Chilling Tales for Dark Nights — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast — Podcast

"Crazy God Lady" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 17.09.2026 35dk

At Forest Oaks, repairs are temporary, complaints are ignored, and the tenants have learned not to expect much from management. For Dale, the complex’s new maintenance man, the job is only something to endure until better work comes along. Then he receives a request from apartment 11-A. BeBe Evans needs her thermostat fixed—and insists the temperature must remain precisely seventy degrees so she can continue observing her universe. The other residents call her “Crazy God Lady.” BeBe claims the title is more accurate than they realize. Dale dismisses her warnings, mocks her promises, and leaves the repair unfinished. But when impossible things begin appearing around the complex, he is forced to wonder whether the woman in white is truly delusional—or whether he has offended something capable of governing life, death, and what comes afterward. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

"The Bat House" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 16.09.2026 36dk

Bullied, isolated, and desperate to escape his tormentors, Bradley runs into the woods—and finds a place that should not feel as though it has been waiting for him. Raised high among the autumn trees, the bat house is home to far more than the creatures named on its warning sign. Its shadowed interior seems to recognize Bradley’s pain. Its inhabitants whisper his name. And somewhere beyond the open hatch, something hidden from the daylight offers the frightened boy a sanctuary unlike any he has known. But refuge can become temptation, and the darkness that welcomes the unwanted rarely gives without expecting something in return. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

"The Hairy Hands of Briar's Bend" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 15.09.2026 20dk

After losing his career, his marriage, and nearly everything he had saved, Caleb returns to his quiet Midwestern hometown hoping to begin again. Instead, he encounters a warning that has circulated through the community for generations: never travel Briar’s Bend after dark. The isolated road has been the site of countless unexplained accidents. Drivers report losing control on clear nights, their vehicles suddenly pulled toward the trees by a force they cannot see. Older residents claim the cause is something known only as the Hairy Hands. Caleb has no patience for ghost stories—until an invisible grip seizes his steering wheel. Drawn into the road’s disturbing history, Caleb discovers decades of crashes, frightened survivors, and accounts that conventional explanations cannot resolve. The closer he comes to understanding Briar’s Bend, the more dangerously personal its legend becomes. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

"Junkman" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 14.09.2026 22dk

On the outskirts of Nobility, Texas, Colt makes his living buying and selling the things respectable people pretend they don’t want. Guns, drugs, stolen goods—everything has a price at Colt’s Junk, provided the local police receive their share. Then two men arrive with something Colt has never seen before: an ancient, mummified body stitched together from the remains of multiple people. Colt expects the grotesque discovery to earn him a small fortune. But after nightfall, the corpse begins to move—and its damaged limbs seem to be asking for help. When satisfying its needs brings an extraordinary change in Colt’s luck, a single illicit purchase becomes the foundation of a far more horrifying enterprise. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

"The Nothingness Inside Castle Hanpenburg" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 10.09.2026 41dk

Private investigator Marlo Stark has built his career confronting mysteries that would unsettle lesser men. When Anne Hanpenberg hires him to locate her missing brother, the assignment carries him deep into the German mountains and through the doors of a crumbling ancestral castle where every corridor seems to conceal another secret. Fredrick Hanpenberg has vanished, but the evidence he left behind points toward something far more disturbing than an ordinary disappearance: grotesque journals, hidden chambers, hooded intruders, and a forbidden staircase descending into the earth. As Marlo follows the trail beneath Castle Hanpenberg, he begins to suspect that he was not merely hired to solve a mystery. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

"A Little Bit Country" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 08.09.2026 58dk

After an eternity spent wandering the burning caverns of Hell, a nameless Southern soul is offered something almost unimaginable: a promotion. His new handler calls him Country and promises him water, shelter, and occasional passage back into the world of the living. All Country must do is enter the body of a girl believed to be possessed, follow the instructions transmitted through a strange insect-like device, and obey the rules governing Hell’s ancient contest with Heaven. Unfortunately, Country has received no training, understands almost nothing about his assignment, and has no intention of returning to the caverns. When his first mission places him inside a dark toolshed with three armed men closing in, desperation turns a carefully controlled operation into a nightmare of confusion, violence, and infernal consequences. Blending black comedy, supernatural terror, and uncompromising brutality, Drew Stepek's “A Little Bit Country” takes listeners into a vision of Hell where damnat

"The Skin-Collector" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 06.09.2026 43dk

When sixteen-year-old Jessie Shepherd catches a glimpse of her vanished best friend during a drive through rural Obed County, everyone assumes that grief has distorted what she saw. Even her twin brother, Alec, struggles to believe her. But Jessie cannot forget the figure on the barn—or the terrible sounds coming from the neglected property beyond the road. Determined to discover whether Emma is still alive, the twins venture into the fog surrounding the barn. What they find there will force them to confront a predator unlike anything the authorities have been searching for—and a horror that has been trying to make itself look human. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

"Treetops" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 05.09.2026 21dk

For decades, children have vanished from the isolated town of Dorton Bluffs with terrifying regularity. The disappearances come in clusters near the beginning of spring and fall, and not one of the missing has ever been found alive. FBI investigator Felix Freeman believes the pattern belongs to an uncaught serial killer—and he arrives certain that he already knows the kind of man he is hunting. But the residents of Dorton Bluffs insist there is no killer. The children simply ran away, they claim, just as unhappy children have always done. Then Felix hears a playground rhyme about something called Treetops. As rehearsed explanations give way to warnings of offerings and a presence hidden in the northern forest, Felix discovers that some communities do more than keep secrets. They feed them. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

"The Hunger of Evota Falls" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 03.09.2026 21dk

Evota Falls was built beside a river and a railroad, but the river is gone—and the town is dying with it. With the cattle thinning, the dust deepening, and hunger closing in, the few residents who remain are desperate for something—anything—that might keep their community alive. Then word begins to spread of the Curdler, a savage desert beast with a price on its head. Soon, armed hunters are arriving by train, eager to claim the bounty and make their names. But in Evota Falls, every solution creates a darker problem. As the town begins to prosper, its new mayor discovers that survival has demands of its own—and that the most dangerous thing in the desert may not be the creature everyone has come to kill. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

"Pea Ridge" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 03.09.2026 2sa 10dk

After losing his daughter, Richard retreats to his childhood home in the Missouri countryside, searching for the solitude he needs to write—and the strength to let go of a place crowded with painful memories. But something has fallen near the abandoned Pea Ridge mine, and the surrounding woods are no longer behaving as they should. The animals have disappeared. An acrid, ammonia-like odor drifts between the trees. Something powerful enough to tear through sheet metal is circling Richard’s house—and it seems drawn to more than blood. As night closes over the Ozarks, Richard and his faithful three-legged dog find themselves trapped against a predator unlike anything on Earth: a creature that can sense pain, fear, and the private darkness its victims carry within them. To survive, Richard must confront not only the horror stalking him outside, but the grief that has been consuming him from within. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

"My Next Door Neighbor is a Monster" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 01.09.2026 37dk

Richard Prasse has had strange neighbors before. None of them were anything like Eliza Munoz. Beautiful, mysterious, and surrounded by a seemingly endless procession of late-night visitors, Eliza quickly becomes an irresistible distraction for the lonely medical resident living next door. But when curiosity draws Richard across the hallway at exactly the wrong moment, he discovers that the sounds coming from Eliza's apartment aren't evidence of an unusually active love life. They're evidence of something hungry. Soon Richard finds himself trapped between attraction and terror as the woman he can't stop thinking about reveals a side of herself no human being was ever meant to see. And when another dangerous figure from Eliza's past appears, Richard realizes that his neighbor may not be the only monster in the building. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

"They Feed at Night" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 31.08.2026 53dk

Eight-year-old Terrance is supposed to be asleep. Instead, he's listening to something scratch against his second-story bedroom window. At first, it sounds like a branch brushing the glass. Then it comes again—slower, sharper, deliberate. And when Terrance finally gathers the courage to look outside, he finds a pale face staring back at him from a place no one should be able to stand. Within moments, an ordinary night in a quiet suburban home becomes a desperate fight for survival as Terrance and his family discover they aren't dealing with a prowler—or anything else that should exist. Pale figures are gathering outside. They are impossibly fast, terrifyingly persistent, and very, very hungry. And once they've chosen a home, locked doors may not be enough to keep them out. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

"The Events at Poroth Farm" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 26.08.2026 2sa 6dk

Seeking three quiet months away from New York City, Jeremy retreats to an isolated farm in rural New Jersey with little more than a roomful of books and plans to spend the summer immersed in the classics of Gothic literature. At first, Poroth Farm seems ideal. His landlords, Sarr and Deborah Poroth, are reserved but welcoming, the countryside is peaceful, and Jeremy finally has all the solitude he could want. Then the natural rhythms of the farm begin to falter. Something strange moves through the woods. Animals behave in ways Jeremy cannot explain. Familiar creatures become suddenly unfamiliar. And as the summer wears on, Jeremy's comfortable skepticism is tested by a mounting series of incidents that seem increasingly difficult to dismiss as coincidence, superstition, or imagination. Surrounded by the very horror stories he came there to study, Jeremy begins to confront a far more disturbing possibility: perhaps the darkest ideas preserved in old books were never entirely fictional.

473: Episode 473 - "Beneath the Beautiful Mask" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 29.07.2026 1sa 22dk

When a former high-school heartache returns looking impossibly beautiful, a lonely young man believes fate has finally offered him a second chance. But behind every perfect smile lies a secret, and beneath every beautiful mask may lurk something ancient, patient, and hungry. This unforgettable full-cast production from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights blends psychological dread, occult terror, and relentless supernatural horror into a cinematic nightmare that asks a chilling question: if something else walks away wearing your face... what becomes of you? Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

472: Episode 472 - "The Devil We Remember" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 20.07.2026 37dk

Long after childhood has faded into memory, there are paths that still call your name... places where innocence was lost, friendships were tested, and something ancient may still be waiting in the shadows. In this unforgettable tale of psychological horror and rural folklore, Eli Pope weaves a chilling story of guilt, grief, and the terrifying power of memory. As the past begins reaching into the present, one man discovers that returning home may awaken horrors that should have remained forgotten forever. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

471: Episode 471 - "Where Evil Finds You" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 18.07.2026 35dk

When two brothers offer a stranded stranger a ride home, they believe fate has finally handed them an opportunity to change their fortunes. Instead, they find themselves caught in a deadly game where ancient magic, impossible bargains, and hidden monsters wait just beyond the edge of civilization. As long-buried resentments give way to fear and desperation, every choice carries unimaginable consequences, and survival demands far more than courage alone. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

470: Episode 470 - "The Cost of Coming Back" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 10.07.2026 29dk

This week's episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights presents a gripping descent into forbidden experimentation, hidden government horrors, and the terrifying consequences of refusing to let the dead remain at rest. Behind the walls of a forgotten psychiatric prison, one well-meaning volunteer stumbles onto a secret so disturbing it redefines the meaning of mercy itself. As science pushes beyond the limits of death and morality is sacrificed in pursuit of impossible answers, the line between salvation and damnation begins to disappear. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

469: Episode 469 - "Collector's Curse" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 05.07.2026 1sa 15dk

When an elusive collector offers a fortune to recover a legendary silent film long believed destroyed, veteran retrieval specialist Noah accepts what appears to be another lucrative assignment. But the search for Dracula's Doom soon draws him into a labyrinth of forgotten archives, haunted estates, ancient legends, and impossible visions that refuse to stay confined to the screen. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

468: Episode 468 - "Tides of Terror" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 02.07.2026 32dk

When a battered whaling ship drifts home through a raging storm, a rescue mission becomes a race against an ancient nightmare lurking beneath the waves. On the open ocean, courage alone may not be enough—and some discoveries are too terrible to bring back to shore. Join Chilling Tales for Dark Nights for an unforgettable voyage into maritime horror, where relentless storms, impossible creatures, and impossible choices collide in William Meikle's pulse-pounding tale of survival. Once you've heard the call from beneath the sea... you'll never look at the ocean the same way again. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

467: Episode 467 - "The Poisoned Sky" - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights 01.07.2026 30dk

When strange voids begin gliding across an otherwise perfect night sky, one elderly stargazer dismisses them as little more than an odd curiosity. But as entire towns descend into madness and civilization quietly tears itself apart, he discovers that humanity has already lost a war it never realized had begun. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/