the human mind through tales of insanity and terror. This gripping anthology invites listeners to experience the unsettling atmosphere of a twisted asylum, where the line between sanity and madness blurs, and the true horrors lie within. With narratives designed to evoke fear and fascination, this audiobook is a haunting reminder of our fragile grasp on reality and the lurking shadows of our psyche. Perfect for those who enjoy psychological thrillers and tales that challenge the boundaries of the mind, this collection will leave you questioning what lies beneath the surface of sanity.

What can weird fiction teach us about navigating a reality shaped by technology, environmental crisis, and the shifting boundaries between human and non-human perspectives? In this episode of the Tech Humanist Show, the conversation focused on the power of “weirdness” as both a signal from the future and a way to make sense of our rapidly changing world. Special guest Kate Marshall, professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and author of Novels by Weird: Tales and the 21st Century, joins to explore how weird fiction, genre hybridity, and non-human narration can offer unique insights into technology, scale, and what it means to stay human as reality grows stranger.Dive into how stories, genres, and the unexpected “weird” help us make sense of complex systems and imagine better futures. Topics Covered Weirdness as a lens for the future The evolution of “weird fiction” and its historical context Non-human narration and narrative experiments Genre's role in conceptual thinking Scale and the challenge of representing catastrophe The reading crisis and cultural shifts in reading AI, storytelling, and the transformation of narrative Speculative fiction as a thinking tool Weirdness as data and a signal from the future Balancing melancholy and optimism for the future Connect with Kate MarshallWebsiteLinkedinNovels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century Episode Chapters00:00: Introduction to the Tech Humanist Show and the concept of weirdness01:55: Kate Marshall on taking weirdness seriously04:40: How 21st-century novels are getting weirder06:09: The rise of non-human perspectives in contemporary fiction09:48: Genre as a space for novelists to wrestle with scale13:54: Genre fragments as creative encounters with societal wreckage16:00: Scale: Representing catastrophe and individual experience20:27: Tension between decentering the human and human narration23:18: How non-human perspectives shift agency and responsibility25:50: The contemporary crisis in reading and criticism28:03: AI, large language models, and the future of reading/writing31:32: Genre, language models, and the future of literary creativity36:16: Story moves for imagining and building better futures38:56: Treating weirdness as data, not doom40:46: Optimism, storytelling, and hope for the future43:22: Outro and thanks

Dave, Cameron and Leonard are joined by Zak, to discuss the works of Joe Koch as seen through the lens of the film, Stranger by The Lake. Guests: Zak Jarvis Music by Jake Lionheart Contact: www.monsterdear.monster @senplus.bsky.social @drfaustisdead.bsky.social @theuglymachine.bsky.social @swarbie.bsky.social

In the vineyards of the Château Doré, something has been moving at night. The workers whisper of a wolf — enormous, grey, and wantonly destructive — and Monsieur Etienne Delacroix, master of the estate, has heard enough. He is a rational man. He does not believe in werewolves. He has moulded the silver bullets himself, in the cellar, as a concession to superstition — nothing more. Tonight his sons will go out into the moonlight and put an end to it. But there is something in the way he says goodbye to Pierre. Something in the way he asks after the crucifix. Something in the reason he will not be going with them. The Werewolf Howls was first published in Weird Tales, November 1941. It is the final story Clifford Ball published before enlisting in the United States Army Air Corps. Ball was born in New York City in 1908 and wrote just six stories, all for Weird Tales, between 1937 and 1941. He drowned accidentally in Baltimore in January 1947, aged thirty-eight.

People and animals have lived together in lots of ways for thousands upon thousands of years -- and humans, as we know, will attempt to pack-bond with anything. But what does the domestication of animals mean in worlds that might have fantastical creatures or critters who can talk? Guest John Wiswell joins us to discuss the friend-shaped beings that inhabit our fantasy worlds. When did your culture domesticate animals, and which ones, and why? What distinguishes a merely domesticated animal from a true companion? Which creatures might be normal pets, and which ones are more off-beat or even taboo? What does it mean if you can tame a dragon, or if your kitty familiar can talk to you? And then, of course, writers also need to consider what role these animals play in the story: Do they serve a narrative purpose? Or are they just there to fill out the world and acknowledge that, yes, humans generally love animals and want them around? [Transcript for Episode 185 TK] Our Guest: John Wiswell is a Nebula-winning and Locus-winning author who lives in the middle of the woods. His debut novel, SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN, was released from DAW Books in the U.S. and Arcadia Books in the U.K. in April 2024. John's work has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Tor.com, LeVar Burton Reads, Nature Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Weird Tales, the No Sleep podcast, Nightmare Magazine, Cast of Wonders, Podcastle, Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and other fine venues. He has been a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards. His fiction has been translated into ten languages. He graduated Bennington College in 2005, and attended the Viable Paradise 17 workshop in 2013. He has multiple disabilities including a neuromuscular syndrome, and thinks healthy people's capacity to complain is very funny. He finds a lot of things very funny and would like to keep it that way. He is frequently available for interview and for talks at conferences. He has done panels at places such as Worldcon, the Nebula Awards Conference, and the World Fantasy Convention.

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Alasdair is reading Joe Hill's Basket Full of Heads graphic novel series; drinking Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Gold tea.Jessica is reading Foe by Iain Reid; drinking Cooperstown Doubleday Baseball Bourbon.Damien is watching Dust Bunny (2026; dir. Bryan Fuller); drinking Glenmorangie 12.Ryan is reading Music of the Mouldering/If It Bleeds by Matthew M. Bartlett; drinking Bruichladdich "Laddie" Classic. Up next: Season 10 is right around the corner! Follow @whiskeyandtheweird to stay up on what volume we're covering. Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!  Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

El viento «The Wind» 1943 by Weird Tales. Desde su primera publicación importante hasta sus últimos cuentos inéditos recopilados póstumamente, Bradbury construyó una obra que desafía los géneros, que atraviesa décadas sin envejecer, que conmueve tanto como perturba. Fue un autor popular , sus libros vendieron millones de ejemplares, pero también fue un escritor rotundamente personal, casi visionario. Supo anticipar muchas de las ansiedades contemporáneas: la sobreexposición tecnológica, la soledad urbana, la banalización del horror. Pero lo hizo sin renunciar jamás a la emoción, a la imaginación, a la esperanza incluso en medio de la ruina. Su literatura no es la de los futuros posibles, sino la de las memorias imposibles. Más de Ray Bradbury en nuestro podcast de Historias para ser Leídas: 🎙 AUDIOLIBRO completo y por episodios: Memoria de Crímenes, de Ray Bradbury La Ventana Roja, de Ray Bradbury La larga noche, Ray Bradbury Funeral por los vivos, Ray Bradbury El largo camino de regreso, Ray Bradbury Media hora de Infierno, Ray Bradbury El Pequeño Asesino, Ray Bradbury (TERROR) En algún lugar de Marte, Crónicas Marcianas. Ray Bradbury. Intro Cassilda Ylla, 1999, febrero. Ray Bradbury Cassilda, Viaje a Marte y Ray Bradbury Vendrán Lluvias suaves. ................................................................................................................................................. Voz y sonido Olga Paraíso Epidemic Sound con licencia premium para este podcast BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas Gracias por tu apoyo y fidelidad. 💙 Puedes ayudarme a seguir con esta aventura desde tan solo 1,99 € al mes desdel el botón azul APOYAR. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

In this episode, I welcome back author Jonathan Janz, and do we have a lot to talk about! It begins with a recent three-book deal that he signed with Weird Tales and Blackstone Publishing for his three upcoming titles—“Marla,” “The Stars Have Left The Skies” and “Panopticon.” We dive into all three books, what they're about and the possibility of a connection between them. If that wasn't enough, the audiobook for “Marla” is set to be released on Aug. 18, by the wife-and-husband team of Patricia Santomasso and Sean Patrick Hopkins. Jonathan and I talk about what makes a really good audiobook, particularly for the horror genre. And there's more! “Marla” is in development for television, while both “The Stars Have Left The Skies” and “Panopticon” are headed for the big screen. We can't share all the details now, but do talk a bit about where they are in the process. Jonathan also shares some business insight, including the importance of just writing, regardless of whether it's your best, and a realistic look about making writing into a career. You can learn more about Jonathan and get his books at https://jonathanjanz.com.

A lone Briton fleeing murderous outlaws stumbles into a hidden world beneath the forests of ancient Britain, where an older people still remember every stolen homeland and every dead king. One act of mercy may be the only thing standing between Cororuc and a vengeance that has burned in darkness for centuries. The Lost Race by Robert E. Howard. That's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. Let's peel back the pages of time 99 and a half years as we travel back to ancient Britain with a story written years before Conan the Barbarian first appeared in print. Robert E. Howard's The Lost Race blends brutal adventure, hidden civilizations, and eerie folklore into one unforgettable journey beneath the forests of Cornwall. From the January 1927 Weird Tales magazine on page 74, The Lost Race by Robert E. Howard… Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A strange malfunction in a revolutionary vending machine leaves two worlds trading useless objects while baffled scientists race to understand the impossible connection. As the exchanges grow more deliberate, one risky decision could turn a commercial gimmick into the first bridge between planets. The Cosmic Jackpot by George O. Smith. Lost Sci-Fi Premium - https://lostscifi.supercast.com/ Buy Me a Coffee - https://lostscifi.com/coffee =========================== Newsletter - https://lostscifi.com/free/ Facebook - https://lostscifi.com/facebook YouTube - https://lostscifi.com/youtube X - http://Lostscifi.com/x Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lostscifiguy Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/lostscifipodcast.bsky.social Merchandise - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/ =========================== Thanks to Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee $200 Someone $100 Tony from the Future $75 James Van Maanenberg $50 James Van Maanenberg, MizzBassie, Anonymous Listener $25 Fintan Quigley, Curious Jon, David Bell, Steve, Miriam, Someone, Someone, Eaten by a Grue, Jeff Lussenden, Fred Sieber, Anne, Craig Hamilton, Dave Wiseman, Bromite Thrip, Marwin de Haan, Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener $15 Every Month Someone $15 Steve, Someone, SueTheLibrarian, Joannie West, Amy Özkan, Someone, Carolyn Guthleben, Patrick McLendon, Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener $10 David, Anonymous Listener $5 Every Month Eaten by a Grue $5 Tammy, Owen, Bruce, Someone, TLD, David, Denis Kalinin, Timothy Buckley, Andre'a, Martin Brown, Ron McFarlan, Tif Love, Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous Listener Listen without commercials and enjoy exclusive bonus episodes every month with Lost Sci-Fi Premium—start your free 7-day trial today. https://lostscifi.supercast.com/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Jessica is watching The A-Frame (2024; dir. Calvin Lee Reeder); drinking Lost Republic Rye.Damien is reading The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie Jr.; drinking Hibiki Japanese Harmony.Ryan is obsessively playing Ball X Pit (2025; VG); drinking The Maloney No. 2. If you liked this week's story, dig up some classic Kisaragi Station creepypasta on your interwebs. Up next: an interview with the editor, Alasdair Richmond! Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!  Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

There is a house in Auburn, California, with a tragic history and a new tenant. Jean Averaud has come from New Orleans with money, with books, with a beautiful mute woman who watches him with eyes full of something between devotion and dread. He has come with a theory about evil — not the Devil, not sin, not the ordinary darkness of human nature, but evil as a cosmic force, a radiation from a black sun somewhere in the depths of space. And he has come with a purpose. In the old Larcom house, with its history of sorrow and disaster, he has found exactly the conditions he needs. His neighbour, a novelist, finds himself drawn into Averaud's orbit. Clark Ashton Smith's *The Devotee of Evil* is a quiet story. It does not rush. It thinks. And what it thinks about has been troubling philosophers and theologians for two thousand years. *The Devotee of Evil* was first published in Smith's self-produced chapbook *The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies* in 1933, after failing to find a commercial publisher. It reappeared in *Stirring Science Stories* in February 1941. Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) was a California poet, painter, sculptor and writer of weird fiction, one of the central figures of the *Weird Tales* circle alongside H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, with whom he maintained a long correspondence. The Classic Ghost Stories Newsletter — short essays on the genre, odd discoveries, and recommendations. Free, fortnightly. Subscribe: https://www.classicghost.com/#/portal To. buy my paperback books: https://books.by/tony-walker-books To buy my ebooks and audiobooks: payhip.com/TheClassicGhostStoriesPodcast Or, if you'd just like to make a one-off gesture of thanks for my work https://buymeacoffee.com/10mn8sk *Intro and Outro Music by The Heartwood Institute*

Alie Dumas-Heidt chats with fellow authors about their earliest beginnings and answer everyone's favorite question - What happens next? - on The Writer's Journey. MAURICE BROADDUS is a fantasy and horror author best known for his short fiction and his Knights of Breton Court novel trilogy. He has published dozens of stories in magazines and book anthologies, including in Asimov's Science Fiction, Black Static, and Weird Tales. Broaddus was born in London, but grew up in Indianapolis. His mother is from Jamaica, where she and many of his relatives still live. mauricebroaddus.com --- Alie Dumas-Heidt is the author of The Myth Maker, a detective thriller introducing Det. Cassidy Cantwell, set in Tacoma Washington. She lives in the PNW with her husband, adult kids, and two spoiled dogs. http://aliedh.com

"La Tumba" (The Tomb) es un relato de terror del escritor norteamericano H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), compuesto en 1917, publicado en la edición de marzo de 1922 de la revista The Vagrant, y reeditado en la edición de enero de 1926 de Weird Tales. Más adelante aparecería en la antología de Arkham House de 1939: El extraño y otros (The Outsider and Others). Es uno de los mejores relatos de terror de H.P. Lovecraft, narra la historia del pequeño Jervas Dudley, quien descubre la entrada al viejo mausoleo de la familia Hyde. A pesar de sus intentos, Jervas no puede ingresar a la tumba, por la cual se siente intensamente atraído; y por fin se duerme en la entrada. Música y Ambientación: The House on Sentinel Hill - Graham Plowman The Wicked Ones - Greg Dombrowski Remixed by JMT Blog del Podcast: https://lanebulosaeclectica.blogspot.com/ X: @nebulectica

Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about ElevenLabs, Porter Square Books, Tinder, and ThriftBooks. Then, stick around for a chat with Maurice Broaddus! Maurice Broaddus: An Award-Winning Afrofuturist, editor, and librarian, Maurice Broaddus has had over a hundred short stories published in such places as Lightspeed Magazine, Black Panther: Tales from Wakanda, Out There Screaming (edited by Jordan Peele), The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand, Asimov's, Weird Tales, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Apex Magazine. With over a dozen novels in print, his latest include Sweep of Stars, Breath of Oblivion, A City Dreaming, Black Panther: T'Challa Declassified, & Unfadeable. Some of his short stories have been collected in The Voices of Martyrs. Learn more at MauriceBroaddus.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A reading of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Temple, " by H.P. Lovecraft, first published in the September, 1925 issue of Weird Tales, and first read aloud here, by me, in June of 2026.Please note, this is a horror podcast, so its content may not be for everyone. This story contains several references to both homicide and suicide, war crimes, a claustrophobic entrapment aboard a disabled submarine, the undead, off-putting dolphins, Atlantean architecture, and excessive ethnocentrism and national chauvinism throughout. If these elements are likely to disturb you unduly, you are advised to skip this episode.You can read this story yourself at HPLovecraft.com, or enjoy the ambient "UNDERWATER Ambience 10 Hours," by Asleep in Perfection at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dJDFGvkc1Y .Next time, we'll be joined by my attorney, wife, and Texas Democratic candidate for United States Congress, Claire Reynolds, as we delve into the depths of this story of nationalism, hubris, and zombie cannibalistic dolphins.You can text us now. Why? That's between you and your Elder God. Support the showLike the show? Say so with money! Or just hang out with us on Mastodon, at @podsothoth@defcon.social. Or email us at hideous@podsothoth.club. Best thing? Rate us (positively!) in your favorite podcast app. That helps other people find the show!

A writer obsessed with the occult and forbidden knowledge uncovers a nightmarish secret lurking within a long-abandoned church—one that watches, waits, and is drawn to the dark.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/haunterofthedarkREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9ecf8yFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: I'm back with a classic horror story, requested by one of you, my Weirdo family members. “The Haunter in the Dark” written by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:00:59.102 = About The Story00:03:15.896 = The Haunter of the Dark ***01:05:59.476 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:POEM: “Nemesis” by H.P. Lovecraft: https://tinyurl.com/y466z69vThe Cthulhu Mythos: https://tinyurl.com/y22oe79f“The Haunter of the Dark” by H.P. Lovecraft: https://tinyurl.com/y33eprua(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: July 30, 2020On this listener-requested episode of Weird Darkness, Darren Marlar narrates H.P. Lovecraft's last known story, "The Haunter in the Dark," the centerpiece of a three-part collaboration with fellow horror writer Robert Bloch.The episode opens with how the story came to be written. Robert Bloch, then a young admirer of Lovecraft, published "The Shambler From the Stars" in the September 1935 issue of Weird Tales, setting his tale inside Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Two months later, in early November 1935, Lovecraft answered the homage by writing "The Haunter in the Dark" and dedicating it to Bloch; the story ran in Weird Tales in December 1936 (Volume 28, Number 5). It was the last story Lovecraft is known to have written before he died on March 15, 1937, and Bloch eventually closed the trilogy in 1950 with "The Shadow of the Steeple." The story's epigraph comes from the second stanza of Lovecraft's own 1917 poem "Nemesis."From there, the narration follows Robert Harrison Blake, a writer and painter of weird fiction who leaves 620 East Knapp Street in Milwaukee and takes the upper floor of an old house on College Hill in Providence during the winter of 1934–35. Blake grows obsessed with a black, abandoned church across the city on Federal Hill — a steeple shunned by birds and feared by the Italian neighborhood around it — and eventually breaks in, finding the moldering relics of the Starry Wisdom sect, a cult that took root after Professor Enoch Bowen returned from Egypt in 1844 carrying an artifact called the Shining Trapezohedron. In the windowless tower he uncovers the stone itself, a four-inch red-striated polyhedron that opens like a window onto other worlds, resting beside the charred skeleton of Edwin M. Lillibridge, a Providence Telegram reporter who vanished inside the same building in 1893. Gazing into the crystal rouses the Haunter of the Dark — an avatar of Nyarlathotep that can move only in blackness and is driven back by light — and the rest of the tale tracks Blake's collapse into sleepwalking, scorched hair, and frantic diary entries as a violent August thunderstorm threatens the streetlights keeping the entity penned in. When the power fails over Providence at 2:12 in the morning, the thing leaves its steeple, and Blake is found dead at his desk the next day with bulging eyes and a face frozen in terror, his final scrawled line describing a three-lobed burning eye — after which the physician Dr. Dexter hurls the box and the glowing stone into the deepest channel of Narragansett Bay.

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Jessica is reading Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke; drinking a PBR Tall Boy.Damien is reading I Know a Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours by Nat Cassidy; drinking Maine Beer Company Lunch IPA.Ryan is reading No Ordinary Bird by Artis Henderson; drinking Cynar Manhattan with chocolate bitters. If you liked this week's story, watch Requiem for a Dream (2000; dir. Darren Aronofsky) Up next: "Branch Line to Benceston" by Sir Andrew Caldecott Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!  Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Jessica is watching Hallow Road (2025, dir by Babak Anvari); drinking Oak Aged Watermelon Kolsch by Ommegang.Damien is reading Angel Down by Daniel Kraus; drinking Bondstone Toasted Barrel Bourbon.Ryan is reading There Is No Anti-Memetics Division by QNTM; drinking The Obituary (dry gin martini with an absinthe wash). If you liked this week's story, watch Total Recall (1990; dir. Paul Verhoeven). Heck, watch it even if you didn't like this story. Up next: "The Rose Wall" by Joyce Carol Oates Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!  Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Jessica is reading Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin; drinking Yellowstone Toasted Bourbon.Damien is playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025; VG); drinking a Last Word (Drumshanbo gin, Luxardo, lime, and green friggin' Chartreuse).Ryan is watching Project: Hail Mary (2026; dir. Phil Lord and Chris Miller); drinking Glendronach 15 Year. If you liked this week's story, watch Jacob's Ladder (1990; dir. Adrian Lyne). Up next: "He Walked Around the Horses" by H. Beam Piper Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!  Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

"La torre del elefante" se publicó en el número de marzo de 1933 de la revista Weird Tales, y sin duda aquella historia cumplía con los cánones de la narrativa de espada y hechicería… Pero a sus 27 años, Howard ya era un escritor muy sofisticado e inteligente que supo dar forma en nuestra historia de esta noche a un universo que muy pocos lectores de entonces esperarían y que todavía sorprende a muchos de los que descubren este relato iniciático de nuestro bárbaro cimerio. Con la traducción de Caridad Carnero Jurado, vuelven las aventuras de la Era Hiboria a Noviembre Nocturno. No se lo pierdan amigosh... Arte de portada de Alex Horley Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

"La torre del elefante" se publicó en el número de marzo de 1933 de la revista Weird Tales, y sin duda aquella historia cumplía con los cánones de la narrativa de espada y hechicería… Pero a sus 27 años, Howard ya era un escritor muy sofisticado e inteligente que supo dar forma en nuestra historia de esta noche a un universo que muy pocos lectores de entonces esperarían y que todavía sorprende a muchos de los que descubren este relato iniciático de nuestro bárbaro cimerio. Con la traducción de Caridad Carnero Jurado, vuelven las aventuras de la Era Hiboria a Noviembre Nocturno. No se lo pierdan amigosh... Arte de portada de Alex Horley

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Jessica is watching The Assessment (2024, dir. Fleur Fortuné); drinking Evil Twin Brewing Pils: Dandies.Damien is watching DTF St. Louis (2026; TV series); drinking Larceny Bourbon old fashioned with chipotle bitters.Ryan is watching Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026; dir. Lee Cronin); drinking Campbeltown Journey whisky. If you liked this week's story, read  Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore. Up next: "The Badlands" by John Metcalfe Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!  Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

A grieving traveller in twentieth century London, drawn to morbid curiosities, encounters a mysterious old man with an extraordinary claim.This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted Horror. “THE GORGON” by Clark Ashton Smith, 1932.

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Jessica is reading Baldwin: a Love Story by Nicholas Boggs; drinking Freeland Spirits Rye.Damien is watching Mother of Flies (2025; dir. Adams Family); drinking Kyrö Wood Smoke Whisky.Ryan is reading Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky; drinking Ardbeg Uigeadail. If you liked this week's story, read  Lakewood by Megan Giddings. Up next: "Scarrowfell" by Robert Holdstock Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!  Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

There is a house in Auburn, California, with a tragic history and a new tenant. Jean Averaud has come from New Orleans with money, with books, with a beautiful mute woman who watches him with eyes full of something between devotion and dread. He has come with a theory about evil — not the Devil, not sin, not the ordinary darkness of human nature, but evil as a cosmic force, a radiation from a black sun somewhere in the depths of space.And he has come with a purpose. In the old Larcom house, with its history of sorrow and disaster, he has found exactly the conditions he needs. His neighbour, a novelist, finds himself drawn into Averaud's orbit. Clark Ashton Smith's The Devotee of Evil is a quiet story. It does not rush. It thinks. And what it thinks about has been troubling philosophers and theologians for two thousand years. The Devotee of Evil was first published in Smith's self-produced chapbook The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies in 1933, after failing to find a commercial publisher. It reappeared in Stirring Science Stories in February 1941. Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) was a California poet, painter, sculptor and writer of weird fiction, one of the central figures of the Weird Tales circle alongside H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, with whom he maintained a long correspondence.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-classic-ghost-stories-podcast--7002956/support.*To buy my paperback books:* https://books.by/tony-walker-booksThe Classic Ghost Stories Newsletter — short essays on the genre, odd discoveries, and recommendations. Free, fortnightly. Subscribe: https://www.classicghost.com/#/portal To buy my ebooks and audiobooks: payhip.com/TheClassicGhostStoriesPodcastOr, if you'd just like to make a one-off gesture of thanks for my work https://buymeacoffee.com/10mn8sk *Intro and Outro Music by The Heartwood Institute*

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Jessica is watching The Household (2025; dir. Luke Shaw); drinking Meier's Creek Backwoods Trail.Damien is watching Super Dark Times (2017; dir. Kevin Phillips) & Soft & Quiet (2022; dir. Beth de Araujo); drinking Hai Seas San Oaks Whiskey.Ryan is watching Civil War (2024, dir. Alex Garland); drinking Tullibardine 15. If you liked this week's story, read  Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess. Up next: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!  Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

Our feature story appeared in Weird Tales magazine in February of 1925 about a grave robber who digs up the wrong grave. Any reproduction of Robert Crandall's voice for any purpose including Artifical Intelligence is prohibited. All right reserved.

For one hundred and fifty years, Columbus Norton has lived untouched by disease while the world outside studies him like a miracle trapped behind glass. But when a single visitor awakens a longing no experiment can control, the man who helped humanity live longer must decide whether freedom is worth dying for. The Incubator Man by Wallace West. That's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.Andrew sent us an email recently: “Loving all the new stories. I've noticed there's been a new episode every day for the last several weeks. Please keep it up!” Thanks for noticing, Andrew. Our goal is to keep releasing a brand-new story every day for as long as possible.If you have requests, comments, or suggestions, we'd love to hear from you. Send an email to scott@lostscifi.com.This is the first time we've featured a story by author Wallace West. Wallace George West was born in Walnut Hills, Kentucky, in 1900. Between 1927 and 1967 he published more than 60 short stories and four novels.Today's story was only his second published work. It appeared in Weird Tales magazine in October 1928 on page 535, The Incubator Man by Wallace West…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Factory workers race to meet impossible wartime production demands while hidden enemies move through the endless machinery of a spinning city in space. One man notices a detail no one else catches, and suddenly millions of lives depend on whether he acts before the shift ends. Factory In The Sky by Basil Wells.

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Jessica is reading Turtle Island by Sean Sherman; drinking Bodalen Bourbon by Far North Spirits.Damien is watching The Toxic Avenger (2025; dir. Macon Blair); drinking Mary Dowling Bourbon.Ryan is reading If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio; drinking Woodford Reserve Rye Old Fashioned. If you liked this week's story, read  Robert E. Howard's Conan stories: Xuthal of the Dusk, The Iron Shadows of the Moon, and Queen of the Black Coast. Or Lady Eleanor Smith's No Ships Pass (featured in WatW: S1E4). Interested in reading Mrs Roliston's Travelling Adventures by Amelia B Edwards? Find it here: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/80e3bb63-79f3-4505-9c4c-be8cd3d02ff0/ Up next: "The Curfew Tolls" by Stephen Vincent Benet Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!  Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

Hechiceros, monstruos y bosques primigenios. Abadías, templos y castillos en ruinas, el Ciclo de Averoigne representa una de las más emblemáticas y paradójicamente desconocidas facetas de la obra de Clark Ashton Smith, que publicó buena parte de su obra en la mítica revista Weird Tales donde dejó una huella imborrable entre los renovadores de la literatura fantástica del siglo XX. Esta noche estrenamos su relato "La Bestia de Averoigne" invocado desde la antología de la Editorial Valdemar, "Cuentos de Averoigne" con la traducción de Marta Lila Murillo y la inestimable colaboración de Toliol, librero del mal en Gigamesh. Pueden hacerse con estos tomos primigenios aquí: https://www.valdemar.com/ Sigan al maestro Toliol en sus redes del Mal https://bsky.app/profile/toliol.bsky.social Sigan las redes de Librería Gigamesh https://bsky.app/profile/gigamesh.com

In this episode Mark interviews Canadian writer Colleen Anderson about writing horror and speculative fiction and poetry as well as non-fiction articles. Prior to the interview, Mark shares comments from recent episode, a personal update, and a word from this episode's sponsor. This episode is sponsored by Author Nation, being held in Las Vegas Nov 13 through 14, 2026 Learn more about Author Nation and register at AuthorNation.live. In the interview, Mark and Colleen talk about: How they've known each other mostly online Colleen's editing of the Tesseracts Seventeen anthology which Mark had a story in The Canadian horror anthology that Mark and Colleen Anderson are going to be which is coming in December 2026 Colleen's forthcoming poetry collection (TO THE LAST ION) and the poetry collection she published last year How Colleen uses such things as an instance of alien abduction and body horror in one of her poems to illustrate societal observations about things like the way we do body modifications or live within a world of stereotypes The prevalence of body horror lately and how it's often about a loss of control A look at universal monsters in a recent article Colleen wrote A definition of what body horror is, and a discussion of the Bram Stoker Award winning novel Queen of Teeth The days of paper manuscript submissions and the logistics involved in that The open mic workshop that takes place at places like StokerCon for speculative and horror poetry How Colleen decides what format an idea is going to take Putting in her "poet brain" instead of her "fiction writer brain" in some instances The methods Colleen uses to find markets to submit her writing to and how some of them work Finding and applying for various grants for writers/artists/creatives Advice Colleen would offer to writers wanting to submit their writing to various markets Colleen's first experience doing a live reading Some of the conferences Colleen is going to be attending in the next little while Where people can find Colleen online After the interview Mark reflects on the value of writing and submitting short pieces and the potential earning. He also talks about CanCon and the way different music/sounds can stir up emotions and deep memories and even things like Canadian pride. Links of Interest: Colleen Anderson's Website/Blog Nov 2, 2025 Episode of The Creative Penn Podcast (Creating While Caring with Donn King) Manuscript Report (Mark's affiliate link - use MARK10 to save 10%) Buy Mark a Coffee Patreon for Stark Reflections Mark's YouTube channel ElevenLabs (AI Voice Generation - Affiliate link) Mark's Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup) An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries The Relaxed Author Buy eBook Direct Buy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for Authors An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores Wide for the Win Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story) A Canadian Werewolf in New York Stowe Away (Novella) Fear and Longing in Los Angeles Fright Nights, Big City Lover's Moon Hex and the City Only Monsters in the Building Once Bitten (Novella) The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard Merry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation I Think It's A Sign That The Pun Also Rises   Colleen Anderson has been widely published across eight countries, with works appearing in publications such as Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, Amazing, and Shadow Atlas. Rhysling Award winner for "Machine (r)Evolution" and a two-time winner of the SFPA's dwarf poetry contest, she has been nominated for Pushcart, Elgin, Rhysling, and Dwarf Stars Awards. She is a Canada Council, BC Arts Council and Ladies of Horror Fiction grant recipient. Her poetry collections include The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams, I Dreamed a World, Weird Worlds, and Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins as well as two fiction collections A Body of Work and Embers Amongst the Fallen. Colleen freelances as an editor, and has served on the SFPA executive, as well as British Fantasy Award and Stoker juries. She lives in Vancouver, BC where she searches for mermaids.   The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast ("Laser Groove") was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

In this episode, we wrap up our three-part Death Valley series by diving into the 2000 documentary Amargosa—and let's just say… we had thoughts.We get into Megan's slow burn experience with the film (it took about an hour to click… but when it did, it really did), while Amy was immediately charmed by its very specific “1970s educational film” vibe—grainy footage, questionable cinematography, and all. Somehow, this thing both feels amateur and also won an Emmy, which… we're still processing.But what really pulled us in wasn't the filmmaking—it was MartaWe talk about her resilience, her wildly difficult upbringing, her complicated relationships, and how she somehow came out the other side as this deeply optimistic, slightly woo-woo, fully committed artist who just… did whatever the hell brought her joy. Whether that was painting murals she didn't own, performing for empty rooms, or building an entire life in the middle of nowhere, Marta didn't wait for permission.So, grab your wildflower seeds and join us where… The Activity Continues.Content Warning:We didn't find anything we thought deserved a content warning, but we did swear.Chapter Markers 00:00:00 Hello/Intro00:17:00 Side Quest: School Movies from Our Youth00:28:15 Marta and the Animals00:29:00 Back to Wilget00:32:54 Marta Looking Toward the Future00:35:52 Question for Everyone00:38:36 Other Shows Featuring Amargosa00: 47:19 End creditsEpisode links:Amargosa: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229976/ - you can watch on Amazon Prime ($) or Tubi (free)Weird Tales 4: The Ghosts of Death Valley Junction: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1783417/ (Tubi free)Ghost Adventures Season 2 episode 11: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1789274/Central California Paranormal Investigators: https://www.facebook.com/ccpifresno/Blog about films shown in school. Might bring back some memories! https://www.jenx67.com/2020/01/old-classroom-films.htmlCipher in the Snow (1973): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher_in_the_SnowMcGee and Me (1989): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGee_and_Me!Books:Amazon links could generate a small commission to us at no cost to you. If you don't want to buy it on Amazon ask at your local bookseller. I've included the publishers' names here too.“To Dance on Sands: The Life and Art of Death Valley's Marta Becket” by Marta Becket (2015 - Page Publishing):Paperback https://amzn.to/4cHXIjkKindle https://amzn.to/4cCe3pLHardcover: https://amzn.to/42av4mp(not on Audible)Marta Becket, a Theatrical Portrait: The Artist, the Performer, and Her Amargosa Opera House 4th Edition (2003 – Creel): https://amzn.to/4tm7jn8 (newer, more complete and less $$ edition of the below edition)Marta Becket: A Theatrical Portrait: The Artist, the Performer, and Her Amargosa Opera House (2000 - Creel) https://amzn.to/4tundfq (this is a very expensive different edition of the previous listed one)The Activity Continues is a paranormal podcast where soul friends Amy and Megan chat about true crime, ghost stories, hauntings, dreams, and other paranormal stuff including the TV show, The Dead Files. Our recaps are full of recurring jokes about recurring tropes.This episode was recorded on April 6, 2026, and released on May 14, 2026.Credits:Hosted by: Amy Lotsberg and Megan SimmonsProduction, Artwork, and Editing: Amy Lotsberg at Collected Sounds Media, LLC. https://www.collectedsounds.com/Theme song. “Ghost Story” and segment music by Melissa WestOverview music: “Beyond the Stars” by Chris Collins Engage!Our website, https://www.theactivitycontinues.com/ Leave us a Voicemail: https://www.theactivitycontinues.com/voicemail/ (might be read on the show)Newsletter sign-up: https://www.theactivitycontinues.com/newsletter  Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theactivitycontinuesWe're on (almost) all the socials too @theactivitycontinuesAffiliates/SponsorsPlease see our Store page for all the links for all our current affiliates. https://www.theactivitycontinues.com/store/ Thank you for listening, take care of yourselves. We'll see you next time!If you want to hear us early and ad-free EVERY week, become a Patron, join our Ghosty Fam and get bonus exclusive episodes! https://www.patreon.com/theactivitycontinuesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Beneath Castle Kralitz, a family ritual waits in darkness for the next heir to descend the hidden stairway and take his place among the dead. Franz Kralitz enters expecting a secret and discovers a fate that has been waiting for him since birth. The Secret of Kralitz by Henry Kuttner. That's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.Henry Kuttner was one of the most prolific writers in the early days of science fiction. I stopped counting after around 200 short stories, and what makes it all the more amazing is that he did it in just 21 years. Kuttner was only 42 when he died of a heart attack in 1958.This was only his fourth published story which can be found in Weird Tales magazine in October 1936 on page 361, The Secret of Kralitz by Henry Kuttner…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Two exhausted spacemen gamble their lives on an impossible return from Venus while an isolated outpost waits for rescue that may never come. As Earth races closer by the second, one reckless landing idea stands between them and a fireball over the Pacific. Message from Venus by Russ Winterbotham

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Jessica is watching Repeat (2021, dir. Richard Miller & Grant Archer); drinking Hudson Whiskey Do The Rye Thing.Damien is reading Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley & Haunted Forest Tour by Jeff Strand and James A. Moore; drinking a Natasha's Pulverized Paste (Elijah Craig whiskey sour with apple and ginger).Ryan is watching "Wayward" (Netflix, 2025); drinking the Glenlivet 14 Cognac Cask. If you liked this week's story, read The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Up next: "The Discovery of the Treasure Isles" by Amelia B Edwards. Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!  Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

Hechiceros, monstruos y bosques primigenios. Abadías, templos y castillos en ruinas, el Ciclo de Averoigne representa una de las más emblemáticas y paradójicamente desconocidas facetas de la obra de Clark Ashton Smith, que publicó buena parte de su obra en la mítica revista Weird Tales donde dejó una huella imborrable entre los renovadores de la literatura fantástica del siglo XX. Esta noche estrenamos su relato "La Bestia de Averoigne" invocado desde la antología de la Editorial Valdemar, "Cuentos de Averoigne" con la traducción de Marta Lila Murillo y la inestimable colaboración de Toliol, librero del mal en Gigamesh. Pueden hacerse con estos tomos primigenios aquí: https://www.valdemar.com/ Sigan al maestro Toliol en sus redes del Mal https://bsky.app/profile/toliol.bsky.social Sigan las redes de Librería Gigamesh https://bsky.app/profile/gigamesh.com Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

There is a bog in County Meath that the old people will not speak of after dark. They know, as old people in such places always know, that certain ground is not waste ground simply because nothing grows on it, that still water is not empty water, and that when a man of money and modern confidence arrives to improve what does not wish to be improved, the wisest thing to do is quietly leave. H. P. Lovecraft wrote "The Moon-Bog" in 1921, and it was first published in Weird Tales magazine in 1926. It was written to be told aloud, after dinner, when the fire was low. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890 and died there in 1937, in poverty and near obscurity. He is now regarded as one of the most influential writers of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. Get my new book: The London Fae: here; https://books.by/tony-walker-books/the-london-fae

Bar Talk (our recommendations):Jessica is reading Salt Slow by Julia Armfield; drinking Uncle Nearest 1884.Damien is watching Marshmallow (2025; dir. Daniel DelPurgatorio); drinking Mary Dowling bourbon.Ryan is reading Yeehaw Junction by Kayli Scholz; drinking the Aberlour 12. If you liked this week's story, read The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges. Up next: "An Undistinguished Boy" by Gerald Kersh. Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!  Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

On the last surviving star, a civilization that has mastered time, matter, and life itself faces a slow extinction they cannot stop. When a newly created mind claims victory over the unstoppable force consuming the universe, one decision will determine whether anything at all remains. The Red Brain by Donald Wandrei. That's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.Author Donald Wandrei makes his debut on the podcast today. Born in 1908 in St. Paul, Minnesota, he built a reputation as a science fiction writer, poet, and editor—and, like many writers of his era, he shared a strong connection with H. P. Lovecraft.As a teenager, Wandrei hitchhiked from Minnesota to Rhode Island to meet Lovecraft in person. That journey led to his involvement in the Lovecraft Circle, alongside writers such as Frank Belknap Long and Clark Ashton Smith.Wandrei also played a crucial role behind the scenes. Without his intervention, The Call of Cthulhu might never have appeared in Weird Tales. He wrote directly to the magazine's publisher, making it clear that if Lovecraft's work wasn't accepted, the author would take his stories elsewhere.In late 1937, after H. P. Lovecraft's death, Donald Wandrei and August Derleth tried to publish a memorial collection of his best weird fiction. When major publishers passed, they created their own company—Arkham House—to release Lovecraft's work in hardcover.The name comes from Lovecraft's fictional city of Arkham, Massachusetts.Donald Wandrei went on to write nearly 100 science fiction short stories, and he was just 16 when he wrote the one you're about to hear—his first to be published, in Weird Tales magazine in October 1927 on page 531, The Red Brain by Donald Wandrei…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Humanity finally reaches Mars expecting discovery, only to stumble into a revelation that quietly rewrites Earth's entire history. What begins as triumph turns into a cosmic joke with unsettling implications no one is prepared to accept. Mimsy's Joke by Millard Grimes.

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Join Tod and Congressional Candidate Claire as they discuss H.P. Lovecraft's "The Silver Key," first published in the January, 1929 issue of Weird Tales.Please note: while this story is largely fanciful, this is ultimately a horror podcast, and so it may not be suitable for all audiences. In particular, this discussiojn involves the horrors of growing old, the siren's song of nostalgia bordering on retromania, grotesque packaging, and the utter meaningless of life in a blind and uncaring cosmos. If this subject matter is likely to disturb or offend you, you may wish to skip this episode.You can catch Claire on CombatVetPaul's channel, live streamed (or recorded if it's after April 29, which is almost certainly is when you read this): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z_si0s8YO8You can follow along with Tod's adventures with "The Lovecraft Conference" here: https://lovecraft-conference.podsothoth.clubHey, it's registration and travel planning time for NecronomiCON Providence! Go here: https://necronomicon-providence.com/welcome/. Wanna meet up? Write or at-us at hideous@podsothoth.club or https://defcon.social/@podsothoth!Finally, you should also listen to War in Pieces: https://warinpiec.es. It's a day-by-day, sentence-by-sentence reading of War in Peace, usually read by Tod, occasionally read by Claire and other guests. If you want to read a sentence, just record yourself on a voice memo and email it to patience@warinpiec.es. It'd be helpful to limit yourself to something nearby where the podcast is, and of course, please use the same text Tod uses: https://github.com/todb/warinpieces/blob/main/warpeace01tols_0.pdf (as of this show note in April of 2026, we've just started on page 4).You can text us now. Why? That's between you and your Elder God. Support the showLike the show? Say so with money! Or just hang out with us on Mastodon, at @podsothoth@defcon.social. Or email us at hideous@podsothoth.club. Best thing? Rate us (positively!) in your favorite podcast app. That helps other people find the show!

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"Soñé con aquella entidad oscura, era como un árbol que caminaba por los bosques y echaba raíces en un lugar escogido... Y rezaba con todas aquellas bocas... Rezaba al viejo dios que habita bajo del suelo" "Cuaderno hallado en una casa deshabitada", traducido por Francisco Torres Oliver e invocado en diversas compilaciones de la Editorial Valdemar, publicado en el número de mayo de 1951 de la revista Weird Tales... Un relato de Horror Cósmico escrito por Robert Bloch para deleite y pavor de los amantes de los Mitos de Cthulhu. Esta adaptación ha sido posible gracias a la colaboración de Toliol, Librero del Mal en Gigamesh y a nuestros mecenas, únanse a nuestro culto tentacular y disfruten de invocaciones exclusivas y delirios primigenios! Pueden hacerse con estos tomos primigenios aquí: https://www.valdemar.com/ Sigan al maestro Toliol en sus redes del Mal https://bsky.app/profile/toliol.bsky.social Sigan las redes de Librería Gigamesh https://bsky.app/profile/gigamesh.com Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

"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." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Left by the Tide” first appeared in Weird Tales, March 1929 “Sirens Chasing Sirens” first appeared in The Gateway Review back in 2018 “Dread and Faith” was originally published in February 2025 in Blood Lust from Black Hare Press The Go-Between by LP Hartley Forteana Jim Kristofic novels Coyote Stranger The Sundown Killers From the author of “Sirens Chasing… Source