Scary Fiction Episodes

It’s the heart of spooky season, and Weekly Spooky is bringing you a triple feature of full-length Halloween horror stories that will keep you up all night. Each of these novellas dives deep into mature, unsettling terror—from cursed soil to haunted technology to the return of one of Strickfield’s darkest legends. • Dirt Babies — by Bruce Haney Something terrible is sprouting in the earth, and it’s hungry for more than sunlight. What happens when life—and death—take root in the same soil? • ER...

Halloween 1983: thunder rattles Valley Video, and a gravelly caller keeps saying trick or treat. When a blackout strands the staff and customers, movie-night scares become a fight to survive. Deadly Rental by Charles Campbell turns a South Carolina video store into a slasher's hunting ground. Shelly and Rodney must navigate darkness, costumes, and a threat that isn't staying on the screen. This Weekly Spooky tale mixes VHS nostalgia with Halloween suspense. Sponsor: Savorista. Original offer: co...

Stewart Mirren has vanished while trick-or-treating, and his rescuers have until 3 a.m. to get him out of the Lone Candy House. Madelyne Donnerly and her friends face a haunted-house legend in The Legend of the Lone Candy House by Rob Fields. The Strickfield Halloween trilogy concludes after Return to the Cry Baby Bridge and The Last Carnovasch, with a missing child's fate replacing their plans for pizza and movies. Can they reach him before the house keeps him? Sponsor: Savorista. Original offe...

Celebrate the spooky season with this chilling compilation of Halloween horror stories, featuring vengeful zombies, vampire legends, cursed portals, haunted hospitals, and bloodthirsty creatures. 👻 This episode features: • A Zombie’s Halloween — by Rob Fields Bernadette just wanted to ditch class, but after a strange bite in the Strickfield woods, she’s back from the dead… and out for revenge. • Future Taibon — by Rob Fields Waking up centuries in the future, a vampire finds herself reborn in...

It's time for horror stories! When the clock forgets your name, my dear, the night remembers. In this episode of Unknown Broadcast, we summon six chilling old-time radio horror stories—tales of cursed strangers, haunted houses, ghost makers, and books that bleed. These macabre fictions echo the golden age of radio—dark, vintage, and unforgettable. - 👴 A Very Old Man — A kindly stranger wanders in from the cold… but time clings to him like grave-moss. Every kindness here has a cost. - 🌘 A Terrib...

Sheila wants a Halloween night free from babysitting. A glowing pumpkin ring in Eisley Tinker's shop looks like something she can take for herself—until the theft takes her somewhere else. One Fateful Halloween by Rob Fields sends a Strickfield teenager into a world of living vines, pumpkin demons, and ghostly villages. This Weekly Spooky tale mixes cursed jewelry, portal horror, and rebellion with consequences she never imagined. The ring offers more than a way out of an evening she resents. As...

Elizabeth Báthory has spent centuries hiding in plain sight, renewing her youth with blood. Now Halloween week in Strickfield puts her on a collision course with a young vampire hunter and a princess of Hell. Halloween Blood Hunt by Rob Fields turns the Blood Countess legend into supernatural fiction, with modern technology and old appetites sharing the hunt. This Weekly Spooky tale follows a predator who discovers that her latest target knows how to fight back. Gothic bloodlust meets Halloween ...

It's Halloween time and our latest scary story dives into a cannibal killer who hunts his victims, blending horror with a chilling culinary obsession.' When a devoted husband vanishes during his evening run, his wife Cora refuses to accept the police’s easy answers. Her desperate search pulls her into a nightmare of blood, muscle, and madness—where primal hunger meets the modern world. Alongside a reluctant gym bro named Troy, Cora uncovers a horrifying truth about the man stalking her town… a...

It’s Spooky Season—prime time for a wall-to-wall Halloween horror binge. This full audio compilation from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast packs 9 scary stories of monsters, urban legends, ghostly vengeance, and October-night mayhem. Hit play for a cinematic mix of pumpkin curses, headless riders, haunted towns, and parties from hell—perfect for late-night listening, trick-or-treat routes, or fall drives. What’s inside (in order): - Mischief Night: The Halloween Invasion — Shane Migliavacca: A...

A salesman accused of crimes he didn't commit faces a lie detector, while pearl hunters let greed steer their voyage. Unknown Broadcast presents Guilty as Charged by G. Frederick Lewis; Seeds of Greed by Freud A. Nelson; Spider; Death's Goblet by Sigmund Miller; Two Sharp Knives by Dashiell Hammett; and Dark Patterns. These six old-time radio dramas span CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Lights Out, Murder at Midnight, Suspense, and The Whistler. Over three hours of crime and supernatural suspe...

Halloween turns an urban legend into a living nightmare. This scary, feature-length horror story follows a dying teen who enters an experimental trial—then a violent assault twists a cure into something new. The whispers name her AIDS Mary, a lipstick-leaving shadow who walks frat houses and midnight streets, where mirrors fog with warnings and victims fade in days. Night four of 31 shows in 31 days—subscribe now for a new scare every single day this October. AIDS Mary: Patient Zero — by Rob ...

Four boys on BMX bikes expect Halloween mischief, but a scavenger hunt draws them toward a pumpkin-headed harvester. Sickle Jack, the Harvester of Souls by Joe Solmo follows Ryan, Johnny, Tony, and Bo through a night where missing-child rumors acquire a shape. A party, a cemetery, and the cornfields become stops on a route they no longer control. This Weekly Spooky monster story combines 1980s childhood freedom with small-town folklore and an ancient bargain. The boys can ride wherever they like...

Freddy and Odalys renovate an abandoned funeral parlor and discover mummified animals, curses, and voices sealed inside the walls. Tonight’s feature-length episode delivers one of the season’s darkest scary stories, steeped in haunted house chills and mature themes. When Freddy and Odalys try to turn an abandoned funeral parlor into apartments, they discover the walls are stuffed with mummified animals, curses, and whispers that never stop. As they lean into spooky season with Halloween decora...

Felicia Bates must protect her family when Madelyne Donnerly returns from the grave with vampires, a devil’s bargain, and revenge aimed at Strickfield. Kick off 31 Days of Halloween with a Full-Length Horror Story that drips with blood, fangs, and supernatural terror. Madelyne’s Revenge unleashes vampires, monsters, and a spider-girl heroine in a battle that could decide the fate of an entire town. Felicia Bates thought her spider’s strength could protect her family… until the unkillable Madel...

Dive into scary Halloween stories with our bingeable horror anthology featuring 11 chilling tales perfect for October nights. Discover spooky stories that explore everything from small-town mischief and cursed pumpkin spice to retro drive-in frights and eerie waterpark terror. Press play and let the jack-o’-lantern glow transform your experience this spooky season. In this episode (in order): - Mischief Night — Shane Migliavacca — Pranks and vandalism give way to something meaner in the dark, ...

A petty thief acquires a nuclear warhead, and a voyage home carries rumors of a killer on board. Unknown Broadcast presents A Drink with Dionysius, Terror Stricken from The Whistler, Voyage Through Darkness from Suspense, and The Demon Tree from Dark Fantasy. Four old-time radio dramas bring crime, paranoia, sea travel, and supernatural menace into one two-hour collection. A dangerous possession and strangers sharing a ship offer different reasons to doubt a calm voice. Settle in for audio suspe...

Looking for a slasher story that cuts deep? This Weekly Spooky episode drags you straight into the woods, where an innocent boys’ camping trip becomes a fight for survival. At the abandoned North Fork campground, an old drifter on a battered red bicycle stalks the trails with booby traps, bear snares, and a machete sharp enough to end the night. Bottle rockets and s’mores quickly give way to razor-wire, pitfall spikes, and the kind of forest terror that feels all too real. If you love slasher h...

Welcome back, my dear. Tonight we slip past the velvet edge where conscience and consequence share a heartbeat. Greed calls from the deep; a confession rots in the light; a noir mind stumbles behind the curtain; and summer itself says farewell with a ghost’s restraint. - 💔 You Can Die Again — A remorseful man confesses to murder, but his story frays under questioning, memory unspooling like thread in a dark room. (Written for radio by Sam Dan; original cast includes Richard Mulligan.) - 💰🌊 Mone...

A New Beginning sends Lucibella Taibon, an Elder Princess of Hell, through Ravenhenge into Strickfield to protect Eileen Donnerly from a brutal revenge plot. What follows is a dark urban fantasy thriller of supernatural horror—bullies who discover the true meaning of fear, a muscle car crushed against an immovable force, and a vampire matriarch who restores forbidden memories. Between cheerleader uniforms, hellfire judgment, and time-bending curses, Strickfield becomes the battleground of demon...

My dear, the night is a ledger—debits in blood, credits in whispers. Stars tilt the scale, luck frays at the edge, and footsteps in the dark always find their way to a door you don’t want to open. Tonight, five vintage radio chillers trace the thin line between chance and destiny ✨ Death in the Stars A ruthless horoscope foretells the end for a powerful matriarch. Pride meets prophecy as ambition, family, and fate collide on Mystery Theater (written by Ian Martin, starring Kim Hunter). 🌙 The ...

Summer, 1984—at the height of the Satanic Panic. Ricky is a motor-mouthed teen who wants proof the Devil is listening. In a moonlit patch of woods, a dare turns into a ritual and a killing. What follows is darker: Ricky props the body in a lawn chair with sunglasses, invites classmates to look, and turns terror into spectacle—boombox hissing, insects buzzing, and bravado curdling into dread as word spreads and the cops close in. This isn’t a true-crime retelling; it’s a brutal horror story stee...

My dear, the dial glows in a dark room where classic old-time radio horror breathes again—vintage OTR suspense, murder mystery, and supernatural dread from the golden age of radio drama. 🌫️ Terror on the Heath A moor-side reincarnation riddle from the vintage radio vault—identity, obsession, and a past-life murder mystery that won’t stay buried (hosted by E. G. Marshall). 🚂 Journey into Fear Eric Ambler’s espionage thriller from Escape (CBS): a hunted man flees Istanbul by night train as an as...

Here come the lights, the laughter… and the dread. “Fairground Frights” is a bumper-pack of seven horror stories from Weekly Spooky that turns the carnival midway into a gauntlet of cursed curios, vengeful spirits, and wishes you’ll regret the second you make them. Step into a clown’s funeral where the punchline won’t stay buried. Duck into a toy store after dark, where smiling dolls sharpen their grins. Beat an unbeatable arcade cabinet that might be playing you. Get lost in a mansion’s velvet-...

In the rain-soaked woods below Knocknarea in Sligo, Ireland, a man raised human but born fae bargains with the Fair Folk to save his unborn child. Armed with “cold iron” bullets, a stolen sprite, and a prophecy learned from a carnival crone’s mirror, he confronts an emerald pillar of flame and an ancient court that claims his bloodline. Irish folklore collides with modern terror as love, identity, and iron lore decide the fate of a family. Expect changelings, eerie glens, moss-slick boulders, a...