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Season 22 bonus episodes 65-88
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Name
Author
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65
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
A gothic tale of a decaying family, a decaying mansion, illness, obsession, and a terrible burial mistake.
66
What Was It?
Fitz-James O'Brien
A strange invisible creature is discovered in a boarding house, turning supernatural terror into a problem of observation, capture, and proof.
67
The Upper Berth
Francis Marion Crawford
A passenger aboard a ship investigates a cursed cabin where something horrifying appears from the sea.
68
The Death of Halpin Frayser
Ambrose Bierce
A nightmarish tale of murder, memory, and supernatural revenge, centered on a man lost between dream, guilt, and death.
69
The Mark of the Beast
Rudyard Kipling
A colonial horror story in which a drunken insult to a sacred image brings a hideous curse.
70
The Captain of the 'Pole-Star'
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
An Arctic ghost story about a doomed captain, an obsessed expedition, and something haunting the frozen wastes.
71
The Yellow Sign
Robert W. Chambers
An artist and his model become drawn into a decadent supernatural mystery involving a sinister symbol and the King in Yellow.
72
Xelucha
M. P. Shiel
A lush, strange, morbid tale of obsession, death, and uncanny beauty, written in Shiel’s dense decadent style.
73
The Red Room
H. G. Wells
A skeptical man spends the night in a supposedly haunted room and discovers terror without needing a visible ghost.
74
The Shadows on the Wall
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A domestic ghost story where grief, suspicion, and a strange shadow reveal something dreadful within a family home.
75
The Harbor-Master
Robert W. Chambers
A weird tale of coastal mystery, pursuit, and monstrous transformation, mixing adventure with uncanny horror.
76
The White People, Pt 1
Arthur Machen
The opening of Machen’s occult horror story, framing forbidden knowledge, childhood innocence, and hidden pagan mysteries.
77
The White People, Pt 2
Arthur Machen
The central portion of the story, presenting a young girl’s secret diary of strange rites, hidden places, and uncanny encounters.
78
The White People, Pt 3
Arthur Machen
The conclusion of the tale, where the innocent-seeming account becomes something much darker and more spiritually dangerous.
79
Lost Hearts
M. R. James
A young orphan comes to live with an elderly relative and uncovers a cold, scholarly evil involving missing children.
80
The Willows, Pt 1
Algernon Blackwood
The beginning of a cosmic nature-horror story about two travelers canoeing down the Danube into a remote and hostile landscape.
81
The Willows, Pt 2
Alger