Are you really insisting on bringing that bushel of bananas with you, even though you know we are going to be exploring the origins of the killer ape?  It just seems like a bad idea, that’s all.  This time it’s Edgar Allan Poe’s tale The Murders in the Rue Morgue.  

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Aim for the head, aim for the head!  Henry S. Whitehead’s tale Jumbee is the focus of this month’s episode as we explore the origins of the zombie.  

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Better grab your unlicensed particle accelerator because we’re about to go ghost busting with William Hodgeson’s Gateway of the Monster.  

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Take cover from the nightly sandstorm as we take a look at H.P. Lovecraft’s The Nameless City, and the origins of the Cthulhu mythos.  

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Boot up that positron brain and juice up your servos because in this episode of Horrorigins we are going to be taking a look at Rossum’s Universal Robots and the origin of the killer robot.  

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Gear up friends, we are about to head into the dangerous fen that is Theodore Sturgeon’s “It!“, the first story to have evil animated vegetation in the form of man.  Can it be stopped?  Let’s find out. 

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Have you ever wondered just what sorts of horrors lie just beyond the little windows of the subway train?  Well you’re about to find out because in this episode we are going to be taking a look at Robert Barbour Johnson’s short story from Weird Tales entitled Far Below. 

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Big mummy on campus!  In this episode we are going to be taking a look at the fist tale to depict a mummy in a horror context.  Its originating story:  Lot No. 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle. 

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Did you know that vampires were not always the pale aristocrats we know today?  In this episode we are going to be taking a look at the fist story that depicted the modern vampire in English literature.  Its originating story:  The Vampyre by John William Polidori.

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