Episodes

The first two “Slasher” stories return as one feature-length catch-up, following filmmakers whose pursuit of screen violence attracts the real thing. “Slashback” gathers parts one and two before the third installment, restoring the characters, production history, and murders that turn independent filmmaking into a survival test. The combined presentation restores the opening chapters of the Slasher storyline before its third installment. What begins around the ambition, pressure, and ego of ma...

An invisible man terrorizes a Suffolk village, ringing church bells and sending a verger flying from a locked tower with no attacker in sight. Wartime nerves are already high in Aldbridge when newspapers report a “reign of terror” and villagers turn against the reclusive Professor Ansmith. A gramophone plays in an apparently empty room, unseen footsteps and touches spread panic, and the church bell begins swinging while the belfry appears deserted. Reverend Arthur Morley, his daughter Janice, y...

Three Valentine horror stories turn romance into a source of obsession, bodily danger, and blood-soaked consequences. The collection includes Jeff Carpenter’s “A Sunken Heart in Hino Bay” and Shane Migliavacca’s “Debbie Devereaux,” moving from yearning beneath the sea to a volatile encounter on a winter night. Jeff Carpenter’s “A Sunken Heart in Hino Bay” follows Ayumi’s forbidden longing toward polluted water, mythic transformation, and a love that refuses to remain human. Shane Migliavacca’s...

Videographer Ernie follows would-be mercenary Travis Gamble into an abandoned asylum where cultists are burning human hearts in a demonic ritual. Gamble is wealthy, heavily armed, and convinced that military manuals, Midwest ninja training, and a private kill house have made him a weapon. What he lacks is real combat experience—or any mercenary company willing to hire him. He recruits Ernie to film a violent highlight reel that will prove his value, promising action inside an institution occupi...

Piano teacher Julia Smollett’s terror of dogs becomes a weapon when her abusive husband brings a young Doberman into their suburban home. Julia’s student Ronnie Hughes notices the bruises she tries to hide and realizes that her husband George has been hurting her. Their latest conflict centers on George’s insistence that a country house needs a dog. Julia’s fear is not dislike but a severe phobia: even a small, harmless animal can send her into panic. George demands a cure, first sending Julia...

It is the end of our Winter Favorites Month and we hope you're hungry! Join Henrique & David was we travel to the Sierra Nevada's in 1847 for a slice of Western Horror good enough to sink your teeth into. The inhabitants of Fort Spencer have more to...

Loralee Hardy returns from the dead for a final massacre at Shore City East High’s homecoming dance—and to crown Melisande LaPalla her queen. In the conclusion to “Homecoming Queen Killer,” Melisande reaches the school after surviving a campaign of rivals, kidnappings, and murders surrounding the crown. Debra Leighman has revealed that she resurrected Loralee at Greenlawn Cemetery. Reese Clairborne remains determined to eliminate Melisande, while Arnie “Razor” Rathman still believes he has a pl...

Spiders, unleashed deer, heroic dogs, a ghostly smell, and something living in an ear fill this wide-ranging Monthly Spooky roundup. The episode’s animal stories cover very different relationships with people: unleashed deer create danger, dogs become unlikely heroes, and spiders or an ear-dwelling creature trigger the fear of nature getting far too close. A mysterious smell associated with a ghost introduces a less familiar kind of haunting—one perceived through scent rather than sight or soun...

“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...

Snow closes around Henrique Couto’s cabin as he performs Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” turning a winter night into a fireside Gothic reading. An unnamed narrator sits awake at midnight, grieving his lost Lenore and searching old books for relief. A tapping at the chamber door becomes a black raven perched above it on a bust of Pallas. The visitor speaks only one answer—“Nevermore”—but each question gives that word greater power, moving from curiosity and dark comedy toward despair. Poe’s poem...

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...