Interviews & Behind The Scenes Episodes

Arts and culture reporter Andrew Shearer joins Henrique Couto for a sixth-anniversary account of how Weekly Spooky grew from a Halloween 2019 launch into a near-daily horror feed. You’ll hear behind-the-scenes production stories, the chapters of Henrique’s podcasting journey (“Making a Living in Podcasting,” “Behind the Curtain of Creativity”), and the classic influences—Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone—that shaped Weekly Spooky’s voice. Plus: how new segments like Terrifying & True and ...

Horror author Charles Campbell interviews Weekly Spooky creator Henrique Couto about the show, his filmmaking, and the work behind audio horror. The 2024 Horror 421 conversation offers a creator-focused look at writing, directing, producing, and sustaining Weekly Spooky rather than a fictional story, making Henrique’s process the searchable subject. Charles Campbell turns the microphone toward Henrique’s creative career: building Weekly Spooky, directing and producing independent movies, worki...

We talk about rats en masse, a forgotten bomb in a front yard, ghosts that commit assault and we write an improvised horror story! Masses of rats turn a familiar city animal into a swarm; an unexploded or forgotten bomb in a front yard makes buried history physically dangerous; and reports of ghosts committing assault challenge the idea that a haunting is only a noise or glimpse. The episode then changes mode as the hosts build an improvised horror story from scratch. That creative segment giv...

Henrique Couto and Cameron Chaney of Library Macabre recommend Christmas horror books for readers who prefer ghosts and blood beside the tree. Their conversation ranges across holiday-themed horror fiction and Cameron’s novel “Autumncrow High: Fresh Hell,” pairing practical reading suggestions with a look at why Christmas and terror fit so well together. The recommendations treat Christmas horror as a broad reading mood rather than a single kind of story. Ghostly traditions, winter isolation, ...

Horror author and Library Macabre creator Cameron Chaney joins Henrique Couto to build a Halloween reading list for fans of scary books. Their conversation explores the pleasure of seasonal horror reading, the books that belong beside an October night, and Cameron’s work celebrating macabre literature. The episode also discusses his novel “Autumncrow High: Fresh Hell,” making it a useful spooky-season listen for readers seeking their next frightening title. Cameron approaches horror reading as...

Filmmaker and journalist Andrew Shearer interviews Henrique Couto about producing 200 episodes of Weekly Spooky over the show’s first three years. The retrospective explores how the audio fiction is made, lessons from sustaining a weekly schedule, the collaborators behind the feed, and where Henrique hopes to take the show next. The conversation looks behind the finished narration at the practical work required to release original horror on a weekly schedule: finding and developing stories, re...