Tales of Woe, Madness, and Terror from the Golden Age of Horror.
When your soul is parted from your body, what - or who - will you haunt? And will that haunting come from a love that spans the boundary of life and death - or from a seething, unending hate?
The Dead Man's Tale was first published in Weird Tales magazine in March of 1923 and is a product of its time.
Would you spend a night in a room that was known to be haunted - one that had already claimed at least one knife? Would skepticism act as a shield - or a dagger pointed at your own heart?
Today’s tale comes from the pen of H. G. Wells and was first published in 1894. It is, like all our tales, a product of its time.
The letter X contains, within its simple shape, multitudes, for it stands for much in the mathematical arts - and sometimes, indeed, X marks the spot. But could it have a darker meaning...?
The Unknown Quantity by E. R. Punshon was first published in 1916 and is, like all our tales, a product of its time.
Today we round out the last of the Christmas Creepies series for the year with a tale of an eerie haunting, from the pen of Elizabeth Gaskell.
The Old Nurse’s Story was originally published in 1852 and is a product of its time.
Whether Yule is for you, your Christmas is jolly and bright, you pile on the latkes for Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa is your bag - whether your boxing day is full of cheers or full of jeers - I hope you're happy, well, and that your racist uncle learns to shut the ████ up for a change.
But the Christmas Creepies aren't done yet! Tune in next week for a chilling wintry tale of ghosts and darkness, and a welcoming of the first female author to the show.
This work originally appeared in Dickens’ first novel, The Pickwick Papers, in 1837, and is in the public domain. This performance, however, is ©️2023, and all rights are reserved.
After the successful defense of the murderer John Turk by reason of insanity, the barrister’s secretary prepares to depart the dreary streets of London for a Christmastime of skiing in the Alps. But when his employer sends round a kit bag for him to pack, things take a turn for the eerie….
This text was originally published in 1908 in Pall Mall Magazine, prior to the 1928 copyright cutoff in the United States. It is a product of its time.