The Master of the Crabs by Clark Ashton Smith

"The Moonstone Mass" is a short story by Harriet Prescott Spofford, first appearing in Harper’s magazine in October 1868. The story describes an unnamed narrator’s attempt to cross the Northwest Passage, which, unsurprisingly, results in a series of unusual events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, first published in the October 1927 edition of Weird Tales. "Unutterable monstrosities crept out from the crumbling walls of the cellars in an old New England city." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Four Wooden Stakes" is a short story by Victor Rowan, first published in the February 1925 edition of Weird Tales. "A tale of vampirism at the remote Holroyd estate." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy's Curse" by Louisa May Alcott was first published in The New World in 1869. The story tells of an encounter with something ancient under the Great Pyramid of Giza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Crawling Horror" is a short story by Thorp McClusky, first published in the November 1936 edition of Weird Tales. "A grim tale of the weird terror that wrought death and panic at Brubaker Farm." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Nightmare Road" by Florence Crow first appeared in Weird Tales in March 1934. The story was described by the magazine as: "A sensational story of a vampire-infested region in the Hartz Mountains of Germany." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Minister's Black Veil" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The black veil represents 'secret sin', and how terrible human nature can be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Church at Garlock's Bend" is a short story by the American author, David Kaufman, first published in the April 1987 edition of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. "A mathematician returns to the abandoned town of Garlock's Bend and uncovers disturbing clues that suggest the mysterious force responsible for a decades-old tragedy may still lurk beneath the river." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Vampire Village" is a short story by Edmond Hamilton, first published in the November 1932 edition of Weird Tales. "A strange story of the ghoul-haunted village of Wieslant, and the eerie adventure of two American travellers." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Master of the Crabs" is a Zothique Cycle story by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in the March 1948 edition of Weird Tales. "Strange books, they were, containing the erudition of buried aeons." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices