People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Horror Stories, Weird Fiction, and Film Reviews
People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos is a long-running podcast exploring cosmic horror, weird fiction, and the strange worlds inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and his contemporaries. Hosted by DB Spitzer with co-hosts Farmer Dave and Aunt Gore, the show dives into myth, monsters, movies, and the legacy of the Mythos with humor and insight. Join us for our audiobook episodes. Episodes drop weekly.
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Season 22 bonus episodes 90-112
Title and Author
Brief description
90
“The Empty House” — Algernon Blackwood
A classic haunted-house story: two curious visitors enter a long-abandoned house and slowly realize the old violence inside it has not gone away.
91
“The Judge’s House” — Bram Stoker
A student rents a gloomy old house once owned by a cruel judge, then finds the place still ruled by rats, dread, and a hanging shadow.
92a
“Laura” — Saki / H. H. Munro
A sharp, darkly funny reincarnation story about a mischievous woman who may return after death in a very inconvenient form.
92b
“Man-Size in Marble” — E. Nesbit
A newly married couple dismisses a local legend about marble knight effigies that walk at night; this proves unwise.
93
“Phantasmagoria” — Lewis Carroll
A comic ghost poem, more playful than frightening, about ghostly rules, manners, and the absurd bureaucracy of haunting.
94
“Schalken the Painter” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Gothic tale of art, money, and damnation, centered on a young painter, a lost love, and a sinister suitor who may not be alive.
95A
“The Shadows on the Wall” — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
After a family death, strange shadows appear on the wall, turning grief, guilt, and suspicion into a supernatural judgment.
95B
“Tales of Treasure” — Anonymous
A very short treasure-haunting piece; more of a compact eerie anecdote than a full plotted ghost story.
96
“The Trial for Murder” — Charles Dickens
A murder victim’s ghost appears around the trial of the accused killer, pushing the living world toward justice.
97A
“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” — E. Nesbit
A gentle, melancholy ghost-romance about an old man, a beautiful portrait, and a love story touched by death.
97B
“The Beast in the Cave” — H. P. Lovecraft
An early Lovecraft story: a man lost in a cave hears something coming through the dark, and the final reveal is grim and human.
98
“The Ebony Frame” — E. Nesbit
A haunted-portrait romance in which a woman in an old picture seems able to step out of the frame, but at a terrible cost.
99
“The Red Room” — H. G. Wells
A skeptic spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers that the true ghost may be fear itself.
100
“The Bell in the Fog” — Gertrude Atherton
A Henry James-flavored Gothic story about an inherited English estate, old portraits, reincarnation, and family tragedy.
101
“The Ghost Club” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural story about crime, ghosts, and absurd afterlife logic; lighter and more satirical than scary.
102A
“A Ghost Story” — Mark Twain
Twain turns the haunted-room setup into a comic ghost story, playing with superstition and mistaken identity.
102B
“A Psychical Prank” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected from “Physical Prank.” A humorous Bangs ghost tale built around spiritualism, trickery, and supernatural mischief.
103
“A Midnight Visitor” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural visit in the night, with Bangs’s usual mix of ghosts, manners, and absurd afterlife complications.
104A
“A Quicksilver Cassandra” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected author/title. A satirical ghostly fantasy about prophecy, warning, and not being believed.
104B
“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” — John Kendrick Bangs
A funny Christmas ghost story about a soggy apparition who floods the ancestral house every year.
105
“The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas” — Ellis Parker Butler
A comic “ghost cat” story involving Thomas the cat and a colorful supernatural problem.
106
“Phantom” — Arnold Bennet
107A
“An Astral Onion” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A strange little supernatural story with Peattie’s mix of humor, domestic life, and odd spiritual machinery.
107B
“The Haunted Orchard” — Richard Le Gallienne
A lyrical ghost story about an orchard haunted by memory, beauty, and possibly the spirit of a young girl.
108
“Glamis Castle” — Elliott O’Donnell
A haunted-castle account built around the legends of Glamis, full of old-family dread and spectral atmosphere.
109
“The Return of Imray” — Rudyard Kipling
Corrected spelling: Kipling. A colonial ghost/mystery story about a vanished man whose return is not what anyone expects.
110A
“Since I Died” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A sentimental supernatural piece told from beyond death, focused on grief, love, and the living left behind.
110B
“On the Northern Ice” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A short icy ghost story, also known in some listings as “The Spectre Bride.”
111
“The Withered Arm” — Thomas Hardy
A dark rural tale of jealousy, folk belief, class, and bodily curse, with the bleak fatalism Hardy does so well.
112
“The Yellow Wallpaper” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A woman confined for a “rest cure” becomes obsessed with the room’s wallpaper; psychological horror and feminist classic.
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17. The Voice in the Night – William Hope HodgsonSea horror. Isolation. Transformation. Hodgson makes the ocean feel biologically alien.Underwater (2020) – Ancient things below human scale.
18. The Monster Maker” — Ray Bradbury, Planet Stories, Spring 1944 — Fear and perception generate monsters; the real threat is partly an intelligence manipulating what people think they see.The Mothman Prophecies (2002) – Omen, pattern, unseen intelligence.
19. The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe Obsession and mortality tightening inward.The Raven (2012) – Obsession and mortality tightening inward.
20. The Plattner Story – H. G. WellsA man slips into a flipped, alternate dimension and comes back geometrically wrong. Multiverse dislocation before Marvel made it fashionable.Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) – Multiversal fracture of meaning.
21. The White People – Arthur MachenYouth, ritual, secret worlds behind glamour. Machen’s fae horror undercuts innocence with something ancient and hungry.K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025) – Pop mythology as open cosmology; spectacle swallowing structure.
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Season 22 bonus episodes 90-112
Title and Author
Brief description
90
“The Empty House” — Algernon Blackwood
A classic haunted-house story: two curious visitors enter a long-abandoned house and slowly realize the old violence inside it has not gone away.
91
“The Judge’s House” — Bram Stoker
A student rents a gloomy old house once owned by a cruel judge, then finds the place still ruled by rats, dread, and a hanging shadow.
92a
“Laura” — Saki / H. H. Munro
A sharp, darkly funny reincarnation story about a mischievous woman who may return after death in a very inconvenient form.
92b
“Man-Size in Marble” — E. Nesbit
A newly married couple dismisses a local legend about marble knight effigies that walk at night; this proves unwise.
93
“Phantasmagoria” — Lewis Carroll
A comic ghost poem, more playful than frightening, about ghostly rules, manners, and the absurd bureaucracy of haunting.
94
“Schalken the Painter” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Gothic tale of art, money, and damnation, centered on a young painter, a lost love, and a sinister suitor who may not be alive.
95A
“The Shadows on the Wall” — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
After a family death, strange shadows appear on the wall, turning grief, guilt, and suspicion into a supernatural judgment.
95B
“Tales of Treasure” — Anonymous
A very short treasure-haunting piece; more of a compact eerie anecdote than a full plotted ghost story.
96
“The Trial for Murder” — Charles Dickens
A murder victim’s ghost appears around the trial of the accused killer, pushing the living world toward justice.
97A
“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” — E. Nesbit
A gentle, melancholy ghost-romance about an old man, a beautiful portrait, and a love story touched by death.
97B
“The Beast in the Cave” — H. P. Lovecraft
An early Lovecraft story: a man lost in a cave hears something coming through the dark, and the final reveal is grim and human.
98
“The Ebony Frame” — E. Nesbit
A haunted-portrait romance in which a woman in an old picture seems able to step out of the frame, but at a terrible cost.
99
“The Red Room” — H. G. Wells
A skeptic spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers that the true ghost may be fear itself.
100
“The Bell in the Fog” — Gertrude Atherton
A Henry James-flavored Gothic story about an inherited English estate, old portraits, reincarnation, and family tragedy.
101
“The Ghost Club” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural story about crime, ghosts, and absurd afterlife logic; lighter and more satirical than scary.
102A
“A Ghost Story” — Mark Twain
Twain turns the haunted-room setup into a comic ghost story, playing with superstition and mistaken identity.
102B
“A Psychical Prank” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected from “Physical Prank.” A humorous Bangs ghost tale built around spiritualism, trickery, and supernatural mischief.
103
“A Midnight Visitor” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural visit in the night, with Bangs’s usual mix of ghosts, manners, and absurd afterlife complications.
104A
“A Quicksilver Cassandra” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected author/title. A satirical ghostly fantasy about prophecy, warning, and not being believed.
104B
“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” — John Kendrick Bangs
A funny Christmas ghost story about a soggy apparition who floods the ancestral house every year.
105
“The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas” — Ellis Parker Butler
A comic “ghost cat” story involving Thomas the cat and a colorful supernatural problem.
106
“Phantom” — Arnold Bennet
107A
“An Astral Onion” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A strange little supernatural story with Peattie’s mix of humor, domestic life, and odd spiritual machinery.
107B
“The Haunted Orchard” — Richard Le Gallienne
A lyrical ghost story about an orchard haunted by memory, beauty, and possibly the spirit of a young girl.
108
“Glamis Castle” — Elliott O’Donnell
A haunted-castle account built around the legends of Glamis, full of old-family dread and spectral atmosphere.
109
“The Return of Imray” — Rudyard Kipling
Corrected spelling: Kipling. A colonial ghost/mystery story about a vanished man whose return is not what anyone expects.
110A
“Since I Died” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A sentimental supernatural piece told from beyond death, focused on grief, love, and the living left behind.
110B
“On the Northern Ice” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A short icy ghost story, also known in some listings as “The Spectre Bride.”
111
“The Withered Arm” — Thomas Hardy
A dark rural tale of jealousy, folk belief, class, and bodily curse, with the bleak fatalism Hardy does so well.
112
“The Yellow Wallpaper” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A woman confined for a “rest cure” becomes obsessed with the room’s wallpaper; psychological horror and feminist classic.
6 days ago
6 days ago
36 min
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Season 22 bonus episodes 90-112
Title and Author
Brief description
90
“The Empty House” — Algernon Blackwood
A classic haunted-house story: two curious visitors enter a long-abandoned house and slowly realize the old violence inside it has not gone away.
91
“The Judge’s House” — Bram Stoker
A student rents a gloomy old house once owned by a cruel judge, then finds the place still ruled by rats, dread, and a hanging shadow.
92a
“Laura” — Saki / H. H. Munro
A sharp, darkly funny reincarnation story about a mischievous woman who may return after death in a very inconvenient form.
92b
“Man-Size in Marble” — E. Nesbit
A newly married couple dismisses a local legend about marble knight effigies that walk at night; this proves unwise.
93
“Phantasmagoria” — Lewis Carroll
A comic ghost poem, more playful than frightening, about ghostly rules, manners, and the absurd bureaucracy of haunting.
94
“Schalken the Painter” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Gothic tale of art, money, and damnation, centered on a young painter, a lost love, and a sinister suitor who may not be alive.
95A
“The Shadows on the Wall” — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
After a family death, strange shadows appear on the wall, turning grief, guilt, and suspicion into a supernatural judgment.
95B
“Tales of Treasure” — Anonymous
A very short treasure-haunting piece; more of a compact eerie anecdote than a full plotted ghost story.
96
“The Trial for Murder” — Charles Dickens
A murder victim’s ghost appears around the trial of the accused killer, pushing the living world toward justice.
97A
“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” — E. Nesbit
A gentle, melancholy ghost-romance about an old man, a beautiful portrait, and a love story touched by death.
97B
“The Beast in the Cave” — H. P. Lovecraft
An early Lovecraft story: a man lost in a cave hears something coming through the dark, and the final reveal is grim and human.
98
“The Ebony Frame” — E. Nesbit
A haunted-portrait romance in which a woman in an old picture seems able to step out of the frame, but at a terrible cost.
99
“The Red Room” — H. G. Wells
A skeptic spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers that the true ghost may be fear itself.
100
“The Bell in the Fog” — Gertrude Atherton
A Henry James-flavored Gothic story about an inherited English estate, old portraits, reincarnation, and family tragedy.
101
“The Ghost Club” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural story about crime, ghosts, and absurd afterlife logic; lighter and more satirical than scary.
102A
“A Ghost Story” — Mark Twain
Twain turns the haunted-room setup into a comic ghost story, playing with superstition and mistaken identity.
102B
“A Psychical Prank” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected from “Physical Prank.” A humorous Bangs ghost tale built around spiritualism, trickery, and supernatural mischief.
103
“A Midnight Visitor” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural visit in the night, with Bangs’s usual mix of ghosts, manners, and absurd afterlife complications.
104A
“A Quicksilver Cassandra” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected author/title. A satirical ghostly fantasy about prophecy, warning, and not being believed.
104B
“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” — John Kendrick Bangs
A funny Christmas ghost story about a soggy apparition who floods the ancestral house every year.
105
“The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas” — Ellis Parker Butler
A comic “ghost cat” story involving Thomas the cat and a colorful supernatural problem.
106
“Phantom” — Arnold Bennet
107A
“An Astral Onion” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A strange little supernatural story with Peattie’s mix of humor, domestic life, and odd spiritual machinery.
107B
“The Haunted Orchard” — Richard Le Gallienne
A lyrical ghost story about an orchard haunted by memory, beauty, and possibly the spirit of a young girl.
108
“Glamis Castle” — Elliott O’Donnell
A haunted-castle account built around the legends of Glamis, full of old-family dread and spectral atmosphere.
109
“The Return of Imray” — Rudyard Kipling
Corrected spelling: Kipling. A colonial ghost/mystery story about a vanished man whose return is not what anyone expects.
110A
“Since I Died” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A sentimental supernatural piece told from beyond death, focused on grief, love, and the living left behind.
110B
“On the Northern Ice” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A short icy ghost story, also known in some listings as “The Spectre Bride.”
111
“The Withered Arm” — Thomas Hardy
A dark rural tale of jealousy, folk belief, class, and bodily curse, with the bleak fatalism Hardy does so well.
112
“The Yellow Wallpaper” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A woman confined for a “rest cure” becomes obsessed with the room’s wallpaper; psychological horror and feminist classic.
7 days ago
7 days ago
54 min
Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]
Season 22 bonus episodes 90-112
Title and Author
Brief description
90
“The Empty House” — Algernon Blackwood
A classic haunted-house story: two curious visitors enter a long-abandoned house and slowly realize the old violence inside it has not gone away.
91
“The Judge’s House” — Bram Stoker
A student rents a gloomy old house once owned by a cruel judge, then finds the place still ruled by rats, dread, and a hanging shadow.
92a
“Laura” — Saki / H. H. Munro
A sharp, darkly funny reincarnation story about a mischievous woman who may return after death in a very inconvenient form.
92b
“Man-Size in Marble” — E. Nesbit
A newly married couple dismisses a local legend about marble knight effigies that walk at night; this proves unwise.
93
“Phantasmagoria” — Lewis Carroll
A comic ghost poem, more playful than frightening, about ghostly rules, manners, and the absurd bureaucracy of haunting.
94
“Schalken the Painter” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Gothic tale of art, money, and damnation, centered on a young painter, a lost love, and a sinister suitor who may not be alive.
95A
“The Shadows on the Wall” — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
After a family death, strange shadows appear on the wall, turning grief, guilt, and suspicion into a supernatural judgment.
95B
“Tales of Treasure” — Anonymous
A very short treasure-haunting piece; more of a compact eerie anecdote than a full plotted ghost story.
96
“The Trial for Murder” — Charles Dickens
A murder victim’s ghost appears around the trial of the accused killer, pushing the living world toward justice.
97A
“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” — E. Nesbit
A gentle, melancholy ghost-romance about an old man, a beautiful portrait, and a love story touched by death.
97B
“The Beast in the Cave” — H. P. Lovecraft
An early Lovecraft story: a man lost in a cave hears something coming through the dark, and the final reveal is grim and human.
98
“The Ebony Frame” — E. Nesbit
A haunted-portrait romance in which a woman in an old picture seems able to step out of the frame, but at a terrible cost.
99
“The Red Room” — H. G. Wells
A skeptic spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers that the true ghost may be fear itself.
100
“The Bell in the Fog” — Gertrude Atherton
A Henry James-flavored Gothic story about an inherited English estate, old portraits, reincarnation, and family tragedy.
101
“The Ghost Club” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural story about crime, ghosts, and absurd afterlife logic; lighter and more satirical than scary.
102A
“A Ghost Story” — Mark Twain
Twain turns the haunted-room setup into a comic ghost story, playing with superstition and mistaken identity.
102B
“A Psychical Prank” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected from “Physical Prank.” A humorous Bangs ghost tale built around spiritualism, trickery, and supernatural mischief.
103
“A Midnight Visitor” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural visit in the night, with Bangs’s usual mix of ghosts, manners, and absurd afterlife complications.
104A
“A Quicksilver Cassandra” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected author/title. A satirical ghostly fantasy about prophecy, warning, and not being believed.
104B
“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” — John Kendrick Bangs
A funny Christmas ghost story about a soggy apparition who floods the ancestral house every year.
105
“The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas” — Ellis Parker Butler
A comic “ghost cat” story involving Thomas the cat and a colorful supernatural problem.
106
“Phantom” — Arnold Bennet
107A
“An Astral Onion” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A strange little supernatural story with Peattie’s mix of humor, domestic life, and odd spiritual machinery.
107B
“The Haunted Orchard” — Richard Le Gallienne
A lyrical ghost story about an orchard haunted by memory, beauty, and possibly the spirit of a young girl.
108
“Glamis Castle” — Elliott O’Donnell
A haunted-castle account built around the legends of Glamis, full of old-family dread and spectral atmosphere.
109
“The Return of Imray” — Rudyard Kipling
Corrected spelling: Kipling. A colonial ghost/mystery story about a vanished man whose return is not what anyone expects.
110A
“Since I Died” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A sentimental supernatural piece told from beyond death, focused on grief, love, and the living left behind.
110B
“On the Northern Ice” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A short icy ghost story, also known in some listings as “The Spectre Bride.”
111
“The Withered Arm” — Thomas Hardy
A dark rural tale of jealousy, folk belief, class, and bodily curse, with the bleak fatalism Hardy does so well.
112
“The Yellow Wallpaper” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A woman confined for a “rest cure” becomes obsessed with the room’s wallpaper; psychological horror and feminist classic.
Jul 20, 2026
Jul 20, 2026
32 min
Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]
Season 22 bonus episodes 90-112
Title and Author
Brief description
90
“The Empty House” — Algernon Blackwood
A classic haunted-house story: two curious visitors enter a long-abandoned house and slowly realize the old violence inside it has not gone away.
91
“The Judge’s House” — Bram Stoker
A student rents a gloomy old house once owned by a cruel judge, then finds the place still ruled by rats, dread, and a hanging shadow.
92a
“Laura” — Saki / H. H. Munro
A sharp, darkly funny reincarnation story about a mischievous woman who may return after death in a very inconvenient form.
92b
“Man-Size in Marble” — E. Nesbit
A newly married couple dismisses a local legend about marble knight effigies that walk at night; this proves unwise.
93
“Phantasmagoria” — Lewis Carroll
A comic ghost poem, more playful than frightening, about ghostly rules, manners, and the absurd bureaucracy of haunting.
94
“Schalken the Painter” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Gothic tale of art, money, and damnation, centered on a young painter, a lost love, and a sinister suitor who may not be alive.
95A
“The Shadows on the Wall” — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
After a family death, strange shadows appear on the wall, turning grief, guilt, and suspicion into a supernatural judgment.
95B
“Tales of Treasure” — Anonymous
A very short treasure-haunting piece; more of a compact eerie anecdote than a full plotted ghost story.
96
“The Trial for Murder” — Charles Dickens
A murder victim’s ghost appears around the trial of the accused killer, pushing the living world toward justice.
97A
“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” — E. Nesbit
A gentle, melancholy ghost-romance about an old man, a beautiful portrait, and a love story touched by death.
97B
“The Beast in the Cave” — H. P. Lovecraft
An early Lovecraft story: a man lost in a cave hears something coming through the dark, and the final reveal is grim and human.
98
“The Ebony Frame” — E. Nesbit
A haunted-portrait romance in which a woman in an old picture seems able to step out of the frame, but at a terrible cost.
99
“The Red Room” — H. G. Wells
A skeptic spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers that the true ghost may be fear itself.
100
“The Bell in the Fog” — Gertrude Atherton
A Henry James-flavored Gothic story about an inherited English estate, old portraits, reincarnation, and family tragedy.
101
“The Ghost Club” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural story about crime, ghosts, and absurd afterlife logic; lighter and more satirical than scary.
102A
“A Ghost Story” — Mark Twain
Twain turns the haunted-room setup into a comic ghost story, playing with superstition and mistaken identity.
102B
“A Psychical Prank” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected from “Physical Prank.” A humorous Bangs ghost tale built around spiritualism, trickery, and supernatural mischief.
103
“A Midnight Visitor” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural visit in the night, with Bangs’s usual mix of ghosts, manners, and absurd afterlife complications.
104A
“A Quicksilver Cassandra” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected author/title. A satirical ghostly fantasy about prophecy, warning, and not being believed.
104B
“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” — John Kendrick Bangs
A funny Christmas ghost story about a soggy apparition who floods the ancestral house every year.
105
“The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas” — Ellis Parker Butler
A comic “ghost cat” story involving Thomas the cat and a colorful supernatural problem.
106
“Phantom” — Arnold Bennet
107A
“An Astral Onion” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A strange little supernatural story with Peattie’s mix of humor, domestic life, and odd spiritual machinery.
107B
“The Haunted Orchard” — Richard Le Gallienne
A lyrical ghost story about an orchard haunted by memory, beauty, and possibly the spirit of a young girl.
108
“Glamis Castle” — Elliott O’Donnell
A haunted-castle account built around the legends of Glamis, full of old-family dread and spectral atmosphere.
109
“The Return of Imray” — Rudyard Kipling
Corrected spelling: Kipling. A colonial ghost/mystery story about a vanished man whose return is not what anyone expects.
110A
“Since I Died” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A sentimental supernatural piece told from beyond death, focused on grief, love, and the living left behind.
110B
“On the Northern Ice” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A short icy ghost story, also known in some listings as “The Spectre Bride.”
111
“The Withered Arm” — Thomas Hardy
A dark rural tale of jealousy, folk belief, class, and bodily curse, with the bleak fatalism Hardy does so well.
112
“The Yellow Wallpaper” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A woman confined for a “rest cure” becomes obsessed with the room’s wallpaper; psychological horror and feminist classic.
Jul 17, 2026
Jul 17, 2026
31 min
Thank you for listening!
Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]Topics include:CharcuterieCyberpunkCoffee/Tea Recipe book with OGL D20 stats.
Season 22 bonus episodes 90-112
Title and Author
Brief description
90
“The Empty House” — Algernon Blackwood
A classic haunted-house story: two curious visitors enter a long-abandoned house and slowly realize the old violence inside it has not gone away.
91
“The Judge’s House” — Bram Stoker
A student rents a gloomy old house once owned by a cruel judge, then finds the place still ruled by rats, dread, and a hanging shadow.
92a
“Laura” — Saki / H. H. Munro
A sharp, darkly funny reincarnation story about a mischievous woman who may return after death in a very inconvenient form.
92b
“Man-Size in Marble” — E. Nesbit
A newly married couple dismisses a local legend about marble knight effigies that walk at night; this proves unwise.
93
“Phantasmagoria” — Lewis Carroll
A comic ghost poem, more playful than frightening, about ghostly rules, manners, and the absurd bureaucracy of haunting.
94
“Schalken the Painter” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Gothic tale of art, money, and damnation, centered on a young painter, a lost love, and a sinister suitor who may not be alive.
95A
“The Shadows on the Wall” — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
After a family death, strange shadows appear on the wall, turning grief, guilt, and suspicion into a supernatural judgment.
95B
“Tales of Treasure” — Anonymous
A very short treasure-haunting piece; more of a compact eerie anecdote than a full plotted ghost story.
96
“The Trial for Murder” — Charles Dickens
A murder victim’s ghost appears around the trial of the accused killer, pushing the living world toward justice.
97A
“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” — E. Nesbit
A gentle, melancholy ghost-romance about an old man, a beautiful portrait, and a love story touched by death.
97B
“The Beast in the Cave” — H. P. Lovecraft
An early Lovecraft story: a man lost in a cave hears something coming through the dark, and the final reveal is grim and human.
98
“The Ebony Frame” — E. Nesbit
A haunted-portrait romance in which a woman in an old picture seems able to step out of the frame, but at a terrible cost.
99
“The Red Room” — H. G. Wells
A skeptic spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers that the true ghost may be fear itself.
100
“The Bell in the Fog” — Gertrude Atherton
A Henry James-flavored Gothic story about an inherited English estate, old portraits, reincarnation, and family tragedy.
101
“The Ghost Club” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural story about crime, ghosts, and absurd afterlife logic; lighter and more satirical than scary.
102A
“A Ghost Story” — Mark Twain
Twain turns the haunted-room setup into a comic ghost story, playing with superstition and mistaken identity.
102B
“A Psychical Prank” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected from “Physical Prank.” A humorous Bangs ghost tale built around spiritualism, trickery, and supernatural mischief.
103
“A Midnight Visitor” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural visit in the night, with Bangs’s usual mix of ghosts, manners, and absurd afterlife complications.
104A
“A Quicksilver Cassandra” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected author/title. A satirical ghostly fantasy about prophecy, warning, and not being believed.
104B
“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” — John Kendrick Bangs
A funny Christmas ghost story about a soggy apparition who floods the ancestral house every year.
105
“The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas” — Ellis Parker Butler
A comic “ghost cat” story involving Thomas the cat and a colorful supernatural problem.
106
“Phantom” — Arnold Bennet
107A
“An Astral Onion” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A strange little supernatural story with Peattie’s mix of humor, domestic life, and odd spiritual machinery.
107B
“The Haunted Orchard” — Richard Le Gallienne
A lyrical ghost story about an orchard haunted by memory, beauty, and possibly the spirit of a young girl.
108
“Glamis Castle” — Elliott O’Donnell
A haunted-castle account built around the legends of Glamis, full of old-family dread and spectral atmosphere.
109
“The Return of Imray” — Rudyard Kipling
Corrected spelling: Kipling. A colonial ghost/mystery story about a vanished man whose return is not what anyone expects.
110A
“Since I Died” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A sentimental supernatural piece told from beyond death, focused on grief, love, and the living left behind.
110B
“On the Northern Ice” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A short icy ghost story, also known in some listings as “The Spectre Bride.”
111
“The Withered Arm” — Thomas Hardy
A dark rural tale of jealousy, folk belief, class, and bodily curse, with the bleak fatalism Hardy does so well.
112
“The Yellow Wallpaper” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A woman confined for a “rest cure” becomes obsessed with the room’s wallpaper; psychological horror and feminist classic.
Jul 16, 2026
Jul 16, 2026
28 min
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Season 23 bonus episodes 1-25
1
The Imperium of Man
Dune, Foundation, Roman Empire in space, religious dystopias
Edward Gibbon, imperial decline literature, medieval Christendom, future-history fiction
2
Space Marines
Starship Troopers, action-movie super soldiers, power armor, comic-book warriors
Heinlein military SF, crusading orders, Spartan myth, warrior monks, fascist hero imagery
3
Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard
World War movies, Starship Troopers, British war comics, doomed infantry stories
H. G. Wells future-war fiction, Kipling, trench literature, boys’ military papers, pulp battlefield fiction
4
Adeptus Mechanicus
Metropolis, cyberpunk machine cults, mad scientists, techno-priests
Gernsback invention fiction, H. G. Wells, Frankenstein, lost-technology stories, mad-science pulp
5
Adepta Sororitas / Ecclesiarchy
Hammer horror, warrior nuns, Joan of Arc cinema, witchfinder movies
Gothic novels, martyr stories, saint legends, witch-trial pamphlets, religious melodrama
6
The Inquisition
The X-Files, witchfinder films, secret-police thrillers, occult detectives
M. R. James-style scholars, Blackwood, Machen, witch-hunter tracts, secret-society fiction
7
Rogue Traders
Star Trek, Flash Gordon, space pirates, merchant princes
Planetary romance, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, colonial adventure fiction
8
Adeptus Custodes
Golden demigod bodyguards, imperial palace guards, mythic super-soldiers
Achilles, Gilgamesh, sacred kingship, Praetorian Guards, immortal companions of god-kings
9
Adeptus Titanicus
Pacific Rim, Gundam, giant robot anime, kaiju movies, walking battleships, cathedral mecha
Wells’ Martian tripods, “The Land Ironclads,” dreadnoughts, siege engines, bronze giants, golems, sacred statues, war-gods
10
The Horus Heresy
Star Wars, fallen Jedi, dark lords, civil-war space opera, tragic chosen ones
Milton’s Paradise Lost, Lucifer’s rebellion, Cain and Abel, Arthur and Mordred, Roman civil wars, succession crises
11
Chaos Space Marines
Fallen angels, heavy metal villains, corrupted super-soldiers, black knights, rebel legions
Milton’s Paradise Lost, Moorcock’s Chaos, Byronic rebels, cursed champions, Satanic romance, Gothic villains, revenge tragedy
12
Chaos Daemons
Hellraiser, Event Horizon, occult horror, possession films, nightmare dimensions
Medieval demonology, grimoires, witch-trial literature, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, occult pulp, weird menace fiction
13
World Eaters / Khorne
Conan, gladiator films, berserker metal, chainsaw action horror, grindhouse revenge
Robert E. Howard, sword-and-sorcery pulp, berserker sagas, blood cults, Homeric rage, arena spectacle, revenge tragedy
14
Death Guard / Nurgle
Zombie plague films, body horror, gross-out comedy, infection horror, fungal rot, swamp monsters
Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” plague literature, danse macabre, memento mori, corpse folklore, leper saints
15
Thousand Sons / Tzeentch
Wizard cults, cursed books, Egyptian sorcerers, cosmic chessmasters, forbidden libraries
H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, E. R. Eddison, mummy fiction, forbidden-book stories, Decadent occultism, Renaissance magic
16
Emperor’s Children / Slaanesh
Glam rock horror, decadent villains, body modification nightmares, cursed artists, aristocratic monsters
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Huysmans, fin-de-siècle decadence, Gothic aristocrats, cursed art, aestheticism
17
Chaos / Imperial Knights
Haunted mecha, cursed noble machines, demonic war engines, Gundam, BattleTech, Pacific Rim
Gothic castles, cursed armor, haunted inheritance, family-doom melodrama, chivalric romance, sins of the fathers
18
Orks
Mad Max, fantasy orcs, biker gangs, football hooligans, British comic violence, slapstick war movies
William Hope Hodgson’s “The Voice in the Night,” fungus horror, Matango, invasive-species stories, goblins, comic grotesques
19
Tyranids
Alien, Aliens, The Thing, bug-war movies, swarm horror, hive minds, biological weapons
John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There?”, H. G. Wells’ Martians, insect-hive fiction, invasion literature, cosmic naturalism
20
Genestealer Cults
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alien, cult horror, red-scare paranoia films, sleeper cells
Hidden-bloodline stories, secret cult pulp, infiltration fiction, changeling folklore, cuckoo-child fears, apocalyptic sects
21
Necrons
The Terminator, killer robots, metal skeletons, space undead, immortal android kings
Karel Čapek’s R.U.R., robot rebellion, automaton fiction, artificial labor nightmares, mummy pulp, Egyptomania, tomb curses
22
Aeldari / Drukhari
Tolkien elves, dying space aristocrats, psychic aliens, dark elves, vampire cities, cruel fairy courts
Lord Dunsany, Jack Vance’s Dying Earth, fairy otherworlds, decadent elder-race fiction, Atlantis, Gothic aristocrats
23
Night Lords
Batman turned inside out, The Crow, slasher films, serial-killer thrillers, torture horror, vigilante movies
Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Gothic villains, penny dreadfuls, Jack the Ripper panic, Grand Guignol, Dracula, public punishment
24
T’au Empire / Leagues of Votann
Clean anime mecha empire, sleek battlesuits, utopian coalitions, space dwarves, hard-SF miners
Utopian SF, technocracy fiction, Cold War futures, missionary empire, company towns, mining-company frontier stories, labor colonies
25
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Spy thrillers, Mission: Impossible, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Manchurian Candidate, The Prisoner, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
John Buchan, Joseph Conrad, G. K. Chesterton, Erskine Childers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Norbert Jacques, invasion-scare fiction, fifth-column paranoia
Jul 16, 2026
Jul 16, 2026
47 min
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Season 22 bonus episodes 90-112
Title and Author
Brief description
90
“The Empty House” — Algernon Blackwood
A classic haunted-house story: two curious visitors enter a long-abandoned house and slowly realize the old violence inside it has not gone away.
91
“The Judge’s House” — Bram Stoker
A student rents a gloomy old house once owned by a cruel judge, then finds the place still ruled by rats, dread, and a hanging shadow.
92a
“Laura” — Saki / H. H. Munro
A sharp, darkly funny reincarnation story about a mischievous woman who may return after death in a very inconvenient form.
92b
“Man-Size in Marble” — E. Nesbit
A newly married couple dismisses a local legend about marble knight effigies that walk at night; this proves unwise.
93
“Phantasmagoria” — Lewis Carroll
A comic ghost poem, more playful than frightening, about ghostly rules, manners, and the absurd bureaucracy of haunting.
94
“Schalken the Painter” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Gothic tale of art, money, and damnation, centered on a young painter, a lost love, and a sinister suitor who may not be alive.
95A
“The Shadows on the Wall” — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
After a family death, strange shadows appear on the wall, turning grief, guilt, and suspicion into a supernatural judgment.
95B
“Tales of Treasure” — Anonymous
A very short treasure-haunting piece; more of a compact eerie anecdote than a full plotted ghost story.
96
“The Trial for Murder” — Charles Dickens
A murder victim’s ghost appears around the trial of the accused killer, pushing the living world toward justice.
97A
“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” — E. Nesbit
A gentle, melancholy ghost-romance about an old man, a beautiful portrait, and a love story touched by death.
97B
“The Beast in the Cave” — H. P. Lovecraft
An early Lovecraft story: a man lost in a cave hears something coming through the dark, and the final reveal is grim and human.
98
“The Ebony Frame” — E. Nesbit
A haunted-portrait romance in which a woman in an old picture seems able to step out of the frame, but at a terrible cost.
99
“The Red Room” — H. G. Wells
A skeptic spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers that the true ghost may be fear itself.
100
“The Bell in the Fog” — Gertrude Atherton
A Henry James-flavored Gothic story about an inherited English estate, old portraits, reincarnation, and family tragedy.
101
“The Ghost Club” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural story about crime, ghosts, and absurd afterlife logic; lighter and more satirical than scary.
102A
“A Ghost Story” — Mark Twain
Twain turns the haunted-room setup into a comic ghost story, playing with superstition and mistaken identity.
102B
“A Psychical Prank” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected from “Physical Prank.” A humorous Bangs ghost tale built around spiritualism, trickery, and supernatural mischief.
103
“A Midnight Visitor” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural visit in the night, with Bangs’s usual mix of ghosts, manners, and absurd afterlife complications.
104A
“A Quicksilver Cassandra” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected author/title. A satirical ghostly fantasy about prophecy, warning, and not being believed.
104B
“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” — John Kendrick Bangs
A funny Christmas ghost story about a soggy apparition who floods the ancestral house every year.
105
“The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas” — Ellis Parker Butler
A comic “ghost cat” story involving Thomas the cat and a colorful supernatural problem.
106
“Phantom” — Arnold Bennet
107A
“An Astral Onion” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A strange little supernatural story with Peattie’s mix of humor, domestic life, and odd spiritual machinery.
107B
“The Haunted Orchard” — Richard Le Gallienne
A lyrical ghost story about an orchard haunted by memory, beauty, and possibly the spirit of a young girl.
108
“Glamis Castle” — Elliott O’Donnell
A haunted-castle account built around the legends of Glamis, full of old-family dread and spectral atmosphere.
109
“The Return of Imray” — Rudyard Kipling
Corrected spelling: Kipling. A colonial ghost/mystery story about a vanished man whose return is not what anyone expects.
110A
“Since I Died” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A sentimental supernatural piece told from beyond death, focused on grief, love, and the living left behind.
110B
“On the Northern Ice” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A short icy ghost story, also known in some listings as “The Spectre Bride.”
111
“The Withered Arm” — Thomas Hardy
A dark rural tale of jealousy, folk belief, class, and bodily curse, with the bleak fatalism Hardy does so well.
112
“The Yellow Wallpaper” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A woman confined for a “rest cure” becomes obsessed with the room’s wallpaper; psychological horror and feminist classic.
Jul 15, 2026
Jul 15, 2026
47 min
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Season 22 bonus episodes 90-112
Title and Author
Brief description
90
“The Empty House” — Algernon Blackwood
A classic haunted-house story: two curious visitors enter a long-abandoned house and slowly realize the old violence inside it has not gone away.
91
“The Judge’s House” — Bram Stoker
A student rents a gloomy old house once owned by a cruel judge, then finds the place still ruled by rats, dread, and a hanging shadow.
92a
“Laura” — Saki / H. H. Munro
A sharp, darkly funny reincarnation story about a mischievous woman who may return after death in a very inconvenient form.
92b
“Man-Size in Marble” — E. Nesbit
A newly married couple dismisses a local legend about marble knight effigies that walk at night; this proves unwise.
93
“Phantasmagoria” — Lewis Carroll
A comic ghost poem, more playful than frightening, about ghostly rules, manners, and the absurd bureaucracy of haunting.
94
“Schalken the Painter” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Gothic tale of art, money, and damnation, centered on a young painter, a lost love, and a sinister suitor who may not be alive.
95A
“The Shadows on the Wall” — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
After a family death, strange shadows appear on the wall, turning grief, guilt, and suspicion into a supernatural judgment.
95B
“Tales of Treasure” — Anonymous
A very short treasure-haunting piece; more of a compact eerie anecdote than a full plotted ghost story.
96
“The Trial for Murder” — Charles Dickens
A murder victim’s ghost appears around the trial of the accused killer, pushing the living world toward justice.
97A
“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” — E. Nesbit
A gentle, melancholy ghost-romance about an old man, a beautiful portrait, and a love story touched by death.
97B
“The Beast in the Cave” — H. P. Lovecraft
An early Lovecraft story: a man lost in a cave hears something coming through the dark, and the final reveal is grim and human.
98
“The Ebony Frame” — E. Nesbit
A haunted-portrait romance in which a woman in an old picture seems able to step out of the frame, but at a terrible cost.
99
“The Red Room” — H. G. Wells
A skeptic spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers that the true ghost may be fear itself.
100
“The Bell in the Fog” — Gertrude Atherton
A Henry James-flavored Gothic story about an inherited English estate, old portraits, reincarnation, and family tragedy.
101
“The Ghost Club” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural story about crime, ghosts, and absurd afterlife logic; lighter and more satirical than scary.
102A
“A Ghost Story” — Mark Twain
Twain turns the haunted-room setup into a comic ghost story, playing with superstition and mistaken identity.
102B
“A Psychical Prank” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected from “Physical Prank.” A humorous Bangs ghost tale built around spiritualism, trickery, and supernatural mischief.
103
“A Midnight Visitor” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural visit in the night, with Bangs’s usual mix of ghosts, manners, and absurd afterlife complications.
104A
“A Quicksilver Cassandra” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected author/title. A satirical ghostly fantasy about prophecy, warning, and not being believed.
104B
“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” — John Kendrick Bangs
A funny Christmas ghost story about a soggy apparition who floods the ancestral house every year.
105
“The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas” — Ellis Parker Butler
A comic “ghost cat” story involving Thomas the cat and a colorful supernatural problem.
106
“Phantom” — Arnold Bennet
107A
“An Astral Onion” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A strange little supernatural story with Peattie’s mix of humor, domestic life, and odd spiritual machinery.
107B
“The Haunted Orchard” — Richard Le Gallienne
A lyrical ghost story about an orchard haunted by memory, beauty, and possibly the spirit of a young girl.
108
“Glamis Castle” — Elliott O’Donnell
A haunted-castle account built around the legends of Glamis, full of old-family dread and spectral atmosphere.
109
“The Return of Imray” — Rudyard Kipling
Corrected spelling: Kipling. A colonial ghost/mystery story about a vanished man whose return is not what anyone expects.
110A
“Since I Died” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A sentimental supernatural piece told from beyond death, focused on grief, love, and the living left behind.
110B
“On the Northern Ice” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A short icy ghost story, also known in some listings as “The Spectre Bride.”
111
“The Withered Arm” — Thomas Hardy
A dark rural tale of jealousy, folk belief, class, and bodily curse, with the bleak fatalism Hardy does so well.
112
“The Yellow Wallpaper” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A woman confined for a “rest cure” becomes obsessed with the room’s wallpaper; psychological horror and feminist classic.
Jul 14, 2026
Jul 14, 2026
43 min
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Season 22 bonus episodes 90-112
Title and Author
Brief description
90
“The Empty House” — Algernon Blackwood
A classic haunted-house story: two curious visitors enter a long-abandoned house and slowly realize the old violence inside it has not gone away.
91
“The Judge’s House” — Bram Stoker
A student rents a gloomy old house once owned by a cruel judge, then finds the place still ruled by rats, dread, and a hanging shadow.
92a
“Laura” — Saki / H. H. Munro
A sharp, darkly funny reincarnation story about a mischievous woman who may return after death in a very inconvenient form.
92b
“Man-Size in Marble” — E. Nesbit
A newly married couple dismisses a local legend about marble knight effigies that walk at night; this proves unwise.
93
“Phantasmagoria” — Lewis Carroll
A comic ghost poem, more playful than frightening, about ghostly rules, manners, and the absurd bureaucracy of haunting.
94
“Schalken the Painter” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Gothic tale of art, money, and damnation, centered on a young painter, a lost love, and a sinister suitor who may not be alive.
95A
“The Shadows on the Wall” — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
After a family death, strange shadows appear on the wall, turning grief, guilt, and suspicion into a supernatural judgment.
95B
“Tales of Treasure” — Anonymous
A very short treasure-haunting piece; more of a compact eerie anecdote than a full plotted ghost story.
96
“The Trial for Murder” — Charles Dickens
A murder victim’s ghost appears around the trial of the accused killer, pushing the living world toward justice.
97A
“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” — E. Nesbit
A gentle, melancholy ghost-romance about an old man, a beautiful portrait, and a love story touched by death.
97B
“The Beast in the Cave” — H. P. Lovecraft
An early Lovecraft story: a man lost in a cave hears something coming through the dark, and the final reveal is grim and human.
98
“The Ebony Frame” — E. Nesbit
A haunted-portrait romance in which a woman in an old picture seems able to step out of the frame, but at a terrible cost.
99
“The Red Room” — H. G. Wells
A skeptic spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers that the true ghost may be fear itself.
100
“The Bell in the Fog” — Gertrude Atherton
A Henry James-flavored Gothic story about an inherited English estate, old portraits, reincarnation, and family tragedy.
101
“The Ghost Club” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural story about crime, ghosts, and absurd afterlife logic; lighter and more satirical than scary.
102A
“A Ghost Story” — Mark Twain
Twain turns the haunted-room setup into a comic ghost story, playing with superstition and mistaken identity.
102B
“A Psychical Prank” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected from “Physical Prank.” A humorous Bangs ghost tale built around spiritualism, trickery, and supernatural mischief.
103
“A Midnight Visitor” — John Kendrick Bangs
A comic supernatural visit in the night, with Bangs’s usual mix of ghosts, manners, and absurd afterlife complications.
104A
“A Quicksilver Cassandra” — John Kendrick Bangs
Corrected author/title. A satirical ghostly fantasy about prophecy, warning, and not being believed.
104B
“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” — John Kendrick Bangs
A funny Christmas ghost story about a soggy apparition who floods the ancestral house every year.
105
“The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas” — Ellis Parker Butler
A comic “ghost cat” story involving Thomas the cat and a colorful supernatural problem.
106
“Phantom” — Arnold Bennet
107A
“An Astral Onion” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A strange little supernatural story with Peattie’s mix of humor, domestic life, and odd spiritual machinery.
107B
“The Haunted Orchard” — Richard Le Gallienne
A lyrical ghost story about an orchard haunted by memory, beauty, and possibly the spirit of a young girl.
108
“Glamis Castle” — Elliott O’Donnell
A haunted-castle account built around the legends of Glamis, full of old-family dread and spectral atmosphere.
109
“The Return of Imray” — Rudyard Kipling
Corrected spelling: Kipling. A colonial ghost/mystery story about a vanished man whose return is not what anyone expects.
110A
“Since I Died” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A sentimental supernatural piece told from beyond death, focused on grief, love, and the living left behind.
110B
“On the Northern Ice” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A short icy ghost story, also known in some listings as “The Spectre Bride.”
111
“The Withered Arm” — Thomas Hardy
A dark rural tale of jealousy, folk belief, class, and bodily curse, with the bleak fatalism Hardy does so well.
112
“The Yellow Wallpaper” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A woman confined for a “rest cure” becomes obsessed with the room’s wallpaper; psychological horror and feminist classic.
Jul 13, 2026
Jul 13, 2026
51 min
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Season 22 bonus episodes 65-88
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Name
Author
Description
65
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
A gothic tale of a decaying family, a decaying mansion, illness, obsession, and a terrible burial mistake.
66
What Was It?
Fitz-James O'Brien
A strange invisible creature is discovered in a boarding house, turning supernatural terror into a problem of observation, capture, and proof.
67
The Upper Berth
Francis Marion Crawford
A passenger aboard a ship investigates a cursed cabin where something horrifying appears from the sea.
68
The Death of Halpin Frayser
Ambrose Bierce
A nightmarish tale of murder, memory, and supernatural revenge, centered on a man lost between dream, guilt, and death.
69
The Mark of the Beast
Rudyard Kipling
A colonial horror story in which a drunken insult to a sacred image brings a hideous curse.
70
The Captain of the 'Pole-Star'
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
An Arctic ghost story about a doomed captain, an obsessed expedition, and something haunting the frozen wastes.
71
The Yellow Sign
Robert W. Chambers
An artist and his model become drawn into a decadent supernatural mystery involving a sinister symbol and the King in Yellow.
72
Xelucha
M. P. Shiel
A lush, strange, morbid tale of obsession, death, and uncanny beauty, written in Shiel’s dense decadent style.
73
The Red Room
H. G. Wells
A skeptical man spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers terror without needing a visible ghost.
74
The Shadows on the Wall
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A domestic ghost story where grief, suspicion, and a strange shadow reveal something dreadful within a family home.
75
The Harbor-Master
Robert W. Chambers
A weird tale of coastal mystery, pursuit, and monstrous transformation, mixing adventure with uncanny horror.
76
The White People, Pt 1
Arthur Machen
The opening of Machen’s occult horror story, framing forbidden knowledge, childhood innocence, and hidden pagan mysteries.
77
The White People, Pt 2
Arthur Machen
The central portion of the story, presenting a young girl’s secret diary of strange rites, hidden places, and uncanny encounters.
78
The White People, Pt 3
Arthur Machen
The conclusion of the tale, where the innocent-seeming account becomes something much darker and more spiritually dangerous.
79
Lost Hearts
M. R. James
A young orphan comes to live with an elderly relative and uncovers a cold, scholarly evil involving missing children.
80
The Willows, Pt 1
Algernon Blackwood
The beginning of a cosmic nature-horror story about two travelers canoeing down the Danube into a remote and hostile landscape.
81
The Willows, Pt 2
Algernon Blackwood
The travelers become increasingly aware that the landscape around them may be alive, watching, and spiritually alien.
82
The Willows, Pt 3
Algernon Blackwood
The pressure of the place grows unbearable as natural details become signs of a vast, inhuman presence.
83
The Willows, Pt 4
Algernon Blackwood
The conclusion reveals the full terror of the willows: not a simple haunting, but contact with forces beyond human scale.
84
The Hashish Man/The Unhappy Body
Lord Dunsany
Two short Dunsany pieces: one dreamlike and visionary, the other a strange fable about the body, identity, and dissatisfaction.
85
Fishhead
Irvin S. Cobb
A grotesque backwoods horror story about an outcast man with fishlike features and a reputation for uncanny violence.
86
The Hashish-Eater, or the Apocalypse of Evil
Clark Ashton Smith
A visionary prose-poem of cosmic horror, decadent imagery, and apocalyptic evil unfolding through drug-induced revelation.
87
Seaton's Aunt, Pt 1
Walter de la Mare
The first half of a quiet psychological ghost story about a boy’s unsettling visit to his friend’s house and his terrifying aunt.
88
Seaton's Aunt, Pt 2
Walter de la Mare
The second half deepens the dread around Seaton’s aunt, leaving the horror ambiguous, oppressive, and emotionally cruel.