In this episode we have a ghostly tale from Mr Moon himself - a curious account of a very troubled house. This tale can be found in the new anthology Before You Blow Out The Candle Volume One edited by Marc Damian Lawler,  which has just been published in a third edition.  A second volume has just been published too which also features another story from Mr Moon. 

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"Tomorrow it is proposed that the Lower Master takes me by car to Worbarrow Bay in Dorset where the Scouts are in camp—it is further proposed that by the camp fire I should read them a story of a terrible nature, which I have made—contrary to my expectation."

So wrote MR James in a letter dated 26th July 1927. And so, in this podcast, Mr Jim Moon invites you to take a place by the campfire to hear that ghost story from MR James, which was first told at a boy scouts camp on 27th July 1927. Gather round folks, for the dark tale of Wailing Well... 

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In this podcast we present a reading of one of the most celebrated tales ever published in Weird Tales. An eerie story of mysterious transmissions and a strange, menacing fog - The Night Wire by HF Arnold.

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A little chill for a summer night, a weird verse from poet Vachel Lindsay that may make you think twice before wandering by cornfields after sunset...

As it is midsummer - a time of magic and mystery - we have a tale of sunlit horror from the great EF Benson. In The Man Who Went Too Far we discover ancient and terrifying powers are very much alive and well in the heart of the English countryside.

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In this little show we have an eerie poem from Robert E Howard. While he is best known as the creator of Conan the Barbarian and other two-fisted heroes, Howard also wrote a great deal of verse, much of it on weird and fantastic themes. The poem in this podcast takes us back England in years gone by, the days when gibbets still stood at crossroads... 

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Something strange falls from the skies, and a creeping terror comes to earth. Considered to be one of his best stories, here is The Colour Out of Space by HP Lovecraft, a masterful and far-sighted fusion of science fiction and horror, complete and unabridged! 

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What secrets lurk in the subway system? What horrors dwell deep in the bowels of the earth beneath our cities? Far Below by Robert Barbour Johnson has the answers!  A tale of subterranean terror which was voted by readers to be the best story ever to be published in Weird Tales ! 

A tale of terror from one of literature's greatest writers. Guy de maupassant wrote many novels and hundreds of short stories, and is recognised as a giant of French literature. However he also penned a series of haunting tales about the strange and the macabre. The story Lui? known either He? or sometimes The Terror asks us if we are ever truly alone, or is there an unseen other haunting us... 

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This week Mr Jim Moon delves into local history and folklore to unearth a true tale of crime, madness and the Devil - the strange case of the Brass Murders!

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