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The Lovecraft Vault
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76 episodes
1 week ago
A HorrorBabble podcast exploring the works of H. P. Lovecraft and his contemporaries, with a special emphasis on Cthulhu Mythos stories.
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A HorrorBabble podcast exploring the works of H. P. Lovecraft and his contemporaries, with a special emphasis on Cthulhu Mythos stories.
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The Lovecraft Vault
The Shadow over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft | A Cthulhu Mythos Story

THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH⁠, first published by Visionary Press in 1936, tells the strange story of an unnamed student, whose visit to a decrepit Massachusetts seaport—the crumbling town of Innsmouth—leads to a number of shocking and personal revelations… It forms part of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

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1 week ago
3 hours 5 minutes 31 seconds

The Lovecraft Vault
Two Black Bottles by H. P. Lovecraft and Wilfrid Branch Talman

TWO BLACK BOTTLES is the result of a collaboration between H. P. Lovecraft and Wilfrid Branch Talman. It was first published in Weird Tales Magazine in August 1927. In the story, the narrator, Hoffman, recounts a trip into the Ramapo Mountains of New York, following the death of his uncle.

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2 weeks ago
30 minutes 28 seconds

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Spawn on the Green Abyss by C. Hall Thompson | A Cthulhu Mythos Story

SPAWN OF THE GREEN ABYSS is a Cthulhu Mythos story by C. Hall Thompson, first published in the November 1946 edition of Weird Tales. "An accursed house, a soul that is no longer one's own, and a boundless doom that comes from the sea."

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3 weeks ago
2 hours 16 minutes 6 seconds

The Lovecraft Vault
Bells of Oceana by Arthur J. Burks | A Tale of Cosmic Horror

BELLS OF OCEANA is a short story by Arthur J. Burks, first published in the December 1927 edition of Weird Tales. It tells of an encounter with something deadly in the uncharted waters of the North Pacific. The story is imbued with a touch of 'outsideness', as noted by Lovecraft in a letter to the magazine in 1928.

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4 weeks ago
35 minutes 22 seconds

The Lovecraft Vault
The Crawling Chaos by H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson

THE CRAWLING CHAOS is a short story based on a dream once described to Lovecraft by fellow-author, Winifred V. Jackson, in which the consequences of dabbling with opium were experienced. It was first published in the 1943 collection, Beyond the Wall of Sleep.

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1 month ago
20 minutes 44 seconds

The Lovecraft Vault
The Strange High House in the Mist by H. P. Lovecraft | A Dream Cycle Story

THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST was written on November 9, 1926, and first published in the October 1931 issue of Weird Tales. It concerns a character traveling to the titular house which is perched on the top of cliff which seems inaccessible both by land and sea, yet is apparently inhabited.

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1 month ago
25 minutes

The Lovecraft Vault
The Red Brain by Donald Wandrei | A Tale of Cosmic Horror

THE RED BRAIN is a short story by Donald Wandrei, first published in the October 1927 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The story tells of a strange, menacing cosmic dust that engulfs the universe.

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1 month ago
23 minutes 20 seconds

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The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft | A Cthulhu Mythos Story

Forming part of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, THE DUNWICH HORROR, first published in the April 1929 edition of Weird Tales, takes place in the decaying village of Dunwich, a Massachusetts backwater steeped in rural superstition and dark whispers. When a strange child named Wilbur Whateley is born under mysterious circumstances, a series of bizarre events begins to unfold, drawing the wary attention of both the locals and distant scholars.

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1 month ago
2 hours 22 seconds

The Lovecraft Vault
Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft

PICKMAN'S MODEL was first published in the October 1927 edition of Weird Tales. In the story, the narrator recalls his friendship with Richard Upton Pickman, an eccentric painter whose grotesque and disturbingly lifelike canvases of ghouls and nightmarish scenes earn him both fame and infamy.

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2 months ago
36 minutes 16 seconds

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The Abyss by Robert Lowndes | A Cthulhu Mythos Story

THE ABYSS is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Robert Lowndes. The story was described by Stirring Science Stories back in February 1941 as follows: “A tale of a ghastly journey down a little strip in the center of a rug!”

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2 months ago
21 minutes 59 seconds

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From Beyond by H. P. Lovecraft

FROM BEYOND tells of Crawford Tillinghast, a man whose curiosity leads to a fate ‘horrible beyond conception’. First published in the June 1934 edition of The Fantasy Fan.

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2 months ago
22 minutes 9 seconds

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The Salem Horror by Henry Kuttner | A Cthulhu Mythos Story

THE SALEM HORROR is a short story by American author, Henry Kuttner. The tale first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in May 1937, and tells of an author who rents a quiet house in Salem in order to finish his latest novel—a house that once belonged to a witch—a witch whose presence has far from faded.

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2 months ago
42 minutes 36 seconds

The Lovecraft Vault
Herbert West—Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft

HERBERT WEST–REANIMATOR was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story concerns the gruesome adventures of Herbert West, a young scientist consumed with the ambition of bringing the dead back to life.

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3 months ago
1 hour 23 minutes 8 seconds

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The Secret in the Tomb by Robert Bloch | A Cthulhu Mythos Story

THE SECRET IN THE TOMB is a short story by American author, Robert Bloch, first published in the May 1935 edition of Weird Tales. In the story, a man answers an inexplicable summons from beyond the grave.

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3 months ago
21 minutes 42 seconds

The Lovecraft Vault
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft | A Cthulhu Mythos Story

THE CALL OF CTHULHU, first published in Weird Tales in 1928, is a foundational tale of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Told through a series of manuscripts and testimonies, the story traces a hidden pattern of strange dreams, cult activity, and archaeological discoveries that point toward the existence of an ancient cosmic entity: Cthulhu, a monstrous Great Old One.

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3 months ago
1 hour 28 minutes 20 seconds

The Lovecraft Vault
Ubbo-Sathla by Clark Ashton Smith | A Cthulhu Mythos Story

UBBO-SATHLA is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Clark Ashton Smith, forming part of Smith's Hyperborean Cycle. It tells of a man, who, in a state of trance, ventures back to the very beginning of time, where he encounters the primal one, Ubbo-Sathla. The story first appeared in the July 1933 edition of Weird Tales.

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3 months ago
22 minutes

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Polaris by H. P. Lovecraft

First appearing in The Philosopher in 1920, POLARIS is an early entry in Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle. The story’s narrator, haunted by the cold, pulsing light of the North Star, dreams of a majestic marble city called Olathoë in the land of Lomar.

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3 months ago
11 minutes 20 seconds

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Imprisoned with the Pharaohs by H. P. Lovecraft and Harry Houdini

First published in Weird Tales in 1924, IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS is a first-person tale ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft for the escapologist Harry Houdini. In the story, Houdini recounts how, while visiting Egypt, he is kidnapped and thrown into a deep shaft beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza. Struggling to escape, he encounters vast underground chambers filled with monstrous, half-human entities and glimpses a colossal, ancient presence tied to Egypt’s forgotten gods.

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3 months ago
1 hour 15 minutes 18 seconds

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The Haunter of the Graveyard by J. Vernon Shea | A Cthulhu Mythos Story

THE HAUNTER OF THE GRAVEYARD first appeared in Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, 1969. "The story of a TV presenter who encounters a malign spirit in a cemetery."

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3 months ago
37 minutes 38 seconds

The Lovecraft Vault
The Temple by H. P. Lovecraft

THE TEMPLE first appeared in the September 1925 edition of Weird Tales. Told through the final log entries of a doomed German U-boat commander during the First World War, the story charts a descent from prideful rationality into madness and the embrace of the abyss.

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3 months ago
37 minutes 40 seconds

The Lovecraft Vault
A HorrorBabble podcast exploring the works of H. P. Lovecraft and his contemporaries, with a special emphasis on Cthulhu Mythos stories.