Scary Fiction Episodes

Unknown Broadcast opens the vault for four classic old-time radio thrillers about lost places, dangerous discoveries, and people trapped by the choices they make. From a treasure hunt beneath the desert to a condemned man’s final journey, every story turns escape into another form of captivity. Inside this episode: • The Lost Ship — Harry and Viola flee into the desert, where a hermit’s tale of a Spanish galleon buried beneath the sand awakens Harry’s greed. Gold doubloons, a lost ship, and a ri...

Eight Christmas horror stories unleash killer Santas, winter monsters, cursed letters, murderous toys, blizzards, and a holiday town with a deadly secret. • Biting Cold — by Jeff Carpenter A wounded man fights the snow, the wilderness, and his failing body as a frozen survival ordeal closes around him. • I’ll Be Home for Christmas — by Shane Migliavacca Students stranded at Black Oaks Academy during a brutal storm let a desperate stranger inside—and turn Christmas Eve into a siege. • Christma...

A lonely movie fan accepts a Thanksgiving invitation from a Mayflower descendant and discovers a family feast built on kidnapping, cannibalism, and murder. Dan Mullins plans to spend the holiday at an Ash Street Theater marathon after a painful break with his parents. When elderly John Billington appears to need help getting home, Dan’s kindness carries him into an old apartment filled with Pilgrim artifacts—and a locked room once occupied by another captive. John’s family claims its ancestor s...

Two classic radio dramas cross a time-bending New Hampshire bridge and follow a bloodstained rapier toward murder on Manhattan’s waterfront. This Unknown Broadcast pairs CBS Radio Mystery Theater’s “The Covered Bridge,” written by Ian Martin, with Inner Sanctum’s “The Edge of Death,” starring Larry Haines. A honeymoon slips into another century, then an antique weapon tied to Rasputin draws two friends into obsession, violence, and supernatural dread. In “The Covered Bridge,” a honeymoon journ...

A newcomer to an Adirondack town follows a grotesque local legend into the woods, where a six-foot infant monster wants to play with a bloody rattle. Jon hopes New Ellsworth will offer a quiet new start. Instead, his job at the lumber yard introduces him to Sleepy Carl, Carl’s sister Edina, and a giant discarded diaper no ordinary baby could have worn. The locals call the creature behind it Oopsie Poopsie—but their nervous jokes conceal a family secret that has been growing in the forest for ye...

Anne Winslow’s rainy-night taxi ride turns deadly when she discovers a man with a cut throat beside her—and the body disappears inside her home. After missing her train, Anne accepts a cab ride to her isolated house. A silent passenger slumped against her shoulder proves to be a corpse, but the driver refuses to explain how the dead man reached the back seat. Instead, he carries the body into Anne’s living room, leaves her alone with it during a storm, and drives away while the telephone lines ...

A cruel king humiliates his court jester once too often, inspiring a masquerade revenge built from chains, costumes, fire, and poetic justice. Hop-Frog and his friend Trippetta were taken from their homeland and forced to entertain a king whose seven ministers share his appetite for practical jokes. The jester’s body makes movement painful, and alcohol drives him into a dangerous frenzy, yet the king orders him to drink for the court’s amusement. When Trippetta begs for mercy, the monarch throw...

Sorority sister Jaxey Jynx follows three pale strangers into the Backwoods of Strickfield and discovers a ghoul matriarch recruiting daughters for an immortal family. Jaxey, Renny Stafford, and Paulette Peterson meet Kirsh, Stephen, and Xander during a Friday the 13th marathon at the Strickfield Drive-In. The men’s vintage appearance and cold skin trigger Jaxey’s suspicion, but her friends accept an invitation to their secluded home. There, the elegant Victoria speaks of marriage, family, and b...

In this episode, I explore the intricate narrative of loyalty and moral conflict in "Thicker Than Water." The story centers on Nick Wedge, a defense attorney navigating the treacherous waters of a murder trial involving his client, Benny Bleeker. From a mugging gone tragically wrong to the intense courtroom battles that ensue, I dissect the dynamics of familial ties and the ethical dilemmas that shape Wedge’s journey. As witness testimonies unfold and evidence mounts, Wedge confronts his own bel...

Five Thanksgiving horror stories turn family dinners, hunting trips, Friendsgiving, and homecoming into murder, monsters, and supernatural revenge. • Thanksgiving Dinner — by Rachael Redolfi Officer Sophia Cortez answers a welfare call in a quiet Indiana town and discovers that one family’s closed doors conceal years of cruelty and a nightmare no holiday meal can disguise. • Turkey Shoot — by David O’Hanlon Sheriff Hart and Deputy Hargrove investigate a grisly Ozark death, only to face an enor...

A high-school reunion in the Arkansas Ozarks becomes a blood-soaked creature attack when giant mutant fleas begin hunting everyone near Hawk’s cabin. Months earlier, a burning object fell from the sky and brought an otherworldly power source into contact with the wilderness’s smallest parasites. Now Rocko and Lyla are camping ahead of their old clique’s annual gathering when something armored, ravenous, and much larger than any ordinary insect detects their heat, breath, and blood. At the cabi...

Attorney Ned Murray wins Louis Rydell’s murder acquittal—then his client privately confesses and boasts that he may kill the next man who angers him. The admission leaves Ned trapped between justice and the law. Double jeopardy prevents another trial for the killing of grocery boy Yost, while attorney-client privilege threatens Ned’s career if he reveals what Rydell said. His boss, Harry Ostrow, demands silence; his fiancée, Karen, urges him not to sacrifice their future; and the district attor...

Eight horror stories summon the dead for Día de los Muertos, moving from vengeful water spirits and cursed villages to zombies, grave robbers, and restless poltergeists. “The Spirit of Langley Pond” by Charles Campbell returns to a 1981 murder whose victim still screams from the water. “The Truth About Groundhog Day” by Rob Fields traps visitors inside Hollow Point, where a witch’s curse has turned a familiar weather ritual into a supernatural countdown. Dan Wilder’s body-horror tale “The God T...

A Halloween broadcast at WHNT becomes a paranormal emergency when mysterious callers, failing power, and shadowy presences invade the late-night studio. On a fateful Halloween night, the late-night radio crew at WHNT faces an unprecedented broadcast filled with horror stories and supernatural suspense. From mysterious callers to shadowy entities crossing over into reality, this mature-themed story will captivate fans of scary and spooky stories alike. As power flickers and darkness envelops th...

Scream queen Vickie Valentine confronts a Halloween ritual that transforms her screen persona, Veronda, Queen of the Night, into supernatural reality. Follow scream queen Vickie Valentine, known as “Veronda, Queen of the Night,” as she navigates love, fame, and dark supernatural forces that awaken during the spooky season. This mature-themed tale explores love, sacrifice, and ancient monsters hiding behind human faces. Set against haunted houses, film sets, and the eerie backdrop of Halloween ...

A serial killer’s death chamber opens seven Halloween radio nightmares about haunted voices, wax murderers, poisoned marriages, and revenge. “Murder Castle” follows Henry Stewart as he lures unattached women with job advertisements, demands a cash surety bond, and hides murder inside a carefully designed home. In “Mind Over Murder,” dry-goods merchant Sam Morrison ignores a violent crime near a bus station, only to have the number 4826 invade his conscience through license plates, a police badg...

☠️ Halloween has returned to Strickfield… and so has Death. In Retro Halloween Revelations by Rob Fields, the long-dead Destiny Mirren—now reborn as Saffron Morningside, the new incarnation of Death—comes back to her hometown with her loyal companion Sienna Michaels to run the Strickfield Funeral Home. But when Destiny’s mortal parents arrive to plan a funeral for their “missing” daughter, long-buried sins claw their way out of the grave. 💀 Destiny’s father, Brently Mirren, hides a dark secret...

A yard-sale Halloween mask seems perfect for eight-year-old Chrissy. Then strange voices and changes in her behavior leave her mother wondering what came home with the costume. Michael Kelso’s “Never Buy a Halloween Mask from a Yard Sale” turns trick-or-treat preparations into a possessed-object horror story about a parent trying to protect a child from a bargain with a hidden past. Books: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoau... Author: https://www.reddit.com/user/Ho... Original furnace-replacement a...

Babysitter Kristin faces a houseful of homicidal ‘dirt babies’ when a child’s grass-growing school craft awakens something buried in grave soil. Set in the heart of spooky season, this mature-themed episode blends horror, 90s nostalgia, and dark humor. From babysitter-in-peril suspense to gruesome creativity, witness crafts grow teeth, eyes, and a taste for blood, creating a true Halloween bloodbath. The “dirt babies” begin as recognizable school crafts: soil-filled figures meant to sprout gra...

A vanished mother, a walking skull, a cataleptic man mistaken for dead, and an executive’s buried identity anchor four classic radio mysteries. Escape’s “The Vanishing Lady,” based on Alexander Woollcott’s version of the legend, sends young Cynthia Winship and her ill mother into a crowded Paris hotel during the great exposition. A doctor dispatches Cynthia across the city for medicine; when she returns, the hotel register, room, staff, and every trace of Mrs. Winship have been changed. British...

Charlee Brewster’s Halloween shift at Strickfield Video becomes a monster siege involving vampires, werewolves, and undead movie fans. This mature-themed tale by Rob Fields follows Charlee Brewster, a tattooed biker girl, as she faces terrifying vampires, snarling werewolves, and undead cinephiles in a wild, blood-soaked night. Filled with 90s nostalgia, snarky humor, and spine-chilling action, this episode delivers a powerful blend of horror stories and mature themes that will keep you on edg...

Sit back and experience the most scary of Halloween horrors from Weekly Spooky in 2023! Over five hours of scary stories to make you keep the lights on! Drawn from Weekly Spooky’s 2023 Halloween programming, the nine-story collection is paced as a feature-length night of audio horror rather than a single repeated premise. The stories move among supernatural suspense, killers, creatures, seasonal rituals, and October settings while allowing every author’s tale to build toward its own reveal. Th...

Joshua Fox’s hopeful date at a remote cottage near Sauble Beach becomes a werewolf hunt through the dark Canadian wilderness. Home in Owen Sound for Canadian Thanksgiving and college reading week, Josh expects his old friends to be busy and turns to an online dating site for company. A message from Tracey Kidd—confident, magnetic, and far out of his league—invites him to help close her family’s cottage for winter. The hot tub, liquor cabinet, and isolated house make the invitation sound like th...

A funhouse carries Mouse Donnerly, Arial Mirren, and their friends from an abandoned Strickfield carnival into the haunted mystery’s origin in 1955. From the eerie Carnovasch Estate to a suspense-filled showdown in the Hall of Mirrors, this Halloween epic blends haunted carnival legends with time travel mysteries. Ideal for fans of Goosebumps and Stranger Things, this episode delivers all the spooky stories and horror thrills you crave during the spooky season. If you enjoy mature-themed tales...