Bygone Tales

Bygone Tales Episode 28

Featuring:

"Demons of the Sea" by William Hope Hodgson

"The Sea Raiders" by H.G. Wells

The Alecton attempts to capture a giant squid off Tenerife in 1861. Illustration from Henry Lee's Sea Monsters Unmasked, London, 1884.

Bygone Tales Episode 27 

Featuring:

"The Gateway of the Monster" by William Hope Hodgson

Illustration from an early publication of "The Gateway of the Monster" by William Hope Hodgson, no other info available

Bygone Tales Episode 26

Featuring:

"An Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose Bierce

"Polaris" by H.P. Lovecraft

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"Rocky Landscape with Ruins, Forming the Profile of a Man's Face", circa 1650, Herman Saftleven, drawing brown ink and black chalk on grey paper, Centraal Museum 

Bygone Tales Episode 25

Featuring:

"Pigeons from Hell" by Robert E. Howard

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Cover of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (May 1938, vol. 31, no. 5) featuring Thunder in the Dawn (an Elak novella) by Henry Kuttner. Cover art by Margaret Brundage.

Bygone Tales Episode 24

Featuring:

"The Furnished Room" by O' Henry

"The Curious Dream" by Mark Twain

"The Hand" Guy de Maupassant

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"Fleeing Skeleton", Wladyslaw Podkowinski, 1892, Charcoal and Gouache on paper, National Museum in Warsaw

Bygone Tales Episode 23

Featuring:

"Satan's Bondage: A Werewolf Western" by Manly Banister

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Cover of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (September 1942, vol. 36, no. 7) featuring Satan's Bondage ("a werewolf western") by Manly Banister. Cover art by A. R. Tilburn.

Bygone Tales Episode 22

Featuring:

"The Challenge From Beyond" by C.L. Moore, A. Merritt, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long

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Cover of "Fantasy Magazine" featuring "The Challenge From Beyond" by Moore, Merritt, Lovecraft, Howard, and Long, September 1935

Bygone Tales Episode 21

Featuring:

"In The Walls Of Eryx" by H.P. Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling

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 Cover of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (October 1939, vol. 34, no. 4) featuring In the Walls of Eryx by Kenneth Sterling and H. P. Lovecraft. Cover art by Harold S. Delay. Published by Weird Tales, Inc.

Bygone Tales Episode 20

Featuring:

"The Horror-Horn" by E.F. Benson

"A Tropical Horror" by William Hope Hodgson

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Alleged yeti footprints at the Himalayas found by Frank Smythe in 1937. Photograph was printed in Popular Science, 1952. The footprints were alleged to be from a yeti but were examined by experts and found indisputably to be bear's. Smythe accepted this conclusion. For his comments on the photograph see his articles: F. S. Smythe. (1937). Abominable Snowmen—Pursuit in the Himalayas—A Mystery Explained. Times (London), November 10. F. S. Smythe. (1937). The Abominable Snowmen. Times (London), November 16.

Bygone Tales Episode 19

Featuring Three Stories by Edgar Allen Poe

"The Oval Portrait"

"The Sphinx"

"The Masque of the Red Death"

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"The dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet". From Tales of Mystery and Imagination ... Illustrated by Harry Clarke, by Edgar Allan Poe. London : G. G. Harrap & Co., 1919. (British Library item 12703.i.43). Illustrating The Masque of the Red Death.