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.
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Oct. 12, 2022
Origin of the Pumpkin Man | A Halloween School Prank and a Monstrous Revenge
A cruel school prank helps create a Halloween monster in “Origin of the Pumpkin Man” by Charles Campbell. At LBC Middle School’s 1987 Jack-O-Lantern Jubilee, Butch Marker and Steve Vig prepare explosive pumpkins for the festivities. After a child is hurt, science teacher Raymond Mathis receives a packet marked PUMPKIN POTION and an invitation to punish those responsible. The dance is still ahead, but the evening’s rules are already changing. An ’80s Halloween horror story about recklessness, rev...
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March 9, 2021
Old Jerry | A Halloween Prank at a Cannibal’s House
Egging Old Jerry’s house is a terrible Halloween mistake in RT Raynaud’s “Old Jerry.” Returning alone for candy, in the same devil costume, is worse. The homeowner recognizes his tormentor and offers a private haunted-house tour. Now Jerry talks through his grievances while struggling with a broken saw and some very messy work. This grisly horror monologue puts listeners inside a cannibal’s cheerful, self-justifying rant. There are rules to trick-or-treating, and Jerry is eager to explain them. ...