Horror Hill — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast

Good evening, my friends, and welcome back to Horror Hill. I’m Erik Peabody, your host on this stroll into the garden of devious delights, and tonight we’re going to be reading a story from TheVesper’s Bell. You might remember previous stories by The Vesper’s Bell that we’ve featured, including “Still Awake,” and “Hoofprints in the Snow.”Tonight’s tale opens with just about the worst way a person can wake up: disoriented, groggy, and on an operating table. 

This isn’t any normal operating room, though, but a large surgical theater at least 100 years old. As if this wasn’t enough, our narrator is paralyzed, has almost no memory, and... is that a brain in a jar next to him? This one is particularly grisly, listeners, so steel yourselves. Also, I’d like to mention that Rissa Montanez of the Creepy Podcast will be joining me today, performing several roles in this story. Please join me in welcoming her to the show.

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Good evening, listeners, and welcome back to Horror Hill. I’m your host, Erik Peabody, and we’ve got a double-feature for you tonight, both of them looking at the dynamics of romantic relationships from two very different angles.We’ll be starting with quick little chiller called “A Familiar Voice,” by NM Brown. Austin and Liamare a newly-retired couple, who have decided to spice up their lives with a hiking trip in snowySri Lanka. When Liam mysteriously goes missing, his husband pulls together a search team to find him. Unfortunately, the oppressive elements are not the only danger they face.

Following that, we’ll be diving into “The Downward Spiral,” by Richard C. Morgan. In this story, our narrator, Alec, is in the crosshairs of his vindictive soon-to-be-ex wife, Caroline. As Caroline systematically destroys Alec’s life, he’s forced to find new work wherever he can. Unfortunately for him, the only place that’s hiring is the “Paranormal Pork Broadcasting and Weiner Lounge.”Greasy hotdogs and supernatural occurrences are the daily specials, and Alec finds himself struggling to hold onto his sanity while he fights to get his life back.

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Good evening, listeners, and welcome back to Horror Hill. I’m your host, Erik Peabody. We’ve got an interesting story for you tonight, from author M. Ennenbach. It’s titled, “I Saw It From the Upstairs Window.

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Well hello there, listeners, and welcome back to Horror Hill. We’ve got a good one for you tonight, from an author that’s brand new to the show, JR Hamantaschen. I’ve been familiar with JR’s work fora few years, and am happy that we finally get to... bring him into the fold. This story is titled, “Sorry Has Its Natural End.” Meet Max, a young man in his early twenties with two big problems. The first is that he has lost most of his sight to a degenerative retinal condition. The second is that he has let his situation embitter him to the world. One morning, Max stumbles across an account of another person with a similar vision issue, someone who has just had cutting edge surgery (pun very much intended) and has now regained his sight. Max, filled with sudden hope, reaches out to this person, unaware of the horror that he has already set into motion.

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We have two tales for you tonight, and I can tell you, listeners, that they’re both top-shelf. 

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Well, hello there, listeners, and welcome to Horror Hill. I’m your host, Erik Peabody, and we’ve got a couple of fun ones for you tonight. Make sure that you’re all settled in and ready to begin, because these two stories are as terrifying as they are snappy, so you won’t want to stop in the middle to make your popcorn.

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Good evening, listeners, and welcome back to Horror Hill. As always, I am your loyal host, Erik Peabody. Now, I need to warn you in advance about tonight’s tale. When you hear the title, you might think that we’ve gone soft, that we’ve started bringing more family-friendly fare to thistable. But I assure you, this is no story of athletically-inclined canines, partner-cops sharing alaugh in the face of danger, or friendly little aliens that befriend local children. I don’t want you jumping to any conclusions here, even though tonight’s feature, written by Lucretia Vastea, is titled, “Buddy.

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Hello there, listeners, and welcome back to Horror Hill. I’m your host, Erik Peabody, and we’re featuring a story tonight from an author that’s new to the show, Michael Botur.

You know, being fifteen years old is a tough age for most people. You don’t have much control over your life, you don’t know what you really want, and hell, you might not even know who you are, deep down. It can be an impressionable age, where you can inadvertently step onto a bad path and not even know it. The fifteen year old protagonist in tonight’s story finds himself in just such a position. He has an interest in the strange and the occult, and has found fuel for his interests in a periodical called The Strange Paper.

The editor of The Strange Paper is an enigmatic man named Maxwell Winkle. As our protagonist meets up with Mr. Winkle and goes further down the rabbit hole of the bizarre, we’re left to wonder what’s mere paranoid fantasy, and what’s actually real. 

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Well hello there, listeners, and welcome back to Horror Hill. I’m your host, Erik Peabody, and we’ve got a nice and creepy one for you tonight.

This story comes to us from James Vodrey, and takes place in the United Kingdom. There are a lot of similarities between the UK and the USA, one of which is that police officers are sent to a wide range of situations. Some of them, like in-progress robberies, are obviously high-risk, and officers respond to them with a fresh dose of adrenaline already in their systems. Others, like checking in a family member that hasn’t been heard from in a while, can seem like humdrum busy work. That being said, they really never know exactly what they’re going to roll up on. 

One other thing to mention is that the majority of police in the United Kingdom don’t carry guns. I’d also like to extend thanks to Olivia Steele, who will be guesting in this story is the voice of Kim.

Disclaimer: This story features violence to animals, a dog in particular. If this isn't for you then we will see you next time! 

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Good evening, listeners, and welcome back to Horror Hill. I’m your host, Erik Peabody. You know, the last few episodes have featured several shorter stories, so I figured it was high time to focus on a single tale of terror this evening.

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