Don't Fall Asleep

Tonight, I’m sensing an urban legend vibe in the air! Our scene opens as our protagonist, a young lady, is driving out to a trailhead to begin a multi-day hike during spring break. Her plan is to make the drive all in one day, stay at a motel overnight, and then begin the long trek the following day. Ahhh, I see the horror aficionados among you perked up when I mentioned urban legend style horror...

Tonight, we’ll enjoy the last part of the “I’m a Teacher at a School for Children Who Aren’t Quite Human” series! On the last episode, Mr. Vermeil was exposed to something hideous that was skulking beneath the school: a beast the headmistress called “the cancer”. Despite a heroic effort, the beast escaped our of the tunnel and into the community at large. After his encounter with it, Mr. Vermeil w...

Tonight, we’ll check in with Mr. Vermeil and find out whether he’s good for his promise to go through hell for his students! In our last installment, he discovered that he had been hired at a school full of supernatural students-- as part of an initiative meant to help them integrate and function in human society. Shortly after that, he received a disturbing series of text messages, which turned o...

Tonight, we’ll delve deeper into what’s going on at that freaky school! In episode 1, a marauder was discovered skulking around school grounds, and a team of rather lupine guards were dispatched to handle the situation. They dropped to all fours and ran like dogs into the forest. Shortly after that, there was a haunting scream, and everything returned to normal. TOO normal, if you ask Mr. Vermeil....

Tonight, class is in session! And not everything is as it seems. I know some of you may be feeling anxious about horror that takes place in school—especially given the state of affairs today, but not to worry. We may go to some dark and macabre places on this channel, but we won’t be going THAT dark. No, the horror here comes from not from the marauder skulking around school grounds, but from the...

Tonight, we’ll explore a children’s game with a dark secret! Nestled deep among hills and evergreen trees, there rests a quiet town with a curse. Once every decade or so, a strange song reemerges among the children in the schoolyard, and in its wake-- disappearances. Surely a coincidence, right? But, hark! Can you hear the haunting melody floating on the breeze? It’s been about ten years since Jim...

Tonight, I have a real treat to share with you! It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories; I’ve done several here on the channel already. I find that as I get older and revisit these stories, I appreciate them more and more, and find new things that delight and impress me each time I read them! I also find I can connect to the stories themselves more easily as my experience...

Tonight, we’ll take a relaxing walk along the beach! Our story opens as a young man takes a pause during his run down by the ocean. As he decides to head back resume his routine, he meets 2 young ladies. They warn him to stay away from the water at low tide, because there have been many disappearances over the years as the tide has rolled out. Of course, he dismisses their warning at first. But he...

Apologies for the week delay! Tonight, we’ll stay true to our tagline, and have an episode of the macabre! Let me set the scene: deep in the heart of a prestigious New England college, we find a medical student working alone in the crematorium. Having just lost their grandfather, our student was given the job of caretaker while they’re on a leave of absence from classes. Despite what you and I mig...

Tonight, we find ourselves bedside, regaled with a story of the OLD days! Our scene opens in an assisted living facility, where our protagonists—a son and his father—sit together for a visit. All seems normal enough, until a moment of clarity comes across the father, and he tells a tale so frightening and so impossible that it can’t be true! But if there IS a kernel of truth to the yarn, then both...

Tonight, we shall meet a mysterious relative who lives in the mountains of Appalachia! Or rather, we shall discover him, since he is deceased when our story opens. The shrewdest among you will have already guessed—Uncle Ashford! And was he a RICH uncle, I hear someone ask? Well. That depends on what “rich” means to you. Financially? Not really. Intellectually? Most certainly! But I’ll remind you t...

Tonight, we’ll head into the back country to a small but prosperous village nestled at the base of a mountain. Ah! So you caught that. How could such an out of the way location enjoy such success? Well as it turns out, it isn’t luck. It isn’t even hard work. It’s something much more sinister—a secret hidden between the branches with the blood and bones. This story is called “I was raised as a gift...

Tonight, we’ll revisit a CLASSIC tale of secrets that just can’t stay buried for long! Earlier this year I alluded to the Tell-Tale heart after a story that dealt with the intersection of guilt and horror. I’ve come to realize that tonight’s protagonist doesn’t feel much guilt about what he’s done—it’s actually somewhat the opposite! Vexed by the eye of an old man, tonight’s protagonist (or is he...

Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying. Broadcasting live from the second floor of a dilapidated colonial house in the middle of nowhere, I will be your guide through the witching hours! Tonight, we’ll take a stroll down memory lane. A nice walk, that will bring us smack dab in the middle of a snowstorm on one of the darkest evenings of the year! Our prota...

Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying. Broadcasting live from the center of a haunted merry-go-round, I will be your guide through the witching hours! Tonight, we’ll explore the intersection of grief and horror! What lengths would you go to if you were driven by despair and grief, and what would the consequences be? After a terrible accident resulting in...

Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying. Broadcasting live from somewhere only a dowsing rod could locate, I will be your guide through the witching hours! Tonight, we will bump up against the supernatural again! Or, is it pseudoscience?! Our protagonist claims to be able to locate sources of water using only dowsing rods. She has the gift of dowsing, which...

Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying. Broadcasting live from the deepest dark inside your bedroom closet, I will be your guide through the witching hours! Tonight, we have somewhat of a Tell-Tale Heart situation on our hands! Have you ever seen something so shocking that the image of it feels like it’s BURNED into your brain? When you close your eyes, or...

Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying. Broadcasting live from the edge of light around your campfire, I will be your guide through the witching hours! Tonight, we’ll enjoy some more outdoor fun, as we take a jovial and jocular camping trip in the woods with 5 friends. Or is it 6? Oh I can’t remember; let’s not sweat the details! 5 High school chums decide...

Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying. Broadcasting live from a seemingly innocuous coffee shop, I will be your guide through the witching hours! Tonight, we’ll check in on how one woman is trying to better herself in the New Year! January is the month for reflection and course corrections, and while she didn’t make a formal resolution, tonight’s leading...

Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying. Broadcasting live from a rickety boat floating over a bottomless depth, I will be your guide through the witching hours! Tonight, we’ll hear the story of a beautiful relationship between a grandfather and grandson, set in an old house built near the shores of a majestic lake. Each year, the pair work on a project thr...

Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying. Broadcasting live from a shallow cave in an endless desert, I will be your guide through the witching hours! Tonight, our scene opens in the great, vast frontier of SPACE! …although not for long, as you’ll see. It occurs to me that not many of our stories take place off planet. It’s easier to keep you awake at night...

Denizens of the night, welcome to a special episode of Christmas cheer, and levity. Broadcasting live from a dim corner of Santa’s Workshop, I will be your guide as you drift off into restful slumber. Tonight, instead of keeping you awake, I thought it might be nice to completely turn this thing on its head, and read you some sweet classic short stories by a fire! You may have heard these stories...

Tonight, we’ll try our luck once more on that old desolate stretch of highway! American culture is one of the most car-dependent in the world, which means that almost every American of driving age has experienced driving on a lonely road at night. The crowding of trees on the side of the road feels looming and ominous, and you become very aware that if something happened to you out here, or if som...

Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying. Broadcasting live from behind the curtain of a medium’s tent, I will be your guide through the witching hours! Tonight, we shall speak with the dead! Or at least, be in the room where it happens. We all know that most of the “psychic mediums” out there are nothing more than skilled cold-readers. Snake oil salesmen wh...

Denizens of the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre; the terrifying. Broadcasting live from the darkest shadows of an ancient copse, I will be your guide through the witching hours! Tonight, we’ll meet a merchant looking to turn a particularly good profit. To that end, he has hired two men to escort him to a small village in the woods which has recently become famous for a certain pro...