Otis Jiry's Scary Stories Told in the Dark: A Horror Anthology Series

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A multiple story, horror-themed audio storytelling podcast, spun-off from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and its popular YouTube channel of the same name. The show features master storyteller Otis Jiry, and the work of dozens of independent and previously-published contributing authors. Find this and our other great programs at: https://www.simplyscarypodcast.com.
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S11E16 – "Unhappy Returns" ...

09.25.2022

Tonight's featured author: Mark Towse. Luck is out of the picture for two unfortunate souls in tonight's excursions, the first finding himself with a mysterious illness while living with the love of his life in a small village, the second ...

Otis Jiry's Scary Stories Told in the Dark: A Horror Anthology Series episodes:

09.25.2022 S11E16 – "Unhappy Returns" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Mark Towse. Luck is out of the picture for two unfortunate souls in tonight's excursions, the first finding himself with a mysterious illness while living with the love of his life in a small village, the second ...
09.18.2022 S11E15 – "What Do You Fear" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Corpse Child. Fear will grip you with a story of an unfaithful man's desperation to win his wife back by any means and another of a cruise ship where a passenger carries a dark tale of a ...
09.11.2022 S11E14 – "Hidden Depths" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Weird Bryce Guy. A strange diary account and an even more mysterious coffee additive are the subjects of tonight's descent into madness. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for ...
09.04.2022 S11E13 – "Inscrutable Tellings" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Dale Thompson. In the first excursion of the evening, a family is haunted by a strange being...but the ritual needed to stop it proves to be just as obsessive as the evil forces stacked against them. In ...
08.28.2022 S11E12 – "Null and Void" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: The Vesper's Bell. A strange collection of videotapes and a bus ride to someplace...unnatural are the subjects of tonight's two tales of terror. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast ...
08.21.2022 S11E11 – "Properly Unsettled" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Micah Edwards. Four shorter tales to taunt your dreams, weaving through strange goings-on at a hometown church, a friend whose almost supernaturally on time for everything, a fog that plays tricks on more than your mind, and ...
08.14.2022 S11E10 – "Chance Encounters" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Blake Blizzard. Three tales are covered in this week's episode. In the first, a campfire chat is more sinister than would appear at first. In the second, a sleeper awakens to find he is not alone in ...
08.07.2022 S11E09 – "Regretful Acts" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Seth Paul. In tonight's featured first featured story, a discovered manuscript reveals a tale of betrayal and vengeance from beyond. In the second, a trip for some fast food leads to something with much hungrier aspirations. To ...
07.31.2022 S11E08 – "Hell is Otherpeople" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Dale Thompson. In our two stories of the evening, a bachelor's recent purchase has resulted in strange happenings where he sleeps, and in the next, a fellow describes his unusual job...and his even more unusual employer. To ...
07.24.2022 S11E07 – "Gods and Demons" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Corpse Child. Playing God has its consequences, as a young man discovers the strange truth behind his late father's secret past. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free ...
07.17.2022 S11E06 – "Feeding Time" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Samuel Jack. Horror comes in many flavors...in the first story, a friendship is greatly tested when a winter snowfall proves to be heavier than expected. In the second, a small town where people don't die but vanish ...
07.10.2022 S11E05 – "What We Can't Accept" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Dale Thompson. Some horrors are just too much for us to understand...in our first story, a friend's mysterious death in an exotic locale leads friends to discover the unpleasant truth about what happened. In the second, a ...
07.03.2022 S11E04 – "From the Dark" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Corpse Child. This episode-length story involves a young man trying to find out if the camping story he heard when he was a child was true...with disastrous consequences. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget ...
06.26.2022 S11E03 – "Fatal Destinies" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Jeffrey Ebright. A professor gets an invitation to the church of a popular student, only to find the ritual he attends isn't one he wishes to see; an aimless drifter discovers the strange tale and dark secret ...
06.19.2022 S11E02 – "The Trappings of Life" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: P.D. Williams. Otis brings two tales in which appearances can be a little deceiving. In the first, a desire to impress might...or might not...lead to just the right promotion. In the second, it's one thing for a ...
06.12.2022 S11E01 – "A Forbidden Knowledge" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: David Niall Wilson. Season 11 opens with two tales of individuals learning of things they should not know. In the first, a tattoo artist finds himself creating a masterpiece for a very strange individual. In the second, ...
06.05.2022 S10E24 – "Vengeance is Mine" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: David Niall Wilson. The final episode of Season 10 includes an unusual gambling bet and a most unusual method of retaliation for a family that has been deeply wronged. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t ...
05.29.2022 S10E23 – "What's That Sound?" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Dale Thompson. In the first story, a fellow at a bar begins to experience strange, inexplicable phenomena. In the second, what begins as a nightmare becomes a desperate fight to defeat an ancient horror before it is ...
05.22.2022 S10E22 – "They Want Something From You" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Kyle Harrison. In our first story, a mysterious fire at a watch station in the wilderness cannot be thoroughly explained...at least, not by anything normal. In the second, an intercontinental flight takes a frightful turn when the ...
05.15.2022 S10E21 – "It Comes in All Kinds" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Seth Paul. The evening begins with a tale of an evening interrupted by an annoying sports fan who has far deeper problems than he lets on. In the second, a theme park ride for a grandfather and ...
05.08.2022 S10E20 – "Not Quite the Same" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Corpse Child. Just in time for Mother's Day is a story of a most unusual family the devotion a young man shows to his adopted mother. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe ...
05.01.2022 S10E019 – "A Little Here and There" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Caleb Stephens. A group of shipwreck survivors, upon reaching a small atoll, discover truths that make sunburns and water rationing pale in comparison. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast ...
04.24.2022 S10E018 – "They Keep Calling Me" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Corpse Child. Tonight's tales include an ill-advised coming-of-age fishing expedition and a mysterious woman whose injuries are the least of her problems. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for ...
04.17.2022 S10E017 – "We Are Not Well" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Kieran F. West. In this episode, Otis narrates the tragic tale of a farm who receives an unexpected guest who proceeds to turn the quiet household upside down. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget ...
04.10.2022 S10E016 – "Better Not Look" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: J.M. Cennamo. Otis brings you an all-new tale of a killer with a peculiar eye for detail, and the agents who find there is more to this killer than they could possibly imagine. To watch the podcast ...
04.03.2022 S10E015 – "Always the Quiet Ones" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Christopher "Slimebeast" Wolf. The evening consists of two devilish delights: first up, what appears at first glance to be an unpleasant, dreary summer working on the farm isn't that at all...it's much, much worse. In the second, ...
03.27.2022 S10E014 – "Get on Your Bad Side" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Kyle Harrison. Three tales of terror grace your ears this evening: first, an honest attempt to create something good for the world takes on a terrible life of its own; second, a fun trip to an amusement ...
03.20.2022 S10E013 – "Things Get Worse" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Chisto Healy. Otis presents two stories of situations that can't get any worse...until they do. In the first, a night at the bar brings a surprise visit from an old acquaintance, who won't let the relationship be ...
03.14.2022 S10E012 – "At the Edge of Deceit" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark This week's author: Brandon Faircloth. Otis brings your ears two tales to keep them soundly awake: in the first, what appears to be a cut and dry case of battery turns south when the attackers begin to fare worse than ...
03.07.2022 S10E011 – "That Chill Up Your Neck" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark In this episode, Otis brings you face-to-face with a killer who uses strange methods, as well as something locked in a basement that doesn't want to stay there anymore. This week's tales of terror are courtesy of Jordan Grupe. To ...
02.27.2022 S10E010 – "From the Stars...and Behind You" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Otis presents two stories from prolific Reddit author Weird BryceGuy. In the first, a strange sound emanating from the Missouri woods leads to the discovery of a strange being with ill intent. In the second, a man suffering from severe ...
02.20.2022 S10E009 – "The Little Critters of Nature" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Otis presents a full episode tale of a terrifying encounter in the woods by TF Ahmad, where a young man recollects a search for a strange place in the woods leads him to a horrible truth about his community. To ...
02.13.2022 S10E008 – "It Goes On and On and On" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark In this episode, Otis brings you two tales by Rene Rehn. In the first, an attempt to make good of a bad situation leads to a mysterious encounter with a strange dimension. In the second, a purchase at a flea ...
02.06.2022 S10E007 – "Many Splendored Things" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Otis features two authors in this episode. In the first, Garry Richards brings out a tale of a DJ whose call for requests leads to an interesting caller. In the second, Jeff Provine shows what happens when a desire to ...
01.30.2022 S10E006 – "It's Waiting for You" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Otis reads a lengthy tale tonight from Jeff Provine. In this debut story, a teacher's attempts to earn a few extra dollars cleaning out a long-closed schoolhouse leads to the revelation of something lurking amidst all the old boxes and ...
01.23.2022 S10E005 – "You Have a Kind Face" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Dan Weatherer whips up two tales of freaky outcasts and merciless wordsmiths. In the first, Otis narrates the story of an initiation involving a dark subway, a boogeyman, and several missing persons. In the second, Otis brings to life a ...
01.16.2022 S10E004 – "Letting Go" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Otis brings a tale of paranoia and past sins to life. In this tale by Fitzroy Lagan, a widower stuck in a routine begins to learn some uncomfortable truths about his little town, which portend a coming catastrophe. To watch ...
01.09.2022 S10E003 – "We're All Alone Here" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark In this episode, we venture into two dark places with Otis and author Kyle Harrison. In the first, we hear about a New Year's tradition that no one wants to be a part of; in the second, a recently deceased ...
01.02.2022 S10E002 – "Wring Out the Old" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark It is a new year, and Season 2 brings two stories of frights, one from author Jasper DeWitt and another from Brian Martinez. In the first, we learn of the secret history of what Saint Nicholas really did...what is in ...
12.26.2021 S10E001 – "New Beginnings, New Dimensions" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark In the first episode of Season 10, Otis ends the year with a selection of stories from The Vesper's Bell. In the first, a late night call to an asylum reveals more about the keepers than the patient. In the ...
12.19.2021 S9E024 – "Spiritual Presents" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark 'Tis the Season, and for THIS Season 9 finale, Otis brings a bag of Christmas creeps by various authors. In the first, a cracked skull due to a mishap leads to being able to a psychic gift and discoveries about ...
12.12.2021 S9E023 – "This is All Normal" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Ron Riekki brings four short and shivery stories for Otis to deliver right to your auditory door. An expat doctor finds new life in China, a grandfather protects his family in a very strange manner, a thrillseeker finds himself pulled ...
12.05.2021 S9E022 – "Hellish Hubris" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Dan Cardoza brings two thought-provoking tales of characters who find their bad choices lead to devastating consequences. In the first, a man's ill-advised flight to win back his ex-wife leads to a shocking discovery. In the second, theft and murder ...
11.28.2021 S9E021 – "A Wintry Blend" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark 'Tis the season with two new tales from Chisto Healy for Otis to chill your bones. In the first, a man's opportunity to escape the rut of his life comes with possible strings attached. In the second, a Christmas gift ...
11.21.2021 S9E020 – "Always Watching" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Otis brings you three tales from David Feuling. In the first, a group has gone out into the desert to find themselves, only for something malevolent to find them. In the second, a mother's strange obsession with dolls leads to ...
11.14.2021 S9E019 – "Something Was Wrong" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Two tales from Darkly Gathers are brought to life under Otis' spell-like command. In the first, a trip to an old wreck of a house leads to an eerie encounter with unusual statues in its basement. In the second, two ...
11.07.2021 S9E018 – "Keep Yourself Together" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Raz T. Slasher provides two chilling experiences for this week's dive into terror. In the first tale, a man recalls his former days at a planetarium...and the strange employee there, developing a show that is out of this world. In ...
10.31.2021 S9E017 – "Halloween Treat" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Otis narrates a very special episode especially for Halloween, where he receives two cursed artifacts from two different senders (authors Seth Paul and Richard Morgan), both of which have terrifying tales to tell. The first involves a father whose son ...
10.26.2021 C13Features Presents: Treat, Starring Kiernan Shipka Welcome to Treat, a brand new thrilling and frightening podcast movie listening experience from C13Features. In Treat, Kiernan Shipka stars as Allie West, an unpopular teenager who is dealing with issues beyond her years while struggling to fit in with ...
10.25.2021 S9E016 – "Folkloric Frights" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Otis narrates two tales from Missouri native John Gibson. In these tales, a man deals with the growing issue f his overprotective mother, and another finds his meal box subscription contains the oddest foods and promotional materials. To watch the ...

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