The Mysterious Flame is a chapbook published by Dead Letter Press.  It pays homage to the gothic pulp classics from long ago.  The main character of this tale is a golem made of hardened clay named Barnabus.  Barnabus must hide from humans who always react with fear at his inhuman appearance, but secretly he longs for their companionship.  When six young want-to-be archeologists breach

If you follow the link below or click on the Horror Stories link to the side and then click on Matt Cowan, you can read my short story "Midnight in 411".  I wrote this story to submit to an anthology that was interested in horror tales set in a hotel.  All of the stories were going to take place in the same hotel so you really couldn't describe too much outside of the room in order to maintain consistancy.  My story was not accepted but I still always liked it.  So I'm posting it here, with Jim's help of course (thanks Jim!).  Please feel free to leave comments on it below and thanks for reading it.  
Matt Cowan 

On this show we'll hear another fine episode from Suspense titled August Heat.  Based on the story by W.F. Harvey, this episode first aired May 31, 1945.  For more information on Harvey, read Matt's article.

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Saturday mornings meant two things when I was a kid: Cartoons, and a good size bowl of sugar cereal.  Nothing went better together than Peanut Butter Crunch and the Superfriends, except maybe Lucky Charms and Looney Tunes.  No, Peanut Butter Crunch trumps all.  And there were lots of good cartoons back then as well, seeing as how the big three networks each filled the morning with them.  So there I’d sit, surrounded by whatever toys held my interest that day, splitting my attention between that whopping 19” television and whatever fantasy world my toys were leading me in to.  But that was Saturday morning, and VHF.  Things changed with a thunk! around noon.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859.  He trained as a doctor, which he turned into a successful practice.  His teacher, Dr.

It has been a few long months, but Vintage Horror Radio returns today! 
Thank you all for sticking around, and I hope you'll enjoy the old time
radio hand picked for you today.  From Escape we'll hear a radio adaptation of Confession by Algernon Blackwood.  The story originally appeared in The Wolves Of
God and Other Fey Stories published in 1921.  The Escape episode first
aired December 31, 1947.

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