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The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel written by British writer William Hope Hodgson in 1908. The story opens with the discovery of a journal in the ruins of an unusual house in rural Ireland. Penned by a recluse, the journal details the man's stay at the house and his supernatural experiences with menacing monsters and dreaded dimensions.

Alex is a troubled teenager with a checkered past, a broken home, and a surprising ability: psychometry. When he touches items murder victims held in their final moments, he relives the events in gruesome detail. But who will believe a troubled teen, especially when murders implicate the town's founding family? If you like amazing supernatural stories that are intense, powerful, and fraught with emotion, then you'll love Weston Kincade's suspenseful coming-of-age trilogy, A Life of Death. Ghosts are speaking, and they want answers.

Home Fires is the powerful saga of the Gordon family--real people, names unchanged. Spanning nearly five decades, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, their story has the scope, depth, wealth of incident, and emotional intensity of a great novel, and an abundance of humor, scandal, warmth, and trauma--the recognizable components of family life. This is also a masterful chronicle of the turbulent postwar era, illuminating the interplay between private life and profound cultural changes.

At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher’s bookshelf, and his world shifted on its axis. Though scandal, sadness, and confusion would shake that world over the next few decades, its polestar remained constant. Music has been the guiding force of Gordon’s life; through it, he has been able not only to survive great sorrow but also to capture the depths of his emotion in song. It is this strength, this technical and visceral genius, that has made him one of our generation’s greatest composers.

"The Nameless City" is a haunting tale of cosmic horror by H. P. Lovecraft, first published in 1921. It follows an intrepid explorer who ventures deep into the Arabian desert in search of a lost, ancient ruin—a city so old that it predates all known human civilizations. As he descends into its crumbling subterranean tunnels, he uncovers strange, reptilian artifacts and eerie bas-reliefs that depict a race of grotesque, non-human beings that once ruled this desolate place.

Robert E. Howard’s "Pigeons from Hell" is a chilling Southern Gothic horror tale blending supernatural terror with a grim, oppressive atmosphere. It follows two travellers, John Branner and Griswell, who become stranded in the deep South and take refuge in an abandoned plantation house, the decaying remnants of the Blassenville family estate. The house is eerily silent, save for the presence of strange pigeons roosting in the rafters.

"The Mound" is a horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft, written as a ghostwriting project for Zealia Bishop. It is often considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos due to its themes of ancient, hidden civilizations, cosmic horror, and connections to Lovecraft’s broader mythos. The story follows an unnamed narrator investigating a mysterious burial mound in Oklahoma, where local legends speak of ghostly apparitions and strange disappearances.

The Halloween Experiment is a horror audio drama by Ian Gordon. In the story, an eccentric by the name of Doctor Stephan Helm seeks to rid five troubled patients of their debilitating delusions. We'll hear each of their tales, concerning sleep disorders, strange spectres, and a curious proclivity for Granny Smith apples....

Weird things are happening at the Zetland Hotel. Lovers seeking sanctuary. Wallowers at the end of life. A creature in the shape of a child. Could the strangeness be connected to the mysterious occupant of room 13?

In the last days of 1990, a writer sets out to explore a shadowy island in the North Sea. The little-known Isle of Seacliffe has long haunted the dreams of the middle-aged author - will his long-awaited excursion scratch a lifelong itch?

The Wardrobe and Other Macabre Stories comprises 16 tales of terror, first published in audio by HorrorBabble, chronicling the strangeness of everyday objects - from a wardrobe with an insatiable appetite to an aggressive, vengeful pool table.

After 15 years of ritual murder, homicide detective Alex Drummond must save this year's sacrificial lamb. But who is it? The serial killer's anointed date is only days away. An anonymous tip forces Alex and a high school friend to Washington DC to prove the suspect's guilt, but nothing is as it seems. Unsolved murders abound like cobwebs under abandoned guest beds. Is Alex in over his head?

A man drives into a blizzard atop the remote hills of the Peak District. It’s Boxing Day, and he’s on his way home following a Christmas spent with family. But the weather’s getting worse, and, in order to avoid losing control of the car, he’s forced to find a place in which to wait out the storm. His search leads him to the sprawling Miller’s Manor, on the outskirts of Miller’s Dale, wherein an unusual Murder Mystery Event is taking place. Much to his chagrin, he soon finds himself an unwilling participant in what quickly becomes apparent is no ordinary game.

Following the passing of his elderly father, a man inherits the key to a mysterious cabinet. Within, he discovers a journal, detailing a series of strange happenings in his hometown some 60 years earlier.

TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW OF FEAR is a collection of Ian’s earliest works: from Creepypastas such as The Fear Experiment and The Pit; to stories written exclusively for HorrorBabble, including They’ve Got a Killer View and VANITY LTD.

An unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years ago, a meteorite crashed there, poisoning every living being nearby. Vegetation grows large but foul-tasting, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die, one by one.

This audiobook features more than a dozen stories by H. P. Lovecraft.

This collection comprises H. P. Lovecraft's main and undisputed Dream Cycle stories, including "Polaris", "The White Ship", "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", and "The Outsider".

In this short story from the author of Cruelty and The Sound of Broken Ribs, our narrator finds themselves no longer alone in the barren wood they've called home since time out of mind. A specter from their past has come to visit. Might the visitor be a ghost, a time traveler, or something more sinister? For not everyone is who (or what) they seem to be.

This collection features seven classic Lovecraft tales that can be listened to in between 15 and 30 minutes: "From Beyond", "The Outsider", "The Hound", "He", "Cool Air", "The Strange High House in the Mist", and "The Disinterment".