Weird Fiction Podcast Recommendations

HorrorBabble and Eldritch Archives

Greetings and salutations! I hope this missive finds you well. For my part, I have been pretty effectively laid up since Saturday by a persistent toothache and haven’t been able to produce any writing that I’m happy with.

My main solace has been listening to audiobook podcasts. In lieu of a regular newsletter today, I will be sharing some podcast recommendations.

In addition to listening to my old time favorite The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, I’ve been branching out and listening to two podcasts that explore the worlds of weird fiction. These are Ian Gordon’s HorrorBabble and my friend Connor Kaye’s YouTube-based podcast The Eldritch Archives.

I’m in a little too much pain to attempt a definitive description of just what weird fiction might be at this precise moment. It seems to my benighted faculties that weird fiction has a doomed quality and that it sits at the borderland of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Naturally, I associate it with the magazine Weird Tales during its heyday but it seems to have retroactively existed back into the 19th century.

For my own purposes, I’ve been keeping a full list of each podcast episode I’ve listened to in my feed over on Twitter (“X”). Below I’m embedding YouTube videos of a few of my favorite episodes of HorrorBabble and The Eldritch Archives.

“The Hounds of Tindalos” by Frank Belknap Long — HorrorBabble

“The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles” by Clark Ashton Smith — HorrorBabble

The Werewolf of Ponkert by H. Warner Munn — The Eldritch Archives

Scheduling Moving Forward

Last Friday, I stated that part two of my review of the Oct. 1949 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories would be out this Friday, Sept. 20. Depending on how my dentist appointment today goes and some other factors, I’m not sure that I can hold to that schedule. Having a constant throbbing in my mouth is just very distracting.