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Bygone Tales Episode 28Featuring:"Demons of the Sea" by William Hope Hodgson"The Sea Raiders" by H.G. Wells Episode 28 Was It Ever Safe To Go Into The Water Shawn Lane Download The Alecton attempts to capture a giant squid off Tenerife in 1861. Illustration from Henry Lee's Sea Monsters Unmasked, London, 1884.

Bygone Tales Episode 27 Featuring:"The Gateway of the Monster" by William Hope Hodgson Episode 27 Carnacki Shawn Lane Download Illustration from an early publication of "The Gateway of the Monster" by William Hope Hodgson, no other info available

Bygone Tales Episode 26Featuring:"An Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose Bierce"Polaris" by H.P. LovecraftEPISODE SPONSORShelf Life Books and Games Episode 26 Howard And Ambrose Together Again Shawn Lane Download "Rocky Landscape with Ruins, Forming the Profile of a Man's Face", circa 1650, Herman Saftleven, drawing brown ink and black chalk on grey paper, Centraal Museum

Bygone Tales Episode 25Featuring:"Pigeons from Hell" by Robert E. HowardEPISODE SPONSORShelf Life Books and Games Episode 25 Pigeons from Hell Shawn Lane Download Cover of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (May 1938, vol. 31, no. 5) featuring Thunder in the Dawn (an Elak novella) by Henry Kuttner. Cover art by Margaret Brundage.

Bygone Tales Episode 24Featuring:"The Furnished Room" by O' Henry"The Curious Dream" by Mark Twain"The Hand" Guy de MaupassantEPISODE SPONSORShelf Life Books and Games Episode 24 Masters of the Medium Shwn Lane Download "Fleeing Skeleton", Wladyslaw Podkowinski, 1892, Charcoal and Gouache on paper, National Museum in Warsaw

Bygone Tales Episode 23Featuring:"Satan's Bondage: A Werewolf Western" by Manly BanisterEPISODE SPONSOR:Shelf Life Books and Games Episode 23 Satan's Bondage Shawn Lane Download Cover of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (September 1942, vol. 36, no. 7) featuring Satan's Bondage ("a werewolf western") by Manly Banister. Cover art by A. R. Tilburn.

Bygone Tales Episode 22Featuring:"The Challenge From Beyond" by C.L. Moore, A. Merritt, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long EPISODE SPONSORShelf Life Books and Games Episode 22 I Have To Push The Pram A Lot Shawn Lane Download Cover of "Fantasy Magazine" featuring "The Challenge From Beyond" by Moore, Merritt, Lovecraft, Howard, and Long, September 1935

Bygone Tales Episode 21Featuring:"In The Walls Of Eryx" by H.P. Lovecraft and Kenneth SterlingEPISODE SPONSOR:Shelf Life Books and Games Episode 21 In The Walls Of Eryx Shawn Lane Download Cover of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (October 1939, vol. 34, no. 4) featuring In the Walls of Eryx by Kenneth Sterling and H. P. Lovecraft. Cover art by Harold S. Delay. Published by Weird Tales, Inc.

Bygone Tales Episode 20Featuring:"The Horror-Horn" by E.F. Benson"A Tropical Horror" by William Hope HodgsonEPISODE SPONSORShelf Life Books and Games Episode 20 Lions And Tiger And Cryptids Oh My(Minus The Lions And Tigers) Shawn Lane Download Alleged yeti footprints at the Himalayas found by Frank Smythe in 1937. Photograph was printed in Popular Science, 1952. The footprints were alleged to be from a yeti but were examined by experts and found indisputably to be bear's. Smythe accepted this conclusion. For his comments on the photograph see his articles: F. S. Smythe. (1937). Abominable Snowmen—Pursuit in the Himalayas—A Mystery Explained. Times (London), November 10. F. S. Smythe. (1937). The Abominable Snowmen. Times (London), November 16.

Bygone Tales Episode 19Featuring Three Stories by Edgar Allen Poe"The Oval Portrait""The Sphinx""The Masque of the Red Death"EPISODE SPONSORShelf Life Books And Games Episode 19 Here A Poe, There A Poe, Everywhere A Poe Poe Shawn Lane Download "The dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet". From Tales of Mystery and Imagination ... Illustrated by Harry Clarke, by Edgar Allan Poe. London : G. G. Harrap & Co., 1919. (British Library item 12703.i.43). Illustrating The Masque of the Red Death.