The HorrorBabble Podcast

"The Shingler" is a short story by the one-time Weird Tales writer, E. L. Wright. The tale first appeared in the magazine in its January 1941 edition. "Next time you have work done on your house, be s...

4 Apr 202339min

"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...

28 Mars 202319min

"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...

21 Mars 202320min

"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 'Drac...

14 Mars 202318min

"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...

7 Mars 202333min

"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 o...

14 Feb 202311min

"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. ...

7 Feb 202335min

"Country House" is a horror story by the little-known author, Ewen Whyte. First published in the September 1949 edition of Weird Tales, the story was described as follows: “A strange rendezvous with t...

24 Jan 202324min