Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling

2023 Halloween Hellscape Listener Story Extravaganza

The culmination of this year’s Spooky Season has arrived! The Halloween Hellscape Listener Story Extravaganza is our chance to truly revel in the fun, terrifying, and bizarre tales that make this season what it is. Not only are we reading a selection of your very own haunting tales, we’re diving in and read just a…

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Friday Night Fright 19

This week, in our AI story hour, we have two tales of Ravenbrook. First, we follow two young friends as they venture toward the dark heart of a haunted corn maze. What lies at its center just may spell the end of our macabre little hamlet. In our second tale, we check in on Ravenbrook’s…

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Campfire Classics Collection Volume 11: The Spectre Bride

For this week’s addition to the Campfire Classics Collection, we have a story from a lesser known, but equally as monumental a writer of the Victorian era, William Harrison Ainsworth. Ainsworth was a prolific English writer who lived from 1805 to 1882. Ainsworth’s literary career was marked by a fascination with the macabre, the gothic,…

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Episode 121 – The Bunny Man

For at least 30 years, the story of a man dressed as a bunny has haunted the residential neighborhoods around our nation’s capital. In the final installment of our Spooky Season Urban Legends series, we’re getting into the deep end with The Bunny Man. Tall as this tale may sound at first, the Bunny Man…

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Friday Night Fright 18

In this installment of the AI Story Hour, we have two tales of Halloween havoc. For our first story, we follow young Lily on what just may prove to be the most horrifying and momentous Halloween of, not only her life, but the history of Ravenbrook itself. In our second tale of the evening, a…

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Episode 120 – The Woman in White

In our third installment of our Urban Legends series, we have a truly fascinating study in the process of myth-making in the Americas. The Woman in White has been seen by countless individuals over centuries. In dark hallways, abandoned homes, balconies, riversides, and above all roadsides. The ubiquity of this entity, born of unadulterated tragedy,…

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Campfire Classics Collection Volume 10: The Body Snatcher

For this week’s addition to the Campfire Classics Collection, we have one of the most famed contributors to English Literature dipping his toes into the horror genre to great success. Robert Louis Stevenson, most famous for his 1883 novel, Treasure Island, published this short story the following year in The Pall Mall Gazette. Its characters…

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Friday Night Fright 17

Now, deep into Spooky Season, we are continuing our experiment with ChatGPT’s ability to compose short horror stories. For our first story, we venture outside of Ravenbrook to a neighboring town as a group of teens attempt to unravel the mystery of the Beast of Bear Creek! Will their journey into the Hollow spell their…

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Episode 119 – Bloody Mary

In the second installment of our Urban Legends Spooky Season series, this week, we’re diving into a legend that all of us here in the West grew up with. None other than Bloody Mary. While the origins of this entity are absolutely up for debate, since the mid-18th Century, legends of this other-dimensional walking horror story…

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Friday Night Fright 16

This week, we are continuing Spooky Season with our first official Friday Night Fright of October! From now, until the end of October, we will be continuing our experiment with ChatGPT’s ability to compose short horror stories. This month, the stories will have a distinctly spooky theme. Our first story follows a group of unsuspecting…

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