Small Frights and Other Delights

Robert T. Greene
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Every week Robert T. Greene sits in his chair and reads a scary short story from long ago. Every now and then I'll even read my own short stories.  I stick with public domain short stories because there are so many good old stories that I can read for free, and there is also a lot of great writing that is now in the public domain. Authors I read from include: H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen, Saki, M.R. James, and Robert W. Chambers. 

Episodes

  1. Jun 4

    6 - The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft (PART 2/2)

    In this episode we read parts 7-10 of the Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft. Dr. Armitage gets a posse together and heads to Dunwich to see what has been happening with the some massive invisible force that has been crushing houses and the powers of science and knowledge are pitted against otherworldly creatures and powers! It's spooky! It's weird! and I have my friend Nona here to help me read it. So you enjoy now. It's free. It's free to enjoy this episode. We made it for you. yeah you.

    1h 6m

  2. Apr 18

    5 - The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft PART 1/2 (1929)

    In this episode of Small Frights and Other Delights we read chapters 1-6 of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" (1929). This story is one of the most popular entries in the "Cthulu Mythos" and was originally published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales. The tale centers around a strange child born to an old family in the fictional Massachusetts hamlet of Dunwich, where an ancient evil is trying to re enter our dimension through obscure, blasphemous means. Nearby cows look anemic and skinny. Neighbors tell of strange sounds coming from the Earth and nearby mountains. There's a dang four year old with a beard in the story. In modern terms, the vibes in Dunwich are off, big time. H.P. lovecraft must have had some bad dreams or something, because, man, this story has got some grade A1 premium cosmic dread in it. all killer no filler. I am joined today by Nona Anderson, who is a fantastic voice actor. She really elevates the story telling and made it a lot more fun to record. Give us a like! Give us a follow! You can make my life better by pressing a button on your phone! Much love!

    1h 11m

  3. Apr 6

    4 - The Night Wire by H.F. Arnold (1926) and Far Below by Samuel Barbour Johnson (1939)

    In this episode of Small Frights and other delights, I ready two classic stories from the pulp magazine "Weird Tales", H.F. Arnold's The Night Wire and Samuel Barbour Johnson's Far Below. Both are in a similar vein of dark, atmospheric horror. The Night Wire (10:00) : https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68555 In the Night Wire, in a skyscraper in a metropolis late at night, strange transmissions come into a radio operator's office from a far away land called Xebico detailing the unraveling of a city by supernatural causes. Far Below (31:00) : https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV34N0119390607/page/26/mode/2up In Far Below, a journalist visits with a squad of policemen guarding the New York City subway from an army of strange creatures that come out to terrorize the riders of the subway in the small hours of the morning. Enjoy the stories! Enjoy your life!

    1h 7m

  4. Apr 5

    3 - The Boneyard by Robert Greene (2025)

    In this episode I read one of my own short stories, the Boneyard. I wrote it for a scary short story competition at a local community college, Madison Area Technical College, and it got published in their yearly chapbook. This story was inspired by my time living in rural Texas. In this story, a farm worker discovers that a strange orphan lamb isn't like the other lambs on the farm.

    41 min

  5. Mar 26

    2 - The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (1894) - PART 2/2

    In this episode we finish off Arthur Machen's Novella "The Great God Pan". Villiers learns the fate of his friend Herbert, contacts Mr. Clarke, and follows a trail of death to the door of a prominent socialite. It's scary! It's twisted! But don't worry it's not that bad. Link to the text: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-machen/short-fiction Link to weather.gov https://www.weather.gov/ This is my frog candle. I like it. https://www.bigdipperwaxworks.com/pure-beeswax-frog-candle-green/

    1h 26m
  6. 1 - The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (1894) - PART 1/2

    Mar 23

    1 - The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (1894) - PART 1/2

    Welcome to the first episode of Small Frights and Other Delights. In this episode I ramble on about why I'm doing the podcast, introduce Arthur Machen and Aubrey Beardsley, and read the first few parts of the Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, one of my favorite horror short stories. In this story, a mad doctor tries to perform a surgery that will open up the mind of man to the ineffable spiritual world, his confidant reels from the witnessing of the surgery and then plunges back into the world of the occult through the memoirs of a man named Villiers. It's based in London. It's weird. You can imagine the vials and test tubes and damp English nights.  Here are the websites I mention in the episode Standard eBooks: https://standardebooks.org/ The Great God Pan (Wikipedia) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_God_Pan Aubrey Beardsley (Wikipedia) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley

    1h 3m
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Every week Robert T. Greene sits in his chair and reads a scary short story from long ago. Every now and then I'll even read my own short stories.  I stick with public domain short stories because there are so many good old stories that I can read for free, and there is also a lot of great writing that is now in the public domain. Authors I read from include: H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen, Saki, M.R. James, and Robert W. Chambers. 

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