Laughing in the Dark

Aileen finishes out this epic Are You Afraid of the Dark two-parter as we continue the Tale of Cutter's Treasure, the story of The Goonies if The Fratellis were out to traffic the kids instead of follow them to a vast hoard of treasure. in this one Rush must face his destiny as the only person who can find the treasure and face the pirate ghost of the man known as Cutter. He'll be assisted on his...

It's Mikie's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about a very special episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark. It's the first of the two-part episode, The Tale of Cutter's Treasure. Gary and Frank team up for a story that's just too big, too cool, too gripping for one story teller and because it's both of them you'd better believe that a certain homosexual small business owner and a doctor with a cert...

It's Bryan's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the third episode of the fourth season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Water Demons. In this Tucker episode, Are You Afraid of the Dark casually rips off John Carpenter's 80s horror classic The Fog and subjects us to yet another horrible, psychopath Nickelodeon kid. It's your classic Are You Afraid of the Dark set up as an awful c...

This week it's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the second episode of the fourth season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Long Ago Locket. This one is a period piece about a kid having a psychotic break and hallucinating British soldiers and a sweaty Minute Man who must escape the local woods not to deliver important intelligence or battle plans but to find the woman he...

It's Bryan's turn this week to tell the 9:30 Society all about the first episode of the fourth season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Renegade Virus. Affordable personal computers were suddenly on the minds of families everywhere in the 90s and the mysticism of the early internet was a hard draw to resist for television writers who saw science fiction and horror opportunity around e...

It's Mikie's turns this week to tell the 9:30 Society about the thirteenth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Dangerous Soup! It's the third season finale and they treat us to quite the guest star. It's also a Frank episode so that means a certain Riddle Pervert is back, this time double-timing us as a Soup Pervert. Speaking of soup, what is The Dangerous So...

This week it's Aileen's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the twelfth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Crimson Clown. In this episode, Gary tells us a Sardo-less story about two brothers, Sam and Mike. Mike is a good boy who does as he's told and obeys the rules. Sam is a rampaging psychopath who is going to learn the hard way that living a life of crime...

This week it's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the elventh episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Quicksilver. This episode finds Ashley Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel Aire using black magic to try and trap a demon but the spell goes awry and she dies in a fire. Years later a pair of brothers move into the same house where this horribe tragedy hap...

This week it's Aileen's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the tenth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Dream Girl. In this episode a brother and sister who could you unfortunately mistake for boyfriend and girlfriend struggle to unravel the mystery of Johnny's weird dreams about a girl who seems so familiar to him and the cursed class ring that he can'...

This week it's Mikie's back and it's his turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the ninth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Curious Camera. This one is a blatant ripoff of a second season episode of The Twilight Zone replacing a pair of thieves with an alcoholic photographer and the kid he curses with a magical camera that destroys whatever it photographs. No...

This week it's Bryan's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the eighth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Guardian's Curse. Once again we find Tucker ripping off existing media to spin a story about an ancient curse, a mummy, and the worst father in the entire province of Ontario. His kids are looking forward to going skiing on school break but the good t...

This week it's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the seventh episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Carved Stone. We're struck with yet another story about how hard it is to be the new kid in town as well as how nasty and mean Canadian teenagers can be but on the bright side, it's a Frank story and you know what that means. Everyone's favorite homos...

This week it's Aileen's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the sixth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Bookish Babysitter. In this episode a chaotic magical babysitter rolls up on a kid who just hates to read but she uses her strange powers to show him how much fun it can be to crack a book every once in a while. Of course, the process involves putting him...

This week it's Aileen's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the fifth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Dollmaker. This episode hits us with some AYAOTD classic tropes. You get a kid abandoned by their parents for a time, a complete lack of anything that you could call a dollmaker, and people being real weird about trauma. In this episode we find Meliss...

It's Bryan's turn this week to tell the 9:30 Society about the fourth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Phone Police. Following in an ongoing series of perverts and delinquents, The Tale of the Phone Police is the story of Jake, a prank phone call enthusiast. When he fails to control his freaky impulses to call and harass random women in Canada the mythical...

This week it's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society abouty the third episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Watcher's Woods. We've already been introduced two one new member of the Midnight Society but tonight Betty Anne reveals her new candidate, Sam, or as we like to call her Cheyenne from Reba. Sam tells a pretty familiar story to the Midnight Society: two gi...

This week it's Mikie's turn to tell The 9:30 Society about the second episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of Apartment 214. In this episode, Kiki comes up with yet another story about a broken home and a new kid in the neighborhood. We're starting to notice a pattern here that suggests a lot about her own life. In this one, Stacey (whose mom has got it going on) mov...

This week Aileen kicks off the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark with the first episode, The Tale of the Midnight Ride. There's a major shake up at the Midnight Society as we lose both Kristen and David but we gain a new friend when Gary initiates his little brother Tucker. To commemorate the occasion, Tucker tells a terribly familiar tale. If you've ever read or seen the Disney animated...

This week Bryan brings the second season to a close, telling the 9:30 Society all about the season 2 finale of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of Old Man Corcoran. In this episode, Kiki spins a tale of two new kids in the neighborhood who just want to make some new friends but the only ones available are a bunch of antagonistic locals who are obsessed with playing hide and seek in a nearby ce...

This week it's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about twelfth episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of The Hatching. In yet another case of Nickelodeon kids being ditched by their parents and laid upon some sinister and mysterious institution we find the rule-crazy Auggie and his incredibly cool anarachist sister Jazz left at a boarding school run seemingly by tw...

This week it's Aileen's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the 11th episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Magician's Assistant. In yet another Gary story about stage magic, we hear the tale of a kid who takes a part time job working for a hobo magician who is unfortunately not Sardo. The kid learns the mystic arts and spends a lot of time cleaning up this...

This week it's Mikie's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the tenth episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Shiny Red Bicycle. Mike Buckley is haunted by the trauma of losing his best friend some years ago in an accident. He's surrounded by people in his life who wish that he'd just get over it, parents, teachers, adults who really ought to know better abou...

It's Bryan's turn this week to tell the 9:30 Soiciety about the ninth episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Full Moon. This one's a real doozy. Maybe it takes place in the 90s. Maybe it takes place in the 60s. Who can say? It's another tale of a young kid misunderstanding the entire situation and putting a potentially deadly plan into motion to reveal that the...

This week it's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the eighth episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Whispering Walls. This episode finds a brother and sister adrift in the wild on the way back from an ausement park with their babysitter. When the car breaks down outside of a weird house with whispering walls, brother and sister must rely on their wits t...

This week it's Aileen's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the seventh episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Frozen Ghost. This episode, a fan favorite, introduces Melissa Joan Hart ahead of the premier of her own show for Nickelodeon, Clarissa Explains it all in a story about a babysitter sent to live with the child she watches and his two weird aunts in...