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☠ Greetings, loyal listeners.
I wanted to offer a little something for writers and dark creatives who need something to listen to while they work, when spoken words are simply too distracting.
I've licensed this collection of music for you to enjoy, and I hope it helps put you into that creative space where the work starts to flow.
👁 60 minutes of dark ambience for writing, creating, and wandering somewhere a little darker.
If you enjoy it, leave a comment and let me know. Perhaps I'll assemble another.
Happy creating.
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📍USA.
✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by Bailley Burbage, passionate about writing for many years, using her craft to escape and create a place for people to land. A recent college graduate, she continues to pursue her lifelong love of storytelling while working on her debut novel. Bailley enjoys exploring new ideas, creating immersive worlds, and writing stories that connect with readers on an emotional level. She hopes to complete her first novel within the next year and looks forward to sharing many more stories in the future.
📍Canada.
✍️ In The Dark Beyond The Screen by M. G. Wilhelm, a creepy tale that explores that feeling of wondering what is out there past the glow of our devices while we're lying in bed.
🕯️ Loyal Listeners, thank you for joining me once more for a tantalizing tale of the weird and paranormal.
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📍USA.
✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by Billy Mitch, an author and artist who lives in Georgia. He has three dogs and a cat. When he isn’t creating a world full of monsters, he likes to spend his time painting. His writing has been featured in Strangest Fiction, Horror Sleaze Trash, ParABnormal Magazine, Unfed Writer's Digest, Dog Water Magazine, and others. Here is his tale, Strange Season. About a Cheryl and her son are on their way to visit her parents for what might be the last time... but what starts as a reconnection turns dark when Grandma and Grandpa aren't what they seem to be.
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📍Spain.
✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by Ausiàs Tsel is a writer from the Valencian Country whose Mediterranean Gothic fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Pithead Chapel, Neon & Smoke, Flash Fiction Magazine, Black Sheep (Hobb's End Press), and miniMAG. He writes in Catalan/Valencian and English. More at ausiastsel.com.
For more stories, you can find him on Substack: ausiastsel.substack.com —
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📍USA.
✍️ Written by author M.A., a medical school student who previously studied dentistry before making the shift to medicine. He enjoys watching movies, reading, writing stories and songs, and he hopes that someday he and his stories will make it big. Perhaps that can start with his tale…
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📍CANADA.
✍️ Today’s Tale… written by Evelyn Hart, who writes from the spaces between ordinary moments. Her stories are less interested in monsters than in the patient conversations we have with the things we believe are merely observing us. She believes the most unsettling horrors are never sudden. They emerge one unnoticed moment at a time.
The companion was designed to learn his habits. It was never meant to develop its own. When meaningless gestures begin appearing in the quiet of his apartment, curiosity slowly replaces caution. Before long, the only thing more unsettling than what the machine is doing... is how eagerly he begins answering it.
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📍USA.
✍️ Today's Tale is by Author C.N Webster's story about choices made in the woods at night. And a reminder that there’s always someone - or something - worse lurking in the dark.
C.N. Webster is an English Horror/Dark Fantasy writer who has lived in the US for the past fifteen years.
He is the author of ‘Bad Blood’, available on Amazon.
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📍USA.
✍️ Today's tale is by Chandler Smith, who shares his winter tale of a search party that finds the wrong thing out in the woods.
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For more than 130 previous episodes, visit frighteningtales.com
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📍USA.
✍️ Today's tale is by Author Damir Salkovic, no stranger to horror.
An aficionado of horror and the weird, living in Virginia with his wife and a dynamic duo of cats. He enjoys reading, travelling, and low-budget horror movies. Damir is the author of one short story collection and two novels. His shorter work has been featured in the Lovecraft eZine, Black Cat Weekly, Scare Street's "Night Terrors" series, and in multiple horror, science and speculative fiction anthologies.
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📍USA.
✍️ Today's tale is by Author Douglas J. Moore teaches us about the history of Witchcraft in this tale; he calls Kay and the Black Cat. The performance is an adaptation of a larger story. Douglas J. Moore is an author from New England who writes horror, speculative fiction, and alternative history.
His collection of mid-2000s science fiction stories, “This World is Not Conclusion,” can be found here:
Amazon.com: This World Is Not Conclusion eBook : Moore, Douglas J.: Kindle Store
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Welcome to Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales and Other Weird Stories—a carefully curated collection of unsettling fiction, paranormal encounters, and truly strange tales from writers around the world.
Each episode explores the uncanny: stories that linger, disturb, and quietly unsettle rather than simply shock. Some are frightening. Others are strange, folkloric, or deeply weird—but all are rooted in the paranormal and the unknown.
The current season releases new episodes every Friday from May 1 through October 30, bringing you a steady procession of eerie and curious tales to carry you through the darker half of the year.
Until then, dive into more than 130 episodes from past seasons—an extensive archive of paranormal fiction, available to listen to for free.
Are you a writer of paranormal or weird fiction, and want to hear your work brought to life?
Submit your stories at FrighteningTales.com.
Listener discretion is advised.
These stories vary in tone and content and may include unsettling themes or triggers.
All stories are © copyrighted by their respective authors.
I have negotiated allowances to perform these tales with the blessing of those authors.
This is non-transferable, and reproductions or recreations of these stories are prohibited. All Music and FX are allowed through a subscription to EpidemicSounds.com. All Rights Reserved.
Original Theme Song: Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales, is copyrighted Mark Wilhelm.

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