This week we have special guests Cai and Frankie to help us read two stories by famed American writer, soldier, journalist, attempted prospector, and disappearing artist Ambrose Bierce. He was shot in the head in the civil war, taught himself how to be a journalist and then got obsessed with writing short stories. When he was in his early seventies he decided he wanted to go on a long ramble that might lead to his death and disappeared while with Pancho Villa's army in Mexico during the Mexican revolution.

We read two stories in this episode:

- The Damned Thing - A man lies dead on a table and men surround him. They read his journal, and the dead man, a homesteader, recounts his dealings with an unseen force.

- The Middle Toe of the Right Foot - Saturday is for the gentlemen and these fellas go out and quaff some spirits and then get in a duel with a stranger. They decide the duel should take place in a dark, abandoned haunted house. Sounds good!

Ambrose Bierce always has some funny, sardonic lines. His work has elements of science fiction, horror, you name it. Dig it!

In this episode we read parts 7-10 of the Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft.

Dr. Armitage gets a posse together and heads to Dunwich to see what has been happening with the some massive invisible force that has been crushing houses and the powers of science and knowledge are pitted against otherworldly creatures and powers!

It's spooky! It's weird! and I have my friend Nona here to help me read it.

So you enjoy now. It's free. It's free to enjoy this episode. We made it for you. yeah you.

In this episode of Small Frights and Other Delights we read chapters 1-6 of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" (1929). This story is one of the most popular entries in the "Cthulu Mythos" and was originally published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales.

The tale centers around a strange child born to an old family in the fictional Massachusetts hamlet of Dunwich, where an ancient evil is trying to re enter our dimension through obscure, blasphemous means. Nearby cows look anemic and skinny. Neighbors tell of strange sounds coming from the Earth and nearby mountains. There's a dang four year old with a beard in the story. In modern terms, the vibes in Dunwich are off, big time. H.P. lovecraft must have had some bad dreams or something, because, man, this story has got some grade A1 premium cosmic dread in it. all killer no filler.

I am joined today by Nona Anderson, who is a fantastic voice actor. She really elevates the story telling and made it a lot more fun to record.

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