Episode 342: Bizarre horror Stories
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Bizarre things terrify us because they break the rules of reality we depend on to feel safe. The human mind is constantly trying to predict and understand the world, so when we encounter something unnatural, irrational, or deeply out of place, it creates a powerful sense of uncertainty. A figure standing motionless in the dark, a voice coming from an empty room, or a familiar face behaving in an inhuman way forces our brains into panic because we cannot easily explain it. Often, the fear comes not from what we see, but from the possibility that the world may be stranger and less controllable than we ever believed.
Today’s opening tale of the macabre is the classic ‘An Extra Man’, an old-school work by the wonderful Jackson Gee, 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/29882/29882-h/29882-h.htm#An_Extra_Man
Tonight’s second terrifying tale of the strange and macabre is ‘The House My Father Built Was on A Cursed Foundation…’ by the wonderfully talented Yung Seti, kindly shared directly with me for the express purpose of having me narrate it here for you all:
reddit.com/r/DrCreepensVault/comments/uwfw7z/the_house_my_father_built_was_on_a_cursed/
Today’s penultimate tale of terror is the classic ‘The Sea Terror’, 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.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30691/pg30691-images.html#THE_SEA_TERROR_BY_CAPTAIN_S_P_MEEK
Tonight’s closing tale of woodland terror is ‘The Well in the Forest’, a fabulous original work by Crashing Cymbal, kindly shared with me via the Creepypasta Fandom and narrated here for you all under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA license.
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Well_in_the_Forest
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/User:CrashingCymbal/Stories