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READ ALONG AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com A doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: THE SHADOW IN THE SEA by William Hope Hodgson I went up the ladder, and walked across to where the Skipper and the Second Mate stood talking earnestly, by the rail. Tammy kept behind. As I came near to them, I caught two or three words, though I attached no meaning then to them. They were: ". . . send for him." Then the two of them turned and looked at me, and the Second Mate asked what I wanted. "I want to speak to you and the Old M—Captain, Sir," I answered. "What is it, Jessop?" the Skipper inquired. "I scarcely know how to put it, Sir," I said. "It's—it's about these—these things." "What things? Speak out, man:' he said. "Well, Sir," I blurt...

[READ ALONG WITH PODCAST BELOW] In Providence, Rhode Island, 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 Upper East side. His researches reveal 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 primeval evil.  The being can only go abroad in darkness, and is hence constrained to the tower at night by the presence of the lights of the city. However, when the city electric power is weakened during a thunderstorm, the local people are terrified by the sounds coming from the church. [all audio ©StoryLinkRadio] DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge or lustre or name. Cautious investigators will he...

[READ ALONG WITH PODCAST BELOW] A reporter and local monster-hunter travels to Tempest Mountain, in the Catskills range, after reports of various attacks by a group of unidentified creatures against the local inhabitants DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: The Lurking Fear By H. P. Lovecraft I. The Shadow on the Chimney There was thunder in the air on the night I went to the deserted mansion atop Tempest Mountain to find the lurking fear. I was not alone, for foolhardiness was not then mixed with that love of the grotesque and the terrible which has made my career a series of quests for strange horrors in literature and in life. With me were two faithful and muscular men for whom I had sent when the time came; men long associated with me in my ghastly explorations because of their peculiar fitness. We had started quietly from the village because of the reporters who still lingered about after the eldritch panic of a month before—the nightmare creeping death. Later, I th...