Podcast
Night Fears Horror Fiction Podcast
Night Fears Horror Fiction Podcast returning by popular demand, has immersive horror stories that are sure to keep you entertained. Contains graphic adult language and content you may be offended by. Be warned, it's for adults, and not for the squeamish or faint of heart.
- Episodes
- 15
- Releases
- Twice a week
- Typical length
- 46 min
- On air since
- 2025
- Latest episode
- 3 days ago
Episodes
15 episodes, newest first
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1 hr 11 min
Free Admission | A Halloween Horror Story
Episode 15
Show notes
Five friends get kicked out of a bar on Halloween night. Across the street, the old department store that closed years ago has its lights on again. A sign out front promises one night only, a haunted house, and free admission.
Every room inside was built for one of them. A clown waits in the carnival room. The dolls are watching from their shelves. The mannequins don't stay where you leave them. The store closes at midnight, and the only way out is forward.
Some places are free to get into. Getting out costs more.
Tonight on the Night Fears Horror Fiction Podcast, an original Halloween horror story built to be heard in the dark.
Content warning: drinking, a car crash, death, blood, and graphic injury. Listener discretion is advised.
Outro Piano Music by Michael Hughes.
Happy Halloween. Have sweet dreams.
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46 min
The Lamplight Hour | A Horror Story from the Ozarks
Episode 14
Show notes
A hospice nurse gets a late-night call to sit with a dying man at the end of a road he's never heard of. His GPS takes him off a cliff instead. Climbing out of the ravine, he sees one candle burning in the window of an old farmhouse. Inside, the coffee is still hot, nobody is home, and a radio with no power cord is playing a show called the Lamplight Hour. The host knows his name. She knows what's in his bag. And she knows exactly what he's going to do next.
The Lamplight Hour is an original horror story from Night Fears Horror Fiction Podcast. It's a backwoods nightmare full of haunted radio broadcasts, creatures in the walls, and vintage commercials for products that should never have been sold. If you like scary stories, creepypasta, folk horror, Appalachian and Ozark horror, or old-time radio horror, pull your chair up close.
Content warning: graphic violence, gore, cannibalism, torture, death and dying, and strong language. This is a work of fiction. All commercials are parody.
New original horror fiction every episode. Subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a story, and share it with a friend. Or an enemy.
Piano Outro by Michael Hughes.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.
#HorrorStory #ScaryStories #HorrorPodcast
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57 min
Seamless | A Cursed Halloween Costume Horror Story
Episode 13
Show notes
Three roommates in Scranton, Pennsylvania enter the same Halloween costume contest every year, and every year they lose to a dentist who builds animatronic monsters in his garage. This year, Fitz buys a full-body ghoul costume off Facebook Marketplace for forty bucks. The seller tells him one thing: don't wear it past sunrise.
It's the most realistic costume anyone has ever seen. It wins. And when the sun comes up, Fitz can't find the zipper.
Seamless is an original Halloween horror story about a cursed costume, a very full bladder, and what you get when you buy used clothes from a stranger on the internet. It starts out funny and gets darker and stranger as it goes.
Content warning: strong language, heavy drinking, graphic body horror, blood, vomiting.
Night Fears Horror Fiction Podcast brings you original scary stories, narrated for late nights, long drives, and anyone who likes being a little afraid of the dark.
Like, subscribe, and leave a review if this one got under your skin.
Outro Piano music by Michael Hughes
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49 min
Nana Sweetbread | Extreme Halloween Witch Horror Story
Episode 12
Show notes
Six drunk friends prank the town's oldest urban legend on Halloween night, and steal the pie cooling on her windowsill. By morning they can't stop eating.
Out at the end of Sumac Hollow Road in southern Indiana, where the national forest begins, lives Nana Sweetbread. Her chimney smokes every night of the year. The old-timers say if you drive out at noon you'll find nothing but four broken stone walls, but at midnight there's a light on in the kitchen. When Colby and his friends egg her cottage and run off with her pie, they find out the stories were true. Now a cheerful 1950s TV cooking show host with a painted-on smile and a necklace of human teeth has invited them back for supper, and every one of them is on the menu.
Nana Sweetbread is an original extreme horror story full of dark humor, cursed food, cannibalism, body horror and splatter gore, in the tradition of Halloween slasher films. If you like scary Halloween stories, witch horror, urban legends, creepypasta, folk horror and cosmic hunger, this one's for you.
Content warning: graphic violence, gore, cannibalism, strong language and adult humor. Listener discretion is advised.
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51 min
The Hundred Dollar House | A Twisted Halloween Horror Story
Episode 11
Show notes
On Halloween night, a house at the end of a dead-end street pays grown men a hundred dollars each. Kids get treats. Grown men get tricks.
Broke and hungover, Boone and his three best friends throw on costumes made from bedsheets and bathrobes and go looking for easy money. The sweet old lunch lady who answers the door remembers every one of them. Her husband at the organ has a stack of cash and a list of dares. Every trick pays more than the last, and every trick reveals a little more about who they really are. By the time they realize the doors are locked, the family in the basement is already coming up the stairs.
This original Halloween horror story mixes pitch-black comedy with brutal, unforgettable horror. It's perfect for spooky season, late-night listening, and anyone who loves scary stories, creepy old houses, and twisted trick-or-treat tales.
Content warning: graphic violence, gore, strong language, and crude humor. Listener discretion advised.
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42 min
What the Moon Lets Out | Werewolf Horror Story: Cattle Mutilations in Small-Town Nebraska
Episode 10
Show notes
A rancher calls the sheriff's office at dawn. One of his heifers is lying torn open in the south pasture with her throat gone. There isn't a drop of blood in her or under her, and there isn't a single track anywhere around her.
Deputy Luther Tolan has worked eleven years in Grier County, Nebraska, and he's seen just about everything a small farm town can throw at a cop. He's never seen anything like this. The killings come back every month, and every month they last one night longer. Livestock come first. Then the dogs start hiding. Then it moves on to people.
Lute starts circling the full moons on a feed store calendar. What he finds out about his town is far worse than a monster, because it's somebody he knows.
What the Moon Lets Out is an original long-form horror story about a werewolf, cattle mutilations, small-town secrets, and a creature that doesn't die when you kill it. It's full-cast audio horror fiction for fans of rural horror, creature features, cosmic dread, and slow-burn scary stories told in the dark.
Stay through the end, and make sure all the buttholes are accounted for.
New original horror stories every episode. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one.
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1 hr 3 min
Anatomical Gift | A Medical School Body Horror Story
Episode 9
Show notes
His father donated his body to science. Science didn't give him back.
First-year medical student Nolan Pryce spends his nights in the gross anatomy lab at a Virginia medical school, dissecting a cadaver his lab partner named Kevin. Then the paperwork on Kevin's tank turns out to be a lie, the kindly professor who runs the body donor program starts humming the hymn Nolan's late father used to sing, and a stranger's hip replacement turns up in his father's ashes. Following the trail leads Nolan and his best friend to an abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium in the Virginia woods, where the dead are not resting, and someone has been stitching them together.
Anatomical Gift is an original horror story about grief, grave robbing, reanimation, and what really happens after you sign the donor card. It's full of dark humor, Southern gothic dread, and graphic body horror in the tradition of Frankenstein and Re-Animator.
New original horror fiction every episode on Night Fears Horror Fiction Podcast. If you like creepy stories, scary stories, and horror audio dramas, follow, rate, and subscribe so you never miss a nightmare.
Outro Piano music by Michael Hughes
Content warning: graphic body horror, gore, death of a parent, corpse desecration, and strong language. For mature listeners only.
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1 hr 17 min
Room Tone | A Ghost Ship Horror Story
Episode 8
Show notes
A broke documentary crew rents a boat out of Louisiana, and rides twelve miles into the Gulf of Mexico to film the Marisol Grace. She's an abandoned cargo ship whose nineteen crew members vanished six years ago. No birds land on her. Dead fish ring her hull. One plate in the mess hall is still warm.
Then the sound guy records sixty seconds of room tone, and somebody breathes on the tape.
Room Tone is an original horror story about a haunted ghost ship, a voice in the air vents that knows your secrets, and the thing waiting under the water. It's found footage horror, psychological horror and sea monster horror in one long-form audio story. Fans of The Terror, The Lighthouse, Annihilation, and abandoned ship scary stories will feel right at home.
Stick around to the end for a bonus: an original sea shanty about the story, with a fiddle solo.
New episodes of original horror fiction every Sometimes on Night Fears Horror Fiction Podcast. Follow so you don't miss the next one.
Outro spooky piano music by Michael Hughes
Content warning: graphic violence, gore, body horror, strong language, and self-harm imagery (eye injury). Listener discretion advised.
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48 min
Incorrect Turn
Episode 7
Show notes
Night Fears Horror Fiction Podcast presents "Incorrect Turn," a full-length original backwoods horror story.
Michael and four friends drive down from Pittsburgh for a three day hike along an abandoned railroad grade to a waterfall on Tallow Run, a creek that barely shows up on a map. The old woman at the last gas station warns them off the trail and tells them one rule: if you hear somebody whistling out there, don't whistle back. They whistle back.
By the second night the hooting starts on the ridges. By the third day their packs and phones are gone, the trail blazes have been moved, and there's a boot standing upright on a rock with a foot still in it. The family that lives back in that hollow has been there a hundred years, and they are patient, they are hungry, and they know the woods better than anybody.
This is survival horror in the vein of Wrong Turn, The Hills Have Eyes, Deliverance and The Descent. Graphic violence and disturbing content. Listener discretion advised.
Best with headphones, lights off.
Outro piano music by Michael Hughes. Story written and produced for Night Fears Horror Fiction Podcast. New horror fiction stories every sometimes. Like, subscribe, and leave a review so my dad is finally proud of me.
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40 min
Welcome to Deutschland
Episode 6
Show notes
This episode gets back to the roots of the Night Fears podcast, delivering pure horror with a story about a student in a foreign exchange program spending the year in Germany. The host family says the attic is forbidden, and he soon finds out why. Grandmother lives up there...
Questions, concerns, worries, fears, idle thoughts, story submissionsor threats may be sent to nighfearspodcast@gmail.com.
The super spooky spine tingling saweet piano music in this episode was created by Michael Hughes.
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40 min
"The Pocket Watch" and "Carl"
Episode 5
Show notes
This episode contains two relatively absurd stories. The Pocket Watch is about a man who finds a time stopping watch guarded by a yellow eyed demon and Carl is about a bowel movement that comes to life and begins a reign of terror in a man's life. I never thought I'd type a description with those words...
Questions, concerns, worries, fears, idle thoughts or threats may be sent to nightfearspodcast@gmail.com.
Piano music in the episode was created by Michael Hughes.
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37 min
Paying the Rent
Episode 4
Show notes
This episode is all about the lengths we will go to get money to pay the rent. Sometimes things get out of hand. Don't respond to sketchy website ads! Happy to see new fans, and fans of the original Night Fears podcast supporting the show. The cool outro piano music in this podcast was created by Michael Hughes. Any story submissions, comments, threats or other collections of words can be sent nightfearspodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening, have sweet dreams, I love you!
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37 min
The Dollhouse Masterpiece
Episode 3
Show notes
This Episode is called The Dollhouse Masterpiece. By Jethro Arola. There is a subtle comedy element but it doesn't undermine the horror aspect. Please subscribe and leave a rating if you enjoy Night Fears! Or if you don't, or if you just enjoy listening thats cool too. Just be yourself bro, I'm not gonna tell you how to live your life. Does anyone read these? Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
If you'd like to submit a spooky tale of your own, or with questions or comments, or threats please send them to nighfearspodcast@gmail.com.
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30 min
Don't Turn Around
Episode 2
Show notes
Night Fears is horror fiction podcast hosted by Jethro Arola. Bringing dark, adult short stories to make you fear the night. Contains graphic adult language and content, you've been warned.
This story in this episode is called "Don't Turn Around"
If you have a frightening story, please send it to nightfearspodcast@gmail.com.
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20 min
Asylum Funsies
Episode 1
Show notes
Night Fears is a horror fiction podcast hosted by Jethro Arola. It's awesome to be back creating content again. So much love and support in the horror community. I've had a ton of requests to do this over the years so I'll be delivering as much content as I can. This first episode is more of a comedy horror blend. But I will mix it up in the future. Thanks for listening!
Any story submissions can be sent to nightfearspodcast@gmail.com
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