Episodes

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...

A black bear steals taco bell, a ghost girl is captured on a livestream, and what is the Wendigo and why is it SO HUNGRY?! A bear stealing fast food provides the month’s bizarre real-world opening; an apparent ghost girl captured during a livestream shifts the conversation toward digital evidence and haunting claims. The Wendigo discussion then reaches into the deeper fears attached to endless hunger, winter, isolation, greed, and cannibalism. Monthly Spooky places those subjects beside one an...

“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 ...

A man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305, collected $200,000, and parachuted into a storm—then disappeared into American legend. On November 24, 1971, Cooper boarded the short flight from Portland to Seattle wearing a business suit and carrying an attaché case he said contained a bomb. He demanded four parachutes and cash in twenty-dollar bills. After the plane landed, he released 36 passengers, kept several crew members aboard, and ordered the pilots south toward M...

“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...

In a kingdom by the sea, a grieving lover insists that neither jealous angels nor death can separate his soul from Annabel Lee. Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee” remembers a love that began when its two subjects were young and became so powerful that even heaven seemed to envy it. A cold wind takes Annabel Lee’s life, and her highborn relatives seal her in a tomb beside the sea. The narrator rejects the idea that burial can end their bond, returning night after night to a love he believes is stro...

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...

Thierry Tilly convinced eleven members of France’s de Védrines family that a secret conspiracy threatened them, then took control of their lives and fortune. After meeting Ghislaine de Védrines around 2000, Tilly presented himself as a noble-connected financial adviser and gradually became the family’s trusted authority. He warned that Freemasons and other hidden enemies wanted their ancestral château at Monflanquin. The frightened relatives cut off friends and spouses, abandoned careers, signe...

“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 ...

Edgar Allan Poe looks back on the happiest moment of youth and discovers that pride, power, and hope were already shadowed by loss. In “The Happiest Day,” the speaker remembers a day and hour he once considered his brightest. The glory attached to that moment has departed, and the power he desired has become a dream he can no longer claim. Yet the poem is not a simple wish to return. Poe’s speaker recognizes that pain had already contaminated his hope, making even remembered happiness something...

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...

Three teenagers were murdered inside a lakeside tent in Finland in June 1960, while their badly injured friend Nils Gustafsson survived. Maila Björklund, Anja Mäki, Seppo Boisman, and Gustafsson camped beside Lake Bodom near Espoo. During the night, an attacker struck through the collapsed tent with a knife and blunt object. By morning, Björklund, Mäki, and Boisman were dead; Gustafsson was found injured outside. The chaotic, unsecured scene and missing possessions complicated an investigation ...

“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...

An extreme haunted house no one can finish leads a Halloween Monthly Spooky featuring trapped thrill riders and wonderfully strange party advice from 1914. How terrifying can a modern haunt become before entertainment turns into endurance? What happens when an amusement-park ride leaves its passengers suspended upside down? The crypt conversation explores both nightmares, then opens a century-old guide to throwing the best Halloween party imaginable—at least by 1914 standards. This seasonal ro...

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...

Government troubleshooter Caroline Quinn reaches Hope Springs before Halloween and finds a retirement community transformed into a vampire nest. In Caroline’s world, superheroes and legendary monsters are both real. She handles threats requiring discretion and plausible deniability, carrying a custom automatic shotgun called Sweet Baby Jane, silver-loaded ammunition, and ultraviolet grenades. A string of unusual deaths leads her to the Hope Springs morgue, where elderly corpses reanimate with t...