Scary Fiction Episodes

Bullied teenager Richie Horton receives a mysterious diary that makes whatever he writes come true—but every fulfilled wish arrives warped and dangerous. The journal from Tinker’s first seems like a private place for Richie to imagine a better life without school bully Irving “Bull” Hitzigger. Then his hopes begin reshaping reality. Bailey Downs becomes violently obsessed with him, people around Richie change without understanding why, and an ordinary teenage fantasy escalates toward a knife at...

Mary Astor stars as Lucia, whose nightmares and jealousy convince her that husband Gilbert and half-sister Beverly are planning her murder. Inside a mansion above the sea, Lucia sees a shadowy figure approaching her bed with hands extended toward her throat. Gilbert’s growing closeness to Beverly makes the vision feel like a warning. Then he brings Lucia a bitter tonic containing strychnine, dismisses the housekeeper until Friday, and insists that his frightened wife take another dose. When th...

Ten ghost stories gather haunted lakes, cemeteries, cursed homes, sinister screens, urban legends, and restless spirits in a long marathon. Featured tales include “The Spirit of Langley Pond,” “Lucien Greyshire and the Ghost from Applebee’s,” “Ghost in the Graveyard,” “Ghost Story,” “Suffer the Little Children,” “Ghosts in the Machine,” “Homecoming,” “Cry Baby Bridge,” and “Ophiuchus.” Settle in for nearly four hours of apparitions, digital hauntings, demonic houses, and local legends. Stories...

Sarah and Keith buy a one-dollar ceramic bowl at a yard sale and bring the ghost of missing artist Sylvester Helm into their apartment. Their Sunday hunt for a vacuum cleaner produces only an uneven piece of “punk-rock pottery” stamped with the name Sylvester. At first the bowl merely shifts when nobody is watching. Then it appears in rooms where the couple did not leave it, a human shape rises beneath their bedcovers, and a cold, translucent man touches Sarah while she sleeps. Online research...

Reporter Fred Peterson meets Hedy Parsons after her husband vanishes from a snowbound car—and returns insisting he was never there at all. Hedy says Tom stepped out at a traffic light to clear snow from the rear window. A police officer finds no trace of him, and Fred senses a story in the frightened woman’s impossible account. When Tom reappears, he claims he spent the evening at home and warns the reporter to stay away from his wife. The mystery deepens as Tom describes an earlier husband wh...

A solar eclipse briefly makes vampire Bella Taibon almost human—just as two magically transformed enemies arrive to destroy her. Eileen “Einny” Donnerly finds Bella waiting above Strickfield, determined to experience the rare darkness that suppresses her undead strength, speed, and healing. Bella never wanted immortality and treasures the eclipse as a short chance to feel mortal again. For once she can watch the shadowed sun without supernatural power separating her from the life she lost. The...

Boris Karloff stars in an Inner Sanctum adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” where restored hearing becomes a curse of impossible sound. Simon is a musician whose deafness has been cured by Doctor Endair. Instead of simply returning him to ordinary life, the treatment sharpens his hearing until whispers, footsteps, and the hidden noises of the world become unbearable. He is not the doctor’s only extraordinary patient: Oliver, once blind, has emerged with vision heightened beyo...

An asylum psychiatrist tries to teach a remorseless patient impulse control, then finds the escaped killer has brought torture and murder to his own home. Frederick does not understand why hurting people is wrong. The doctor knows the violent man should never leave the institution, but a security failure unleashes him on the outside world and destroys everything the psychiatrist loves, including his wife Elizabeth. Their confrontation ends in blood, fire, and an electrical accident that transfo...

Ada Canby’s dying boarder confesses to a ten-year-old murder, leaving the elderly landlady with names that powerful men want buried. Mr. Paulson arrived from Brazil with little luggage, a cage of birds, and an illness that quickly became fatal. Before dying in Ada’s house, he claims that he—not the imprisoned Lindell—killed Richardson for money. Ada wants no part of murder or police business, but curiosity leads her to the old case: Richardson and Lindell were investment partners, and a witness...

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Sphinx transforms a summer retreat and a distant shape on the hillside into a study of fear, perception, and the mind’s readiness to magnify disaster. Seeking refuge from the epidemic in a relative’s cottage beside the Hudson River, Poe’s unnamed narrator becomes consumed by death reports and morbid thought. At the window he witnesses a creature of impossible size, with a skull-like mark across its body, descending the wooded slope. His host offers a rational explanation, ...

A viral candy-snorting dare opens babysitter Clarrisa Hart’s wounded nose to flesh-eating larvae as a supernatural fly outbreak consumes Kohler. Nine-year-old Grover Wright and his brother Will only want more post-Halloween candy. Their bored babysitter offers pizza if they perform a dangerous social-media challenge, but the stunt leaves Clarrisa bleeding just as strange, oil-slick flies begin appearing around town. What first looks like an unusually warm November infestation becomes a case of ...

A sapphire ring vanishes during a New York supper party, and the guests agree to count to one hundred in total darkness so the thief can return it. At the Artists and Writers Club, a group debates whether clever crimes can ever be solved without luck or confession. Their conversation turns to a seemingly simple social mystery: during an intimate gathering, a hostess removes three rings and secures them on a hatpin in her bedroom. Minutes later, the sapphire is gone, even though only a small cir...

Whitney Mirren becomes a ghost bride at her Strickfield wedding, using a cursed bouquet to punish the fiancé and family members who betrayed her. Her high-school sweetheart Lance has cheated with Whitney’s mother and a stripper, yet the ceremony at Strickfield Community Church continues. As Minister Delphine Brewster-Sloane begins the vows, Whitney transforms: marble-pale skin, red eyes, locked doors, and a bridal rage that turns the sanctuary into a supernatural execution ground. The horror d...

A letter mailed by someone long dead sends attorney Joe Parker back to an abandoned Hudson estate and a murder hidden since 1918. Twenty-five years earlier, Major Jerry Kenyon was found shot inside a vine-covered summer house. His death was accepted as suicide, even though the people gathered in the main house included his wife Isabel, his brother Paul, the maid Kitty, and the talkative Diane Fisk. A phonograph recording machine captured their voices while gunfire from the cellar and the bright...

In 1992, two boys tune an old radio to a dead man’s voice—and discover the signal from Carl Gitter’s house wants to take them off the air forever. Twelve-year-old Josh is obsessed with ghosts but has never found convincing evidence. That changes when he befriends Mike, whose family has moved into the notorious Gitter House in Boring, Oregon. Carl Gitter was an amateur electrical engineer and ham-radio operator who tried to contact the other side in the 1940s. A 1949 newspaper report says he att...

Days before Halloween 1982, Charlie and Niecy investigate screams next door and learn why young Libby must sleep outside when her parents get hungry. Ten-year-old Charlie Banks lives with his formidable grandmother, Louise “Mama Lou” Corley, on Oak Street in Gloverville, South Carolina. His best friend Denise “Niecy” Watkins lives across the road. Mama Lou repeatedly warns them to stay away from Tommy and Betty Reynolds—the “creeps” next door—and from their dirt-streaked daughter, Libby. The c...

In the blazing English summer of 1921, a young would-be novelist rents a room where something unseen follows him down the stairs. At twenty-one, the traveler arrives in the village of Crone’s Stratford and takes lodging with Mrs. Wayne and her companion, Mrs. Jennison, at an ordinary red-brick cottage in Sebastopol Terrace. The household is welcoming, yet an unexplained fear grows whenever the two women leave him alone. Footsteps or a presence seem to trail him from the upstairs room, and the p...

Horror host and scream queen Vickie Valentine is preparing a Valentine’s broadcast before joining her girlfriend Bethany Mirren at the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Horror Con. The convention will premiere the newest film in Vickie’s slasher franchise. A movie production built around masks, monsters, and manufactured scares becomes dangerously real when an actual creature finds its way into the celebration. Cast, fans, and filmmakers must determine which terror belongs to the script before the ...

The first two “Slasher” stories return as one feature-length catch-up, following filmmakers whose pursuit of screen violence attracts the real thing. “Slashback” gathers parts one and two before the third installment, restoring the characters, production history, and murders that turn independent filmmaking into a survival test. The combined presentation restores the opening chapters of the Slasher storyline before its third installment. What begins around the ambition, pressure, and ego of ma...

An invisible man terrorizes a Suffolk village, ringing church bells and sending a verger flying from a locked tower with no attacker in sight. Wartime nerves are already high in Aldbridge when newspapers report a “reign of terror” and villagers turn against the reclusive Professor Ansmith. A gramophone plays in an apparently empty room, unseen footsteps and touches spread panic, and the church bell begins swinging while the belfry appears deserted. Reverend Arthur Morley, his daughter Janice, y...

Three Valentine horror stories turn romance into a source of obsession, bodily danger, and blood-soaked consequences. The collection includes Jeff Carpenter’s “A Sunken Heart in Hino Bay” and Shane Migliavacca’s “Debbie Devereaux,” moving from yearning beneath the sea to a volatile encounter on a winter night. Jeff Carpenter’s “A Sunken Heart in Hino Bay” follows Ayumi’s forbidden longing toward polluted water, mythic transformation, and a love that refuses to remain human. Shane Migliavacca’s...

Videographer Ernie follows would-be mercenary Travis Gamble into an abandoned asylum where cultists are burning human hearts in a demonic ritual. Gamble is wealthy, heavily armed, and convinced that military manuals, Midwest ninja training, and a private kill house have made him a weapon. What he lacks is real combat experience—or any mercenary company willing to hire him. He recruits Ernie to film a violent highlight reel that will prove his value, promising action inside an institution occupi...

Piano teacher Julia Smollett’s terror of dogs becomes a weapon when her abusive husband brings a young Doberman into their suburban home. Julia’s student Ronnie Hughes notices the bruises she tries to hide and realizes that her husband George has been hurting her. Their latest conflict centers on George’s insistence that a country house needs a dog. Julia’s fear is not dislike but a severe phobia: even a small, harmless animal can send her into panic. George demands a cure, first sending Julia...

Loralee Hardy returns from the dead for a final massacre at Shore City East High’s homecoming dance—and to crown Melisande LaPalla her queen. In the conclusion to “Homecoming Queen Killer,” Melisande reaches the school after surviving a campaign of rivals, kidnappings, and murders surrounding the crown. Debra Leighman has revealed that she resurrected Loralee at Greenlawn Cemetery. Reese Clairborne remains determined to eliminate Melisande, while Arnie “Razor” Rathman still believes he has a pl...