Fifteen horror stories about strange beings and behaviours that defy conventional definitions.
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:34 - Warning Wings
0:18:56 - Mother of Toads
0:37:40 - The Destroying Horde
1:28:38 - Caterpillars
1:47:48 - The Urbanite
2:14:58 - Rats
2:35:46 - The Malignant Invader
3:06:04 - The Horror in the Museum
4:23:07 - My Father, the Cat
4:39:29 - The Seeking Thing
4:49:35 - They
4:58:37 - The Hyena
5:28:05 - Sredni Vashtar
5:40:15 - Demons of the Film Colony
5:55:59 - A:B:O.
6:38:08 - Further Listening
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"Warning Wings" by Arlton Eadie (Weird Tales, 1929)
A seemingly insignificant white moth.
"Mother of Toads" by Clark Ashton Smith (WT, 1938)
An unusual witch.
"The Destroying Horde" by Donald Wandrei (WT, 1935)
The first BLOB story?
"Caterpillars" by E. F. Benson (The Room in the Tower, 1912)
Terrible things in an Italian villa.
"The Urbanite" by Ewen Whyte (WT, 1950)
The great city is never still.
"Rats" by F. A. M. Webster (At Dead of Night, 1931)
A plague of rats.
"The Malignant Invader" by F. B. Long (WT, 1932)
A creature from the bowels of the earth.
"The Horror in the Museum" by H. P. Lovecraft (WT, 1933)
A private wax museum that specialises in the grotesque.
"My Father, the Cat" by H. Slesar (Fantastic Universe, 1957)
A most unusual cat.
"The Seeking Thing" by Janet Hirsch (Magazine of Horror, 1964)
Something in the middle of the road.
"They" by R. B. Johnson (WT, 1936)
They dwell in Dead Man's Canyon.
"The Hyena" by Robert E. Howard (WT, 1928)
A man with an unusual ability.
"Sredni Vashtar" by Sak" (The Chronicles of Clovis, 1911)
A secret in the garden shed.
"Demons of the Film Colony" by Theodore LeBerthon (WT, 1932)
A tale of 'Dracula' and 'Frankenstein'.
"A:B:O." by Walter de la Mare (Cornhill, 1896)
The excavation of a metallic chest.
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Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble
Music and production by Ian & Jennifer Gordon
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