Guarded by Mearle Prout

"Two Plus Two Makes Crazy" was written by American writer, Walter J. Sheldon, and was first published in Fantastic Universe in March of 1954. Are computers infallible? Or are they in fact more akin to their creators? A simple question was all it took to find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Dead Giveaway" is a mythos story by J. Vernon Shea, first published in the May 1976 edition of Outré. The story is a sequel to "The Haunter of the Graveyard". "On Halloween night, Old Dethshill Cemetery stirs... and something ancient answers the call." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penned by American writer, Kurt Vonnegut in 1953, "The Big Trip Up Yonder" tells of an overpopulated world, in which food and resources are scarce, owing to certain medical advances in the field of anti-aging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Ghoul and the Corpse" is a short story by the one-time Weird Tales author G. A. Wells, published in the very first issue of the magazine -- March 1923. "Entombed for uncounted ages in the blue heart of an Arctic glacier, the knife-clutching corpse of a prehistoric man awakens by firelight." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"August Heat" is a short story by British author, W. F. Harvey. The tale tells of two strangers, whose futures are, potentially, intertwined in the most terrible way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Scarlet Citadel" is a Conan the Cimmerian novelette by Robert E. Howard, first published in the January 1933 edition of Weird Tales. "A shuddery story of weird monstrosities in the underground crypts of Tsotha-lanti the magician—a tale of eery powers and red battle." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Old Rambling House" was written by American writer, Frank Herbert, and first published in 1958. The story tells of the Grahams - all they wanted was a home they could call their own ... but what did the home want? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Inn by Doomsday Falls" is a short story by Allison V. Harding, first published in the November 1947 edition of Weird Tales. "A haunted inn, a cursed falls, and an evil being who should have been but dust in a grave centuries ago." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Guarded" by American author Mearle Prout, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in March 1938. The story of a murder—and its unforeseen consequences—in the mountains of Tennessee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Sacrilege" is a short story by Wallace West, first published in Magazine of Horror in its June 1965 edition. "Let me explain: I am dead. Mather was dead, although not dead enough yet." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices