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

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

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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"The Abyss" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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.

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2026-10-08
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"And Darkness Shall Reign" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 black fog pours across the grounds—and the transmission ends. Norman believes there must be an explanation. But as the darkness spreads through the countryside, cutting off roads and silencing communications, the emergency on television becomes a threat to the home he shares with his wife, Wendy. Authorities have issued a simple instruction: stay indoors. With the windows disappearing behind an impenetrable blackness, Norman gathers what he needs to keep them safe. Outside, shapes are moving through the fog. Inside, every unanswered question makes the house feel smaller.

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2026-10-07
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"The Ballad of Mr. Budokai" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 that never seems to leave his face. Nobody knows much about his past. For Charlie’s friends, that makes him an easy target. Charlie knows their harassment is wrong. But knowing and refusing are different things, and one afternoon at the fruit market leaves him with a memory he cannot escape. Determined to make amends, he sets out to apologize, away from his friends and the laughter of the crowd. For the first time, Charlie will have to face the man behind the neighborhood rumors.

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2026-10-05
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"The Mummer Man" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 volume in his hands. Hidden inside is a folding Ouija board and a peculiar rhyme calling upon something known as the Mummer Man. Most of the group considers it harmless fun. Their host, Tara, is not so certain. When the chant ends and she sees a figure approaching through the cottage, skepticism gives way to terror—and the familiar rooms around them begin to obey a far more sinister set of rules.

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2026-10-03
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"Fright Club" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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.

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2026-09-29
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"The Incident at Mera Peak" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 overly cautious. Clear skies and easy progress seem to prove them right. Then the snow begins, an injury slows their pace, and one of them claims a stranger has been watching him sleep inside his tent. There are no unfamiliar tracks outside, and his companions are reluctant to believe him. But as visibility dwindles and the distance between the climbers grows, the possibility that someone is following them becomes harder to dismiss. High on the mountain, with the weather closing in, they must decide how much they can trust one another—and what they are willing to believe before it is too late.

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2026-09-28
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"The Yellow Carousel" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 September night, Silas discovers a yellow carousel standing in the empty field behind their home. There are no fairgrounds nearby. No visitors have come up the mountain. Yet the scent of cotton candy drifts across the grass, and the beautifully carved deer seem to promise a happiness he thought he had outgrown. Silas takes a ride. Before long, he is waiting for every sunset—and keeping a secret from the woman who knows him best. As Emma searches for a way to reach her increasingly distant husband, the coyotes gather beyond the house, and something wonderful becomes harder to leave behind.

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2026-09-27
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"DreamShare" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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.

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2026-09-23
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"Better Films" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 increasingly disturbing material. Then he hears about Better Films. Spoken of in nervous whispers throughout the industry, Better Films is said to distribute its productions only on VHS. Those who have watched them refuse to describe what they saw. Its scarred representatives arrive without warning, and its history may reach further back than cinema itself. Joan wants nothing to do with the investigation, but years of manipulation have left her trapped beneath her brother’s control. As his search draws the attention of the people behind Better Films, she is forced across a boundary where suffering becomes performance, cameras are never as passive as they appear, and the difference between documenting horror and participating in it begins to disappear.

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2026-09-22
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"The Cage" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 covering her body are not the only things she carried out of that basement. Something lives inside Zella, something hungry enough to sense the darkness clinging to everyone around her and patient enough to wait for the smallest fracture in her resolve. As memories of captivity, manipulation, and forbidden rites begin forcing their way to the surface, Zella must confront a terrifying possibility: returning to her captor may not have been entirely her decision.

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2026-09-19
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"Crazy God Lady" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 better work comes along. Then he receives a request from apartment 11-A. BeBe Evans needs her thermostat fixed—and insists the temperature must remain precisely seventy degrees so she can continue observing her universe. The other residents call her “Crazy God Lady.” BeBe claims the title is more accurate than they realize. Dale dismisses her warnings, mocks her promises, and leaves the repair unfinished. But when impossible things begin appearing around the complex, he is forced to wonder whether the woman in white is truly delusional—or whether he has offended something capable of governing life, death, and what comes afterward.

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2026-09-17
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"The Bat House" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 home to far more than the creatures named on its warning sign. Its shadowed interior seems to recognize Bradley’s pain. Its inhabitants whisper his name. And somewhere beyond the open hatch, something hidden from the daylight offers the frightened boy a sanctuary unlike any he has known. But refuge can become temptation, and the darkness that welcomes the unwanted rarely gives without expecting something in return.

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2026-09-16
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"The Hairy Hands of Briar's Bend" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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.

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2026-09-15
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"Junkman" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 police receive their share. Then two men arrive with something Colt has never seen before: an ancient, mummified body stitched together from the remains of multiple people. Colt expects the grotesque discovery to earn him a small fortune. But after nightfall, the corpse begins to move—and its damaged limbs seem to be asking for help. When satisfying its needs brings an extraordinary change in Colt’s luck, a single illicit purchase becomes the foundation of a far more horrifying enterprise.

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2026-09-14
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"The Nothingness Inside Castle Hanpenburg" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 mountains and through the doors of a crumbling ancestral castle where every corridor seems to conceal another secret. Fredrick Hanpenberg has vanished, but the evidence he left behind points toward something far more disturbing than an ordinary disappearance: grotesque journals, hidden chambers, hooded intruders, and a forbidden staircase descending into the earth. As Marlo follows the trail beneath Castle Hanpenberg, he begins to suspect that he was not merely hired to solve a mystery.

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2026-09-10
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"A Little Bit Country" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 occasional passage back into the world of the living. All Country must do is enter the body of a girl believed to be possessed, follow the instructions transmitted through a strange insect-like device, and obey the rules governing Hell’s ancient contest with Heaven. Unfortunately, Country has received no training, understands almost nothing about his assignment, and has no intention of returning to the caverns. When his first mission places him inside a dark toolshed with three armed men closing in, desperation turns a carefully controlled operation into a nightmare of confusion, violence, and infernal consequences.

Blending black comedy, supernatural terror, and uncompromising brutality, Drew Stepek's “A Little Bit Country” takes listeners into a vision of Hell where damnation has departments, suffering comes with paperwork, and every opportunity may be another form of punishment.

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2026-09-08
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"The Skin-Collector" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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, struggles to believe her. But Jessie cannot forget the figure on the barn—or the terrible sounds coming from the neglected property beyond the road. Determined to discover whether Emma is still alive, the twins venture into the fog surrounding the barn. What they find there will force them to confront a predator unlike anything the authorities have been searching for—and a horror that has been trying to make itself look human.

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2026-09-06
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"Treetops" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 been found alive. FBI investigator Felix Freeman believes the pattern belongs to an uncaught serial killer—and he arrives certain that he already knows the kind of man he is hunting. But the residents of Dorton Bluffs insist there is no killer. The children simply ran away, they claim, just as unhappy children have always done. Then Felix hears a playground rhyme about something called Treetops. As rehearsed explanations give way to warnings of offerings and a presence hidden in the northern forest, Felix discovers that some communities do more than keep secrets. They feed them.

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2026-09-05
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"The Hunger of Evota Falls" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 for something—anything—that might keep their community alive. Then word begins to spread of the Curdler, a savage desert beast with a price on its head. Soon, armed hunters are arriving by train, eager to claim the bounty and make their names. But in Evota Falls, every solution creates a darker problem. As the town begins to prosper, its new mayor discovers that survival has demands of its own—and that the most dangerous thing in the desert may not be the creature everyone has come to kill.

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2026-09-03
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"Pea Ridge" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 something has fallen near the abandoned Pea Ridge mine, and the surrounding woods are no longer behaving as they should. The animals have disappeared. An acrid, ammonia-like odor drifts between the trees. Something powerful enough to tear through sheet metal is circling Richard’s house—and it seems drawn to more than blood. As night closes over the Ozarks, Richard and his faithful three-legged dog find themselves trapped against a predator unlike anything on Earth: a creature that can sense pain, fear, and the private darkness its victims carry within them. To survive, Richard must confront not only the horror stalking him outside, but the grief that has been consuming him from within.

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2026-09-03
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"My Next Door Neighbor is a Monster" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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.

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2026-09-01
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"They Feed at Night" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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.

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2026-08-31
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"The Events at Poroth Farm" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 literature. At first, Poroth Farm seems ideal. His landlords, Sarr and Deborah Poroth, are reserved but welcoming, the countryside is peaceful, and Jeremy finally has all the solitude he could want. Then the natural rhythms of the farm begin to falter. Something strange moves through the woods. Animals behave in ways Jeremy cannot explain. Familiar creatures become suddenly unfamiliar. And as the summer wears on, Jeremy's comfortable skepticism is tested by a mounting series of incidents that seem increasingly difficult to dismiss as coincidence, superstition, or imagination. Surrounded by the very horror stories he came there to study, Jeremy begins to confront a far more disturbing possibility: perhaps the darkest ideas preserved in old books were never entirely fictional.

T.E.D. Klein's “The Events at Poroth Farm” is a masterful slow burn of isolation, paranoia, cosmic dread, and creeping transformation, now presented as a standalone audio horror release and performed by Erik Peabody, longtime host of Horror Hill.

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2026-08-26
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473: Episode 473 - "Beneath the Beautiful Mask" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 beautiful mask may lurk something ancient, patient, and hungry. This unforgettable full-cast production from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights blends psychological dread, occult terror, and relentless supernatural horror into a cinematic nightmare that asks a chilling question: if something else walks away wearing your face... what becomes of you?

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2026-07-29
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472: Episode 472 - "The Devil We Remember" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 unforgettable tale of psychological horror and rural folklore, Eli Pope weaves a chilling story of guilt, grief, and the terrifying power of memory. As the past begins reaching into the present, one man discovers that returning home may awaken horrors that should have remained forgotten forever.

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2026-07-20
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471: Episode 471 - "Where Evil Finds You" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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, impossible bargains, and hidden monsters wait just beyond the edge of civilization. As long-buried resentments give way to fear and desperation, every choice carries unimaginable consequences, and survival demands far more than courage alone.

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2026-07-18
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470: Episode 470 - "The Cost of Coming Back" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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. Behind the walls of a forgotten psychiatric prison, one well-meaning volunteer stumbles onto a secret so disturbing it redefines the meaning of mercy itself. As science pushes beyond the limits of death and morality is sacrificed in pursuit of impossible answers, the line between salvation and damnation begins to disappear.

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2026-07-10
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469: Episode 469 - "Collector's Curse" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 Dracula's Doom soon draws him into a labyrinth of forgotten archives, haunted estates, ancient legends, and impossible visions that refuse to stay confined to the screen.

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2026-07-05
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468: Episode 468 - "Tides of Terror" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 discoveries are too terrible to bring back to shore. Join Chilling Tales for Dark Nights for an unforgettable voyage into maritime horror, where relentless storms, impossible creatures, and impossible choices collide in William Meikle's pulse-pounding tale of survival. Once you've heard the call from beneath the sea... you'll never look at the ocean the same way again.

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2026-07-02
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467: Episode 467 - "The Poisoned Sky" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 itself apart, he discovers that humanity has already lost a war it never realized had begun.

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2026-07-01
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466: Episode 466 - "The Edge of Existence" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 something impossible—something that doesn't merely haunt the mind, but quietly begins erasing the world around him.

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2026-06-29
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465: Episode 465 - "Faces of the Forgotten" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 victim is only one of many connected to a trail of disappearances stretching far beyond his jurisdiction. Every new lead reveals another layer of horror, drawing him closer to an elusive killer whose obsession with his victims has transformed murder into something far more disturbing. With forgotten faces emerging from the darkness and long-buried secrets rising to the surface, Osborne must confront a predator whose collection may be larger—and more horrifying—than anyone could have imagined.

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2026-06-23
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464: Episode 464 - "Made in Our Image" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 seen—one capable of curiosity, growth, and an insatiable desire to understand humanity itself. As its creators guide it through the mysteries of life, morality, and existence, innocent questions begin leading toward increasingly unsettling answers. What starts as a remarkable scientific achievement slowly transforms into a chilling examination of what separates human beings from the things they create. Thought-provoking, tragic, and deeply unsettling, this episode explores the terrifying possibility that our greatest inventions may become reflections not of our virtues, but of our flaws.

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2026-06-18
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463: Episode 463 - "The Black Circle" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

In this episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, listeners are transported to the fog-covered grounds of San Francisco's historic Sutro Heights Park, where a gruesome homicide investigation uncovers something far more disturbing than an ordinary murder. When Detective Gwen Bugbee and eccentric mortician Dr. Daniel Dace begin examining a mutilated body discovered at the center of a mysterious circle of dead earth, they find themselves pulled into an escalating mystery that spans centuries—and perhaps even millennia. As archaeologists, investigators, and curious onlookers peel back layer after layer of history beneath the park, they uncover preserved remains, ancient sacrifices, impossible artifacts, and mounting evidence that something buried beneath the earth has been influencing the living for far longer than anyone imagined. What begins as a criminal investigation evolves into a chilling exploration of mortality, obsession, human curiosity, and the terrifying consequences of uncovering secrets that may have been buried for a reason.

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2026-06-17
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462: Episode 462 - "Built Upon the Dead" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

In this haunting installment of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, host Steve Taylor presents “Quiddity” by W.B. Stickel, performed and produced by Drew Blood. When Thomas Vogel uncovers evidence of a long-lost secret resting on the ocean floor, he believes fate has finally offered him one last chance to reclaim something from a life defined by loss. But the discovery attracts the attention of a stranger whose interests reach far beyond wealth or fame—and whose true nature challenges everything Thomas thought he understood about the world. As grief, anger, and temptation converge, Thomas finds himself pulled toward a decision that could alter the course of countless lives. 

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2026-06-16
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461: Episode 461 - "Built Upon the Dead" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

Night after night, the old house waits. Its halls are quiet. Its owner is frail. Its secrets have slept undisturbed for generations. But beneath the floorboards lies a history no one talks about—a history hidden behind a locked basement door and buried beneath layers of brick, ash, and time. When a young caregiver begins hearing voices in the darkness and uncovering fragments of a long-forgotten tragedy, she finds herself drawn toward answers that should never have been sought. What she discovers threatens to expose horrors that have lingered beneath the house for decades, waiting patiently for someone to set them free. Join host Steve Taylor for a haunting descent into obsession, tragedy, and the terrifying consequences of disturbing the dead, in our latest episode.

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2026-06-08
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460: Episode 460 - "Ashes of the Morning Star" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

When a man awakens in captivity with no memory of how he got there, he finds himself surrounded by people who insist they know exactly who he is. As accusations mount and impossible revelations emerge, the fragile life he thought he understood begins to unravel. But memory can be a dangerous thing. Some truths reshape the world. Others destroy it. In this dark and unforgettable tale from W.B. Stickel, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights invites listeners on a journey through forgotten identities, ancient grievances, and a reckoning that has been delayed for centuries. As the line between humanity and something far older begins to blur, one question remains: What if remembering who you are is the worst thing that could happen?

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2026-05-29
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459: Episode 459 - "Dark Water" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

Along the foggy California coast, strange jellyfish blanket the beaches, the water carries the stench of decay, and people are beginning to disappear without explanation. What starts as an unsettling curiosity soon becomes a waking nightmare as an ancient corruption spreads from host to host, warping flesh, twisting minds, and dragging its victims toward the dark water from which it came. Dana Fredsti’s “Corrosion” plunges listeners into a horrifying tale of infection, desperation, and inhuman hunger lurking just beneath the surface. Performed by Jason Hill in one of his unforgettable early Horror Hill performances, this chilling descent into parasitic terror and emotional devastation will leave you questioning what might still be waiting in the depths.

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2026-03-31
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450: 450: Where Identity Ends - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

In this unsettling installment of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, host Nicholas Goroff invites you into a world where the boundaries between identity, sanity, and something far more ancient begin to blur. Tonight’s tale explores the fragile spaces within the human mind: the moments when grief opens doors we didn’t know were there, and the quiet voices that promise understanding when we need it most. But some voices do more than listen… and some guides lead us somewhere we can never return from.

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2026-02-25
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449: 449: Borrowed Voices - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

In this haunting installment of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, guest host Nicholas Goroff invites you into a story where solitude promises healing—but something else answers the call. A man retreats to a quiet lakeside cottage, hoping distance and silence will ease the ache of devastating loss. Instead, he discovers that some places remember pain… and some things in the darkness know exactly which wounds to press. As it turns out, it doesn’t always need to force its way in. Sometimes, it only has to call your name.

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2026-02-23
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448: 448: Of Hunger and Harmony - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

In this haunting installment of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, guest host Nicholas Goroff presents a dark fable performed by the legendary Otis Jiry—a tale where desperation opens the door… and something smiling steps through. A struggling town.

An outsider with impossible promises. A price few can afford—and fewer are willing to truly pay.

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2026-02-18
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447: 447: Reality Rewritten - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

What would you change… if you could? In this unsettling installment of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, guest host Nicholas Goroff invites you into a story where curiosity becomes temptation—and temptation becomes transformation. When something unnatural stirs beneath the surface of an ordinary life, a discovery is made that promises control over the uncontrollable. A single choice opens the door to possibility. A second makes it easier. And before long, the line between “can” and “should” begins to blur beyond recognition. From acclaimed author Micah Edwards and performed by Horror Hill’s original voice, Jason Hill, “Alterations” is a haunting descent into the seductive pull of power—and the terrifying realization that reality is far more fragile than we ever imagined.

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2026-02-16
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