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"The Eater of Souls" by Henry Kuttner tells the story of Sindara, the ruler of Bel Yarnak, who confronts a monstrous entity known as the Eater of Souls. This entity's call has been drawing his people to their deaths in the Gray Gulf of Yarnak. Sindara, rejecting the advice of his necromancers and hydromancers, turns to his god, Vorvadoss, for help. After a harrowing battle, Sindara undergoes a horrific transformation, merging with the Eater of Souls to break the cycle of despair. The story ends with his tragic descent into darkness, forever separated from the beauty of his homeland.

Henry Kuttner's "Hydra" falls primarily into the genres of horror and fantasy, with elements of occultism and science fiction. The story deals with a dangerous experiment in occultism that opens a door to another dimension, resulting in horrific consequences. It's also considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos, a subgenre of cosmic horror created by H.P. Lovecraft and his associates.

Elak of Atlantis must confront a plot by the followers of Dagon to sink the island. These followers, known as the "children of Dagon", are using black magic and earthquakes to destabilize Atlantis and ultimately submerge it. Elak, with the help of a mage named Zend, must stop them and protect Atlantis from being destroyed.

We’ve recorded some 400+ stories since 2015 here at HorrorBabble. This collection comprises some of our very favorites. From Blackwood's evocative "The Transfer", through to Smith's terrifying visit to the vaults of Yoh-Vombis, there’s something here to strike fear into the heart of any horror enthusiast....

Since the first appearance of a vampire in Robert Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer, we mortals have endured a morbid fascination with these peculiar creatures of the night. They come in many forms: charming and seductive; ghastly and terrible. Join us as we explore a number of classic yarns concerning the various guises of the vampire, from Aleksey Tolstoy’s horrifying description of a vampiric family to Robert E. Howard’s tale of a creature loosed from bondage after having been buried for over three centuries. Thank the gods these creatures are fictitious…aren’t they?

This collection of classic horror stories is sure to give you goose bumps, raise the hair on the back of your neck, and put some fright in your night. Includes Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper by Robert Bloch, Coin of the Realm by Charles L. Grant, Something Had to be Done by David Drake, The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner, The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury, Calling Card by Ramsey Campbell, The Words of Guru by C.M. Kornbluth, and Passengers by Robert Silverberg.

Beneath the rolling seas and deadly atmosphere of Venus are the Keeps - fully enclosed cities that house descendants of the survivors who first harbored atomic energy to escape a dying earth. In massive superstructures built beneath the Venusian seas, a complex feudal society devoted simply to decadence has evolved. Presiding over that society are Immortals - genetic throwbacks to the mutant atomic survivors.

"The Secret of Kralitz" by Henry Kuttner tells the story of Franz, the twenty-first Baron Kralitz, who is summoned one night by two figures cloaked in black. These figures, wardens of the Kralitz lineage's secret, reveal a horrifying truth: the Baron is part of a long line bound to a malevolent curse and dark rituals. The story culminates in Franz's realization that each Baron Kralitz is initiated into a brotherhood of blood, and that his own name is inscribed on a sarcophagus, sealing his fate.

Beneath the crumbling tombstones of Salem's old cemetery, something stirs in the dark. The dead do not rest easy here, not because of ghosts, but because of what lurks beneath—the scurrying, gnawing, ever-hungry things that slither through tunnels older than memory. Massing in the catacombs, these rats are no mere vermin. They are watchers, thieves of the dead, and perhaps something far worse. For every corpse lowered into the earth, another vanishes, stolen away into the labyrinth of writhing shadows.

FNH Audio presents the third in a series of short story collections. In this collection: A Earth passes through a poisonous space-cloud. Beneath the civilised crust of Venus a dark horror awaits. The slaves of Titan are about to wake. The first four spaceships disappeared, the fifth went to hell. During the war, one man demands government money to reach the moon. Storm Cloud suspect that everything going wrong is very suspicious. The beautiful girl is dying, and only space can offer hope. A survey team are hunted on a barren world. And many more stories...

"The Ego Machine" is science fiction story by Henry Kuttner. Excerpt: "Was your mother's name Helena Glinska?" the robot asked. "It was not," Martin said. "Ah, then she must have been the Great Hairy One," the robot murmured. Martin took his feet off the desk and sat up slowly. "It's quite all right," the robot said hastily. "You've been chosen for an ecological experiment, that's all. But it won't hurt. Robots are perfectly normal life forms where I come from, so you needn't..."

A grave robber glances at a coffin he's recently unearthed and opened, and, enraged, he witnesses his prized corpse being drawn out the chewed end of the coffin into a subterranean burrow by the graveyard rats. Without thinking, he dives in after it and, crawling through the underground maze, pursues the corpse only to discover he is being pursued by the gargantuan rats and something far more ominous...the undead.

Think again! We have unearthed from their yellowing pulp pages coffins, six stories that you have probably never heard, and combined them with two indisputable classics for one of the best and freshest anthologies of undead doings you are likely to listen to for a long time to come.

This story branches off into two tracks. The first begins thousands of years ago, when an alien ship from a doomed world, seeking a planet to colonize, crashes on earth. There is only one survivor, and it becomes his mission to find an intelligence on Earth - or in Earth's future - equal to his own. To do this, he puts himself into a suspended animation and makes jumps forward in history, at each stop looking for the most intelligent human of that time.

This collection of classic horror tales is as remarkable for its literary value as for its scream factor. You'll hear stories by the masters of the genre, past and present.

In this story, World War II veteran Edward Bond, is a fighter pilot recuperating from a plane crash. Suddenly his life takes a strange turn into weirdness. He steps through a portal into a world of magic and swordplay that is terrible but somehow hauntingly familiar. He meets a giant wolf, a red witch, and something called the "need-fire." In this strange Dark World, Bond finds himself opposed to the dread lord Ganelon and his terrible army of werewolves, wizards, and witches.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti takes us to Salem, Massachusetts, where cemetery caretaker Old Masson must deal with a teeming colony of abnormally large rats that are cutting into his grave-robbing profits; the subterranean rodents drag away newly buried corpses from holes gnawed into the coffins. Apart from the flesh-eating animals, Masson eventually comes face to face with a burrowing zombie-like creature.

Journey 3,000 years into the future, where Tyrell has lived 20 centuries and is now worshipped as a god. He and Herina, his love, were born immortal and have lived together for 300 years. Each century that passes, Tyrell must undergo a mental birthing cycle that washes away most of his memories. And each time, Herina fears he will forget her. Her fears soon turn to other matters, however, after Tyrell begins exhibiting changes no one could have expected!

The House of Kralitz has thrived for hundreds of years while hiding a dark secret in the family vaults. A curse was laid upon the Kralitz line, and today the present head of the household will learn its true horror.

This is a lost world fantasy story with elements of science and science fiction. It was first published in 1946. In this revised edition, nothing has been done to change the plot or characters. However, there are times in the story where it dates itself. These areas have been respectfully updated in this revised edition. A few spelling and grammatical errors have also been corrected. The story itself remains true to the original.