Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season

Demons, Satanic cults, and supernatural revenge collide in this horror fiction anthology. A runaway discovers a forbidden book devoted to an imprisoned goddess. A mercenary raids an asylum to film a cult. A cursed man awakens to humiliation and dark magic. Four tales of demonic possession, occult rituals, and vampire mythology—expertly narrated with dark comedy and spine-tingling twists. Perfect late-night horror for spooky season enthusiasts.

“Sin” — by Rob Fields
A murderous runaway hiding inside a Catholic academy discovers a forbidden scripture devoted to Hellweaver—and begins a bloody ritual to become the imprisoned demon goddess’s devoted daughter.
“Gamble with the Devil” — by David O’Hanlon
A delusional soldier of fortune hires a desperate cameraman to film his promotional reel, then drags him into an abandoned asylum for a heavily armed assault on a Satanic cult whose rituals have summoned something horrifyingly real.
“Breaking the Seal” — by Douglas Waltz
After a drunken encounter with a practicing witch, a hungover man awakens with a bloody pentagram on his chest and an unstoppable bodily curse that only the woman he insulted can remove.
“The Bad Schoolgirl” — by Rob Fields
A foul-mouthed, daywalking Master Vampire enters Strickfield High and follows a squad of vampire cheerleaders into the woods, where stolen souls are being used to power their supernatural jewelry.

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What could be worse than dying? Waking up after everyone has already buried you.
Weekly Spooky presents a complete reading of “The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe, a claustrophobic gothic horror story built around one of humanity’s oldest and most terrifying fears: being buried alive.

Tormented by a medical condition that can make him appear dead, a man becomes consumed by accounts of premature burial. He studies coffins, graves, crypts, and horrifying cases of people awakening beneath the earth. As his obsession grows, he takes increasingly desperate precautions to ensure that he will never open his eyes inside a sealed coffin.
But fear has a way of following us into the darkness.

This classic Edgar Allan Poe audiobook is perfect for listeners searching for buried alive horror stories, gothic horror, classic scary stories, macabre fiction, claustrophobic horror, literary horror, and complete Edgar Allan Poe readings.

Tonight, the most terrifying place imaginable is not a haunted house.
It is six feet underground.

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Cartoon Cat is one of the creepiest viral horror monsters to crawl out of internet folklore. In this episode of Thursday Thrills, we dive into the Cartoon Cat urban legend, explore its origins in modern internet horror, and talk about why old cartoon imagery feels so unsettling when it turns sinister.

From rubber-hose animation and creepy vintage cartoon aesthetics to internet monster lore, creepypasta-style fear, and the strange power of distorted childhood nostalgia, this episode explores why Cartoon Cat has become such a memorable modern horror icon.

We’ll look at the legend, the style, the nightmare fuel behind the character, and an eerie original story about what happens when something impossible starts moving inside an abandoned mall after dark.

If you love internet horror, creepypasta, urban legends, creepy cartoons, analog-style nightmare imagery, Trevor Henderson-style monsters, and spooky campfire storytelling, this ride into Cartoon Cat territory is for you.

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A truck driver’s terrifying nightmare begins coming true in this supernatural highway horror story about prophetic dreams, a demonic roadside creature, and a daughter who knows something is waiting for her father in the dark.

After dreaming that a towering monster tears him from his delivery truck and drags him into the woods, an ordinary car-parts driver tries to convince himself it was only a nightmare. Then he reaches the same bridge from his dream. He sees something enormous watching from the trees—and his eight-year-old daughter Angeline already knows exactly what he saw.

As Angeline’s psychic dreams become increasingly urgent, every late delivery run brings her father closer to the creature lurking beside the highway. Is the nightmare a warning that can still save him, or a vision of something that has already decided his fate?

“Driving a Truck Can Be a Nightmare, Literally” by Michael Kelso is a suspenseful scary story blending truck driver horror, road horror, shared nightmares, psychic premonitions, family terror, creature-feature suspense, and a frightening supernatural monster encounter. Fans of horror stories, highway legends, demon stories, cryptid fiction, dark-road encounters, psychological suspense, and immersive audio fiction will want to keep their doors locked for this one.

Tonight on the Weekly Spooky horror podcast, one father must decide whether his daughter’s nightmares are childish fears—or warnings from something real waiting beside the road.

You can purchase books from this author here: https://geni.us/michaelkelsoauthor

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Mid-July horror gets mutated, vengeful, infectious, and lost in the woods in this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering the week of July 13 through July 19. This time, we’re digging into mad-scientist island nightmares, supernatural revenge literature, one extremely angry killer whale, a science-fiction body-horror classic, biological vampires, and the tiny independent movie that changed horror marketing forever.

Inside this episode:
July 13, 1977 — The Island of Dr. Moreau opens in U.S. theaters
Burt Lancaster brings H.G. Wells’ nightmare of science without conscience to the screen in a sweaty, pulpy story filled with animal-human mutations, unchecked authority, and a scientist convinced that nature would be better if he personally rearranged it.
July 14, 2020 — The Only Good Indians is published
Stephen Graham Jones delivers one of modern horror literature’s sharpest supernatural reckonings as four Blackfeet men discover that something from their past has memory, purpose, and antlers waiting in the dark.
July 15, 1977 — Orca opens in New York
The post-Jaws creature-feature wave gets stranger, angrier, and surprisingly tragic when a killer whale driven by grief, intelligence, and patience begins pursuing the human responsible for an unforgivable act.
July 16, 1958 — The Fly releases in the United States
A scientist, a teleportation machine, and one tiny insect create one of science-fiction horror’s most unforgettable transformations, turning a dream of human progress into a cruel nightmare of mixed bodies and irreversible mistakes.

Deep-Cut Spotlight — The Strain
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan drag vampires out of the velvet cape and into the quarantine zone as a passenger plane lands at JFK filled with the dead. What follows treats vampirism like a biological outbreak capable of spreading through New York while officials argue, deny, and react too late.

Horror Birthdays This Week:
Patrick Stewart, Larry Cohen, Corey Feldman, and James Brolin enter the birthday roll, bringing connections to Lifeforce, Green Room, It’s Alive, Q, The Stuff, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, The Lost Boys, Gremlins, and The Amityville Horror.

Weekly Recommendation — The Blair Witch Project
Three student filmmakers enter the Maryland woods with cameras, recording equipment, and a local legend, creating a landmark of found-footage horror built from darkness, disorientation, improvised performances, and the terrifying possibility that the footage might be real.Plus, Weekly Spooky returns Wednesday with another fresh original horror story, followed by more terrifying history, strange mysteries, movie talk, and unexplained broadcasts throughout the week.

From The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Only Good Indians to Orca, The Fly, The Strain, and The Blair Witch Project, this week in horror history proves that terror can spread through laboratories, guilty memories, dark water, crowded cities, and one cursed corner of the internet.

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