Episode XV: The Terrible Old Man

In the sweltering streets of 1920s New Orleans, Agent Thomas Malone and investigative reporter Muriel Grant team up to follow a trail of blood and a broken lineage deep into the bayou. What begins as an investigation into a bloody murder quickly uncovers a shadowy conspiracy corrupting both respectable faith and ancient traditions. Can they stop the ancient forces that crawl in the underbelly of the city, or will the Old Ones finally stir?

A psychiatrist at Arkham Sanatorium becomes troubled by a series of patients whose nightmares seem to echo one another in impossible ways. What begins as a professional attempt to understand their conditions slowly turns into something far more unsettling. As the boundaries between madness and revelation begin to blur, one question remains, are these men simply broken by trauma, or have they all brushed against the same terrible truth?

Three criminals arrive under false pretenses in the small town of Kingsport. Posing as private investigators, they accept a missing-person case from a desperate woman whose husband vanished. But the job is only a cover.Their real target is an ancient, reclusive man living alone at the end of Water Street. What begins as a simple robbery soon leads them into something far more dangerous than they expected.

Struggling scholar Thomas Olney and his wife Agnes arrive in the fog-drenched coastal town of Kingsport, searching for a fresh start. But Thomas soon becomes obsessed with a strange house perched atop an impossible cliff — and with it, a presence that seems to watch from beyond time itself.

In the final months of World War II, the crew of a battered Sherman tank becomes stranded behind enemy lines, forced to wait out the night inside their immobilized steel hull. As exhaustion, fear, and isolation set in, the line between battlefield reality and something far stranger begins to blur, turning survival into a test not just of courage, but of sanity.

In the English countryside, American industrialist Ambrose Delapore restores the ruins of Exham Priory, his ancestral home. But the echoing halls hide more than crumbling stone.Adapted from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls,” first written in August 1923 and published in the Weird Tales issue of March 1924.

What price would you pay for immortality? At the height of Rome’s glory, as legions carved roads through the wild frontiers of Germania, one man reached beyond conquest toward eternity itself. In mist-bound forests where ancient rites still whispered, his ambition would awaken a power older than empires—and unleash a betrayal the greatest betrayal the empire has seen since Caesar.

Amidst the reign of Augustus, a young quaestor is sent to the edge of the Empire, where the forests of Hispania conceal more than hostile tribes. As Roman officials and legionaries debate law, war, and superstition, unease builds: torches sputter, drums echo from the hills, and whispers older than the Republic stir in the dark. Pride and reason clash with something far more ancient, as Rome’s certainty confronts the silence of the unknown.

After surviving a near-fatal stabbing, detective Thomas Malone struggles to return to his old life. But when unsettling events begin to surface, he's pulled back into a world of creeping horror he thought he'd left behind.Adapted from H.P. Lovecraft’s story The Horror at Red Hook, originally written in August 1925 and first published in Weird Tales (January 1927)—this noir retelling turns Lovecraft’s xenophobic paranoia on its head. Composed by an international creative team, The Eldritch Episodes critically addresses and adapts the original’s prejudiced elements.

In the brick-choked alleys of Red Hook, Brooklyn, private detective Thomas Malone is hired to investigate a reclusive scholar named Robert Suydam, and soon uncovers a web of strange disappearances and secretive organizations buried in the streets of Red Hook. As reality frays and old gods stir, Malone realizes the true danger isn't what hides in the shadows, but what waits beyond them.Adapted from H.P. Lovecraft’s story The Horror at Red Hook, originally written in August 1925 and first published in Weird Tales (January 1927)—this noir retelling turns Lovecraft’s xenophobic paranoia on its head. Composed by an international creative team, The Eldritch Episodes critically addresses and adapts the original’s prejudiced elements.