John Phipps

A round-up of horror podcasts

From Edgar Allan Poe to Orson Welles as a brain

You can hear Sir Christopher Lee reading Edgar Allan Poe's complete stories on YouTube. Image: Hollywood Photo Archive / Mediapunch / Shutterstock 
issue 19 December 2020

Good evening! Come shivering on in through the garden side door, my friends, and distance yourselves in a semi-legal fashion around the flickering flames of my recently installed firepit while I guide you through the best horror listening for the depths of this December dark and drear.

The Magnus Archives is an unslagoffably enthusiastic anthology series stuffed with monsters, ghouls and redundant adjectives. If you can get over the Alan Partridge touches (‘I didn’t move… I just stood there… sipping my tea… not even noticing it was still far too hot to drink comfortably’), this show features the scariest story I have heard this month, ‘Lost Johns’ Cave’.

There is a huge and willing audience for all this stuff: horror fans, like heavy metal fans, are hopelessly devoted. This column takes its hat off to scare-enthusiast H.

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