Scary Stories Told in the Dark — A Horror Fiction Anthology Series
Scary Stories Told in the Dark is a horror fiction podcast, spun off from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and its popular YouTube channel of the same name. The show stars voice actor Malcolm Blackwood as both host and narrator, and features the hand-picked work of hundreds of talented authors. Sleep well, listeners… if you can.
S19E11 - "Silent Guardian" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
This week on Scary Stories Told in the Dark, a lonely boy discovers an unexpected companion whose quiet devotion becomes the only light in an increasingly brutal world. But when that bond is tested by unimaginable loss, Richard learns that love, loyalty, and protection may not end where life does.
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"Side Effects May Include" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
SmallDoc promises to make routine doctor visits a thing of the past. One simple injection puts microscopic medical machines to work inside the body, treating illness before it can disrupt everyday life. Dean Swanson’s friends swear by it. His mother feels better than she has in years. His boss sees no reason he should refuse. Dean would rather keep his cold. Then an unsettling phone call and a trip to the pharmacy give him something more serious to worry about. Familiar voices sound wrong. Ordinary movements seem strangely rehearsed. And the treatment everyone recommends begins to look less re...
"A Gift for the King" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Elliot takes the same walk through his neighborhood every night. He knows the streets, the turns, the ordinary sounds after dark. But tonight, a sudden fog conceals the way ahead—and a frightened stranger insists that someone is coming. The man speaks of a ruler who demands tribute from everyone he encounters. Elliot wants to dismiss him. Then the streetlights begin to fail, and he hears claws striking pavement somewhere beyond the mist. With his familiar neighborhood disappearing around him, Elliot must decide how much to trust a stranger whose terror seems increasingly justified. Whoever is approaching expects an of...
"The Abyss" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
An evening of fishing should have ended before dark. Instead, three friends find themselves stranded on a quiet Finger Lake, their motor dead and their phones left behind. The shore is only a few hundred feet away, but with the summer cabins empty and no help in sight, they have little choice but to wait for morning. To pass the time, Paul tells a story about drowned men and strange shapes beneath the water. His companions laugh it off—until an empty rowboat drifts out of the darkness and their lantern begins to fade. As the hours stretch on, ev...
"Fright Club" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
A university logo, a few Halloween decorations, and a generous cash prize make Fright Club look like an easy challenge. For one skeptical student and his friend Jesse, a hundred-dollar side bet makes entering irresistible. The rules are simple: no heart conditions, no leaving before the bell, and nothing follows you out. Then the lights go out. Their phones stop working, something begins scraping in the darkness, and the pumpkin in the middle of the room feels disturbingly warm beneath a searching hand. As a campus competition becomes an ordeal he can no longer explain, the student must decide...
"DreamShare" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
DreamShare promises the ultimate escape: a world built from imagination, where friends can share impossible adventures, abandoned dreams can become reality, and the limits of waking life no longer apply. For Evan Delaney, it begins as everything the advertisements promised. Each night offers another breathtaking world and another reason to leave ordinary life behind. Then an unfamiliar man appears inside a private dream—watching Evan, following him, and uncovering memories no stranger should possess. Soon, pieces of Evan’s subconscious begin surfacing in the waking world. People know his secrets. The application refuses to remain deleted. And the mysterious visi...
"The Hairy Hands of Briar's Bend" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
After losing his career, his marriage, and nearly everything he had saved, Caleb returns to his quiet Midwestern hometown hoping to begin again. Instead, he encounters a warning that has circulated through the community for generations: never travel Briar’s Bend after dark. The isolated road has been the site of countless unexplained accidents. Drivers report losing control on clear nights, their vehicles suddenly pulled toward the trees by a force they cannot see. Older residents claim the cause is something known only as the Hairy Hands. Caleb has no patience for ghost stories—until an invisible grip seizes his...
"My Next Door Neighbor is a Monster" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Richard Prasse has had strange neighbors before. None of them were anything like Eliza Munoz. Beautiful, mysterious, and surrounded by a seemingly endless procession of late-night visitors, Eliza quickly becomes an irresistible distraction for the lonely medical resident living next door. But when curiosity draws Richard across the hallway at exactly the wrong moment, he discovers that the sounds coming from Eliza's apartment aren't evidence of an unusually active love life. They're evidence of something hungry. Soon Richard finds himself trapped between attraction and terror as the woman he can't stop thinking about reveals a side of herself no...
"They Feed at Night" - Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Eight-year-old Terrance is supposed to be asleep. Instead, he's listening to something scratch against his second-story bedroom window. At first, it sounds like a branch brushing the glass. Then it comes again—slower, sharper, deliberate. And when Terrance finally gathers the courage to look outside, he finds a pale face staring back at him from a place no one should be able to stand. Within moments, an ordinary night in a quiet suburban home becomes a desperate fight for survival as Terrance and his family discover they aren't dealing with a prowler—or anything else that should exist. Pale figu...
S19E10 - "The Devil's Footprints" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
This week, Scary Stories Told in the Dark presents an unforgettable tale of obsession, grief, and the lingering footprints left behind by monsters who hide behind friendly smiles and impeccable reputations. In it, we meet a father, whose decades-long search for answers leads him into the forgotten mountains of Appalachia, every mile bringing him closer to a truth more horrifying than he ever imagined. The man he's hunting is already dead, but as we'll soon discover, evil doesn't always perish with the body that carried it.
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S19E09 - "Divine Decay" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Death is supposed to be the end. At least... that's what we've always believed. But deep in the forgotten corners of America, hidden beyond the maps and untouched by time, there are places where decay is worshipped, where the dead are welcomed home, and where the greatest horror isn't dying... It's being invited to become part of something eternal.
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S19E08 - "Beyond the Last Light" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
There are places we instinctively know not to go. The woods beyond the old fence. The forgotten chamber sealed beneath centuries of dust. The distant glow that beckons from the darkness, promising wonder while concealing something far older—and infinitely more patient. In this unsettling episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, childhood curiosity collides with unspeakable terror, while a brilliant scholar uncovers a mystery so profound it threatens to erase him from history itself.
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S19E07 - "Sideshow Sins" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
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S19E06 - "When the Bell Tolls" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
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S19E05 - "Beware the Moon" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
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S19E04 - "Past the Last Exit" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
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S19E03 - "A Study in Guilt" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In this chilling installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, Malcolm Blackwood invites listeners into a night of psychological horror where the most terrifying things are not monsters lurking in the dark, but the choices people make when grief, rage, and temptation press in from all sides. Featuring Mak Ralston’s “All Hands Are Red,” this episode descends into a world of contradiction, private pain, and quiet moral collapse, where justice and vengeance begin to resemble one another in all the worst ways. Darkly intimate, unnerving, and steeped in dread, this is a tale for anyone who’s ever won...
S19E02 - "Undoing Death" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In this chilling installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you into a tale where love refuses to accept loss… and where a single miscalculation could mean the difference between reunion and ruin. When tragedy strikes, one desperate soul begins searching for answers beyond the limits of science—and discovers that some doors don’t simply open. They require instructions. Precision. Timing. And the willingness to follow through, no matter the cost. If you were given the chance to undo the unthinkable to bring back someone or something you loved… would you be able to resis...
S19E01 - "Nameless Games" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
A new season begins… and this time, the danger doesn’t hide in graveyards or abandoned houses. It waits in fluorescent hallways. In tidy institutions. In the quiet rules no one questions. In our latest episode, we open with a story that lingers long after the lights go out: a tale of silence, survival, and the subtle cruelty that can pass for harmless play. When being unnoticed becomes a defense mechanism, and obedience becomes a habit, something begins to learn from it. Something patient. Something practiced. Because sometimes the most dangerous thing you can be… is easy to forget.
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S18E24 - "Lies in Lantern Light" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
The harvest season is nearly over. The lanterns are lit. And some visitors don’t wait for October to knock. On a quiet farmhouse porch, beneath the fading glow of autumn skies, grief lingers longer than the falling leaves. The crops have withered. The land is tired. And a man left alone with his memories begins to wonder whether the dark holds answers… or something far worse. This week, Scary Stories Told in the Dark closes Season 18 with a story that proves the most dangerous horrors aren’t the ones that chase you in the night. They’re the ones tha...
S18E23 - "Experiments with Teeth" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Curiosity has always been humanity’s sharpest tool. And its most dangerous. In this chilling installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, host Malcolm Blackwood invites listeners to explore the fragile boundary between affection and obsession… between improvement and interference. What begins as admiration for something small and familiar gradually becomes something far more unsettling—an experiment not born of cruelty, but of conviction. Tonight’s tale examines the quiet confidence of a mind certain it knows better than nature. It asks what happens when science moves faster than wisdom, when devotion clouds judgment, and when progress begins to resha...
S18E22 - "Just Desserts" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, familiar pleasures become dangerous invitations—and the line between reward and punishment quietly dissolves. What begins as routine drifts into something far more unsettling, where reassurance masks intent and kindness hides its teeth. This is a story about offers that come too easily, about places that feel safe until they aren’t, and about the terrible cost of noticing what you were never meant to see.
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S18E21 - "Built to Be Forgotten" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In this chilling episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, the past beckons with the promise of closure and the comfort of familiarity. A return to somewhere once called home feels like a chance to finally understand what was lost, what was forgotten, and what might still be waiting. Tonight’s story explores the quiet terror of buried memories, sealed spaces, and the unsettling realization that some structures are designed not for living—but for containment. When reassurance replaces warning, and nostalgia dulls suspicion, the most dangerous truths can feel almost welcoming. Because the most effective prisons don’t look...
S18E20 - "After the Mask Slips" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In this chilling episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, familiar faces begin to fracture, and the comfort of home becomes a dangerous illusion. What starts as an act of love—returning to be with family in a time of loss—slowly twists into something far more unsettling, as subtle wrongness gives way to quiet dread. Tonight’s story explores the fragile boundary between trust and survival, asking how well we truly know the people we believe we’re safest with. Sometimes the most terrifying moment comes... after the mask slips.
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S18E19 - "The Hidden Cost of Horror" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, horror doesn’t announce itself with screams or shadows. It hums quietly beneath fluorescent lights. It hides behind counters, inside policies, and within systems that promise order and safety—while quietly demanding a price. Our latest edition explores what happens when violence becomes procedural and morality is reduced to numbers.
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S18E18 - "The Promise of Salvation" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
What if happiness wasn’t something you had to earn? What if it found you instead? In the quiet shadow of the Colorado mountains, a chance encounter offers something too tempting to ignore — a path away from regret, away from loneliness, away from the weight you’ve been carrying longer than you realize. No struggle. No sacrifice. Just relief. But some invitations don’t demand anything upfront. They simply wait for you to want them badly enough. In this unsettling episode written by father and son duo Jonah Groshek and Craig Groshek, host Malcolm Blackwood guides listeners into a landscap...
S18E17 - "We Were Not Alone" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, certainty erodes one quiet moment at a time. Familiar rituals begin to feel unreliable. Trust frays. And the line between hunter and hunted grows dangerously thin. The terror doesn’t arrive all at once—it settles in slowly, as the realization dawns that you were never alone to begin with.
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S18E16 - "Fertile Ground" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In our latest episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we invite you into a world where progress outpaces wisdom and nature responds in ways humanity never anticipated. What begins with optimism and innovation slowly curdles into quiet terror, as familiar surroundings become hostile and the line between safety and surrender erodes.
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S18E15 - "Unforgiving Gods" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Beneath a dying sky, humanity waits for an answer. In “Unforgiving Gods,” Scary Stories Told in the Dark delivers a singular journey into cosmic horror—one that strips away comfort, certainty, and the illusion that the universe is listening with compassion. This episode explores a world where the rules of reality no longer hold, where faith offers no shelter, and where something vast and ancient watches from above with neither mercy nor malice—only intent. Told through stark, intimate narration, this tale confronts the terrifying possibility that some truths were never meant to be uncovered… and that some forces do not pun...
S18E14 - "Something on the Other Side" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In our latest episode, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you into four unnerving tales linked by a single, chilling truth: boundaries hold for only so long. A basement experiment reveals a presence that answers back. A remote clan guards its lives more literally than most. A grieving young man dares to claim a future never meant for him. And beneath a quiet suburban home, a hidden space begins to listen… then respond. These are stories about thresholds—physical, spiritual, and psychological—and the dread that comes when something unseen decides to cross them.
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S18E13 - "Beauty Bites" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In this chilling collection of four darkly seductive tales, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you to step behind the mirror—into a world where vanity becomes a trap, elegance hides a pulse, and the pursuit of perfection opens doors best left closed. A girl desperate to belong follows her friends somewhere she shouldn’t. A bride-to-be falls for a dress that loves her a little too much. A newlywed brings home a bouquet whose roots reach deeper than soil.
And a young woman slips into a garment that promises a flawless silhouette… at a terrible cost. Alluring, atmospheric, and qu...
S18E12 - "Where the Lost Come Looking" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In this unforgettable installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you into a world where memory falters, reality bends, and the past refuses to stay buried. Four chilling tales await—each bound by the haunting truth that what slips from our grasp may not be gone at all… and sometimes, it wants to find its way back. Step into a ruined town where magic demands payment in pieces of the self. Wander a fog-soaked cemetery patrolled by a caretaker with one foot in another realm. Cross a field where the very air hums with secr...
S18E11 - "Monster-Makers" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In this chilling collection of four atmospheric tales, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you into a world where monsters aren’t always born—they’re built. Sometimes through love. Sometimes through cruelty. Sometimes through curiosity that digs too deep. A boy’s innocent fascination grows teeth of its own. A perfect romance hides a secret that waits until nightfall. An underground arena reveals what happens when ambition rewrites the human body. And a daughter’s return home uncovers a father’s devotion stretched far beyond sanity. Each story strips back the comforting illusion of safety to expose the uncomfortable truth: the worst te...
S18E10 - "Forgotten Miles" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In this chilling journey into the places where distance deceives and the familiar betrays, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you to travel the roads best left untraveled. Within these four unnerving tales, towns shift when no one is watching, land pulls tighter with every breath, roads refuse to lead where they should, and old grudges burn hot enough to follow their makers beyond the grave. Boundaries blur. Memory slips. Landmarks move. And every mile brings you closer to discovering that the world you trust may be quietly rearranging itself around you. Step into an episode where space bends, time thins...
S18E09 - "Beyond the Edge" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Step beyond the veil, where faith falters, reason bends, and the familiar turns strange. In this haunting collection of four chilling tales, Scary Stories Told in the Dark host Malcolm Blackwood invites you to explore the edges of the unknown—where whispers rise from the sea, where prayers echo through empty houses, where art reveals what should remain unseen, and where something small and ordinary waits to bare its teeth.
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S18E08 - "Hungry Shadows" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Some hungers can’t be fed—only endured. In this haunting anthology from acclaimed author Dana Noraas, four tales reveal what happens when need becomes obsession, and comfort curdles into terror. A new home hides a secret that won’t stay buried. A wilderness trip turns into a battle for the top of the food chain. A mother hears her child’s call from somewhere no voice should reach. And deep in the Louisiana bayou, a stranger discovers that some families never stop growing.
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In this chilling collection, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you to peer beneath the surface, where forgotten things stir in silence and the line between curiosity and doom grows thin. A mysterious invitation. A box dredged from dark water. A code that whispers in the voice of the dead. A light that should not exist beneath the waves. Each tale in What Sleeps Beneath leads further into the murk—where art becomes obsession, technology becomes faith, and the water remembers everything it’s been shown.
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S18E06 - "Where the Light Won't Follow" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In this chilling new episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, host Malcolm Blackwood invites you to step past the glow of the campfire and into the places where fear breathes freely—under floorboards, deep within the woods, and in the hollow silence of the human heart. Four tales unfold: of words that write themselves, paths that refuse to end, forests that remember, and temptations that wear a friendly smile. Each story is a reminder that light doesn’t banish the dark—it only shows you where it begins.
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S18E05 - "Ghosts of the Living" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Not all hauntings come from the dead. In “Ghosts of the Living,” host Malcolm Blackwood invites you into Keith McDuffee’s shadowed world, where the past refuses to rest and sorrow takes on a life of its own. Four chilling tales unfold—of secrets whispered, love warped, and tragedies that will not stay buried. Step inside these stories and you’ll find more than phantoms in the dark.
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S18E04 - "Unimaginary" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Step into the latest installment of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, where the line between what we know and what we fear unravels thread by thread. Host Malcolm Blackwood guides you through four haunting visions from acclaimed author L.P. Hernandez, each tale a descent into a world that should not exist—but does. In these pages of sound, reflections shift, invitations conceal hidden costs, distant horizons whisper back, and childhood innocence masks something far older. Prepare for an evening where reality itself falters, and nothing you trust can be taken at face value.
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