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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: Phantoms, by Laurence R. D'Orsay

Dec 4, 2025

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: Phantoms, by Laurence R. D'Orsay

Sometimes, the horror is very real. And sometimes, the horror is of our own making.

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Mist Monster, by Granville S. Hoss

Nov 27, 2025

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Mist Monster, by Granville S. Hoss

Shadows and phantoms and mist, Oh My! What is it about a voracious mist that is terrifying? I wonder.

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Shadow on the Moor, by Stuart Strauss

Nov 19, 2025

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Shadow on the Moor, by Stuart Strauss

Sometimes you fight the shadows. Sometimes you give yourself up to them.

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Ghost-Table, by Elliot O'Donnell

Nov 12, 2025

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Ghost-Table, by Elliot O'Donnell

Horror? Perhaps. Thriller? Possibly. Absurd? Absolutely. Join us as we share a story of a blood-thirsty table.

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Dead Man's Tale by Willard E. Hawkins

Nov 5, 2025

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Dead Man's Tale by Willard E. Hawkins

"An astounding yarn that will hold you spellbound and make you breathe fast with a new mental sensation"

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Festival, by H. P. Lovecraft

Oct 29, 2025

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Festival, by H. P. Lovecraft

A sullen town. A nightmare ritual. These are things nightmares are made of. Come join us for the presentation of an eldritch terror by the illustrious H. P. Lovecraft.

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Shambler From the Stars, by Robert Block

Oct 22, 2025

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Shambler From the Stars, by Robert Block

The story of a blood-freezing horror, evoked by the magic of Ludvig Prinn's terrible "Mysteries of the Worm," by Robert Bloch

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Place of Madness, by Merlin Moore Taylor

Oct 15, 2025

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35 min read

πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Place of Madness, by Merlin Moore Taylor

Now we have doctors and confidence, a veritable soup of themes we explored throughout the last few installments. Come find out what happens when a doctor walks a mile in a prisoner's shoes.

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: Fear, by David R. Solomon

Oct 8, 2025

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: Fear, by David R. Solomon

Do YOU know what you would do in a terrible situation?

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Extraordinary Experiment of Dr. Calgroni, by Joseph Faus and James Bennett Wooding

Oct 1, 2025

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Extraordinary Experiment of Dr. Calgroni, by Joseph Faus and James Bennett Wooding

In a follow up to last week’s story on mad doctors, here is another classic horror story involving a doctor with illicit research.

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Electric Chair, by George Waight

Sep 24, 2025

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32 min read

πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Electric Chair, by George Waight

Death Faced Him--or Else the Grisly Horror of an Unknown Fate.

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Novel of the Iron Maiden

Sep 17, 2025

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Novel of the Iron Maiden

More a short story than a full length novel, this is but one of a few episodes taken from Machen's The Three Imposters.

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: MS Found in a Bottle, by Edgar Allen Poe

Sep 10, 2025

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28 min read

πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: MS Found in a Bottle, by Edgar Allen Poe

A tempest unsettles a ship, forcing its lone survivor to abandon it in favor of the vessel being thrown against it. What the survivor finds aboard is further unsettling.

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Feast in the Abbey

Sep 3, 2025

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πŸ™ MAD Alex Presents: The Feast in the Abbey

The story of a grisly horror encountered in a weird monastery in the forest. A tale of terror by Robert Bloch. First published in 1935 in Weird Tales, Vol 25, No 1.

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