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Monday, October 27, 2025

An Anthology of Byzantine Tales of Horror and the Macabre

 

Byzantine historian Anthony Kaldellis compiled this anthology of Byzantine tales of horror and the macabre for his podcast in 2000. 

Learn about foul murders, demonic visitations, the undead, and the criminally insane; also, the Byzantine science of demonology and the spirit world. 

The stories are: "Questions for a woman who killed and ate her mother and daughter"; "Incisive curiosity"; "Desire of the flesh"; "The mummy"; "The murderer who gave himself up"; "Drawn and quartered"; "Wrong address"; "Erinyes of the sea"; "Three Blind Men"; "Taken"; "Possessorix"; "Baboutzikarios"; "Gello"; "Second chance"; "Calling a witness"; and "Killing baby Hitler."