Scary Fiction Episodes

“Four Time Loser” follows an escaped convict who built a respectable new life—until an old cellmate arrives demanding money, an alibi, and control. Twelve years after escaping a life sentence, a man living under the name George has educated himself, become successful, and fallen in love with Elaine. His carefully rebuilt identity depends on keeping his criminal past hidden. That makes former prison companion Matt Howard’s sudden appearance more than an embarrassment: it is a blackmail threat ca...

Melisande proposes an unexpected homecoming arrangement as new murders, a dinner ambush, and Loralee’s exposed identity converge at the dance. After winning an appeal against her wrongful suspension, Melisande LaPalla is free to return to Shore City East High and remain in the homecoming queen race. Her personal life is even more complicated: she cares for both Loralee and Razor and suggests that the three attend the dance together. The arrangement offers a possible escape from jealousy, but Lo...

Ronald Adams leaves Brooklyn for California, but the same rain-soaked hitchhiker appears ahead of his car across hundreds of impossible miles. At first Ronald treats the figure as a coincidence. He sees the thin man on the Brooklyn Bridge, then again on the Pulaski Skyway, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and roads farther west—always carrying the same cheap overnight bag and silently asking for a ride. Gas-station attendants insist no hitchhiker could have reached those places, yet the stranger cont...

Loralee’s romance with Melisande deepens as a cemetery discovery threatens her new identity and Reese hires three men to attack them. At Shore City East High, Loralee Hardy is still passing as transfer student Loralee Alexandra. She and Melisande LaPalla work together at Roth’s Rings and begin a passionate relationship, while Arnie “Razor” Rathman finally confesses his own feelings and asks Melisande to homecoming. The emotional triangle leaves Loralee struggling to conceal both her identity an...

Two months after Strickfield High’s Prom from Hell, murdered prom favorite Lillian Johanssen returns—and summer school becomes a ghostly killing ground. Lillian was the frontrunner for the junior prom queen crown when Loralee Hardy’s massacre ended the dance in blood. Now Lillian’s body is missing from the hospital morgue, students are serving out summer classes, and volatile newcomer Roni Brunswick seems to know everybody’s darkest secret. Regal Fairlane is hiding a forbidden relationship with...

Clockmaker Sebastian Packer finds Cleopatra’s Clock—the 500-pound black-marble machine that crushed his father thirty years earlier. Built in Italy for a prince of the House of Savoy in 1598, the clock is carved with Egyptian imagery and designed to run on forty gold coins associated with Cleopatra and a royal poisoning. Sebastian has carried those blood-stained coins since boyhood, when his cousin Andrew used the clock’s hidden mechanism to make his father’s death look accidental. The coins a...

Loralee Hardy returns from the grave, assumes a new identity, and falls for Melisande as Shore City East High’s homecoming rivalry turns deadly. Melisande LaPalla never knew her resurrection spell at Greenlawn Cemetery actually worked. Now the former Prom Queen Killer is walking the halls as Loralee Alexandra, determined to remain close to the goth girl who brought her back. Their attraction grows quickly, but Loralee’s hidden past, supernatural strength, and fierce possessiveness make this new...

Teen heiress Veronica Grande is murdered during a blizzard, then rises from a poisoned river to hunt the family that wanted her fortune. Veronica has barely moved into Grande Estate when a masked gunman storms her bedroom. Her late father, billionaire Oliver Grande, left everything to the daughter he never publicly claimed—and his other heirs refuse to accept the will. Wearing only shorts, a T-shirt, and a light jacket, Veronica escapes in a sports car while her pursuer follows in a Hummer thro...

Country doctor Edmund Bickleigh stands trial for murdering his wife Julia after carefully turning her headaches into the cover for poison. To neighbors and patients, Edmund appears respectable, patient, and devoted. In private, he is suffocated by an unhappy marriage and consumed by his affair with Madeline Cranmere. When Julia refuses to release him, Edmund begins constructing a medical alibi: a compound that produces severe headaches, public concern for his wife’s symptoms, and morphine injec...

Loralee Hardy’s prom-queen nomination turns Strickfield High into a killing ground when a masked murderer begins eliminating candidates before the dance. Loralee never expected to compete for the crown. Now she is trapped between ruthless frontrunner Taylor Mirren, girlfriend Misty Blint, friend and fellow nominee Cheryl Blint, and a campaign where secrets are as dangerous as votes. Taylor vows to win by any means necessary, but intimidation becomes murder when candidates who leave the race beg...

Loralee Hardy, Strickfield’s Prom Queen Killer, rises from her grave during a Halloween-season resurrection ritual and begins a deadly new romance. A group of Shore City East students visits Loralee’s vandalized grave on a stormy October night. When goth teenager Melisande LaPalla recites a black-magic spell, the corpse below them regenerates. Loralee escapes her coffin with supernatural strength, kills one of the students, and follows Melisande home—where her violent idea of protecting the gir...

A recovered cassette contains the final Rick and Rock radio broadcast, where a live interview with a psychic opens the studio to a spirit called Lock. WGAB’s popular hosts expect comedy, callers, and an easy ratings boost from New Orleans medium Sophia Martin. Ricky humiliates her by inventing a dead brother, then demands she summon something genuinely supernatural. The challenge works too well. An unknown presence takes control of Ricky, reads callers’ secrets, and turns its attention toward R...

A Russian revolutionary plots to destroy Saint Basil’s Cathedral at New Year’s midnight mass with the tsar and imperial court inside. Boris recruits Olga Korolska, a servant in Prince Ogarev’s household, and uses her devotion to reach the jealous aristocrat. Ogarev wants revenge after his wife leaves him for the tsar; Boris wants one explosion to kill the ruler, his ministers, and the court. Their plan calls for sixty pounds of melanite hidden beside the cathedral’s pillars and wired to an apar...

Four New Year’s horror stories mark midnight with devils, deadly bargains, murder, ghosts, and the danger of carrying old sins into a new year. The collection includes Daniel Wilder’s “Even the Devil Tells the Truth, Sometimes” and “Satan’s Shotgun,” plus David O’Hanlon’s “A Few Cold Ones,” spanning turn-of-the-century occult adventure and modern holiday terror. The collection uses midnight as both deadline and threshold. “Even the Devil Tells the Truth, Sometimes” and “Satan’s Shotgun” bring ...

Three upstate punks reach New York City for New Year’s Eve only to be attacked by alien creatures and awaken inside a morgue after midnight. The narrator, Ricky—better known as Sloppy Suicide—and Debbie leave their freezing mountain town in a battered conversion van, bound for music and revelry at Max’s Kansas City. Their night takes a science-fiction turn when shadowy invaders arrive as meteors, tear through the neighborhood, and leave bodies across the streets before an unearthly signal calls...

“A Christmas Carol” leads five vintage Christmas radio dramas about haunted memory, desperate choices, wartime mystery, and unexpected redemption. E. G. Marshall performs Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” in the CBS Radio Mystery Theater version adapted by Ian Martin. Ebenezer Scrooge’s encounters with the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come remain the supernatural center of the collection. Greer Garson stars in the Suspense drama “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” while D...

Christmas Eve finds former serial killer Raige Devereux serving her sentence at Glennview Correctional Facility. Once known as the Angel of Death, She is trying to live with the crimes that brought her there when a figure from her past returns with fangs. The locked prison offers nowhere to escape as old vendettas, vampire hunger, and Raige’s own violent instincts collide. Surviving the holiday may require her to become the killer she is supposed to have left behind—without surrendering the hu...

Arial Mirren buys a forgotten virtual-reality console for Christmas and becomes the vessel of Queen Arcadia, a sentient game ruler determined to invade the real world. Madelyne “Mouse” Donnerly refuses to build a game system for Arial’s cousin, sending Arial to Tinker’s in search of a bargain. The mysterious Virtua console contains Christmas Arcadia, an immersive village whose queen gradually takes control of Arial’s body. Carter Cross, Bailey Downs, Mona Ables, and Mouse enter the game to resc...

After his only child dies due to an incompetent babysitter, Patton Moore establishes Camp Care. Seven sitters attend the prestigious camp. His graduates are highly sought after, and candidates will do anything for a spot at Camp Care. But this time, they’ll wish they hadn’t! Someone’s brought some extra baggage for the stay, and it’s up to Macey and the other unhappy campers to figure out who’s behind the string of gruesome killings while being stalked through an unforgiving wilderness full of ...

A rogue elf steals Santa’s Naughty List and begins rewarding the world’s worst children, forcing Peppermint Ray into a bloody Christmas mission at a prison island. Candy Pain believes giving every naughty child exactly what they want will destroy Santa’s moral order. His plan leads to KILL YOU Island, an Illinois youth-offender facility holding murderers, cultists, and Robby Mocker—the Kinder Cannibal. Santa sends his most ruthless operative, Peppermint Ray, and the carnivorous reindeer Brute C...

Four twisted Christmas horror stories bring a hometown Santa killer, Krampus possession, murderous androids, and a sword-wielding elf. Morgan Moore’s “Santa Claus Is Killin’ the Town” sends Janice and her girlfriend Molly to Decatur for a reunion at an old inn and a hoped-for marriage proposal. Cozy nostalgia gives way to a local legend in a red suit stalking the holiday guest list. In Rob Fields’s “Krampus Is Comin’,” Kathy Betcher buys her younger sister a Krampus snow globe on Christmas Eve...

A former Green Beret assigned to protect Santa Claus faces renegade elves during a Christmas appearance—and watches Saint Nick die on a department-store roof. John Copeland has spent years providing security for the real Santa, whose public visits continue despite enemies hidden among the thousands of holiday impersonators. At Cooper’s Department Store, members of the protective team vanish, armed elves infiltrate the aisles, and John must evacuate families while fighting his way toward a rooft...

Bailey Downs returns to her childhood orphanage for Christmas, where a Krampus snow globe turns a strict assistant director into a horned punisher. Bailey and her Strickfield friends Mona, Mouse, Horton, and Chunker travel to Pendleton to help Mrs. Emma Gibson with the Home Sweet Home Orphanage’s holiday celebration. For Bailey, the visit is personal: she lived there until Monty and Vera Downs adopted her at seven. The reunion begins warmly, but assistant director Helga Stanlen resents the curr...

Four vintage radio dramas summon an incubus in Scotland, revisit Paul Revere’s ride, unleash living darkness, and place Lucille Ball inside a murder plot. “Speak of the Devil” brings Mary Ellen and Michael to Aunt Jeannie’s home near Scotland’s Solway Firth. A séance and an experiment with the occult draw something ancient into the household, turning folklore about the incubus into intimate supernatural danger. Stephen Vincent Benét’s “A Tooth for Paul Revere” enters a strange wizard’s worksho...