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

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    • 4.8 • 23 Ratings

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

    ”The Horror at Martin’s Beach” by H. P. Lovecraft

    ”The Horror at Martin’s Beach” by H. P. Lovecraft

    "The Horror at Martin's Beach" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Sonia H. Greene, which first appeared in Weird Tales in November 1923. The story tells of a horrifying creature killed by sailors at sea, and of the resulting act of vengeance on behalf of the creature’s mother.

    • 16 min
    ”Ghost Hunt” by H. R. Wakefield / A Dramatic Reading

    ”Ghost Hunt” by H. R. Wakefield / A Dramatic Reading

    "Ghost Hunt" is a short story by the British writer, H. Russell Wakefield. The story first appeared in Weird Tales in March 1948. "Twice before the Ghost Hunters had tried unsuccessfully to find their quarry. This was the third—and LAST—attempt!"

    • 18 min
    ”Demons of the Film Colony” by Theodore LeBerthon

    ”Demons of the Film Colony” by Theodore LeBerthon

    "Demons of the Film Colony" by Theodore LeBerthon first appeared in Weird Tales in October 1932. The story was described by the magazine thusly: "A gigantic hoax was perpetrated on the author by 'Dracula' Lugosi and 'Frankenstein' Karloff."

    • 16 min
    ”Six Flights to Terror” by Manly Banister

    ”Six Flights to Terror” by Manly Banister

    "Six Flights to Terror" is a short story by Manly Banister. The story first appeared in the September 1946 edition of Weird Tales, with the following description: "It was a dead thing, and dead things should be buried—but how do you bury a building?"

    • 30 min
    ”The Oval Portrait” by Edgar Allan Poe

    ”The Oval Portrait” by Edgar Allan Poe

    "The Oval Portrait" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842.

    • 8 min
    ”The Red Balloon” / A Weird Tale by Q. Patrick

    ”The Red Balloon” / A Weird Tale by Q. Patrick

    "The Red Balloon" is a short story by Q. Patrick (the pen name of detective fiction writers Richard Wilson Webb and Hugh Callingham Wheeler). The story first appeared in Weird Tales in November 1953. “Only facts would interest the head of the Homicide Bureau; not fantasy.”

    • 33 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
23 Ratings

23 Ratings

Sppoonny7 ,

A glorious thing

Like Tina says simply the best.

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M Hopkins

Really enjoy listening especially to the more gothic tales which are expertly read.👏

dreadtodance ,

Entertaining

I do enjoy this podcast and don’t want to be offensive but is the female narrator a AI when she reads theirs no rhythmic tones or emotion it’s just flat monotone and I lose interest

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