Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season

October 12-18 brings haunted houses, cursed videotapes, and Deadites to your Halloween watchlist. This Week in Horror History marks 45 years since The Evil Dead's first public screening, revisits The Ring's U.S. release, and explores the family grief behind The Haunting of Hill House. F.E.A.R. adds paranormal terror to the gaming calendar, while Slumber Party Massacre II unleashes its guitar-drill...

The Hex Hollow murder began with a search for a book and a lock of hair. In 1928, three attackers killed Pennsylvania farmer Nelson Rehmeyer, believing he had cursed them. Their attempt to burn away the evidence failed. Follow the York County investigation, the trials, and the headlines that turned a folk healer into a sinister legend. With voices from the Hex Hollow documentary, we separate Penns...

Unknown Broadcast unlocks six old-time radio tales of cursed objects, greed, and supernatural dread. A singer enters a pharaoh's tomb, a killer seeks a giant ruby at Kali's shrine, and a necklace carries a deadly past. Cursed Relics features The Pharaoh's Curse, The Heart of Kali, The Green Idol, Brass Ring, The Bog-Oak Necklace, and The Curse of the Mantle, in that order. Hear CBS Radio Mystery T...

Eight Halloween horror stories turn one cruel trick into a monster apocalypse. A zombie-city beer delivery, Elizabeth Bathory's blood hunt, a vampire hunter's mission, Hell in 2099, and a punk band's alien encounter keep raising the stakes. Monster Mash to Apocalypse brings nearly five hours of scary stories, dark comedy, urban-legend terror, and supernatural warfare to your Halloween listening. H...

Hellraiser (1987) turns desire into body horror. Henrique and Rachael revisit Clive Barker's original film, from Pinhead and the Cenobites to the Lament Configuration puzzle box. Are these beings evil, or do they operate beyond human morality? Cutting Deep into Horror explores Julia's obsession with Frank and the betrayal at the heart of a crumbling marriage. We unpack the ending, religious imager...

Three scary Halloween stories by Gary D turn a boarded-up house, an attic game, and a pumpkin patch into a night of ghostly dread and grotesque surprises. In “Off Her Rocker,” two boys discover their abandoned clubhouse isn’t empty. “Bones in the Attic” makes a childhood game of Don’t Peek dangerously real. Then “Punkinhead” follows a fugitive’s Halloween escape through a graveyard toward somethin...

Halloween home haunts turn ordinary yards into neighborhood haunted houses—and sometimes the decorations answer back. Henrique Couto celebrates handmade Halloween displays, the West Carrollton Stranger Things house, Haunt 31’s plywood-tombstone beginnings, and Home Depot’s talking, app-controlled Skelly. Trick-or-treat memories, ingenious props, and an imaginary porch encounter reveal why the spoo...

(00:00:00) Cold Open (00:01:25) Welcome, Spookies (00:02:12) Nathaniel Perry's Poem (00:06:39) Support & Story Intro (00:09:04) Hardcore Halloween (00:20:08) Lost (00:23:30) Mohlenhoff Hall (00:31:14) Truth or Dare (00:36:14) The Twins' Secrets (00:44:15) The Final Rounds (00:54:25) One Last Promise (00:58:15) Thanks & Credits In this scary Halloween story, Truth or Dare becomes a fight for souls....

October 5-11 brings Leatherface, Marvel monsters, and Icelandic folk horror to your Halloween watchlist. This Week in Horror History revisits The Texas Chain Saw Massacre's early release history, the monster hunt of Werewolf by Night, Freddy's Nightmares on television, and Quarantine's trapped reporter. Our deep cut, Lamb, finds an impossible child on a remote farm; weekly pick Trick 'r Treat turn...

Harry Houdini died on Halloween, October 31, 1926. For the 100th anniversary in 2026, explore his secret code for testing messages from the dead—and the mediums he fought to expose. This spooky season, Terrifying & True follows the stomach-punch legend, Arthur Conan Doyle's Spiritualism, Arthur Ford's disputed message and Bess Houdini's final 1936 seance. Hear archival recordings of Houdini, C...

Unknown Broadcast brings werewolf stories and deadly revenge to Halloween listening. In The Beast Must Die, a grieving father hunts the driver who killed his son; in The Red Forest, a motorist faces a wildfire. This six-story collection blends supernatural horror with human danger. Hear The Night of the Wolf, The Red Forest, The Beast Must Die, The Master's Tree, The Werewolf, and W Is for Werewol...

A forbidden cemetery game draws three boys into a ghost's path, and a dare at Grimm Manor becomes a midnight contest with its dead owners. Strickfield After Dark gathers four Halloween horror stories by Rob Fields into nearly five hours of Weekly Spooky fiction. Hear Ghost in the Graveyard, Halloween Night at Grimm Manor, A New Halloween Legend, and Mad as Hell. Haunted houses, an occult book, and...

Why do vampire legends still frighten us? Henrique Couto welcomes folklorist and author D.L. Wainright to explore Romanian strigoi, Dracula, graveyard rituals, and New England vampire beliefs. This Folklore Friday conversation follows garlic, sunlight, shapeshifting, and a party guest hiding a disturbing secret beneath the table. Along the way: Ohio's Butter Street Monster, La Llorona, Slender Man...

A nameless young woman steals another girl's identity in Deadname, a Halloween horror story by Morgan Moore. With no memory of her past, she sees a costume and mask as a chance to belong. But at a Halloween party, someone is watching—and he thinks he knows her. A stolen life. A stranger's obsession. One night behind the wrong mask. This psychological horror story brings slasher suspense to spooky...

Stingy Jack and the Halloween legend behind the jack-o'-lantern welcome October with a bargain gone wrong. Henrique Couto follows an Irish folktale from a coin trapped beside a silver cross to the Devil stranded in a tree—and a promise with a terrible catch. Discover the carved turnip lanterns once used to frighten passersby, and the dark folklore behind that familiar pumpkin grin. What happens wh...

A firefighter finds a notebook in the ashes of a burned cabin. Inside, Joe describes an isolated childhood, a forbidden railroad tunnel, and the Halloween night he dared to go trick-or-treating. His first taste of freedom leads toward a new family—but a shadow from home refuses to let him go. Michael Kelso's Halloween ghost story follows a boy caught between the life he wants and a haunting presen...

September 28-October 4 brings zombies, vampires, and Michael Myers to your Halloween watchlist. This Week in Horror History revisits Night of the Living Dead's farmhouse siege, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers and the Thorn cult, and Hell Fest's killer hiding inside a Halloween attraction. Step into The Twilight Zone, discover the vampire western Near Dark, and meet our weekly pick, Elvira, M...

Halloween ghost stories meet the lost world of midnight spook shows. Henrique Couto and Michelle explore the glowing ghosts, stage illusions and blackout scares that turned movie theaters into haunted attractions. Then dig into a claimed Loch Ness Monster sighting, ghost rumors in Indian schools, a Polish 'vampire' burial and a Bigfoot mystery with a human explanation. A creepy roadside encounter...

Unknown Broadcast opens six doors into old-time radio horror and suspense for Halloween. Parents are trapped downstairs while their toddler wanders alone above them in The Cellar Door; a dying man tells of a hidden room and its ghosts in Quiet Please. Hear The Locked Room, The Cave, The Cellar Door, House on Sycamore Road, The Room Where Ghosts Live, and Behind the Locked Door. Featuring CBS Radio...

A grocery store's night shift faces a summoned beast. A water-park date becomes a parasitic outbreak. Ordinary Places, Human Monsters gathers seven Halloween horror stories into nearly five hours of Weekly Spooky fiction, from workplace terror to home invasion and revenge. The Night Stocker, A Wet 'n' Wild Halloween, Mischief Night, and The Graveyard Shift lead through places where the next shift...

The Cell (2000) sends Jennifer Lopez into a serial killer's mind while his next victim fights to survive. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi unpack Tarsem Singh's surreal psychological horror, Vincent D'Onofrio's nightmare imagery and the ending's troubling questions about mercy and control. Explore water symbolism, childhood trauma and seven ways to interpret the title. Is Catherine a savior—or a...

What horror movies and shows should you stream for Halloween 2026? Henrique Couto previews six new movies and series arriving on U.S. streaming platforms: American Horror Story: 13 (Hulu, Sep 24); Infirmary (Shudder, Oct 2); Mike Flanagan's Carrie (Prime Video, Oct 7); R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead 2 (Tubi, Oct 9); V/H/S/Mixtape (Shudder, Oct 9); and Friday the 13th prequel Crystal Lake (Peacock, Oct 1...

Missing children lead FBI agent Francheska 'Frannie' Carter to a fairy ring—and a realm where beautiful faces hide something monstrous. In The Fair Folk, a supernatural investigation takes her from wooded suburbs into Fairyland to bring the children home. But the Fae queen has no intention of letting her captives go. Can Frannie outwit creatures whose hypnotic songs are meant to deceive? This dark...

Silent Hill 2 turns 25 as This Week in Horror History revisits September 21-27, 2026. Follow James Sunderland into the fog after a letter from his dead wife, then explore David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers, The Munsters, and Urban Legend's campus murders inspired by familiar cautionary tales. Our deep cut, Pandorum, traps a crew aboard a failing starship with missing memories. Plus, celebrate horror...

Dorothy Jane Scott disappeared from UCI Medical Center in Orange, California, in May 1980 after months of threatening phone calls. Her car was found burning; then an anonymous caller claimed he had killed her. Terrifying & True examines this unsolved murder through the stalking reports, the hospital parking-lot mystery, and the discovery of her remains in 1984. Explore what the caller appeared...