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

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

Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Chapter Author Description The Wood of the Dead Algernon Blackwood A traveler encounters a mysterious old man who invites him into a lonely wood said to receive those who are about to die. A quiet, dreamlike ghost story about death, compassion, and the thin boundary between the living and the dead. The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" Ambrose Bierce On a freezing night in an abandoned mining camp, a lonely man welcomes a strange visitor and begins recounting the unsettling history of Deadman's Gulch. Bierce mixes ghost-story dread with his characteristic grim humor and irony. Shadow – A Parable Edgar Allan Poe Seven men hide from a terrible plague, drinking beside the body of a dead companion, when an impossible shadow appears among them. A brief, intensely atmospheric meditation on mortality and the inevitability of death. Kerfol Edith Wharton A visitor to an old estate in Brittany encounters a silent pack of mysterious dogs and discovers the tragic history of the house. Wharton's gothic tale combines an abusive marriage, murder, and supernatural revenge. In the Dark Ronal Kayser Alone in his chemical plant, Asa Gregg records a confession concerning a murder he thought he had successfully concealed. Something inside the factory, however, appears determined to undo both the crime and the laws of nature. Originally published in Weird Tales in 1936. The Last Revel in Printz Hall Charles M. Skinner A young fiddler accepts a job as caretaker of the lonely and reputedly haunted Printz Hall near Chester, Pennsylvania. His night in the abandoned mansion becomes considerably stranger once the music begins. Edward Randolph's Portrait Charles M. Skinner An ominous portrait hangs in Boston's old Province House and is said to reveal its dreadful face before disasters. The figure is Edward Randolph, remembered by colonial legend as a betrayer of Massachusetts' liberties. The Headless Skeleton of Swamptown Charles M. Skinner Strange lights, witches, apparitions, and a headless figure haunt the folklore surrounding Swamptown, Rhode Island. Skinner collects several grisly local legends centered on a particularly unsettling human skull. Were-Wolves of Detroit Charles M. Skinner Old Detroit legends tell of witches, forbidden bargains, and men transformed into loups-garous. One tale follows a rejected suitor who turns to witchcraft in an attempt to carry away the woman he desires.

Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Chapter Author Description The Wood of the Dead Algernon Blackwood A traveler encounters a mysterious old man who invites him into a lonely wood said to receive those who are about to die. A quiet, dreamlike ghost story about death, compassion, and the thin boundary between the living and the dead. The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" Ambrose Bierce On a freezing night in an abandoned mining camp, a lonely man welcomes a strange visitor and begins recounting the unsettling history of Deadman's Gulch. Bierce mixes ghost-story dread with his characteristic grim humor and irony. Shadow – A Parable Edgar Allan Poe Seven men hide from a terrible plague, drinking beside the body of a dead companion, when an impossible shadow appears among them. A brief, intensely atmospheric meditation on mortality and the inevitability of death. Kerfol Edith Wharton A visitor to an old estate in Brittany encounters a silent pack of mysterious dogs and discovers the tragic history of the house. Wharton's gothic tale combines an abusive marriage, murder, and supernatural revenge. In the Dark Ronal Kayser Alone in his chemical plant, Asa Gregg records a confession concerning a murder he thought he had successfully concealed. Something inside the factory, however, appears determined to undo both the crime and the laws of nature. Originally published in Weird Tales in 1936. The Last Revel in Printz Hall Charles M. Skinner A young fiddler accepts a job as caretaker of the lonely and reputedly haunted Printz Hall near Chester, Pennsylvania. His night in the abandoned mansion becomes considerably stranger once the music begins. Edward Randolph's Portrait Charles M. Skinner An ominous portrait hangs in Boston's old Province House and is said to reveal its dreadful face before disasters. The figure is Edward Randolph, remembered by colonial legend as a betrayer of Massachusetts' liberties. The Headless Skeleton of Swamptown Charles M. Skinner Strange lights, witches, apparitions, and a headless figure haunt the folklore surrounding Swamptown, Rhode Island. Skinner collects several grisly local legends centered on a particularly unsettling human skull. Were-Wolves of Detroit Charles M. Skinner Old Detroit legends tell of witches, forbidden bargains, and men transformed into loups-garous. One tale follows a rejected suitor who turns to witchcraft in an attempt to carry away the woman he desires.

Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Chapter Author Description The Wood of the Dead Algernon Blackwood A traveler encounters a mysterious old man who invites him into a lonely wood said to receive those who are about to die. A quiet, dreamlike ghost story about death, compassion, and the thin boundary between the living and the dead. The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" Ambrose Bierce On a freezing night in an abandoned mining camp, a lonely man welcomes a strange visitor and begins recounting the unsettling history of Deadman's Gulch. Bierce mixes ghost-story dread with his characteristic grim humor and irony. Shadow – A Parable Edgar Allan Poe Seven men hide from a terrible plague, drinking beside the body of a dead companion, when an impossible shadow appears among them. A brief, intensely atmospheric meditation on mortality and the inevitability of death. Kerfol Edith Wharton A visitor to an old estate in Brittany encounters a silent pack of mysterious dogs and discovers the tragic history of the house. Wharton's gothic tale combines an abusive marriage, murder, and supernatural revenge. In the Dark Ronal Kayser Alone in his chemical plant, Asa Gregg records a confession concerning a murder he thought he had successfully concealed. Something inside the factory, however, appears determined to undo both the crime and the laws of nature. Originally published in Weird Tales in 1936. The Last Revel in Printz Hall Charles M. Skinner A young fiddler accepts a job as caretaker of the lonely and reputedly haunted Printz Hall near Chester, Pennsylvania. His night in the abandoned mansion becomes considerably stranger once the music begins. Edward Randolph's Portrait Charles M. Skinner An ominous portrait hangs in Boston's old Province House and is said to reveal its dreadful face before disasters. The figure is Edward Randolph, remembered by colonial legend as a betrayer of Massachusetts' liberties. The Headless Skeleton of Swamptown Charles M. Skinner Strange lights, witches, apparitions, and a headless figure haunt the folklore surrounding Swamptown, Rhode Island. Skinner collects several grisly local legends centered on a particularly unsettling human skull. Were-Wolves of Detroit Charles M. Skinner Old Detroit legends tell of witches, forbidden bargains, and men transformed into loups-garous. One tale follows a rejected suitor who turns to witchcraft in an attempt to carry away the woman he desires.

Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Chapter Author Description The Wood of the Dead Algernon Blackwood A traveler encounters a mysterious old man who invites him into a lonely wood said to receive those who are about to die. A quiet, dreamlike ghost story about death, compassion, and the thin boundary between the living and the dead. The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" Ambrose Bierce On a freezing night in an abandoned mining camp, a lonely man welcomes a strange visitor and begins recounting the unsettling history of Deadman's Gulch. Bierce mixes ghost-story dread with his characteristic grim humor and irony. Shadow – A Parable Edgar Allan Poe Seven men hide from a terrible plague, drinking beside the body of a dead companion, when an impossible shadow appears among them. A brief, intensely atmospheric meditation on mortality and the inevitability of death. Kerfol Edith Wharton A visitor to an old estate in Brittany encounters a silent pack of mysterious dogs and discovers the tragic history of the house. Wharton's gothic tale combines an abusive marriage, murder, and supernatural revenge. In the Dark Ronal Kayser Alone in his chemical plant, Asa Gregg records a confession concerning a murder he thought he had successfully concealed. Something inside the factory, however, appears determined to undo both the crime and the laws of nature. Originally published in Weird Tales in 1936. The Last Revel in Printz Hall Charles M. Skinner A young fiddler accepts a job as caretaker of the lonely and reputedly haunted Printz Hall near Chester, Pennsylvania. His night in the abandoned mansion becomes considerably stranger once the music begins. Edward Randolph's Portrait Charles M. Skinner An ominous portrait hangs in Boston's old Province House and is said to reveal its dreadful face before disasters. The figure is Edward Randolph, remembered by colonial legend as a betrayer of Massachusetts' liberties. The Headless Skeleton of Swamptown Charles M. Skinner Strange lights, witches, apparitions, and a headless figure haunt the folklore surrounding Swamptown, Rhode Island. Skinner collects several grisly local legends centered on a particularly unsettling human skull. Were-Wolves of Detroit Charles M. Skinner Old Detroit legends tell of witches, forbidden bargains, and men transformed into loups-garous. One tale follows a rejected suitor who turns to witchcraft in an attempt to carry away the woman he desires.