Tales to Terrify
The unseen creature whose ravenous fangs dog your every step as your footfalls echo down the midnight alleyway. —A long, icy shadow looming over you, making the hairs on your neck rise and your breath turn to ragged puffs of mist. —Unearthly howls that pierce the night, pulling you from the comfort of sleep with feverish, heart-pounding dread. —Welcome to Tales to Terrify, a weekly horror fiction podcast that gets under your skin, lays eggs and hatches writhing baby horrors nursed on your darkest fears. We're unique in our simplicity, bringing pure tales of terror to your ears audiobook-style – unadulterated and unador...
Tales to Terrify 638 Renan Bernardo
Welcome to episode 638. Guest host Spencer DiSparti takes a look at the music behind the screams. Then, a woman forced to cast curses for coin accepts a contract against her better judgement.
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Good Evening: Guest Host Spencer DiSparti, Music in Horror Film: 00:01:06
Renan Bernardo’s Curselifter as read by Aven Shore: 00:08:22
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Tales to Terrify 637 James Cato
Welcome to episode 637, guest hosted by Stephen Gagin. We have one tale for you this week, about a woman who dives deep into the unknown in search or riches.
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Good Evening: Guest Host Stephen Gagin: 00:01:06
James Cato’s Flying Water as read by Emil Strand: 00:03:19
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Tales to Terrify 636 Paul Van Sickle
Welcome to episode 636. Guest host Seth Williams brings you one tale this week, about a down and out photographer who visit an old acquaintance in his newly acquired castle. But is his friend ill, or is there something more sinister at play?
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Good Evening: Guest Host Seth Williams, Submissions are Open: 00:01:06
Paul Van Sickle’s Dwelling as read by Brian Rollins: 00:05:36
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Tales to Terrify 635 Kelsea Yu
Welcome to episode 635. Guest host Meredith returns once again to wrap up Women in Horror Month. Then, we meet an ailing mother forced to rely on her least favourite son for sustenance.
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WiHM: NIGHTLIGHT Podcast: 00:01:06
[Trigger] Kelsea Yu’s Obedient Son as read by Rebecca Wei Hsieh: 00:05:48
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Obedient Son contains scenes of self harm.
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Tales to Terrify 634 Abigail Kemske
Welcome to episode 634. Guest host Krystal Hammond takes the host seat for Women in Horror Month. Then, a man in search of his missing wife shelters in an abandoned lighthouse, only to discover something unsettlingly familiar within.
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WiHM: horror audiobooks by women: 00:01:06
Abigail Kemske’s Swirls and Eddies as read by Jim Matusik: 00:06:48
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Tales to Terrify 633 Emily J Weisenberger & KC Grifant
Welcome to episode 633. Guest host Meredith Morgenstern once again takes the reins for WiHM. For fiction, a lone settler struggles to stake his claim in the wilds of Kansas. Then, an unnatural force at the local cemetery seeks to avenge an act of murderous violence.
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WiHM: Good Mourning, Nancy Podcast: 00:01:06
Emily J. Weisenberger’s The Prairie’s Song as read by Rish Outfield: 00:05:28
KC Grifant’s Unrest as read by Amanda Stribling: 00:21:51
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Tales to Terrify 632 Divyasri Krishnan
Welcome to episode 632. Women in Horror Month continues with guest host Kathleen Palm. We have one tale for you this week, about a boy whose act of generosity lands him in a strange and cruel world.
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WiHM: Ally Malinenko: 00:01:06
Divyasri Krishnan’s Small Deaths Everywhere as read by Stephen Gagin: 00:06:05
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Tales to Terrify 631 Brigitte McCray & Shelley Lavigne
Welcome to episode 631. First, guest host Meredith Morgenstern kicks off Women in Horror Month. Then, we have two tales for you this week, about the bittersweet taste of revenge against a serial killer and an aging shapeshifter who agrees to take on an apprentice… for a price.
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WiHM: Monster, She Wrote Podcast: 00:01:06
Brigitte McCray’s Replantation as read by Heather Thomas: 00:06:16
Shelley Lavigne’s The Skin We’re In as read by Danielle Hewitt: 00:13:30
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Tales to Terrify 630 Ed Serken
Welcome to episode 630. We have one tale for you this week, about a man’s struggles in the ravenous grasp of anxiety.
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Good Evening: Flash Contest, WiHM: 00:01:06
Ed Serken’s Unburied as read by Dennis Robinson: 00:04:07
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Tales to Terrify 629 Christian Riley & Matt Thompson
Welcome to episode 629. We have two tales for you this week. First, a father hangs between hope and insanity as the bodies of the missing surface around the world. Then, a shipwrecked sailor finds refuge on a mysterious ship, but the vessel may not be as abandoned as he first believed.
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Good Evening: Flash Fiction Contest: 00:01:06
[Trigger] Christian Riley’s From the Labor of God’s Worms as read by James Barnett: 00:03:34
Matt Thompson’s The Lady of the Harvest as read by James Cheatham: 00:24:30
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