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Small Frights and Other Delights

Robert T. Greene 7 Episodes Jul 1, 2026

Each week host and author Robert T. Greene reads a classic scary short story from the public domain, occasionally sharing his own original tales as well. The show focuses on older, freely available horror fiction from celebrated authors like H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen, Saki, M.R. James, and Robert W. Chambers. This makes for a nostalgic listen for fans of vintage supernatural and macabre fiction.

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7 - The Damned Thing and the Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce Jul 1, 2026 01:06:56 This week we have special guests Cai and Frankie to help us read two stories by famed American writer, soldier, journalist, attempted prospector, and disappearing artist Ambrose Bierce. He was shot in the head in the civil war, taught himself how to be a journalist and then got obsessed with writing short stories. When he was in his early seventies he decided he wanted to go on a long ramble that

6 - The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft (PART 2/2) Jun 4, 2026 01:05:56 In this episode we read parts 7-10 of the Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft.Dr. Armitage gets a posse together and heads to Dunwich to see what has been happening with the some massive invisible force that has been crushing houses and the powers of science and knowledge are pitted against otherworldly creatures and powers! It's spooky! It's weird! and I have my friend Nona here to help me r

5 - The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft PART 1/2 (1929) Apr 18, 2026 01:11:17 In this episode of Small Frights and Other Delights we read chapters 1-6 of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" (1929). This story is one of the most popular entries in the "Cthulu Mythos" and was originally published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales. The tale centers around a strange child born to an old family in the fictional Massachusetts hamlet of Dunwich, where an ancient evil is trying to

4 - The Night Wire by H.F. Arnold (1926) and Far Below by Samuel Barbour Johnson (1939) Apr 6, 2026 01:06:33 In this episode of Small Frights and other delights, I ready two classic stories from the pulp magazine "Weird Tales", H.F. Arnold's The Night Wire and Samuel Barbour Johnson's Far Below. Both are in a similar vein of dark, atmospheric horror. The Night Wire (10:00) : https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68555In the Night Wire, in a skyscraper in a metropolis late at night, strange t

3 - The Boneyard by Robert Greene (2025) Apr 5, 2026 00:40:48 In this episode I read one of my own short stories, the Boneyard. I wrote it for a scary short story competition at a local community college, Madison Area Technical College, and it got published in their yearly chapbook.This story was inspired by my time living in rural Texas. In this story, a farm worker discovers that a strange orphan lamb isn't like the other lambs on the farm.

2 - The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (1894) - PART 2/2 Mar 26, 2026 01:25:52 In this episode we finish off Arthur Machen's Novella "The Great God Pan". Villiers learns the fate of his friend Herbert, contacts Mr. Clarke, and follows a trail of death to the door of a prominent socialite. It's scary! It's twisted! But don't worry it's not that bad.Link to the text:https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-machen/short-fictionLink to weather.govhttps://www.weather.gov/This is

1 - The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (1894) - PART 1/2 Mar 23, 2026 01:03:23 Welcome to the first episode of Small Frights and Other Delights. In this episode I ramble on about why I'm doing the podcast, introduce Arthur Machen and Aubrey Beardsley, and read the first few parts of the Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, one of my favorite horror short stories.In this story, a mad doctor tries to perform a surgery that will open up the mind of man to the ineffable spiritual wor

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