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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Grimdark Grandparents: Warhammer 40,000 and Its Pulp DNA
0. What’s a W.H.40.K? — An introduction to Warhammer 40,000’s immense science-fantasy horror setting, where a corpse-worshipping human empire fights aliens, daemons, ancient machines, and its own terrible history.
1. The Imperium of Man — From Dune, Foundation, Roman decline, and medieval Christendom comes a galactic empire where the future is not progress but a dead civilization kept moving through faith, fear, and paperwork.
2. Space Marines — The Imperium’s iconic super-soldiers combine power armor and military science fiction with crusading knights, Spartan myth, warrior monks, kidnapped children, and the seductive imagery of authoritarian heroism.
3. Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard — Drawing from trench literature, British war comics, Kipling, and future-war fiction, the Guard are ordinary people sent into cosmic horror with little more than courage and a lasgun.
4. Adeptus Mechanicus — Frankenstein, Metropolis, invention pulp, and lost-technology stories meet in a machine cult where science survives, understanding does not, and repairs are performed like religious rites.
5. Adepta Sororitas / Ecclesiarchy — Gothic convents, martyr legends, Joan of Arc, witchfinders, and Hammer horror become armored saints who turn faith, suffering, and flamethrowers into instruments of Imperial power.
6. The Inquisition — The occult detective and witch-hunter become one terrifying Imperial investigator who may uncover the truth only to burn every witness, building, and planet touched by it.
7. Rogue Traders — Planetary romance, colonial adventure fiction, space opera, pirates, and merchant princes combine in explorers licensed to discover strange worlds, trade with them, rob them, or claim them for the Imperium.
8. Adeptus Custodes — Ancient palace guards, sacred kingship, Achilles, and Gilgamesh stand behind the Emperor’s golden companions: philosopher-warriors created to protect a god who is already dead.
9. Adeptus Titanicus / Titan Legions — Giant robots descend from Martian tripods, dreadnoughts, siege engines, golems, and war gods to become walking cathedrals capable of teaching entire cities to kneel.
10. The Horus Heresy — Warhammer’s great betrayal myth draws from Lucifer, Cain and Abel, Arthur and Mordred, Roman civil wars, and fallen-hero stories to explain how the Emperor’s favored son broke the human future from within.
11. Chaos Space Marines — Fallen angels, Byronic rebels, cursed champions, and Milton’s Satan become immortal super-soldiers whose genuine grievances have curdled into rebellion, bitterness, and damnation.
12. Chaos Daemons — Medieval demonology, grimoires, occult pulp, weird fiction, and nightmare cinema become psychic entities made from mortal rage, despair, ambition, obsession, and desire.
13. World Eaters / Khorne — Sword-and-sorcery pulp, berserker sagas, gladiator spectacle, and revenge tragedy create warriors who reduce every political, emotional, and moral problem to an axe blow.
14. Death Guard / Nurgle — Plague literature, danse macabre, zombie films, body horror, and graveyard humor meet in rotting soldiers who have surrendered to decay and discovered that the joke is that they are happy.
15. Thousand Sons / Tzeentch — Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, mummy fiction, occult scholarship, and forbidden-book stories become sorcerers who sought perfect knowledge only to discover that the book was reading them back.
16. Emperor’s Children / Slaanesh — Decadent literature, Gothic aristocrats, glam horror, cursed art, and The Picture of Dorian Gray shape warriors who pursued perfection until beauty became an endlessly hungry mouth.
17. Chaos / Imperial Knights — Haunted castles, ancestral armor, chivalric romance, feudal bloodlines, and giant-robot fiction become seventy-foot war machines carrying generations of family pride, duty, resentment, and curses.
18. Orks — Fantasy orcs, Mad Max, British hooligan comedy, fungus horror, and invasive-species stories combine in a joyful alien ecosystem where killing the enemy may only plant the next war.
19. Tyranids — Alien, The Thing, bug-war fiction, parasite horror, and cosmic naturalism become an extragalactic appetite that does not hate humanity because hatred would interfere with digestion.
20. Genestealer Cults — Body-snatcher films, changeling folklore, secret-cult pulp, family curses, and invasion paranoia create an alien uprising that begins not in the sky but at the dinner table.
21. Necrons — Killer robots and artificial-labor nightmares combine with mummy curses, tomb kings, and cursed archaeology to produce immortal metal dynasties waking from the grave with better weapons than the living.
22. Aeldari / Drukhari — Elves, cruel fairy courts, dying-earth fiction, lost civilizations, decadent aristocrats, and vampire cities become two responses to apocalypse: mourning the fall or continuing the party forever.
23. Night Lords — Batman, slashers, serial killers, Gothic villains, Grand Guignol, and public-execution culture become terror troops who transform punishment into theatre and fear into government.
24. T’au Empire and Leagues of Votann — The T’au combine utopian science fiction, anime mecha, and benevolent imperialism, while the Votann draw from mining frontiers, company towns, clone labor, ancestor cults, and corporate survivalism.
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Audio Book Stories
01
Introduction. The Fascination of the Ghost Story, by Arthur B. Reeve
02
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe
03
Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M. R. James
04
The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
05
The Silent Woman by Leopold Kompert
06
Banshees
07
The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson
08
The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood
09
The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews
11
The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
12
The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan
13
Some Real American Ghosts Part 1
14
Some Real American Ghosts Part 2
PGttCM Season 23 Order(all episodes will be recorded
1. Sinners (2025) August week 4
Story: “The Music of Erich Zann,” H. P. Lovecraft
Music becomes a weapon, a barrier, and an opening into something beyond the human world. Complete YouTube reading
2. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) September week 1
Story: “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne
A scientist transforms his daughter into something beautiful, deadly, and isolated from ordinary human intimacy. The created woman is treated simultaneously as experiment, daughter, monster, and possible lover.
Complete YouTube reading
3. Ready or Not (2019) September week 2
Story: “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell
Wealthy predators turn the hunting of a human being into sport and tradition.
Complete YouTube reading
4. Blade II (2002) September week 3
Story: “The Room in the Tower,” E. F. Benson
A recurring nightmare leads to a room occupied by a ravenous female vampire. Complete YouTube reading
5. Obsession (2026) September week 4
Story: “The Birth-Mark,” Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love curdles into the conviction that another person must be altered and perfected. Complete YouTube reading
6. RoboCop (1987) October week 1
Story: “The Man That Was Used Up,” Edgar Allan Poe
A celebrated military hero is gradually revealed to be an assemblage of manufactured replacement parts. Prosthetic reconstruction, militarism, masculine propaganda, and brutal satire.
Complete YouTube reading
7. Johnny Mnemonic (1995) October week 2
Story: “A Logic Named Joe,” Murray Leinster
Information technology becomes dangerously helpful, invasive, and impossible to contain.Complete YouTube audiobook
8. Strange Days (1995) October week 3
Story: “The Crystal Egg,” H. G. Wells
A mysterious device allows its owner to watch another world—and may allow that world to watch him. The voyeurism, addictive looking, and technologically mediated experience.
Complete YouTube reading
9. Brainstorm (1983) October week 4
Story: “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham,” H. G. Wells
A wealthy old scientist finds a way to transfer his consciousness into a young man’s body. It turns recorded experience and technological immortality into an intimate identity nightmare.
Complete YouTube reading
10. Burst City (1982) November week 1
Story: “The Machine Stops,” E. M. Forster
A society has surrendered its bodies, relationships, and environment to an enormous technological system.Complete YouTube reading
11. Neo Tokyo (1987) November week 2
Story: “The City of the Singing Flame,” Clark Ashton Smith
A traveller discovers a magnificent alternate city whose alien music and architecture exert an increasingly irresistible pull.Complete YouTube reading
12. Total Recall (1990) November week 3
Story: “The Defenders,” Philip K. Dick
Humanity’s understanding of its war and surrounding reality has been deliberately manufactured.
Complete YouTube reading
13. Sorry to Bother You (2018) November week 4
Story: “The Business Man,” Edgar Allan Poe
A self-satisfied entrepreneur explains his increasingly violent career as though criminal ingenuity were merely sound business practice.
Complete YouTube reading
14. Little Shop of Horrors (1986) December week 1
Story: “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” H. G. Wells
A mild collector brings home an exotic plant that proves predatory. Carnivorous botany, human loneliness, and the inability to recognize danger until it is wrapped around your throat.
Complete YouTube reading
15. Slither (2006) December week 2
Story: “The Derelict,” William Hope Hodgson
An explorer returns from an ancient ruin carrying something that has taken root inside his body.Complete YouTube reading
16. Swiss Army Man (2016) December week 3
Story: “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost,” H. G. Wells
A lonely, ineffectual dead man cannot remember how to leave the living world, and an overconfident living man attempts to help him.
Complete YouTube reading
17. Happy Death Day (2017) December week 4
Story: “The Clock That Went Backward,” Edward Page Mitchell
A clock literally carries its characters backwards through time.
Complete YouTube reading
18. The Gorge (2025) January week 1
Story: “The People of the Pit,” A. Merritt
An isolated traveller discovers an abyss containing an ancient, inhuman civilization and something that calls irresistibly from below.Complete YouTube reading
Reality Comes Apart January week 2
19. The Fourth Kind (2009)
Story: “The Hanging Stranger,” Philip K. Dick
An ordinary man notices an impossible event that everyone else accepts, then discovers that his community may no longer be human.
Complete YouTube reading
20. Dark City (1998) January week 3
Story: “The Street That Wasn’t There,” Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi
Familiar pieces of a city begin disappearing as reality is quietly revised around its inhabitants. Complete YouTube reading
21. Stir of Echoes (1999) January week 4
Story: “The Beckoning Fair One,” Oliver Onions
A man living alone becomes increasingly dominated by an unseen female presence whose influence may be supernatural, psychological, or both.
Complete YouTube reading
2 days ago
2 days ago
1 hr 4 min
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SECTION
CHAPTER
01
Introduction. The Fascination of the Ghost Story, by Arthur B. Reeve
02
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe
03
Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M. R. James
04
The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
05
The Silent Woman by Leopold Kompert
06
Banshees
07
The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson
08
The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood
09
The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews
10
The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
11
The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan
12
Some Real American Ghosts Part 1
13
Some Real American Ghosts Part 2
3 days ago
3 days ago
28 min
Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]
SECTION
CHAPTER
01
Introduction. The Fascination of the Ghost Story, by Arthur B. Reeve
02
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe
03
Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M. R. James
04
The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
05
The Silent Woman by Leopold Kompert
06
Banshees
07
The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson
08
The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood
09
The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews
10
The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
11
The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan
12
Some Real American Ghosts Part 1
13
Some Real American Ghosts Part 2
4 days ago
4 days ago
38 min
Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]
SECTION
CHAPTER
01
Introduction. The Fascination of the Ghost Story, by Arthur B. Reeve
02
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe
03
Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M. R. James
04
The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
05
The Silent Woman by Leopold Kompert
06
Banshees
07
The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson
08
The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood
09
The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews
10
The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
11
The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan
12
Some Real American Ghosts Part 1
13
Some Real American Ghosts Part 2
5 days ago
5 days ago
28 min
Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]
SECTION
CHAPTER
01
Introduction. The Fascination of the Ghost Story, by Arthur B. Reeve
02
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe
03
Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M. R. James
04
The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
05
The Silent Woman by Leopold Kompert
06
Banshees
07
The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson
08
The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood
09
The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews
11
The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
12
The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan
13
Some Real American Ghosts Part 1
14
Some Real American Ghosts Part 2
Aug 20, 2026
Aug 20, 2026
45 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.
Aug 19, 2026
Aug 19, 2026
1 hr 39 sec
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.
Aug 18, 2026
Aug 18, 2026
33 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.
Aug 17, 2026
Aug 17, 2026
29 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.
Aug 14, 2026
Aug 14, 2026
53 min
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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.
Aug 12, 2026
Aug 12, 2026
41 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.
Aug 11, 2026
Aug 11, 2026
32 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.