The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long Episode #499
Frank Belknap Long | February 22, 2026-
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The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long Episode #499
Frank Belknap Long
THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS
Episode #499 · Written by Frank Belknap Long · Narrated by Scott Miller
Some experiments do not explode. They unfold quietly, with pencil marks, candlelight, and a single forbidden theory taken too seriously.
In The Hounds of Tindalos, a restless intellectual becomes convinced that time is merely another dimension of space—one that can be entered if the mind is properly prepared. He combines advanced mathematics with an obscure Eastern drug in an attempt to slip beyond the present moment. What he sees first is breathtaking: the entirety of human history unfolding at once. But he refuses to stop there. He strains further backward into angles and eras untouched by man—and something notices.
The terror in this story does not arrive with thunder. It creeps in through geometry. Angles become corridors. Corners become openings. The more the experimenter understands, the more he realizes he has exposed himself to beings that move through angular time. They cannot enter curves. They can only emerge from corners. And once they catch a scent, they do not forget.
The final act unfolds through newspaper clippings, police reports, and laboratory findings, grounding the impossible in documentary detail. The result is deeply unsettling. Long transforms cosmic horror into something architectural and immediate. Every room becomes suspect. Every intersection of wall and ceiling becomes a threat.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Frank Belknap Long (1901–1994) was a prolific American writer whose career spanned more than six decades. A close correspondent and friend of H. P. Lovecraft, Long contributed significantly to the developing Cthulhu Mythos. His fiction appeared regularly in Weird Tales, where The Hounds of Tindalos was first published in 1929. Long also wrote the novel The Horror from the Hills, one of the earliest full-length mythos expansions, and later produced work for pulp magazines, comics, and television.
The Hounds introduced one of weird fiction’s most enduring creations: entities that move through angles and hunt across time. The concept has echoed through mythos fiction ever since, influencing writers who sought to expand Lovecraft’s cosmic framework into new geometric nightmares.
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