Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

This Week in Horror History for May 4–10 dives into a killer week of horror movie history, slasher movie anniversaries, cult horror films, horror comics, survival horror games, and classic monster adventure. This episode revisits the bloody legacy of Friday the 13th, the 2005 remake of House of Wax, the serial-killer comic-book mystery Nailbiter, the retro survival-horror game Crow Country, and this week’s Deep-Cut Spotlight: The Burning, one of the most brutal and underrated 1980s camp slasher movies.

Inside this episode:
May 7, 2014 — Nailbiter #1
A modern horror comic favorite from Image Comics introduces Buckaroo, Oregon—a small town with a terrifying reputation for producing serial killers. If you love crime horror, serial killer stories, creepy small-town mysteries, and horror comics, this one belongs on your radar.
Where to read (U.S., this week): Image Comics, Kindle/Comixology, and collected editions from Image and major booksellers.

May 6, 2005 — House of Wax
The 2005 House of Wax remake brings glossy 2000s horror, slasher-movie chaos, and a gruesome wax museum setting together in one sticky nightmare. A cult favorite of the era, it mixes road-trip horror, trapped-tourist terror, melting bodies, and brutal setpieces.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Tubi; rent/buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

May 9, 1980 — Friday the 13th
One of the most important slasher movies of all time hits theaters and turns Camp Crystal Lake into horror history. From isolated cabins and doomed counselors to the birth of a franchise that would make Jason Voorhees a horror icon, Friday the 13th helped define the modern summer-camp slasher.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Paramount+; rent/buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

May 9, 2024 — Crow Country
The indie horror game Crow Country brings retro survival-horror atmosphere back with eerie puzzles, abandoned amusement-park dread, old-school tension, and modern genre polish. Fans of Resident Evil-style horror games, PlayStation-era survival horror, creepy theme parks, and indie horror games should take note.
Where to play (U.S., this week): Steam, PlayStation Store, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.

Deep-Cut Spotlight — May 8, 1981: The Burning
This week’s Deep-Cut Spotlight heads back to summer camp for The Burning, a grimy 1981 slasher packed with Tom Savini effects, campfire trauma, garden shears, and one of the most infamous raft massacre scenes in horror history. Overshadowed in the original slasher boom, it has since become a true cult horror classic and one of the essential 1980s camp slasher films.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): Tubi, The Roku Channel, MGM+; rent/buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

Birthday Roll:
Lance Henriksen, David Keith, Kevin Peter Hall, and Meg Foster.

Weekly Recommendation — May 7, 1999: The Mummy
For a lighter but still monster-packed pick, revisit The Mummy, the 1999 Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz adventure that revived Universal monster energy with cursed tombs, scarab swarms, ancient rituals, undead horror, and blockbuster pulp fun. It is the perfect date-window recommendation for fans of classic monster movies, action horror, Universal horror, and summer adventure films.
Where to watch (U.S., this week): HBO Max, Peacock; rent/buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

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The Fox Sisters, Hydesville, and the birth of modern Spiritualism began with something terrifyingly simple: a knock in the dark.

In 1848 Hydesville, New York, two young sisters, Maggie and Kate Fox, claimed they could communicate with a mysterious spirit inside their family farmhouse. What started as eerie nighttime rappings soon became a national obsession, drawing neighbors, skeptics, journalists, believers, and grieving families desperate for proof that death was not the end. The phenomenon helped ignite one of the most influential supernatural movements in American history: Spiritualism.

But was it a true haunting… or one of the most consequential paranormal hoaxes ever performed?

Inside this episode:
The Hydesville Rappings: How strange knocks in a farmhouse became a chilling code from “the dead.”
Maggie and Kate Fox: Two young girls caught between childhood mischief, family pressure, celebrity, and exploitation.
Leah Fox and the Spiritualist Machine: How the sisters’ older sibling helped transform a local haunting into a public spectacle.
Seances, Grief, and Belief: Why 19th-century America was so ready to believe the dead could answer.
The 1888 Confession: Maggie Fox’s shocking public admission that the spirit rappings were produced by physical tricks.
The Bones in the Wall: The strange 1904 discovery that seemed to vindicate the legend… until the certainty began to fall apart.
This is not just a ghost story. It is a story about grief, faith, fraud, family, and the terrible human hunger to hear one more message from someone we have lost. Whether the Fox Sisters were frauds, victims, performers, believers, or all of those things at once, their story changed the way America imagined the dead.

From a cold farmhouse in Hydesville, New York, to packed lecture halls and séance parlors, the Fox Sisters helped build a movement on one promise: ask the dead a question, and they might answer.

We’re telling that story tonight.

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Unknown Broadcast slips once more into the Weekly Spooky feed with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage mystery radio, psychological terror, crime, fate, and uncanny dread. This transmission begins with The Lady Was a Tiger, a tale of false safety, hidden danger, and a man caught in a tightening web of murder, espionage, and betrayal, where home itself starts to feel like a trap.

🐅 The Lady Was a Tiger — What seems safe turns lethal, what feels like home becomes a prison, and danger wears a human face until it doesn’t. It has that deliciously sharp old-radio blend of intrigue, menace, and doom closing in from every side.
🕰️ Destiny — The shadowed voice promises “the amazing story of destiny,” and the tale leans hard into fate, inevitability, and the ruin waiting for anyone foolish enough to think he can outwit what is already written. It feels like noir with prophecy hanging over it.
🌹 Uncle Henry’s Rosebush — Rot, neglect, old rooms, and one impossible rosebush holding its place against the ruin around it. This one carries a graveyard stillness, a buried secret, and the creeping sense that something ugly has been tended with care for far too long.
👁️ The Horla — By the end, the night gives way to something stranger and more cosmic, as “phantoms of a world gone by” usher in The Horla. Madness, possession, and the fear of an unseen intelligence seep through this final story like poison through old walls.

For listeners chasing classic OTR horror, vintage suspense radio, murder mysteries, psychological horror, supernatural dread, and eerie anthology storytelling, this episode is full of shadows that look human right up until they don’t — and some things are simply unknown to us, at least for a while.

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Cosmic horror, alien invasion nightmares, interdimensional warfare, occult terror, time-travel chaos, and apocalypse-driven weird fiction crash together in this wildly twisted Weekly Spooky compilation. If you love reality-breaking horror stories, ancient evil, multiverse destruction, cult books, and strange creatures from beyond human understanding, this collection delivers a full dose of bizarre, blood-soaked nightmare fuel.

Tonight’s lineup moves from a New Year’s Eve time-rip disaster into a funeral where killer clowns play by rules all their own, then into a last-ditch battle to stop multiversal annihilation, and finally down a rain-slick spiral of crime, occult corruption, and a monster born from something that should have stayed buried. This one leans hard into weird horror: the kind where reality starts slipping, the rules stop making sense, and survival suddenly feels like a temporary condition.

• Saint Jimmy — by Dan WilderA freak sound-based time-rip sends Jimmy hurtling through alternate timelines, self-inflicted paradoxes, and one gloriously deranged Y2K nightmare ruled by a leather-clad tyrant and his skeletal minions. It’s funny, chaotic, weird as hell, and loaded with sci-fi panic and end-of-the-world absurdity. 
• The Fun in Funerals — by David O’HanlonA dead clown’s funeral becomes a grotesque midnight hunt when the mourners must satisfy an ancient code or face the return of something far worse than death. This one is savage, darkly funny, and drenched in monstrous carnival energy. 
• Last Stand — by Rob FieldsWith Hellweaver closing in on the Infinity Core and the Reality Sphere in her grasp, the last heroes of the Battleguard gather for a doomed, universe-saving final battle. This is pure multiverse sci-fi horror spectacle with cosmic stakes and relentless devastation. 
• The Last Days of Jimmy Flavor — by David O’HanlonA drifting burnout reinvents himself as “Jimmy Flavor” and gets pulled into a Vatican-backed theft, an occult conspiracy, and a nightmare pursuit involving ancient books, cult magic, and a gut-churning creature that refuses to stop hunting. Mean, strange, and desperate in all the right ways. 

From torn-open timelines to infernal artifacts, undead clown law, and the collapse of whole realities, this compilation is all about staring into the impossible and realizing it is staring right back.

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What starts as a scrappy Japanese zombie movie quickly becomes one of the most inventive, hilarious, and unexpectedly heartfelt horror-comedies of the last decade.

This week on Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique Couto & Rachael Redolfi dive into One Cut of the Dead (2017), Shinichiro Ueda’s brilliant cult favorite about zombies, chaos, low-budget filmmaking, and the beautiful disaster of trying to make art when everything is falling apart.

At first glance, One Cut of the Dead looks like a strange, messy, low-budget zombie movie. But stick with it, because this is a film that rewards patience in a huge way. What unfolds is a clever, funny, deeply affectionate tribute to filmmakers, actors, crew members, and anyone who has ever tried to pull off something impossible with no time, no money, and way too much pressure.

Henrique and Rachael talk about what makes the movie’s structure so special, how it balances horror and comedy, why the film hits especially hard for anyone who has worked behind the camera, and how its chaotic energy turns into something genuinely joyful.

Inside this episode:
Why One Cut of the Dead is best experienced knowing as little as possible
How the movie transforms from zombie weirdness into filmmaking genius
The joy, stress, and absurdity of independent film production
Why the second half completely recontextualizes the first
How Shinichiro Ueda turns a tiny movie into a massive crowd-pleaser
Why this modern Japanese horror-comedy became such a beloved cult classic
If you love zombie movies, Japanese horror, horror-comedy, cult films, or stories about the madness of making movies, this episode is for you.

Watch the film on AMC+ 

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