People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Horror Stories, Weird Fiction, and Film Reviews

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Story

Author

Brief description

01

The 4D Doodler

Graph Waldeyer

A researcher’s idle doodling attracts the attention of a fourth-dimensional intelligence, producing increasingly strange and dangerous consequences.

02

Bread Overhead

Fritz Leiber

An experiment in producing lighter bread goes spectacularly wrong, filling the skies with floating loaves and creating a satirical technological crisis.

03

Image of the Gods

Alan E. Nourse

Human colonists resist authoritarian interference from Earth and discover unexpected allies among their planet’s indigenous inhabitants.

04

Martian V.F.W.

G. L. Vandenburg

Giant Martian ants appear at a New York parade claiming to represent extraterrestrial war veterans, but their participation conceals a darker purpose.

05

One Shot

James B. Blish

Intelligence officials investigating a mysterious object in New York Harbor turn to an exceptional gambler when millions of lives depend on one decision.

06

Out Around Rigel

Robert H. Wilson

Two travelers undertake an ambitious interstellar voyage, confronting jealousy, alien dangers, and the devastating consequences of time dilation.

07

Pygmalion’s Spectacles

Stanley G. Weinbaum

An experimental pair of spectacles transports its wearer into an immersive artificial world where simulated experiences become intensely personal.

08

The Repairman

Harry Harrison

An interstellar mechanic must repair a malfunctioning hyperspace beacon concealed within a sacred alien structure.

09

Toy Shop

Harry Harrison

A seemingly impossible toy rocket catches the attention of military researchers and hints at an unexpected scientific breakthrough.

10

Warning from the Stars

Ron Cocking

A message from a supposedly dead scientist reveals extraterrestrial intervention aimed at preventing humanity’s nuclear self-destruction.

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Story

Author

Brief description

01

The 4D Doodler

Graph Waldeyer

A researcher’s idle doodling attracts the attention of a fourth-dimensional intelligence, producing increasingly strange and dangerous consequences.

02

Bread Overhead

Fritz Leiber

An experiment in producing lighter bread goes spectacularly wrong, filling the skies with floating loaves and creating a satirical technological crisis.

03

Image of the Gods

Alan E. Nourse

Human colonists resist authoritarian interference from Earth and discover unexpected allies among their planet’s indigenous inhabitants.

04

Martian V.F.W.

G. L. Vandenburg

Giant Martian ants appear at a New York parade claiming to represent extraterrestrial war veterans, but their participation conceals a darker purpose.

05

One Shot

James B. Blish

Intelligence officials investigating a mysterious object in New York Harbor turn to an exceptional gambler when millions of lives depend on one decision.

06

Out Around Rigel

Robert H. Wilson

Two travelers undertake an ambitious interstellar voyage, confronting jealousy, alien dangers, and the devastating consequences of time dilation.

07

Pygmalion’s Spectacles

Stanley G. Weinbaum

An experimental pair of spectacles transports its wearer into an immersive artificial world where simulated experiences become intensely personal.

08

The Repairman

Harry Harrison

An interstellar mechanic must repair a malfunctioning hyperspace beacon concealed within a sacred alien structure.

09

Toy Shop

Harry Harrison

A seemingly impossible toy rocket catches the attention of military researchers and hints at an unexpected scientific breakthrough.

10

Warning from the Stars

Ron Cocking

A message from a supposedly dead scientist reveals extraterrestrial intervention aimed at preventing humanity’s nuclear self-destruction.

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Season 23 Movies & Stories
 

 

1. Sinners (2025) 

Story: “The Music of Erich Zann,” H. P. Lovecraft

Music becomes a weapon, a barrier, and an opening into something beyond the human world.
Complete YouTube reading

 

2. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Story: “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne

A scientist transforms his daughter into something beautiful, deadly, and isolated from ordinary human intimacy. The created woman is treated simultaneously as experiment, daughter, monster, and possible lover.

Complete YouTube reading

 

3. Ready or Not (2019) 

Story: “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell

Wealthy predators turn the hunting of a human being into sport and tradition. 

Complete YouTube reading

 

4. Blade II (2002) 

Story: “The Room in the Tower,” E. F. Benson

A recurring nightmare leads to a room occupied by a ravenous female vampire.
Complete YouTube reading

 

5. Obsession (2026)

Story: “The Birth-Mark,” Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love curdles into the conviction that another person must be altered and perfected.
Complete YouTube reading

 

6. RoboCop (1987) 

Story: “The Man That Was Used Up,” Edgar Allan Poe

A celebrated military hero is gradually revealed to be an assemblage of manufactured replacement parts. Prosthetic reconstruction, militarism, masculine propaganda, and brutal satire.

Complete YouTube reading

 

7. Johnny Mnemonic (1995) 

Story: “A Logic Named Joe,” Murray Leinster

Information technology becomes dangerously helpful, invasive, and impossible to contain.
Complete YouTube audiobook

 

8. Strange Days (1995) 

Story: “The Crystal Egg,” H. G. Wells

A mysterious device allows its owner to watch another world—and may allow that world to watch him. The voyeurism, addictive looking, and technologically mediated experience.

Complete YouTube reading

 

9. Brainstorm (1983) 

Story: “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham,” H. G. Wells

A wealthy old scientist finds a way to transfer his consciousness into a young man’s body. It turns recorded experience and technological immortality into an intimate identity nightmare.

Complete YouTube reading

 

10. Burst City (1982)

Story: “The Machine Stops,” E. M. Forster

A society has surrendered its bodies, relationships, and environment to an enormous technological system.
Complete YouTube reading

 

11. Neo Tokyo (1987) 

Story: “The City of the Singing Flame,” Clark Ashton Smith

A traveller discovers a magnificent alternate city whose alien music and architecture exert an increasingly irresistible pull.
Complete YouTube reading

 

12. Total Recall (1990)

Story: “The Defenders,” Philip K. Dick

Humanity’s understanding of its war and surrounding reality has been deliberately manufactured.

Complete YouTube reading

 

13. Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Story: “The Business Man,” Edgar Allan Poe

A self-satisfied entrepreneur explains his increasingly violent career as though criminal ingenuity were merely sound business practice.

Complete YouTube reading

 

14. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Story: “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” H. G. Wells

A mild collector brings home an exotic plant that proves predatory. Carnivorous botany, human loneliness, and the inability to recognize danger until it is wrapped around your throat.

Complete YouTube reading

 

15. Slither (2006)

Story: “The Derelict,” William Hope Hodgson

An explorer returns from an ancient ruin carrying something that has taken root inside his body.
Complete YouTube reading

 

16. Swiss Army Man (2016) 

Story: “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost,” H. G. Wells

A lonely, ineffectual dead man cannot remember how to leave the living world, and an overconfident living man attempts to help him. 

Complete YouTube reading

 

17. Happy Death Day (2017) 

Story: “The Clock That Went Backward,” Edward Page Mitchell

A clock literally carries its characters backwards through time.

Complete YouTube reading

 

18. The Gorge (2025) 

Story: “The People of the Pit,” A. Merritt

An isolated traveller discovers an abyss containing an ancient, inhuman civilization and something that calls irresistibly from below.
Complete YouTube reading

 

19. The Fourth Kind (2009)

Story: “The Hanging Stranger,” Philip K. Dick

An ordinary man notices an impossible event that everyone else accepts, then discovers that his community may no longer be human. 

Complete YouTube reading

 

20. Dark City (1998)

Story: “The Street That Wasn’t There,” Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi

Familiar pieces of a city begin disappearing as reality is quietly revised around its inhabitants.
Complete YouTube reading

 

21. Stir of Echoes (1999) 

Story: “The Beckoning Fair One,” Oliver Onions

A man living alone becomes increasingly dominated by an unseen female presence whose influence may be supernatural, psychological, or both. 

Complete YouTube reading

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Story

Author

Brief description

01

The 4D Doodler

Graph Waldeyer

A researcher’s idle doodling attracts the attention of a fourth-dimensional intelligence, producing increasingly strange and dangerous consequences.

02

Bread Overhead

Fritz Leiber

An experiment in producing lighter bread goes spectacularly wrong, filling the skies with floating loaves and creating a satirical technological crisis.

03

Image of the Gods

Alan E. Nourse

Human colonists resist authoritarian interference from Earth and discover unexpected allies among their planet’s indigenous inhabitants.

04

Martian V.F.W.

G. L. Vandenburg

Giant Martian ants appear at a New York parade claiming to represent extraterrestrial war veterans, but their participation conceals a darker purpose.

05

One Shot

James B. Blish

Intelligence officials investigating a mysterious object in New York Harbor turn to an exceptional gambler when millions of lives depend on one decision.

06

Out Around Rigel

Robert H. Wilson

Two travelers undertake an ambitious interstellar voyage, confronting jealousy, alien dangers, and the devastating consequences of time dilation.

07

Pygmalion’s Spectacles

Stanley G. Weinbaum

An experimental pair of spectacles transports its wearer into an immersive artificial world where simulated experiences become intensely personal.

08

The Repairman

Harry Harrison

An interstellar mechanic must repair a malfunctioning hyperspace beacon concealed within a sacred alien structure.

09

Toy Shop

Harry Harrison

A seemingly impossible toy rocket catches the attention of military researchers and hints at an unexpected scientific breakthrough.

10

Warning from the Stars

Ron Cocking

A message from a supposedly dead scientist reveals extraterrestrial intervention aimed at preventing humanity’s nuclear self-destruction.

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Story

Author

Brief description

01

The 4D Doodler

Graph Waldeyer

A researcher’s idle doodling attracts the attention of a fourth-dimensional intelligence, producing increasingly strange and dangerous consequences.

02

Bread Overhead

Fritz Leiber

An experiment in producing lighter bread goes spectacularly wrong, filling the skies with floating loaves and creating a satirical technological crisis.

03

Image of the Gods

Alan E. Nourse

Human colonists resist authoritarian interference from Earth and discover unexpected allies among their planet’s indigenous inhabitants.

04

Martian V.F.W.

G. L. Vandenburg

Giant Martian ants appear at a New York parade claiming to represent extraterrestrial war veterans, but their participation conceals a darker purpose.

05

One Shot

James B. Blish

Intelligence officials investigating a mysterious object in New York Harbor turn to an exceptional gambler when millions of lives depend on one decision.

06

Out Around Rigel

Robert H. Wilson

Two travelers undertake an ambitious interstellar voyage, confronting jealousy, alien dangers, and the devastating consequences of time dilation.

07

Pygmalion’s Spectacles

Stanley G. Weinbaum

An experimental pair of spectacles transports its wearer into an immersive artificial world where simulated experiences become intensely personal.

08

The Repairman

Harry Harrison

An interstellar mechanic must repair a malfunctioning hyperspace beacon concealed within a sacred alien structure.

09

Toy Shop

Harry Harrison

A seemingly impossible toy rocket catches the attention of military researchers and hints at an unexpected scientific breakthrough.

10

Warning from the Stars

Ron Cocking

A message from a supposedly dead scientist reveals extraterrestrial intervention aimed at preventing humanity’s nuclear self-destruction.