Episode 292: Antarctic Horror

Season 6, Episode 292,   Nov 20, 09:45 PM

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Antarctic horror stories captivate us because they unfold in one of the last true frontiers on Earth: a place so vast, silent, and untouched that it already feels alien. The endless white landscape hides as much as it reveals, turning every shadow, crevasse, and distant shape into a potential threat. Isolation becomes absolute, technology becomes fragile, and help is impossibly far away. In such an environment, the line between the natural and the supernatural blurs easily, and the cold itself feels like an intelligent force waiting for us to slip. Antarctica strips humanity down to its most vulnerable state, making it the perfect stage for horrors that could never take root anywhere else.

Today’s phenomenal opening story is the classic ‘The Wall of Death’, an old-school work by the wonderful Victor Rousseau, freely available in the public domain and read here under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29919/29919-h/29919-h.htm#The_Wall_of_Death

Tonight’s classic closing story is the classic ‘Out of the Dreadful Depths’, an old-school work by the wonderful C. D. Willard, freely available in the public domain and read here under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29848/pg29848-images.html#Out_of_the_Dreadful_Depths