Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

🔥 NOW AVAILABLE FROM CHILLING TALES FOR DARK NIGHTS! 🔥

Experience “The Ballad of Mr. Budokai” by Matt Martinek, an unsettling tale of childhood cruelty, a guilty conscience, and a neighborhood stranger whose familiar smile offers little insight into his life—now available as a standalone audio horror release.

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Erik Peabody, longtime host of our Horror Hill podcast, brings Matt Martinek’s story to life through his performance, with S.K. Brown handling production. CTFDN Patrons can enjoy this standalone presentation completely ad-free in our exclusive Patrons Area.

It’s the summer of 1988, and twelve-year-old Charlie spends his days with Ricky and Dom, his two inseparable friends. When they begin harassing Mr. Budokai, the small, smiling man who walks through town with a bowler hat and cane, Charlie wants no part of it. But his friends know how to pressure him, and an afternoon at the fruit market leaves him responsible for an act of cruelty he cannot take back.

Ashamed and avoiding his friends, Charlie decides to find Mr. Budokai and apologize. He knows the stories people tell about the man. He knows his clothes, his peculiar walk, and the expression that never seems to change. As he follows him away from the market, Charlie realizes how little else he knows about the person he has hurt.

🎙️ LISTEN THROUGH THE CTFDN PODCAST FEEDS
You can also hear “The Ballad of Mr. Budokai” as an individual audio horror presentation through the Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and Horror Hill podcast feeds.

🗃️ DISCOVER IT THROUGH THE DARKIVE
Prefer your horror one story at a time? Find “The Ballad of Mr. Budokai” through The Darkive, CTFDN’s dedicated repository for standalone audio horror stories.

🎧 Listen to The Darkive on Spotify:
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The Darkive is also available on Apple Podcasts and wherever else you get your favorite podcasts, giving listeners another way to discover and enjoy individual stories from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights.

#ChillingTales #CTFDN #TheBalladOfMrBudokai #MattMartinek #ErikPeabody #HorrorHill #TheDarkive #AudioHorror #HorrorStories #HorrorFiction #ScaryStories

4 hours ago | [YT] | 36

Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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Experience “Fright Club” by Tobias Wade, a harrowing tale of a campus competition where waiting for the bell may demand more than courage.

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Malcolm Blackwood, host of our Scary Stories Told in the Dark podcast, brings Tobias Wade’s story to life through his audio adaptation and performance, with Aaron Sawicki handling production.

A university student and his friend Jesse enter Fright Club expecting an easy shot at a generous cash prize. With a hundred-dollar side bet riding on who lasts longer, neither intends to be the first to leave. The Halloween stickers, bored attendant, and ordinary classroom give them little reason to take the event seriously.

The rules prohibit anyone with a heart condition from participating, forbid contestants from leaving before the bell, and insist that nothing follow them out. Then the lights go out, their phones stop working, and a scraping sound draws their attention to the pumpkin in the middle of the room. As the minutes pass, their confidence in a harmless campus attraction becomes increasingly difficult to sustain.

🎙️ LISTEN THROUGH THE CTFDN PODCAST FEEDS
You can also hear “Fright Club” through the Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and Scary Stories Told in the Dark podcast feeds.

🗃️ DISCOVER IT THROUGH THE DARKIVE
Prefer your horror one story at a time? Find “Fright Club” through The Darkive, CTFDN’s dedicated repository for individual audio horror stories.

🎧 Listen to The Darkive on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/6u421RoKShD1mIB7Dfvtb0

The Darkive is also available on Apple Podcasts and wherever else you get your favorite podcasts, giving listeners another way to discover and enjoy stories from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights.

#ChillingTales #CTFDN #FrightClub #TobiasWade #MalcolmBlackwood #ScaryStoriesToldInTheDark #AudioHorror #HorrorStories #HorrorFiction #ScaryStories

3 days ago | [YT] | 140

Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

🔥 NOW AVAILABLE FROM CHILLING TALES FOR DARK NIGHTS! 🔥

Experience “Better Films,” a disturbing descent into artistic obsession, psychological control, and an underground production company whose movies demand far more than an audience.

Written by Alice Thompson, the story is brought to life through a performance by Danielle Hewitt, production by Craig Groshek, and original music by Felipe Ojeda.

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Joan’s brother has dreamed of becoming a great filmmaker for as long as she can remember. Over the years, however, that dream has become an obsession—one fueled by cruelty, arrogance, and a willingness to exploit anyone standing between him and his artistic ambitions.

Then he begins investigating Better Films, a shadowy production company whispered about throughout the industry. Its movies circulate only on VHS. Its representatives bear horrifying scars. Those who have watched its work refuse to describe what they saw.

Joan wants no part of the search, but escaping her brother’s control is easier said than done. As the investigation attracts the attention of Better Films itself, she is drawn into a world where suffering becomes entertainment, cameras conceal unseen observers, and the cost of participating cannot be measured in money.

“Better Films” is now available across the Chilling Tales for Dark Nights listening platforms.

🎙️ LISTEN THROUGH THE CTFDN PODCAST
You can also hear “Better Films” through the Chilling Tales for Dark Nights podcast feed.

🗃️ DISCOVER IT THROUGH THE DARKIVE
Prefer your horror one story at a time? Find “Better Films” through The Darkive, CTFDN’s dedicated repository for audio horror stories.

🎧 Listen to The Darkive on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/6u421RoKShD1mIB7Dfvtb0

The Darkive is also available on Apple Podcasts and wherever else you get your favorite podcasts, giving listeners another way to discover and enjoy stories from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights.

However you choose to listen, turn down the lights and let Danielle Hewitt’s performance, accompanied by Felipe Ojeda’s original music, guide you through Alice Thompson’s disturbing vision of filmmaking without limits, produced by Craig Groshek.

#ChillingTales #CTFDN #BetterFilms #AliceThompson #DanielleHewitt #CraigGroshek #FelipeOjeda #TheDarkive #AudioHorror #HorrorStories #HorrorFiction #ScaryStories

1 week ago | [YT] | 26

Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

🔥 NEW HORROR HILL — “VORACIOUS” IS HERE! 🔥

A brand-new episode of Horror Hill has arrived! “Voracious” is available NOW, hosted and narrated by Erik Peabody.

🎧 LISTEN NOW on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever else you listen to your favorite podcast programs!

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▶️ Prefer YouTube? “Voracious” arrives on YouTube October 1!

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This week, Erik brings us “The Pitiful Orphan” by Micah Edwards — a chilling tale of generosity and the danger of welcoming a stranger into your home.

Pascal Millikin has enough to share. A successful career, a comfortable home, a family he adores—and room at the dinner table for one frightened little boy.

After witnessing a child’s shocking abandonment on a New York street, Pascal offers him a refuge. His wife is charmed. His daughter is delighted. For a man who believes good fortune brings a responsibility to help others, welcoming Walter feels like the easiest decision in the world.

Before long, Pascal will wish he had asked why someone was so desperate to be rid of the boy he’s just welcomed home.

Set another place at the table… and discover how much one act of kindness can cost.

👁️ Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you enjoy your favorite podcasts. Watch on Rumble today, catch the YouTube premiere October 1, or experience the episode RIGHT NOW completely ad-free as a CTFDN Patron!

If you enjoy the episode, be sure to FOLLOW, LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE to help support Horror Hill and Chilling Tales for Dark Nights!

#HorrorHill #HorrorHillPodcast #ErikPeabody #HorrorPodcast #ChillingTales #ChillingTalesForDarkNights #CTFDN #Voracious #ThePitifulOrphan #MicahEdwards #PsychologicalHorror #SupernaturalHorror #CreepyStories #HorrorFiction

1 week ago | [YT] | 12

Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

🔥 NEW EPISODE OF DREW BLOOD’S DARK TALES — “NEVER EVER EVER” IS HERE! 🔥

A brand-new episode of Drew Blood’s Dark Tales has arrived! “Never Ever Ever” by Chris “Slimebeast” Wolf is available NOW on Rumble and on your favorite podcast apps, hosted and narrated by Drew Blood!

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🎧 Prefer to listen? “Never Ever Ever” is also available NOW on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever else you listen to your favorite podcast programs!

📺 Prefer YouTube? “Never Ever Ever” arrives on YouTube October 2!

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This week, we bring you “Never Ever Ever” by Chris “Slimebeast” Wolf — an unsettling tale of a lonely bookstore clerk whose evening walk leads him to a secluded pond, an impossible encounter, and a warning he has every reason to obey.

After attempting to rescue someone from the water, he flees with one command ringing in his ears: never return. But in the months that follow, his life takes a remarkable turn. A better job, an unexpected romance, and a promising future all seem connected to a mysterious “little voice” encouraging others to help him.

Then he discovers that the woman he loves is hiding a sorrow his newfound happiness cannot fix. And the place he swore to avoid begins to seem like somewhere he needs to go.

How much would you risk for one more miracle?

Don’t miss this eerie tale of love, uncanny good fortune, and the danger of believing you understand what waits beneath the surface.

#DrewBlood #DrewBloodsDarkTales #DarkTales #DarkTalesPodcast #HorrorPodcast #ChillingTales #ChillingTalesForDarkNights #CTFDN #NeverEverEver #ChrisWolf #Slimebeast #SupernaturalHorror #CreepyStories #ScaryStories #HorrorFiction

1 week ago | [YT] | 9

Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

🔥 RETURN TO WHERE DREW BLOOD’S DARK TALES BEGAN! 🔥

Today, we’re turning our attention back to an older episode and giving everyone the opportunity to re-experience the beginning of the Drew Blood’s Dark Tales podcast with Season 1, Episode 1: “Cold Hands” by Ryan Harville!

Whether you’ve been listening since the beginning or only recently discovered the show, this is your chance to return to Casa de Blood and revisit the story that started it all.

🎬 WATCH ON YOUTUBE NOW:
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🎧 Prefer to listen? “Cold Hands” is also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever else you listen to your favorite podcast programs!

🔑 CTFDN Patrons can listen to “Cold Hands” RIGHT NOW, completely ad-free in our Patrons Area:
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In “Cold Hands,” recently divorced Scott Madsen has finally grown comfortable sleeping alone. The entire bed belongs to him, the house is quiet, and no one is there to disturb his rest.

But after leaving one foot outside the covers, Scott awakens to an icy hand wrapped around his ankle. Something is hiding beneath his bed, and its impossibly long reach turns the safest room in his home into a place from which there may be no escape.

Some childhood fears never truly leave you.

And some things beneath the bed can reach much farther than you think.

Return to the beginning of Drew Blood’s Dark Tales for this claustrophobic descent into sleepless terror—and remember to keep your feet safely beneath the blanket.

#DrewBlood #DrewBloodsDarkTales #DarkTales #DarkTalesPodcast #Season1Episode1 #HorrorPodcast #ChillingTales #CTFDN #ColdHands #RyanHarville #CreepyStories #ScaryStories #HorrorFiction #Spotify #ApplePodcasts

1 week ago | [YT] | 175

Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

🎙️ PAID CASTING CALL: FEMALE VOICE ACTRESS

We are seeking a talented female voice actress to portray Jody Francis in a new audio production of Craig Groshek’s chilling story, “I Dated a Dead Girl.”

A late-night dating-app match draws Marcus Zimmerman to a condemned apartment building, where a beautiful young woman waits for him beneath the glow of a camping lantern. Jody is charming, flirtatious, and cold to the touch—and Marcus soon realizes that she never seems to breathe.

The role requires an actress who can convincingly shift from warm, soft-spoken, and seductive to eerily detached and unmistakably inhuman.

The selected actress will perform opposite veteran voice actor Nicholas Goroff. This is a paid opportunity, with the possibility of additional roles in future productions.

Read the complete story on our read-along website:
www.creepypastastories.com/i-dated-a-dead-girl/

To audition, email an MP3-format vocal sample to producer Craig Groshek at:
craig [at] chillingtalesfordarknights.com

SUBJECT LINE: Audition: I Dated a Dead Girl

Please feel free to share this casting call with any voice actresses who may be interested!

#CastingCall #VoiceActressWanted #VoiceActing #VoiceOver #VoiceActor #PaidVoiceActing #PaidOpportunity #AudioDrama #HorrorAudio #HorrorStory #Creepypasta #HorrorCommunity #IndieHorror #Auditions #NowCasting #ChillingTalesForDarkNights #CraigGroshek

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 119

Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

🔥 NEW HORROR HILL — “JUDGMENT” IS HERE! 🔥

A brand-new episode of Horror Hill has arrived! “Judgment” is available NOW, hosted and narrated by Erik Peabody.

🎧 LISTEN NOW on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever else you listen to your favorite podcast programs!

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▶️ Prefer YouTube? “Judgment” premieres on YouTube September 24!

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This week, Erik presents “The Judge” by Micah Edwards—a relentless supernatural tale of concealed guilt, communal paranoia, and merciless retribution.

The death of teenager Hunter Davis has been ruled an accident. His grieving mother is certain that someone in the small Midwestern town of Maunderston is concealing the truth.

Then the community is abruptly cut off from the outside world. An impossible decay begins spreading through its streets. And from the ruins emerges a mysterious figure with a terrifying ultimatum: surrender those responsible for Hunter’s death, or watch the entire town be consumed.

As suspicion turns neighbor against neighbor, Maunderston must uncover what happened that night before everyone is forced to face judgment.

Justice demands the truth. The Judge demands everyone responsible.

👁️ Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you enjoy your favorite podcasts. Watch on Rumble or YouTube today, or experience the episode completely ad-free as a CTFDN Patron!

If you enjoy the descent, be sure to FOLLOW, LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE to help support Horror Hill and Chilling Tales for Dark Nights!

#HorrorHill #HorrorHillPodcast #ErikPeabody #HorrorPodcast #ChillingTales #ChillingTalesForDarkNights #CTFDN #TheJudge #Judgment #MicahEdwards #SupernaturalHorror #CreepyStories #ScaryStories #HorrorFiction

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 140

Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

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Experience “The Bat House,” an atmospheric tale of bullying, isolation, dangerous temptation, and something inhuman waiting beyond the reach of daylight.

Story by Tom Farr, performed by Erik Peabody, host of the Horror Hill podcast. Production by S.K. Brown, with original music from Nikki McSorley and Felipe Ojeda.

Fleeing the schoolboys who have made his life unbearable, Bradley becomes lost in the autumn woods and discovers an elevated sanctuary filled with hundreds of restless bats.

Something else is hiding inside.

It knows Bradley’s name. It understands his suffering. And as the lonely boy finds himself drawn toward the darkness beyond its open hatch, he begins to sense that the refuge he has discovered may offer more than protection.

But acceptance can come at a terrible price—especially when the only creatures willing to welcome you are monsters.

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🎙️ LISTEN THROUGH THE CTFDN PODCAST FEEDS

You can also hear “The Bat House” through the Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and Horror Hill podcast feeds.

🗃️ DISCOVER IT THROUGH THE DARKIVE
Prefer your horror one story at a time? Find the release through The Darkive, CTFDN’s dedicated repository for individual audio horror stories.

🎧 Listen to The Darkive on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/6u421RoKShD1mIB7Dfvtb0

The Darkive is also available on Apple Podcasts and wherever else you get your favorite podcasts, giving listeners another way to discover and enjoy stories from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights.

However you choose to listen, turn down the lights and let Erik Peabody’s performance, accompanied by original music from Nikki McSorley and Felipe Ojeda, lead you into Tom Farr’s darkened woods—and toward “The Bat House.”

#ChillingTales #CTFDN #HorrorHill #TomFarr #ErikPeabody #AudioHorror #HorrorStories #HorrorFiction #ScaryStories

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 150

Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

🔥 NOW AVAILABLE FROM CHILLING TALES FOR DARK NIGHTS! 🔥

Experience “The Hairy Hands of Briar’s Bend,” an atmospheric journey into rural folklore, unexplained accidents, and the terrifying sensation of losing control behind the wheel.

Story by Craig Groshek, performed by Malcolm Blackwood, host of the Scary Stories Told in the Dark podcast, with production by Aaron Sawicki.

After losing his job, his marriage, and much of his savings, Caleb returns to his quiet Midwestern hometown hoping to rebuild his life. Instead, he encounters an unsettling local warning: never travel Briar’s Bend after dark.

For generations, drivers have lost control along the isolated road without explanation. Some blame its sharp curves and poor visibility. Others speak of disembodied hands capable of seizing a steering wheel and forcing travelers into the surrounding woods.

Caleb dismisses the stories as small-town superstition—until an unseen grip takes control of his car.

“The Hairy Hands of Briar’s Bend” is now available across CTFDN’s listening platforms.

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CTFDN Patrons can experience the story completely ad-free in our exclusive Patrons Area.

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🎙️ LISTEN THROUGH THE CTFDN PODCAST FEEDS

You can also hear “The Hairy Hands of Briar’s Bend” through the Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and Scary Stories Told in the Dark podcast feeds.

🗃️ DISCOVER IT THROUGH THE DARKIVE

Prefer your horror one story at a time? Find “The Hairy Hands of Briar’s Bend” through The Darkive, CTFDN’s dedicated repository for audio horror stories.

🎧 Listen to The Darkive on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/6u421RoKShD1mIB7Dfvtb0

The Darkive is also available on Apple Podcasts and wherever else you get your favorite podcasts, giving listeners another way to discover and enjoy stories from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights.

However you choose to listen, keep both hands on the wheel and let Malcolm Blackwood’s performance, with production by Aaron Sawicki, guide you down Craig Groshek’s haunted stretch of Midwestern road.

#ChillingTales #CTFDN #HorrorHill #TheDarkive #ScaryStoriesToldInTheDark #TheHairyHandsOfBriarsBend #CraigGroshek #MalcolmBlackwood #AaronSawicki #AudioHorror #HorrorStories #HorrorFiction #ScaryStories #SupernaturalHorror #FolkloreHorror

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