Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
A second collection of classic works concerning items that harbour sinister secrets and unusual powers.
Bandcamp: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-curiosities-volume-2-10-more-relics-that-shouldn-t-exist
Volume 1: youtube.com/watch?v=NqvH1VhkfdY
Bandcamp: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-curiosities-10-tales-of-haunted-relics
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:38 - The Uncommon Prayer-Book
0:39:26 - The Green Flame
0:47:30 - The Disinterment of Venus
1:07:30 - The Man Who Made Faces
1:33:32 - The God with Four Arms
1:56:58 - The Ebony Frame
2:28:40 - The Meerschaum Pipe
2:59:16 - The Black Stone Statue
3:31:18 - Out of the Aeons
4:40:46 - The Mezzotint
5:06:38 - Further Listening
"The Uncommon Prayer-Book" by M. R. James (London Mercury 1925)
Eight unusual copies of the Book of Common Prayer.
"The Green Flame" by Donald Wandrei (Weird Tales 1930)
The tale of a strange jewel.
"The Disinterment of Venus" by Clark Ashton Smith (Weird Tales 1934)
A curious statue unearthed in the grounds of a monastery.
"The Man Who Made Faces" by C. P. Howard (HorrorBabble 2024)
The tale of a man haunted by a past mistake.
"The God with Four Arms" by H. T. W. Bousfield (1939)
A man takes his frustrations out on a rare bronze idol.
"The Ebony Frame" by Edith Nesbit (Longman's 1891)
A beautiful and curiously carved picture frame.
"The Meerschaum Pipe" by L. A. Lewis (Tales of the Grotesque 1934)
A series of strange dreams and mysterious murders.
"The Black Stone Statue" by M. E. Counselman (Weird Tales 1937)
The story of a weird deception practised on the world by an obscure artist.
"Out of the Aeons" by H. P. Lovecraft (Weird Tales 1935)
A Boston museum that displays an ancient mummy recovered from a sunken island.
"The Mezzotint" by M. R. James (Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary 1904)
A strange engraving, with even stranger properties.
Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble
Music and production by Ian & Jennifer Gordon
Thumb by geralt / marcelabr
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A second collection of classic works concerning items that harbour sinister secrets and unusual powers.
Bandcamp: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-curiosities-volume-2-10-more-relics-that-shouldn-t-exist
Volume 1: youtube.com/watch?v=NqvH1VhkfdY
Bandcamp: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-curiosities-10-tales-of-haunted-relics
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:38 - The Uncommon Prayer-Book
0:39:26 - The Green Flame
0:47:30 - The Disinterment of Venus
1:07:30 - The Man Who Made Faces
1:33:32 - The God with Four Arms
1:56:58 - The Ebony Frame
2:28:40 - The Meerschaum Pipe
2:59:16 - The Black Stone Statue
3:31:18 - Out of the Aeons
4:40:46 - The Mezzotint
5:06:38 - Further Listening
"The Uncommon Prayer-Book" by M. R. James (London Mercury 1925)
Eight unusual copies of the Book of Common Prayer.
"The Green Flame" by Donald Wandrei (Weird Tales 1930)
The tale of a strange jewel.
"The Disinterment of Venus" by Clark Ashton Smith (Weird Tales 1934)
A curious statue unearthed in the grounds of a monastery.
"The Man Who Made Faces" by C. P. Howard (HorrorBabble 2024)
The tale of a man haunted by a past mistake.
"The God with Four Arms" by H. T. W. Bousfield (1939)
A man takes his frustrations out on a rare bronze idol.
"The Ebony Frame" by Edith Nesbit (Longman's 1891)
A beautiful and curiously carved picture frame.
"The Meerschaum Pipe" by L. A. Lewis (Tales of the Grotesque 1934)
A series of strange dreams and mysterious murders.
"The Black Stone Statue" by M. E. Counselman (Weird Tales 1937)
The story of a weird deception practised on the world by an obscure artist.
"Out of the Aeons" by H. P. Lovecraft (Weird Tales 1935)
A Boston museum that displays an ancient mummy recovered from a sunken island.
"The Mezzotint" by M. R. James (Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary 1904)
A strange engraving, with even stranger properties.
Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble
Music and production by Ian & Jennifer Gordon
Thumb by geralt / marcelabr
Become a HorrorBabbler here on YouTube:
youtube.com/horrorbabble/join
Support us on Bandcamp or Patreon:
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The HorrorBabble Podcasts:
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This is an ORIGINAL HorrorBabble Production.
