Episodes

Bryce’s Halloween date at a Texas water park becomes a mutant-mollusk outbreak when contaminated slides turn swimmers into living shells. Splash Town stays open through October 31, and its newest attraction—the Pumpkin King—sends four riders through black-and-purple tubes into a bat-shaped pool. Bryce would rather avoid the massive waterslide, but Rebecca Engel loves the park, and after eight years of nervous longing he has finally asked her out. Their date begins with stinging skin, foul-smell...

Amber awakens bound inside an abandoned warehouse where a masked killer plans to sacrifice her during a Halloween demonic ritual. She had dressed as a cat for a party with Sara and Madison, but the night becomes a nightmare of restraints, bodies, and a murderer convinced that the Dark One has promised him eternal glory. The industrial wasteland surrounding the warehouse offers no witnesses and little hope of rescue. Then Clyde arrives: a switchblade-carrying greaser in an engineer boot, white ...

Destiny and Sienna sneak into the wrong Strickfield drive-in on Halloween and find a movie marathon screening their own deaths—and judgment. Strickfield’s Retro Halloween Weekend fills October with secret horror marathons at the restored drive-in theater. Destiny Mirren sees the celebration as another reason to hate her charitable older sister, Charity, and plans to steal the event’s money with her only friend, Sienna Michaels. Their directions lead them instead to a long-closed drive-in at 131...

Amber Hanna despises pumpkin spice, Halloween, and excited children—until the Pumpkin Man curses her with a spreading jack-o’-lantern face. At Frankie’s Donuts on Halloween morning, Amber insults a young trick-or-treater, rejects his father’s request for an apology, and gets orange powder blown into her face. A small mark appears on her neck at Whitman’s Insurance Agency, then spreads across her skin in black veins and pumpkin-orange flesh. Doctors cannot help, and the scent of cinnamon, nutmeg...

Christian Schaeffer’s first date with Chloe Anne Carmichael leads to a Strickfield farmhouse where dinner is human—and joining the family is forever. The North Ridgeway High football player met Chloe Anne after a game against Strickfield and cannot understand why his friends distrust the beautiful country girl. She is affectionate, confident, and eager to bring him home. The Carmichaels welcome Christian warmly, but their close family bond includes appetites and traditions no ordinary guest cou...

Henrique Couto opens another album of horrifying family history in five stories where blood relatives, inherited secrets, and domestic monsters take center stage. Part two features stories by Shane Migliavacca, Morgan Moore, Keith Tomlin, Michelle Adler, and Dan Wilder, continuing the Freaky Family Fables anthology with a different nightmare in every branch of the family tree. The second album contains five new stories by Shane Migliavacca, Morgan Moore, Keith Tomlin, Michelle Adler, and Dan W...

For Weekly Spooky’s 100th episode, Henrique Couto opens a twisted family album and tells the horrifying stories behind its most disturbing photographs. Part one of “My Freaky Family Fables” features stories by David O’Hanlon, Christopher Dowell, Rob Fields, and additional Weekly Spooky contributors, linking each nightmare through a shared fictional family history. The five-story first half features work by David O’Hanlon, Christopher Dowell, Rob Fields, Joe Solmo, and Killian Crane. Each tale ...

Channel 7 reporter Jennifer Lake needs another sensational story before management sends her back to the weather desk. Her assignment to cover a whimsical fantasy faire appears humiliatingly safe—until the costumed celebration becomes the scene of a bloody attack. With cameras still rolling, Jennifer and secretary Teagan face an armored killer whose medieval weapons are entirely real. Escaping the massacre may require turning stage props, live-event equipment, and the faire’s own theatrical fir...

Two boys take a summer job from a music-hating recluse, then uncover a hidden record collection tied to an abandoned factory and an occult recording. Etheridge and August are desperate for work when Old Man Baldwin hires them to clean his garage under two unforgiving rules: no idling and absolutely no music. After August breaks the ban, Etheridge works alone and discovers a heavy chest filled with jazz, blues, and classical records. The find draws an unexpected confession from Baldwin, a former...

Felix still reports to a flower shop in a collapsing city where severed limbs lie in the street, sanitation has stopped, and everyone avoids saying the word “zombie.” Dependability is the one quality Felix trusts, so abandoned neighborhoods and pending orders are treated as ordinary obstacles to completing another shift. A day of floral deliveries becomes an exhausted bicycle journey through barricades, infected attackers, missing fingers, and a bridge Felix may have destroyed for everyone’s pr...

Grieving mother Jillian Hubbard accepts a demon’s offer to restore her stillborn daughter—then learns the debt requires the souls of six children. Five months after losing Clementine Rose, Jillian lives alone in a rain-soaked house and hears a baby crying inside the empty crib. A voice promises to return her child in the flesh if she agrees to repay an unspecified favor whenever called. Jillian accepts, and Clementine awakens as a healthy infant with official proof of a life that should have en...

A cursed chain letter arrives in Strickfield with impossible instructions: obey, pass it on, or watch someone die when the deadline expires. An occultist banished by the town uses an ancient Chain Curse to harvest souls, restore his youth, and take revenge. When Rebecca Mirren receives one of his letters, its threats become violently real. Each command forces Rebecca and her closest friend, Mica Collins, into an escalating moral trap: complete the task, forward the curse to another victim, or r...

In the summer of 1986, Whistler seems like another sleepy Fagan County town until residents begin turning up mutilated and partially eaten. Thirteen-year-old Conrad and his sister Lisa are already living under curfew when the violence reaches their family and the old local warnings about the woods become impossible to dismiss. The killer is connected to a hidden world of werewolves, rival bloodlines, and a pack that does not forget what has been taken from it. Armed with a shotgun and fragments...

Only days after his mother’s funeral, eleven-year-old Jacob travels with Uncle Glen to a remote river cabin connected to his parents’ past. His father refuses to return, his mother’s family history is strangely absent, and something beneath the water draws Jacob toward the dock. During a fishing trip, a familiar voice begins calling his name from below the canoe. The river’s calm surface conceals a siren tied to old family secrets, grief, and the unexplained accident that took Jacob’s mother—le...

Strickfield High student Simon Griffin has already published nine science-fiction novels about the ruthless hitman Hunter Black. He writes every page on his late grandfather’s battered typewriter, refusing to replace it with a computer even as classmates mock him and his fictional world becomes his refuge. Then people and weapons from Simon’s manuscript begin appearing in reality. With Hunter Black and Felicity Scorne no longer confined to paper, the bullied young author discovers that the type...

On the hottest night in Indiana history, the remaining counselors at Camp Elderberry discover that the final night of summer can become a massacre. It is 1980, and the rundown camp is better known as Camp Dead and Buried. While the senior counselors plan one last party and the younger staff finish a tabletop adventure, the oppressive heat makes the dark woods feel increasingly hostile. Then fire and arrows cut through the cabins, forcing the counselors to turn camp games, half-remembered surviv...

Patrick, Sean, and Tommy go hunting for photographic proof of El Chupacabra after livestock are found drained of blood on their class trip. Ranch Roca de Vaca promises four days away from school, lessons in agriculture and Puerto Rican culture, horseback riding, and campfire stories. Host Michael welcomes the class with his dog Picasso, warns the children never to cross the fences alone, and tells them how his grandfather’s animals in Puerto Rico were once killed by the legendary goat sucker. ...

Eleven-year-old Jake expects a family trip from Chicago to New York City, but his father Edward detours to the tiny town of Stones Creek to research its history of witchcraft. Their base is the Grinning Cat Inn, an old bed-and-breakfast facing a cemetery where a sealed crypt is decorated with stone ghouls. The arrival of Count Dmitry Romanova, his son Nikolai, and their imposing companion gives Jake someone his own age to explore with. When the boys discover strange runes and a hidden way into ...

Dead Ahead begins with a roadside accident and escalates through an occult revenge ritual into a confrontation with the undead. Horror story podcast fans—this one is roadside terror with a mean streak. After a late-night drive turns into a catastrophic hit-and-run accident, Becca and her boyfriend Tom drag their secret off the highway and into the dark pines—shovel, flashlight, and panic doing the talking. But guilt doesn’t stay buried… and neither does the dead. When Tom’s cruelty pushes Becc...

Summer Slaycation sends its characters across the lake toward a destination whose hidden danger turns a summer escape into survival horror. A cruel camp prank sends children across the lake near Cypress Maze, where a crumbling bayou house hides experiments and hungry hybrid creatures. What begins as a juvenile attempt to frighten younger campers becomes a journey into swamp terror. Beyond the water wait a deranged scientific secret, plant-and-animal abominations, and predators capable of turni...

Detective Drake Kazmierczak comes to Strickfield hunting the Angel of Death, unaware his new police intern Raigen Devereux is the killer. Drake leaves Erie City after the vigilante murders Annie Judge, the woman he once loved. His investigation points to Strickfield, where his uncle Jeffrey serves as police chief and warns him that locals do not discuss the Angel of Death. The case becomes personal before Drake realizes how closely his new partner is connected to the hundreds of punishments he ...

Columbus office worker John Davidson accepts a stranger’s business card for a remote restaurant and soon becomes unable to think about anything but its tacos. One impossible meal brings ecstasy, sickness, and the horrifying sensation that his body is being emptied and rebuilt for someone else. When John returns looking for answers, the neon restaurant has become a decaying barn beside a cornfield marked by strange burned circles. The presence growing inside his mind begins erasing his memories,...

A fading television appraiser encounters a diary bound in human skin and enters a private Black Museum where every antique has killed. Steve hosts “Junkin’ Coast to Coast,” a long-running cable appraisal show nearing cancellation. During a low-budget Halloween taping near Salem, a plumber brings in an obscene relic stolen from an abandoned building. The object leads Steve and videographer Yvonne to a hidden collection of murder weapons, torture devices, and cursed memorabilia assembled by a mys...

On a late-summer evening in the Deep South, Tanner races up the family’s dirt road claiming he has seen something enormous near the creek. He and his cousin Danny take a shotgun into the woods, following broken branches toward an abandoned brick plant filled with dangerous pits and long-buried family history. The black-furred creature waiting inside walks on two legs, shrugs off gunfire, and looks far more like a werewolf than any dog. Yet its connection to Wilson Road is closer than the boys r...