Podcast
Scary Stories Told in the Dark — A Horror Fiction Anthology Series
Scary Stories Told in the Dark is a horror fiction podcast, spun off from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and its popular YouTube channel of the same name. The show stars voice actor Malcolm Blackwood as both host and narrator, and features the hand-picked work of hundreds of talented authors. Sleep well, listeners… if you can.
- Drama chart
- #23
- Episodes
- 467
- Releases
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 42 min
- On air since
- 2017
- Latest episode
- 2 days ago
Episodes
467 episodes, newest first
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52 min
S19E12 - "To Infinity" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Season 19, Episode 12
Show notes
For thirteen-year-old friends Jack and Ryan, exploring an empty office building seems like an ordinary way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Then Jack discovers a door they don’t remember seeing and persuades Ryan to take one last look. Beyond it, the building stops making sense. As familiar rooms repeat and the route behind them disappears, the boys search for an explanation—and a way home. But something is stirring beyond the beige walls, and every doorway forces them to decide whether they can bear to discover what comes next. Join Malcolm Blackwood for “To Infinity,” featuring “Sine Fine,” the debut horror story from Mercer Groshek. A chilling journey into impossible spaces and a friendship pushed to its limits, this episode begins with a promise that sounds harmless enough: they’ll leave after just one. More. Room.
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
FEATURED STORY:
"Sine Fine" by Mercer Groshek
Performed by Malcolm Blackwood
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59 min
S19E11 - "Silent Guardian" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Season 19, Episode 11
Show notes
This week on Scary Stories Told in the Dark, a lonely boy discovers an unexpected companion whose quiet devotion becomes the only light in an increasingly brutal world. But when that bond is tested by unimaginable loss, Richard learns that love, loyalty, and protection may not end where life does.
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
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26 min
"Side Effects May Include" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Show notes
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.
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
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28 min
"A Gift for the King" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Show notes
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.
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
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25 min
"The Abyss" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Show notes
An evening of fishing should have ended before dark. Instead, three friends find themselves stranded on a quiet Finger Lake, their motor dead and their phones left behind. The shore is only a few hundred feet away, but with the summer cabins empty and no help in sight, they have little choice but to wait for morning. To pass the time, Paul tells a story about drowned men and strange shapes beneath the water. His companions laugh it off—until an empty rowboat drifts out of the darkness and their lantern begins to fade. As the hours stretch on, every unexplained sound draws their attention below the hull. In water this dark, there is no way to know what might be moving beneath them. Or what it wants.
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
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38 min
"Fright Club" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Show notes
A university logo, a few Halloween decorations, and a generous cash prize make Fright Club look like an easy challenge. For one skeptical student and his friend Jesse, a hundred-dollar side bet makes entering irresistible. The rules are simple: no heart conditions, no leaving before the bell, and nothing follows you out. Then the lights go out. Their phones stop working, something begins scraping in the darkness, and the pumpkin in the middle of the room feels disturbingly warm beneath a searching hand. As a campus competition becomes an ordeal he can no longer explain, the student must decide how far he is willing to go for answers—and whether the people running Fright Club ever intended to let its contestants walk away.
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
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47 min
"DreamShare" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Show notes
DreamShare promises the ultimate escape: a world built from imagination, where friends can share impossible adventures, abandoned dreams can become reality, and the limits of waking life no longer apply. For Evan Delaney, it begins as everything the advertisements promised. Each night offers another breathtaking world and another reason to leave ordinary life behind. Then an unfamiliar man appears inside a private dream—watching Evan, following him, and uncovering memories no stranger should possess. Soon, pieces of Evan’s subconscious begin surfacing in the waking world. People know his secrets. The application refuses to remain deleted. And the mysterious visitor makes it clear that Evan’s dreams no longer belong to him. To reclaim his mind, Evan must uncover what DreamShare is truly collecting—and confront the presence waiting beneath its most beautiful illusions. But in a world where consciousness has become the ultimate commodity, waking up may no longer be enough to escape.
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
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20 min
"The Hairy Hands of Briar's Bend" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Show notes
After losing his career, his marriage, and nearly everything he had saved, Caleb returns to his quiet Midwestern hometown hoping to begin again. Instead, he encounters a warning that has circulated through the community for generations: never travel Briar’s Bend after dark. The isolated road has been the site of countless unexplained accidents. Drivers report losing control on clear nights, their vehicles suddenly pulled toward the trees by a force they cannot see. Older residents claim the cause is something known only as the Hairy Hands. Caleb has no patience for ghost stories—until an invisible grip seizes his steering wheel. Drawn into the road’s disturbing history, Caleb discovers decades of crashes, frightened survivors, and accounts that conventional explanations cannot resolve. The closer he comes to understanding Briar’s Bend, the more dangerously personal its legend becomes.
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
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37 min
"My Next Door Neighbor is a Monster" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Show notes
Richard Prasse has had strange neighbors before. None of them were anything like Eliza Munoz. Beautiful, mysterious, and surrounded by a seemingly endless procession of late-night visitors, Eliza quickly becomes an irresistible distraction for the lonely medical resident living next door. But when curiosity draws Richard across the hallway at exactly the wrong moment, he discovers that the sounds coming from Eliza's apartment aren't evidence of an unusually active love life. They're evidence of something hungry. Soon Richard finds himself trapped between attraction and terror as the woman he can't stop thinking about reveals a side of herself no human being was ever meant to see. And when another dangerous figure from Eliza's past appears, Richard realizes that his neighbor may not be the only monster in the building.
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
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54 min
"They Feed at Night" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Show notes
Eight-year-old Terrance is supposed to be asleep. Instead, he's listening to something scratch against his second-story bedroom window. At first, it sounds like a branch brushing the glass. Then it comes again—slower, sharper, deliberate. And when Terrance finally gathers the courage to look outside, he finds a pale face staring back at him from a place no one should be able to stand. Within moments, an ordinary night in a quiet suburban home becomes a desperate fight for survival as Terrance and his family discover they aren't dealing with a prowler—or anything else that should exist. Pale figures are gathering outside. They are impossibly fast, terrifyingly persistent, and very, very hungry. And once they've chosen a home, locked doors may not be enough to keep them out.
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
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46 min
S19E10 - "The Devil's Footprints" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Season 19, Episode 10
Show notes
This week, Scary Stories Told in the Dark presents an unforgettable tale of obsession, grief, and the lingering footprints left behind by monsters who hide behind friendly smiles and impeccable reputations. In it, we meet a father, whose decades-long search for answers leads him into the forgotten mountains of Appalachia, every mile bringing him closer to a truth more horrifying than he ever imagined. The man he's hunting is already dead, but as we'll soon discover, evil doesn't always perish with the body that carried it.
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
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56 min
S19E09 - "Divine Decay" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Season 19, Episode 9
Show notes
Death is supposed to be the end. At least... that's what we've always believed. But deep in the forgotten corners of America, hidden beyond the maps and untouched by time, there are places where decay is worshipped, where the dead are welcomed home, and where the greatest horror isn't dying... It's being invited to become part of something eternal.
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
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38 min
S19E08 - "Beyond the Last Light" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Season 19, Episode 8
Show notes
There are places we instinctively know not to go. The woods beyond the old fence. The forgotten chamber sealed beneath centuries of dust. The distant glow that beckons from the darkness, promising wonder while concealing something far older—and infinitely more patient. In this unsettling episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, childhood curiosity collides with unspeakable terror, while a brilliant scholar uncovers a mystery so profound it threatens to erase him from history itself.
Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/
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51 min
S19E07 - "Sideshow Sins" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Season 19, Episode 7
Show notes
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
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24 min
S19E06 - "When the Bell Tolls" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Season 19, Episode 6
Show notes
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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18 min
S19E05 - "Beware the Moon" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Season 19, Episode 5
Show notes
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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57 min
S19E04 - "Past the Last Exit" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Season 19, Episode 4
Show notes
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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31 min
S19E03 - "A Study in Guilt" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Season 19, Episode 3
Show notes
In this chilling installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, Malcolm Blackwood invites listeners into a night of psychological horror where the most terrifying things are not monsters lurking in the dark, but the choices people make when grief, rage, and temptation press in from all sides. Featuring Mak Ralston’s “All Hands Are Red,” this episode descends into a world of contradiction, private pain, and quiet moral collapse, where justice and vengeance begin to resemble one another in all the worst ways. Darkly intimate, unnerving, and steeped in dread, this is a tale for anyone who’s ever wondered what it really takes to push an ordinary person past the point of no return.
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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34 min
S19E02 - "Undoing Death" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Season 19, Episode 2
Show notes
In this chilling installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you into a tale where love refuses to accept loss… and where a single miscalculation could mean the difference between reunion and ruin. When tragedy strikes, one desperate soul begins searching for answers beyond the limits of science—and discovers that some doors don’t simply open. They require instructions. Precision. Timing. And the willingness to follow through, no matter the cost. If you were given the chance to undo the unthinkable to bring back someone or something you loved… would you be able to resist?
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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47 min
S19E01 - "Nameless Games" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Season 19, Episode 1
Show notes
A new season begins… and this time, the danger doesn’t hide in graveyards or abandoned houses. It waits in fluorescent hallways. In tidy institutions. In the quiet rules no one questions. In our latest episode, we open with a story that lingers long after the lights go out: a tale of silence, survival, and the subtle cruelty that can pass for harmless play. When being unnoticed becomes a defense mechanism, and obedience becomes a habit, something begins to learn from it. Something patient. Something practiced. Because sometimes the most dangerous thing you can be… is easy to forget.
To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link! http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/ScaryStoriesPodcast
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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