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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S12E11 – "Long-Dead Fears" ...

02.05.2023

Featured Author: M. Grant Kellermeyer. Enjoy the spooky beginnings of the first of a two-part episode, in which an attempt to renovate an ancestral home brings to life old hurts...and a few unpleasant surprises. To watch the podcast on YouTube: ...

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

02.05.2023 S12E11 – "Long-Dead Fears" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Featured Author: M. Grant Kellermeyer. Enjoy the spooky beginnings of the first of a two-part episode, in which an attempt to renovate an ancestral home brings to life old hurts...and a few unpleasant surprises. To watch the podcast on YouTube: ...
01.29.2023 S12E10 – "Communication Kills" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Featured Author: Corpse Child. Be sure to listen to what people are telling you, as these two tales advise. In the first, when someone says don't eat the fruit, you don't eat the fruit. In the second, a DJ is ...
01.22.2023 S12E09 – "Noticing the Little Things" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Featured Author: Micah Edwards. Our two tales this evening discuss such wayward events as a lost traveler in an evertwisting wood and an unfortunate story of a lieutenant whose curse lasts to this very day. To watch the podcast on ...
01.15.2023 S12E08 – "Truths and Consequences" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Featured Author: Mark Towse. In two frightful tales, a shut-in learns about a very unpleasant switch in his food deliveries, and a boy trying to finish his collectible sticker collection finds it might be more dangerous than he originally thought. ...
01.08.2023 S12E07 – "Hungering for You" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Featured Author: Dominic Eagle. Three tales of creatures waiting in the depths to strike when you least expect them. First up, an out of work husband and father finds his new security detail in a small hamlet boring, until he ...
01.01.2023 S12E06 – "What Comes Next" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Featured Author: Dale Thompson. Scream in the New Year with stories of lessons learned, the first where leaving rocks alone is a very good thing, and the second being a cautionary tale of who really has your back when you ...
12.25.2022 S12E05 – "Ghastly Greetings" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: James Thurwell and classic author E.F. Benson. Two shivery Christmas tales are here for your listening pleasure on the 25th. In the first, a journalist volunteering before Christmas at a psychiatric hospital relates the tale of one ...
12.18.2022 S12E04 – "They See You When You're Sleeping" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Kyle Harrison. Horror takes many forms: in the first of two stories, a movie reviewer finds out his latest screener is too nasty for his tastes...but the filmmakers don't care for his poor review. In the second, ...
12.11.2022 S12E03 – "Phantasmic Justice" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: J.S. Le Fanu. Otis brings two classic tales from the past back to terrifying life. In "What Was It?" a boarding house reputed to be haunted has something more sinister than a mere phantom lurking in the ...
12.04.2022 S12E02 – "More Than a Little Taste" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Alan McDaniels. In "The Portrait," a sleazy investment banker finds his nights beginning to get more unpleasant thanks to a 'gift' from an angry client. In "Hunger Pains," a young man is not going to like the ...
11.27.2022 S12E01 – "They'll Never Believe It" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Dale Thompson. Season 12 begins with two frightful tales. In the first, a podcaster finds out the universe wants him to deliver a message...and if he doesn't, they'll find a way for "him" to do it regardless. ...
11.20.2022 S11E24 – "The Unlucky Ones" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Stephanie Scissom. The eleventh season draws to a close with two tales of treachery and warnings from beyond death itself. In the first, a father relates the events form his childhood as to why he no longer ...
11.13.2022 S11E23 – "Something is Coming" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Corpse Child. Otis brings another full length story to this episode, in which a father finds out the brutal murders in the neighborhood are being committed by those least suspected. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT ...
11.06.2022 S11E22 – "Not What I Thought" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Stephanie Scissom. A troublemaker finds out his daredevil ways have far reaching consequences in this episode-length story. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or ...
10.30.2022 S11E21 – "Tricks" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured authors: Nicholas Gray and The Vesper's Bell. Otis presents a series of Halloween tales regarding pumpkin-related incidents, one involving teenagers and an ill-fated trip to cause trouble at a pumpkin patch and another where strange decorations crop up ...
10.23.2022 S11E20 – "Darkly Paranoid" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Philip K. Dick. Terrorism on Mars takes an interesting turn when nobody can exactly figure out how the perpetrators are avoiding detection in the first story of the show. In the second, a crew's desperation for food ...
10.16.2022 S11E19 – "Seeing Things" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Dale Thompson. In our first story, what originally appears to be a perfect pair of glasses reveals more about a man's neighbors than he wished to know; in the second, a man's normal routine when he discovers ...
10.09.2022 S11E18 – "Won't You Come In?" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Nick Botic. Tonight, Otis features a freakish encounter in a hotel and the bizarre habit of a seemingly normal ride-share passenger. To watch the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free ...
10.02.2022 S11E17 – "The Stars Are Watching" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark Tonight's featured author: Kyle Harrison. A deep sea exploration turns south when an unmanned probe's AI begins acting in mysterious ways, and a lovingly gifted sword from Japan reveals a deadly conspiracy, from earth and beyond. To watch the podcast ...
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 ...

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