Episodes

Long Island shark attacks, vampire-defense kits, and Centralia’s underground mine fire launch the first Monthly Spooky roundtable. Recorded in 2022, this inaugural month-in-review episode brings Henrique Couto and Michelle Antisocial together for strange news, horror conversation, and the loose crypt-side chemistry that became a recurring Weekly Spooky format. They begin with a six-year-old’s homemade protection kit inspired by “Hocus Pocus,” complete with garlic, salt, and a pretend candle int...

Discover Weekly Spooky, an audio horror feed delivering a brand-new terrifying tale every Wednesday and keeping Halloween alive all year. This short trailer offers a first taste of the show’s narrated scary-story format and its promise of dependable weekly chills for horror listeners looking for a regular audio escape. Weekly Spooky is an audio-first home for narrated horror fiction, true crime, folklore, paranormal mysteries, classic radio drama, horror history, and movie discussion. The feed...

Bethany Martinson reaches the final chambers of Grimm Manor as the Murder Mansion mystery reveals who is living, who is dead, and who has been lying. After a storm-driven crash sends her into the Strickfield backwoods, Bethany takes shelter inside the haunted estate with August and Dorothy Grimm and three former detectives from her past. The promise of Beauregard Grimm’s hidden fortune soon gives way to hanging bodies, a predatory apparition, impossible corridors, a graveyard without end, and d...

Author and editor Joe Solmo joins Henrique Couto to revisit Weekly Spooky’s earliest months and the community of writers whose fiction helped establish the show. Joe founded Penned in Blood, a horror-writing outlet that supplied nearly every story featured during approximately the first half-year of Weekly Spooky. That early relationship gave the new podcast a steady foundation of voices and material while its identity was still taking shape. Henrique uses this Behind the Spooky conversation to...

The treasure hunt inside Grimm Manor becomes a supernatural maze as Bethany Martinson and three former detectives face traps built from their darkest fears. After the attic’s horrors and Bethany’s confrontation with the vengeful Harpy, the survivors are scattered through corridors that seem to defy the mansion’s dimensions. Ed Smith, John Riddle, and Brian Davenport still want Beauregard Grimm’s fortune, but the deeper they travel, the less the house resembles a puzzle anyone was meant to solve...

Grimm Manor has claimed its first victims, and Bethany Martinson has vanished into a house where every room may be another lethal escape challenge. Part two resumes after Bethany finds August and Dorothy Grimm hanging in the living room and a ghostly apparition pulls her deeper into the mansion. Meanwhile, former detectives Ed Smith, John Riddle, and Brian Davenport ignore the danger and continue searching for Beauregard Grimm’s rumored fortune. Their resentment of Bethany turns the hunt into a...

A Fourth of July storm drives escape-room prodigy Bethany Martinson off the road and into Grimm Manor, a house built to keep its visitors from leaving alive. After a crash in the Strickfield backwoods strands Bethany beside a car filled with dead motorists, the only shelter she can find is the looming estate of August and Dorothy Grimm. Inside, she encounters three disgraced former detectives who know exactly who she is—and still blame her brilliant casework for ending their careers. The uneasy...

Cody’s school bully is more than cruel: Aiden carries fire-elemental blood. To survive him, Cody must awaken the ancient earth power inside himself. Every afternoon, Cody braces for another encounter with Aiden Fitzgerald and the painful “appointments” his tormentor schedules beside a pine tree. When Cody’s new stepsister Abby sees what is happening, she urges him to stand up for himself—but a disastrous confrontation reveals flames in Aiden’s eyes and anger fueled by something inhuman. Abby re...

Author Rob Fields joins Henrique Couto to explore the creative process, the value of taking storytelling risks, and the construction of Strickfield’s interconnected Ohio horror universe. Fields is one of Weekly Spooky’s most prolific fiction contributors and the writer behind many stories set in Strickfield. In this Behind the Spooky conversation, he and Henrique discuss how a recurring fictional town can support new characters, crimes, monsters, and consequences while still feeling like one re...

A warehouse worker hears a voice inside foul-smelling cardboard—and obeys it by constructing a labyrinth where something impossible can be born. In Douglas Waltz’s industrial creature story, a routine job at a medical-supply warehouse turns sinister when boxes carrying the odor of gunpowder and cooked cabbage begin whispering for help. Alone over a long weekend, the worker tapes together walls and tunnels until the building becomes a cardboard warren. Then the voice demands bubble wrap, surgica...

Forty years after Alayna Sanders was murdered at Langley Pond, a cruel prank awakens the ghost still trapped beneath its dark water. In 1981, Alayna swims for shore while a rifle waits in the darkness. In 2021, Briana, Andy, Frog, and Jenny gather at a cabin beside the pond, where local legend says Alayna’s spirit never left. Frog decides to frighten the others with hidden speakers and staged splashes, but the screams moving across the water are not recordings—and the apparition that rises from...

Four criminals drive a captive witness toward an abandoned mine, only to crash in a wilderness where enormous feral hogs turn predators into prey. Elijah Lurker, Miles Dunne, Walker Grimes, and Jackson Greene are headed for the abandoned Brody Mines with murder on their minds. Jackson has become a liability, and Gabby McKee—the woman locked in their trunk—knows too much about another killing. Before either execution can take place, an accidental gunshot sends their sedan off the road and leaves...

Bella Taibon expects an awkward beach vacation in Shore City—not a full-moon hunt for werewolves preying on the city’s hidden vampire population. The daylight-walking vampire travels with her best friend Eileen “Einny” Donnerly to visit Einny’s grandmother, whose reaction to Bella’s missing reflection makes the holiday tense before it has even begun. Then a body washes onto the beach bearing the marks of a werewolf attack. With two nights of the full moon still ahead, Bella and Einny follow the...

Calamity Jane joins Doc Holliday and a Chinese blacksmith armed with jiangshi lore as Dracula’s vampire army closes around Deadwood. The massacre at The Gem has transformed Pearl and other saloon women into blood-drinking servants. Sheriff Con Stapleton embraces the invader, animals flee the town, and a trail left by a dragged coffin disappears into Deadwood’s streets. Yen, the local blacksmith, recognizes the enemy from creatures he fought in China and forges a Moon Tooth Spade capable of dist...

Weekly Spooky producer Dan Wilder joins Henrique Couto for a candid conversation about writing, collaboration, and moving from audio horror into film and television production. Dan is one of Weekly Spooky’s principal creative collaborators, and this Behind the Spooky interview introduces the person behind a major part of the show’s production. He discusses his work as a writer and his expanding experience directing and producing movies and television alongside Henrique, giving listeners a close...

Calamity Jane faces a pale stranger, a coffin dragged into Deadwood, and murdered saloon women rising as vampires beneath the Dakota moon. Still grieving Wild Bill Hickok, Martha Jane Cannary spends her days drinking beside his grave at Mount Moriah Cemetery and shooting anyone foolish enough to disrespect it. On the road back to town she finds a wounded gambler calling himself Whisky Tom, robbed by a ranch hand who was hauling a mysterious coffin toward The Gem saloon. The coffin’s servant, K...

Jerimiah Reedle has spent his life hunting demons, but the infernal visitors tracking him know the truth: he is not the collector—he is the payment. Holed up in a cheap motel with his father’s revolver, Jerimiah sees every knock as another supernatural attack. A pizza delivery becomes a hostage situation, and a stranger at the door confirms that something from Hell really has found him. Three generations earlier, Jerimiah’s grandfather traded for a fortune and left his descendants responsible f...

In Strickfield’s backwoods, seven-year-old Billy McCracken is murdered, dumped in a toxic river, and resurrected as the leader of a child-zombie horde. Once a relentless prankster, Billy returns with a hunger for revenge. Every attack adds another undead child to his ranks, and soon isolated trailers, stranded families, and anyone reckless enough to take a shortcut through the woods are caught in the spreading nightmare. Vinton Rose and Shelly May Ruebottom know the rules from the zombie movie t...

A lonely child asks a Ouija board why he exists, then follows a cruel joke to build a working spirit board from blood, bone, and murder. Bruce Evans feels discarded by his family and believes the spirits may give him the purpose no one else will. When his older brother mocks the store-bought board and invents a gruesome ritual, Bruce takes every word literally. By the time the house falls silent, the boy has created a board that truly answers—and the entity spelling its name has plans for his t...

Weekly Spooky creator and host Henrique Couto opens the production room for a personal look at how the horror podcast began and how each episode comes together. In the first installment of Behind the Spooky, Henrique introduces himself, reflects on his long relationship with podcasting, and explains why he created an audio-first home for horror stories. The conversation connects the show’s origin to the practical work behind its weekly release schedule, offering listeners context for the voice,...

A young therapist enters a locked sanitarium to study a mute killer whose drawings reveal murders he could never have witnessed—including her own. Maggie Gillespie has always felt safest wearing blue. On her first day at San Pascualito Federal Sanitarium, she is assigned to Patient Thirty-Seven, a silent man who has spent forty years drawing crime scenes from different decades. His newest picture shows Maggie in the saffron dress she is wearing, bloodied by an attack that has not happened yet. ...

Jake falls instantly in love with Roxie, an ageless stranger whose intoxicating presence leaves men willing to kill anyone she names. Roxie appears without a last name, a history, or any explanation for the strange sweetness that overwhelms Jake and even captivates his dog. She disappears after one night, then returns a year later to collect the promise she planted in his mind: prove his love through murder. Each visit deepens the obsession, and the child she eventually brings with her reveals ...

Serial killer Raigen Devereux battles a 102-degree fever and a blizzard while hunting the murderer who removes victims’ hearts and leaves playing cards. Raige is a police intern, the vigilante known as the Angel of Death, and a predator who targets people she judges worse than herself. When Delphine Brewster-Sloane calls about her missing husband Joseph and stepson Franklin, Raige leaves her dorm despite a severe flu. At Delphine’s house, Joseph is found hanging in the attic with his heart remo...

Two cousins steal body parts for a black-market doctor, then discover his warehouse experiments have transformed human remains into a living hive. The narrator and his cousin Jimmy make their money by robbing cadavers and delivering the pieces to a man they call Doc. Jimmy is reckless, cruel, and always eager to take their crimes further. When Doc offers more money for living subjects, the cousins cross a line even their graveyard work never prepared them to face. At Doc’s warehouse, refrigera...