Scary Fiction Episodes
Original fictional horror stories for listeners who love suspense, strange threats and a good scare. Start with Intruder in the Night, a babysitter’s home invasion nightmare, or settle in for a longer collection of Halloween horror.
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Sept. 13, 2023
I Hate Working at the Gas Station After Discovering Its Dark Secret — Human Meat and Missing Minutes
Two gas-station workers find a woman’s engagement ring inside a “chicken” nugget and uncover a corporate operation that turns missing people into fast food. Every night, the station loses power from 2:59 to 3:01 a.m., while the security recording skips those two minutes as if they never existed. When Kenny traces the ring to a worker from the company distribution center, his questions expose unmarked white vans, homeless victims, and a brain-destroying drug used to silence employees and whistle...
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Sept. 6, 2023
The House in the Woods — Eight-Eyed Spider Horror in Alder Creek
A hiker searching for a lost Oregon ghost town discovers a house guarded by spider-filled jack-o’-lanterns and an eight-eyed creature wearing human skin. Years ago, the narrator entered Alder Creek forest hoping to locate an abandoned wool town. Lost after dark, he found a grotesque carved pumpkin containing a nest of spiders and a black arachnid the size of a baseball glove. Fog, a distant fire, and the need for shelter led him to an unmapped house filled with antiques—and a trunk packed with ...
Sept. 1, 2023
Freaky Food and Demonic Drink: Seven Killer Meals, Cursed Drinks & Cannibal Horrors
Seven food horror stories turn honey, ritual feasts, meat, coffee, family dinner, Thanksgiving, and tacos into deadly appetites. David O’Hanlon’s “All the Busy Bees” follows Chuck Byers into an Arkansas company where engineered vulture bees turn dead flesh into red honey. Mark T. B. Shields’s “For the Mother” invites myth scholar Astrid to Baldur Borson’s mountain estate for a winter-solstice feast rooted in Norse ritual. Rob Fields’s “You Are What You Eat” brings workplace bully Aaron Jameston...
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Aug. 30, 2023
Feline Troubles — A Demon Possesses the Family Cat
A family cat develops an unnatural hunger, attacks two children, and returns from apparent death with red eyes and something demonic inside her. Pashmina and Coco have lived with the family for fifteen years, but a strange illness begins after Pashmina is accidentally trapped in the basement. Weight loss, a crooked jaw, destructive behavior, and relentless eating continue until she dies. Four weeks later, Coco shows the same symptoms—then knocks seven-year-old Michael from a tree and turns her ...
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Aug. 23, 2023
I Guard Windmills and I’m Not Sure if I’ll Survive the Shift — Bigfoot at the Wind Farm
A night guard patrolling an isolated wind farm learns that the burned turbine in the woods is tied to a Bigfoot-like creature seeking revenge. After surviving strange-rule jobs in a fire tower and a secret warehouse, the narrator hopes a security shift among windmills will finally be ordinary. The first patrol reveals a missing turbine, scorched trees, and a forest that falls silent whenever he approaches. Later, a seven-foot hairy creature chases the truck at nearly thirty-five miles an hour, ...
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Aug. 16, 2023
Welcome to Black Springs: A New Deputy Finds the Ageless Girl Beneath the Church
On her first day in Black Springs, Deputy Sheri Davis discovers an ageless, violent girl restrained beneath a Catholic church in a town with no Catholics. After a controversial shooting ends her Dallas police career, Sheri accepts Sheriff Andy Barnes’s offer to start over in tiny Black Springs, Texas. The population is 1,432, the county is quiet, and Barnes seems prepared to ease his new deputy into the job—until Father Ortega calls from an isolated church and the sheriff treats it as an emerge...
Aug. 11, 2023
Ghoulish Getaways - Five Stories of Fun and Sun and CARNAGE!
Join us for 5 stories all about taking a break and getting away from it all... Only to find maniacs, madmen, monsters and more! Contact Us/Submit a Story twitter.com/WeeklySpooky facebook.com/WeeklySpooky https://gmail.com/ Music by Ray Mattis...
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Aug. 9, 2023
Suspended: Bella Taibon Battles a Succubus for Strickfield High
Bella Taibon returns from suspension to stop a succubus feeding on Strickfield High—and discovers the demon has targeted Principal Matthew Van Diest. Quarterback Jason Norman gets Bella suspended after groping her and learning what happens when someone puts unwanted hands on a Master Vampire. A week later, best friend Eileen “Einny” Donnerly reports that transfer student Lavender Callier has every boy in school under her spell. Bella uses a careful touch of vampiric glam to make Van Diest forge...
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Aug. 2, 2023
The Stop-Sign Man: A Stolen Sign, an Octagonal Barn & a South Carolina Legend
On his seventeenth birthday, Stratton Duke steals a county stop sign and carries it into an eight-sided barn to summon South Carolina’s Stop-Sign Man. The Crow County ritual has three rules: go alone, never tell anyone what you see, and do not get caught. Stratton grew up hearing that the entity has spinning red octagons for eyes and appears inside the abandoned Williamson barn. He once feared the legend; now he wants enough of an edge to impress new classmate Allison Weaving and prove himself ...
July 28, 2023
The Cask of Amontillado — Edgar Allan Poe’s Revenge in the Catacombs
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado follows Montresor into the carnival catacombs, where he uses Fortunato’s pride in his wine expertise to carry out a meticulous revenge. Insulted but outwardly friendly, Montresor exploits Fortunato’s pride as a wine connoisseur. Bells ringing from a fool’s costume, damp walls coated with nitre, family bones, and repeated warnings about a cough accompany their descent through the catacombs. By the time Fortunato recognizes the trowel and freshly laid sto...
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July 26, 2023
Hell Hath No Fury: A Wrongfully Convicted Bride Returns as a Vengeful Ghost
Horror story of ghost revenge and true-crime obsession collide in Hell Hath No Fury—a dark, twisty tale of a young bride, a powerful older husband, and a dinner party that ends in a split-second “accident”… followed by a public frenzy that demands blood. Years later, the legend of Zelda Mae Darling becomes a tourist attraction, a media circus, and a content farm for influencers chasing clicks at any cost. But some stories don’t stay buried. When modern true-crime creators push one stunt too fa...
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July 19, 2023
Over the Scare — A Live Radio Séance Becomes Demonic Possession
A recovered cassette captures the final Ricky and Rocky radio broadcast, when a live interview with a psychic opens the studio to a spirit called Lock. WGAB’s popular weekend 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...
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July 12, 2023
Cruel Moon: A Werewolf Transformation Told from Inside the Curse
A nighttime dog attack leaves an injured runner healing impossibly fast—then the full moon brings hunger, blackouts, and a brutal transformation. The bite requires thirty-seven stitches, but within two days the wound is gone. An old knee injury heals with it. Smell, night vision, speed, and strength sharpen until ordinary people seem painfully slow, while anger and the scent of blood become almost impossible to resist. A family visit ends with the narrator attacking a sister-in-law and biting a...
July 7, 2023
Summer Slayings: Ghosts, Werewolves, Zombies & Camp Massacres
Five summer horror stories turn haunted water, a closing camp, werewolf country, a cemetery inn, and a bayou prank into deadly vacations. Charles Campbell’s “The Spirit of Langley Pond” brings a cruel prank to the South Carolina water where Alayna Sanders was murdered forty years earlier. John Oak Dalton’s “Camp Dead and Buried” traps the remaining counselors at Camp Elderberry on the hottest night in Indiana history, when the last night of summer becomes a slasher massacre. In David O’Hanlon’...
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July 5, 2023
These Dark Woods: Momo Hunts a Missouri Summer Camp with Deadly Traps
Seventeen-year-old Lucy Burr leads five Beaver Scouts into forbidden Missouri woods, where Momo hunts children with arrows, snares, and deadly traps. Lucy thinks a campfire story will scare Timmy, Rebecca, Paolo, Ralph, and Tiffany into paying attention. She tells them how a 1976 camping party vanished near Sweetwater Lake, leaving shredded tents, enormous bare footprints, and a finger bone in the creature’s dung. The legend says Momo—the Missouri Monster—is a shaggy, orange-eyed forest ape. Th...
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June 28, 2023
Prom Night of the Dead Part 4: Lillian’s Final Prom & Roni’s Last Stand
Roni and Derek enter a corpse-filled prom at Strickfield High, where Lillian Johanssen’s final coronation demands two living victims. The locked gym has been transformed into a grotesque school dance. Rotting bodies fill the tables and dance floor, murdered classmates form a prom queen’s court, and Lillian sits preserved upon a throne beneath a blood-red banner. One final place remains empty—and whoever created this Prom Night of the Dead intends Roni Brunswick and Derek Masters to complete the...
June 23, 2023
The Fall of the House of Usher — Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Mansion Masterpiece
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher brings an unnamed narrator to Roderick Usher’s decaying mansion, where family illness and the house itself appear fatally connected. Roderick Usher is tormented by acute senses, ancestral dread, and fear of an approaching catastrophe. His twin sister Madeline suffers from a mysterious illness that leaves her near death. When she is placed in the family vault, a violent storm and the sounds of something moving within the house transform grief into...
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June 21, 2023
Prom Night of the Dead Part 3: Lillian’s Ghost Hunts Strickfield’s Guilty
The ghost of murdered prom candidate Lillian Johanssen stalks Strickfield High, punishing secrets as Roni and Derek search for the killer. Roni Brunswick is trying to survive summer school, satisfy the terms keeping her out of prison, and graduate beside Derek Masters. That fragile plan collapses as classmates connected to the Prom from Hell begin dying. Regal Fairlane’s affair with teacher Austin Zachery and Primrose Mirren’s hidden crimes make both women targets, while a glowing figure resemb...
June 16, 2023
The Man That Was Used Up — Poe’s Dark Satire of a Mechanical Hero
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Man That Was Used Up turns a celebrated military hero into a darkly comic mystery about reputation, technology, and the body beneath the legend. Brevet Brigadier General John A. B. C. Smith is praised everywhere for his voice, physique, courage, and accomplishments in battle against the Bugaboo and Kickapoo peoples. Yet everyone who discusses him avoids one crucial fact. Determined to solve the mystery, the narrator visits Smith at home and finds his servant Pompey fitting...
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June 14, 2023
Prom Night of the Dead Part 2 of 4 — The Ghost’s Summer-School Body Count
Lillian Johanssen’s ghost stalks Strickfield’s summer-school students, recreating her Prom from Hell murder while suspicion gathers around Roni Brunswick. Roni is fighting to pass Principal Van Diest’s classes and avoid prison, even as her drug dealing, explosive temper, and new relationship with Derek Masters draw attention. When Bill Baxter disappears in the school basement, Lillian uses the same throat-cutting and stabbing pattern that Loralee Hardy used on prom night. Elsewhere, Primrose Mi...
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June 7, 2023
Prom Night of the Dead Part 1 of 4 — Lillian Johanssen Returns for Revenge
Two months after Loralee Hardy murders prom candidate Lillian Johanssen, the dead girl returns to Strickfield High and begins judging the survivors. Lillian’s Prom from Hell death leaves boyfriend Randy Ulery grieving and her body missing from the hospital morgue. Summer school brings Randy together with volatile Roni Brunswick, Derek Masters, Cameron Johanssen, Primrose Mirren, Samuel Wormton, Regal Fairlane, and other students carrying secrets from prom night. Their uneasy new term is oversee...
June 2, 2023
Cryptid Corner - Five Tales of Monsters in the Darkness!
Enjoy Five tales of the horror with the likes of Mothman and the Chupacabra! Listen to something chilling on a hot summer's night... Donate at http://helpchicano.com/ Any help is appreciated! Contact Us/Submit a Story twitter.com/WeeklySpooky...
May 31, 2023
Ep.193 – Breaking the Seal - Taking a Leak Could KILL
Watch our new TV series TOTALLY FREE! https://tubitv.com/series/300010149/ What could be dangerous about a trip to the bathroom? Well a lot more than you might think... Breaking the Seal by Douglas Waltz Contact Us/Submit a Story...
May 26, 2023
Prom Queen Killer - High School Popularity is DEADLY
Bodies are piling up at Strickfield High as the competition for Prom Queen is getting MESSY. This is the entire miniseries all in one episode, enjoy! Prom Queen Killer by Rob Fields Get Cool Merchandise https://weeklyspooky.storenvy.com/ Support us...