Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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"The Electric Executioner" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro, first published in the August 1930 edition of Weird Tales. "An investigator for a mining colony finds himself at the mercy of a deranged inventor's bizarre killing machine."

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00:00 - Introduction
00:36 - One
28:08 - Two
54:51 - Further Listening

Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble
Music and production by Ian & Jennifer Gordon
Artwork by Hugh Rankin

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