OMINOUS THRILL: Her Horrorween

Elizabeth's placental encapsulation business is interrupted when a mysterious pregnant woman arrives demanding a solution to a maternal curse.

Genre: Body horror

Content warning: Body horror including amputation, cannibalism, reproductive loss, legal denial of medical care, moral complexity

Written by H.V. Patterson

hvpatterson.com

Performed by Robyn Buck

With Gracie Lacey as The Pregnant Woman

Created, produced, directed, sound designed by Jeff Schmidt

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When college lurker Levi answers a bizarre personal ad posted by his latest crush, he finds himself drawn into a ritual of blindfolds, midnight road trips, and a goddess who’s been waiting for a man like him.

Genre: Folk horror / Feminist horror

Content warning: Predatory behavior in first person, sexual objectification, ritual violence, body horror

Written by Amanda Cecelia Lang

Performed by Michael Ursu

Erica Dawson as Ivy

Created, produced, directed, sound designed by Jeff Schmidt

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Channing falls for the mysterious new redhead she meets at the university coffee shop and soon discovers both women share a secret about who they become during the full moon.

Genre: Coming of age / queer supernatural romance

Content warning: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Explicit sexual content, werewolf transformation, implied prior trauma

Written by Selene Grande

https://hollyhefner.com/#as-selene-grande

Performed by Bree Mignano 

Syd Kilroy as Sienna

Abigale Turner as Dana

Created, produced, directed, sound designed by Jeff Schmidt

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A psychiatrist seeks out an unorthodox solution to help a client with a triggering traumatic history.

Genre: Psychological horror / Supernatural

Content warning: Psychological manipulation, body horror, death of narrator

Written by Lauren C. Teffeau

https://www.laurencteffeau.com

Performed by Ann Sonneville

Created, produced, directed, sound designed by Jeff Schmidt

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An unlikely cult member with an unsettling lineage races to recover an escapee before an ancient, otherworldly plan is disrupted.

Genre: Dark comedy / Cosmic horror

Content warning: References to ritual violence, adult themes, mild body horror

Written by Karly Foland

karlyfoland.com

Performed by Leah Voysey

Jennifer Scott as Grandmother

Created, produced, directed, sound designed by Jeff Schmidt

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You wake up, bound, in a place you don't recognize. A woman shrouded in darkness asks, do you remember me?

Genre: Allegorical second person horror

Content warning: Violence against women, body horror, disturbing imagery

Written by Allison Cossitt

www.allisoncossitt.com - www.ylemmediaproductions.com

Performed by Jolene Andersen

Created, produced, directed, sound designed by Jeff Schmidt

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Three weeks postpartum. No sleep. No help. New mother, Erica's grip on reality slips, and something lurks outside her window. 

Genre: Postpartum horror / Dark comedy

Content warning: Postpartum psychosis, self-harm ideation, violence, infant in peril

Written by Jen Mierisch

www.jenmierisch.com

Performed by Chelsea Krause

Sheree Wichard as Nosy Nelly

Erica Dawson as Ellen

Raven Morales as the shoppers

Created, produced, directed, sound designed by Jeff Schmidt

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A serial killer who turns beastly by moonlight discovers his past victims aren’t as powerless as they seem when his latest kill flips the hunt inside-out.

Genre: Transgressive horror / Supernatural

Content warning: Violence, sexual violence implied, predatory behavior, body horror

Written by Amanda Cecelia Lang

www.amandacecelialang.com   

Performed by Galen Murphy-Hoffman

Sheree Wichard as Number 3

Erica Dawson as Number 4

Created, produced, directed, sound designed by Jeff Schmidt

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Four women. One apartment. A man upstairs who has hurt one of them and will never face consequences for it. A modern coven performs a bold spell to hold their male enemies accountable. 

Genre: Supernatural horror / Dark comedy

Content warning: Sexual violence referenced, ritual content, adult themes

Written by M. Leigh

https://www.mleighstories.com

Performed by Erica Dawson

Mikki Hernandez as Remi

Sheree Wichard as Christine

Jennifer Scott as Lisa

Candice Marie as Nicole

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She found something under her skin that shouldn't be there. She’ll need to take care of this herself.

Genre: Absurdist Body horror / Dark comedy

Content warning: Extreme body horror, graphic self-surgery in supernatural context, blood and bodily fluid throughout

Written by Fionn MacPherson

https://linktr.ee/fionnmacpherson

Performed by Syd Kilroy

Created, produced, directed, sound designed by Jeff Schmidt

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Tormented by dark visions, a woman must piece together memories about what happened to her before the shadows claim her forever.

Genre: Literary horror / Ghost story

Content warnings: Implied sexual violence, self-harm imagery, death.

Written by Sandra Becerril 

www.shamra.com.mx

Sandra Becerril (@escritora_serial) • Fotos y videos de Instagram

Performed by Mellisa Medina

Created, produced, directed, sound designed by Jeff Schmidt

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This dark tone setting poem invites you into the dark murky world of Her Horrorween

Genre: Horror Poetry

Written by Tiffany Michelle Brown

https://tmbwrites.com/

Performed by Donna Frank Moore

Created, produced, directed, sound designed by Jeff Schmidt

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Start here for a quick introduction to Ominous Thrill's HER HORRORWEEN -  a 15 story celebration of what horror can do when women are its authors and its subject. 

OminousThrill is for mature audiences, so please check the episode notes for content warnings.

Enjoy!

Created, produced, directed, sound designed by Jeff Schmidt

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Beginning October 1, a new season - Ominous Thrill: Her Horrorween

15 fearsome tales from the feral minds of fearless women.

Her Horrorween celebrates women authored horror with 15 stories spanning dark comedy, literary, body, folk, transgrressive, reproductive, & psychological horror, queer supernatural romance, Indigenous mythology, and allegorical accusation. Stories that will make you wince, cringe, feel creeped out and leave you with all the feels.

HER HORRORWEEN cover art by: Andrea M. Night

Episode Release Schedule:

Thu Oct 1 — The Solitude of Birds

Thu Oct 1 — Nailbed

Fri Oct 2 — Fill The Po...

NEW OMINOUS THRILL is cooking and will be ready for October - RED ROOM members on Patreon will get all the goodies early and ad-free, consider joining here: https://www.patreon.com/OMINOUSTHRILL

In the meantime, please get to know and love one of my favorite full cast horror audio drama anthologies - Campfire Radio Theater. For 15 years Campfire Radio Theater has been setting the standard for high quality full cast audio horror - I'm a huge fan and think you should be too.

Please enjoy: ABOMINATIONS

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When dedicated night-shift nurse Claire is assigned to monitor a mysterious nameless patient, she finds her professional detachment shattered as the boundaries between reality and waking nightmare blur.

Story by MATTHEW SHAW

Adapted for audio by JEFF SCHMIDT

FEATURING

TANJA MILOJEVIC as Claire

DAYEANNE HUTTON as Jane Doe

ERICA DAWSON as Heather

SHEREE WICHARD as Mary

AIRA JUN as Stacy and The Trainee

JEFF SCHMIDT as Derek and Jackie

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What began as a nightmare on a dark road ends here, in the place where Brooklyn's Mother Line was born, where it has always known how to finish what men start.

Content warnings: gun violence; sexual harassment and coercion; domestic abuse including bodily violation; misogynistic hate speech; themes of political authoritarianism and gender-based state violence drawn directly from current events. Please take care of yourself.

Created, Written, Directed & Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

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Staring:

EVIE CECILE JOHNSON as BRO...

With Brooklyn bound and pushed to her limit, Alex escalates, pulling Zane across lines he never thought he'd cross. But the land this house sits on remembers who Brooklyn is, even when she's forgotten. And in the forest, someone else hears the truth, too.

Part THREE of FOUR

E4 release: July 16

Content warnings: gun violence; sexual harassment and coercion; domestic abuse including bodily violation; misogynistic hate speech; themes of political authoritarianism and gender-based state violence drawn directly from current events. Please take care of yourself.

As the party rages and the drinks keep flowing, Zane turns conflict with Brooklyn into a performance for the room. Brooklyn flips the script and leaves the group shaken with the weight of her history. But the ride home is about to put their relationship and that history to the ultimate test.

Part TWO of FOUR

Ep 3 release: July 2

Ep 4 release: July 16

Content warnings: gun violence; sexual harassment and coercion; domestic abuse including bodily violation; misogynistic hate speech; themes of political authoritarianism and gender-based state violence dr...

When Brooklyn and Zane become the target of a radicalized federal agent, the night of terror drives Brooklyn to finally embrace the ancestral power she has always kept at arm's length - her Mother Line.

Part ONE of FOUR

Ep 2 release: June 18

Ep 3 release: July 2

Ep 4 release: July 16

Content warnings: gun violence; sexual harassment and coercion; domestic abuse including bodily violation; misogynistic hate speech; themes of political authoritarianism and gender-based state violence drawn directly from current events. Please take care of yourself.

🌶️🌶️🌶️ Be advised - this episode contains scenes which are sexually explicit, and may not be suitable for all listeners.

Time skips, jumps, and stops. Mya is everywhere now… too close, too hungry, threatening to devour Kaylee’s entire world. Then… a voice. Familiar. How did she get here? When a simple question shatters everything, Kaylee must make a terrible decision.

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Mya has returned to Kaylee, and their reunion is intense, visceral, and blissful. But there’s something else… just under the surface… a need. 

How long can Kaylee play along? What will she lose if she doesn’t? Does she even have a choice?

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Aura delivers on her promise, giving Kaylee, Liv & Syd an audience with Markos. But things do not go as planned, and now Kaylee finds herself drawn into a mysterious world where nothing is as it seems, and a broken heart tattoo mysteriously appears on her wrist. And somewhere in the ink, Mya’s voice is calling.

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One year after losing her wife, Mya, to violence, Kaylee travels to New Orleans with friends Liv and Syd to mark the unbearable anniversary.

But Syd is fixated on finding Markos… local artists rumored to practice ancient inking rituals that transform existing tattoos. Kaylee’s refusal to join the search is thwarted when they meet local mystic, Aura, who promises to bring them to the Markos on one condition.

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Ominous Thrill is on holiday until Feb 2026, so I'm thrilled to share one of my favorite holiday stories from one of my favorite audio drama creators - Campfire Radio Theater.

Emotionally devastated in the wake of a bitter divorce, an exhausted single mother comes face to face with a sinister mall Santa intent on delivering a twisted Christmas miracle.

Warning: Contains explicit language and graphic content.

Written, directed, and produced by John Ballentine

Cast

Melissa Medina

Joe Stofko

Amelia Hicklin

Dani Aviles

After their frightening discovery Kat and Logan take drastic measures to escape what seems to be a deadly trap.

Part TWO of TWO.

Written by Hannah Mescon

Produced, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

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Featuring:

JESSICA DIGIOVANNI as Kat

MIKKI HERNANDEZ as IRIS

JEFF SCHMIDT as LOGAN

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After their frightening discovery Kat and Logan take drastic measures to escape what seems to be a deadly trap.

Part TWO of TWO.

Written by Hannah Mescon

Produced, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

[email protected]

Featuring:

JESSICA DIGIOVANNI as Kat

MIKKI HERNANDEZ as IRIS

JEFF SCHMIDT as LOGAN

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Kat and Logan seek healing from a recent infidelity at a Costa Rican retreat where the mysterious guru Iris is ready with bizarre therapy.

Part ONE of TWO.

Written by Hannah Mescon

Produced, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

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Featuring:

JESSICA DIGIOVANNI as KAT

MIKKI HERNANDEZ as IRIS

JEFF SCHMIDT as LOGAN

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Kat and Logan seek healing from a recent infidelity at a Costa Rican retreat where the mysterious guru Iris is ready with bizarre therapy.

Part ONE of TWO.

Written by Hannah Mescon

Produced, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

[email protected]

Featuring:

JESSICA DIGIOVANNI as KAT

MIKKI HERNANDEZ as IRIS

JEFF SCHMIDT as LOGAN

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A psychic reading in New Orleans delivers bad news for Lexi's impending marriage to Bill, but will she accept a dark deal to make things right?

Written by Alexandra Segel

www.alexandrasegel.com 

If you enjoyed this episode, I strongly encourage you to listen to Alexandra's dramatized sci-fi horror audio drama "Hellhound Country."

This episode was produced, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

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FEATURING:

CATHARINE DADDARIO as LEXI

R...

A psychic reading in New Orleans delivers bad news for Lexi's impending marriage to Bill, but will she accept a dark deal to make things right?

Written by Alexandra Segel

www.alexandrasegel.com 

If you enjoyed this episode, I strongly encourage you to listen to Alexandra's dramatized sci-fi horror audio drama "Hellhound Country."

This episode was produced, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

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FEATURING:

CATHARINE DADDARIO as LEXI

R...

New Ominous Thrill episodes are on the way. In the meantime, here's another dark and twisted horror show I think you'll enjoy - HEMOPHOBIA

A seasonal anthology horror podcast, telling a new multi-chapter story in each season.

This is Episode One of Season Two: House Of Actors.

Hemophobia tells stories of blood, our blood, and all the pain, truth, and horror that blood embodies.

Stories that do more than chill your bones and give you a sleepless night – but that shake you to...

🌶️🌶️🌶️ Be advised - this episode begins with a scene that is sexually explicit and might not be suitable for all listeners. 😎

After two episodes of psycho-sexual edging, Sia and Devin finally arrive at their explosive and bloody climax.

Created, Written, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

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FEATURING:

LAUREN HENNING as SIA

MICHAEL URSU as DEVIN

MILLY SANDERS as DR. CANDICE KNOX

OWEN MCCUEN as RICKY

LILY DREW as BECCA

WILL PATTERSO...

🌶️🌶️🌶️ Be advised - this episode begins with a scene that is sexually explicit and might not be suitable for all listeners. 😎

After two episodes of psycho-sexual edging, Sia and Devin finally arrive at their explosive and bloody climax.

Created, Written, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

FEATURING:

LAUREN HENNING as SIA

MICHAEL URSU as DEVIN

MILLY SANDERS as DR. CANDICE KNOX

OWEN MCCUEN as RICKY

LILY DREW as BECCA

WILL PATTERSON...

Sia and Devin dive into their deviances, and Devin proves to have more extreme ideas than Sia first realized.

Part TWO of THREE.

Created, Written, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

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FEATURING:

LAUREN HENNING as SIA

MICHAEL URSU as DEVIN

MILLY SANDERS as DR. CANDICE KNOX

LILY DREW as BECCA

WILL PATTERSON as THE PILOT

The voice of Ominous Thrill is DONNA FRANK MOOR...

Sia and Devin dive into their deviances, and Devin proves to have more extreme ideas than Sia first realized.

Part TWO of THREE.

Created, Written, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

⁠[email protected]⁠

FEATURING:

LAUREN HENNING as SIA

MICHAEL URSU as DEVIN

MILLY SANDERS as DR. CANDICE KNOX

LILY DREW as BECCA

WILL PATTERSON as THE PILOT

The voice of Ominous Thrill is DONNA FRANK MOOR...

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Sia's plan to attend an alternative wellness conference is turned upside down when she meets the devilishly charming Devin, who entices her to join him in indulging their darker impulses.

Part ONE of THREE.

Created, Written, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

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FEATURING:

LAUREN HENNING as SIA

MICHAEL URSU as DEVIN

MILLY SANDERS as DR. CANDICE KNOX

LILY DREW as BECCA

WILL PATTERSON as THE PILOT

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Sia's plan to attend an alternative wellness conference is turned upside down when she meets the devilishly charming Devin, who entices her to join him in indulging their darker impulses.

Part ONE of THREE.

Created, Written, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt

[email protected]

FEATURING:

LAUREN HENNING as SIA

MICHAEL URSU as DEVIN

MILLY SANDERS as DR. CANDICE KNOX

LILY DREW as BECCA

WILL PATTERSON as THE PILOT

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