Scary Fiction Episodes

A pumpkin curse, a werewolf's deadly game, and Jack Scratch's twisted tales fill The Monsters' Halloween Revue. Settle in for nearly five hours of scary Halloween stories from Weekly Spooky, including Origin of the Pumpkin Man, STALK, and the complete Tricks and Treats trilogy. A costume party invites ancient powers, while an autumn hookup becomes a desperate test of survival. This seven-part horror fiction collection features Charles Campbell, Mike Ashkewe, David O'Hanlon, Keith Tomlin, Morgan ...

A teenage babysitter faces a masked intruder with poison gas in Intruder in the Night, a home invasion horror story by David O’Hanlon. It’s September 1944, and fourteen-year-old Candice Cardona is watching two boys in Couto Basin. Then a window opens, a sickly sweet smell drifts through the house, and muddy boot prints lead to the children’s room. Someone is already inside—and Candice has more than her own life to save. Make room in your scary Halloween stories queue for the Mad Gasser of Couto ...

Unknown Broadcast collects six old-time radio mysteries spanning political intrigue, wartime danger, and deadly relationships. Machiavelli steers a young man toward a false confession; a Korean War mission sends minesweepers into peril. Hear Down the Garden Path (CBS Radio Mystery Theater), Wild Oranges (Escape), Needle in the Haystack (Suspense), Harvest of Death (The Whistler), The Ghost in the Garden (Inner Sanctum), and Cornelia (Quiet Please). More than three hours of classic radio suspense...

A cursed VHS traps viewers in a slasher nightmare, vampires rent movies after dark, and a horror host draws a young fan into his show. Rituals, Reels & Rentals gathers seven scary Halloween stories into nearly five hours of Weekly Spooky fiction. Hear PHANTASMAGORIA, Special Halloween Hours, The Strickfield Slasher, and ERASURE, alongside graveyard rituals and a deadly rental. Dan Wilder, Keith Tomlin, Morgan Moore, Rob Fields, and Charles Campbell turn 1980s horror nostalgia into cursed-media n...

Danielle Boyd turns into a werewolf whenever she loses her temper—and stays fully aware of what she does. Anger Issues by Rob Fields brings a curse that cannot wait for the full moon to Strickfield High. After a cheerleader's brutal death, monster hunter Headmistress Hiltonson targets Danielle. The town's mysterious rejuvenating waters let Hiltonson go undercover as a student to hunt her prey. This darkly funny Weekly Spooky horror story traps teenage rage inside a school full of supernatural se...

Unknown Broadcast: Deadly Lessons gathers six old-time radio dramas of murder, revenge, and time travel. A teacher discovers secret seances after a pupil dies of fright; gold miners are hunted for their claim. Hear The Last Lesson (CBS Radio Mystery Theater), The Notebook (Escape), Finishing School (Suspense), The Black Book (The Whistler), One for the Book (Quiet Please), and Dr. Manette's Manuscript (The Weird Circle). Fred Gwynne, William Conrad, and Elsa Lanchester feature in more than three...

Stay on the wagon. The haunted hayride has one rule, and breaking it turns staged scares into a fight to survive. Eight Halloween horror stories fill nearly five hours in The Long Road to the Haunted Hayride, a Weekly Spooky fiction anthology of corn mazes, scarecrows and Southern Gothic revenge. Meet The Grinner, The Piano Witch and Sickle Jack, then board the final hayride. Stories by David O'Hanlon, Henrique Couto, Charles Campbell, Joe Solmo, William Rayne, L.F. Falconer and Rob Fields lead ...

A vintage tape recorder knows Jerry Scott's secrets—and gives him five minutes before an inhuman visitor arrives. I Do Not Know You by Tyler Belmont is an analog horror story from Weekly Spooky. An unmarked package appears in Jerry's electronics shop, and the machine inside announces when he will die. Then a tall stranger starts tapping at the glass. Jerry locks the doors and reaches for a baseball bat, but the recording insists he cannot escape. Is there still time to prove it wrong? Henrique's...

A witness hears a paid killing. A recovering patient sees a murder everyone denies. Unknown Broadcast gathers four classic old-time radio mysteries about the danger of knowing too much: The Blind Witness, The Country of the Blind, Eyewitness, and With My Own Eyes. A sighted mountaineer reaches a community that treats vision as a disease, while a reporter's prison tour becomes a violent mutiny. Across just over two hours of vintage suspense, testimony becomes a liability and disbelief can be a we...

A headless rider stalks a Halloween shortcut, a drive-in marathon turns into an afterlife reckoning, and an experiment gives a woman a monstrous body. Halloween Changes You brings five horror stories into nearly five hours of headless folklore, vampires, and body horror. Morgan Moore's Dullahan joins Rob Fields' Retro Halloween Weekend, Retro Halloween Revelations, New Life, and Madelyne's Revenge. From a forgotten witch-trial museum to a vampire from another world, these transformations reach f...

A glass aquarium is locked around a man's head, and the fire ants are already moving. In The Ant Aquarium of Minister Crap & Things by Gary D, a windowless basement becomes a claustrophobic revenge trap crawling with roaches, centipedes, and worse. Years ago, he and his best friend Dave forced another child to swallow bugs. Now that cruelty has returned in a form he cannot brush away. This Weekly Spooky horror story mixes insect terror, gross-out body horror, and vicious dark comedy. Every movem...

A railway worker sees warnings of disaster beside a dark tunnel. A businessman on the Orient Express meets an armed stranger. Unknown Broadcast gathers The Train Stops, Orient Express, The Signalman, and Ticket to Nowhere for more than two hours of classic old-time radio suspense. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler carry you from a forgotten station to Balkan intrigue and a driver's plan for murder. With dangerous destinations and warnings that may arrive too late, eac...

A robbery interrupts a witch's ritual, a seductive stranger demands murder, and a criminal job brings a giant gummy worm into play. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories turn bad decisions into supernatural traps, from cursed brothers to a blizzard pursuit of Strickfield's Queen of Hearts serial killer. Crime and Bedevilment, Roxie, Sick With Rage, and The Worm Has Turned deliver over 90 minutes of witchcraft, monstrous hunger, and revenge. Stories by Joe Solmo, Charles Campbell, Rob Fields, and Dav...

Brian disappears beneath Clear Lake and returns clutching a carved relic, his body waterlogged and his strength no longer human. In Bruce Haney's The Darkness Under Clear Lake, a camping trip with Michelle and friends becomes a fight against possession and something waiting underwater. The object will not let Brian go, and getting it away from him may be the survivors' only chance. This Weekly Spooky horror story blends a cursed artifact, body horror, and a lakeside reunion poisoned by old tensi...

An island promises refuge, but the people arriving bring danger with them. Unknown Broadcast collects four classic old-time radio mysteries: The Beach of Falesa, The Far-Away Island, The Island, and Escape to Skull Island. A trader enters a struggle over power on a Pacific island, a fugitive faces a murderous pursuer, and a weary Marine imagines a world without hunger or war. A hunted killer's passage to Skull Island completes more than two hours of tropical suspense. White beaches and warm wate...

A one-dollar bowl brings home a ghost, and two serial killers choose a family with something monstrous on the menu. Four Weekly Spooky horror stories turn a first date, a yard-sale bargain, a country dinner, and a party in the woods into deadly mistakes. First Date and Thrifting Fail—We're Now Haunted! lead from a haunted mansion to an object that refuses to stay discarded; The Dinner Guests and Party in the Woods unleash predators with an appetite for human flesh. Stories by Rob Fields, Bruce H...

Eleven eggs are empty. The twelfth hatches a tiny human head on six spiderlike legs. In Odd Egg by Alex Grass, Maryellen accepts a free carton from a smiling stranger who claims a god lives inside it. Breakfast becomes a creature-horror nightmare as the thing grows, feeds, and changes, pulling her toward the mysterious Time of the Egg. This Weekly Spooky debut blends grotesque body horror with dark comedy and a gift that should never have been opened. Discover more of Alex Grass's weird fiction ...

A hurricane drives a desperate pair into an armed standoff. Elsewhere, three people race a storm to save an innocent man from execution. Unknown Broadcast brings together Hurricane, Flood on the Goodwins, Night of the Storm, and Man in the Storm for just over two hours of classic old-time radio suspense. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler follow a wartime Channel crossing, a closing execution deadline, and an embezzler hoping floodwater will hide his crime. Each foreca...

A flight repeats its fatal journey. A ghost ship offers rescue until the flesh-eating rats emerge. Four Weekly Spooky travel horror stories turn planes, ships, and highways into traps, with cannibal athletes facing a Wendigo transformation and a serial killer waiting at a truck stop. The Last Flight Out, Be Careful What You Eat, The Ship of the Cannibal Rats, and Love, Burgers, and the Open Road deliver over two hours of supernatural fiction and roadside terror. Stories by Charles Campbell, Rob ...

A six-year-old girl who cannot speak is trying to feed her baby brother. In Let-Down by Morgan Moore, poverty, illness, neglect, and a father's gambling leave a family without food or formula. The child remembers that mothers make milk, but her incomplete understanding leads toward a terrible solution. Told through her perspective, this Weekly Spooky story turns an act of care into graphic body horror and domestic dread. The terror comes from the gap between what she believes will help and what ...

A plantation faces an army of ants, a blackmail victim considers murder, and an isolated doctor needs patients a little too badly. Unknown Broadcast gathers four old-time radio thrillers: A Choice of Witnesses by Henry Slesar, Leiningen Versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson, The King's Birthday by Louis Pelletier, and Patients for the Doctor. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler move from jungle survival to resistance in Nazi-occupied Denmark and a dangerous mountain cabin....

A film crew meets Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos in Colombia, and a werewolf discovers that anger can be more dangerous than a full moon. Four Weekly Spooky animal horror stories bring jungle survival and cursed pets close to home: Stay Hungry, Wolf Rage, My Dog, Doug, and Feline Troubles. A new house hides rats and a shape-shifting dog, while a calico cat's glowing eyes signal a threat to children. Stories by David O'Hanlon, Rob Fields, and Douglas Waltz. Nearly two hours of creature horror and...

Buster Crane's first love has returned, but the woman he still loves has no reflection. In The Ties That Bind by Rob Fields, a reunion at Strickfield University pulls Buster between childhood sweetheart Talia Mirren and Romy Jillian, a vampire who refuses to let him go. A confrontation in a crowded nightclub turns romance into a dangerous contest of jealousy, blood, and loyalty. This mature Weekly Spooky vampire story gives a second chance at love a supernatural price. Buster must face what he w...

A haunted bride, a village of ancient sorcery, and a wife becoming a cat bring Halloween to July on Unknown Broadcast. Six classic old-time radio dramas fill over three hours: Here Goes the Bride, Ancient Sorceries, The Lord of the Witch Doctors, Mirage, Cat Wife, and Beware of Tomorrow. Hear CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and Lights Out, with work by Algernon Blackwood, Arch Oboler, and John Dickson Carr. Expect gothic secrets, murder, and killer robots in a vintage horror maratho...