Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween episodes

  • This Week in Horror History | Christine, The Wolf Man & Scream 2 (December 8–14)
    Christine turns a Plymouth into a killer, The Wolf Man (1941) gives Larry Talbot a tragic curse, and Scream 2 takes Ghostface to college. This Week in Horror History covers December 8–14 with Maniac Cop 2 and the giant-spider classic Tarantula. John Carpenter's Stephen King adaptation meets Universal monsters and meta-slasher rules. Birthdays celebrate Rick Baker, Vampira, Bill Nighy, and Dee Wallace. Find a creature feature or a sequel for your winter watchlist. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth bedding. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...

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    23 min
  • Terrifying & True | Frau Perchta, the Christmas Witch: Alpine Folklore and Chilling Christmas Horror
    Frau Perchta may reward careful work—or punish a home that breaks her winter rules. Terrifying & True explores the Christmas Witch of Alpine folklore, from spinning and Twelfth Night meals to stories of gruesome punishment and ghostly processions. The episode compares Perchta, the beautiful and frightening Perchten, and Krampus, then follows the masks and cowbells into living winter festivals. Traditions and theories about her origins vary by place and retelling. Discover how domestic duties became the material of folk horror, and why these figures command attention in the mountains.

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    1 hr 3 min
  • Unknown Broadcast | Six Horror Stories of Fate, Hubris, and the Crawling Night
    A family home and a doctor's interest in the dead begin a night of uneasy vintage radio. Unknown Broadcast gathers Child of Misfortune, King of the World, A Good Thing, Crawling Thing, Subbasement, and Fear Paints a Picture. Six stories move through ambition, family tensions, hidden spaces, and the fear that ordinary life conceals something dangerous. Over three hours of old-time radio mystery and suspense let each drama build its own threat. Listen for the point where confidence becomes a risk and a familiar place loses its comfort. Not every secret waits politely to be discovered.

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    3 hr 2 min
  • Yuletide Bloodbath: 9 Christmas Horror Stories of Killer Santas, Krampus & Winter Nightmares
    Killer Santas, Krampus, and deadly androids fill nine Christmas horror stories. Morgan Moore brings All I Want For Christmas and Santa Claus is Killin' the Town; Shane Migliavacca, Blood on the Snow; Rob Fields, Krampus Is Comin'; Keith Tomlin, Operation Deadly Night; David O'Hanlon, Dead Silent Night; Mike Ashkewe, 12 Days; Joe Solmo, A Christmas to Remember; and Bruce Haney, Xmas at the Psych Ward. Binge nearly four hours of Weekly Spooky holiday horror, from a snowbound roadhouse to a psychiatric hospital and a pilot trapped in deep space. Christmas Eve offers no guarantee of safety.

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    3 hr 53 min
  • The Christmas Carnival: A Haunted Holiday Horror Story
    An abandoned carnival reopens on Christmas Eve, and Bill and his friends face the Dark Mother among the rides. The Christmas Carnival by Rob Fields returns to Strickfield, where junk-shop owner Eisley Tinker has revived an attraction the children thought was closed. This Weekly Spooky Christmas horror novella follows Daisy May, Carnelian, and their friends from a holiday outing into a supernatural threat to far more than their small town. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...

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    2 hr 9 min
  • The Pageant: A Chilling Christmas Horror Story
    Janet Monroe's Christmas pageant falls apart at its final rehearsal. Then a charming stranger offers a promise she desperately wants to believe. The Pageant by Morgan Moore turns church politics and holiday ambition into a Christmas horror story about a wish with terrible consequences. With her children in the cast and the congregation watching, Janet finally has her chance to shine. But who has heard her wish, and what will they make of it? Listen on Weekly Spooky. Episode sponsor: Cozy Earth. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 41% off at https://cozyearth.com/discount...

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    32 min
  • The Weather Outside is Frightful: Deadly Christmas Hurricane!
    Chet Miller spends Christmas Eve in Nokomis, Florida, with the ghost of his wife. She warns him to leave before a storm, but going might mean losing her again. The Weather Outside Is Frightful by Charles Campbell brings a sudden hurricane to a widower's home as his daughter struggles to reach him. This Weekly Spooky ghost story blends grief, a dangerous secret, and coastal survival horror. Floodwater and failing power turn a familiar house into a trap, while Chet clings to the presence that keeps him there. What would you risk to spend one more Christmas with someone you lost?

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    44 min
  • This Week in Horror History | Turistas, Scalps, House of Dracula & Girls Nite Out
    Turistas (2006) turns Brazilian backpacking into organ-harvesting terror, while Scalps (1983) uncovers a curse at an archaeological dig. This Week in Horror History covers December 1–7 with House of Dracula (1945), Girls Nite Out (1982), and Edward Scissorhands (1990). Universal monsters, a knife-clawed bear mascot, and Tim Burton's wintry Gothic fairy tale offer very different winter viewing. Birthdays include Tony Todd and Sean S. Cunningham. Sponsor: Savorista Coffee. Original offer: code SPOOKY for 25% off your first order at Savorista.com.

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    22 min
  • Terrifying & True | Dangers of a Victorian Christmas: Fires, Poisons, and Deadly Traditions
    A candlelit Christmas tree could turn a Victorian parlor into a fire trap. Terrifying & True explores the hazards behind the holiday postcard: flammable decorations, toxic pigments, contaminated sweets, and the risks of early electric lighting. This history episode follows the uneasy connection between festive display, household danger, and the push for safer products. Lead tinsel and arsenic greens complicate the picture of an innocent old-fashioned Christmas. Look beyond the glowing windows to discover why some cherished seasonal comforts came with a price families could not see.

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    55 min
  • Unknown Broadcast | Four Horror Stories of Illusion, Justice, Betrayal, and a Stalking Shadow
    A condemned man waits above a river, searching for a way to escape the noose. Unknown Broadcast brings Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge to a collection with Murder Must Be Paid For, The Man Within, and The Creeper. More than two hours of old-time radio horror and suspense move from a Civil War execution to crimes of conscience and a city gripped by fear. Four vintage dramas explore illusion, justice, betrayal, and the terror of being followed. Listen as a chance at freedom or a sound beyond a locked door becomes the only thing that matters.

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    2 hr 10 min

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Weekly Spooky is your year-round Halloween podcast for scary stories: original horror fiction, urban legends, haunted places, cryptids and dark folklore, alongside true crime, paranormal mysteries and…

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