He has spent his entire existence alone in a decaying castle, surrounded by darkness, ancient books, and memories he cannot understand.

He has never seen the sun. He cannot remember another human voice. He does not even know what he looks like.

Desperate to escape his isolation, he climbs toward the world above in search of light and human companionship.

But some truths are better left in the dark.

Tonight on Midnight Murmurs: Season Four — 31 Days of Horror, we present H. P. Lovecraft’s haunting tale of isolation, identity, and dreadful discovery:

The Outsider.

Written by H. P. Lovecraft First published in Weird Tales, April 1926.

🎧 Best experienced with headphones.

New horror throughout October as Midnight Murmurs presents 31 Days of Horror.

Before The King in Yellow, there was Ambrose Bierce.

Tonight’s Midnight Murmurs double feature presents “An Inhabitant of Carcosa” and “Haïta the Shepherd”—two brief, dreamlike stories containing the early appearances of Carcosa and Hastur.

One man wanders through the remnants of a world he no longer understands. Another discovers that happiness comes only when it is not pursued.

Two strange tales. Two names that would echo throughout weird fiction for generations.

Written by Ambrose Bierce.

There is no Room 13 at the Golden Lion.

At least, not during the day.

While staying at an old hotel in Viborg, Denmark, Mr. Anderson begins noticing something impossible: a mysterious door marked 13 appearing beside his room after nightfall. Strange shadows move across the walls, an unnatural voice echoes through the corridor, and the dimensions of the surrounding rooms seem to change.

At the same time, Anderson’s historical research uncovers the story of Nicolas Francken, a man once accused of practicing dark and forbidden arts.

Tonight on Midnight Murmurs, enter one of M. R. James’s most unsettling supernatural mysteries: “Number 13.”

Part of Season 4: 31 Days of Horror.

Night Twelve — The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford

Captain Charles Braddock does not believe in ghosts.

He does, however, possess a human skull that screams.

Hidden inside an old bandbox in a house shadowed by an unexplained death, the skull appears connected to a secret Dr. Luke Pratt took to his grave. And when evidence of that secret begins emerging, Braddock discovers that whatever remains of the dead may be far less helpless than he imagined.

Tonight on Midnight Murmurs: 31 Days of Horror, experience F. Marion Crawford’s eerie tale of murder, guilt, denial, and supernatural revenge.

Turn off the lights, put on your headphones, and listen closely.

Some things want to come home.

The Red Death has devastated the country, but Prince Prospero believes he has found a way to escape it.

Sealed inside a fortified abbey with a thousand wealthy guests, Prospero surrounds himself with music, wine, entertainment, and luxury while the world outside suffers.

Months later, he holds an extravagant masquerade across seven strangely colored rooms. But as midnight approaches and the great ebony clock begins to strike, the guests notice a mysterious figure walking among them—dressed as the very plague they believed they had escaped.

Tonight on Midnight Murmurs, experience Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic classic, The Masque of the Red Death, as 31 Days of Horror continues.

🎧 Best experienced with headphones and the lights turned low.

Tonight on Midnight Murmurs, we enter Castringham Hall.

Years ago, a woman named Mrs. Mothersole was condemned as a witch after being seen gathering branches from an ancient ash-tree.

Before her death, she left behind a warning:

“There will be guests at the Hall.”

Decades later, members of the Fell family begin dying in the same house under horrifying and unexplained circumstances.

The answer may lie inside the old ash-tree growing beside the Hall.

A chilling M. R. James story of witchcraft, inherited curses, old country houses, and something monstrous waiting in the dark.

Part of Midnight Murmurs: Season 4 — 31 Days of Horror.

Tonight, Midnight Murmurs enters the strange mythology of The King in Yellow.

In Robert W. Chambers’ “The Repairer of Reputations,” Hildred Castaigne becomes convinced that he is heir to an imperial throne after reading a mysterious forbidden play.

Alongside the equally disturbing Mr. Wilde, Hildred begins preparing for the rise of a new dynasty connected to Carcosa, Hastur, and the mysterious Yellow Sign.

But as his ambitions grow, one question becomes impossible to ignore:

How much of Hildred’s world actually exists?

A story of obsession, madness, forbidden knowledge, and the terrifying possibility that something may be hiding behind the Pallid Mask.

Part of Midnight Murmurs: Season 4 — 31 Days of Horror.

A hearse appears outside a quiet London home in the hours before dawn. Its strangely dressed driver looks upward and delivers a simple invitation:

“Just room for one inside, sir.”

A month later, Hugh Grainger sees the same face again.

In “The Bus-Conductor,” E. F. Benson transforms an ordinary city street into a chilling meditation on premonition, fate, and the unseen forces that may occasionally reveal themselves just long enough to save a life.

Presented by Midnight Murmurs as part of 31 Days of Horror.