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

"Never Play a Game Called Corpse Hold" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

In a small Arkansas town, the older kids tell a story about a body beneath a secluded pond. They say it never decays. They say touching it can change your luck. To claim

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

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 pr

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

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 dete

"Worth the Having" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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

"The Halloween Funeral" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 sibli

"The Last Halloween" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 un

"The Halloween Mask" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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 fin

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

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 s

"The Plague Ship" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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

"Drip" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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

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

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 w

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

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 befo

"Before the Zero" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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

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

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 uniden

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

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 w

"Cold Hands" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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. Th

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

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,

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

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 wo

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

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 reaso

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

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 ins