Scary Fiction Episodes

A bitter department-store Santa recruits a mysterious little girl with clicking teeth—and watches her turn a town Christmas event into revenge. Ronnie Baxley has played Santa in Burnet Town, South Carolina, for a decade. The pay is poor, his truck is failing, and the families who line up along Highway 421 offer pity or ridicule rather than help. On Christmas Eve, his usual elf is absent and a cold-skinned child named Sarah appears ready to manage the line. Sarah can sense cruelty. Her smile re...

In the post-apocalyptic winter of 2099, Cassillia Taibon defends Pendleton Way Station from a murderous undead Santa Claus and his monstrous reindeer. The Hellweaver Holocaust has broken Earth’s seasons, devastated civilization, and transformed the once-jolly Santa into a Christmas raider who attacks surviving settlements. Cassillia—a sentient machine carrying the memories, appearance, and powers of a vampire-Treilaunder hybrid—arrives at Pendleton seeking a Psionic Warp Displacer needed for he...

A killer wearing a Santa suit traps Caleb and the other patients inside Sumpter Behavioral Health Center on a snowbound Christmas Eve. Caleb has spent weeks in the psychiatric ward after a suicide attempt and expects to be released soon, but he does not intend to survive the holiday. Snow keeps his parents away, the facility’s decorations feel hollow, and the year’s losses have convinced him that nothing ahead is worth enduring. Another patient has planned a different kind of death. Marc has s...

A mysterious movie disc turns a Christmas slumber party into a portal to an alternate Strickfield where nearly everyone is a starving vampire. Madelyne “Mouse” Donnerly joins Arial Mirren, Mona Ables, and Bailey Downs for holiday movies at Arial’s house. Mona brings an unknown film called “Doorway to Horror,” a title with no online record. After they watch it, the girls find the house damaged, the sky locked in darkness, and their hometown emptied of ordinary human life. Mouse recognizes the n...

Four vintage radio dramas explore a disputed death, a sea captain’s dangerous habits, a midnight killer, and an accused man’s missing fortune. “Cold Storage” brings a visitor to Westerley, an old Maryland estate shadowed by a wealthy woman’s apparent death, a contested inheritance, and fears that a body may not remain safely in its grave. The mystery turns family greed and medical uncertainty into Gothic suspense. In “Habit,” Captain Weatherfield’s absolute devotion to routine shapes every dec...

Donny returns north for his first family Christmas in nearly a decade and becomes the unwilling donor in a brutal holiday organ-harvesting scheme. He fled home for Fort Lauderdale, became addicted to heroin, and spent years homeless before rebuilding his life. Shame kept him from calling the people he left behind. Now sober enough to make the drive, Donny crosses into a snowy homecoming with equal parts hope and dread—until strangers intercept him before he can face his family. The captors are...

Forced to decorate Strickfield Towne Centre overnight, Arial Mirren, Carter Cross, Mouse Donnerly, and their friends discover a seven-foot vampire monster stalking the closed mall. A public fight between Arial and Carter leaves the group at the mercy of mall owner Harmony Mirren, who threatens to call the police unless they spend Saturday hanging Christmas decorations. After the doors are locked, a chalk-white creature called the Creation emerges from hiding, abducts Brian “Chunker” Chunk, and ...

Four vintage radio dramas bring an occult curse, a future built on suppressed violence, a writer’s living monster, and a murder statement under pressure. M. R. James’s “Casting the Runes” follows a scholar marked by a slip of paper bearing forbidden symbols. The runes carry a deadline and a supernatural sentence, turning research and skepticism into a race to return the curse before it is fulfilled. “Resident Killer” imagines a future society determined to eliminate aggression, where Commander...

Five bloody Christmas stories unleash a cruel child, a maze monster, a vampire creation, a cemetery ghost, and a body-hopping killer. L. F. Falconer’s “Christmas Cranberries” follows seven-year-old Ronnie as he hides escalating cruelty and waits for Santa to reward him with a red baseball bat. Keith Tomlin’s “The Naughty List” wakes thirteen violent children inside an ice maze on Christmas Eve, where escape means surviving the white-furred creature sent to judge them. Rob Fields’s “Lady Franke...

A group of North Ridgeway college students abandon their smart devices for a weekend at the deserted Camp Rolling Acres—and give a hidden stalker exactly the isolation needed to hunt them. Just outside Strickfield, the abandoned summer camp promises privacy, nostalgia, and a break from constant screens. The friends arrive expecting fun without calls, messages, or anyone tracking their location. They do not realize that someone is already watching, and the person targeting them may share a histo...

Custodial engineer David Lambert awakens alone aboard the colony ship Roanoke as a hidden experiment turns twelve days of Christmas into deep-space horror. The recovered audio logs begin on December 12, 2290, ten years into a mission carrying roughly two thousand sleeping colonists and crew toward planet LV-529. David is the only conscious human, accompanied by the ship’s virtual intelligence, Vinnie. Routine maintenance becomes frightening when systems fail, movement appears where no one shoul...

“The Voice That Wouldn’t Die” haunts a Scottish estate with a child’s cry; “The Fast One” turns superhuman speed into a fatal experiment. In “The Voice That Wouldn’t Die,” a father returns from India with his seventeen-year-old daughter, Rowena, to a remote ancestral property in Scotland. Stories surrounding her dead mother, ruined ground near the estate, and the persistent voice of a child draw the family into a mystery that seems rooted in the land and its history. “The Fast One” follows det...

A long Christmas horror collection unleashes winter monsters, a killer Santa, murderous toys, ominous letters, blizzards, and demonic cookies. The holiday lineup includes “Biting Cold,” “Christmas Rage,” “Babes in Terrorland,” “Santa Letters,” “The Weather Outside Is Frightful,” and “Satan Claus.” These narrated stories move from frozen survival and Strickfield slasher mayhem to enchanted toys, an unsolved small-town mystery, and a blood-soaked summoning ritual. Stories by Jeff Carpenter, Rob ...

Bella Taibon takes a sick Eileen to her hidden ancestral home for Thanksgiving—where hulking cannibal creatures decide the guest should be dinner. Eileen “Einny” Donnerly’s body keeps building resistance to Bella’s magical remedies. Hoping to find a better treatment in her grandmother’s old books, Bella drives them away from Strickfield to Ravenhenge, an invisible territory absent from every map. The torchlit Taibon house has no internet or television and has stood almost untouched since Bella ...

“The Lost Ship” sends two fugitives after a Spanish galleon buried in the desert; “State Executioner” follows a royal hangman haunted by the dead. In “The Lost Ship,” Harry and Viola flee the police across a hostile stretch of desert. A legend promises that an old Spanish ship lies stranded beneath the sand with treasure still aboard. Their search turns escape into obsession as thirst, greed, and the impossible outline of a vessel pull the pair farther from safety. “State Executioner” enters t...

A young woman wakes after an underground Strickfield party without her reflection, her appetite for food, or any idea that she has become a vampire. Eliza remembers drinking, dancing, and spending the night with a handsome stranger. Two days later, she walks home barefoot, discovers she cannot cross the threshold without an invitation, and finds that only blood can satisfy her new hunger. Her best friend Wendy finally reveals the truth: the party introduced Eliza to the vampire Arbogast, who si...

“Carnival in Vienna” brings a deadly clown to the edge of the Iron Curtain; “Chicken Heart” unleashes an experiment that may consume the world. In “Carnival in Vienna,” American traveler John Allison enters a shadowy Austrian carnival where a roulette game promises uncanny knowledge of the future. The attraction becomes a trap involving a murderous clown, armed pursuers, and Russian soldiers beyond the border. What begins as Cold War intrigue turns into a desperate escape through a place where ...

In 1934, writer Henry Noble’s letters from the Hexagon House Inn record a haunting that consumes his wife, their lodgers, and his own future. Henry and Victoria leave Chicago for the dry air of Black Springs, Texas, hoping it will ease Victoria’s persistent cough. The oil-boom town appears prosperous despite the Depression, and its unusual six-sided inn gives Henry ample material for letters to fellow weird-fiction writer Robert Hoffman. Then footsteps circle the upstairs rooms, furniture moves...

“Something on His Mind” turns a Borneo love triangle into an insect nightmare, while “The Silver Shoe” follows a dead woman’s impossible double. In “Something on His Mind,” plantation partners George Tring and Clifford Macy are reunited when George returns to Borneo with his new bride, Rona. Clifford’s attraction to her and George’s growing jealousy transform an isolated homecoming into calculated revenge. The weapon is not a gun or knife but an earwig—and the possibility that the insect has ca...

Three Thanksgiving horror stories serve a grotesque family secret, giant killer turkeys, and a blood-drinking corpse hungry for revenge. Rachel Ridolfi’s “Thanksgiving Dinner” begins with Officer Sophia Cortez making a welfare check at Norman Roberts’s trailer in rural Indiana. The overwhelming stench, a locked bedroom, and Norman’s insistence that his mother is merely resting lead Sophia toward a discovery far worse than neglect—and a family tradition nobody should have brought to the holiday ...

Two boys follow a mysterious new friend from the county fair into a decaying mansion, where every doorway rearranges the house and refuses to lead outside. On a cool autumn night, the unnamed narrator and his friend Jack accept a strange boy’s invitation to see the abandoned place where he claims to live. Dread begins before they reach the porch. Once the front door closes, the boy disappears and the rooms stop obeying ordinary architecture. A towering library holds books written in unknown sym...

Ruby Salazar falls asleep after a Halloween ultrasound and awakens in an abandoned hospital trapped between worlds with a six-eyed spider-crab hunting her. The clocks repeat the same minute, the phones carry only static, and smoke hides whatever waits outside. Ruby escapes the locked ultrasound wing through the ceiling, only to find wrecked corridors and a creature with armored legs, clicking mandibles, and six red eyes. Arrows scrawled on the walls lead her toward the basement rather than safe...

Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic tales and poems fill this Halloween collection with ravens, haunted houses, premature burial, murder, and madness. The program gathers 14 classic selections, including “The Raven,” “Morella,” “The Oval Portrait,” “The Conqueror Worm,” “The Haunted Palace,” “Spirits of the Dead,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Cask of Amontillado.” Settle in for a substantial cozy-spooky listen from one of horror literature’s essential voices. Stories and poems by Edgar Alla...

A haunted railway signal, four shipwrecked men, two killers meeting the Devil, and a revenge letter drive this four-story radio anthology. “Hello Down There,” introduced in the broadcast by its familiar title “The Signal-Man,” descends into a lonely railway cutting where a signalman sees an apparition beside a tunnel mouth. Each warning—an arm across the face, a desperate cry to clear the way—seems to precede disaster, leaving his visitor to decide whether the danger is supernatural or tragical...