Halloween Episodes
Find your next Halloween listen: original scary stories, haunted places, cryptid encounters and the folklore behind the season. Short on time? Start with The Fair Folk (25 minutes), a dark fairy rescue story. Prefer ghost folklore? Try Terrifying & True: Resurrection Mary (98 minutes), exploring Chicago’s vanishing-hitchhiker legend. Settling in for the night? The Monsters’ Halloween Revue delivers seven fictional scares in 4 hours 57 minutes. Browse the collection below, choose your nightmare and press play.
Oct. 4, 2026
Unknown Broadcast | Werewolf Stories & Deadly Revenge: Halloween Radio Horror
Unknown Broadcast brings werewolf stories and deadly revenge to Halloween listening. In The Beast Must Die, a grieving father hunts the driver who killed his son; in The Red Forest, a motorist faces a wildfire. This six-story collection blends supernatural horror with human danger. Hear The Night of the Wolf, The Red Forest, The Beast Must Die, The Master's Tree, The Werewolf, and W Is for Werewolf, from CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, The Whistler, The Weird Circle, and Dark Fanta...
Oct. 3, 2026
Strickfield After Dark | 4 Halloween Horror Stories: Ghosts & Grimm Manor
A forbidden cemetery game draws three boys into a ghost's path, and a dare at Grimm Manor becomes a midnight contest with its dead owners. Strickfield After Dark gathers four Halloween horror stories by Rob Fields into nearly five hours of Weekly Spooky fiction. Hear Ghost in the Graveyard, Halloween Night at Grimm Manor, A New Halloween Legend, and Mad as Hell. Haunted houses, an occult book, and a human killer's violent code turn this Ohio town's traditions into threats. Two rivals must work t...
Oct. 2, 2026
Folklore Friday | Vampire Legends & Dark Folklore for Halloween
Why do vampire legends still frighten us? Henrique Couto welcomes folklorist and author D.L. Wainright to explore Romanian strigoi, Dracula, graveyard rituals, and New England vampire beliefs. This Folklore Friday conversation follows garlic, sunlight, shapeshifting, and a party guest hiding a disturbing secret beneath the table. Along the way: Ohio's Butter Street Monster, La Llorona, Slender Man, werewolves, and Halloween traditions. Discover how familiar monsters change as we share their stor...
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Oct. 1, 2026
Deadname: She Stole the Wrong Life — A Halloween Horror Story
A nameless young woman steals another girl's identity in Deadname, a Halloween horror story by Morgan Moore. With no memory of her past, she sees a costume and mask as a chance to belong. But at a Halloween party, someone is watching—and he thinks he knows her. A stolen life. A stranger's obsession. One night behind the wrong mask. This psychological horror story brings slasher suspense to spooky season. Follow Weekly Spooky for more scary stories. Narrated by Henrique Couto. Bonus episodes & s...
Oct. 1, 2026
Stingy Jack: The Halloween Legend Behind the Jack-o'-Lantern | Thursday Thrills
Stingy Jack and the Halloween legend behind the jack-o'-lantern welcome October with a bargain gone wrong. Henrique Couto follows an Irish folktale from a coin trapped beside a silver cross to the Devil stranded in a tree—and a promise with a terrible catch. Discover the carved turnip lanterns once used to frighten passersby, and the dark folklore behind that familiar pumpkin grin. What happens when outsmarting the Devil leaves you with nowhere to go? Light your first pumpkin and join Thursday T...
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Sept. 30, 2026
I'm a Firefighter and What I Found in the Last Fire Creeped Me Out | Halloween Ghost Story
A firefighter finds a notebook in the ashes of a burned cabin. Inside, Joe describes an isolated childhood, a forbidden railroad tunnel, and the Halloween night he dared to go trick-or-treating. His first taste of freedom leads toward a new family—but a shadow from home refuses to let him go. Michael Kelso's Halloween ghost story follows a boy caught between the life he wants and a haunting presence that keeps whispering one demand: home. What survived the fire, and why was the notebook protecte...
Sept. 28, 2026
Monthly Spooky | Halloween Countdown: Ghost Stories & Midnight Spook Shows
Halloween ghost stories meet the lost world of midnight spook shows. Henrique Couto and Michelle explore the glowing ghosts, stage illusions and blackout scares that turned movie theaters into haunted attractions. Then dig into a claimed Loch Ness Monster sighting, ghost rumors in Indian schools, a Polish 'vampire' burial and a Bigfoot mystery with a human explanation. A creepy roadside encounter rounds out this Monthly Spooky hangout. Join us for paranormal mysteries, cryptids, vampire folklore...
Sept. 27, 2026
Unknown Broadcast | Locked Rooms & Ghost Stories: Halloween Radio Horror
Unknown Broadcast opens six doors into old-time radio horror and suspense for Halloween. Parents are trapped downstairs while their toddler wanders alone above them in The Cellar Door; a dying man tells of a hidden room and its ghosts in Quiet Please. Hear The Locked Room, The Cave, The Cellar Door, House on Sycamore Road, The Room Where Ghosts Live, and Behind the Locked Door. Featuring CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, The Whistler, Quiet Please, and The Mysterious Traveler. Settle...
Sept. 26, 2026
Ordinary Places, Human Monsters | 7 Halloween Horror Stories
A grocery store's night shift faces a summoned beast. A water-park date becomes a parasitic outbreak. Ordinary Places, Human Monsters gathers seven Halloween horror stories into nearly five hours of Weekly Spooky fiction, from workplace terror to home invasion and revenge. The Night Stocker, A Wet 'n' Wild Halloween, Mischief Night, and The Graveyard Shift lead through places where the next shift or party may be your last. Stories by Shane Migliavacca, David O'Hanlon, and John Oak Dalton make ev...
Sept. 24, 2026
Halloween 2026 Horror Streaming Guide: Carrie & Crystal Lake | Thursday Thrills
What horror movies and shows should you stream for Halloween 2026? Henrique Couto previews six new movies and series arriving on U.S. streaming platforms: American Horror Story: 13 (Hulu, Sep 24); Infirmary (Shudder, Oct 2); Mike Flanagan's Carrie (Prime Video, Oct 7); R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead 2 (Tubi, Oct 9); V/H/S/Mixtape (Shudder, Oct 9); and Friday the 13th prequel Crystal Lake (Peacock, Oct 15). From cursed pumpkins and found footage to telekinetic terror, this spoiler-light Thursday Thrill...
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Sept. 23, 2026
The Fair Folk | Dark Fae Horror for Halloween
Missing children lead FBI agent Francheska 'Frannie' Carter to a fairy ring—and a realm where beautiful faces hide something monstrous. In The Fair Folk, a supernatural investigation takes her from wooded suburbs into Fairyland to bring the children home. But the Fae queen has no intention of letting her captives go. Can Frannie outwit creatures whose hypnotic songs are meant to deceive? This dark folklore horror story brings evil fairies, a dangerous rescue and woodland terror to your Halloween...
Sept. 19, 2026
The Monsters' Halloween Revue | 7 Scary Stories: Pumpkin Man & Werewolves
A pumpkin curse, a werewolf's deadly game, and Jack Scratch's twisted tales fill The Monsters' Halloween Revue. Settle in for nearly five hours of scary Halloween stories from Weekly Spooky, including Origin of the Pumpkin Man, STALK, and the complete Tricks and Treats trilogy. A costume party invites ancient powers, while an autumn hookup becomes a desperate test of survival. This seven-part horror fiction collection features Charles Campbell, Mike Ashkewe, David O'Hanlon, Keith Tomlin, Morgan ...
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Sept. 16, 2026
Intruder in the Night | Home Invasion Horror for Halloween
A teenage babysitter faces a masked intruder with poison gas in Intruder in the Night, a home invasion horror story by David O’Hanlon. It’s September 1944, and fourteen-year-old Candice Cardona is watching two boys in Couto Basin. Then a window opens, a sickly sweet smell drifts through the house, and muddy boot prints lead to the children’s room. Someone is already inside—and Candice has more than her own life to save. Make room in your scary Halloween stories queue for the Mad Gasser of Couto ...
Sept. 12, 2026
Rituals, Reels & Rentals | 7 Halloween Horror Stories: Cursed VHS & Slashers
A cursed VHS traps viewers in a slasher nightmare, vampires rent movies after dark, and a horror host draws a young fan into his show. Rituals, Reels & Rentals gathers seven scary Halloween stories into nearly five hours of Weekly Spooky fiction. Hear PHANTASMAGORIA, Special Halloween Hours, The Strickfield Slasher, and ERASURE, alongside graveyard rituals and a deadly rental. Dan Wilder, Keith Tomlin, Morgan Moore, Rob Fields, and Charles Campbell turn 1980s horror nostalgia into cursed-media n...
Sept. 5, 2026
The Long Road to the Haunted Hayride | 8 Halloween Horror Stories
Stay on the wagon. The haunted hayride has one rule, and breaking it turns staged scares into a fight to survive. Eight Halloween horror stories fill nearly five hours in The Long Road to the Haunted Hayride, a Weekly Spooky fiction anthology of corn mazes, scarecrows and Southern Gothic revenge. Meet The Grinner, The Piano Witch and Sickle Jack, then board the final hayride. Stories by David O'Hanlon, Henrique Couto, Charles Campbell, Joe Solmo, William Rayne, L.F. Falconer and Rob Fields lead ...
Aug. 29, 2026
Halloween Horror Stories | Vampires, Body Horror & Headless Folklore
A headless rider stalks a Halloween shortcut, a drive-in marathon turns into an afterlife reckoning, and an experiment gives a woman a monstrous body. Halloween Changes You brings five horror stories into nearly five hours of headless folklore, vampires, and body horror. Morgan Moore's Dullahan joins Rob Fields' Retro Halloween Weekend, Retro Halloween Revelations, New Life, and Madelyne's Revenge. From a forgotten witch-trial museum to a vampire from another world, these transformations reach f...
Aug. 27, 2026
Halloween Horror Nights 2026: The Architecture of Fear | Thursday Thrills
Why do we pay to be terrified at Halloween Horror Nights? Henrique Couto explores how haunted attractions use darkness, sound, misdirection, and live actors to turn a room into a threat. This Thursday Thrills preview of HHN 2026 draws on announcements available August 25 and research on fear and enjoyment, with stops at Universal Orlando, Hollywood, Knott's, and Six Flags. A filmmaker's eye reveals how crowd pacing and controlled attention shape the scare. Discover why the moment before a monste...
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Aug. 26, 2026
The Ant Aquarium of Minister Crap & Things | Halloween Insect Horror
A glass aquarium is locked around a man's head, and the fire ants are already moving. In The Ant Aquarium of Minister Crap & Things by Gary D, a windowless basement becomes a claustrophobic revenge trap crawling with roaches, centipedes, and worse. Years ago, he and his best friend Dave forced another child to swallow bugs. Now that cruelty has returned in a form he cannot brush away. This Weekly Spooky horror story mixes insect terror, gross-out body horror, and vicious dark comedy. Every movem...
Aug. 18, 2026
This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer: Blade, Exorcist III & American Werewolf
Blade, The Exorcist III, and An American Werewolf in London lead This Week in Horror History for August 17–23, 2026. Revisit Wesley Snipes' Daywalker, William Peter Blatty's supernatural detective story, the home invasion of You're Next, and Rebecca Hall's haunted grief in The Night House. Fred Dekker's Night of the Creeps takes the spotlight with alien parasites and undead fraternity brothers. Horror birthdays round out the calendar before Rick Baker's werewolf transformation earns this week's ...
Aug. 14, 2026
Cryptids Around the Campfire: Werewolf, Bigfoot, Chupacabra & Wendigo | Halloween Marathon
Railroad workers report a werewolf in Defiance, Ohio. Black-Eyed Children ask to come inside. Seven Terrifying & True investigations gather Bigfoot, the Fouke Monster, Chupacabra, Indrid Cold, and more for over three hours of campfire listening. Follow Ohio's Grassman to Salt Fork State Park, trace changing Chupacabra accounts, and explore the UFO lore around Point Pleasant. The Wendigo segment distinguishes Algonquian traditions from later fiction. Reported encounters, hoaxes, and disputed evid...
Aug. 11, 2026
This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer: The Monster Squad, Cujo & The Fly
The Monster Squad, Cujo, and The Fly lead This Week in Horror History for August 10–16, 2026. A stalled car becomes a trap in Stephen King's rabid-dog nightmare, while The Others, Jason Goes to Hell, and Lovecraft Country bring ghostly secrets, possession, and cosmic horror. Fred Dekker's monster-kid adventure takes the spotlight before David Cronenberg's The Fly marks its 40th anniversary as the weekly recommendation. Birthdays complete a tour from treehouse monster rules to Seth Brundle's disa...
Aug. 7, 2026
Cutting Deep Into Horror | Hell House LLC (2015) — Halloween Haunt Found Footage Horror
Hell House LLC (2015) turns a Halloween haunted attraction into a found footage catastrophe at the Abaddon Hotel. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi examine Stephen Cognetti's film on Cutting Deep into Horror, from clown mannequins and background movement to the camera logic that makes its fake documentary convincing. They compare its confined nightmare with The Houses October Built and follow the crew's preparations into the deadly opening night. Full spoilers, including the ending and final re...
July 26, 2026
Unknown Broadcast | Halloween in July: Classic Old Time Radio Horror
A haunted bride, a village of ancient sorcery, and a wife becoming a cat bring Halloween to July on Unknown Broadcast. Six classic old-time radio dramas fill over three hours: Here Goes the Bride, Ancient Sorceries, The Lord of the Witch Doctors, Mirage, Cat Wife, and Beware of Tomorrow. Hear CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and Lights Out, with work by Algernon Blackwood, Arch Oboler, and John Dickson Carr. Expect gothic secrets, murder, and killer robots in a vintage horror maratho...
July 25, 2026
Summerween: 4 Halloween Horror Stories with Bigfoot, Vampires, Zombies & Demons
Bigfoot hunts a wind-farm guard, ancient vampires spend their anniversary in a closed mall, and a courier pedals through the zombie apocalypse. Four Weekly Spooky stories celebrate Summerween with creatures, dark comedy, and work that could cost more than a paycheck. A desperate manager's interview at a black-glass tower completes the lineup with a recruiter for Hell. Stories by Michael Kelso, Rob Fields, Michelle Antisocial, and Killian Crane. Nearly two hours of horror turn night shifts, deliv...