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

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Season 22 bonus episodes 90-112

 

Title and Author

Brief description

90

“The Empty House” — Algernon Blackwood

A classic haunted-house story: two curious visitors enter a long-abandoned house and slowly realize the old violence inside it has not gone away.

91

“The Judge’s House” — Bram Stoker

A student rents a gloomy old house once owned by a cruel judge, then finds the place still ruled by rats, dread, and a hanging shadow.

92a

“Laura” — Saki / H. H. Munro

A sharp, darkly funny reincarnation story about a mischievous woman who may return after death in a very inconvenient form.

92b

“Man-Size in Marble” — E. Nesbit

A newly married couple dismisses a local legend about marble knight effigies that walk at night; this proves unwise.

93

“Phantasmagoria” — Lewis Carroll

A comic ghost poem, more playful than frightening, about ghostly rules, manners, and the absurd bureaucracy of haunting.

94

“Schalken the Painter” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

A Gothic tale of art, money, and damnation, centered on a young painter, a lost love, and a sinister suitor who may not be alive.

95A

“The Shadows on the Wall” — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

After a family death, strange shadows appear on the wall, turning grief, guilt, and suspicion into a supernatural judgment.

95B

“Tales of Treasure” — Anonymous

A very short treasure-haunting piece; more of a compact eerie anecdote than a full plotted ghost story.

96

“The Trial for Murder” — Charles Dickens

A murder victim’s ghost appears around the trial of the accused killer, pushing the living world toward justice.

97A

“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” — E. Nesbit

A gentle, melancholy ghost-romance about an old man, a beautiful portrait, and a love story touched by death.

97B

“The Beast in the Cave” — H. P. Lovecraft

An early Lovecraft story: a man lost in a cave hears something coming through the dark, and the final reveal is grim and human.

98

“The Ebony Frame” — E. Nesbit

A haunted-portrait romance in which a woman in an old picture seems able to step out of the frame, but at a terrible cost.

99

“The Red Room” — H. G. Wells

A skeptic spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers that the true ghost may be fear itself.

100

“The Bell in the Fog” — Gertrude Atherton

A Henry James-flavored Gothic story about an inherited English estate, old portraits, reincarnation, and family tragedy.

101

“The Ghost Club” — John Kendrick Bangs

A comic supernatural story about crime, ghosts, and absurd afterlife logic; lighter and more satirical than scary.

102A

“A Ghost Story” — Mark Twain

Twain turns the haunted-room setup into a comic ghost story, playing with superstition and mistaken identity.

102B

“A Psychical Prank” — John Kendrick Bangs

Corrected from “Physical Prank.” A humorous Bangs ghost tale built around spiritualism, trickery, and supernatural mischief.

103

“A Midnight Visitor” — John Kendrick Bangs

A comic supernatural visit in the night, with Bangs’s usual mix of ghosts, manners, and absurd afterlife complications.

104A

“A Quicksilver Cassandra” — John Kendrick Bangs

Corrected author/title. A satirical ghostly fantasy about prophecy, warning, and not being believed.

104B

“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” — John Kendrick Bangs

A funny Christmas ghost story about a soggy apparition who floods the ancestral house every year.

105

“The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas” — Ellis Parker Butler

A comic “ghost cat” story involving Thomas the cat and a colorful supernatural problem.

106

“Phantom” — Arnold Bennet

 

 

 

107A

“An Astral Onion” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie

A strange little supernatural story with Peattie’s mix of humor, domestic life, and odd spiritual machinery.

107B

“The Haunted Orchard” — Richard Le Gallienne

A lyrical ghost story about an orchard haunted by memory, beauty, and possibly the spirit of a young girl.

108

“Glamis Castle” — Elliott O’Donnell

A haunted-castle account built around the legends of Glamis, full of old-family dread and spectral atmosphere.

109

“The Return of Imray” — Rudyard Kipling

Corrected spelling: Kipling. A colonial ghost/mystery story about a vanished man whose return is not what anyone expects.

110A

“Since I Died” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

A sentimental supernatural piece told from beyond death, focused on grief, love, and the living left behind.

110B

“On the Northern Ice” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie

A short icy ghost story, also known in some listings as “The Spectre Bride.”

111

“The Withered Arm” — Thomas Hardy

A dark rural tale of jealousy, folk belief, class, and bodily curse, with the bleak fatalism Hardy does so well.

112

“The Yellow Wallpaper” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A woman confined for a “rest cure” becomes obsessed with the room’s wallpaper; psychological horror and feminist classic.

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Season 22 bonus episodes 65-88

#

Name

Author

Description

65

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

A gothic tale of a decaying family, a decaying mansion, illness, obsession, and a terrible burial mistake.

66

What Was It?

Fitz-James O'Brien

A strange invisible creature is discovered in a boarding house, turning supernatural terror into a problem of observation, capture, and proof.

67

The Upper Berth

Francis Marion Crawford

A passenger aboard a ship investigates a cursed cabin where something horrifying appears from the sea.

68

The Death of Halpin Frayser

Ambrose Bierce

A nightmarish tale of murder, memory, and supernatural revenge, centered on a man lost between dream, guilt, and death.

69

The Mark of the Beast

Rudyard Kipling

A colonial horror story in which a drunken insult to a sacred image brings a hideous curse.

70

The Captain of the 'Pole-Star'

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

An Arctic ghost story about a doomed captain, an obsessed expedition, and something haunting the frozen wastes.

71

The Yellow Sign

Robert W. Chambers

An artist and his model become drawn into a decadent supernatural mystery involving a sinister symbol and the King in Yellow.

72

Xelucha

M. P. Shiel

A lush, strange, morbid tale of obsession, death, and uncanny beauty, written in Shiel’s dense decadent style.

73

The Red Room

H. G. Wells

A skeptical man spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers terror without needing a visible ghost.

74

The Shadows on the Wall

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

A domestic ghost story where grief, suspicion, and a strange shadow reveal something dreadful within a family home.

75

The Harbor-Master

Robert W. Chambers

A weird tale of coastal mystery, pursuit, and monstrous transformation, mixing adventure with uncanny horror.

76

The White People, Pt 1

Arthur Machen

The opening of Machen’s occult horror story, framing forbidden knowledge, childhood innocence, and hidden pagan mysteries.

77

The White People, Pt 2

Arthur Machen

The central portion of the story, presenting a young girl’s secret diary of strange rites, hidden places, and uncanny encounters.

78

The White People, Pt 3

Arthur Machen

The conclusion of the tale, where the innocent-seeming account becomes something much darker and more spiritually dangerous.

79

Lost Hearts

M. R. James

A young orphan comes to live with an elderly relative and uncovers a cold, scholarly evil involving missing children.

80

The Willows, Pt 1

Algernon Blackwood

The beginning of a cosmic nature-horror story about two travelers canoeing down the Danube into a remote and hostile landscape.

81

The Willows, Pt 2

Algernon Blackwood

The travelers become increasingly aware that the landscape around them may be alive, watching, and spiritually alien.

82

The Willows, Pt 3

Algernon Blackwood

The pressure of the place grows unbearable as natural details become signs of a vast, inhuman presence.

83

The Willows, Pt 4

Algernon Blackwood

The conclusion reveals the full terror of the willows: not a simple haunting, but contact with forces beyond human scale.

84

The Hashish Man/The Unhappy Body

Lord Dunsany

Two short Dunsany pieces: one dreamlike and visionary, the other a strange fable about the body, identity, and dissatisfaction.

85

Fishhead

Irvin S. Cobb

A grotesque backwoods horror story about an outcast man with fishlike features and a reputation for uncanny violence.

86

The Hashish-Eater, or the Apocalypse of Evil

Clark Ashton Smith

A visionary prose-poem of cosmic horror, decadent imagery, and apocalyptic evil unfolding through drug-induced revelation.

87

Seaton's Aunt, Pt 1

Walter de la Mare

The first half of a quiet psychological ghost story about a boy’s unsettling visit to his friend’s house and his terrifying aunt.

88

Seaton's Aunt, Pt 2

Walter de la Mare

The second half deepens the dread around Seaton’s aunt, leaving the horror ambiguous, oppressive, and emotionally cruel.

The Fog Horn — Ray Bradbury, a monster is in love with the sound of a lighthouse. Monsters (2010) – Borders, otherness, creeping vastness.


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Season 22 bonus episodes 90-112

 

Title and Author

Brief description

90

“The Empty House” — Algernon Blackwood

A classic haunted-house story: two curious visitors enter a long-abandoned house and slowly realize the old violence inside it has not gone away.

91

“The Judge’s House” — Bram Stoker

A student rents a gloomy old house once owned by a cruel judge, then finds the place still ruled by rats, dread, and a hanging shadow.

92a

“Laura” — Saki / H. H. Munro

A sharp, darkly funny reincarnation story about a mischievous woman who may return after death in a very inconvenient form.

92b

“Man-Size in Marble” — E. Nesbit

A newly married couple dismisses a local legend about marble knight effigies that walk at night; this proves unwise.

93

“Phantasmagoria” — Lewis Carroll

A comic ghost poem, more playful than frightening, about ghostly rules, manners, and the absurd bureaucracy of haunting.

94

“Schalken the Painter” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

A Gothic tale of art, money, and damnation, centered on a young painter, a lost love, and a sinister suitor who may not be alive.

95A

“The Shadows on the Wall” — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

After a family death, strange shadows appear on the wall, turning grief, guilt, and suspicion into a supernatural judgment.

95B

“Tales of Treasure” — Anonymous

A very short treasure-haunting piece; more of a compact eerie anecdote than a full plotted ghost story.

96

“The Trial for Murder” — Charles Dickens

A murder victim’s ghost appears around the trial of the accused killer, pushing the living world toward justice.

97A

“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” — E. Nesbit

A gentle, melancholy ghost-romance about an old man, a beautiful portrait, and a love story touched by death.

97B

“The Beast in the Cave” — H. P. Lovecraft

An early Lovecraft story: a man lost in a cave hears something coming through the dark, and the final reveal is grim and human.

98

“The Ebony Frame” — E. Nesbit

A haunted-portrait romance in which a woman in an old picture seems able to step out of the frame, but at a terrible cost.

99

“The Red Room” — H. G. Wells

A skeptic spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers that the true ghost may be fear itself.

100

“The Bell in the Fog” — Gertrude Atherton

A Henry James-flavored Gothic story about an inherited English estate, old portraits, reincarnation, and family tragedy.

101

“The Ghost Club” — John Kendrick Bangs

A comic supernatural story about crime, ghosts, and absurd afterlife logic; lighter and more satirical than scary.

102A

“A Ghost Story” — Mark Twain

Twain turns the haunted-room setup into a comic ghost story, playing with superstition and mistaken identity.

102B

“A Psychical Prank” — John Kendrick Bangs

Corrected from “Physical Prank.” A humorous Bangs ghost tale built around spiritualism, trickery, and supernatural mischief.

103

“A Midnight Visitor” — John Kendrick Bangs

A comic supernatural visit in the night, with Bangs’s usual mix of ghosts, manners, and absurd afterlife complications.

104A

“A Quicksilver Cassandra” — John Kendrick Bangs

Corrected author/title. A satirical ghostly fantasy about prophecy, warning, and not being believed.

104B

“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” — John Kendrick Bangs

A funny Christmas ghost story about a soggy apparition who floods the ancestral house every year.

105

“The Chromatic Ghosts of Thomas” — Ellis Parker Butler

A comic “ghost cat” story involving Thomas the cat and a colorful supernatural problem.

106

“Phantom” — Arnold Bennet

 

 

 

107A

“An Astral Onion” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie

A strange little supernatural story with Peattie’s mix of humor, domestic life, and odd spiritual machinery.

107B

“The Haunted Orchard” — Richard Le Gallienne

A lyrical ghost story about an orchard haunted by memory, beauty, and possibly the spirit of a young girl.

108

“Glamis Castle” — Elliott O’Donnell

A haunted-castle account built around the legends of Glamis, full of old-family dread and spectral atmosphere.

109

“The Return of Imray” — Rudyard Kipling

Corrected spelling: Kipling. A colonial ghost/mystery story about a vanished man whose return is not what anyone expects.

110A

“Since I Died” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

A sentimental supernatural piece told from beyond death, focused on grief, love, and the living left behind.

110B

“On the Northern Ice” — Elia Wilkinson Peattie

A short icy ghost story, also known in some listings as “The Spectre Bride.”

111

“The Withered Arm” — Thomas Hardy

A dark rural tale of jealousy, folk belief, class, and bodily curse, with the bleak fatalism Hardy does so well.

112

“The Yellow Wallpaper” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A woman confined for a “rest cure” becomes obsessed with the room’s wallpaper; psychological horror and feminist classic.

Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

Season 22 bonus episodes 65-88

#

Name

Author

Description

65

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

A gothic tale of a decaying family, a decaying mansion, illness, obsession, and a terrible burial mistake.

66

What Was It?

Fitz-James O'Brien

A strange invisible creature is discovered in a boarding house, turning supernatural terror into a problem of observation, capture, and proof.

67

The Upper Berth

Francis Marion Crawford

A passenger aboard a ship investigates a cursed cabin where something horrifying appears from the sea.

68

The Death of Halpin Frayser

Ambrose Bierce

A nightmarish tale of murder, memory, and supernatural revenge, centered on a man lost between dream, guilt, and death.

69

The Mark of the Beast

Rudyard Kipling

A colonial horror story in which a drunken insult to a sacred image brings a hideous curse.

70

The Captain of the 'Pole-Star'

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

An Arctic ghost story about a doomed captain, an obsessed expedition, and something haunting the frozen wastes.

71

The Yellow Sign

Robert W. Chambers

An artist and his model become drawn into a decadent supernatural mystery involving a sinister symbol and the King in Yellow.

72

Xelucha

M. P. Shiel

A lush, strange, morbid tale of obsession, death, and uncanny beauty, written in Shiel’s dense decadent style.

73

The Red Room

H. G. Wells

A skeptical man spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers terror without needing a visible ghost.

74

The Shadows on the Wall

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

A domestic ghost story where grief, suspicion, and a strange shadow reveal something dreadful within a family home.

75

The Harbor-Master

Robert W. Chambers

A weird tale of coastal mystery, pursuit, and monstrous transformation, mixing adventure with uncanny horror.

76

The White People, Pt 1

Arthur Machen

The opening of Machen’s occult horror story, framing forbidden knowledge, childhood innocence, and hidden pagan mysteries.

77

The White People, Pt 2

Arthur Machen

The central portion of the story, presenting a young girl’s secret diary of strange rites, hidden places, and uncanny encounters.

78

The White People, Pt 3

Arthur Machen

The conclusion of the tale, where the innocent-seeming account becomes something much darker and more spiritually dangerous.

79

Lost Hearts

M. R. James

A young orphan comes to live with an elderly relative and uncovers a cold, scholarly evil involving missing children.

80

The Willows, Pt 1

Algernon Blackwood

The beginning of a cosmic nature-horror story about two travelers canoeing down the Danube into a remote and hostile landscape.

81

The Willows, Pt 2

Algernon Blackwood

The travelers become increasingly aware that the landscape around them may be alive, watching, and spiritually alien.

82

The Willows, Pt 3

Algernon Blackwood

The pressure of the place grows unbearable as natural details become signs of a vast, inhuman presence.

83

The Willows, Pt 4

Algernon Blackwood

The conclusion reveals the full terror of the willows: not a simple haunting, but contact with forces beyond human scale.

84

The Hashish Man/The Unhappy Body

Lord Dunsany

Two short Dunsany pieces: one dreamlike and visionary, the other a strange fable about the body, identity, and dissatisfaction.

85

Fishhead

Irvin S. Cobb

A grotesque backwoods horror story about an outcast man with fishlike features and a reputation for uncanny violence.

86

The Hashish-Eater, or the Apocalypse of Evil

Clark Ashton Smith

A visionary prose-poem of cosmic horror, decadent imagery, and apocalyptic evil unfolding through drug-induced revelation.

87

Seaton's Aunt, Pt 1

Walter de la Mare

The first half of a quiet psychological ghost story about a boy’s unsettling visit to his friend’s house and his terrifying aunt.

88

Seaton's Aunt, Pt 2

Walter de la Mare

The second half deepens the dread around Seaton’s aunt, leaving the horror ambiguous, oppressive, and emotionally cruel.

Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

Season 22 bonus episodes 65-88

#

Name

Author

Description

65

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

A gothic tale of a decaying family, a decaying mansion, illness, obsession, and a terrible burial mistake.

66

What Was It?

Fitz-James O'Brien

A strange invisible creature is discovered in a boarding house, turning supernatural terror into a problem of observation, capture, and proof.

67

The Upper Berth

Francis Marion Crawford

A passenger aboard a ship investigates a cursed cabin where something horrifying appears from the sea.

68

The Death of Halpin Frayser

Ambrose Bierce

A nightmarish tale of murder, memory, and supernatural revenge, centered on a man lost between dream, guilt, and death.

69

The Mark of the Beast

Rudyard Kipling

A colonial horror story in which a drunken insult to a sacred image brings a hideous curse.

70

The Captain of the 'Pole-Star'

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

An Arctic ghost story about a doomed captain, an obsessed expedition, and something haunting the frozen wastes.

71

The Yellow Sign

Robert W. Chambers

An artist and his model become drawn into a decadent supernatural mystery involving a sinister symbol and the King in Yellow.

72

Xelucha

M. P. Shiel

A lush, strange, morbid tale of obsession, death, and uncanny beauty, written in Shiel’s dense decadent style.

73

The Red Room

H. G. Wells

A skeptical man spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers terror without needing a visible ghost.

74

The Shadows on the Wall

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

A domestic ghost story where grief, suspicion, and a strange shadow reveal something dreadful within a family home.

75

The Harbor-Master

Robert W. Chambers

A weird tale of coastal mystery, pursuit, and monstrous transformation, mixing adventure with uncanny horror.

76

The White People, Pt 1

Arthur Machen

The opening of Machen’s occult horror story, framing forbidden knowledge, childhood innocence, and hidden pagan mysteries.

77

The White People, Pt 2

Arthur Machen

The central portion of the story, presenting a young girl’s secret diary of strange rites, hidden places, and uncanny encounters.

78

The White People, Pt 3

Arthur Machen

The conclusion of the tale, where the innocent-seeming account becomes something much darker and more spiritually dangerous.

79

Lost Hearts

M. R. James

A young orphan comes to live with an elderly relative and uncovers a cold, scholarly evil involving missing children.

80

The Willows, Pt 1

Algernon Blackwood

The beginning of a cosmic nature-horror story about two travelers canoeing down the Danube into a remote and hostile landscape.

81

The Willows, Pt 2

Algernon Blackwood

The travelers become increasingly aware that the landscape around them may be alive, watching, and spiritually alien.

82

The Willows, Pt 3

Algernon Blackwood

The pressure of the place grows unbearable as natural details become signs of a vast, inhuman presence.

83

The Willows, Pt 4

Algernon Blackwood

The conclusion reveals the full terror of the willows: not a simple haunting, but contact with forces beyond human scale.

84

The Hashish Man/The Unhappy Body

Lord Dunsany

Two short Dunsany pieces: one dreamlike and visionary, the other a strange fable about the body, identity, and dissatisfaction.

85

Fishhead

Irvin S. Cobb

A grotesque backwoods horror story about an outcast man with fishlike features and a reputation for uncanny violence.

86

The Hashish-Eater, or the Apocalypse of Evil

Clark Ashton Smith

A visionary prose-poem of cosmic horror, decadent imagery, and apocalyptic evil unfolding through drug-induced revelation.

87

Seaton's Aunt, Pt 1

Walter de la Mare

The first half of a quiet psychological ghost story about a boy’s unsettling visit to his friend’s house and his terrifying aunt.

88

Seaton's Aunt, Pt 2

Walter de la Mare

The second half deepens the dread around Seaton’s aunt, leaving the horror ambiguous, oppressive, and emotionally cruel.