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Podcasts of classic ghost and adventure stories, set in lonely churchyards or empty mansions, all in the tradition of classic authors such as M. R. James, H.P. Lovecraft and the most popular sci-fi pulp fiction writers. Narrated by M.P.
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The Mummy's Soul | Curse Story | Podcast (opens the original)
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The Mummy's Soul is an anonymous short story first published in The Knickerbocker, or New York Monthly Magazine in May 1862. Scholarly analysis identifies it as one of the earliest American curse fiction tales, predating Louisa May Alcott’s Lost in a Pyramid (1869) and Jane G. Austin’s After Three Thousand Years (1868). The plot follows a narrator who desecrates an Egyptian tomb and removes a stone scarabaeus inscribed with the prophecy, "three thousand years hence a new life." Upon returning to
Betelgeuse Bridge and Another Story of an Unexpected Arrival | Podcast (opens the original)
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Date in the City Room is a punchy, short story published in Weird Tales, January, 1938 by Talbot Johns. It blends a classic supernatural twist with a gritty, fast-paced journalism setting. The story takes place late at night in a frantic metropolitan newspaper office— the "city room." Two reporters meet up in the press room, waiting to see a massive headline hit the morning papers. As they talk and watch the printing presses roll, it is revealed that the breaking news story they are waiting on d
Medusa's Coil | Z.B. Bishop & H.P. Lovecraft | Cthulhu Mythos | Podcast (opens the original)
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A powerful and compelling tale of brooding horror that deepens and broadens to the final catastrophe—an unusual and engrossing novellete by the author of "The Curse of Yig". Medusa's Coil" by Zealia B. Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft is a short story first published in January 1939. A traveler seeking shelter at a decaying plantation hears a tale of forbidden love and supernatural horror. When Denis de Russy brings his mysterious Parisian bride, Marceline, home, dark secrets emerge through a painter'
The Horror in the Hold and Two Other Stories of Revenge | Podcast (opens the original)
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A mutinous Spaniard slithers into the shadow-soaked hold of an English ship with powder, vengeance, and heresy on his tongue. But in the stinking dark beneath the deck, blades whisper, loyalties bend, and something far worse than steel seems to be waiting. Originally published in Weird Tales in February 1932, The Horror in the Hold captures everything readers love about early pulp horror: salt-stung realism, eerie supernatural undertones, and the creeping dread that Frank Belknap Long perfected.
The Real Road to Church | Robert Aickman | Podcast (opens the original)
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Discover the haunting depth of Robert Aickman’s "The Real Road to the Church." Explore how a lonely woman's isolation transforms into a profound supernatural awakening in this unique, emotionally resonant masterwork of weird fiction. Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com Narration by a human, never AI Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/n
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