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This week marks our first visit to Rogue’s Gallery, featuring Dick Powell! In this episode, “The House of Fear,” detective Richard Rogue is hired to investigate Slip Crane’s theft of a diamond. But Roue’s efforts are immediately stymied by the family who own the diamond and who evidently have no interest in its recovery. Did […] The post Episode 426: The House of Fear appeared first on Ghoulish…
Volume III, Number 33 – Content Warning: Language and Horror When his wife started working again part-time, the house became quite a mess, so Cody hired a housekeeper, a pretty young thing. Before long they were having an affair. He’d return home at lunch hour and they’d fuck, after which she’d strip the bed and […] The post 33. Even at the Time I Thought It Was a Bad Idea appeared first on…
Volume III, Number 32 – Content Warning: Language and Horror Lucy’s son swallowed three ounces of drain cleaner and was rushed to the hospital. In the emergency room they pumped his stomach and intubated. Later, when he’d been moved to a private room, Lucy called her mother and cried. But mom was elderly, and in […] The post 32. Lady with the Alligator Purse appeared first on Ghoulish Delights .
This week we’re listening to “Blind Impulse” from The Whistler! The story features a man’s scheme to divorce his wife so that he can marry a woman set to inherit a fortune from her dying father. But things don’t go as planned and people prove to be very unpredictable! Will the former wife’s jealousy spoil […] The post Episode 425: Blind Impulse appeared first on Ghoulish Delights .
Volume III, Number 31 – Content Warning: Language and Horror In the years of Yog-Sothoth there were many unusual developments. To begin with, we all started to care a lot less about other people. I don’t mean that there was dislike, but rather that no one cared what anyone else did or said or thought, […] The post 31. In the Years of Yog-Sothoth appeared first on Ghoulish Delights .
It’s time once again to find out what evil lurks in the hearts of men with a visit to The Shadow! This episode, “Death Pulls the Strings,” features a puppeteer whose employs human-sized marionettes to perform remarkably life-like dances. During one of his performances, a woman identifies one of the puppets as her sister! Is […] The post Episode 424: Death Pulls the Strings appeared first on…
Volume III, Number 30 – Content Warning: Language and Horror FUCKFACETornado Watch [tape] (Two Tates) 1988TORNADO WATCHStripper Logic [tape] (Two Tates) 1988 Widening Gyre (Harder Times) 1989 Separate Bedsheets (Harder Times) 1990Fuckytown EP (Harder Times) 1990Encyclopedia of Brown (Matador) 1992McPunk’s (Matador) 1994Prion Eyes (Matador) 1996Widening Gyre/Stripper Logic (Matador) 1997Separate…
This week’s visit to the Listener Library brings us to “Island of the Lost,” an episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater recommended to us by our Patreon member Melanie! Thanks, Melanie! The story features a man suffering headaches, which may or may not be caused by his marriage to a much younger woman. When he […] The post Episode 423: Island of the Lost appeared first on Ghoulish Delights .
Volume III, Number 29 – Content Warning: Language and Horror Your face the surface of the earth reshaped: the icecaps of your eyes, your continental cheekbones with their chiseled mountain ranges, the abyss of your open-mouthed smile. The magnetic fields of your hair. We zoom out: your face among the poetic stars. A constellation so abstract, […] The post 29. Your Face is Momentary appeared first…
We’re flipping through The Devil’s Scrapbook to learn the story of “The Conquest of David Rugg”! This episode features Sidney Trent, whose car stalls out after he gets lost driving in a storm. He is rescued by David Rugg, a man driving a horse-drawn carriage. Sidney accompanies Rugg back to his home, and before the […] The post Episode 422: The Conquest of David Rugg appeared first on Ghoulish…