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Pickman’s Model – By H.P. Lovecraft

Pickman's Model - full audiobook narration

A Boston painter is expelled from polite society for work too disturbing to display. But the question was never about taste. It was about what he was painting from.

The Great God Pan: The Story That Terrified Lovecraft

Victorian era engraving style illustration of a young woman reclined in a mechanical chair beneath an oil lamp in a shadowy laboratory, a dark coated figure stands over her holding a surgical instrument, shelves of glass phials line the walls, sepia toned atmospheric horror illustration for The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen narrated by Silas Darkwood.

There are horror stories, and then there are the stories that change horror forever. Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan is one of the latter. Published in 1894, this Welsh writer’s masterwork of cosmic dread reached forward through time and left its fingerprints on nearly every major horror writer who followed. H.P. Lovecraft called it […]

The Pirate by R. Jere Black Jr. | Weird Tales Magazine, 1930 – Silas Darkwood

The Pirate

Whisper from the pages of Weird Tales Magazine, August 1930. Some grudges do not drown with the body. They rise from the deep, salt-crusted and furious, to claim what was stolen. “The Pirate” by R. Jere Black Jr. is one of those poems. A chilling tale of spectral vengeance, it follows a murdered buccaneer who […]