Episode 252: Extremely Weird Horror Stories

Weirdness terrifies us because it disrupts our sense of normality: the fragile structure we rely on to navigate the world. When something is just a little off, our brains scramble to make sense of it, and that unease quickly grows into fear. It’s not always the monstrous that unsettles us, but the almost familiar made strange… a smile that lingers too long, a shadow that moves when nothing should. Weirdness opens the door to the unknown, and it's in that ambiguity where our imagination conjures the most disturbing possibilities.

Today’s penultimate tale is the classic ‘The Cave Horror’, 
an old-school work by the wonderful Captain S. P. Meek, 
freely available in the public domain 
and read here under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.