The Classic Tales Podcast · B.J. Harrison

The Life-Eater, by Harold Ward

November 21, 2025·54 min·4 clips

Dr. La Montaigne explains how a jealous elemental spirit preys on human vitality like a vampire.

In a Louisiana bayou village terrorized by a mysterious plague, Dr. Hugo La Montaigne investigates and discovers an elemental spirit feeding on human vitality, summoned by the sinister Aaron Cronk. La Montaigne uses occult knowledge and iron to trap and defeat the entity, revealing Cronk's scheme to scare villagers away for a lucrative land deal.

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