Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales & Other Weird Stories

Some words can describe things physical or mental... but in today's story, the title applies to both.

Today's tale  …is written by author Kim Bossert a lab tech at an IVF clinic who just enjoys a good story. Kim has a love of short scary stories from skin-crawlers told around the campfire to classic internet creepypastas. This is the first of her stories that has seen distribution beyond torturing her friends and family. She also enjoy cosplay, baking, and spoiling her two cats.

Author Lonnie Russo is an author of short fiction from the East Coast of the United States.

He grew up around his grandmother's haunted house, the graveyard down the block, and the funeral home in which many of his relatives worked.

While he enjoys exploring all topics, he considers himself largely a genre writer of horror, science fiction, and romance, of all things, but he also believes all stories are made of the same stuff—something extraordinary happening among the ordinary. He resides with his partner and two cats.

You can find more work by Lonnie here:

https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/lonnie-russo/

For more frightening tales... visit frighteningtales.com if you're brave enough.

Written by Matt Martinek. Matt is passionate about a number of creative pursuits writing horror is just one of them. You can find Matts most recent project: Fright! Stories of Murder, Monsters, and Mayhem as well as his book The Oddest Couple: The Collected Edition at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.com.

Written by Helen Mihajlovic, she predominantly writes short horror stories, but has written science fiction, surrealist and fantasy tales.

Her stories can be found at Dark Dossier magazine and Horror Novel Reviews. Her novella 'The Darkness of Judith' has recently been published through Unveiling-Nightmares Press (now Baynam Books Press), it is also available on Amazon. 

For more scary stories listen at Frighteningtales.com... if you're brave enough.

It's another double feature!

The first tale is written by… Matthew Jon Smith, an up-and-coming author in the horror genre. Matthew is a 41-year-old web programmer working for the public education system, to learn more about Matthew visit him at www.matthewjonsmith.com

The second part of our episode is a tale written by Harlinn Draper, an American fiction author. Born in the charming town of Corbin, Kentucky, Harlinn was instilled with a love for storytelling from an early age. His mother, an English teacher, gifted him the power of evocative language and captivating plots, while his father, a railroader, passed on a strength and grit that would shape Harlinn's writing style. To learn more about our author you can visit him at

https://harlinndraper.com

https://werdsmith.com/harlinndraper

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Welcome to a triple feature this week. With 3 dark tales to satisfy your hunger for horror.

The first tale "The Smoke of Her Burning" written by Deidra Lovegren. Her published works include The Medicine Girl, The Medicine Woman, and 21 Conversations—a collection of dialogue-only short stories. You can also find her Anthology The Lady of the Match, her work translated into Arabic, debuted at the 2024 Cairo International Book Fair.

https://deidrawhittlovegren.com

Our final tale this episode is "Floor Nineteen" written by Laura Melvin a Canadian author from British Columbia, where she writes a number of short stories she publishes in her profile on dailyprompt.com which you can visit for more of her writing.

Welcome back to season 5 brave listeners. We start the season with a dark tale double feature!

The First tale is called Despair written by author Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc. You can find more of her work at:

https://linktr.ee/theandreadeanvanscoyoc

The Second tale is called The Sköll and the Swine written by Suzie Lockhart & Bruce Lockhart 2nd.

You can find more of Suzie's writing here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00DTIG29I

and Bruce's writing here:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00DUX0WZ2

Find more frightening tales at frighteningtales.com if you're brave enough!

Listener Discretion is Advised. (Language, Visceral Depictions and Gore.)

Skeeter was a mountain of a man with an insatiable thirst and he wasn't finicky about what he drank so long as it got him drunk. But when a mystery bottle found Skeeter it would take him on a nightmare journey.

Performance © copyright Mark Wilhelm

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Two friends make a pact on halloween night to face off against the dark forces that stole their friend years earlier.

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A Mother's ability to nurture her child can be a limitless thing. But just how far would a mother really go...

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