Scary Fiction Episodes

Rhonda Canavan’s family cruise aboard the Vanguard of the Seas becomes a floating zombie apocalypse with no safe port and no route home. For her eighteenth birthday, Rhonda receives an expensive journal and instructions to record the best days of her life. Instead, she documents a strained family vacation with her father Peter, stepmother Jill, and sixteen-year-old stepbrother Roger. The marriage may be collapsing, but the enormous ship promises twelve days of food, entertainment, and escape fr...

Stephen Loring searches Burma for a missing friend and follows temple bells into a jungle ruin ruled by a knife-wielding high priestess. Campbell’s last letter was posted from Mandalay, but local knowledge points Loring south toward Pugan and the ancient shrines his friend had been studying. Mung Ba, the devoted Burmese guide who worked for Campbell, arrives with a carefully repeated invitation to make the difficult river journey. The deeper Loring travels, the more warnings he hears about the ...

Four terrifying stories of murderers on the loose. These are not supernatural killers or monsters lurking in the dark... These are your friends, your neighbors... your spouse... The four stories keep their killers human, which shifts the suspense toward proximity and recognition. A murderer can be a neighbor, partner, friend, or apparently ordinary stranger; motive, opportunity, revenge, and the ability to hide in daily life replace supernatural rules as the engine of fear. Presented as one ex...

Laura has twenty-two minutes to survive a ghostly lumberjack with an axe inside an isolated Pacific Northwest ranger station. Her fiancé Allen is already dead, his proposal hike ended by a century-old apparition near the remains of an abandoned logging camp. Bear spray passed harmlessly through the attacker. Now Laura is injured, hiding in a supply trailer, and clinging to a 911 dispatcher’s estimate that an officer can reach her before the lumberjack does. Every blow against a tree sounds clo...

Fleeing New York after murdering his wife, John Thompson picks up a hitchhiker who looks exactly like the woman he killed. John crosses the George Washington Bridge in a blue coupe, planning to leave his old life behind and start over in the West. A young woman named Anne waits beside the New Jersey highway. She calls him Johnny, requests “Stardust” on the radio, and awakens a memory he is desperate to suppress. When a struggle at the wheel causes a crash, John believes he has killed her—only f...

A solo camper follows blood from an abandoned fire and discovers an antlered wilderness monster powerful enough to battle a bear—and determined to follow him home. Terrifying screams shatter the first night of a remote camping trip, but daylight makes the danger feel easier to dismiss. On the hike out, the narrator finds a severed human toe beside a carelessly burning fire, collides with a bloodstained bear, and sees the creature both animals fear: an eight-foot figure with deer antlers, a skul...

A relentless heat wave and a public-beach feud push George Pettit past the breaking point after years of criticism from his wife Myra. Myra insists on renting a beach cottage, then tries to claim the public sand in front of it as private property. She orders George to post no-trespassing signs, arrange chairs as a barrier, and drive away a young couple who settle nearby. When they refuse to move, Myra uses an old phonograph record as sonic harassment; the visitors return with music of their own...

Six Strickfield heroes are pulled into an alternate Earth ruled by vampires and must destroy the nuclear-powered portals being used to harvest humans across the multiverse. This complete five-part saga brings together Arial Mirren, Madelyne and Eileen Donnerly, Bella Taibon, Felicia Mirren, and Carter Cross. Their powers and secrets collide after a supernatural tornado carries them through a doorway into endless night: Bella is a daylight-walking Master Vampire, Felicia can become a giant mutan...

Arial Mirren faces the vampire double who helped condemn an alternate Earth while her friends race to destroy the portal machine and its nuclear power source. The final chapter reveals the personal betrayal behind the apocalypse and forces Arial to decide what kind of Mirren she will become. Outside, Felicia battles toward the reactor controls, Bella keeps Mayor Gunter occupied, Eileen repairs the portal home, Madelyne channels Mary Worth, and Carter refuses to abandon the person he loves. Ever...

Claire Collins refuses to sleep because a recurring nightmare forces her to face the child she murdered—and this time she may not wake up. After six days of insomnia, Claire’s husband Charles sends her to a doctor. She admits that she fears one specific dream but will not explain why. Whenever exhaustion wins, Claire walks an endless street into a house where a boy asks, “Where’s my father?” She gives him a drink to silence him, then flees through a tunnel toward a black river while something f...

The captives escape their power-draining cells and turn the Strickfield Nuclear Power Plant into a battlefield against Mayor Gunter’s vampire army. Arial Mirren discovers she still carries Queen Arcadia’s fire, light, and electrical powers, while Bella Taibon, Felicia Mirren, the twin Donnerly cousins, and Carter Cross fight to reach the portal controls. Their first strike damages the machine but cannot stop the vampires for long. Outnumbered and exhausted, the group must decide whether destroy...

A condemned gangster promises to kill the friend who betrayed him within one month of his execution—and keeps the deadline from beyond the grave. Johnny Promo, known as Johnny Promise, dies in the electric chair for murdering Officer Cochran after a failed bank robbery. In court he swears that prosecution witness Sam Rogers will have no more than a month to live. Johnny has money, loyal associates, and a reputation for never breaking his word, so Sam hides on the ninth floor of a cheap hotel an...

Imprisoned beneath the Strickfield Nuclear Power Plant, the team finally hears how Mayor Patrick Gunter helped turn an entire alternate Earth into a vampire apocalypse. Ten years earlier, Gunter was losing a mayoral race to Harmony Mirren when a mysterious partner offered him victory and dominion over far more than Strickfield. Their search for ultimate power led beneath the haunted Carnovasch Estate to a chained chest containing the imprisoned essence of Dracula. Opening it transformed the con...

A wartime cargo ship crossing the Pacific reaches the birth of an undersea volcano, where superheated water and volcanic debris surround the crew. The voyage begins as wartime transport across a vast ocean, but strange heat, discoloration, and violent movement in the sea warn that the danger is rising from below. The ship has entered a region where the ocean floor is rupturing. Steam rolls across the surface, pumice and ash threaten the vessel, and water hot enough to kill makes abandoning ship...

Arial Mirren has been carried away by a giant vampire bat, forcing Felicia and Bella to launch a rooftop rescue across the ruins of alternate Strickfield. Felicia reveals the full strength of her mutant spider form while Bella Taibon brings Master Vampire speed to the chase. After they recover Arial, the survivors compare everything they know about this undead Earth and reach a dangerous conclusion: escaping again will only postpone the next attack. To end the cycle, they must locate the techno...

Convicted murderer Max Young is locked in an executed prisoner’s haunted cell, where Skeeter Dempsey’s ghost prepares him for the electric chair. Police capture Max during a filling-station robbery and suspect him of killing Officer Ambrose Hogan. Detective Miller cannot force a confession, so he places the terrified prisoner in the cell once occupied by Skeeter Dempsey, a cop killer already put to death. In the dark, Skeeter’s voice introduces Max to a jail where the dead remain close and even...

Six summer horror stories bring werewolves, deadly camp wishes, roadside killers, backwoods creatures, devilish music, and a zombie outbreak into the heat. “The Wolf of Fagan County” by David O’Hanlon follows 13-year-old Conrad through a summer of mutilated bodies, family secrets, and monsters hiding in a small town. Killian Crane’s “The Lady in the Germ Box” sends bullied camper Greg to a portable toilet where a supernatural woman grants wishes with viciously literal results. In John Oak Dalto...

A supernatural tornado carries six Strickfield friends into an alternate Earth where vampires rule, daylight is gone, and familiar families have become predators. Arial Mirren is rebuilding her life with Madelyne Donnerly after breaking Queen Arcadia’s possession and being disowned by her parents. A trip home from Strickfield Towne Centre Mall should be routine—until the storm drops Arial, Madelyne, Carter Cross, Eileen Donnerly, Bella Taibon, and Felicia Mirren into a nightmare version of thei...

Danny murders the blind uncle who controls his inheritance, but the unmistakable tap of a cane continues after the body is buried. His uncle’s authority stands between Danny and the money—and between Danny and the woman he wants. Greed and forbidden love make murder seem like a clean solution. Because the victim cannot see his attacker, Danny believes he can arrange the death, remove suspicion, and step into the future he has been denied. Then the house begins to reproduce the dead man’s habit...

Brenda receives her missing uncle’s manuscript about Fool’s Hill, an Oregon legend connecting witches, disappearances, and bodies found in the woods. Folklore writer R. H. Thurston—known to family as Randy—traces the mystery to a 1919 newspaper item about William Ivanhoe’s claim that he saw witches near Locust Grove. Later reports mention stolen crops, strange carvings, a mutilated body, and other locals who vanished around the same patch of forest. A research trip brings Randy to a saloon, an ...

Fugitive Wally Pindell picks up a hitchhiker bound for Missoula, then a raging forest fire traps them with a ranger, trooper, and makeshift crew. Wally is already afraid of the woods when he emerges from a failed hunt and sees a red glow circling the mountain road. He gives Jan a ride toward her new job, but authorities stop the car and press every available person into the fire response. The road is cut off, the wind has shifted, and flames on three sides leave only a dangerous route toward a ...

A killer returns to Strickfield every April Fools’ Day, giving survivor Ashley Gable and Detective Chantel Devereux one day to stop the annual murders. Rob Field's Most Lengthy Strickfield Horror So Far! For four years, April Fool’s Day has seen one person a year die in Strickfield. Then the murders start to affect the life of Ashley Gable when her boyfriend is murdered the fifth April Fool’s Day. A year later, Ashley’s younger sister is claimed by the killer. Ashley herself is stabbed fatally...

Trapped inside a warehouse where painted lines control reality, a night guard follows a trail of blood onto the forbidden black route—and walks into a monster ambush. Part two resumes on the endless staircase created when the former fire-tower ranger broke one of his new job’s rules. A cryptic text returns him to the hallway, but the remaining patrols still must be completed before morning. Blood leads away from the approved colored paths, the doors lose their numbers, and a winged creature joi...

C. Auguste Dupin investigates two brutal deaths in a locked Paris apartment where every door and window appears secured from inside. Off-duty gendarme Pierre Muset and his sweetheart Yvette hear screams from Madame L’Espanaye’s fourth-floor rooms in the Rue Morgue. Inside, the elderly woman lies murdered and her daughter has been forced high into the chimney. Witnesses report two voices speaking in different languages, yet the gold remains untouched and no human escape route seems possible. Pi...