Show Notes
THE GRINNING GHOUL is a short story by the American author, Robert Bloch. First appearing in Weird Tales back in June of 1936, the story was described as follows: “A story of stark horror in the subterranean depths beneath the tomb.” Artwork by David Last: davidlast.net
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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..."