Chilling Tales for Dark Nights — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast

"The Worst Haunted House" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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The Death House has terrible props, predictable scares, and a seven-dollar admission fee that barely seems worth paying. For David and his friends, making fun of it is practically a Halloween tradition. This year, a change at the entrance forces the most easily frightened member of their group to go through alone. The others expect her to catch up somewhere between the fake prisoners and the zombie hillbillies. But as they approach the exit, her bright pink princess dress is still nowhere in sight. They’ve spent the evening laughing at the costumes, ignoring the warnings, and reminding themselves that none of it is real. But in a place where everyone is pretending to be a monster, how would you recognize the one who isn’t?

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FEATURED STORY:
"The Worst Haunted House" by Kitty Olsen
Performed by Jesse Brown
Produced by Craig Groshek
Original Music by Luke Hodgkinson and Jesse Cornett

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Oct 30, 2026 18 min

"Mickey's Not So Scary" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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The posters promise one night of Halloween fun: a parade, a stage show, hypnotism, and fireworks. Nobody in Wabeno seems to know who’s organizing it. Everybody seems determined to go. Jon wishes he could share their excitement. But the wolf-like figure grinning from the advertisements has started appearing in his dreams, accompanied by a song he wakes up struggling to forget. As the posters spread, his girlfriend, his sister, and his best friend offer the same reassurance: “Mickey’s not so scary.” By the time the tents appear on the high school football field, Jon has heard those words everywhere. He tells himself he’ll keep his distance. Stay near the back. Leave if anything feels wrong. Then the lights go down, and Mickey takes the stage.

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FEATURED STORY:
"Mickey's Not So Scary" by Craig Groshek
Performed by Kevin Barbare (feat. Nicholas Goroff and Olivia Steele)
Produced by Aaron Sawicki

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Oct 30, 2026 46 min

"Worth the Having" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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The night before Halloween, a boy takes a familiar shortcut through a neighbor’s backyard—and sees something he cannot explain. Before he can escape, it notices him. The visitor promises him something extraordinary: whatever he most wants for the coming year. But he cannot refuse its attention, and he cannot choose what it takes in return. Every October brings another reminder. Every wish brings another reason to endure the visit. As childhood hopes grow into adult ambitions, the life he builds becomes increasingly difficult to separate from the thing that claims to own him. How do you escape a creature that has made itself part of everything you value?

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FEATURED STORY:
"Worth the Having" by Michael Paul Gonzalez
Performed by Drew Blood
Produced by Drew Blood
Original Music by Drew Blood

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Oct 29, 2026 47 min

"The Halloween Funeral" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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Nicholas Saint loved Halloween—the costumes, the ghost stories, the pleasure of giving someone a good scare. When he dies just days before his favorite holiday, his siblings know an ordinary funeral will never do. Their farewell belongs at the Timber, the wooded Missouri property where they grew up beside the Sac River. But another family owns the land now, and permission to return has been firmly denied. Determined to honor their brother, they arrange a secret journey by boat under cover of darkness. With his ashes in a guitar case and their aging mother beside them, they set out for the riverbank that holds a lifetime of memories. Then lights begin moving across the water.

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FEATURED STORY:
"The Halloween Funeral" by Eli Pope
Performed by Paul J. McSorley
Produced by Nikki McSorley
Original Music by Nikki McSorley

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Oct 28, 2026 49 min

"The Last Halloween" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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Everyone in Hollisfield loves Granny Clark. Will knows he should, too, but something about visiting her little green house at the edge of the woods has always made him uncomfortable. At twelve, he would rather spend Halloween collecting candy than testing his nerve. His friend Spencer has other plans. Determined to answer a school rival’s dare, Spencer persuades Will to help play a prank on their elderly neighbor. All Will has to do is ring the bell and keep her talking while Spencer slips around back. Her porch light is already off when they arrive. Will wants to leave, but someone is moving inside, and Spencer refuses to turn back.

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FEATURED STORY:
"The Last Halloween" by William Dalphin
Performed by John Evans
Produced by Jesse Cornett
Original Music by Jesse Cornett

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Oct 27, 2026 27 min

"The Halloween Mask" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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Ben Breslaw wants this year’s neighborhood Halloween party to be unforgettable. He has spent hundreds on decorations, and the white mask he ordered should provide the finishing touch. When someone steals the package from his doorstep, he assumes he will have to settle for another costume. Then a stranger wearing a white mask begins appearing outside his home. His wife dismisses the visits as Halloween mischief, but Ben cannot explain the silent figure watching from the woods or the security alerts waking him in the middle of the night. With guests arriving soon, he struggles to keep the celebration on track while wondering whether the stranger intends to attend.

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FEATURED STORY:
"The Halloween Mask" by Blair Daniels and Craig Groshek
Performed by Jason Hill
Produced by Craig Groshek
Original Music by Luke Hodgkinson and Jesse Cornett

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Oct 26, 2026 31 min

"Quick Question: Do You Love Animals?" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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After a long day asking strangers to care, Amelia wants a quiet ride home. Her driver wants to talk. At first, the questions are ordinary: where she studies, what music she likes, how her charity job works. Amelia knows how to keep a conversation pleasant. She smiles, offers explanations, and overlooks a few uncomfortable remarks. But as the ride continues, the questions begin to sound like accusations—and every answer seems to make things worse. With unfamiliar streets passing outside the window, Amelia must decide how much longer she can afford to dismiss the feeling that something is wrong.

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FEATURED STORY:
"Quick Question: Do You Love Animals?" by J.R. Hamantaschen
Performed by Olivia Steele (feat. Rissa Montanez, Paul J. McSorley, Nick Goroff, Erik Peabody, Danielle Hewitt and Heather Thomas)
Produced by Aaron Sawicki

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Oct 25, 2026 1 hr 26 min

"The Plague Ship" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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Off Florida’s Forgotten Coast, a stranded shrimp trawler promises Jonah Daughtrey the payday he has spent years chasing. Its hull appears intact, its cargo remains aboard, and no rival salvager has reached it. For once, the advantage is his. But the crew has left no tracks on the beach, and a scavenging bird soon draws his attention to something caught in the nets. Aboard the Job 2:7, Jonah finds signs of a disaster that never made it into the ship’s distress calls. While his first mate searches the deck, he ventures below, following the prospect of salvage into cramped compartments fouled by decay. Somewhere beyond a closed door, something scratches. As the evidence mounts, Jonah must decide how much danger he is willing to overlook for a profit—and whether he has already waited too long to leave.

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FEATURED STORY:
"The Plague Ship" by Nick Carlson
Performed by Erik Peabody
Produced by S.K. Brown

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Oct 22, 2026 36 min

"Drip" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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In 1994, the Lechtler family checked into room thirteen at the White Valley Hotel. By morning, both parents and their two children had vanished. The investigation yielded no answers, and the death of the hotel’s owner left White Valley with a mystery it would spend decades retelling. The hotel still welcomes guests, including visitors eager to spend a night in its most infamous room. For the young employee covering the overnight desk, that reputation is simply another way to keep a struggling business afloat. Then the newlyweds upstairs call to report an unbearable smell. With snow falling outside and the owners away, an apparently routine complaint draws the employee into the room at the center of White Valley’s unresolved past.

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FEATURED STORY:
"Drip" by Matt Richardsen
Performed by Paul J. McSorley
Original music by Nikki McSorley
Produced by Nikki McSorley

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Oct 21, 2026 19 min

"Their Souls Speak Through Fire" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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An evening meant to bring a husband and wife closer ends with the loss of their infant daughter. In the months that follow, he struggles to reach Beth through her grief while privately wrestling with anger and guilt of his own. When she begins cooking again, opening the curtains, and speaking about their daughter without breaking down, he allows himself to hope. But the stove stays lit long after the meals are finished. Candles burn in empty rooms, and he hears his wife talking when no one else is there. As her comforting routines become increasingly unsettling, he must confront the possibility that he has misunderstood what is helping her survive.

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Oct 20, 2026 23 min

"Side Effects May Include" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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SmallDoc promises to make routine doctor visits a thing of the past. One simple injection puts microscopic medical machines to work inside the body, treating illness before it can disrupt everyday life. Dean Swanson’s friends swear by it. His mother feels better than she has in years. His boss sees no reason he should refuse. Dean would rather keep his cold. Then an unsettling phone call and a trip to the pharmacy give him something more serious to worry about. Familiar voices sound wrong. Ordinary movements seem strangely rehearsed. And the treatment everyone recommends begins to look less reassuring with every encounter.

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Oct 19, 2026 26 min

"Before the Zero" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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At a small-town Florida carnival, the Ferris wheel stands still, the concession stalls sit abandoned, and something is growing where it should not. Detectives Dachery and Margot arrive to investigate a scene neither can explain. Flowers bloom from human remains. Moss spreads across the attractions with impossible speed. And a strange proclamation invokes a name that means nothing to them: the Moss Prophet. With daylight fading and backup still on the way, the partners search for answers among the remnants of a celebration gone terribly wrong. But every discovery makes the grounds less familiar—and their route back to the car more unsettling.

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Oct 18, 2026 37 min

"The Scarecrow Corpse" (feat. Markiplier) - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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FEATURING GUEST NARRATOR MARK "MARKIPLIER" FISCHBACH! For a coroner-in-training in Washington, D.C., a call to the Metro should be another opportunity to learn. An unidentified man has been found slumped against a train window, with no pulse, no breath, and no obvious cause of death. Then he blinks. Inside the examination room, the supervising doctor insists there must be a scientific explanation. But as the autopsy proceeds, the young intern finds it increasingly difficult to work beneath the dead man’s attentive gaze. After all, how do you examine a body when you’re not sure it's really dead?

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Oct 17, 2026 12 min

"A Gift for the King" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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Elliot takes the same walk through his neighborhood every night. He knows the streets, the turns, the ordinary sounds after dark. But tonight, a sudden fog conceals the way ahead—and a frightened stranger insists that someone is coming. The man speaks of a ruler who demands tribute from everyone he encounters. Elliot wants to dismiss him. Then the streetlights begin to fail, and he hears claws striking pavement somewhere beyond the mist. With his familiar neighborhood disappearing around him, Elliot must decide how much to trust a stranger whose terror seems increasingly justified. Whoever is approaching expects an offering. The problem is, Elliot has nothing prepared. And he may not be prepared for the price he'll truly have to pay.

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Oct 16, 2026 28 min

"Cold Hands" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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Scott Madsen has grown accustomed to sleeping alone. After years of sharing a bed and a troubled marriage, he can finally stretch out, settle in, and rest undisturbed. Then a cold touch follows him out of a dream. He wakes to find a hand wrapped around the foot he left outside the covers. Someone is beside his bed—or beneath it. Whoever it is won’t answer him. And when the grip tightens, Scott realizes that reaching the bedroom door may be far more dangerous than staying where he is.

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Oct 15, 2026 25 min

"Never Meet Your Heroes" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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Anderson can fly, shrug off gunfire, and reduce almost anything to ash with a glance. Naturally, he decides the world needs him as its superhero. Calling himself Supreme, he sets out to fight crime, stop disasters, and earn the admiration he knows must follow. But real emergencies refuse to behave like comic books, and the people he intends to save keep finding reasons to fear his arrival. Every mistake gives him something else to explain, while every criticism makes it harder to admit that he might be the problem. As his exploits attract an eager audience and the attention of people who want his power for themselves, Supreme becomes determined to prove he deserves the title of hero. For everyone within reach, that determination is increasingly dangerous.

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Oct 14, 2026 6 hr 35 min

"I Met Someone Who Claimed to Be the Devil" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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Seeking a quieter end to a night out, a skeptical narrator settles into a London bar, expecting little more than cheap whiskey and football on television. Then a young woman with bright red hair, ruined makeup, and someone else’s drink drying on her clothes takes the neighboring stool. She introduces herself as Lucifer, though she’s happy to answer to Lucy. Concerned that she needs help, the narrator offers to call someone. Lucy would prefer a cocktail and a chance to tell her story. Her proposition seems simple: hear her out before deciding what to do about her. But as she talks about Eden, her father, and the circumstances of her fall, the conversation becomes increasingly difficult to dismiss. Her humor conceals a deep resentment, and the certainty behind her impossible claims begins to make the crowded bar feel disturbingly isolated. Settle in for an intimate, unsettling encounter with a stranger who has plenty to say—and every intention of being heard.

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Oct 13, 2026 36 min

"A Storm Does This Way Come" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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Christmas has become a season Dakota Storm would rather endure alone. Since the crash that took his wife and young son, the sheriff’s deputy has struggled to find a reason to keep going. An abandoned border collie named Apollo has given him one. Then a dying prisoner asks to see him—and makes a claim Storm cannot dismiss. Among the belongings his wife left behind, Storm finds a journal that sends him south to Memphis, where locked doors conceal suffering and asking the wrong questions can make a man a target. With Apollo at his side, he follows a trail that grows more dangerous with every answer, uncertain how much of the life he remembers he truly understood.

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Oct 12, 2026 54 min

"All in the Family" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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Teddy has made a terrible mess. His sister is dead. His beloved Peg has been destroyed. And Mother will be home at any moment. As Teddy races to conceal what happened inside their decaying family home, grief gives way to darker impulses—and an already horrifying crime threatens to expose the secrets the household has kept buried for years. But Teddy is not the only member of the family with a distorted understanding of love, obedience, and punishment. Written by Brian Warner, better known as Marilyn Manson, “All in the Family” is a transgressive descent into domestic depravity, where innocence has curdled into obsession and keeping a family together may prove more terrifying than tearing it apart.

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Oct 11, 2026 11 min

"Milk and Cookies" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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Every Friday night, an elderly man visits a quiet convenience store and buys the same two things: a small packet of milk and a bag of cookies. He always comes alone, and the young clerk behind the counter has begun to wonder who the treats are for. Curiosity leads the clerk through the city’s darkened streets to an old junkyard, where the customer is waiting with a story he has rarely told. It begins with a childhood game, a hiding place chosen too well, and a door that would not open from the inside. Seventy years later, the man still returns to the place where he once waited for someone to find him.

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Oct 10, 2026 23 min

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