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After twenty years of it, Eloise got tired of her coffin and returned, unannounced, to get her garnet ring. When she took her departure, she had a strange farewell party, and two new companions for the long, lonely journey home. Dorothy Dunn (1913-1952) was a St. Louis schoolteacher who published over sixty short stories in such hardboiled pulps as Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Tales, and Thrilling Detective in the forties and fifties, with such juicy titles as “Senora Satan,” “Dead-End Darling” and “Morphine Alley.”Her writing’s marked by “strong characterization, offbeat situations, and evocative and distinctively gritty prose,\ Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER ON SUBSTACK: https://marlenepardopellicer.substack.com/ Hypnosis DIY - https://www.hypnosis-diy.com Music - Pixabay.com, Purple-Planet.com Narration always by a human, no A.I. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

Like many short pieces from Shock and similar "weird menace" pulp fiction magazines of the late 1940s, "Undertaker's Delight" is a suspenseful crime thriller by John Bender designed to shock the reader with a swift, dark narrative. he story centers around a classic noir/hardboiled premise involving crime, a morbid angle involving death or the mortuary business, and a fast-paced conflict that culminates in a sudden twist ending—a signature style of the magazine.  John Bender was a classic mid-century pulp writer active from the 1940s through the 1950s. He briefly served as an editor for the famous Dime Mystery Magazine in 1942 before focusing on his own writing. His work regularly appeared across popular detective, horror, and mystery publications of the era.  Till Death Do Us Join is a short story by Theodore Sturgeon, first published in the July 1948 issue of Shock magazine. It appears in The Perfect Host: The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. 5, which covers his work from 1947 to 1949. ​ The narrative centers on a young woman who falls in love with two men, Paul and Golly, who appear to be twin brothers but possess entirely different personalities. Paul is gentle and kind, while Golly is bad-tempered and destructive. The story explores the complex dynamics of this unusual romantic entanglement. Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo, 1918-1985) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the Golden Age of science fiction. He is best known for his prose style, emotional depth, and treatment of themes like love, loneliness, and what it means to be human.  Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER ON SUBSTACK: https://marlenepardopellicer.substack.com/ Hypnosis DIY - https://www.hypnosis-diy.com Music - Pixabay.com, Purple-Planet.com Narration always by a human, no A.I. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

​You Know What I Did? by Charles Beckman appeared in Manhunt May 1954. This is a gritty story that plays out in only two hours. Your kid's missing, and at first it's nothing to worry about. Then time passes, and your kid doesn't come home. Charles Boeckman Jr. (1920 - 2015), who wrote under the pen name Charles Beckman Jr., was a prolific American pulp magazine author known for his work in suspense, mystery, and western genres. He broke into the pulps in 1945 with a story published in Detective Tales and continued writing for major publications like Star Western and Fifteen Western Tales until the format’s decline in the late 1950s.  Beyond his pulp career, Boeckman was a professional jazz musician (clarinetist and saxophonist) who toured with bands for decades and authored the non-fiction book Cool, Hot and Blue. Several of his short stories were adapted for television, including an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and he remained active as an author well into his 90s, publishing new works and anthologies of his vintage stories. The Woman on the Bus is a short story written by R. Van Taylor, originally published in the May 1954 issue of the pulp crime fiction digest Manhunt. Mack didn't know why he was worried. The woman only wanted to stay until the next bus. Then she took out a gun... This story was famously adapted into a television episode for the anthology series The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse. The episode aired in 1954, directed by Charles S. Gould and starring Polly Bergen, Chick Chandler, and Ross Elliott. Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER ON SUBSTACK: https://marlenepardopellicer.substack.com/ Hypnosis DIY - https://www.hypnosis-diy.com Music - Pixabay.com, Purple-Planet.com Narration always by a human, no A.I. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

The Mummy's Soul is an anonymous short story first published in The Knickerbocker, or New York Monthly Magazine in May 1862.  Scholarly analysis identifies it as one of the earliest American curse fiction tales, predating Louisa May Alcott’s Lost in a Pyramid (1869) and Jane G. Austin’s After Three Thousand Years (1868).  The plot follows a narrator who desecrates an Egyptian tomb and removes a stone scarabaeus inscribed with the prophecy, "three thousand years hence a new life." Upon returning to America, the narrator's wife begins to physically and spiritually wither, eventually dying.  The narrator later discovers a supernatural fly in his home, which he burns, but he is haunted by the reanimated mummy from the tomb, which seeks magical revenge for the desecration. This narrative established a template for the "mummy curse" genre, linking tomb disturbance with supernatural retribution.  ​Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER ON SUBSTACK: https://marlenepardopellicer.substack.com/ Hypnosis DIY - https://www.hypnosis-diy.com Music - Pixabay.com, Purple-Planet.com Narration always by a human, no A.I. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

Date in the City Room is a punchy, short story published in Weird Tales, January, 1938 by Talbot Johns. It blends a classic supernatural twist with a gritty, fast-paced journalism setting. The story takes place late at night in a frantic metropolitan newspaper office— the "city room." Two reporters meet up in the press room, waiting to see a massive headline hit the morning papers. As they talk and watch the printing presses roll, it is revealed that the breaking news story they are waiting on details a horrific crime and its immediate aftermath: the execution of a killer. Talbot Johns (1909 -1969) was an American author and advertising executive. While he only published a handful of fiction pieces, his professional life was deeply rooted in the golden age of American advertising. Betelgeuse Bridge is a satirical science fiction short story by William Tenn, first published in the April 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. It serves as a sharp, humorous commentary on interstellar diplomacy, economics, and cosmic "racketeering". The story is told from the perspective of a public relations executive hired by the government. A race of highly intelligent, slimy, snail-like aliens arrives on Earth from the Betelgeuse star system. Rather than invading Earth with weapons, the polite and unassuming aliens engage in trade. Only too late do humans realize what they really wanted. William Tenn was the celebrated pen name of Philip Klass (1920-2010), a British-born American author and academic widely recognized as one of science fiction’s greatest and sharpest satirists. He began publishing immediately after his military discharge, debuting with Alexander the Bait in 1946. Under the pseudonym William Tenn, he became a dominant voice in the 1950s golden age of science fiction, particularly in Galaxy Science Fiction. Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com Narration by a human, never AI Hypnosis DIY - www.hypnosis-diy.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

A powerful and compelling tale of brooding horror that deepens and broadens to the final catastrophe—an unusual and engrossing novellete by the author of "The Curse of Yig". Medusa's Coil" by Zealia B. Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft is a short story first published in January 1939. A traveler seeking shelter at a decaying plantation hears a tale of forbidden love and supernatural horror. When Denis de Russy brings his mysterious Parisian bride, Marceline, home, dark secrets emerge through a painter's portrait, revealing monstrous truths about the woman's true nature and her serpentine hair that possesses its own sinister life. The story blends Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos with Greek mythology.  Zealia Bishop (1897 - 1968) was an American writer primarily known for her collaborations with H. P. Lovecraft, who extensively revised her work to the point of ghostwriting three major horror stories: "The Curse of Yig" (1929), "Medusa's Coil" (1939), and "The Mound" (1940).  Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com Narration by a human, never AI Hypnosis DIY - www.hypnosis-diy.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

A mutinous Spaniard slithers into the shadow-soaked hold of an English ship with powder, vengeance, and heresy on his tongue. But in the stinking dark beneath the deck, blades whisper, loyalties bend, and something far worse than steel seems to be waiting. Originally published in Weird Tales in February 1932, The Horror in the Hold captures everything readers love about early pulp horror: salt-stung realism, eerie supernatural undertones, and the creeping dread that Frank Belknap Long perfected. The Black Chapel by Anonymous (published April 1936, Terror Tales) A story of revenge from beyond the grave. The stories that appear in TERROR TALES are sometimes based on the theory that physical death is not necessarily the end of a human entity, for, whatever one may happen to believe, it is hardly questionable that strange and eerie things do occur, occasionally, which cannot quite be accounted for by material explanations. Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror (Jan. 1933) by Anonymous Headless Ghosts - retelling of famous English ghosts known for having lost their head while alive. Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com Narration by a human, never AI Hypnosis DIY - www.hypnosis-diy.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

Discover the haunting depth of Robert Aickman’s "The Real Road to the Church." Explore how a lonely woman's isolation transforms into a profound supernatural awakening in this unique, emotionally resonant masterwork of weird fiction. Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com Narration by a human, never AI Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

"Black Iron" is a dark fantasy/heroic fantasy short story by David Drake. The story is part of a loosely connected sequence featuring the character Vettius and his friends —veterans and citizens of the classical Greco-Roman world who encounter supernatural, mythological, and demonic horrors. In this story, Vettius and his companions gather to hear a chilling tale concerning a magical, malevolent sword. "The Shortest Way" is an atmospheric short story also by David Drake. The tale features his recurring protagonist Vettius, set during the days of the Roman Empire. In the story, Vettius chooses to travel along a local road that area residents deliberately and fearfully avoid. The narrative leans into supernatural horror and folklore; a cautionary tale against ignoring warnings. ​Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com Narration by a human, never AI Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

Mrs. Lorriquer is a short story by Henry S. Whitehead, published in Weird Tales in April 1932.  The narrative centers on a kind, courteous woman named Mrs. Lorriquer who is possessed by the spirit of a vicious gambler. This possession makes her hostile and unpleasant, particularly when she plays cards, serving as a supernatural exploration of identity and moral corruption.  Gerald Canevin is a fictional character created by Henry S. Whitehead for a series of supernatural stories. Most of the Canevin stories were published in fantasy-themed magazines such as Weird Tales and Strange Tales. In the series, Gerald Canevin is an American writer of supernatural fiction who spends most of his time in the US Virgin Islands, alternating between Santa Cruz (a.k.a. St. Croix) and St. Thomas. A recurring character in the Canevin series is Dr. Pelletier, a navy surgeon who provides scientific commentary on the fantastic events experienced while also showcasing a knowledgeable and open-minded attitude towards the supernatural. Spirits, deities, elementals, ghouls, magic rituals and psychic emanations are all real in the series.  Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS AT www.EeriePodcast.com Narration by a human, never AI Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

A supernatural tale set in the West Indies featuring occult detective and reporter Gerald Canevin. A shuttered house with many secrets, is finally let to an unsuspecting family, that soon learn why it has remained unoccupied for decades. Gerald Canevin is a fictional character created by Henry S. Whitehead for a series of supernatural stories, first appearing in the 1926 tale "The Projection of Armand Dubois". Most of the Canevin stories were published in fantasy-themed magazines such as Weird Tales and Strange Tales. In the series, Gerald Canevin is an American writer of supernatural fiction who spends most of his time in the US Virgin Islands, alternating between Santa Cruz (a.k.a. St. Croix) and St. Thomas. A recurring character in the Canevin series is Dr. Pelletier, a navy surgeon who provides scientific commentary on the fantastic events experienced while also showcasing a knowledgeable and open-minded attitude towards the supernatural. Spirits, deities, elementals, ghouls, magic rituals and psychic emanations are all real in the series.  ​Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS AT www.EeriePodcast.com Narration by a human, never AI Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

The Thing on the Doorstep is a horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft, first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales. It is a key work in the Cthulhu Mythos universe, inspired by a 1928 dream Lovecraft recorded in his commonplace book.  ​ Edward Derby, a reclusive poet with a fascination for the occult, marries Asenath Waite, who is sprung from a strange family living in Innsmouth. The story explores the fragility of identity, the dangers of forbidden knowledge, and the terror of losing bodily autonomy. Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS AT www.EeriePodcast.com Narration by a human, never AI Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

The False Prophet by David Drake is a short story by David Drake set in the waning days of the Roman Empire. It features his recurring classical Roman-era characters, Vettius (a ruthless soldier) and Dama (a witty merchant). The narrative follows the duo as they encounter a charlatan who is not quite what his loyal followers believe him to be, blending adventure and mystery with supernatural or science-fictional elements. The story is a centerpiece of Drake's Vettius and Dama mini-trilogy, which also includes Black Iron and The Shortest Way. Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com Narration by a human, never AI Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

Dragon the Book is a short story by David Drake. A wizard pursues a book held in the arms of a rival, long dead. But everything has its price; greed for power acts as a blindfold to the actual cost. The Cloak is a short story by Robert Bloch, first published in the magazine Unknown in May 1939. The narrative follows a man named Henderson who purchases an authentic-looking cloak for a Halloween party, only to find that it transforms him into a vampire-like creature with an irresistible urge to drink blood. SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com Narration by a human, never AI Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.

"Winged Death" is a 1934 horror short story by H.P. Lovecraft (he was a ghost writer for Hazel Heald, who received partial credit for this story), featuring a scientist's revenge plot using poisonous African flies, which ties into the Cthulhu Mythos through ancient ruins and malevolent entities, blending colonial-era horror with supernatural elements. The story begins with the discovery of a corpse in a South African hotel, with clues pointing to a journal detailing a doctor's plan to kill a rival using disease-carrying insects, leading to a supernatural climax where the doctor becomes a victim of his own creation. Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nightshade-diary--2765110/support.