Tales from Sniper's Rest
A casual reading podcast hosted by SniperShadow, who imagines running a rest stop between worlds. Each episode features public domain books, read aloud in a friendly, laid-back style. The show blends a cozy fantasy framing with classic literature, inviting listeners to stop by and enjoy a tale.
Episodes
The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Part 4
Book Summary;The story follows the narrator, a student conducting an antiquarian tour of New England, as he travels through the nearby decrepit seaport of Innsmouth. Here he interacts with strange people, witnesses disturbing events, and uncovers a conspiracy that leads to horrifying and personal revelations that challenge his own sanity.Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on
The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Part 3
Book Summary;The story follows the narrator, a student conducting an antiquarian tour of New England, as he travels through the nearby decrepit seaport of Innsmouth. Here he interacts with strange people, witnesses disturbing events, and uncovers a conspiracy that leads to horrifying and personal revelations that challenge his own sanity.Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on
The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Part 2
Book Summary;The story follows the narrator, a student conducting an antiquarian tour of New England, as he travels through the nearby decrepit seaport of Innsmouth. Here he interacts with strange people, witnesses disturbing events, and uncovers a conspiracy that leads to horrifying and personal revelations that challenge his own sanity.Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on
The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Part 1
Book Summary;The story follows the narrator, a student conducting an antiquarian tour of New England, as he travels through the nearby decrepit seaport of Innsmouth. Here he interacts with strange people, witnesses disturbing events, and uncovers a conspiracy that leads to horrifying and personal revelations that challenge his own sanity.Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on
The Dreams in the Witch House, Part 3
Book Summary;Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, rents an attic room in the "Witch House", a house in Arkham, Massachusetts, that is rumored to be cursed. Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): Adventure is Calling by Vens
The Dreams in the Witch House, Part 2
Book Summary;Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, rents an attic room in the "Witch House", a house in Arkham, Massachusetts, that is rumored to be cursed. Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): Adventure is Calling by Vens
The Dreams in the Witch House, Part 1
Book Summary;Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, rents an attic room in the "Witch House", a house in Arkham, Massachusetts, that is rumored to be cursed. Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): Adventure is Calling by Vens
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
Book Summary;Sir Arthur Jermyn's horrifying lineage is discovered in the strange events that occurred in his family, particularly concerning his great-great-great-grandfather, Sir Wade Jermyn, and his mysterious wife from the Congo.Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): A
Under the Pyramids, Part 2
Book Summary;Told from the first-person perspective of escape artist Harry Houdini, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is a fictionalized account of an encounter that he claims to have experienced while on vacation in Egypt in January 1910.Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Cre
Under the Pyramids, Part 1
Book Summary;Told from the first-person perspective of escape artist Harry Houdini, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is a fictionalized account of an encounter that he claims to have experienced while on vacation in Egypt in January 1910.Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Cre
The Haunter of the Dark
Book Summary;In Providence, Robert Blake, a young writer with an interest in the occult, becomes fascinated by a large disused church on Federal Hill which he can see from his lodgings on the city's east side. His research reveals that the church has a sinister history involving a cult called the Church of Starry Wisdom and is dreaded by the local migrant inhabitants as being haunted by a prim
The Hound
Book Summary;The story focuses around the narrator and his friend St. John, a pair of friends in England who have a deranged interest in robbing graves They constantly defile crypts and often keep souvenirs of their nocturnal expeditions. Except one night they steal something that should have remained buried forever.Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash- Profile Pho
The Rats in the Walls
Book Summary;In 1923, an American named Delapore, the last descendant of the De la Poer family, moves to his ancestral estate of Exham Priory in England following the death of his only son during World War I.Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): Adventure is Calling by Vens
Pickman's Model
Book Summary;The story revolves around a Bostonian painter named Richard Upton Pickman who creates horrifying images. His works are brilliantly executed, but so graphic that they result in the revocation of his membership in the Boston Art Club and he is shunned by his fellow artists.Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash- In
The Temple
Book Summary;The story is narrated as a "found manuscript" penned by Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, a Lieutenant Commander in the Imperial German Navy during the days of World War I. It documents his untimely end at the bottom of the ocean.Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppb
The Nameless City
Book Summary;Deep in the Arabian desert the narrator seeks a city so ancient it dates back to before humans had cities, inside these ruins he finds a narrow tunnel leading into the earth, what he finds are unspeakable horrors.Attributes;- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): Adventure i
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Book Summary;
The story's anonymous narrator has moved from New England to New York City, and greatly regrets it. One night, while wandering through a historic part of Greenwich Village, he happens upon a man dressed in garments from the 18th century. The man offers to show the narrator the secrets of the town.
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- Profile
The Tomb
Book Summary;
Jervas Dudley, becomes obsessed with a mausoleum near his childhood home and vows to one day get inside.
Attributes;
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash
- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash
- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): Adventure is Calling by Vens Adams License code: OEE9X8ICZQGGPWNX
The Music of Erich Zann
Book Summary;
A student is intrigued by the hauntingly beautiful music coming from the room above his. He finds that an eccentric German violinist, Erich Zann, is responsible but that there is a terrible secret behind his music.
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash
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- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): Adve
A Christmas Carol, Part 4
Book Summary;
This classic work follows the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man, who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, and three spirits representing Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come.
Attributes;
- Podcast Cover Photo by Josh Hild on Unsplash
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- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!
A Christmas Carol, Part 3
Book Summary;
This classic work follows the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man, who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, and three spirits representing Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come.
Attributes;
- Podcast Cover Photo by Josh Hild on Unsplash
- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash
- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!
A Christmas Carol, Part 2
Book Summary;
This classic work follows the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man, who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, and three spirits representing Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come.
Attributes;
- Podcast Cover Photo by Josh Hild on Unsplash
- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash
- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!
A Christmas Carol, Part 1
Book Summary;
This classic work follows the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man, who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, and three spirits representing Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come.
Attributes;
- Podcast Cover Photo by Josh Hild on Unsplash
- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash
- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creator
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
Book Summary;
The story is a spoof of Lovecraft's antiquarian affectations. Littlewit, the narrator, is born August 20, 1690–200 years to the day before Lovecraft's birthdate—making him nearly 228 years old as he writes a memoir.
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The Unnamable
Book Summary;
The narrator tells his close friend the tale of an indescribable entity that allegedly haunts the house and surrounding area.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Putrescently; undergoing the process of decay; rotting.
- Apotheosis; the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god.
- Anathema; something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.
- Laconical
Polaris
Book Summary;
An unnamed narrator describes his nightly obsession with the Pole star, and his recurring dreams of a city under siege. The narrator struggles with determining whether his reality is real, or if his dream is the true reality.
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash
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I Rescue Monsters
A rather unusual pet shop, with a rather unusual basement.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Comic Horrors, Comsic Entities, Aliens, Intelligent Life, Menagerie, Pet Rescue, Gore, Creatures, Eldritch Horrors.
Original Source of the Story.
I Rescue Monsters by Spookfox https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/I_Rescue_Monsters
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplas
Out in the Woods
Our house always made my mother and I uneasy and the woods behind the house were even worse.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Entities, Paranormal Activity, Psychological Horror
Original Source of the Story.
Out in the Woods by prozac101
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Out_in_the_Woods
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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Psychosis
How can you be sure?
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Entities, Conspiracies, Paranoia, Mental Illness, Psychological Horror, Psychosis, Gore, Body Mutilation.
Original Source of the Story.
Psychosis by Matt Dymerski https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Psychosis
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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Fog
There are things that dwell here, things that make us not ourselves, heed this warning...
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychosis, Entities, Creatures, Cosmic Horror, Thalassophobia, Fog, Gore, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Murder.
Original Source of the Story.
Fog by Josef K. https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Fog
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplas
Cave Children
Some places are never meant to be disturbed...
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychosis, Entities, Creatures, Nyctophobia, Speluncaphobia, Gore, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Rape, Sexual Assault, Murder, Body Horror, Mutilation, Cannibalism.
Original Source of the Story.
Cave Children by Unknown https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Cave_Children
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Pho
Gateway of the Mind
With all sensory input severed, can you really talk to God?
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Religious Horror, Medical Experiments, Scientific Experimentation, Psychosis, Gore, Violence, Cosmic Entity, Auditory Hallucinations.
Original Source of the Story.
Gateway of the Mind by Unknown https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Gateway_of_the_Mind
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by S
Lavender Town Syndrome
Legend has it when the first Pokémon games were released, something was very wrong with Lavender Town.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Urban Legend, Video Game, Suicide, Child Death, Violence, Mystery.
Original Source of the Story.
Lavender Town Syndrome by Unknown https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Lavender_Town_Syndrome
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsp
Pale Luna
There's something to be said about people with too much time on their hands.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; 80's, Video Game, Text Based Video Game, Murder, Child Death, Violence, Mystery.
Original Source of the Story.
Pale Luna by Mikhail Honoridez. https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Pale_Luna
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
- Profile Photo by Tat
7:05
Early one morning you receive a text message.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Time Travel, Madness, Violence, Entity.
Original Source of the Story.
7:05 by Unknown. https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/7:05
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): Locked In by Richar
Do Not Feed the Animals
A man visits a small town with an unusual feature.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Creature Feature, Gore, Murder, Supernatural, Body Horror.
Original Source of the Story.
Do Not Feed the Animals by Unknown. https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Do_Not_Feed_the_Animals
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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- Intro/O
Radio Silence
After a Century, an Intelligent Life in the Universe answers Earth.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Comic Horror, Comsic Entities, Aliens, Intelligent Life.
Original Source of the Story.
Radio Silence by benchbartlett
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Radio_Silence
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- Intro/O
12 Minutes
Some can't handle the voice of God...
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Religious Horror, Found Footage, Mental Illness, Gore, Dismemberment, Murder, Child Death, Medical Horror, Miscarriage.
Original Source of the Story.
12 Minutes by RoboKy
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/12_Minutes
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Dear Theodore
I am the monster underneath your bed, I am the voice inside your head.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Monsters, Nightmares, Night Terrors, Abuse, Murder.
Original Source of the Story.
Dear Theodore by SpiritVoices
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Dear_Theodore
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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The Behemoth of the Deep
The recurring nightmare.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Cosmic Entity, Thalassophobia, Gore, Nightmares.
Original Source of the Story.
The Behemoth of the Deep by MLycantrope https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Behemoth_of_the_Deep
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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Keeper of Eternity
Eternal Life is easy to obtain, follow the path and answer the question. Know the truth.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Cosmic Horror, Entity.
Original Source of the Story.
Keeper of Eternity by Unknown https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Keeper_of_Eternity
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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Please Don't Let Me Sleep
The human mind is a fragile thing.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychosis, Insomnia, Entity, Creature, Madness, Mental Illness.
Original Source of the Story.
Please Don't Let Me Sleep by Unknown https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Please_Don%27t_Let_Me_Sleep
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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Daddy's Little Angel
His daughter was the sweetest girl you'd ever meet, she'd never hurt anyone. Some people just don't understand.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychopathy, Murder, Violence, Gore, Cannibalism.
Original Source of the Story.
Daddy's Little Angel by Unknown https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Daddy%E2%80%99s_Little_Angel
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplas
The Waterfall
It was only a dare...
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychosis, Entity, Creature, Madness, Mental Illness.
Original Source of the Story.
The Waterfall by Unknown https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Waterfall
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): Locked In by
The Russian Sleep Experiment
The Russian Sleep Experiment is a fictional account of experimentation acted out on subjects by the Soviet Government and Military in the wake of World War II. The experiment, ostensibly meant to explore the effects of sleep deprivation on the human body was also used to test a new gas that could keep people awake for days at a time. The story documents the degeneration of those experimented upon.
Blind Woman's Cave
Legend has it there's a cave somewhere in New Mexico that can tell you the fate of mankind.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Folklore, Legends, Entities, Aliens, Psychological Trauma, Visions, Gore, Suicide.
Original Source of the Story.
Blind Woman's Cave by Leonardo F. Oliveira https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Blind_Woman%27s_Cave
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The Old Lie of the Dead Lands
In the trenches of war, a man and his company await their orders.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychological Horror, Paranormal, Dimensional Travel, War, Purgatory, Gore, Violence.
Original Source of the Story.
The Old Lie of the Dead Lands by Stetson T. Sweeney https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Old_Lie_of_the_Dead_Lands
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger
What We Are
A human's last moments.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Medical Horror, Body Horror, Entities, Dissection, Gore, Aliens.
Original Source of the Story.
What We Are by EmpyrealInvective https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/What_We_Are
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creat
Bohemian Grove
The Club gathers for the Cremation of Care.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychological Horror, Paranormal, Psychedelic, Conspiracy.
Original Source of the Story.
Bohemian Grove by I, Da Cashman https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat
Death Marriage
A US student on a scholarship in China is told the tale of a death marriage.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychological Horror, Chinese Folklore, Paranormal, Entities, Murder, Gore.
Original Source of the Story.
Death Marriage by Unknown https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Marriage
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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The Little Red Box
A woman begins to dream of a flower, then a little red box arrives at her door.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychological Horror, Paranormal, Entities, Body Horror, Gore.
Original Source of the Story.
The Little Red Box by Sir Bedlam https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Little_Red_Box
Attributes
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse
The Girl in the Mirror
A young girl wakes up to see a girl in her mirror.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychological Horror, Paranormal, Visions, Time Travel, Murder, Torture, Medical and Scientific Experimentation.
Original Source of the Story.
The Girl in the Mirror by BeyondScaredDeath
https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/ac5kzf/the_girl_in_the_mirrortrue/
Attributes
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The Stairs
A boy and his friend find a staircase in the forest.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychological Horror, Paranormal, Paranoia, Mental Illness, Folklore, Folk Tales.
Original Source of the Story.
The Stairs by DPGxChip
https://www.reddit.com/r/WillingStories/comments/7qxz1t/stairs/
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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The Thing that had my Grandma's Face
A young girl stays in the old house their grandparents built, but there's something in their bedroom, something - wrong...
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychological Horror, Paranormal, Body Horror, Mentions of Suicide.
Original Source of the Story.
The Thing That Had My Grandmother's Face by ScaryStuffScaryStuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/WillingStories/comments/3rfnqw/the_thing_had_my_
Empty
A young girl is terrorised by an strange entity.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychological Horror, Paranormal, Entity, Paranoia, Dystopian.
Original Source of the Story.
Empty by XanCrews
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Empty_(First_Go)
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (f
The Curse of the Ninth
A man named Peter writes a song and regrets his choice.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychological Horror, Entity, Paranormal, Demon, Suicide.
Original Source of the Story.
The Curse of the Ninth by Trycksterr
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Curse_of_the_Ninth
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
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Something Seems Off
A South African man accidentally provokes a great evil.
Trigger Warnings! This story features; Psychological Horror, Entity, Paranormal, Madness, Paranoia, Body Horror, Blood and Gore.
Original Source of the Story.
Something Seems Off by InsaneLazyGamer
https://www.reddit.com/r/WillingStories/comments/3u2ln7/something_seems_off_originally_submitted_it_to/
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The Strange High House in the Mist
Book Summary;
Thomas Olney, a "philosopher" visiting the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts with his family, is intrigued by a strange house on a cliff overlooking the ocean. It is unaccountably high and old and the locals have a generations-long dread of the place which no one is known to have visited.
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash
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The Festival
Book Summary;
An unnamed narrator is making his first visit to Kingsport, Massachusetts, an ancient sea town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in the elder time when festival was forbidden.
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash
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- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): Adventure is Calling by Vens Adam
The Picture in the House
Book Summary;
While riding his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, a genealogist seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house.
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash
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The Transition of Juan Romero
Book Summary;
The mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom. The night after the discovery of the abyss the narrator and one of the mine's workers, Juan Romero, venture together inside the mine, drawn against their will by a mysterious rhythmical throbbing in the ground.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Auriferous; (of rocks or min
Ibid
Book Summary;
"Ibid" is a mock biography of the Roman scholar Ibidus (486–587), whose masterpiece was in the work cited, "wherein all the significant undercurrents of Graeco-Roman thought were crystallized once and for all". The piece traces the skull of Ibidus, once the possession of Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and other notables, to the United States, where it travels
The Statement of Randolph Carter
Book Summary;
"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is the first person testimony of the titular character, who has been found wandering through swampland in an amnesiac shock. In his statement, Carter attempts to explain the disappearance of his companion, the occultist Harley Warren.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Propitiate; win or regain the favour of (a god, spir
The Moon Bog
Book Summary;
The unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderry, a fictional village in Ireland. Barry ignores pleas from the superstitious local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Effulgence - the ability
The Doom that came to Sarnath
Book Summary;
Craving more land, a group of these hardy people migrated to the shores of a lonely and vast lake at the heart of Mnar, founding the city of Sarnath. But the settlers were not alone. Not far from Sarnath was the ancient grey-stone city of Ib, inhabited by people who had descended from the Moon.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Inchoate; just begun and so not full
The Quest of Iranon
Book Summary;
This story is about a golden-haired youth who wanders into the city of Teloth, telling tales of the great city of Aira, where he was a prince. While Iranon enjoys singing and telling his tales of wonder, few people appreciate it.
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The Outsider
Book Summary;
In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact and light.
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- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash
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The Beast in the Cave
Book Summary;
A man touring the vast Mammoth Cave becomes separated from his guide and becomes lost. His torch expires and he is giving up hope of finding a way out in the pitch dark when he hears strange non-human footsteps approaching him.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Sepulchre; a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or bu
The Street
Book Summary;
The story traces the history of the titular street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as "but a path" in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Verdure; the fresh green colour of lush vegetation.
- Furtive; attempting to avoid not
The Other Gods
Book Summary;
Barzai the Wise, a high priest and prophet greatly learned in the lore of the "gods of earth", or Great Ones, attempts to scale the mountain of Hatheg-Kla in order to look upon their faces, accompanied by his young disciple Atal.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Injudiciously; showing very poor judgement; unwise.
- Aureole; a circle of light or brightne
The Very Old Folk
Book Summary;
The tale is told of a dream, where the protagonist is a Roman military official in the Vascon country near Pompelo. The countryside is, every year, ravaged by terrible hill people who kidnap citizens and perform cruel rituals at a Sabbath.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Supernal; of exceptional quality or extent.
- Adumbrations; the act of giving the main facts
The Evil Clergyman
Book Summary;
The narrator discovers the reason the town's folk do not stay in the ancient house after dark and why they absolutely will not touch the cursed item on the table.
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Old Bugs
Book Summary;
The story is set in a bar on the rougher side of the Chicago stockyards. The bar is something of a focal point for the city’s illicit trade in hooch and narcotics. This is where a man who is known as Old Bugs works as a kitchen hand, and rants to customers about the terrors of abusing drugs and alcohol.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Superlative; of the highest
The Tree
Book Summary;
Set in Ancient Greece, this story concerns two sculptors who accept a commission with ironic consequences.
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Hypnos
Book Summary;
The narrator writes that he fears sleep, and is resolved to write his story down lest it drive him further mad, regardless of what people think after reading it.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Phrensy; Violent and irrational excitement; delirium.
- Erroneous; wrong; incorrect.
- Vacua; a space entirely devoid of matter.
Attributes;
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In the Vault
Book Summary;
George Birch, an undertaker for the New England town of Peck Valley, finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Bucolic; relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life.
- Prosy; (especially of speech or writing) showing no imagination; commonplace or du
From Beyond
Book Summary;
The story tells of a high-strung scientist named Crawford Tillinghast who has invented a machine that — partly by stimulating the pineal gland — allows its users to see the vast and terrible layers of reality that coexist with the world perceived by the five senses.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Remonstrances; a forcefully reproachful protest.
- Apoplexy; unc
Cool Air
Book Summary;
This is a tale told by a tenant of an old NYC brownstone, who wishes to explain to his listener why he loathes the touch of cool air.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Pince-nez; is a style of glasses, popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that are supported without earpieces, by pinching the bridge of the nose.
- Extirpation; the act of pulling up o
Dagon
Book Summary;
This tale is in the form of a note left by a merchant mariner whose experiences in a lifeboat on the open sea have driven him to morphine-addiction and madness.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Homogeneity; the quality or state of being all the same or all of the same kind.
- Eminence; a piece of rising ground.
- Declivity; a downward slope.
- Stygian; relating t
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Book Summary;
A former intern and a worker of a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Terraqueous; consisting or formed of land and water.
- Matutinal; of or occuring in the morning.
- Emanations;(in various mystical traditions
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