S14 Ep23: S14E23 - "Vast and Unsympathetic" - Horror Hill
Horror Hill — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast
Chilling Entertainment
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this haunting episode of Horror Hill, Erik Peabody presents a groundbreaking tale of cosmic horror from 1923 that still feels disturbingly modern today. Deep in the Canadian wilderness, a doomed expedition encounters strange markings burned into stone by an impossible cold—signs that something ancient, alien, and utterly unknowable has crossed into our reality. As fear spreads through the isolated party, the laws of nature begin to unravel around them. Time slips. Seasons change overnight. Memories fracture. And lurking just beyond the firelight is a presence that sees humanity not as equals… but as specimens.
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| 0:57.0 | Music of terror. Thank you for listening and enjoy the show. The The Disclaimer. Horror Hill is a horror anthology podcast bringing you scary stories from all |
| 1:23.6 | corners of the internet and beyond. As such, certain stories include content that some listeners |
| 1:29.6 | might find offensive. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:37.3 | Greetings, dear listeners, and welcome back to Horror Hill. I'm Eric Peabody, your host and narrator. |
| 1:46.5 | Tonight, I've got a story for you that is truly one of the strangest tales I've ever come across. |
| 1:52.7 | And believe it or not, it's over 100 years old. |
| 1:57.0 | This is The Thing from Outside by George Allen England, first published in 1923. |
| 2:05.7 | Our setup is fairly straightforward, a group of five researchers returning from the wilderness. |
| 2:11.7 | As is to be expected in stories like these, things don't go exactly as planned, but it's how things go awry that |
| 2:19.9 | really makes this one work. This is weird fiction with a capital W folks, and has some horror |
| 2:26.7 | concepts that are decades beyond what was being written at the time. You'll have to deal with |
| 2:31.7 | some antiquated language, but stick with it. |
| 2:35.0 | This one chills to the bone. |
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