Episodes

Six Strickfield heroes are pulled into an alternate Earth ruled by vampires and must destroy the nuclear-powered portals being used to harvest humans across the multiverse. This complete five-part saga brings together Arial Mirren, Madelyne and Eileen Donnerly, Bella Taibon, Felicia Mirren, and Carter Cross. Their powers and secrets collide after a supernatural tornado carries them through a doorway into endless night: Bella is a daylight-walking Master Vampire, Felicia can become a giant mutan...

Arial Mirren faces the vampire double who helped condemn an alternate Earth while her friends race to destroy the portal machine and its nuclear power source. The final chapter reveals the personal betrayal behind the apocalypse and forces Arial to decide what kind of Mirren she will become. Outside, Felicia battles toward the reactor controls, Bella keeps Mayor Gunter occupied, Eileen repairs the portal home, Madelyne channels Mary Worth, and Carter refuses to abandon the person he loves. Ever...

Talking dolls, alleged demon voices, mysterious rat holes, ancient waste, and the terror of sleep paralysis enter the Monthly Spooky crypt. Henrique Couto and Michelle move from strange-news oddities into a deeper discussion of waking immobility, sensed presences, and why sleep paralysis has inspired supernatural explanations across cultures. A doll that appears to speak and a recording presented as a demon voice make sound the evidence under debate. Mysterious rat holes and ancient waste add ...

Claire Collins refuses to sleep because a recurring nightmare forces her to face the child she murdered—and this time she may not wake up. After six days of insomnia, Claire’s husband Charles sends her to a doctor. She admits that she fears one specific dream but will not explain why. Whenever exhaustion wins, Claire walks an endless street into a house where a boy asks, “Where’s my father?” She gives him a drink to silence him, then flees through a tunnel toward a black river while something f...

Monster Man (2003) is the focus of this Do You Even Movie? discussion, with Henrique Couto and David Denoyer exploring the film’s story, cast, production, and horror legacy. "I'm a corpse burrito!" Our Summer Favorites Month races on with a slice of early 2000s Straight to Video Horror as we join Henrique and David in Santa Clarita, California this week. Two friends and a female hitchhiker are terrorized by a monstrous looking man driving a giant monster truck in 2003's "MONSTER MAN" ! Directe...

The captives escape their power-draining cells and turn the Strickfield Nuclear Power Plant into a battlefield against Mayor Gunter’s vampire army. Arial Mirren discovers she still carries Queen Arcadia’s fire, light, and electrical powers, while Bella Taibon, Felicia Mirren, the twin Donnerly cousins, and Carter Cross fight to reach the portal controls. Their first strike damages the machine but cannot stop the vampires for long. Outnumbered and exhausted, the group must decide whether destroy...

Sleep paralysis can leave a person awake but unable to move while a shadowy presence appears beside the bed or an invisible weight presses against the chest. Terrifying & True explores the frightening overlap between waking consciousness and rapid-eye-movement sleep. During REM sleep, the brain temporarily suppresses most voluntary muscle movement. An episode can occur when awareness returns before that protection has fully lifted, producing seconds or minutes of immobility, fear, and dreamlike...

A condemned gangster promises to kill the friend who betrayed him within one month of his execution—and keeps the deadline from beyond the grave. Johnny Promo, known as Johnny Promise, dies in the electric chair for murdering Officer Cochran after a failed bank robbery. In court he swears that prosecution witness Sam Rogers will have no more than a month to live. Johnny has money, loyal associates, and a reputation for never breaking his word, so Sam hides on the ninth floor of a cheap hotel an...

Edgar Allan Poe’s unfinished “Beloved Physician” honors the steady care, loyalty, and exhaustion of Marie Louise Shew in a brief midnight reading. Only a fragment of the poem survives. Its lines watch a tireless caregiver measure an unsteady pulse, continue through night and day, and finally yield to necessary sleep. Repeated images of toil, loyalty, and a faithful heart make the surviving verse feel both grateful and painfully intimate. The missing stanzas leave the full design of Poe’s tribut...

Imprisoned beneath the Strickfield Nuclear Power Plant, the team finally hears how Mayor Patrick Gunter helped turn an entire alternate Earth into a vampire apocalypse. Ten years earlier, Gunter was losing a mayoral race to Harmony Mirren when a mysterious partner offered him victory and dominion over far more than Strickfield. Their search for ultimate power led beneath the haunted Carnovasch Estate to a chained chest containing the imprisoned essence of Dracula. Opening it transformed the con...

Marty Markowitz sought help from psychiatrist Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf—then watched the doctor take control of his relationships, business, money, home, and sense of self for nearly three decades. The relationship began in 1981 as Markowitz struggled with grief, family conflict, and pressure surrounding his fabric business. Herschkopf gradually moved beyond the boundaries of therapy, becoming a constant adviser and social presence. Marty cut off family members labeled “toxic,” changed his will, g...

A wartime cargo ship crossing the Pacific reaches the birth of an undersea volcano, where superheated water and volcanic debris surround the crew. The voyage begins as wartime transport across a vast ocean, but strange heat, discoloration, and violent movement in the sea warn that the danger is rising from below. The ship has entered a region where the ocean floor is rupturing. Steam rolls across the surface, pumice and ash threaten the vessel, and water hot enough to kill makes abandoning ship...

Edgar Allan Poe addresses Maria Clemm—the aunt and mother-in-law he called his true mother—in a tender poem shaped by love for Virginia. Written in 1849, “To My Mother” is not addressed to Poe’s biological mother. Its subject is Maria Clemm, his aunt and the mother of his late wife, Virginia Clemm Poe. The speaker explains that the word “mother” can mean more than a biological bond: Maria became dearer to him because she was mother to the wife he loved more deeply than life itself. That family...

Arial Mirren has been carried away by a giant vampire bat, forcing Felicia and Bella to launch a rooftop rescue across the ruins of alternate Strickfield. Felicia reveals the full strength of her mutant spider form while Bella Taibon brings Master Vampire speed to the chase. After they recover Arial, the survivors compare everything they know about this undead Earth and reach a dangerous conclusion: escaping again will only postpone the next attack. To end the cycle, they must locate the techno...

Champ, the legendary Lake Champlain monster, swims through Indigenous tradition, disputed historical claims, modern photographs, and a thriving regional cryptid culture. Terrifying & True begins with stories associated with Abenaki and Iroquois communities before examining a frequently repeated claim that Samuel de Champlain saw the creature in 1609. His surviving description more closely resembles a large fish, and historians debate whether it belongs in the Champ story at all. The episode th...

Convicted murderer Max Young is locked in an executed prisoner’s haunted cell, where Skeeter Dempsey’s ghost prepares him for the electric chair. Police capture Max during a filling-station robbery and suspect him of killing Officer Ambrose Hogan. Detective Miller cannot force a confession, so he places the terrified prisoner in the cell once occupied by Skeeter Dempsey, a cop killer already put to death. In the dark, Skeeter’s voice introduces Max to a jail where the dead remain close and even...

Six summer horror stories bring werewolves, deadly camp wishes, roadside killers, backwoods creatures, devilish music, and a zombie outbreak into the heat. “The Wolf of Fagan County” by David O’Hanlon follows 13-year-old Conrad through a summer of mutilated bodies, family secrets, and monsters hiding in a small town. Killian Crane’s “The Lady in the Germ Box” sends bullied camper Greg to a portable toilet where a supernatural woman grants wishes with viciously literal results. In John Oak Dalto...

A supernatural tornado carries six Strickfield friends into an alternate Earth where vampires rule, daylight is gone, and familiar families have become predators. Arial Mirren is rebuilding her life with Madelyne Donnerly after breaking Queen Arcadia’s possession and being disowned by her parents. A trip home from Strickfield Towne Centre Mall should be routine—until the storm drops Arial, Madelyne, Carter Cross, Eileen Donnerly, Bella Taibon, and Felicia Mirren into a nightmare version of thei...

Rodney Alcala appeared as a charming bachelor on national television while concealing a history of sexual violence and murder that stretched across years. On September 13, 1978, Alcala won a date with Cheryl Bradshaw on The Dating Game. Bradshaw declined to go out with him after the taping because his behavior made her uneasy. The show had not uncovered his criminal record, including the brutal attack on eight-year-old Tali Shapiro and an earlier place on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives lis...

Danny murders the blind uncle who controls his inheritance, but the unmistakable tap of a cane continues after the body is buried. His uncle’s authority stands between Danny and the money—and between Danny and the woman he wants. Greed and forbidden love make murder seem like a clean solution. Because the victim cannot see his attacker, Danny believes he can arrange the death, remove suspicion, and step into the future he has been denied. Then the house begins to reproduce the dead man’s habit...

The Raven (1963) is the focus of this Do You Even Movie? discussion, with Henrique Couto and David Denoyer exploring the film’s story, cast, production, and horror legacy. "Quoth the Raven, Nevermore!" We have reached the end of our ROGER CORMAN Tribute Month but we are going out in a blaze of glory....or a blaze in a Castle! This week, join Henrique and David as they're traveling back to 1506 to join Erasmus Craven, a magician mourning the loss of his wife, whose visited by a fellow magician w...

Brenda receives her missing uncle’s manuscript about Fool’s Hill, an Oregon legend connecting witches, disappearances, and bodies found in the woods. Folklore writer R. H. Thurston—known to family as Randy—traces the mystery to a 1919 newspaper item about William Ivanhoe’s claim that he saw witches near Locust Grove. Later reports mention stolen crops, strange carvings, a mutilated body, and other locals who vanished around the same patch of forest. A research trip brings Randy to a saloon, an ...

Abandoned hospitals, hero rats, ghostly visitors and false memories lead this Monthly Spooky crypt conversation. Abandoned hospitals carry the memory of illness, confinement, and institutional history, making them powerful settings for reported hauntings. Imaginary friends and ghostly visitors raise a different question about unseen companions, while false memories challenge confidence in the mind’s own record. Hero rats provide a surprising real-world counterpoint to the darker material. The ...

Fugitive Wally Pindell picks up a hitchhiker bound for Missoula, then a raging forest fire traps them with a ranger, trooper, and makeshift crew. Wally is already afraid of the woods when he emerges from a failed hunt and sees a red glow circling the mountain road. He gives Jan a ride toward her new job, but authorities stop the car and press every available person into the fire response. The road is cut off, the wind has shifted, and flames on three sides leave only a dangerous route toward a ...