Ep. 1089, The Life-Eater, by Harold Ward
The Classic Tales Podcast
B.J. Harrison
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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What otherworldly creature is terrorizing a sleepy Louisiana bayou town? Harold Ward, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.
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Today's story was originally published in the June 1937 edition of Weird Tales, magazine. It's a good example of weird fiction, with some numinous moments that are particularly effective.
And now, The Life-Eater, by Harold Ward
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| 0:00.0 | What otherworldly creature is terrorizing a sleepy Louisiana Bayou Town? |
| 0:07.0 | Harold Ward, today on the Classic Tales podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the Classic Tales podcast. |
| 0:22.9 | Thank you for listening. |
| 0:24.6 | Have you wanted to try an audiobook and see if you'll like it? |
| 0:28.1 | Are you apprehensive to spend $15 on an audiobook you might not like? |
| 0:32.7 | With the audiobook library card, you can sample as many titles as you like |
| 0:37.3 | until you find one that |
| 0:38.8 | sticks. For only $9.99 a month, you get unlimited downloads and streaming of the entire |
| 0:45.5 | Classic Tales Library. No limits. Just heavily curated, well-produced audio. In so many genres, |
| 0:54.1 | you're sure to find something that hits that |
| 0:56.1 | sweet spot. Go to audiobook library card.com or follow the link in the show notes. |
| 1:04.0 | A now for something completely different. Today's story was originally published in the June |
| 1:09.4 | 1937 edition of Weird Tales magazine. |
| 1:14.0 | It's a good example of weird fiction, with some numinous moments that are particularly effective. |
| 1:20.0 | I hope you like it. |
| 1:21.9 | And now, The Life Eater by Harold Ward. |
| 1:31.0 | Thank you. The Life Eater by Harold Ward. One, the Terror |
| 1:33.3 | Death stalked through the little village of Flafubel |
| 1:39.6 | at the edge of the great swamp. |
| 1:42.4 | Again and again it struck, |
| 1:45.8 | fattening the tiny cypress-straped graveyard |
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