Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season

The Monster Squad, Cujo, The Fly, The Others, Jason Goes to Hell, and Lovecraft Country headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering August 10 through August 16. As summer horror starts giving way to spooky season, we’re beginning the Halloween horror pregame with classic monsters, Stephen King terror, haunted-house mysteries, Jason Voorhees, cosmic horror, rabid-animal survival, and one of David Cronenberg’s greatest body-horror transformations.

Inside this episode:
August 10, 2001 — The Others opens in U.S. theaters
Nicole Kidman waits inside a fogbound mansion where every curtain must remain closed, every doorway follows a strict ritual, and mysterious footsteps suggest that Grace and her light-sensitive children may not be alone. Alejandro Amenábar builds a gothic ghost story from silence, grief, locked rooms, and competing versions of reality.
August 12, 1983 — Cujo opens in U.S. theaters
Stephen King turns a gentle Saint Bernard into the center of a brutally simple survival nightmare. Dee Wallace and a young child become trapped inside a failing car beneath the blazing summer sun while a rabid dog waits outside and their supposed shelter slowly becomes an oven. August 13, 1993 — Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday opens in U.S. theaters
The Friday the 13th franchise blows apart the familiar image of Jason Voorhees and transforms him into a body-hopping demonic force. Family bloodlines, possession horror, temporary human hosts, gruesome transformations, and one unforgettable final tease send Jason into his strange New Line era.
August 16, 2020 — Lovecraft Country premieres on HBO
Misha Green’s supernatural horror series follows Atticus Freeman, Letitia Lewis, and Uncle George across 1950s Jim Crow America, where sundown towns and systemic violence can be as deadly as the ancient creatures waiting in the dark. Cosmic horror, family history, inherited trauma, magic, body horror, and American history collide.

Deep-Cut Spotlight — The Monster Squad
Dracula arrives with the Wolf Man, the Mummy, the Gill Man, and Frankenstein’s creature—and the only people prepared to stop them are a group of young horror fans who have spent their lives memorizing monster rules. 
Directed by Fred Dekker and written by Dekker and Shane Black, The Monster Squad turns fandom into survival training. A German diary must be translated, silver bullets must be tested, an ancient amulet must be protected, and a treehouse club has one night to prevent classic evil from taking control of the world.
Funny, adventurous, spooky, and unexpectedly heartfelt, The Monster Squad became a beloved cult horror movie through cable television, home video, and generations of monster kids passing it along to the next generation. It is also perfect viewing for anyone beginning their annual Halloween movie-season pregame.

Horror Birthdays This Week:
Alfred Hitchcock, Halle Berry, Natasha Henstridge, and James Cameron enter the birthday roll, bringing connections to Psycho, The Birds, Gothika, Dark Tide, Species, Aliens, and some of horror and science-fiction cinema’s most memorable killers, creatures, transformations, and survival stories.

Weekly Recommendation — The Fly
David Cronenberg’s The Fly celebrates its 40th anniversary with a story that remains romantic, disgusting, funny, tragic, and profoundly human.
Jeff Goldblum plays scientist Seth Brundle, whose revolutionary teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong when an unnoticed fly enters the pod beside him. The machine combines their genetic material, beginning a physical transformation that neither science, intelligence, nor love can reverse.
With Geena Davis as journalist Veronica Quaife, Academy Award-winning makeup effects, unforgettable body horror, and a devastating central relationship, The Fly remains one of the defining horror movies of the 1980s—and an essential addition to any early Halloween horror watchlist.

Plus, Weekly Spooky returns Wednesday with another original horror story, followed by more terrifying history, strange mysteries, horror movie discussion, and unexplained broadcasts throughout the week. From The Others and Cujo to Jason Goes to Hell, Lovecraft Country, The Monster Squad, and The Fly, this week in horror history proves that terror can hide inside a locked mansion, wait outside a stalled car, move from body to body, follow a family across America, gather the classic monsters, or emerge from a teleportation pod. The calendar may still say August, but the Halloween horror pregame is officially underway.

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William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin stand at the center of one of the most famous and ethically troubling stories in the history of human experimentation. After an accidental musket blast on Mackinac Island in 1822 tore through St. Martin's ribs, lung, diaphragm and stomach, Army surgeon Beaumont saved his life. The wound healed into a permanent gastric fistula - a living opening through which Beaumont could observe human digestion directly.

Beginning in 1825, Beaumont tied food to silk thread and lowered it into St. Martin's stomach, extracted gastric juice through tubes, measured temperature and recorded the effects of illness, exercise and emotional disturbance. The work culminated in his 1833 book Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion and helped transform the science of digestion. It also documented pain, weakness, vertigo and distress, sometimes followed by a decision to continue.

Beaumont was not only St. Martin's doctor. He was also his employer, provider and investigator. In 1832, a labor agreement called St. Martin a "covenant Servant" and required him to "obey, suffer and comply" with reasonable and proper experiments. This episode examines that contract, the imbalance behind it and the limits of consent without erasing St. Martin's agency. He refused surgery, returned to Canada, negotiated payment, left repeatedly, permitted some later examinations and ultimately rejected Beaumont's final efforts to bring him back.

Terrifying & True separates the documented medical history from later sensational claims that Beaumont deliberately preserved the opening or kept St. Martin as a literal prisoner. The surviving record is more complicated: lifesaving care, groundbreaking science, economic dependence, negotiated participation and a physician who increasingly spoke of recovering control over another man's body.

Inside this episode:
· The 1822 musket accident on Mackinac Island
· Alexis St. Martin's permanent gastric fistula
· Food-on-thread tests and gastric juice collection
· The 1832 "obey, suffer and comply" labor contract
· Consent, dependence and St. Martin's repeated departures
· The later report of an eight-foot grave and efforts to obtain his stomach after death

Beaumont's work changed medicine. But when a scientific breakthrough depends on another person's body, labor and pain, who owns the discovery - and who gets remembered as fully human?

We're telling that story tonight. 

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Unknown Broadcast rides a wall of wind into four old-time radio horror and radio suspense stories where the weather closes every exit. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler tune in with hurricanes, flooded waters, wartime peril, and crimes that refuse to stay buried.

Come in out of the rain if you like. The signal has already locked the door behind you.

☂ Hurricane — A desperate pair reaches an isolated beach house and discovers the storm outside may be safer than the armed standoff within.
⚓ Flood on the Goodwins — A harrowing wartime crossing of the English Channel becomes a struggle against black water, fog, and a commander with death at the tiller.
⚡ Night of the Storm — A condemned man has only hours left while three people who know he is innocent race the weather and the clock to save him.
☔ Man in the Storm — An embezzler hopes a flood will cover his tracks, only to learn that bad weather has a talent for uncovering worse men.

The classic OTR signal fades under the thunder—but something is still knocking from the other side of the rain.

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Four scary travel horror stories unleash a Wendigo, a rat-infested ghost ship, a doomed passenger flight, and an escaped serial killer stalking a summer highway. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with this complete horror fiction anthology packed with supernatural terror, survival horror, cannibalism, killer animals, and roadside nightmares.

A routine airplane journey becomes a terrifying supernatural loop when violent turbulence, a grieving old man, and the cries of a dead child lead toward an unavoidable crash. Then a championship basketball team’s cannibalistic pact goes horribly wrong after one member consumes something inhuman and transforms into a ravenous Wendigo. Two shipwreck survivors escape a shark-filled ocean only to board an abandoned ocean liner overrun by thousands of flesh-eating rats. Finally, a teenage boy joins his truck-driving uncle for a summer road trip and encounters an escaped serial killer inside a blood-soaked highway truck stop. 

This Summerween horror compilation features: 
“The Last Flight Out” by Charles Campbell
A haunted airplane story of grief, ghostly passengers, severe turbulence, and a deadly flight trapped in a horrifying cycle.
“Be Careful What You Eat” by Rob Fields
Cannibal athletes discover the terrible consequences of breaking a supernatural pact when uncontrollable hunger creates a deadly Wendigo.
“The Ship of the Cannibal Rats” by David O’Hanlon
Shipwreck survivors board a mysterious ghost ship and discover that its enormous population of killer rats has developed its own brutal society.
“Love, Burgers, and the Open Road” by David O’Hanlon
A summer trucking adventure becomes a roadside slasher nightmare when an escaped serial killer massacres everyone inside a remote truck stop.

These terrifying tales combine airplane horror, haunted flights, Wendigo folklore, cannibal horror, ghost ships, killer rats, shark attacks, nautical horror, serial killers, truck stop horror, road trip terror, supernatural curses, dark comedy, and survival stories.

Perfect for listeners searching for scary stories, horror audiobooks, horror fiction podcasts, supernatural stories, creature features, serial killer stories, haunted travel stories, scary road trip stories, ocean horror, Summerween entertainment, and Halloween podcasts. The highway is hot, the ocean is endless, and something hungry is waiting at every stop.

Halloween may still be months away, but the journey into darkness has already begun.

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Join filmmaker Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi as Cutting Deep into Horror keeps Summerween rolling and gets an early jump on Halloween season with Hell House LLC (2015), Stephen Cognetti’s cult found footage horror movie about a Halloween haunted attraction inside the abandoned Abaddon Hotel. This spoiler-filled Hell House LLC review and ending discussion digs into the movie’s mockumentary setup, haunted-house scares, creepy clown mannequins, cult rumors, basement terror, and the opening-night catastrophe that turned a seasonal haunt into a nightmare.

If you’re already building your Halloween horror movie watchlist, this is one worth revisiting. Henrique and Rachael break down why Hell House LLC works so well as both found footage horror and a fake documentary, including the movie’s clever camera logic, background scares, strange noises, sleepwalking, moving figures, malfunctioning equipment, and the growing realization that something inside the Abaddon Hotel may be much worse than the haunt its crew is trying to build. The episode specifically digs into how the documentary structure strengthens the movie rather than simply providing an excuse for the cameras to keep rolling.

The conversation also continues the haunted-attraction discussion from The Houses October Built, comparing the two movies’ approaches to Halloween haunts, extreme haunted houses, found footage storytelling, and spooky-season atmosphere. While The Houses October Built travels through the world of real haunted attractions, Hell House LLC traps its characters inside one location and slowly turns the business of manufactured fear into something terrifyingly real.

Then it’s time to enter the Abaddon Hotel itself: its sinister history, rumors of cult activity and suicide, the increasingly disturbing behavior of the Hell House crew, the terrifying clown figures, the disastrous opening night, the panic in the basement, and the revelations waiting in the recovered footage. Henrique and Rachael follow the mystery all the way through the movie’s final trip back to the hotel and discuss why its relatively simple scares can still create so much dread.

For fans of Halloween movies, haunted house horror, found footage movies, supernatural horror, horror mockumentaries, creepy clowns, abandoned hotels, haunted attractions, spooky season movies, and Summerween, Hell House LLC has become one of the modern horror movies that feels almost tailor-made for October.

Inside this episode:
Why Hell House LLC works so well as a Halloween-season horror movie
Summerween, spooky season, and the appeal of Halloween haunted attractions
Hell House LLC vs. The Houses October Built
Why the mockumentary and found-footage format feels convincing
The Abaddon Hotel and its disturbing history
Creepy clowns, mannequins, background scares, and slow-building dread
Sleepwalking, strange noises, camera problems, and escalating supernatural activity
The Hell House crew’s increasingly disastrous haunt preparations
Opening night and the deadly basement sequence
The Hell House LLC ending and the final return to the Abaddon Hotel
Why this one deserves a spot in the Halloween horror rotation
Sharpen your machetes and straight razors — we’re Cutting Deep into Horror.

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