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

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Story

Author

Synopsis

Foreword

Joseph Lewis French

An introduction to the anthology and its selection of classic tales of horror and suspense.

The Horla, Part 1

Guy de Maupassant

A French gentleman experiences increasingly disturbing sensations and unexplained occurrences in his home. He begins to suspect that an invisible being is watching him and exerting control over his life.

The Horla, Part 2

Guy de Maupassant

The narrator's obsession with the unseen entity intensifies as he searches for proof of its existence. His attempts to escape its influence lead him toward increasingly desperate and destructive decisions.

A Terrible Night

William Clark Russell

A voyage at sea becomes a terrifying experience when violent weather and extraordinary natural phenomena threaten the passengers and crew.

The Torture by Hope

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

A prisoner condemned by the Spanish Inquisition discovers what appears to be an opportunity to escape. His desperate pursuit of freedom reveals a particularly cruel form of psychological torture.

What Was It?

Fitz-James O'Brien

A man sleeping in a supposedly haunted boardinghouse is attacked by an invisible creature. After capturing the mysterious assailant, he and his companions attempt to understand what they have discovered.

The Mark of the Beast

Rudyard Kipling

An Englishman in colonial India desecrates a religious shrine and suffers an apparently supernatural curse. His companions struggle to reverse his horrifying transformation.

The Temple of Isis

Richard Marsh

An encounter with a mysterious woman leads into a frightening world of ancient Egyptian religion, secret rituals, and supernatural danger. An excerpt from The Beetle.

The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe

A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition awakens in a dungeon where elaborate instruments of torture threaten his life. He must overcome terror and exhaustion to survive.

The Vampire

Bram Stoker

In an excerpt from Dracula, the dying Renfield reveals his connection to Count Dracula and the vampire's terrifying influence, exposing the danger facing Mina Harker.

The Avengers, Part I

Arthur Conan Doyle

A man and a young girl, stranded in the American wilderness, are rescued by members of a religious community. Their survival comes at the price of accepting a new life under strict religious authority.

The Avengers, Parts II & III

Arthur Conan Doyle

Years later, the young woman's love for an outsider comes into conflict with the demands of her community. Religious pressure, threats, and forced marriage threaten to destroy her future.

The Avengers, Parts IV & V

Arthur Conan Doyle

The consequences of persecution and betrayal culminate in tragedy. A survivor undertakes a relentless campaign of vengeance against those responsible.

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Story

Author

Synopsis

Foreword

Joseph Lewis French

An introduction to the anthology and its selection of classic tales of horror and suspense.

The Horla, Part 1

Guy de Maupassant

A French gentleman experiences increasingly disturbing sensations and unexplained occurrences in his home. He begins to suspect that an invisible being is watching him and exerting control over his life.

The Horla, Part 2

Guy de Maupassant

The narrator's obsession with the unseen entity intensifies as he searches for proof of its existence. His attempts to escape its influence lead him toward increasingly desperate and destructive decisions.

A Terrible Night

William Clark Russell

A voyage at sea becomes a terrifying experience when violent weather and extraordinary natural phenomena threaten the passengers and crew.

The Torture by Hope

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

A prisoner condemned by the Spanish Inquisition discovers what appears to be an opportunity to escape. His desperate pursuit of freedom reveals a particularly cruel form of psychological torture.

What Was It?

Fitz-James O'Brien

A man sleeping in a supposedly haunted boardinghouse is attacked by an invisible creature. After capturing the mysterious assailant, he and his companions attempt to understand what they have discovered.

The Mark of the Beast

Rudyard Kipling

An Englishman in colonial India desecrates a religious shrine and suffers an apparently supernatural curse. His companions struggle to reverse his horrifying transformation.

The Temple of Isis

Richard Marsh

An encounter with a mysterious woman leads into a frightening world of ancient Egyptian religion, secret rituals, and supernatural danger. An excerpt from The Beetle.

The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe

A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition awakens in a dungeon where elaborate instruments of torture threaten his life. He must overcome terror and exhaustion to survive.

The Vampire

Bram Stoker

In an excerpt from Dracula, the dying Renfield reveals his connection to Count Dracula and the vampire's terrifying influence, exposing the danger facing Mina Harker.

The Avengers, Part I

Arthur Conan Doyle

A man and a young girl, stranded in the American wilderness, are rescued by members of a religious community. Their survival comes at the price of accepting a new life under strict religious authority.

The Avengers, Parts II & III

Arthur Conan Doyle

Years later, the young woman's love for an outsider comes into conflict with the demands of her community. Religious pressure, threats, and forced marriage threaten to destroy her future.

The Avengers, Parts IV & V

Arthur Conan Doyle

The consequences of persecution and betrayal culminate in tragedy. A survivor undertakes a relentless campaign of vengeance against those responsible.

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Season 23 Movies & Stories
 

 

1. Sinners (2025) 

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

 

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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Story

Author

Synopsis

Foreword

Joseph Lewis French

An introduction to the anthology and its selection of classic tales of horror and suspense.

The Horla, Part 1

Guy de Maupassant

A French gentleman experiences increasingly disturbing sensations and unexplained occurrences in his home. He begins to suspect that an invisible being is watching him and exerting control over his life.

The Horla, Part 2

Guy de Maupassant

The narrator's obsession with the unseen entity intensifies as he searches for proof of its existence. His attempts to escape its influence lead him toward increasingly desperate and destructive decisions.

A Terrible Night

William Clark Russell

A voyage at sea becomes a terrifying experience when violent weather and extraordinary natural phenomena threaten the passengers and crew.

The Torture by Hope

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

A prisoner condemned by the Spanish Inquisition discovers what appears to be an opportunity to escape. His desperate pursuit of freedom reveals a particularly cruel form of psychological torture.

What Was It?

Fitz-James O'Brien

A man sleeping in a supposedly haunted boardinghouse is attacked by an invisible creature. After capturing the mysterious assailant, he and his companions attempt to understand what they have discovered.

The Mark of the Beast

Rudyard Kipling

An Englishman in colonial India desecrates a religious shrine and suffers an apparently supernatural curse. His companions struggle to reverse his horrifying transformation.

The Temple of Isis

Richard Marsh

An encounter with a mysterious woman leads into a frightening world of ancient Egyptian religion, secret rituals, and supernatural danger. An excerpt from The Beetle.

The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe

A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition awakens in a dungeon where elaborate instruments of torture threaten his life. He must overcome terror and exhaustion to survive.

The Vampire

Bram Stoker

In an excerpt from Dracula, the dying Renfield reveals his connection to Count Dracula and the vampire's terrifying influence, exposing the danger facing Mina Harker.

The Avengers, Part I

Arthur Conan Doyle

A man and a young girl, stranded in the American wilderness, are rescued by members of a religious community. Their survival comes at the price of accepting a new life under strict religious authority.

The Avengers, Parts II & III

Arthur Conan Doyle

Years later, the young woman's love for an outsider comes into conflict with the demands of her community. Religious pressure, threats, and forced marriage threaten to destroy her future.

The Avengers, Parts IV & V

Arthur Conan Doyle

The consequences of persecution and betrayal culminate in tragedy. A survivor undertakes a relentless campaign of vengeance against those responsible.

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

Story

Author

Synopsis

Foreword

Joseph Lewis French

An introduction to the anthology and its selection of classic tales of horror and suspense.

The Horla, Part 1

Guy de Maupassant

A French gentleman experiences increasingly disturbing sensations and unexplained occurrences in his home. He begins to suspect that an invisible being is watching him and exerting control over his life.

The Horla, Part 2

Guy de Maupassant

The narrator's obsession with the unseen entity intensifies as he searches for proof of its existence. His attempts to escape its influence lead him toward increasingly desperate and destructive decisions.

A Terrible Night

William Clark Russell

A voyage at sea becomes a terrifying experience when violent weather and extraordinary natural phenomena threaten the passengers and crew.

The Torture by Hope

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

A prisoner condemned by the Spanish Inquisition discovers what appears to be an opportunity to escape. His desperate pursuit of freedom reveals a particularly cruel form of psychological torture.

What Was It?

Fitz-James O'Brien

A man sleeping in a supposedly haunted boardinghouse is attacked by an invisible creature. After capturing the mysterious assailant, he and his companions attempt to understand what they have discovered.

The Mark of the Beast

Rudyard Kipling

An Englishman in colonial India desecrates a religious shrine and suffers an apparently supernatural curse. His companions struggle to reverse his horrifying transformation.

The Temple of Isis

Richard Marsh

An encounter with a mysterious woman leads into a frightening world of ancient Egyptian religion, secret rituals, and supernatural danger. An excerpt from The Beetle.

The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe

A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition awakens in a dungeon where elaborate instruments of torture threaten his life. He must overcome terror and exhaustion to survive.

The Vampire

Bram Stoker

In an excerpt from Dracula, the dying Renfield reveals his connection to Count Dracula and the vampire's terrifying influence, exposing the danger facing Mina Harker.

The Avengers, Part I

Arthur Conan Doyle

A man and a young girl, stranded in the American wilderness, are rescued by members of a religious community. Their survival comes at the price of accepting a new life under strict religious authority.

The Avengers, Parts II & III

Arthur Conan Doyle

Years later, the young woman's love for an outsider comes into conflict with the demands of her community. Religious pressure, threats, and forced marriage threaten to destroy her future.

The Avengers, Parts IV & V

Arthur Conan Doyle

The consequences of persecution and betrayal culminate in tragedy. A survivor undertakes a relentless campaign of vengeance against those responsible.