Publisher: Babelcube
200,000 years ago, the first human beings showed their intelligence. And while that was happening, down the path of death and desolation, a man traced his destiny among the abysses of darkness.
Title: The Alchemist Author: H. P. Lovecraft Narrator: Jonathan Dunne Original Publication: 1908 Public Domain: Yes Series Placement: Number 36 in the Timeless Terrors series Description: The Alchemist by H. P. Lovecraft is a tale of vengeance, decay, and the relentless hand of destiny. In a crumbling French château, generations of an ancient noble family are doomed to die before reaching their thirty-second year — victims, it seems, of a centuries-old curse. As the last heir wanders through the ruins of his lineage, he uncovers the truth behind the curse — and the grim figure who has carried it through time. Written when Lovecraft was just seventeen, The Alchemist reveals the early foundations of his fascination with ancestral guilt and cosmic inevitability. The story’s gothic atmosphere, shadowed corridors, and sense of doomed inheritance foreshadow the cosmic horror that would later define his work. Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures Lovecraft’s blend of decay and dread — the echo of old oaths, the dust of forgotten laboratories, and the whisper of a fate that will not be denied. While the text itself is in the public domain, this narration is an original performance and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. Part of Timeless Terrors, a series devoted to resurrecting the masters of the macabre, The Alchemist endures as a reminder that even youth’s first nightmares can echo through eternity — and that some legacies are written not in ink, but in blood and time.Show book
Curtis has grown tired of the cyclical nature his mind has become. He feels he's explored the whole landscape down to every nook and cranny. He wants to transcend way beyond the outline of his body and into what is ubiquitous, energy which is everywhere and takes no permanent shape. A god of sorts.Show book
In "The Dreams in the Witch House," H.P. Lovecraft weaves a chilling tale centered around Walter Gilman, a curious scholar who takes up residence in the ominous Witch House, a place steeped in dark history and whispers of malevolence in the shadowy town of Arkham. This eerie abode once served as a prison to the infamous Keziah Mason, a witch whose vanishing from a Salem jail in 1692 is shrouded in mystery and dread. As Gilman settles into the decaying, crooked rooms of the Witch House, he uncovers a haunting truth: nearly all who have lived there before him met untimely and tragic ends. The palpable sense of foreboding in these walls presses upon his mind, igniting sparks of both dread and fascination.In his restless slumber, the line between reality and nightmare blurs, as he is transported to the alien city of the Elder Things. He is drawn into a nightmarish communion with Keziah Mason and her sinister henchmen, whose otherworldly presence chills him to the bone. Each dream pulls him deeper into a supernatural labyrinth where darkness reigns, and the very fabric of sanity begins to fray.Show book
A spellbinding slice of Cornish Gothic – a Daphne du Maurier for the 21st century! Piers TordaySHORTLISTED FOR HOLYER AN GOF AWARDZed and her family move unwillingly from London to Cornwall, in an attempt to support her mother’s mental health.Gradually the family fall apart, and it is only when Zed realises that the local cormorants are playing a part in the disasters that consume them, in revenge for an ancient wrong, that she and her sister, Amy, start working together to find a solution and call a truce.Show book
The story follows a confident young man determined to debunk the myths surrounding a reportedly haunted room in Lorraine Castle. Armed with only candles, he enters the red room, convinced that fear is purely psychological. However, as darkness encroaches and his candles begin to extinguish one by one, his skepticism wanes, giving way to an enveloping terror. Wells masterfully explores the shadows that dwell in the corners of the human mind, revealing that sometimes, the greatest fear is fear itself.Show book
Caterpillars is a short story by Edward Frederic Benson about a man haunted by dreams of enormous caterpillars.In the beautiful Villa Cascana on the Italian Riviera, all is not as it seems. Why does the hostess leave a perfectly charming bedroom unoccupied? Why does Arthur Inglis present our hero with a caterpillar in a cardboard pill-box one lunchtime? And rather more bizarrely, why do luminous, bloated and gigantic versions of this creature haunt his dreams? Or could it possibly be that he is wide awake?Show book
