Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

This Week in Horror History (Feb 16–22) is your weekly horror movie release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for long winter nights. This week we’ve got haunted-house showmanship, toy-factory dread, medieval deadites, and vampire rock-star chaos—plus a studio-era Deep-Cut that still feels like a dare.
Inside this episode

✅ Horror releases from Feb 16–22

Feb 17, 1959 — House on Haunted Hill
William Castle + Vincent Price turn a party invite into a deathtrap: five strangers, one spooky mansion, and $10,000 if you can survive the night—until greed makes everyone reckless.
Where to watch: TubiTV (free w/ ads), The Roku Channel (free w/ ads), YouTube; or rent on Amazon Prime Video, Fandango at Home, Apple TV

Feb 18, 2026 — Poppy Playtime: Chapter 5
More toy-factory nightmare fuel—puzzles, chases, and that creeping feeling you’re being watched as the mystery tightens around the Prototype.
Where to play: Steam (PC); consoles coming later

Feb 19, 1993 — Army of Darkness
The Evil Dead series goes full splatter-fantasy: Ash gets tossed into 1300 AD, turns the Necronomicon into a medieval weapon, and the deadites get gloriously chaotic.
Where to watch: rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home

Feb 22, 2002 — Queen of the Damned
Peak early-2000s vampire goth energy—Lestat goes rockstar, the vampire world panics, and Akasha wakes up ready to rewrite the rules.
Where to watch: rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home

🎬 Deep-Cut Spotlight
Feb 20, 1932 — Freaks
Tod Browning’s infamous studio-era shocker: MGM horror that feels like it shouldn’t exist—darkly human, cruel, and controversial enough to become legend.Where to watch: rent on YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Fandango at Home, Apple TV

🎂 Horror birthdays in this window
Feb 16, 1930 — Ricou Browning (Creature from the Black Lagoon)
Feb 16, 1964 — Christopher Eccleston (28 Days Later, The Others)
Feb 22, 1969 — Thomas Jane (The Mist, Deep Blue Sea)
Feb 22, 1975 — Drew Barrymore (Firestarter, Poison Ivy, Scream)

⭐ Weekly Recommendation
Feb 22, 1986 — The HitcherAn open-road nightmare that tightens its grip until the highway itself feels cursed—cold, tense, and the kind of thriller that sticks to your ribs.
Where to watch: streaming with a Cinemax subscription via channels like Hulu and Amazon Prime; or rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video, Fandango at Home, Apple TV

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👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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The Stanley Hotel isn’t just a famous haunted hotel in Estes Park, Colorado—it’s a place where real disaster and pop-culture horror fused into one unstoppable legend. Tonight, we trace the true story that begins with a stormy night in 1911, when acetylene gas silently pooled inside Room 217… and a single candle turned the west wing into a blast zone. A young head chambermaid, Elizabeth Wilson, is hurled through collapsing floors—and somehow survives. 

From there, the Stanley’s history becomes a slow-burn nightmare: financial collapse, empty winter hallways, and decades of ghost lore—from whispers of F.O. Stanley still “checking in” on the lobby, to tales of Flora Stanley’s phantom piano echoing through silent rooms. Then comes the turning point: October 30, 1974—a nearly empty hotel, a writer in Room 217, and a nightmare that helps ignite Stephen King’s The Shining (without claiming ghosts as fact). 

And once the Stanley becomes the pilgrimage site for horror fans, the modern era kicks the door in—paranormal TV, viral “evidence,” festivals, and a full-tilt business model built on one irresistible question: is it haunted… or is it just brilliantly haunted-by-storytelling? 

A real explosion. A real survival. A real hotel that learned to live forever as a legend.We’re telling that story tonight. 

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👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Unknown Broadcast slips into the Weekly Spooky feed again—bringing you old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, and vintage radio thrills where love curdles into obsession, reputations become weapons, and the truth arrives late… if it arrives at all.

Tonight’s broadcast features four chilling tales:
🎭 A Matter of Love and Death — A celebrity collides with someone unknown… and a “romance” turns into a trap with the spotlight as the knife.
🔥 Love, Honor, or Murder — When the line between devotion and violence vanishes, every motive looks like a confession.
🫀 The Heart of Ethan Brand — A descent into the weird and uncanny, digging past the polite surface until something inhuman starts beating back.
🕯️ The Lovely Look — The Whistler guides you into a story where appearances aren’t just deceiving… they’re dangerous.

If you’re searching for OTR horror, radio suspense, classic mystery theater, and old radio dramas with a dark edge—this one’s for you.

Some broadcasts end when the music fades… but we just wait for the next quiet room to find you.

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👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Valentine’s Day horror stories meet slasher mayhem in this binge-ready Valentine’s Day marathon of scary stories, romantic horror, and love gone wrong. If you’re searching for a Valentine’s horror podcast, creepy Valentine’s stories, or a slasher anthology packed with obsession, stalking, and revenge—this collection is your perfect date-night nightmare.

Tonight, love doesn’t whisper… it fixates. It follows. It leaves candy hearts that read like threats.

Stories in this marathon (in order):
Deb Debbie Deborah — by Shane Migliavacca A Valentine’s night steeped in heartbreak and dread, where a name becomes an echo you can’t escape.
Be Mine — by Shane Migliavacca A “sweet” Valentine’s message turns suffocating fast—because some attention isn’t romance… it’s possession.
LOVERS’ LANE — by Morgan Moore A classic make-out spot turns into a danger zone when the night decides you’re not leaving together.
Slasher II: Valentine’s Day — by Rob Fields A bloodier, nastier Valentine sequel—pure slasher horror with a wicked grin and sharper stakes.
Slasher: Valentine Screams — by Rob Fields Lights, camera, carnage—Valentine terror with showbiz nerves and screams that don’t sound scripted.
Slasher: Valentine Scorn — by Rob Fields Jealousy, humiliation, and romantic pressure boil over into a Valentine’s nightmare that cuts deep.

New here? This episode stands alone—hit play and enjoy the marathon.Question: What scares you more—obsession, rejection, or the moment you realize your “Valentine” won’t take no for an answer?

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👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Psychological horror breakdown time. Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi dive into Ti West’s Pearl (2022) — the candy-colored prequel to X that turns ambition, isolation, repression, and rage into a full-blown descent. We talk Mia Goth’s star-making performance, why the film feels like a twisted classic-Hollywood fever dream, and how the story’s backdrop of 1918 rural life, sickness, and war-era anxiety amplifies Pearl’s need to be seen… and her capacity to snap.
This is a spoiler-friendly discussion that balances analysis with fun commentary: the movie’s look, tone, character psychology, and what Pearl is really saying about fame hunger, performing normal, and the horror of being trapped in the life you didn’t choose.

Where to watch (U.S.)
Apple TV (rent/buy): https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/pearl/umc.cmc.75j73kjmgv3th4uw9nrotobyq
“Where to stream” hub (rent/buy listings): https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/pearl-2022

Inside this episode
Why Pearl works as psychological horror and character study
The “Technicolor nightmare” vibe: how style makes the violence hit harder
Pearl’s need for stardom vs. the reality of confinement and caretaking
The movie’s emotional pressure-cooker: control, shame, resentment, longing
How Pearl connects to X (and why the trilogy view is so rewarding)
The performances and moments that make the film unforgettable

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Twitter: @WeeklySpooky
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🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !
👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com