Drinking whiskey in the kitchen and telling scary stories around the fire. Music and mayhem, fearful fiction and furious fact, tall tales and terrible truths. A Scary Home Companion is a sinister variety show, featuring original stories and original music
San Francisco, 1941 -- hardboiled gumshoe Mike Bolan gets a case too lucrative to pass up. The local gangsters think someone had been making their working girls disappear. Bolan has never heard the term "serial killer" before, but he's about to get an education in madness and depravity.
Featuring the stunning music:
Lisa Hammer – jazzy intrigue and jazzy inquisitors
Pitor Hummel – midnight blues
The final showdown between good and evil, as the demonic ghost of the Kill Car aims to end things for good for Lurleen Stokes. But Lurleen has a Kill Car of her own, and a few tricks up her sleeve. Buckle up, buttercup, this is gonna be a rough ride.
Music:
Kristin Hersh provided Crooked
and Beat Mekanik blessed us with One More, Sinner, Ma n Pa, and Harley Davidson.
All of this music and tons more is at FMA
On the run for her life, Bergie gets lost deep in the Old Forest called Crooked Neck, where chaos and nature run wild, and vagabond devils lurk. Can the lessons about fear she learned from old Stephen King novels help her survive?
Featured Music:
Burning sunshine by LOBO LOCO
Documentary dark, Dark ambient texture, and Scary forest by SERGE QUADRADO
Regeneration, Caution, Time is running out, Dark premonition ...
Thanks to the devious and now-deceased Kill Car Cult, the murderous ghost of Earl Joe Hendershot has returned. The sheriff enlists legendary driver Lurleen Stokes to right this wrong,. but it turns out Lurleen has a haunting of her own.
Beat Mekanik -- Harley Davidson
Lobo Loco -- Burning Sunshine
joint c beat laboratory -- tavern smoke
Lite saturation -- hard work
Ov Moi Omm -- I was different
All m...
What happens when Disney tropes go sideways? With a little bit of Bambi, some Dumbo, and a splash of Fox & the Hound, join us for an episode about an orphan hog with a traumatic past and a terrifying future.
Guest vocals by the one and only Dan Jopling
Story inspiration from Brett Jarboe
Music provided by:
Andrew howes, pigs out
Axletree, the silent grove
Big Blood, frost farm
Smallpox,...
The serial killer and the orphan sat down in the kitchen, and over a few pints of Ben & Jerrys, he explains to her the true nature of evil in the world. Death, the universe, and everything sinister are laid bare in this eye-opening tale that has been in the making for over 200 episodes.
guest voices: Chris Kaufmann, Kelly Kaufmann, Dan Jopling, Buck Rogers, and the lovely Jamie Lee Hensley
Music by:
Bea...
The world stopped to watch the funeral of Lilah Ambrose. But her master plan of revenge against the Ghastly Ones is not over -- in fact, the Doomsday Clock has starting ticking. The countdown to extinction has begun.
Featuring the music:
Damiano Baldoni – Bewitched Hell, Funeral Battle, and World of Ruin
Serge Quadrado – Funeral piano, and Funeral
Squire Tuck – Add another log to the funeral pyre
It was supposed to be a simple, relaxing camping trip... at the site of a massacre and a forest fire, Joan and Lenny have no idea that something is waiting for them, and that it wants to play a game.
Featured music:
Orbits – feel burn it
Pressor – the smell that you like
Soul on Strings – burn the unbeliever
Tag Cloud – a controlled burn
and Chelsea Oxendine with the theme music
Lurleen Stokes is headed back home to West Virginia to contend with the Kill Car. Along the way she crosses paths with a familiar face -- the legendary phantom hitcher known as the Southern Gentleman. Buckle up.
Featured music:
Horror by Jesse James,
Lonesome valley by Black Twig Pickers
El diablo by Cletus got Shot
Aces and twos by Devil Makes Three
Southern born by Waylon Thompson,
and theme mu...
A strip-mall lawyer gets the client of a lifetime when billionaire and humanitarian Lilah Ambrose hires her for a special job. But this woman has a lifetime of dark and horrific secrets, and needs the lawyer to tie up some loose ends. What she sees will change her forever.
Music by:
Beat Mekanik -- Glow and Submission
Snailpoison – Bone flag
Wave Debb – Essex lodge surgery
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A sequel to the classic HELLBOUND AND DOWN, a quiet holler in West Virginia is about to revisited by an old ghost. Grass roots occultism, a notorious local witch, and an obsession with Earl Joe Hendershot can mean only one thing -- The Kill Car is coming back. Unless one out-of-his-depth lawman can stop it.
Music by:
Beat Mekanik – Harley Davidson and Long way home
Devil Music – Transformation
Lobo Loco - Man in t...
He thought it was a home invasion... but it was something much worse.
Join a typical suburban family in a typical American backyard. A fire, smores, some scary stories. And then a sinister visitor makes his presence -- and his agenda-- known.
Music by Tramos and Universfield, available on FreeMusicArcive.org
Buy the new book Bedtime Stories for Weird Kids here, or sign up for the Patreon to get a free signe...
When the stars are perfectly aligned, one night every 8 years, the town of Silver Hollow descends into murderous madness. Insanity infects the entire area, inciting horrific atrocities. DRO agent Kevin Koja has a plan to enter the heart of the Plague of Wicked Thoughts, and find the answer to the sinister riddle.
Find more from Beat Mekanik here.
Buy the new book Bedtime Stories for Weird Kids here, or sign up fo...
In the 80s, losing it can be murder. Join Ape Drape, Beezer, Jayce, and Rudy as they play pranks, raise hell, and start their newest project -- making Beezer a man. What comes next is a fun romp that quickly turns into something truly abominable.
All of the amazing music this episode comes from the mighty, mighty Beat Mekanik.
warning
nuthouse
savage
circles
confetti
insomnia
just a taste
Two private detectives are on a Christmas Eve stakeout, watching a deranged family of murder clowns who are having a happy, homicidal holiday. And to all a good knife!
Featured music:
Carol of the Hells Bells by Chelsae Oxendine
Beat Mekanik – Christmas Celebration
Bugs and Rats – Me and Santa
Eaters – Last Christmas
R.Tists for Christmas – We Three Kings
all of this music comes from free music archive,...
The enigmatic and dangerous Sadie Jane has been at the heart of over two dozen stories, and now she finally gets to tell her own. Tragedy, betrayal, dream demons, brain slugs, and hot lead, at the intersection of film noir & David Cronenberg. And you haven't even heard the best part.
Amazing music by:
Adam Henry Garcia -- Sadie
Batillius --, filth pig
Diogenes in Hell -- Honesty and Something Will Gro...
murdAIR B and B is a business that rents haunted houses, crime scenes, and condemned asylums. Some of the rentals have great history and lore, and will give you an uneasy feeling. Some of them are downright deadly.
Music and ambient noise was provided by...
Alex Mason-- Locked Up
Electric Bird Noise -- Moments like last night make me wanna believe in ghosts
Chris Zabriskie -- Last night I dreamt I saw true lo...
This is how poisonous dreams invade our lives. This is how the demonic Ghastly Ones corrupt souls and woo them to acts of unspeakable evil. This is how evil wins.
Featuring the music:
Daniel Birch - lost at sea
Jon Shuemaker - tribe part 1
Le Chaos Entre 2 Chaises -- ephemeral part 1 and part 3
Act – The Nightmare
Dan Lily with the gordo the clown theme song
all of this music comes from free ...
In this season finale, the Priest with Red Hands holds court over Jessica Meanwhile, as an armed contingent prepares to storm the building and do whatever possible to save her. But does she need saving? Or is there a grander plan at work?
Music provided by
Filmy ghost
Serge Quadrado
Soulaflair
Tab and Anitek
Universfield
and Lobo Loco
all of this music comes from free music archive, an amazing o...
Seven frightful tales perfect for the Halloween season, read by a host of creepy storytellers. All taken from a book of stories meant to be read aloud, along the lines of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
Guest Storytellers: Angela Sachse, Jamie Lee Hensley, Karl Auffenberg, Kevin Sario, and resident voice wizard Dan Jopling
Music provided by Chelsea Oxendine and Pathios Productions
Buy the new book Be...
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