Haunting Oil Field Horror: John H. Green’s “Seven Men in a Tank”
“Omar Khayyam was right: Hell is the reflection of a soul burning.”–John H. Green (Seven Men in a Tank)
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The Most Horrific Ghost Tales: August Derleth’s “Wild Grapes”
Children of Horror,/ Legion of Ghouls,
Tonight, we dug August Derleth’s hideous corpse from under some thick vines of wild grapes. This ghastly tale will make you never look at grapes the same way again. We present August Derleth’s “Wild Grapes”.
The Best Halloween Poems–Episode 26: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Haunted Houses”
All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. Through the open doors
The harmless phantoms on their errands glide,
With feet that make no sound upon the floors.
We meet them at the door-way, on the stair,
Along the passages they come and go,
Impalpable impressions on the air,
A sense of something moving to and fro.–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Haunted Houses)
Halloween Horror: Ambrose Bierce’s “The Moonlit Road”
To my poor boy, left doubly desolate, I have never been able
to impart a sense of my presence. Soon he, too, must pass to
this Life Invisible and be lost to me forever.–Ambrose Bierce (The Moonlit Road)
The Best Werewolf Stories-Episode 3: Seabury Quinn’s “The Phantom Farm House”
Here’s a story of creeping horror that rises, gradually, to a powerful
climax. It’s a story not easily
forgotten!–WT
“The Curious Death of Dionysus Chennault” By Jeffrey LeBlanc (Narrated By Author)
But it’s the eyes of the man I’ll remember to my last days. Wide, fixed in shock, they hide some terrifying secret only the mutilated corpse may know.–JL
Jeffrey LeBlanc 