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.
Episodes
Jan 30, 2026
Jan 30, 2026
35 min
"The Treader of the Dust" is a short story written by Clark Ashton Smith and first published in the August 1935 issue of Weird Tales.
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Jan 29, 2026
Jan 28, 2026
Jan 28, 2026
48 min
The spirit of dark priestess Abigail Prinn, executed during the Salem Witch Trials, is awakened when a man moves into her old home and uncovers her secret "Witch Room" hidden beneath. In order to wreak her vengeance on the descendants of the townsfolk responsible for her death, Abigail attempts to summon forth a dark evil in the form of the Great Old One known as Nyogtha, using the Witch Room, but is ultimately thwarted by the intervention of occultist Michael Leigh.
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Jan 27, 2026
Jan 27, 2026
1hr 8 min
"The Red Hand" (1895): short detective/horror story featuring the main characters from The Three Impostors. It focuses on a murder performed with an ancient stone axe. Written by Welsh writer Arthur Machen.
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Jan 26, 2026
Jan 26, 2026
1hr 19 min
The Great God Pan is an 1894 horror and fantasy novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen.
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Jan 23, 2026
Jan 23, 2026
41 min
"The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927.
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Jan 22, 2026
Jan 21, 2026
Jan 21, 2026
1hr 33 min
Before Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard created Kull the Conqueror, revealed later by Howard to be an ancestor of Conan. Kull, like Conan is a vicious and bloodthirsty barbarian but in some ways is a more contemplative and thoughtful character. In these, the first two Kull stories Howard published, we find Kull dealing with a conspiracy to murder him by a race of shapeshifting lizard people in "The Shadow Kingdom" and we see Kull contemplating his place in the world and even his own reality as he becomes ensnared in the wicked plot of a magician in "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thume".
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Jan 20, 2026
Jan 20, 2026
54 min
Oscar Schisgallon's Death Pit from the November 1923 Weird Tales.
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Jan 19, 2026
Jan 19, 2026
1hr 51 min
"The White People" is a classic, influential horror short story by Welsh author Arthur Machen, first published in 1904, presented as a young girl's diary detailing her secret initiation into a world of folklore, magic, and otherworldly beings, guided by her nurse, culminating in an abrupt, unsettling ending that suggests a profound, supernatural transformation.
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Jan 15, 2026
Jan 15, 2026
55 min
The Terror (1917) by Arthur Machen is a short horror novel set during World War I, where a series of bizarre and gruesome deaths in rural Wales are linked to animals turning against humans, suggesting a cosmic horror unleashed by the war's disruption of the natural order.
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Jan 14, 2026
Jan 14, 2026
1hr 3 min
The Terror (1917) by Arthur Machen is a short horror novel set during World War I, where a series of bizarre and gruesome deaths in rural Wales are linked to animals turning against humans, suggesting a cosmic horror unleashed by the war's disruption of the natural order.
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