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The Eldritch Episodes
by Eldritch Episodes
These are not stories. They are warnings. Enter a realm of unimaginable horror, where the veil between reality and the abyss is thin, and whispers from beyond twist the mind. Dare to listen… if you can survive what lurks in the dark.Welcome to The Eldritch Episodes
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Episode XVI: And He Haunts You
A psychiatrist at Arkham Sanatorium becomes troubled by a series of patients whose nightmares seem to echo one another in impossible ways. What begins as a professional attempt to understand their conditions slowly turns into something far more unsettling. As the boundaries between madness and revelation begin to blur, one question remains, are these men simply broken by trauma, or have they all brushed against the same terrible truth?
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Episode XV: The Terrible Old Man
Three criminals arrive under false pretenses in the small town of Kingsport. Posing as private investigators, they accept a missing-person case from a desperate woman whose husband vanished. But the job is only a cover.Their real target is an ancient, reclusive man living alone at the end of Water Street. What begins as a simple robbery soon leads them into something far more dangerous than they expected.
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Episode XIV: The Strange High House in the Mist
Struggling scholar Thomas Olney and his wife Agnes arrive in the fog-drenched coastal town of Kingsport, searching for a fresh start. But Thomas soon becomes obsessed with a strange house perched atop an impossible cliff — and with it, a presence that seems to watch from beyond time itself.
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Episode XIII: Good Enough
In the final months of World War II, the crew of a battered Sherman tank becomes stranded behind enemy lines, forced to wait out the night inside their immobilized steel hull. As exhaustion, fear, and isolation set in, the line between battlefield reality and something far stranger begins to blur, turning survival into a test not just of courage, but of sanity.
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Episode XII: The Rats in the Walls
In the English countryside, American industrialist Ambrose Delapore restores the ruins of Exham Priory, his ancestral home. But the echoing halls hide more than crumbling stone.Adapted from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls,” first written in August 1923 and published in the Weird Tales issue of March 1924.
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Episode XI: On the Flesh Imperishable
What price would you pay for immortality? At the height of Rome’s glory, as legions carved roads through the wild frontiers of Germania, one man reached beyond conquest toward eternity itself. In mist-bound forests where ancient rites still whispered, his ambition would awaken a power older than empires—and unleash a betrayal the greatest betrayal the empire has seen since Caesar.
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Episode X: The Very Old Folk
Amidst the reign of Augustus, a young quaestor is sent to the edge of the Empire, where the forests of Hispania conceal more than hostile tribes. As Roman officials and legionaries debate law, war, and superstition, unease builds: torches sputter, drums echo from the hills, and whispers older than the Republic stir in the dark. Pride and reason clash with something far more ancient, as Rome’s certainty confronts the silence of the unknown.
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Episode IX: The Horror at Red Hook Part 2
After surviving a near-fatal stabbing, detective Thomas Malone struggles to return to his old life. But when unsettling events begin to surface, he's pulled back into a world of creeping horror he thought he'd left behind.Adapted from H.P. Lovecraft’s story The Horror at Red Hook, originally written in August 1925 and first published in Weird Tales (January 1927)—this noir retelling turns Lovecraft’s xenophobic paranoia on its head. Composed by an international creative team, The Eldritch Episodes critically addresses and adapts the original’s prejudiced elements.
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Episode VIII: The Horror at Red Hook Part 1
In the brick-choked alleys of Red Hook, Brooklyn, private detective Thomas Malone is hired to investigate a reclusive scholar named Robert Suydam, and soon uncovers a web of strange disappearances and secretive organizations buried in the streets of Red Hook. As reality frays and old gods stir, Malone realizes the true danger isn't what hides in the shadows, but what waits beyond them.Adapted from H.P. Lovecraft’s story The Horror at Red Hook, originally written in August 1925 and first published in Weird Tales (January 1927)—this noir retelling turns Lovecraft’s xenophobic paranoia on its head. Composed by an international creative team, The Eldritch Episodes critically addresses and adapts the original’s prejudiced elements.
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Episode VII: What Comes from the Deep
On a forgotten rock in the storm-lashed Caribbean, Fort St. Alden stands watch over nothing. Supplies run low. Morale is worse. When a lone captain arrives under the cover of dusk, claiming refuge from the sea, strange things begin to stir beneath the old walls.What Comes from the Deep is an original Lovecraftian audio drama, inspired by the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark legacy of colonialism.
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Episode VI: The Dunwich Horror Part II
In the blighted hills of rural Massachusetts, Professors Armitage, Rice, and Morgan convene with the Detective Thomas Malone in the small town of Dunwich. As the mist thickens around the ruined farms and dark woods, a presence, vast, unseen, and hungry, roams the night. Locals speak in whispers of something lost and something returning. With ancient words and half-buried truths, the investigators piece together a cosmic lineage best left forgotten. But some blood calls too loudly, and not all gates remain shut forever. The horror, is loose.
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Episode V: The Dunwich Horror Part I
In the shadowed hills of rural New England, strange forces stir. When a reclusive family gives rise to a child under circumstances that defy natural law, whispers begin to spread. At Miskatonic University, a series of letters draws the attention of scholars whose search for knowledge will lead them toward a terrifying truth. As tensions rise and boundaries between worlds begin to weaken, a forgotten valley becomes the focal point of something vast, ancient, and unknowable.
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Episode IV: The Vizier of Isfet
In the heart of the desert, where the sands whisper forgotten names and the sky shifts with unseen hands, a presence stirs. Ancient echoes bleed into waking dreams, and the faithful are left questioning the very gods they once revered.
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Episode III: The Statement of Randolph Carter
In an interrogation room, Randolph Carter is forced to recount the terrifying events of a single night that shattered his understanding of reality forever. Drawn into a forbidden quest with his friend, Harley Warren, the two men venture to Big Cypress swamp looking for answers to old mysteries but find only despair. Written by H.P. Lovecraft in December 1919, The Statement of Randolph Carter was first published in May 1920 in The Vagrant, an amateur press magazine.
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Episode II: Beyond the Wall of Sleep
An arrogant psychiatrist pushes the boundaries of science and ethics to uncover the truth behind a patient’s haunting visions. What begins as an experiment soon unveils a realm beyond comprehension, where the thin veil of reality trembles under the weight of cosmic secrets. Will curiosity lead to revelation—or madness? Written by H.P. Lovecraft in 1919, "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" was first published in the October 1919 issue of Pine Cones, an amateur journal edited by John Clinton Pryor.
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Episode I: The Hound
In The Hound, two grave-robbers, St. John and Robert, indulge in their morbid fascination with the macabre. Their darkest endeavor begins when they hear about a mysterious amulet from an ancient grave, unleashing a malevolent force that haunts them. Written by H.P. Lovecraft in September 1922, "The Hound" was first published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales
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These are not stories. They are warnings. Enter a realm of unimaginable horror, where the veil between reality and the abyss is thin, and whispers from beyond twist the mind. Dare to listen… if you can survive what lurks in the dark.Welcome to The Eldritch Episodes
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