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


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"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."

"The Cave of Spiders" by William R. Hickey

"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."

"A Secret of the South Pole" by Hamilton Drummond

"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.

"My Father, the Cat" by Henry Slesar

"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."

"The Buzzards" by Edward Lucas White

"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.

"At the Gate" by Myla Jo Closser

"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."

"A Rendezvous in Averoigne" by Clark Ashton Smith

"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.

"The Phantom Woman" | A Traditional Ghost Story

"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."

"Lead Soldiers" by Robert Barbour Johnson

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This Halloween, one winner will receive a rare trio of vintage Panther paperbacks, each showcasing the masters of Weird Tales horror fiction: 

 • Clark Ashton Smith’s Out of Space and Time: Volume 1 (1974) 

 • H. P. Lovecraft’s The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Terror (1963) 

 • Robert E. Howard’s Skull-Face Omnibus: Volume 1: Skull-Face and Others (1976) 

 These are the very stories that helped shape the heart and soul of HorrorBabble. This is an opportunity to own physical relics of the weird fiction tradition, curated, complete, and haunted by decades of literary dread. If the winner wishes me to do so, I will sign the books. 

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"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."

"Red Shadows" by Robert E. Howard

"Seedling of Mars", which explores the idea of Martian canals being much more than mere waterways, was first published as THE PLANET ENTITY in the Fall 1931 edition of Wonder Stories Quarterly. The story was the result of an Interplanetary Plot Contest, in which readers of Wonder Stories were invited to outline plots for established authors to develop.

”Seedling of Mars” / A Mars Cycle Story by Clark Ashton Smith

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