People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Horror Stories, Weird Fiction, and Film Reviews

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Introduction. The Fascination of the Ghost Story, by Arthur B. Reeve

 

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The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe

 

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Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M. R. James

 

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The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 

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The Silent Woman by Leopold Kompert

 

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Banshees

 

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The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson

 

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The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood

 

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The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews

 
 

 

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The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan

 

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Some Real American Ghosts Part 1

 

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Some Real American Ghosts Part 2

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CHAPTER

 

01

Introduction. The Fascination of the Ghost Story, by Arthur B. Reeve

 

02

The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe

 

03

Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M. R. James

 

04

The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 

05

The Silent Woman by Leopold Kompert

 

06

Banshees

 

07

The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson

 

08

The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood

 

09

The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews

 
 

 

11

The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan

 

12

Some Real American Ghosts Part 1

 

13

Some Real American Ghosts Part 2

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SECTION

CHAPTER

 

01

Introduction. The Fascination of the Ghost Story, by Arthur B. Reeve

 

02

The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe

 

03

Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M. R. James

 

04

The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 

05

The Silent Woman by Leopold Kompert

 

06

Banshees

 

07

The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson

 

08

The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood

 

09

The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews

 

10

The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce

 

11

The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan

 

12

Some Real American Ghosts Part 1

 

13

Some Real American Ghosts Part 2

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Season 23 Movies & Stories
 

PGttCM Season 23 Order(all episodes will be recorded 

1. Sinners (2025) August week 4

Story: “The Music of Erich Zann,” H. P. Lovecraft

Music becomes a weapon, a barrier, and an opening into something beyond the human world.
Complete YouTube reading

 

2. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 

Story: “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne

A scientist transforms his daughter into something beautiful, deadly, and isolated from ordinary human intimacy. The created woman is treated simultaneously as experiment, daughter, monster, and possible lover.

Complete YouTube reading

 

3. Ready or Not (2019) 

Story: “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell

Wealthy predators turn the hunting of a human being into sport and tradition. 

Complete YouTube reading

 

4. Blade II (2002) 

Story: “The Room in the Tower,” E. F. Benson

A recurring nightmare leads to a room occupied by a ravenous female vampire.
Complete YouTube reading

 

5. Obsession (2026) 

Story: “The Birth-Mark,” Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love curdles into the conviction that another person must be altered and perfected.
Complete YouTube reading

 

6. RoboCop (1987) 

Story: “The Man That Was Used Up,” Edgar Allan Poe

A celebrated military hero is gradually revealed to be an assemblage of manufactured replacement parts. Prosthetic reconstruction, militarism, masculine propaganda, and brutal satire.

Complete YouTube reading

 

7. Johnny Mnemonic (1995) 

Story: “A Logic Named Joe,” Murray Leinster

Information technology becomes dangerously helpful, invasive, and impossible to contain.
Complete YouTube audiobook

 

8. Strange Days (1995) 

Story: “The Crystal Egg,” H. G. Wells

A mysterious device allows its owner to watch another world—and may allow that world to watch him. The voyeurism, addictive looking, and technologically mediated experience.

Complete YouTube reading

 

9. Brainstorm (1983) 

Story: “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham,” H. G. Wells

A wealthy old scientist finds a way to transfer his consciousness into a young man’s body. It turns recorded experience and technological immortality into an intimate identity nightmare.

Complete YouTube reading

 

10. Burst City (1982) 

Story: “The Machine Stops,” E. M. Forster

A society has surrendered its bodies, relationships, and environment to an enormous technological system.
Complete YouTube reading

 

11. Neo Tokyo (1987)

Story: “The City of the Singing Flame,” Clark Ashton Smith

A traveller discovers a magnificent alternate city whose alien music and architecture exert an increasingly irresistible pull.
Complete YouTube reading

 

12. Total Recall (1990) 

Story: “The Defenders,” Philip K. Dick

Humanity’s understanding of its war and surrounding reality has been deliberately manufactured.

Complete YouTube reading

 

13. Sorry to Bother You (2018) 

Story: “The Business Man,” Edgar Allan Poe

A self-satisfied entrepreneur explains his increasingly violent career as though criminal ingenuity were merely sound business practice.

Complete YouTube reading

 

14. Little Shop of Horrors (1986) 

Story: “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” H. G. Wells

A mild collector brings home an exotic plant that proves predatory. Carnivorous botany, human loneliness, and the inability to recognize danger until it is wrapped around your throat.

Complete YouTube reading

 

15. Slither (2006) 

Story: “The Derelict,” William Hope Hodgson

An explorer returns from an ancient ruin carrying something that has taken root inside his body.
Complete YouTube reading

 

16. Swiss Army Man (2016) 

Story: “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost,” H. G. Wells

A lonely, ineffectual dead man cannot remember how to leave the living world, and an overconfident living man attempts to help him. 

Complete YouTube reading

 

17. Happy Death Day (2017) 

Story: “The Clock That Went Backward,” Edward Page Mitchell

A clock literally carries its characters backwards through time.

Complete YouTube reading

 

18. The Gorge (2025) 

Story: “The People of the Pit,” A. Merritt

An isolated traveller discovers an abyss containing an ancient, inhuman civilization and something that calls irresistibly from below.
Complete YouTube reading

 

Reality Comes Apart 

19. The Fourth Kind (2009)

Story: “The Hanging Stranger,” Philip K. Dick

An ordinary man notices an impossible event that everyone else accepts, then discovers that his community may no longer be human. 

Complete YouTube reading

 

20. Dark City (1998)

Story: “The Street That Wasn’t There,” Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi

Familiar pieces of a city begin disappearing as reality is quietly revised around its inhabitants.
Complete YouTube reading

 

21. Stir of Echoes (1999) 

Story: “The Beckoning Fair One,” Oliver Onions

A man living alone becomes increasingly dominated by an unseen female presence whose influence may be supernatural, psychological, or both. 

Complete YouTube reading

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SECTION

CHAPTER

 

01

Introduction. The Fascination of the Ghost Story, by Arthur B. Reeve

 

02

The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe

 

03

Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M. R. James

 

04

The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 

05

The Silent Woman by Leopold Kompert

 

06

Banshees

 

07

The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson

 

08

The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood

 

09

The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews

 

10

The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce

 

11

The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan

 

12

Some Real American Ghosts Part 1

 

13

Some Real American Ghosts Part 2