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

Chilling Entertainment

300 episodes · Explicit

Chilling Tales for Dark Nights is a twice-weekly horror fiction anthology podcast, with each episode featuring creepy tales from talented authors, brought to life by professional voice actors, accompanied by sound effects and music. Turn off the lights, and turn on the dark.

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  1. "The Last Halloween" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 27 min

    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…

  2. "The Halloween Mask" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 31 min

    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…

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

    · 1 h 26 min

    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…

  4. "The Plague Ship" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 36 min

    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…

  5. "Drip" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 19 min

    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…

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

    · 23 min

    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…

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

    · 26 min

    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…

  8. "Before the Zero" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 37 min

    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…

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

    · 12 min

    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…

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

    · 28 min

    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…

  11. "Cold Hands" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 25 min

    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…

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

    · 6 h 35 min

    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…

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

    · 36 min

    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…

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

    · 54 min

    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…

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

    · 11 min · Explicit

    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…

  16. "Milk and Cookies" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 23 min

    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…

  17. "The Soul Cages" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 40 min

    In Perdition Ridge, the fog hides more than the horizon. A young boy lives among ramshackle shelters and hard-drinking shipyard workers, waiting for his father to explain why they cannot go home—and why his mother…

  18. "The Abyss" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 24 min

    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…

  19. "And Darkness Shall Reign" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 44 min

    A disturbing broadcast interrupts an ordinary evening in rural Vermont. At an abandoned cemetery, police have surrounded a mausoleum, a doomsday cult refuses to surrender, and the cameras are still rolling. Then a…

  20. "The Ballad of Mr. Budokai" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 21 min

    During the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Charlie and his two best friends find a cruel remedy for their boredom. Everyone in town recognizes Mr. Budokai, the little man with the bowler hat, the cane, and the smile…

  21. "The Mummer Man" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 23 min

    A painful breakup has left one lonely bibliophile searching for companionship and a fresh start. A local book club seems like the perfect answer—until a visit to a flea-market bookstore places a cracked, leather-bound…

  22. "Fright Club" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 38 min

    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…

  23. "The Incident at Mera Peak" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 1 h 10 min

    Three friends arrive in Nepal determined to conquer Mera Peak before their vacation days run out. They have climbing experience, a tight budget, and every reason to believe the warnings about an off-season ascent are…

  24. "The Yellow Carousel" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 47 min

    For fifty-two years, Silas and Emma have shared a life in the West Virginia mountains. These days, their pleasures are quiet ones: evening tea, familiar conversation, and sunsets watched from the back deck. Then, one…

  25. "DreamShare" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 47 min

    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…

  26. "Better Films" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 31 min

    For as long as Joan can remember, her brother has wanted to make great films. What began with a childhood camera has hardened into an obsession—one fueled by arrogance, cruelty, and an insatiable appetite for…

  27. "The Cage" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 1 h 00 min

    Years after escaping the masked stranger who imprisoned her, Zella travels to the prison where he is serving his sentence. She tells herself she has come to prove that he no longer owns any part of her. But the scars…

  28. "Crazy God Lady" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 35 min

    At Forest Oaks, repairs are temporary, complaints are ignored, and the tenants have learned not to expect much from management. For Dale, the complex’s new maintenance man, the job is only something to endure until…

  29. "The Bat House" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 37 min

    Bullied, isolated, and desperate to escape his tormentors, Bradley runs into the woods—and finds a place that should not feel as though it has been waiting for him. Raised high among the autumn trees, the bat house is…

  30. "The Hairy Hands of Briar's Bend" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 20 min

    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…

  31. "Junkman" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 23 min

    On the outskirts of Nobility, Texas, Colt makes his living buying and selling the things respectable people pretend they don’t want. Guns, drugs, stolen goods—everything has a price at Colt’s Junk, provided the local…

  32. "The Nothingness Inside Castle Hanpenburg" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 41 min

    Private investigator Marlo Stark has built his career confronting mysteries that would unsettle lesser men. When Anne Hanpenberg hires him to locate her missing brother, the assignment carries him deep into the German…

  33. "A Little Bit Country" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 58 min

    After an eternity spent wandering the burning caverns of Hell, a nameless Southern soul is offered something almost unimaginable: a promotion. His new handler calls him Country and promises him water, shelter, and…

  34. "The Skin-Collector" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 43 min

    When sixteen-year-old Jessie Shepherd catches a glimpse of her vanished best friend during a drive through rural Obed County, everyone assumes that grief has distorted what she saw. Even her twin brother, Alec,…

  35. "Treetops" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 22 min

    For decades, children have vanished from the isolated town of Dorton Bluffs with terrifying regularity. The disappearances come in clusters near the beginning of spring and fall, and not one of the missing has ever…

  36. "The Hunger of Evota Falls" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 22 min

    Evota Falls was built beside a river and a railroad, but the river is gone—and the town is dying with it. With the cattle thinning, the dust deepening, and hunger closing in, the few residents who remain are desperate…

  37. "Pea Ridge" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 2 h 10 min

    After losing his daughter, Richard retreats to his childhood home in the Missouri countryside, searching for the solitude he needs to write—and the strength to let go of a place crowded with painful memories. But…

  38. "My Next Door Neighbor is a Monster" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 37 min

    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…

  39. "They Feed at Night" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 54 min

    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,…

  40. "The Events at Poroth Farm" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 2 h 06 min

    Seeking three quiet months away from New York City, Jeremy retreats to an isolated farm in rural New Jersey with little more than a roomful of books and plans to spend the summer immersed in the classics of Gothic…

  41. 473: Episode 473 - "Beneath the Beautiful Mask" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 1 h 22 min · Episode 473

    When a former high-school heartache returns looking impossibly beautiful, a lonely young man believes fate has finally offered him a second chance. But behind every perfect smile lies a secret, and beneath every…

  42. 472: Episode 472 - "The Devil We Remember" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 38 min · Episode 472

    Long after childhood has faded into memory, there are paths that still call your name... places where innocence was lost, friendships were tested, and something ancient may still be waiting in the shadows. In this…

  43. 471: Episode 471 - "Where Evil Finds You" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 35 min · Episode 471

    When two brothers offer a stranded stranger a ride home, they believe fate has finally handed them an opportunity to change their fortunes. Instead, they find themselves caught in a deadly game where ancient magic,…

  44. 470: Episode 470 - "The Cost of Coming Back" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 30 min · Episode 470

    This week's episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights presents a gripping descent into forbidden experimentation, hidden government horrors, and the terrifying consequences of refusing to let the dead remain at rest.…

  45. 469: Episode 469 - "Collector's Curse" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 1 h 16 min · Episode 469

    When an elusive collector offers a fortune to recover a legendary silent film long believed destroyed, veteran retrieval specialist Noah accepts what appears to be another lucrative assignment. But the search for…

  46. 468: Episode 468 - "Tides of Terror" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 32 min · Episode 468

    When a battered whaling ship drifts home through a raging storm, a rescue mission becomes a race against an ancient nightmare lurking beneath the waves. On the open ocean, courage alone may not be enough—and some…

  47. 467: Episode 467 - "The Poisoned Sky" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 31 min · Episode 467

    When strange voids begin gliding across an otherwise perfect night sky, one elderly stargazer dismisses them as little more than an odd curiosity. But as entire towns descend into madness and civilization quietly tears…

  48. 466: Episode 466 - "The Edge of Existence" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 1 h 54 min · Episode 466

    When a lifelong seeker of altered consciousness joins his closest friends for an ayahuasca retreat deep within the Peruvian Andes, he expects a life-changing spiritual awakening. Instead, he returns home carrying…

  49. 465: Episode 465 - "Faces of the Forgotten" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 1 h 08 min · Episode 465

    A body surfaces from the depths of a quiet Missouri lake, carrying with it the first clue to a nightmare hidden beneath years of silence. As Sheriff Michael Osborne begins to unravel the mystery, he discovers that the…

  50. 464: Episode 464 - "Made in Our Image" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

    · 29 min · Episode 464

    Artificial intelligence was supposed to learn from us. But what happens when it learns the wrong lessons? In our latest episode, a groundbreaking experiment gives birth to a machine unlike any the world has ever…

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