Show Notes
THE CURSE OF YIG is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop in which Yig, "The Father of Serpents", is first introduced. The story was first published in the November 1929 edition of Weird Tales. Set in Oklahoma around 1889, a newly arrived couple become aware of a chilling local legend: a vengeful “Snake God” known as Yig, who punishes those who harm serpents—either by killing them outright or transforming them into grotesque, half-snake beings.
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THE FIRE VAMPIRES is a mythos story by Donald Wandrei. It first appeared in Weird Tales in February 1933, and was described by the magazine: "Out of the sky struck a dread electric scourge that burned the life out of countless thousands and left charred skeletons to mark its passing."
FACTS CONCERNING THE LATE ARTHUR JERMYN AND HIS FAMILY aka THE WHITE APE was first published in The Wolverine, March 1921. Arthur Jermyn, the last descendant of a once-noble British family, unearths a horrifying secret about his lineage.
THE CHADBOURNE EPISODE is a short story by the American writer, Henry S. Whitehead. It first appeared in the February 1933 edition of Weird Tales Magazine with the following description: “A shuddery graveyard tale of ghastly shapes glimpsed in the moonlight, and little, reddish, half-gnawed bones scattered about the tomb in the Old Cemetery.”
DAGON was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant. This dramatic adaptation takes place on a stormy night in a prison cell, as the protagonist attempts to explain and justify an inexplicable bout of mania.
CELEPHAÏS is a Dream Cycle story, first published in the May 1922 edition of The Rainbow. "In a dream Kuranes saw the city in the valley..."