A Scary Home Companion

A Scary Home Companion

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

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August 28, 2025 37 mins

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Jerome is a fun, friendly, affluent man with a good education and a strong family. What happens when this humble Southerner discovers his long buried family ties, and that he is the brother of the most notorious cannibal in American history?

Music By:

  • Snail Poison – Bone Flag
  • SuperMash – Dark Wind 
  • Beat Mekanik – Long Way Home
  • Smallpox - Squeal like a pig, Ned

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Its the biggest horror movie premier in a DECADE, maybe EVER! The Hand Collector movie is breaking big at Grauman's Theater in sunny Hollywood California.  The doors are closed, the lights dimmed -- and then a notorious serial killer takes the stage, and all hell breaks loose. 

Guest starring 

Jamie Lee Hensley

Courtney Kelly

and Daniel Jopling. 

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  • John Bartmann – tik tik boom
  • Soularflair - black sand throug...
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August 8, 2025 43 mins

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Its the biggest horror movie premier in a DECADE, maybe EVER! The Hand Collector movie is breaking big at Grauman's Theater in sunny Hollywood California. The movie wants to spread the ghastly gospel, but there are a handful of folks are ready to crash the party in the bloodiest way possible. 

Guest starring 

Jamie Lee Hensley

Courtney Kelly

and Daniel Jopling. 

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Written by Brett Jarboe 

A bold new work of art, a game of spades with a ghost, and possibly the most disgusting plate of BBQ to ever come out of Memphis. Evil is running rampant, the Children of the Black Blotter are ramping up their appetites, and everything is about to get very intense. 

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After being saved by a ghost, Junior Washington is jungled up with a band of hobo soldiers in a remote shack called Petticoat Junction. As the heroes regroup, the villains, a ghastly trio of chaotic-evil psychos, plot their next act of carnage and sadism. There has been talk about a big, powerful slow-cook oven... but is it big enough to fit the chef?

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Something we've never done on the show before -- take a closer look at some of the best horror stories available to watch at home. I love horror movies, always have, and that love spawned A Scary Home Companion. So here are a list of amazing recommendations that any fan of this show will love. 

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Junior Washington is on the verge of death, and wandering through a part of rural Kentucky that verges on Purgatory. Meanwhile, an accursed box car is spreading evil through the South. The forces of evil are amassing, and the forces of good are at loose ends.  

After this, I encourage you to listen to

Thicker Than Water, a new audio novel by yours truly. 11 hours of crime noir goodness, a savage tale of revenge, and fam...

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June 18, 2025 41 mins

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Music, mayhem, and wall to wall monsters that will make your skin crawl. The strike team hits a long abandoned science facility, and find that the local wildlife have evolved in repulsive and deadly ways. Where else can you find a horrifying mutant deer battling an insane Juggalo? No where but ASHC!

The direct sequel to Death Finds a Way, and The War on Terror, and The Science of Violence.

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June 9, 2025 42 mins

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The strike team starts with a haunted prison, before moving to the killing floor of the Hand Collector. That all pales in comparison to Brisco, Kansas, the heart of America, and the heart of monster country. The team encounters profane creatures that will change them forever.

The direct sequel to Death Finds a Way, and The War on Terror.

Guest appearance by Mary Anne Simpson 

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May 30, 2025 51 mins

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The secret FBI task forced called the Untouchables are on the tail of a brutal serial killer riding the rails, and leaving mangled bodies. The closer they get, the closer to hell and damnation they become. WARNING: this one gets intense.

Written by Brett Jarboe

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The decades- long rivalry between the FBI and Deep Red Ops hits a boiling point, over the case a hobo serial killer leaving a path of carnage through the rail yards. DRO Special Agent Donna Latour has everything under control... except for the wildcard called the Untouchables 

Written by Brett Jarboe

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Archivist and field reporter Mary Anne Simpson sheds light on the secret war waged by J Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and "The Untouchables" against the American Hobo. She also unearths a prison interview from the early 80 about black blotter acid, and the notorious Kansas City Throw Rug incident. 

Written by Brett Jarboe
Starring Jamie Lee Hensley and Dan Jopling

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Two nerve-grinding tales of suspense and horror, set in everyone's favorite place -- the dentist's office! Celebrate oral healthcare with stories of ominous orthodonture and dental damnation!

Co-written by Brett Jarboe

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April 11, 2025 50 mins

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New forms of life that were never meant to be. Drugs that open doorways to the other side. And a Juggalo who winds up at the mercy of a cult. This just scratches the surface of the darkness this story has to offer, Join us, and come down below...

Annotations provided by Official Show Archivist Mary Anne Simpson.

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March 31, 2025 42 mins

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A black ops strike team prowls the darkest shadows of America. They are hunting Breach Sites, those soft spots where a door to hell has once been opened. They seek to close them all, permanently. The ghastly cultists have other ideas. Action and suspense abound, and god help the wicked.

Annotations provided by Official Show Archivist Mary Anne Simpson.

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Drug-addled agents of chaos, the acolytes of the otherworldly serial killer Mr. Westbound, have Junior Washington on the run. He is weak, wounded, and weary, but he can't slow down, or he wont' survive. 

Written by Brett Jarboe

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The FTRA are the boogeymen of the hobo community, drug fueled and blood-hungry anarchists riding the rails and causing mayhem at every stop. Now they have focused their attention on Junior Washington, who is caught in a mystery he is desperate to unravel... before its too late.

Written by Brett Jarboe

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February 28, 2025 41 mins

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Beaten, weakened, alone, without her wheelchair, Mona is trapped in a kill room, at the mercy of a deranged lunatic with an axe to grind. She has to find a way to outwit him, as he watches her die slowly. A nerve grinding psychological thriller with a payoff that you will never forget, 

Guest voicework provided by Courtney Kelly as Mona, and Barrett Daniel as Ginger. 

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February 19, 2025 42 mins

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An ex-soldier turned drunken bodyguard. A black hat coder with a dark past. A Youtube goof tricked into becoming a suicide bomber. One shocking moment in time told through three perspectives, at once.  Suspense, action, and blood chilling thrills. 

guest voice:  Barrett Daniel

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Junior Washington, a rail riding hobo at the tender age of 17, has never had to solve a mystery before, especially not such a brutal and vicious murder. He has run afoul of a conspiracy, a serial killer, and a drug fueled cult of maniacs... except, he doesn't know that quite yet. 

Written by Brett Jarboe

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