People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Horror Stories, Weird Fiction, and Film Reviews

People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos is a long-running podcast exploring cosmic horror, weird fiction, and the strange worlds inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and his contemporaries. Hosted by DB Spitzer with co-hosts Farmer Dave and Aunt Gore, the show dives into myth, monsters, movies, and the legacy of the Mythos with humor and insight.

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  Episode #300

  John Houlihan Interview 2026

  Oct 2, 202620 minS23

  Check Out John @ john-houlihan.net/ Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]

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  Episode #25

  The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" by Ambrose Bierce

  Oct 1, 202620 minS23

  Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Chapter Author Description The Wood of the Dead Algernon Blackwood A traveler encounters a mysterious old man who invites him into a lonely wood said to receive those who are about to die. A quiet, dreamlike ghost story about death, compassion, and the thin boundary between the living and the dead. The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" Ambrose Bierce On a freezing night in an abandoned mining camp, a lonely man welcomes a strange visitor and begins recounting the unsettling history of Deadman's Gulch. Bierce mixes ghost-story dread with his characteristic grim humor and irony. Shadow – A Parable Edgar Allan Poe Seven men hide from a terrible plague, drinking beside the body of a dead companion, when an impossible shadow appears among them. A brief, intensely atmospheric meditation on mortality and the inevitability of death. Kerfol Edith Wharton A visitor to an old estate in Brittany encounters a silent pack of mysterious dogs and discovers the tragic history of the house. Wharton's gothic tale combines an abusive marriage, murder, and supernatural revenge. In the Dark Ronal Kayser Alone in his chemical plant, Asa Gregg records a confession concerning a murder he thought he had successfully concealed. Something inside the factory, however, appears determined to undo both the crime and the laws of nature. Originally published in Weird Tales in 1936. The Last Revel in Printz Hall Charles M. Skinner A young fiddler accepts a job as caretaker of the lonely and reputedly haunted Printz Hall near Chester, Pennsylvania. His night in the abandoned mansion becomes considerably stranger once the music begins. Edward Randolph's Portrait Charles M. Skinner An ominous portrait hangs in Boston's old Province House and is said to reveal its dreadful face before disasters. The figure is Edward Randolph, remembered by colonial legend as a betrayer of Massachusetts' liberties. The Headless Skeleton of Swamptown Charles M. Skinner Strange lights, witches, apparitions, and a headless figure haunt the folklore surrounding Swamptown, Rhode Island. Skinner collects several grisly local legends centered on a particularly unsettling human skull. Were-Wolves of Detroit Charles M. Skinner Old Detroit legends tell of witches, forbidden bargains, and men transformed into loups-garous. One tale follows a rejected suitor who turns to witchcraft in an attempt to carry away the woman he desires.

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  Episode #2

  Grimdark's Grandparents 2: Space Marines(Adeptus Astartes)

  Sep 30, 202619 minS23

  Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Upcoming Episodes Grimdark Grandparents: Warhammer 40,000 and Its Pulp DNA 0. What’s a W.H.40.K? — An introduction to Warhammer 40,000’s immense science-fantasy horror setting, where a corpse-worshipping human empire fights aliens, daemons, ancient machines, and its own terrible history. 1. The Imperium of Man — From Dune, Foundation, Roman decline, and medieval Christendom comes a galactic empire where the future is not progress but a dead civilization kept moving through faith, fear, and paperwork. 2. Space Marines — The Imperium’s iconic super-soldiers combine power armor and military science fiction with crusading knights, Spartan myth, warrior monks, kidnapped children, and the seductive imagery of authoritarian heroism. 3. Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard — Drawing from trench literature, British war comics, Kipling, and future-war fiction, the Guard are ordinary people sent into cosmic horror with little more than courage and a lasgun. 4. Adeptus Mechanicus — Frankenstein, Metropolis, invention pulp, and lost-technology stories meet in a machine cult where science survives, understanding does not, and repairs are performed like religious rites. 5. Adepta Sororitas / Ecclesiarchy — Gothic convents, martyr legends, Joan of Arc, witchfinders, and Hammer horror become armored saints who turn faith, suffering, and flamethrowers into instruments of Imperial power. 6. The Inquisition — The occult detective and witch-hunter become one terrifying Imperial investigator who may uncover the truth only to burn every witness, building, and planet touched by it. 7. Rogue Traders — Planetary romance, colonial adventure fiction, space opera, pirates, and merchant princes combine in explorers licensed to discover strange worlds, trade with them, rob them, or claim them for the Imperium. 8. Adeptus Custodes — Ancient palace guards, sacred kingship, Achilles, and Gilgamesh stand behind the Emperor’s golden companions: philosopher-warriors created to protect a god who is already dead. 9. Adeptus Titanicus / Titan Legions — Giant robots descend from Martian tripods, dreadnoughts, siege engines, golems, and war gods to become walking cathedrals capable of teaching entire cities to kneel. 10. The Horus Heresy — Warhammer’s great betrayal myth draws from Lucifer, Cain and Abel, Arthur and Mordred, Roman civil wars, and fallen-hero stories to explain how the Emperor’s favored son broke the human future from within. 11. Chaos Space Marines — Fallen angels, Byronic rebels, cursed champions, and Milton’s Satan become immortal super-soldiers whose genuine grievances have curdled into rebellion, bitterness, and damnation. 12. Chaos Daemons — Medieval demonology, grimoires, occult pulp, weird fiction, and nightmare cinema become psychic entities made from mortal rage, despair, ambition, obsession, and desire. 13. World Eaters / Khorne — Sword-and-sorcery pulp, berserker sagas, gladiator spectacle, and revenge tragedy create warriors who reduce every political, emotional, and moral problem to an axe blow. 14. Death Guard / Nurgle — Plague literature, danse macabre, zombie films, body horror, and graveyard humor meet in rotting soldiers who have surrendered to decay and discovered that the joke is that they are happy. 15. Thousand Sons / Tzeentch — Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, mummy fiction, occult scholarship, and forbidden-book stories become sorcerers who sought perfect knowledge only to discover that the book was reading them back. 16. Emperor’s Children / Slaanesh — Decadent literature, Gothic aristocrats, glam horror, cursed art, and The Picture of Dorian Gray shape warriors who pursued perfection until beauty became an endlessly hungry mouth. 17. Chaos / Imperial Knights — Haunted castles, ancestral armor, chivalric romance, feudal bloodlines, and giant-robot fiction become seventy-foot war machines carrying generations of family pride, duty, resentment, and curses. 18. Orks — Fantasy orcs, Mad Max, British hooligan comedy, fungus horror, and invasive-species stories combine in a joyful alien ecosystem where killing the enemy may only plant the next war. 19. Tyranids — Alien, The Thing, bug-war fiction, parasite horror, and cosmic naturalism become an extragalactic appetite that does not hate humanity because hatred would interfere with digestion. 20. Genestealer Cults — Body-snatcher films, changeling folklore, secret-cult pulp, family curses, and invasion paranoia create an alien uprising that begins not in the sky but at the dinner table. 21. Necrons — Killer robots and artificial-labor nightmares combine with mummy curses, tomb kings, and cursed archaeology to produce immortal metal dynasties waking from the grave with better weapons than the living. 22. Aeldari / Drukhari — Elves, cruel fairy courts, dying-earth fiction, lost civilizations, decadent aristocrats, and vampire cities become two responses to apocalypse: mourning the fall or continuing the party forever. 23. Night Lords — Batman, slashers, serial killers, Gothic villains, Grand Guignol, and public-execution culture become terror troops who transform punishment into theatre and fear into government. 24. T’au Empire and Leagues of Votann — The T’au combine utopian science fiction, anime mecha, and benevolent imperialism, while the Votann draw from mining frontiers, company towns, clone labor, ancestor cults, and corporate survivalism. 25. [REDACTED] — ▀▀▀ thrillers, ▀▀▀▀▀▀ societies, ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀, invasion ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀, Dr. ▀▀▀▀▀▀, and ▀▀▀▀▀ mythology become a Space Marine legion so committed to ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ that truth itself is rendered operationally ▀▀▀▀▀▀. Audio Book Stories 01 Introduction. The Fascination of the Ghost Story, by Arthur B. Reeve 02 The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe 03 Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M. R. James 04 The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton 05 The Silent Woman by Leopold Kompert 06 Banshees 07 The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson 08 The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood 09 The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews 11 The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce 12 The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan 13 Some Real American Ghosts Part 1 14 Some Real American Ghosts Part 2 PGttCM Season 23 Order(all episodes will be recorded 1. Sinners (2025) August week 4 Story: “The Music of Erich Zann,” H. P. Lovecraft Music becomes a weapon, a barrier, and an opening into something beyond the human world. Complete YouTube reading 2. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) September week 1 Story: “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne A scientist transforms his daughter into something beautiful, deadly, and isolated from ordinary human intimacy. The created woman is treated simultaneously as experiment, daughter, monster, and possible lover. Complete YouTube reading 3. Ready or Not (2019) September week 2 Story: “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell Wealthy predators turn the hunting of a human being into sport and tradition. Complete YouTube reading 4. Blade II (2002) September week 3 Story: “The Room in the Tower,” E. F. Benson A recurring nightmare leads to a room occupied by a ravenous female vampire. Complete YouTube reading 5. Obsession (2026) September week 4 Story: “The Birth-Mark,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Love curdles into the conviction that another person must be altered and perfected. Complete YouTube reading 6. RoboCop (1987) October week 1 Story: “The Man That Was Used Up,” Edgar Allan Poe A celebrated military hero is gradually revealed to be an assemblage of manufactured replacement parts. Prosthetic reconstruction, militarism, masculine propaganda, and brutal satire. Complete YouTube reading 7. Johnny Mnemonic (1995) October week 2 Story: “A Logic Named Joe,” Murray Leinster Information technology becomes dangerously helpful, invasive, and impossible to contain. Complete YouTube audiobook 8. Strange Days (1995) October week 3 Story: “The Crystal Egg,” H. G. Wells A mysterious device allows its owner to watch another world—and may allow that world to watch him. The voyeurism, addictive looking, and technologically mediated experience. Complete YouTube reading 9. Brainstorm (1983) October week 4 Story: “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham,” H. G. Wells A wealthy old scientist finds a way to transfer his consciousness into a young man’s body. It turns recorded experience and technological immortality into an intimate identity nightmare. Complete YouTube reading 10. Burst City (1982) November week 1 Story: “The Machine Stops,” E. M. Forster A society has surrendered its bodies, relationships, and environment to an enormous technological system. Complete YouTube reading 11. Neo Tokyo (1987) November week 2 Story: “The City of the Singing Flame,” Clark Ashton Smith A traveller discovers a magnificent alternate city whose alien music and architecture exert an increasingly irresistible pull. Complete YouTube reading 12. Total Recall (1990) November week 3 Story: “The Defenders,” Philip K. Dick Humanity’s understanding of its war and surrounding reality has been deliberately manufactured. Complete YouTube reading 13. Sorry to Bother You (2018) November week 4 Story: “The Business Man,” Edgar Allan Poe A self-satisfied entrepreneur explains his increasingly violent career as though criminal ingenuity were merely sound business practice. Complete YouTube reading 14. Little Shop of Horrors (1986) December week 1 Story: “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” H. G. Wells A mild collector brings home an exotic plant that proves predatory. Carnivorous botany, human loneliness, and the inability to recognize danger until it is wrapped around your throat. Complete YouTube reading 15. Slither (2006) December week 2 Story: “The Derelict,” William Hope Hodgson An explorer returns from an ancient ruin carrying something that has taken root inside his body. Complete YouTube reading 16. Swiss Army Man (2016) December week 3 Story: “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost,” H. G. Wells A lonely, ineffectual dead man cannot remember how to leave the living world, and an overconfident living man attempts to help him. Complete YouTube reading 17. Happy Death Day (2017) December week 4 Story: “The Clock That Went Backward,” Edward Page Mitchell A clock literally carries its characters backwards through time. Complete YouTube reading 18. The Gorge (2025) January week 1 Story: “The People of the Pit,” A. Merritt An isolated traveller discovers an abyss containing an ancient, inhuman civilization and something that calls irresistibly from below. Complete YouTube reading Reality Comes Apart January week 2 19. The Fourth Kind (2009) Story: “The Hanging Stranger,” Philip K. Dick An ordinary man notices an impossible event that everyone else accepts, then discovers that his community may no longer be human. Complete YouTube reading 20. Dark City (1998) January week 3 Story: “The Street That Wasn’t There,” Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi Familiar pieces of a city begin disappearing as reality is quietly revised around its inhabitants. Complete YouTube reading 21. Stir of Echoes (1999) January week 4 Story: “The Beckoning Fair One,” Oliver Onions A man living alone becomes increasingly dominated by an unseen female presence whose influence may be supernatural, psychological, or both. Complete YouTube reading

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  Episode #24

  The Wood of the Dead by Algernon Blackwood

  Sep 29, 202628 minS23

  Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] Chapter Author Description The Wood of the Dead Algernon Blackwood A traveler encounters a mysterious old man who invites him into a lonely wood said to receive those who are about to die. A quiet, dreamlike ghost story about death, compassion, and the thin boundary between the living and the dead. The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" Ambrose Bierce On a freezing night in an abandoned mining camp, a lonely man welcomes a strange visitor and begins recounting the unsettling history of Deadman's Gulch. Bierce mixes ghost-story dread with his characteristic grim humor and irony. Shadow – A Parable Edgar Allan Poe Seven men hide from a terrible plague, drinking beside the body of a dead companion, when an impossible shadow appears among them. A brief, intensely atmospheric meditation on mortality and the inevitability of death. Kerfol Edith Wharton A visitor to an old estate in Brittany encounters a silent pack of mysterious dogs and discovers the tragic history of the house. Wharton's gothic tale combines an abusive marriage, murder, and supernatural revenge. In the Dark Ronal Kayser Alone in his chemical plant, Asa Gregg records a confession concerning a murder he thought he had successfully concealed. Something inside the factory, however, appears determined to undo both the crime and the laws of nature. Originally published in Weird Tales in 1936. The Last Revel in Printz Hall Charles M. Skinner A young fiddler accepts a job as caretaker of the lonely and reputedly haunted Printz Hall near Chester, Pennsylvania. His night in the abandoned mansion becomes considerably stranger once the music begins. Edward Randolph's Portrait Charles M. Skinner An ominous portrait hangs in Boston's old Province House and is said to reveal its dreadful face before disasters. The figure is Edward Randolph, remembered by colonial legend as a betrayer of Massachusetts' liberties. The Headless Skeleton of Swamptown Charles M. Skinner Strange lights, witches, apparitions, and a headless figure haunt the folklore surrounding Swamptown, Rhode Island. Skinner collects several grisly local legends centered on a particularly unsettling human skull. Were-Wolves of Detroit Charles M. Skinner Old Detroit legends tell of witches, forbidden bargains, and men transformed into loups-garous. One tale follows a rejected suitor who turns to witchcraft in an attempt to carry away the woman he desires.

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  Episode #23

  Warning from the Stars by Ron Cocking

  Sep 28, 202643 minS23

  Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link] # Story Author Brief description 01 The 4D Doodler Graph Waldeyer A researcher’s idle doodling attracts the attention of a fourth-dimensional intelligence, producing increasingly strange and dangerous consequences. 02 Bread Overhead Fritz Leiber An experiment in producing lighter bread goes spectacularly wrong, filling the skies with floating loaves and creating a satirical technological crisis. 03 Image of the Gods Alan E. Nourse Human colonists resist authoritarian interference from Earth and discover unexpected allies among their planet’s indigenous inhabitants. 04 Martian V.F.W. G. L. Vandenburg Giant Martian ants appear at a New York parade claiming to represent extraterrestrial war veterans, but their participation conceals a darker purpose. 05 One Shot James B. Blish Intelligence officials investigating a mysterious object in New York Harbor turn to an exceptional gambler when millions of lives depend on one decision. 06 Out Around Rigel Robert H. Wilson Two travelers undertake an ambitious interstellar voyage, confronting jealousy, alien dangers, and the devastating consequences of time dilation. 07 Pygmalion’s Spectacles Stanley G. Weinbaum An experimental pair of spectacles transports its wearer into an immersive artificial world where simulated experiences become intensely personal. 08 The Repairman Harry Harrison An interstellar mechanic must repair a malfunctioning hyperspace beacon concealed within a sacred alien structure. 09 Toy Shop Harry Harrison A seemingly impossible toy rocket catches the attention of military researchers and hints at an unexpected scientific breakthrough. 10 Warning from the Stars Ron Cocking A message from a supposedly dead scientist reveals extraterrestrial intervention aimed at preventing humanity’s nuclear self-destruction.

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