The Oddcast: Tales of the Occult, Weird, and Arcane Podcast
1) Episode 45: The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
First published in 1902 by Harper's Monthly and reprinted in his third collection of short stories The Lady of the Barge (also, 1902). The Monkey's Paw is one of the most well-known, adapted, and infl...Show More
2) Midsummer by Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen, the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He has garnered a reputation as one most influential classic horror story auth...Show More
3) Episode 43: Terra Incognita by Vladimir Nabokov
First published in the émigré journal Posledniya Novosti in Paris in 1931. Translated by the author and his son, the story was published in English in The New Yorker in May, 1963, and later added to A...Show More
4) Episode 42: The Beautiful Suit by H.G. Wells
Originally published under the title "A Moonlight Fable" in the April 10, 1909, number of Collier's Weekly. A young man acquires a hand-woven suit from his mother, and, becoming obsessed with its...Show More
5) Episode 41: The Awakening by Arthur C. Clarke
First published in Zenith in February 1942 and later revised and published in Future in January of 1952. Collected in The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-1955. Upon discovering a terminal illness t...Show More
6) Episode 40: The Guide by Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters (nom de plume of Edith Pargeter) was an English writer, and the short story (originally titled Guide to Doom) was first published in Alfred Hitchcocks: Stories that Scared Even Me in 1967...Show More
7) Episode 39: Gateway of the Mind by Anonymous
Originally posted on Creepypasta on November 23, 2009 by an anonymous author. An experiment in the early 80s attempts to establish contact with God by depriving a test subject of all senses. ...Show More
8) Episode 38: The Writing of the God by Jorge Luis Borges
Original Spanish title: "La escritura del dios"First published in the literary magazine Sur in 1949, and later reprinted in The Aleph. An incarcerated magician seeks a divine script that will all...Show More
9) Episode 37: They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson
Originally published in 1991 through OMNI magazine. Two multidimensional aliens deliberate over contacting the human race once they realize their entirely made out of meat. Aliens: Mats Benn...Show More
10) Episode 36: An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce
First published in the San Francisco Newsletter of December 25, 1886 and was later reprinted as part of Bierce's collections Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Can Such Things Be?A man from the ancie...Show More