Featured Author: Nicole Exposito. Sit back and enjoy the horrors that lurk in waiting in the city streets. In this full-episode story, a bartender learns that while a local bar can be a source of urban legend, the real secrets it contains can be far worse, and much deadlier than imagined. To watch the podcast on YouTube:…

Featured Authors: H.K. Reyes and Brandon Wills. Nothing like enjoying something, but when is it too much? Sit back and think about what you eat with these two tales of gluttonous ghoulishness. In the first, a teenager with some body issues finds a friend on the other side of a mirror who might just be too willing…

Featured Authors: Joshua Hood and Hailey Henson. Don’t make deals you can’t pay back. In the first story, a fortune teller has been spending her life avoiding mirrors for very good reason. In the second, a trip to an online chat site leads to an encounter is nowhere near as pleasant as it sounded at first. Head…

Featured Authors: Brian Martinez and Nick Carlson. When even the plants want you dead, things are definitely afoot. Come inside before these two tales strike…the first the terrifying story of a family’s attempt to get away from the world bringing them to a different world that they cannot fathom, the second a cautionary tale to…

Featured Authors: Jasper DeWitt and Brian Martinez. Halloween fun continues with the season opener, and a second set of Halloween stories. In the first, a disturbing yearly ritual has dark consequences, whether the rules are followed or not. In the second, a man who doesn’t believe in Halloween fun finds out that Halloween believes in him. This…

Evil Idol, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights’ voice acting competition, is back for 2023! That’s right: Evil Idol: Resurrection takes place this November!   It starts Monday, November 27, with a special twist! This year, we’ve left a spot in the competition open for one of our listeners, with no prior voice acting experience, to…

Featured Authors: Kitty Olsen and Micah Edwards. Season 13 ends with the first of two Halloween-themed episodes. In this one, Otis prepares for the season with cursed gifts with stories of their own…one a cautionary tale of taking what doesn’t belong to you, and another of not being generous with what you have. Listen to I…

Featured author: Dale Thompson. You have to wonder who has it in for you sometimes. In the first tale, a lucky draw leads to a fabulous vacation… unfortunately, it’s the journey there that’s the problem. In the second, diagnoses are in the air as the inhabitants of a sanitarium try to air their grievances…some darker…

Featured Author: Kyle Harrison. There are places that one should just heed warnings to not go. In the first story, a vacation gone sour sees a hope spot that might be darker than expected, while a strange scientific discovery in the second would be best just left alone. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give…

Featured Author: Kyle Harrison. There are places that one should just heed warnings to not go. In the first story, a vacation gone sour sees a hope spot that might be darker than expected, while a strange scientific discovery in the second would be best just left alone. Listen to the Mr. Ballen Podcast on…