"From the blood-soaked pages of Weird Tales Magazine and beyond come these chilling accounts of transformation, terror, and the beast within. HorrorBabble’s WEREWOLVES gathers a pack of classic lycanthropic tales from masters of the macabre including Robert Bloch, Robert Barbour Johnson, Manly Wade Wellman, and Henry S. Whitehead.
Among the stories, a doomed spacefarer discovers that the curse of the wolf knows no bounds of time or place. A couple stranded amid the windswept desolation of the North York Moors comes to suspect they are not alone in the snow. In a tragic, haunting vision, a slim white shape runs with a wolf-pack over the frozen wastes—half human, half beast, and wholly damned. And a tender-hearted woman named Lupa Dzarkas hides a monstrous secret that ends in horror."
"An ancient mirror. A missing boy. A reality twisted by dark forces beyond comprehension.
In this eerie and cerebral tale of supernatural horror, Henry S. Whitehead and H. P. Lovecraft blend gothic dread with cosmic terror. The Trap follows the mysterious disappearance of Robert Grandison, a student at a quiet schoolhouse, shortly after the arrival of an antique mirror retrieved from a decaying estate. His tutor, Canevin, soon uncovers that the mirror is more than an object—it’s a portal to a strange, warped dimension where time fractures, forms mutate, and lost souls linger.
As Canevin pieces together the truth, he encounters the lingering presence of Axel Holm, the mirror’s original owner, whose hunger for immortality has cursed the glass with malevolent power. With Robert’s life—and sanity—hanging in the balance, Canevin must confront the eldritch forces that lie just beyond the surface of the mirror… before it’s too late.
This chilling short story offers Lovecraftian horror with a psychological edge, where science meets sorcery and no reflection can be trusted."
"Dr Henry St Clair Whitehead ( 1882-1932) was an American clergyman and teacher who became famous for his creepy tales of magic and voodoo published in the magazine Weird Tales in the 1920s.
'The Shadows' is a tale from the West Indies about Mr. Stewart, an American who moves into an old house, locally known as Morris' House. Morris has been dead for several decades, but nobody seems keen to tell Mr. Stewart anything about the circumstances of Morris' death.
But after he has been in the house for a few nights, he starts to see strange apparitions of ancient furniture in his bedroom, and he realises that he must find out what happened to Morris. As he sets out to solve the mystery, the apparitions intensify and become more and more sinister...."
"Henry St. Clair Whitehead (1882-1932) was an American clergyman, teacher and a writer of horror fiction and fantasy, best known for his creepy tales of magic and voodoo.
'Passing of a God' is a voodoo story set in the West Indies which tells of an American who presents himself at the hospital in Port au Prince with a huge tumour in his abdomen.
The surgeon there agrees to operate...but discovers there is something very peculiar and sinister about the tumour...and about the story his patient tells him about how he came to visit the hospital."
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