Scary Fiction Episodes

Four vintage radio nightmares confront a deadly image, something unearthed from a grave, a fogbound murder, and a man tormented by voices. This Unknown Broadcast presents “Death Has Claws,” “We Dug It Up,” “Confession,” and “The Man Who Heard Voices.” The lineup draws on Inner Sanctum, Lights Out, Escape, and CBS Radio Mystery Theater for macabre suspense involving obsession, buried secrets, shell-shocked perception, and voices with lethal intentions. “Death Has Claws” opens with an image whos...

C. Auguste Dupin investigates a savage double murder in a locked Paris room where the voices, wounds, and escape route appear impossible. Madame L’Espanaye and her daughter are found brutally killed inside their fourth-floor home in the Rue Morgue. The doors are locked from within. Witnesses agree that they heard two voices during the violence, yet they cannot agree on the language—or even whether one speaker sounded human. The police arrest a suspect, but the physical evidence refuses to fit a...

Kick back and experience the best of Halloween horrors from Weekly Spooky in 2021 and 2022! Over five hours of scary stories to keep you on the edge of your seat! Built as a longer listening session, Twelve Halloween Horror Stories combines Halloween horror, supernatural suspense, and narrated horror while allowing every story to keep its own threat and payoff. This collection reaches across Weekly Spooky’s 2021 and 2022 Halloween seasons, bringing twelve complete stories into one extended pro...

A rare VHS copy of The Strickfield Slasher turns Halloween movie night into a fight against the killer trapped inside its black-and-white frames. While shopping at Strickfield Towne Centre Mall on Halloween, college student Briana discovers Tinker’s oddities shop and a supposedly lost local horror film. The movie began in 1971 as a student production shot at the already-haunted Grimm Manor. Its actor, Scott Meade, took the role of the cleaver-wielding Strickfield Slasher far too seriously—and t...

A vampire may turn a human only after hearing “yes,” but an ancient rule of consent becomes terrifying when a child’s safety hangs on one final answer. Victor is 227 years old and has created only a few vampires. His most vulnerable progeny is Shannon, a little girl whose hunger and loneliness lead her away from their temporary refuge in Langley, South Carolina, and into the home of Lisa, her mother Karen, and grandmother Molly McBride. What begins as a secret friendship between two children dr...

Four classic radio thrillers bring together a condemned prisoner, a family ghost, a rat-swarmed lighthouse, and a house no investigator can survive. This Unknown Broadcast includes Suspense’s “The Hangman Won’t Wait,” Inner Sanctum’s “Mark My Grave,” Escape’s Vincent Price classic “Three Skeleton Key,” and CBS Radio Mystery Theater’s “A Ghostly Game of Death.” Murder mystery, supernatural dread, and isolated survival make this an old-time-radio horror marathon. “The Hangman Won’t Wait” uses a ...

A Halloween camping prank becomes real wilderness terror when a monster-mask joke gives way to a towering creature hunting four friends through the forest. The narrator expects an easy October 30 hiking trip with Jolene, Dawn, and Rose: a quiet state-park campsite, a stack of books, and Halloween fun far from home. A new neck-worn reading light is just a convenient way to keep reading after dark. Jolene’s monster-mask ambush also seems harmless—especially when it inspires a plan to frighten the...

A haunted corn maze is the last place Danny wants to spend Halloween, but a party dare sends him inside with his older brother Derek and their friends. The challenge sounds simple: stay one hour. Then the paths shift, grinning figures stalk the rows, and the way out stops making sense. William Rayne’s “Never Enter the Old Corn Maze on Halloween” turns teenage bravado into supernatural survival horror, with two brothers caught in a labyrinth that has no caretaker—and may not need one. Author: ht...

Kick back and experience the creepy creation of a Halloween tradition as you hear SIX tales of horrors and fear that all take place on Halloween! Halloween is not simply decorative here: each of the six stories takes place during the holiday, using its costumes, rituals, darkness, and lowered defenses as part of the danger. The collection explores how celebration can disguise a threat and how familiar October traditions change once the impossible becomes real. The anthology format gives listen...

Seven-year-old Joey helps rent a forbidden horror movie on Halloween and discovers a cursed VHS capable of erasing people from existence. Joey only wants time with his older brother Chris, but Chris and his friend Mack have another plan: switch the tape for the R-rated “Flesh of the Android” into an innocent case and fool Mr. Binford at the neighborhood video store. The scheme works, the boys settle in for a Halloween movie night, and the static hiding inside the cassette proves far more danger...

Rosalind Wallace believes she has engineered the perfect murder, but an ugly gold butterfly pin awakens the twelfth juror’s buried memory. For seven years, wealthy Rosalind has controlled Edward Albritton through a secret affair. When he tries to return to his wife, she shoots him and coerces vulnerable employee Alfred Graham into confessing. Alfred’s fingerprints are on the weapon, his financial crimes supply a motive, and Rosalind’s testimony appears to guarantee a conviction. The plan is so ...

A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition awakens in absolute darkness, where a hidden pit and descending blade turn every sensation into calculated terror. After hearing his death sentence, the unnamed narrator loses consciousness and wakes inside a cell he cannot see. He measures the walls by touch, stumbles at the edge of a deep circular pit, and realizes the darkness itself has been designed as an instrument of execution. When he awakens again, he is strapped beneath the painted figure of Time ...

Wildlife filmmakers Gwen Faulkner and Sarah Mathis find mutilated animals and pools of red waste as an impossible predator closes around their South African camp. The documentarians came to study big cats and have grown attached to cheetah Clementine and her cubs, Itchy and Scratchy. Their familiar routines break when carcasses appear crushed rather than eaten, a watering hole turns unnaturally black, and foul red pits dot the grassland. Even lions have been mangled by something no known animal...

A horror writer working late on one final Lights Out script imagines a monster so intensely that the creature steps out of his mind and into the room. Arch Oboler places a version of himself at the center of “The Author and the Thing.” Exhausted by deadlines, ghosts, blood, and the demand for another terrifying broadcast, the writer sends his secretary Miss Goddard home and struggles alone with an unfinished play. A medieval text beside him warns that seven days and nights spent concentrating o...

Garnet Mirren and four undefeated Pendleton basketball players owe their success to a Hellweaver pact that grants their desires as long as they feed on mortal flesh. Their private victory celebrations leave very little behind. The arrangement turns against them when one teammate devours prey that is not fully human. A winter storm closes in, supernatural hunger mutates into something older, and the predators must survive a Wendigo-like creature born from their own appetite and broken rules. W...

Diver Trent Hall searches the Paraguay River for the Santa Rosa’s lost gold, where betrayal above water and piranhas below threaten every breath. Trent is working dangerous, low-paying dives in Argentina when Vincent Murdoch returns with an irresistible proposition. Fourteen years earlier, during war between Bolivia and Paraguay, the Santa Rosa vanished while carrying millions in gold toward Brazil. Murdoch claims that Maria Sandoval’s traumatized father is the only survivor and can guide them ...

A security specialist investigating an abandoned Vermont town finds a restored church hiding human sacrifices and a demon that can wear any face. Jones is an ex-military troubleshooter sent by Sentinel Security when workers renovating an old New England church begin quitting or disappearing. The town’s owner insists the project must continue, but tools move overnight, strange symbols appear in fresh lumber, and no one remains after dark. A hidden staircase beneath the church leads Jones toward ...

Hollywood star Laura Lane’s premiere-night party becomes a cover-up when the husband everyone believes dead walks into her bedroom demanding his share. Laura has fought her way from an obscure past as Gloria Gordon to become the celebrated star of “Star-Crossed Love.” Her studio expects smiles, interviews, and perfect publicity at the lavish party following the film’s premiere. Behind the glamorous image is George, the brutal first husband thought to have died during a Newark holdup—and the sec...

Four Shane Migliavacca stories unleash zombie-apocalypse deception, cannibal killers, a desert motel siege, and deadly romantic obsession. “Survivors” follows an isolated girl raised to fear the dead; “The Dinner Guests” sends killers Orville and Cherry into the wrong family home; “Incident at Isotope Inn” traps hostages with something worse outside; and “Be Mine” turns a secret admirer into Valentine’s Day horror. Together they form a long collection of monsters, murder, love, and betrayal. T...

The five surviving members of the Battleguard confront Hellweaver before she can use the Reality Sphere to remake the entire multiverse. Hellweaver has defeated the greatest defenders in her path and seized an artifact capable of reshaping reality according to its bearer’s will. Her destination is the Infinity Core, the epicenter of the multiverse. If the Sphere reaches it, every world may be transformed into an extension of her demonic realm. Princess Giean-Gh’Ari, Carly Richmond, Max Considi...

After Sam Croft nearly strangles his wife Dora during a vicious argument, an impossible figure crashes into their fifth-floor Bronx apartment. Sam feels trapped between a domineering mother and a wife who mocks his work and resents the life they share. When their latest fight turns violent, a broken window announces the arrival of a silent, terrifying visitor. The figure blocks the door, watches the couple, and seems capable of crushing their throats—yet the superintendent’s daughter and the re...

Six stories by “Splatter” Joe Solmo unleash forest predators, body-part parasites, a revenant, two werewolves, and a demonic family debt. “Party in the Woods” sends Tristan and Becca to a moonlit gathering where huge gray hunters with claws and humanlike cruelty wait beyond an old stone chimney. “The Trouble with Cousins” follows cadaver thieves into a black-market doctor’s warehouse, where stolen human remains have become a living hive of screaming parasites. In “Dead Ahead,” Becca and Tom bu...

A night librarian at the Battle Creek Public Library discovers an antique volume hidden inside a wall. Bound in leather and stamped with the Latin word Interitus—destruction—the book was never meant to be opened. When the seal breaks, an ancient force called Ulupoka takes control of a late-night patron and turns the quiet stacks into a supernatural battleground. The librarian’s only hope may be Jerome Blackwell, a long-missing local historian who knows why the demon was imprisoned and what mus...

A couple exploring an Appalachian back road is abducted so a dying mountain patriarch can pass his sins to an unwilling stranger. Teacher and folk-music researcher James Reed hopes the remote hills may preserve old ballads and customs. His younger wife Lucille is less enchanted by the isolation. After a local police officer advises them to continue toward town, armed brothers Luther and Jesse force the couple from their car and march them to a family cabin beside an open grave. The family’s an...