After Dark Horror Stories

A revenge-for-hire fixer takes a wealthy wife’s case, only to discover her powerful husband has more enemies than she realized. When another killer beats her to the job, Quinn thinks she’s escaped clean — until the fallout walks straight into her favorite café. Now she has to talk her way out of a blood-soaked mess before she becomes the next loose end. Author: Jake Bible * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER:...

After a brutal closing shift, all she wants is a hot shower, leftover pizza, and a quiet night alone. But when a smiling woman appears outside her bedroom window whispering, “Hello up there,” the comfort of home becomes the worst place imaginable. Author: James Gullickson * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and depictions...

When a living legend meets the battle-scarred daughter of the Wolf, a brutal torch-passing begins in the blood-soaked streets of Grim Bay. In this high-stakes clash of mafia legacies, Yara Volkova must prove she has the stomach for ultimate cruelty—or die trying to crown herself the new queen of the underworld. Author: Dave Kavanaugh * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content...

When a living legend meets the battle-scarred daughter of the Wolf, a brutal torch-passing begins in the blood-soaked streets of Grim Bay. In this high-stakes clash of mafia legacies, Yara Volkova must prove she has the stomach for ultimate cruelty—or die trying to crown herself the new queen of the underworld. Author: Dave Kavanaugh * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content...

A strange new “planet” appears beside the sun, broadcasting broken English through old radios and sending mysterious machines down to Earth. As paranoia consumes a remote town, the residents prepare for what they believe is an alien invasion. But when the visitors finally arrive, the truth is far more disturbing than anyone realizes. * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content...

A strange letter arrives with a chilling message: “Your face is not your face.” What starts as an unsettling mystery quickly spirals into a horrifying journey of lost identity, buried memories, and a secret underground operation that changes people in ways you can’t imagine. When Tabitha goes looking for answers, she discovers the truth may be far worse than the fear—and some things, once taken, d...

A grave robber’s routine job for a grieving widower turns into a nightmare when the dead wife comes home hungry. Author: James Gullickson * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and depictions of violence intended for adults. Parental guidance is strongly advised for children under the age of 17. Listener discretion is advise...

A grieving daughter visits her father’s grave before sunrise… but what she witnesses in the cemetery will haunt her forever. When a twisted ritual awakens something beneath the earth, she’s forced into a terrifying fight for survival against a creature drawn to fire and flesh. Author: A.K. McCarthy * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, stro...

They went into the woods to hunt zombies… not become prey. When a routine trip turns into a nightmare after a devastating accident, one hunter is left helpless as something far worse than the slow, shambling dead begins to close in. Fast. Hungry. Feral. And this time—there’s no escape. * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language,...

A stranger showed up bleeding on her porch, begging for help… but the moment she used her security system to search for the missing “dog,” she realized she’d just helped something far worse find its next victim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A pregnant tow truck driver hauling a blood-soaked wreck through the dead of night realizes too late that something from the crash didn’t stay behind—and it’s trying to lead her somewhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After twenty years hunting the cult that turned her childhood into a nightmare, Charlotte finally finds them—but the ritual they’re preparing will unleash something far worse than revenge. To stop the end of the world, she’ll have to face the monster they made… and the brother it’s wearing. Author: J.G. Martin * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense...

After twenty years hunting the cult that turned her childhood into a nightmare, Charlotte finally finds them—but the ritual they’re preparing will unleash something far worse than revenge. To stop the end of the world, she’ll have to face the monster they made… and the brother it’s wearing. Author: J.G. Martin * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense...

Hired to babysit a stolen painting in a rundown motel, a desperate woman soon realizes the skulls in the artwork aren’t just art—they’re a countdown to when the Collector arrives to claim his next one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On a dark, empty motorway, one distracted glance at a ringing phone turns an ordinary drive home into a nightmare that refuses to stay in the rear-view mirror. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At a secret bar hidden inside abandoned train cars in an Alaskan national park, a midnight drink becomes a guided tour through humanity’s buried massacres. By sunrise, the mountain’s hunger awakens—and one innocent visitor is no longer innocent at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A woman who looks normal in the mirror starts realizing that every stranger sees a different face—and with each passing day, even her own reflection can’t agree on who she is. * * * EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT...

Raised in an isolated doomsday cult and sealed inside a bunker for the apocalypse, a terrified sibling slowly realizes the end of the world isn’t coming from above—but whispering up through the pipes, wearing the face of a child. * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and depictions of violence intended for adults. Parental...

When police swarm a cluttered Yorkshire flat and accuse her hapless son of being a notorious serial killer, a sharp-tongued old cat lady bristles at the mistake. As the investigation tightens and an election looms, she begins to consider just how far a devoted mother might go to set things right. Author: Dave Kavanaugh * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to...

A blind woman escaping prison by rope and trust discovers that the deep West Virginia woods measure freedom in blood, not steps, and something ancient is counting her every breath. * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and depictions of violence intended for adults. Parental guidance is strongly advised for children under t...

A terrifying vision of her own murder comes true step by step, forcing a grieving girl to stop the night from repeating—or die in it. * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and depictions of violence intended for adults. Parental guidance is strongly advised for children under the age of 17. Listener discretion is advised. ...

When a weekend role-playing game at a remote camp turns into a waking nightmare, a young woman must outwit a delusional game runner who believes he’s a knight—and who’s willing to kill in order to claim her as his bride. * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and depictions of violence intended for adults. Parental guidance...

A family’s fresh start in their dream home unravels into terror when their young son befriends something sinister hiding inside a locked trunk in the basement. * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and depictions of violence intended for adults. Parental guidance is strongly advised for children under the age of 17. Listene...

A down-and-out drifter awakens to a mysterious voice that promises to fix his life—but its idea of “help” may be far more unsettling than he imagines. * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and depictions of violence intended for adults. Parental guidance is strongly advised for children under the age of 17. Listener discret...

Listen to this story from Jasper's perspective on Dr. NoSleep here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2Sqi0dJoIudYWq430DXRH5?si=c541cba23b0a4f38 Author: Dave Kavanaugh * * * CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and depictions of violence intended for adults. Parental guidance is strongly advised for children under the age of 17. Lis...