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Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, ring the bell and crush the like button below. AUTHORS always looking for fresh blood. Subscribe and contact us for more information. Check out our other stories and on our websites. Rumble/ BitChute/YouTube: Dweller of the Dark (Links listed below!) https://rumble.com/vc16sz-robert-bloch-egyptian-tales-episode-4the-secret-of-sebek-narrated-by-jeffre.html https://youtu.be/AoRgG_XBnv0 Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com https://dwellerofthedark.com/ Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer https://www.facebook.com/jeffreyLeBlancHorrorWriter Books on Kindle/Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow/Support Us on Twitter/Gab/Instagram/Patreon/Bandcamp (Dweller of the Dark) Children of Horror, Nyarlathotep— “The Dark Messenger” comes out of the desert to bring destruction and death. A scientist using alchemy and sorcery attempts to reanimate the dead. And, grave robbers unleash a hellish beast as we rattle the bones of the master of horror—Howard Phillips Lovecraft. H. P. Lovecraft was a horror and weird fiction master who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and poetry. Many of Lovecraft’s greatest works were first published only in pulp magazines. And strangely, he was virtually unknown as a writer during his lifetime and died in obscure poverty. Among his most celebrated tales are “The Rats in the Walls”, “The Color Out of Space”, “The Call of Cthulhu”, “At the Mountains of Madness”, “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”, and “The Shadow Out of Time”. These were just some of the stories making up the canon of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Tonight, the moon is full and gibbous as we present Lovecraft’s most terrifying tale— “The Hound”. This horrific story was one of the most terrifying tales ever published in Weird Tales. "The Hound" was written by H.P. Lovecraft (September 1922) and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. “The Hound” was the first story to mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the Necronomicon. Lovecraft noted the story was inspired on September 16, 1922, after he had toured the Flatbush Reformed Church in Brooklyn and… its graveyard with his friend Rheinhart Kleiner. In a letter, Lovecraft wrote: “Around the old pile is a hoary churchyard, with internments dating from around 1730 to the middle of the nineteenth century.... From one of the crumbling gravestones--dated 1747--I chipped a small piece to carry away. It lies before me as I write--and ought to suggest some sort of horror-story. I must place it beneath my pillow as I sleep... who can say what thing might not come out of the centuried earth to exact vengeance for his desecrated tomb? And should it come, who can say what it might not resemble?” Lovecraft wrote "The Hound" shortly afterwards. He used as the name of one of the main characters the nickname for his companion Kleinhart, "St. John". The grave that was the inspiration for the story was in the Flatbush Church. However, it was listed in the tale as a "terrible Holland churchyard". This speculated reference to Flatbush Church due in part to the church’s history with the Dutch Reformed Church. “The Hound” is set in the Netherlands and in England. Edgar Allan Poe’s mangled corpse runs red throughout the “The Hound”. Influences such as the "oblong box" taken from the grave, the mysterious "knock on my chamber door", and the "red death" introduced by the Hound are all from Poe's collection of the macabre. A baying howl in the dark has made the hairs on your neck stand up. There’s a deathly chill in the foggy air as “The Hound” lumbers in to rip you apart. “The Hound” focuses on a terrified narrator recounting his ghoulish time with his friend St. John. Both have a deranged interest in the occult and robbing graves. They constantly defile crypts and often keep souvenirs of their morbid, nocturnal expeditions. The narrator and St. John set up a private ghastly museum of bones, skulls in various forms of decomposition, paintings, jewelry, and the like in their basement collected from the various graves. Unfortunately for these ghouls, the last grave they rob has a terrifying outcome for our hapless desecrators of the dead. Can our ghoulish grave robbers bring the vengeful Hound to heel? Or…will they get all torn up about the hellish pooch licking its paws?--JL

Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, ring the bell and crush the like button below. AUTHORS always looking for fresh blood. Subscribe and contact us for more information. Check out our other stories on YouTube and our websites. YouTube: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow Us on Twitter & Instagram (Dweller of the Dark) Support us on Patreon & Bandcamp Children of horror, follow me as we cross the ghoul guarded gateways, the labyrinth of the lost, and the decrepit crypt into that cherished abyss that is moonlight, swamp, and darkest night. Forever are we outsiders to this world and the coil that is man. And, for that relish in the strange, the grotesque, and the unnerving as we push ever farther, without a torch, flashlight, or candle into shadowed waterways, fog-fetid bayous, and amongst moss-covered oaks. These truly are our home. Our name is LEGION horror fans for we are many. My LEGION, walk the cobwebbed, cyclopean stairs with me. Climb the bat filled bell tower on the expanse of endless night wind. And fly through mists into ancient cypress as we learn the mysteries of creatures in the dark. I promise, as we splash and lumber through the darkness, to protect you from the ghastly ghouls within. Well…maybe. After howling at a leprous moon, we went digging deep into a vampire’s grave for tonight’s horror master. Our undying master’s time is long overdue. May he terrify you tonight as he has so many. A quiet town falls prey to a plague…of vampires. A doctor resurrects roadkill and far worse in an ancient burial ground. And, a comatose man awakens with a supernatural gift to save humanity. These are just a few of the terrifying creations by the “King of Horror”, Stephen King. Stephen King, is the author of several horror, supernatural fiction, crime, science fiction, and fantasy novels. He’s the rare, undying horror master who has gained immortal fame with sales of over 350 million copies. Stephen’s works have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. He’s published 61 novels, and over 200 short stories. Like his mentors Richard Matheson, Joseph Payne Brennan, and others, Stephen King has won numerous awards. King was awarded several Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and the British Fantasy Society Awards. He received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. Further awards were the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America, the National Medal of Arts from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, and World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. “One For The Road” is a terrifying tale by Stephen King first published in the 1977 March/April issue of “Maine”. Later the short story was placed in the 1978 collection “Night Shift”. The tale focuses on an elderly man named Booth and the strange rescue of a stranded family in a blizzard. The family’s vehicle is stuck in a snow drift…near…Jerusalem’s Lot. Can Booth and Tookey Tooklander recover the Lumley family in time for last call? Or will Salem’s Lot sink its teeth into new victims?--JL

Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, ring the bell and crush the like button below. AUTHORS always looking for fresh blood. Subscribe and contact us for more information. Check out our other stories and on our websites. Rumble/ BitChute/YouTube: Dweller of the Dark https://youtu.be/AoRgG_XBnv0 Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Books on Kindle/Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow/Support Us on Twitter/Instagram/Patreon/Bandcamp (Dweller of the Dark) Children of Horror, A tentacled dark god calls his cult for an apocalyptic awakening. A scientist using alchemy and sorcery attempts to reanimate the dead. And, a man gets more than frost bite with his cooling machine, as we unleash the Hound to bring forth the bones of the master of horror—Howard Phillips Lovecraft. H. P. Lovecraft was a horror and weird fiction master who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and poetry. Many of Lovecraft’s greatest works were first published only in pulp magazines. And strangely, he was virtually unknown as a writer during his lifetime and died in obscure poverty. Among his most celebrated tales are “The Rats in the Walls”, “The Color Out of Space”, “The Call of Cthulhu”, “At the Mountains of Madness”, “The Shadow over Innsmouth”, and “The Shadow Out of Time”. These were just some of the stories making up the canon of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Tonight, we present his most endearing tale— “The Outsider”. This tale is cherished by horror fans the world over. This story was one of the most popular works ever published in Weird Tales by any horror writer. "The Outsider" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written between March and August of 1921. It was first published for Weird Tales in 1926. The story combines the best elements of horror, fantasy, and gothic fiction to create a nightmarish story. Central to the story are its themes of loneliness, the abnormal human, and the afterlife. The inspiration for the story, according to Lovecraft, came from Edgar Allan Poe. But it was also influenced by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Oscar Wilde, and others. He said that, of all his tales, this story most closely resembles the style of his idol Edgar Allan Poe. In a letter H.P. Lovecraft wrote the story "represents my literal though unconscious imitation of Poe at its very height." It’s clear that the opening paragraphs echo Poe's "Berenice". The horror at the party recalls the unmasking scene in "The Masque of the Red Death". Is the "The Outsider" an autobiographical account of H.P. Lovecraft? Studying the life of Lovecraft, it’s obviously evident he drew from incidents of isolation, loneliness, and rejection shadowing his life. But, in “The Outsider”, Lovecraft’s acceptance of his hideousness, the proclamation that he accepts his place in the world of darkness, roars through in the powerful, heartfelt quote: "I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men." “The Outsider” is the story of a mysterious narrator who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember. The isolated individual decides one night to break free in search of companionship and adventure. What is the story of this lonely outsider? Can he shine a light on his terrifying secret to his new friends?-JL

#thething #hwa #sciencefictionhorror #johnwcampbell #johncarpenter #antartica #telepathy #authortube #booktube #instahorror #horrorgram #polarhorror #arctichorror #thethingfromanotherworld #howardhawks #1982thing #auroraborealis #atomicenergy #neutrons #coldfusion #DNA #imitation #scientology #LRonHubbard #dianetics #frozenhell #whogoesthere "The corridor to Comsos House twisted, as did nearly all corridors in Big Magnet, and Powell stood at the entrance again. But they heard, rather muffled, McReady’s sudden shout. There was a savage flurry of blows, dull ch-thunk—shluff sounds. “Bar—Bar—for God’s sake—”And a curious, savage mewing scream, silenced before even Powell had reached the bend."--John W. Campbell (Frozen Hell) Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. COMMENT below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, comment, ring the bell and crush the like button below. UNKNOWN HORROR MASTERS! Send us a pound of your writer’s flesh to keep this beast fed. Or find us on FIVERR to raise some Hell! https://www.fiverr.com/jeffreylebla20… Check out our other stories and on our websites. YouTube/BitChute/Rumble: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Kindle Vella NEW serialized novels and novelette. WEEKLY new episodes!! Check out links below for: (Where the Wolf Dwells) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/s… (The Curious Death of Dionysus Chennault) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/s… Our books and E-books are on Kindle/Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlan… Follow/Support Us on Twitter/Instagram/Patreon/Bandcamp (Dweller of the Dark) Children of Horror, We can’t help but get icy shivers down our spine when we recall our rea life travels across the Arctic Circle. Waking up on a freezing plane crossing the Arctic after twenty hours flying from the Red Sea was one of our more unique experiences. Leaving the Red Sea, the temperatures were close to one hundred and thirty degrees. Crossing somewhere near the northern Arctic the temps had dropped into minus subzero temperatures. On that frigid flight we saw white, bleak landscapes, and ominously dark mountains. All these icy visions conjured up the terror of Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness”, the hopelessness of Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”, and the unhinged paranoia of tonight’s tale by John W. Campbell titled “Frozen Hell” or... “Who Goes There?” John W. Campbell wrote the terrifying novella “Frozen Hell” or “Who Goes There?” under his pen name Don A. Stuart in 1938. Since then the book was adapted as the films Howard Hawk’s “The Thing from Another World”(1951), John Carpenter’s “The Thing (1982), and a horrible re-make of The Thing (2011). “Frozen Hell” has 45 more pages than “Who Goes There?” and is the more detailed, ultra-violent, and gory version of this Antarctic science fiction horror. You are working in the arctic circle. It’s minus thirty-seven degrees below zero outside your room. You are in a dark scientific camp with a monstrous shape-shifting alien on the loose somewhere in the dark. Will you survive this attack from beyond the stars? Or will you become the next victim of The Thing?--JL Enjoy! -JL

Welcome…to Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed, and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. AUTHORS we want to give back to our fellow writers and fans with the occasional fresh blood. Promoting the next Blackwood, Poe, Lovecraft, Bloch or Machen, is sure to get a few of our immortal horror masters to come out of their graves as well. Subscribe and become a follower and fan. As a subscriber you’ll get the latest announcements and premieres. If you’re work unnerves or terrifies, we will put your story on our channel and webpage for free. Certainly, we will provide feedback. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, crush or cut the like button below. Check out our other stories on YouTube and our websites. YouTube: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Official Second Website: http://jeffreyleblanc.com/ Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Twitter: @dwellerofthedark Instagram: dwellerofthedark We can’t help but get icy shivers down our spine when we recall our rea life travels across the Arctic Circle. Waking up on a freezing plane crossing the Arctic after twenty hours flying from the Red Sea was one of our more unique experiences. Leaving the Red Sea, the temperatures were close to one hundred and thirty degrees. Crossing somewhere near the northern Arctic the temps had dropped into minus subzero temperatures. On that frigid flight we saw white, bleak landscapes, and ominously dark mountains. All these icy visions conjured up the terror of Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness”, the hopelessness of Jack London’s “To Make a Campfire”, and the unhinged paranoia of tonight’s tale by John W. Campbell titled “Who Goes There?” John W. Campbell was a horror and science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact) from late 1937 until his death. Campbell was part of a select group of writers known during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. These included Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and many more. Campbell began his career writing science fiction at age 18 while attending MIT. John W. Campbell published just six short stories, one novel, and six letters in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories from 1930 to 1931. These few accomplishments established Campbell's reputation as a writer of space adventure. In 1934 he began to write stories with a different tone, he wrote as Don A. Stuart. From 1930 until the later part of that decade, Campbell was prolific and successful under both names, though he stopped writing fiction shortly after he became editor of Astounding in 1937. Then there’s that business with the government during The Manhattan Project that makes for a thrilling read. But that’s a story for another time. Campbell also started in 1939 the fantasy magazine Unknown, although it was canceled after only four years. Referring to his time spent as an editor, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction wrote: "More than any other individual, he helped to shape modern sf." Isaac Asimov called Campbell "the most powerful force in science fiction ever" and said the "first ten years of his editorship he dominated the field completely." In his capacity as an editor, Campbell published some of the very earliest work, and helped shape the careers of virtually every important science-fiction author to debut between 1938 and 1946, including Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke. Interestingly in his later career, an increasingly strong interest in pseudoscience later alienated Campbell from many of the writers whose careers he had nurtured; Heinlein, Sturgeon, Asimov, and Clarke rarely worked with him after about 1950. Nevertheless, Campbell remained an important figure in science fiction publishing up until his death. Campbell and Astounding shared one of the inaugural Hugo Awards with H. L. Gold and Galaxy at the 1953 World Science Fiction Convention. Subsequently, Campbell and Astounding (later renamed Analog) won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Magazine seven times. Shortly after his death in 1971, the University of Kansas science fiction program established the annual John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The World Science Fiction Society established the annual John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, which has since been renamed the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Campbell in 1996, in its inaugural class of two deceased and two living persons. John W. Campbell wrote the terrifying novella “Who Goes There?” under his pen name Don A. Stuart in 1938. Since then the book was adapted as the films “The Thing from Another World”(1951), John Carpenter’s “The Thing (1982), and a horrible re-make of The Thing (2011). You are working in the arctic circle. It’s minus thirty-seven degrees below zero outside your room. You are in a dark scientific camp with a monstrous shape-shifting alien on the loose somewhere in the dark. Will you survive this attack from beyond the stars? Or will you become the next victim of The Thing?--JL

“What I saw, made me run like the Devil was chasing after me. For what I beheld, was the largest, primate hand I’d ever seen. I’d seen lots of gorillas in zoos and in the African jungles. It was bigger than one of those. More mind blowing, was the primate, by my approximation, had grabbed a branch over its head. The branch had to be at least ten feet above it.” —Jeffrey LeBlanc (The Shadow on the Mountain) #bigfoot #sasquatch #jeffreyleblanc #expeditionbigfoot #weirdtales #horror #dreams #nightterrors #books #robertehoward #hplovecraft #cmeddyjr #ralphallanlang #thesilverknife #pirateghost#werewolfbook #werewolfbynight #wolfman #wolf #hauntedhouse #rattleofbones #wolfman #horror #samhain #songofthebats #horrorbooks #jeffreyleblanc #ghosts #vampire #elves #HWA #books #devils #ghosts #vampires #Samhain #Scottishmyths #weirdtales #horror #hwa #horrorpoetry #horrorgram #instahorror #writingcommunity #robertehoward #death #owl #ghosts #phantoms #horrorSEO #horrific #horrorontiktok #horrortok #horrorbooks #horrorcommunity #horrorwriting #creepy #eerie #nosferatu Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. More tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten are climbing out of the tombs. SUBSCRIBE/ COMMENT/ LIKE/ DONATE or I’ll send “The Devil of Black Bayou” to rip your head off as we did the LIKE button. UNKNOWN HORROR MASTERS! Send us ghoulish delights for “The Skull and Bones Collection”! Your pound of writer’s flesh will feed our ghouls…for now. Walk our fiery path and find us on here, our websites, podcasts and FIVERR to raise seven kinds of Hell! https://www.fiverr.com/jeffreylebla209/bring-your-book-to-life-ghostwrite-narrate-or-e-book Check out our new books on Amazon, podcasts, and websites. https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/8a2d6545-faf0-4f0e-a789-496e3e7e40ff/dweller-of-the-dark YouTube/ Rumble/Apple/ Anchor FM/ Spotify/ Radio Public/WordPress: Dweller of the Dark https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dweller-of-the-dark/id1599626788 https://open.spotify.com/show/6B0IOnX1mVa5joSfqnjK5s https://anchor.fm/dweller-of-the-dark https://radiopublic.com/dweller-of-the-dark-WdmLZQ https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09WBV9SW8 Other links for continuous series: (Where the Wolf Dwells) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B098XPYP46 (The Curious Death of Dionysus Chennault) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09931N294 Our books and E-books are on Kindle/Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow/Support Us on Twitter/Instagram/Patreon/Bandcamp (Dweller of the Dark) https://dwellerofthedark.com/ Reach out to our contact email on the screen and in the description below. jeffreyleblanc@dwellerofthedark.com Children of Horror/ Legion of Ghouls, Tonight, I’m releasing an excerpt from one of the most terrifying encounters I’ve ever had in my life. To give you a little background, I have spent a better part of my life exploring forests, jungles, swamps, and mountains across several continents. I have always enjoyed the beauty and serenity of Nature. Sometimes my curiosity of natural places gets the better of me and I have on occasion headed out of these locations a little later and a little further than expected. The vastness of nearly a million acres in your backyard can be staggering to comprehend. Add to it the fact that the forest I hike is over 480 million years old. It always feels like a lost world out here. So many hidden adventures await in all that mountainous splendor and its endless cavernous depths. Call it fate, bad luck, or maybe a good omen, but on June 11th of this year, I ran into something that still gives me a shudder on occasion. Especially when I look out to the back country of the Appalachian Mountains. It certainly ran the Dweller out of the darkness…for a little while. We truly hope you enjoy this brief excerpt. The Shadow on the Mountain (Brief Excerpt) June 11, 2022 Chattahoochee National Forest Northern Georgia There I sat on the side of Yellow Mountain. My knees burned and ached with pain. My feet were cramping, and stabbing pin-pricks ran across my calves. As I looked on the vast expanse of emerald pines, covered in dried sweat, I knew with unease that I was lost. After taking a moment to sit on a granite slab with the circumference of a school bus, I thought on my situation. As chilled breeze blew down from the mountain’s peak, I sighed in disgust realizing dusk was fast approaching and the shadows of trees and boulders grew long. I stood and trekked on across the mountain. Six hours into my lost excursion, tripping over rocks and bramble, I found a leaf-covered logging trail bordering the Chattahoochee National Forest. In the moment, I had a choice to go left, or right. Rubbing my sweaty temples, I deduced I was further north of Yellow and Chestnut Mountains. Looking on across a distant ridge approximately a fifty miles in the distance, I erred in my direction. It was a huge mistake that would lead me walking south on the logging road. I was heading further into the Chattahoochee National Forest bordering the remote wilderness of Coopers Creek. Groaning, I realized it was indeed approaching the purplish twilight of night. But thankfully, my path would be illuminated by the silver light of a brilliant, full moon. Onward I trudged on legs that felt rubbery from the miles already I hiked. Though, the pain and numbness to my body seen lessened, distracted by the stillness and glimmering beauty of such a tranquil night. I stared at the stars above, felt the comfort of a cool night breeze, and immersed myself again in the natural splendor unafraid. Silver shimmers of moonlight cast their glare between shadowed pines. Rabbits darted between bushes and bats tittered above me between the ancient hemlocks, pines, and poplars. I even heard the nearby hoot of an owl in a hollow and movement of water to the right of me as I descended down the mountain in the dark. It was on the third turn when I noted a shadow cross the trail in front of me. Whatever the thing was, it had moved quickly across. It had been approximately one hundred feet in front of me. Again, the dark blur was sparsely seen by the light of the moon. While I couldn’t tell what it was, it didn’t really concern me. Unbothered, assuming it a black bear or boar bolting down to the creek to drink, I walked on. I took note of the rushing and splashing of the creek as I continued forward. The winding creek lay to my right roaring at least sixty feet below me in a ravine. I also observed by the lunar light, and by my phone, an old wagon trail ten feet below me running parallel with the creek. Earth shaking movement, startled me. As best I could describe the noise it was lumbering, thunderous movement of something tremendously large, moving below on the wagon trail. I also heard in the moment, the crash of trees down in the ravine. “I shook my head thinking_ Just my luck to be lost, without a knife, bear spray, or gun. And now a large black bear is out, and hanging around with me.” The creature walked below on the old wagon trail. It was headed in my direction. At sixty feet away from the creature’s approach, I stood somewhat unsettled. I’d whistled to let the “bear” know I was there. It was curious to me, that I was only hearing two legs instead of four walking. But it’s not uncommon for bears to do that. I screamed the customary “Hey bear! Hey bear!” Then flashed my cell phone light. It kept approaching unafraid. By the time it was closer than sixty feet in front of me, I felt the earth move beneath me. I tell you it was uncanny and the weirdest thing to feel the ground shake near me. I hadn’t experienced anything like that since my safari days in Africa. That was when elephants and rhinoceroses ran past us. It came in closer. I screamed and yelled. The creature stopped beneath me. I waited what seemed an intense eternity. Then heard the cracking of branches by a nearby tree. I flashed the light on my phone in the direction of the breaking branches. What I saw, made me run like the Devil was chasing after me. For what I beheld, was the largest, primate hand I’d ever seen. I’d seen lots of gorillas in zoos and in the African jungles. It was bigger than one of those. More mind blowing, was the primate, by my approximation, had grabbed a branch over its head. The branch had to be at least ten feet above it. “Shocked I panicked_That thing has to be at least eight or nine feet tall! And…it’s walking. Gorillas lumber. Bears stagger their gait. It has no fear of me!” Forgetting the pain, I ran the next ten or more miles. The whole while terrified that the thing on the other end of that hand had decided to lend chase. By the end of the tenth mile, my lungs burned for air. My scorched knees rang true with even greater, fiery pain. Exhausted and extremely dehydrated with a mouth and tongue as coarse as sandpaper, I craved water and immediate rest. Everything was shutting down. Against my terror and the ever-palpable dread, I stopped in a moonlit field near a silvery, sparkling river. At a chilled spring, by what I’d later learn was the Toccoa River, I learned two things waiting for my family to arrive. One, in an emergency, the Appalachian chilled spring water is the finest drink in the world. And, two…Bigfoot is real. That was June 11, 2022. I haven’t been back to Coopers Creek or Yellow Mountain since. On my lost journey, my father-in-law, and daughter calculated I had trekked not one mountain but two—Yellow and Chestnut Mountains. Also, as my body could attest over the next month healing up, I had hiked 27 miles to finally come out of the woods. I just can’t explain my apprehension going near vast forests these days. Part of it is because of an uncanny feeling—not quite dread, and not quite fear. Maybe, it’s knowing that there is something that terrifying out there. Maybe, on occasion, when I get near the forested wilderness, I can’t help that the thing or one of its kin, might be watching us. Shuddering right now, looking out toward the mountains of the backcountry, I don’t know. But, the fear that my wife certainly will kill me if I even mention a trail hike near Coopers Creek…is definitely real. “Shadow on the Mountain” inspired by the real encounter. The moonlight walk and trail are from that day. Expedition Bigfoot report with Dave Bakara. (Who mentioned in passing that I had stumbled right into a Bigfoot hotspot.) https://youtu.be/IIGsGsm8hew https://m.facebook.com/100064311957040/

Welcome…to Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, ring the bell and crush the like button below. AUTHORS always looking for fresh blood. Subscribe and contact us for more information. Check out our other stories on YouTube and our websites. Rumble/ Bitchute/ & YouTube: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Books on Kindle & Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow Us on Parler/ Twitter/ Instagram (Dweller of the Dark) Support us on Patreon & Bandcamp Children of Horror, We dedicate tonight’s tale to our mountain climbing friends--Kasper and Annie. Kasper, no more chasing bear cubs! A sled dog watches his owner freeze to death in the Yukon. A scientist is sacrificed by head hunters to an alien. And, eerily in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, a society battles the Scarlett Plague, as we howl at the moon with Jack London. His latest chilling tale may bring the heat…or not. Jack London was a journalist, novelist, and social activist. He was also an innovator in science fiction and horror with such tales as “The Scarlett Plague” and “The Red One”. London is one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. Tonight it’s 75 degrees below zero in the Yukon. You’re trying to make it back to camp when the ice breaks throwing you into frozen water. Can you make a fire in time before freezing to death? Or will you and your dog…be left out in the cold?--JL

Welcome to Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. Subscribe for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, hit the like button below. Rumble/ BitChute/ YouTube https://youtu.be/3DxV6ojK1E0 Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Official Website: jeffreyleblanc.com Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Twitter: @JeffreyJLeBlanc Tonight, powerful winds sweep across ancient alien wastelands. Fantastic worlds glimmer in all manner of cosmic luminescence. And something in the shadows drips slime then spiders or slithers into the dark recesses of caverns as we revive the horror, science fiction, and fantasy sorcerer, Clark Ashton Smith. Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. Clark Ashton Smith achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's science fiction and cosmic horror work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures". Clark Ashton Smith, along with Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft was one of the big three of Weird Tales. However, some of Weird Tales readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. For example, we enjoyed the fantasy critic L. Sprague de Camp remarks about Clark Ashton Smith which stated," nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse." Like Robert Bloch and Frank Belknap Long, Smith was a member of the Lovecraft circle and his literary friendship with Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. This is evident in numerous letters between these horror masters. Clark Ashton’s works as well as his colleagues Lovecraft and Bloch, are marked by an extraordinarily rich and ornate vocabulary, a cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic and sometimes ribald humor. Of his writing style, Smith stated: "My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation." The Dweller in the Gulf is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in Wonder Stories (1933). The story focuses on three explorers on the planet Mars who investigate an ancient underground cavern finding a strange troglodyte cult and something terrifying. Who is the Dweller in the Gulf? Will our intrepid explorers blindly go to their doom after their encounter beneath the surface of Mars?--JL

Welcome…to Dweller… of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, ring the bell and crush the like button below. AUTHORS always looking for fresh blood. Subscribe and contact us for more information. Check out our other stories on YouTube and our websites. Rumble/ Bitchute/ & YouTube: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Books on Kindle & Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow & Support Us on Parler/ Patreon/ Band Camp/ Twitter/ Instagram Children of Horror, We dedicate tonight’s tale to horror fan Brian Fry! Brian, thank you for pointing us to the Postal 2: Paradise Lost Intro. The creative team did a great job on that project! A sled dog watches his owner freeze to death in the Yukon. A scientist is sacrificed by head hunters to an alien. And, eerily in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, a society battles the Scarlet Plague, as we beat Death with Jack London. His first horrific, science fiction tale may bring back the dead! Jack London was a journalist, novelist, and social activist. He was also an innovator in science fiction and horror with such tales as “The Scarlett Plague” and “The Red One”. London is one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. “A Thousand Deaths” was written by Jack London in 1899. It’s his first published work. The story focuses on an unnamed narrator who has suffered through experiments by his mad scientist father to induce his own death. And, then to be resurrected. This is one of the earliest science fiction stories obviously influencing movies such as 1939’s “Torture Ship”, 1980’s “Altered States” and 1990’s “Flatliners”. And we’ll thankfully skip the 2017 Flatliners which should long stay buried…and forgotten. Tonight, you are a prisoner onboard your mad scientist father’s vessel. Daddy has been conducting some killer experiments on you…literally. Will you find a way to escape his crazed experiments? Or will you continue to die a thousand deaths?--JL

Welcome…to Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed, and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. AUTHORS always looking for fresh blood. Subscribe and contact us for more information. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, crush or cut the like button below. Check out our other stories on RUMBLE and our websites. RUMBLE: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow Us Twitter: @dwellerofthedark Instagram: dwellerofthedark Patreon & Band Camp Hans Christian Andersen was an author and prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems. Andersen gained immortality though, for his fairy tales. While considered a children’s author, Andersen’s stories express themes that transcend age and nationality. They claw into the dark heart of humanity and shine a light and lesson on malevolent deeds. Andersen’s fairy tales include more than 3381 works. They have been translated into more than 125 languages. Andersen’s tales are seared into the moral consciousness of society, are readily accessible to children, but present lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Andersen’s most famous fairy tales include “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “The Little Mermaid,” “The Nightingale,” “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”, “The Red Shoes”, “The Princess and the Pea,” “The Snow Queen,” “The Ugly Duckling,” “Thumbelina,” and tonight’s haunting tale “The Little Match Girl”. While Hans Christian Andersen is not known for horror, we challenge anyone to not have some haunted feelings after reading this tragic tale. On a freezing night, with no shoes on her feet, the little match girl has a ghostly story to tell. Hopefully she won’t judge us all too monstrous…from the grave.--JL

Welcome…to Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed, and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. AUTHORS always looking for fresh blood. Subscribe and contact us for more information. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, crush or cut the like button below. Check out our other stories on YouTube and our websites. YouTube: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow Us Twitter: @dwellerofthedark Instagram: dwellerofthedark Patreon, Band Camp & now Rumble!!! Immortal Jack the Ripper is loose in Chicago. Hotel clerk Norman Bates still has trouble with his murderous “Mother”. And, a man witnesses a vampiric feast in an abbey, as we crawl out of Hell and down the Bloch to another fiery tale from Robert Bloch. His latest flamethrower may shame…the Devil. Robert Bloch was a writer of horror, fantasy, science fiction and mystery. He won numerous awards for stories in all genre. Horror master, Lovecraft Circle member, and former president of The Mystery Writers of America were just a few of Robert Bloch’s many achievements. He was the writer of Psycho that led to Alfred Hitchcok’s masterpiece, the Hugo Award winning That Hellbound Train a fan favorite on our channel, terrifying Egyptian stories, and the eternally popular Jack the Ripper tales. We dedicate tonight’s tale to horror fan--Thomas Swafford! Thank you for bringing tonight’s classic Bloch tale to our attention. And, we must agree that the 1964 Alfred Hitchcock episode “The Sign of Satan” based on this story, is a devilish gem with a youthful Christopher Lee as Karl Jorla. Robert Bloch’s “Return to the Sabbath” was published in Weird Tales for the July 1938 issue. As stated in Weird Tales: A shuddery weird tale of Hollywood and the film industry—a story of the gruesome thing that emerged from the burial crypt. This evening, you are in a Hell of a town—Hollywood, unravelling a mystery. Our narrator may have found a rising horror star to rival Bela Lugosi. Or, has he found a nut case who truly believes he is in the fight of his life with… a witch’s coven? What fiery secrets do the eyes of Karl Jorla hide? Can our narrator stop the coven from killing Jorla in time for his closing act?--JL

Welcome…to Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed, and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. AUTHORS always looking for fresh blood. Subscribe and contact us for more information. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, crush or cut the like button below. Check out our other stories on YouTube and our websites. YouTube: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow Us Twitter: @dwellerofthedark Instagram: dwellerofthedark Patreon & Band Camp An aged cloak turns a man into a vampire. A hotel clerk has trouble controlling his murderous “Mother”. And a lunar flower causes people to howl at the moon…as werewolves, as we cut across the Bloch to another ripping yarn from Robert Bloch. His latest tale may get him hunted by…Jack the Ripper. Our “From-the-Grave Mentor”, Robert Bloch, was a fiction writer with a diverse array of stories in crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of “Psycho” that led to Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, many great tales on Rod Serling’s “Night Gallery”, Weird Tales, Strange Stories, and others. Our personal favorite is Bloch’s script for the Hammer horror film classic, “The House That Dripped Blood”. Horror and comedy were his trademark. Robert Bloch’s fondness for humor in horror was evident in puns. It could be seen in the titles of his story collections such as “Tales in a Jugular Vein”, “Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of” and “Out of the Mouths of Graves”. And of course, there’s the classic Bloch favorite line that tickles our funny bone, “I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.” A protégé’ to H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch was in a select group known as the Lovecraft Circle with such greats as Frank Belknap Long, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and many more. Learning with these masters, Bloch created hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. Robert Bloch won numerous awards in writing. He won The Hugo Award (“That Hell-Bound Train”), The Bram Stoker Award, and The World Fantasy Award. Bloch served a term as president of The Mystery Writers of America (1970). He was a member of The Mystery Writers of America, Science Fiction Writers of America, The Writers Guild of America, and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Most notably, there is one society he probably still is an undead member of –The Count Dracula Society. “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” is a short story written by Robert Bloch and published for Weird Tales in July 1943. This ghastly horror mystery no doubt influenced “Time After Time” a 1979 science fiction horror movie starring legendary actors Malcolm McDowell and David Warner. Bloch’s version though, brings pulse-pounding dread and a twisting staircase of terror. This lurid tale centers on Sir Guy Hollis and psychiatrist John Carmody’s investigation of a serial killer in present day Chicago. Sir Guy Hollis believes the murderer to be the legendary Jack the Ripper. Can Sir Guy and John Carmody find this maniac to stop the murders? Or will they both fall prey to the blade of Jack the Ripper?--JL

#horrorwriting #edgarallanpoe #thelighthouse #madness #sea #demons #mermaid #neirids #sprites #waternymph #robertbloch #hwa #horrorpoetry #authortube #poemuseum #edgarallanpoelaststory #mostterrifyingcollaboration "And now, the golden one was gone and in its place was the bloated, swollen obscenity of a thing long-drowned and dead, risen from the slime and to that slime returning." Edgar Allan Poe & Robert Bloch (The Lighthouse) Welcome…to…Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. COMMENT below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, comment, ring the bell and crush the like button below. UNKNOWN HORROR MASTERS! “The Skull and Bones Collection” has risen from the grave! More beasts to be released soon! Find us on FIVERR to raise seven kinds of Hell! https://www.fiverr.com/jeffreylebla20… Check out our other stories and on our websites. YouTube/BitChute/Rumble: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Kindle Vella NEW serialized novels and novelette. WEEKLY new episodes!! Check out links below for: (Where the Wolf Dwells) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/s… (The Curious Death of Dionysus Chennault) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/s… Our books and E-books are on Kindle/Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlan… Follow/Support Us on Twitter/Instagram/Patreon/Bandcamp (Dweller of the Dark) Children of Horror, We dedicate tonight's Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Bloch tale,"The Lighthouse" to Dark Sorcerer--Thomas Swafford, Brother in the Flame--Roland Wieffering, Keeper of the Crypt--Cole Marie, Ravenous Daygon Cornhole (AKA The Raven King), the Ghoulish Arwcwb, and Master of the Dark Arts--Musica Australiana! Thank you for the great comments and support! Devilishly devoted to horror, may your souls always be!

Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, ring the bell and crush the like button below. AUTHORS always looking for fresh blood. Subscribe and contact us for more information. Check out our other stories on YouTube and our websites. YouTube: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow Us on Twitter & Instagram (Dweller of the Dark) Support us on Patreon & Bandcamp Children of horror, follow me as we cross the ghoul guarded gateways, the labyrinth of the lost, and the decrepit crypt into that cherished abyss that is moonlight, swamp, and darkest night. Forever are we outsiders to this world and the coil that is man. And, for that relish in the strange, the grotesque, and the unnerving as we push ever farther, without a torch, flashlight, or candle into shadowed waterways, fog-fetid bayous, and amongst moss-covered oaks. These truly are our home. Our name is LEGION horror fans for we are many. My LEGION, walk the cobwebbed, cyclopean stairs with me. Climb the bat filled bell tower on the expanse of endless night wind. And fly through mists into ancient cypress as we learn the mysteries of creatures in the dark. I promise, as we splash and lumber through the darkness, to protect you from the ghastly ghouls within. Well…maybe Civil War ghosts stalk silently through moonlit forests. A horrific creature attacks a man’s dead wife in the dark. And a soldier literally has his life pass before his eyes as he is hanged. These are just a few of the horrific stories by Ambrose Bierce. Ambrose Bierce was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran. He is the author of the comedic “The Devil's Dictionary” which was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. Bierce’s most horrific and anthologized work, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", has been described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature". His best short story collection by far though is Bierce’s “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians”. This horrific work was cited by the Grolier Club as one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900. Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States. He was a pioneer in realist fiction influencing such authors as Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. And, just as Poe, Ambrose Bierce was considered an influential and feared literary critic. Ambrose Bierce’s greatest story was his own. In December 1913, Bierce traveled to Chihuahua, Mexico, to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. While traveling with rebel troops he disappeared. He was never seen again. As we read tonight’s story, we look on the peaceful, fog filled forests and fields near Chickamauga Creek. Ancient cannon, monuments of stone, and looming graves stand as silent sentimental to a horrifying past of bloodshed and murder. A time when brother fought brother blinded by insanity. Hopefully, people are taught or remember the violent history of the Civil War. Unfortunately, after over a century, I see the demoniacal blood lust for a new civil war has reappeared. The lumbering possibility has oozed up once again in our current time. Are we caged animals doomed never to learn peace and destined always to repeat our atrocities? Chilled by icy, misted night…on this desolate field of Death… I wonder. "Chickamauga" is a horror story written by Ambrose Bierce on January 20, 1889. It first appeared in the “San Francisco Examiner” and later in the collection “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians”. The tale focuses on a child playing war in the woods. He strays off and becomes lost on the former battlefield of Chickamauga. Can this little boy find his way home? Or will the child become another ghostly casualty to Chickamauga?--JL

Welcome…to…Dweller…of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. Authors always looking for fresh blood. Subscribe and contact us for more information. Subscribe for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, crush or cut the like button below. Check out our other stories and our websites. Links listed below. Rumble/Bitchute/ YouTube--(Dweller of the Dark): https://rumble.com/vcbdsx-the-outsider-by-h.-p.-lovecraft-narrated-by-jeffrey-leblanc.html https://www.bitchute.com/video/ISXDgTTv28IA/ https://youtu.be/AoRgG_XBnv0 WordPress Official Dweller of the Dark Website: http://jeffreyleblanc.com/ Check out our current creepers on the website! https://dwellerofthedark.com/2020/12/31/the-outsider-by-h-p-lovecraft-narrated-by-jeffrey-leblanc/ Books on Amazon/ Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer https://www.facebook.com/jeffreyLeBlancHorrorWriter/ Follow & Support us on Parler/Instagram/Twitter/Patreon/ BandCamp: Dweller of the Dark Children of Horror, A terrified son tries to save his hypnotized father from the god Anubis. In New Orleans, a disillusioned writer attends the Mardi Gras and dinner with the Egyptian god Sebek. And an archaeologist takes a pyramid tour with the evil god--Nephren-Ka, as we continue to decipher and dig our way through a series of Egyptian tales from Robert Bloch. The Egyptian gods hope you won’t climb the walls with our latest Weird Tales. Our fifth episode is “Fane of the Black Pharaoh”. Our horrific story was published in the December 1937 issue of Weird Tales by our resurrected mummy--Robert Bloch. Our dark master commands you to dig deeper through his Egyptian series. The creeping introduction of “Fane of the Black Pharaoh” as stated by Weird Tales says: "Those eyes shone through the shadows; unwinking, unchanging, omniscient in this little world of the dead." But…Robert Bloch’s introduction brought more blood and fang: “Terrible was the fame of Nephren-Ka, and more terrible still was the destiny that Captain Cartaret read on the walls of the red-litten underground corridors.” Our story concerns Captain Cartaret and his exploration to an unknown hieroglyphic wall beneath the pyramids of Egypt. The hieroglyphics are in the forbidden catacombs of Nephren-Ka. Captain Cartaret’s guide may…or may not be all he claims to be. What is the prophetic secret of the Black Pharaoh? Can our Captain Cartaret decipher the wall in time to fulfill his destiny?--JL

Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. COMMENT below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, comment, ring the bell and crush the like button below. UNKNOWN HORROR MASTERS! Spider, spider creeping, crawling through the night. Wondrous is the web you weave, when you practice to deceive! Julian Machen’s terrifying creation will be crawling out soon, Keep sending more fresh blood for our ravenous appetite! Check out our other stories and on our websites. Rumble/ BitChute/YouTube: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Our books are on Kindle/Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow/Support Us on Twitter/Instagram/Patreon/Bandcamp (Dweller of the Dark) Children of Horror, We dedicate tonight’s collection, “Robert E. Howard’s Infernal Incantations of Solomon Kane”, to a man whose razorsharp wit is equal to his raging fury. His devotion to the dark magic of literature, put us on this fiery path to Solomon Kane! To our brother of the flame—Razorfist the Rageoholic, thank you eternally. Kull the Conqueror battles Thulsa Doom. Thoth Amon uses dark sorcery to kill Conan the Cimmerian. And Sir Richard Grenville rises from the grave to fight with Solomon Kane, as we unleash the hellhounds for Robert Ervin Howard. Tonight, we present the infernal incantations of Solomon Kane. These verses of ghastly, horrific terror have been conjured by darkest sorcery. Enjoy!-JL

#horror #clarkashtonsmith #HWA #witches #witchcraft #horrormaster #motheroftoads #murderer #horrorontiktok #horrific #horrorb #salem #horrorbooks #grimm #collective #witchesspell #horrorauthor #authortube #writingcommunity #SEO #horrorSEO #weirdtales #fromhell #grimm #darkness #dwellerofthedark #witchSEO #witchtok #witchesontiktok #dwellers #darkness #toadtok “There was a deep soft thundering in his ears, a rosy dazzlement in his eyes. Somehow the hut appeared to expand, to change luminously about him. He hardly recognized its squalid furnishings, its litter of baleful oddments, on which a torrid splendor was shed by the black candles, tipped with ruddy fire, that towered and swelled gigantically into the soft gloom His blood burned as with the throbbing flame of the candles.”—Clark Ashton Smith (Mother of Toads) Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. More tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten are climbing out of the tombs. SUBSCRIBE/ COMMENT/ LIKE/ DONATE or I’ll send “The Devil of Black Bayou” to rip your head off as we did the LIKE button. UNKNOWN HORROR MASTERS! Send us ghoulish delights for “The Skull and Bones Collection”! Your pound of writer’s flesh will feed our ghouls…for now. Walk our fiery path and find us on here, our websites, podcasts and FIVERR to raise seven kinds of Hell! https://www.fiverr.com/jeffreylebla209/bring-your-book-to-life-ghostwrite-narrate-or-e-book Check out our new books on Amazon, podcasts, and websites. https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/8a2d6545-faf0-4f0e-a789-496e3e7e40ff/dweller-of-the-dark YouTube/ Rumble/Apple/ Anchor FM/ Spotify/ Radio Public/WordPress: Dweller of the Dark https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dweller-of-the-dark/id1599626788 https://open.spotify.com/show/6B0IOnX1mVa5joSfqnjK5s https://anchor.fm/dweller-of-the-dark https://radiopublic.com/dweller-of-the-dark-WdmLZQ https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09WBV9SW8 Other links for continuous series: (Where the Wolf Dwells) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B098XPYP46 (The Curious Death of Dionysus Chennault) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09931N294 Our books and E-books are on Kindle/Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow/Support Us on Twitter/Instagram/Patreon/Bandcamp (Dweller of the Dark) Children of Horror/ Legion of Ghouls, Tonight, we present another bewitching tale by horror sorcerer Clark Ashton Smith—“Mother of Toads”. First published in 1938 for Weird Tales, we guarantee this one will give you more than…warts. Enjoy!

#bestwerewolfstories #robertehoward #werewolf #hwa #horrorwriting #writingcommunity #authortube #booktube #instahorror #horrorgram #horror #wolfman #demontour "FEAR? Your pardon, Messieurs, but the meaning of fear you do not know. No, I hold to my statement. You are soldiers, adventurers. You have known the charges of regiments of dragoons, the frenzy of wind-lashed seas. But fear, real hair-raising, horror-crawling fear, you have not known. I myself have known such fear; but until the legions of darkness swirl from hell's gate and the world flames to ruin, will never such fear again be known to men."--Robert E. Howard (Wolfshead) Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. COMMENT below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, comment, ring the bell and crush the like button below. UNKNOWN HORROR MASTERS! Send us a pound of your writer’s flesh to keep this beast fed. Or find us on FIVERR to raise some Hell! https://www.fiverr.com/jeffreylebla209/bring-your-book-to-life-ghostwrite-narrate-or-e-book Check out our other stories and on our websites. YouTube/BitChute/Rumble: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Kindle Vella NEW serialized novels and novelette. WEEKLY new episodes!! Check out links below for: (Where the Wolf Dwells) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B098XPYP46 (The Curious Death of Dionysus Chennault) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09931N294 Our books and E-books are on Kindle/Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow/Support Us on Twitter/Instagram/Patreon/Bandcamp (Dweller of the Dark) Children of Horror, You are a guest in a castle off the African coast. Locked in your room, something tries to scratch and paw its way in. A wolf’s howl brings a spine-tingling chill down your spine. At the same time a woman’s scream steels your nerve to leave and find out what has attacked. Outside the sanctuary of your room, down a dark castle hallway, you run into a stealthy creature in the darkness. Striking a flint for light you notice a form appearing. Why does its shadow resemble a wolf’s head? Tonight, we continue our series of the best werewolf stories ever written. Terrifying, horrific, and haunting, the coven of horror masters that wrote these lurid tales will release their inner beast. Our fourth beast to tear out your soul is Robert E. Howard’s “Wolfshead”. Enjoy! -JL

Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, ring the bell or crush the like button below. AUTHORS always looking for fresh blood. Subscribe and contact us for more information. Check out our other stories and on our websites. Rumble/ BitChute/YouTube: Dweller of the Dark (Links listed below!) https://rumble.com/vc16sz-robert-bloch-egyptian-tales-episode-4the-secret-of-sebek-narrated-by-jeffre.html https://www.bitchute.com/video/R3aGm0xj81Df/ https://youtu.be/AoRgG_XBnv0 Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com https://dwellerofthedark.com/ Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer https://www.facebook.com/jeffreyLeBlancHorrorWriter Books on Kindle/Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow/Support Us on Twitter/Gab/Instagram/Patreon/Bandcamp (Dweller of the Dark) Children of Horror, The undying King of Horror has been unleashed again from his most terrifying collection—Night Shift! May he again terrify you tonight, as he has so many. A quiet town destroys itself to the Tommyknockers. A doctor resurrects roadkill and far worse in an ancient burial ground. And, a disabled astronaut is going through out-of-this-world changes, as we revive the vampiric corpse of… Stephen King. Stephen King, is the author of several horror, supernatural fiction, crime, science fiction, and fantasy novels. He’s the rare, undying horror master who has gained immortal fame with sales of over 350 million copies. Stephen’s works have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. He’s published 61 novels, and over 200 short stories. Like his mentors Richard Matheson, Joseph Payne Brennan, and others, Stephen King has won numerous awards. King was awarded several Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and the British Fantasy Society Awards. He received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. Further awards were the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America, the National Medal of Arts from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, and World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Tonight, we bring you the terrifying "I Am the Doorway". “I Am the Doorway” is a science fiction and horror short story by Stephen King. It was first unleashed in the March 1971 issue of Cavalier Magazine. Stephen later placed it in his 1978 horror masterpiece collection “Night Shift”. The story focuses on Arthur, a disabled former astronaut, and his account of the terrifying change occurring to him. Arthur was exposed to something during his space mission to Venus. What is the secret to the terrifying change occurring in Arthur? Can his friend Richard see his way to close the door on Arthur and his strange companions…before it’s too late?--JL

Welcome…to Dweller…of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed, and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. AUTHORS always looking for fresh blood. Subscribe and contact us for more information. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, crush or cut the like button below. Check out our other stories on RUMBLE and our websites. RUMBLE: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow Us Twitter: @dwellerofthedark Instagram: dwellerofthedark Patreon & Band Camp A man becomes the god Pan after a sacrifice. A hotel clerk has trouble controlling his murderous “Mother”. And a lunar flower causes people to howl at the moon…as werewolves, as we fly up the Bloch to another tale from Robert Bloch. This one you can really sink your fangs in. Our “From-the-Grave Mentor”, Robert Bloch, was a fiction writer with a diverse array of stories in crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of “Psycho” that led to Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, many great tales on Rod Serling’s “Night Gallery”, Weird Tales, Strange Stories, and others. Our personal favorite is Bloch’s script for the Hammer horror film classic, “The House That Dripped Blood”. Horror and comedy were his trademark. Robert Bloch’s fondness for humor in horror was evident in puns. It could be seen in the titles of his story collections such as “Tales in a Jugular Vein”, “Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of” and “Out of the Mouths of Graves”. And of course, there’s the classic Bloch favorite line that tickles our funny bone, “I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.” A protégé’ to H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch was in a select group known as the Lovecraft Circle with such greats as Frank Belknap Long, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and many more. Learning with these masters, Bloch created hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. Robert Bloch won numerous awards in writing. He won The Hugo Award ("That Hell-Bound Train"), The Bram Stoker Award, and The World Fantasy Award. Bloch served a term as president of The Mystery Writers of America (1970). He was a member of The Mystery Writers of America, Science Fiction Writers of America, The Writers Guild of America, and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Most notably, there is one society he probably still is an undead member of --The Count Dracula Society. “The Cloak” is a short story written by Robert Bloch and published in May 1939 for Unknown. This story is one that influenced Bloch’s own script for Hammer’s “The House That Dripped Blood”. We must say that Bloch’s short story is far creepier…especially by candle light. This neck-biter focuses on Henderson and his strange purchase of a cloak for a Halloween party. The cloak has a rare authenticity that may change the man. Can Henderson find out the secret to the cloak? Or will he be doomed to an eternity being a pain…in the neck?--JL

#HWA #horrorwriting #jeffreyleblanc #dwellerofthedark #writingcommunity Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. COMMENT if you have an author you’d like to raise from the dead. Rip out the throat and eviscerate the LIKE button below if a tale takes your soul. Raise the legions of Hell by SUBSCRIBING for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. Our collection continues to…climb out of the tombs. UNKNOWN HORROR MASTERS! “The Skull and Bones Collection” is roaring away! Send us a pound of your writer’s flesh to keep this beast fed. If you want to bring your own horrors to life then find us on FIVERR to raise seven kinds of Hell! https://www.fiverr.com/jeffreylebla20... Check out our new books on Amazon, podcasts, and websites. YouTube/ Rumble/Apple/ Anchor FM/ Spotify/ WordPress: Dweller of the Dark Kindle Vella new stories coming soon! Check out links below for: (Where the Wolf Dwells) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/s... (The Curious Death of Dionysus Chennault) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/s... Our books and E-books are on Kindle/Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlan... Follow/Support Us on Twitter/Instagram/Patreon/Bandcamp (Dweller of the Dark) Children of Horror, In my tortured ears I have heard the screams of ghosts, the growling roar of a werewolf, and the slithering and slurping of something in the darkness. In my nightmarish visions I have seen the creaking body hanging from an oak or gnawing teeth on a corpse…in the void. I have dreamed of “These Hallowed Horrors” in this vast, chilling darkness. With a sense of awe and wonder, we conjured up all manner of nightmare as a child left alone in their large room, hoping nothing is under the bed. Alas, one can always hope…there is a ‘Dweller of the Dark’ waiting. “These Hallowed Horrors” let the fur fly and sunk its fangs into the horror, terror, and heart crushing fear that eternally keeps us warm and awake as I sit in the cold shadows of mountains. Mysterious dreams I recall in all manner of prose from these mountains, carrying the distant howl of something—wolf, coyote…werewolf. Some of my nightmares screaming release are spiders devouring a team of researchers in an African cave; a scientist and his family slither into the swamp to encounter deadly snails; and a vampire’s curse lets the blood fly. Many more Hellish creatures are in that abyss waiting for their next victim. Conjured abominations that should never see the light of day. Check out the collection on Amazon and Kindle. We pray “These Hallowed Horrors" keep you awake at night, looking under the bed…or over your shoulder in a moonlit forest or sea. With these conjured verses we didn’t plan on jump scares or worn-out horror cliché. We wanted something that scares or unnerves…and different. Maybe we got it right this time. Or maybe it leaves a little something to grow on your mind down the road. As a werewolf bite, a nest of hungry spiders…or slithering slugs, in your brain. And…as always, devilishly devoted to horror may your soul always be! -JL

Welcome…to Dweller…of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed, and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. AUTHORS always looking for fresh blood. Subscribe and contact us for more information. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, crush or cut the like button below. Check out our other stories on RUMBLE and our websites. RUMBLE: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow Us Twitter: @dwellerofthedark Instagram: dwellerofthedark Patreon & Band Camp Children of Horror, Civil war ghosts led by a child haunt a field of death. A man is found killed by his vampire mother. And, a woman comes back from the dead to avenge her murderer, as we enjoy another howling yarn from Ambrose Bierce. Ambrose Bierce was a Civil War veteran, short story writer, journalist, and poet. He is the author of the comedic “The Devil's Dictionary” which was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. One of Bierce’s most horrific works, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", has been described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature". His best short story collection by far though is Bierce’s “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians”. This horrific work was cited by the Grolier Club as one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900. Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States. His experiences shaped Bierce’s style of fiction. Bierce’s realist fiction influenced such authors as Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. And, just as Poe, Ambrose Bierce was considered an influential and feared literary critic. Ambrose Bierce’s greatest story was his own. In December 1913, Bierce traveled to Chihuahua, Mexico, to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. While traveling with rebel troops he disappeared. He was never seen again. "The Eyes of the Panther" is a horror story written by Ambrose Bierce for the “San Frasncisco Examiner” on February 17, 1887. It later appeared in the 1898 collection “In the Midst of Life”. The tale focuses on Jenner Brading, a young rural attorney, and his failed attempts to marry Irene Marlowe. Irene has refused them on the grounds that she is insane. We don’t want to let the cat out of the bag, but this romance won’t end well. Ambrose Bierce’s story inspired Val Lewton to create his “The Bagheeta” and the 1942 cinematic horror film—Cat People. Will Irene Marlowe ever accept Jenner’s proposal? Or will this kitten just show her claws?--JL

We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today. COMMENT below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, comment, ring the bell and crush the like button below. UNKNOWN HORROR MASTERS as promised, we will be narrating many of your submitted creations! Continue to send fresh blood for our ravenous appetite. Submit, subscribe and contact us for more information. Check out our other stories and on our websites. Rumble and etc: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Our books are on Kindle/Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow/Support Us on Twitter/Instagram/Patreon/Bandcamp (Dweller of the Dark) Children of Horror, Father Jason encounters the Elder Gods and the stone woman of Faikana. Murgunstrumm is at “The Gray Toad Inn” awaiting his next ghoulish victim. And, on board the half sunken Golconda, two shipwreck survivors try and survive an attack by…vampires, as we beat Haitian voodoo drums to resurrect the zombified corpse of Hugh Barnett Cave. Hugh B. Cave was a writer of horror, weird fiction, and science fiction. Cave contributed heavily to several pulp magazines such as “Astounding”, “Black Mask”, and Weird Tales from the 1920s and '30s, selling an estimated 800 stories. These were not only in horror, but also in western, fantasy, adventure, crime, romance and non-fiction. He used a variety of pen names, notably John Star, Geoffrey Vace, and Justin Case. It was under the Justin Case pen name that he created the antihero “The Eel”. Following a war correspondent assignment during World War II, Cave settled in Jamaica where he owned and managed a coffee plantation. While on his coffee plantation Cave continued his writing career, now specializing in novels as well as fiction and non-fiction sales to mainstream magazines. He won numerous awards for his work. These included “The Living Legend Award” from “The International Horror Guild”, “The Bram Stoker Award For Lifetime Achievement” from “The Horror Writers Association” and “The World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement”. “Stragella” was first published in the June 1932 issue of “Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror”. Our story focuses on Yancy and Miggs, two shipwreck survivors who have found a strange ship in a ghostly fog. Can our shipwreck survivors survive a perilous night on the ghostly Golconda? Or will they too fall prey to the fangs of Stragella?--JL

#halloween #horror #hwa #horrorpoetry #horrorgram #instahorror #writing community #paullaurencedunbar #ghosts #oak #hauntedoak #thehauntedoak Welcome ….to…. Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. COMMENT below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection…climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, comment, ring the bell and crush the like button below. UNKNOWN HORROR MASTERS! “The Skull and Bones Collection” has risen from the grave! More beasts to be released soon! Find us on FIVERR to raise seven kinds of Hell! https://www.fiverr.com/jeffreylebla209/bring-your-book-to-life-ghostwrite-narrate-or-e-book Check out our other stories and on our websites. YouTube/BitChute/Rumble: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Kindle Vella NEW serialized novels and novelette. WEEKLY new episodes!! Check out links below for: (Where the Wolf Dwells) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B098XPYP46 (The Curious Death of Dionysus Chennault) https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09931N294 Our books and E-books are on Kindle/Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Follow/Support Us on Twitter/Instagram/Patreon/Bandcamp (Dweller of the Dark) Children of Horror, The season of Halloween has arrived! To celebrate we will be presenting one poem nightly of the best Halloween poems ever conjured to terrify and delight! And remember, devilishly devoted to horror…and Halloween, may your souls always be! Our third episode is Paul Laurence Dunbar's “The Haunted Oak”. Enjoy!

Welcome…to Dweller of the Dark! We are a channel honoring the yellowed, and blackened bones of many prominent authors. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer’s today. Comment below if you like. If you have authors that you’d like to see recognized list them in the comments or contact our author page. AUTHORS we want to give back to our fellow writers and fans with the occasional fresh blood. Promoting the next Blackwood, Poe, Lovecraft, Bloch or Machen, is sure to get a few of our immortal horror masters to come out of their graves as well. Subscribe and become a follower and fan. As a subscriber you’ll get the latest announcements and premieres. If you’re work unnerves or terrifies, we will put your story on our channel and webpage for free. Certainly, we will provide feedback. SUBSCRIBE for more tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten. We’ll have quite a collection climbing out of the tombs. If you like any of our tales, crush or cut the like button below. Check out our other stories on YouTube and our websites. YouTube: Dweller of the Dark Official Website: DwelleroftheDark.com Facebook: Jeffrey LeBlanc Horror Writer Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-LeBlanc/e/B00GQXNA3O%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Twitter: @dwellerofthedark Instagram: dwellerofthedark We received quite the stir in our tomb recently. We were honored with a verification by The Horror Writer’s Association for “Wolves, Wings, & Other Things”. We’re keeping our claws crossed and breaking a wishbone or three for luck in the hope of further advancement. Hopefully, we get to howl at the moon if we win. In the meantime, we’ll keep slithering on to new novels and quite a few new stories for the channel and collections. Nathaniel Hawthorne was a novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works such as “Young Goodman Brown” and “The House of the Seven Gables” often focus on history, morality, and religion. It can be said his works are still photographs of the dark elements of humanity during his times. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repented of his actions. Hawthorne published several short stories in periodicals, which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. He worked at the Boston Custom House and was a member of Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community. After 1842, he and his wife moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, then later moved to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord. It was during these latter years that Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels. Much of Hawthorne's writing focused on New England. And many of his famous works featured moral metaphors with an anti-Puritan inspiration. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works are considered part of the Romantic Movement. They are specifically known as dark romanticism for their reflective themes of the darker elements of society. Hawthorne’s fascination with community was evident in his writing which centered on the inherent evil and sin of humanity. However, his works at times have a preachy moral message contrasted with an ingenious deep psychological complexity. Tonight, we celebrate the spirit of Christmas in grand fashion with Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne invites you to a special Christmas banquet where guests are invited in a most curious manner. One guest in particular may give you a chill as you cast your shadow on his wall. What’s the great secret of the Christmas Banquet? Will our Gervayse Hastings ever find what he is looking for? And come in out of the cold.