Chilling Tales for Dark Nights: A Horror Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast
Chilling Tales for Dark Nights is a horror fiction anthology podcast, with each weekly episode featuring several creepy tales from talented authors, brought to life by professional voice actors, and accompanied by SFX and music. For advertising opportunities please email PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com We wanna make the podcast even better, help us learn how we can: https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4 Privacy Policy: https://www.studio71.com/us/terms-and-conditions-use/#Privacy%20Policy.
Episodes
August 6, 2025 • 44 mins
Vinny Pastorelli talks loud, drives fast, and drinks his coffee strong—but none of that prepared him for the supernatural catastrophes that keep finding him. Whether he’s dodging death in a school gym, a suburban neighborhood, or the middle of nowhere, Vinny’s got one rule: survive first, ask questions later. In this four-part horror-comedy gauntlet from writer Craig Groshek and voice actor Kevin Barbare, chaos comes calling in the...
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August 4, 2025 • 109 mins
In this unsettling episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, step into a world where childhood memories wear foam suits and felt faces… and hide something far more insidious underneath. Behind the painted grins and cheerful theme songs lies a stage where reality warps, joy is manufactured, and the performers may not be entirely in control. Join host Steve Taylor as he guides you through a tale of desperate ambition, eerie nostalgi...
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July 30, 2025 • 126 mins
In this special anthology episode, host Steve Taylor exhumes three terrifying tales from the vault—each one the unforgettable debut of a now-legendary voice in horror podcasting. From the haunted backroads of the Heartland to the blackened core of a hidden bunker, these stories crackle with dread, mystery, and the creeping certainty that something is waiting just beyond the edge of the light. Step into the shadows with Chilling Tal...
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July 28, 2025 • 83 mins
What happens when the hunger for greatness meets a machine that dreams darker than any man ever could? In this haunting episode, we invite you to step into the glowing light of a screen that never sleeps—a realm where creativity blurs with madness, and code becomes a conduit for something far older than intelligence. When one man's pursuit of artistic legacy crosses a forbidden threshold, he finds himself entangled in a web of horr...
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July 23, 2025 • 57 mins
Hospitals. Care homes. Recovery wards. They’re built on a promise: that behind every clean hallway and gentle voice lies safety, compassion, and healing. But what if that promise is a lie? In this chilling installment of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, we step behind the sanitized curtains of institutional care to find something far more disturbing lurking beneath. Featuring a haunting original tale from Craig Groshek and brought t...
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July 21, 2025 • 41 mins
In this haunting double feature, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights invites you to peer into the corners you’d rather ignore—where safety is an illusion, and solitude can become a trap. Performed by the unsettlingly brilliant Girl in the Dark, tonight’s tales take you from the flickering comfort of home to the shadowy edge of wilderness, where something ancient may still be waiting. Turn off the lights. Press play. And remember: if you...
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July 16, 2025 • 51 mins
When memory is woven with grief, even the softest thread can cut deep. In this unsettling new episode, a summer getaway opens a door to something quietly persistent—something that doesn’t stay buried. Join host Steve Taylor as he guides you into a story of quiet dread, lingering hands, and unfinished business. From acclaimed horror author Ambrose Ibsen comes a tale that blurs the line between comfort and curse, where the warmest me...
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July 14, 2025 • 45 mins
What if the world around you—its streets, its skyline, even the people you pass—was nothing more than a thin skin stretched over something else? In tonight’s harrowing descent into digital terror and metaphysical unease, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights invites you to peer behind the veneer of reality. When the code begins to fracture and familiar places twist into uncanny imitations of themselves, one woman finds herself caught betw...
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July 9, 2025 • 60 mins
When the ocean calls, some dives go deeper than expected. In this haunting descent into the unknown, reality frays at the edges, silence swells with menace, and the sea reveals something it was never meant to share. Tonight’s tale takes you far beyond pressure gauges and oxygen lines—into a place where depth is measured in disappearances, and surfacing might not bring you back whole. Join host Steve Taylor and a cast of chilling vo...
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July 7, 2025 • 69 mins
In this emotionally charged episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, host Steve Taylor invites you to confront the most terrifying vanishing act of all—the erasure of self. Tonight’s story doesn’t lurk in the shadows or drip with blood. It aches. It lingers. It asks: What if the price of healing is everything that made you who you are? Crafted by CTFDN founder Craig Groshek and brought chillingly to life by Otis Jiry and a powerh...
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July 2, 2025 • 47 mins
Licensed to help. Trained to heal. But what if the person you trust most… is the one who breaks you? In this chilling installment of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, a desperate soul seeks solace behind the polished doors of a celebrated therapist’s office—only to discover that not every diploma on the wall guarantees safety. What begins as a quest for healing spirals into a nightmarish journey where the boundaries between therapy a...
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June 30, 2025 • 85 mins
When the doors close and the night shift begins, who’s really keeping watch? In this unnerving new episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, host Steve Taylor beckons you past the flickering lights of a shuttered shopping mall, into a world where silence isn’t empty—and routine is anything but safe. Featuring the return of acclaimed narrator Dr. Creepen, “Security Breach” is a descent into fluorescent purgatory, where identity fra...
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June 25, 2025 • 101 mins
What would you risk to protect the one person you can’t live without? When the rules are written in blood and the game only ends when someone dies, the only way out… is through. In this gripping tale of moonlit danger and urban dread, one woman finds herself hunted through a snow-covered city—trapped in a ritual older than law, pursued by predators who walk in human skin. But she’s not running alone. Featuring a performance by Oliv...
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June 23, 2025 • 52 mins
Some jobs come with a uniform. Others come with a warning. In this nightmarish episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, host Steve Taylor invites you into the dark corridors of duty, silence, and the consequences of breaking rhythm. What begins as a simple task unravels into something far more ancient—an encounter with forces that don’t knock... they wait. With a performance by the legendary Otis Jiry and spine-chilling support f...
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June 18, 2025 • 67 mins
What if your fate could be forecast—not by fortune or faith, but by footage? In this unsettling installment of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, host Steve Taylor invites you into a world where the future isn’t guessed—it’s assigned. One man holds the key to revelations best left unseen... and tonight, he’s about to press play. With rich performances, shadowy twists, and a story that peers deep into the gears of mortality, this episo...
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June 16, 2025 • 54 mins
Beneath the surface of quiet streets and rain-slicked curbs, something ancient stirs. It doesn’t knock. It doesn’t speak. But when the storm drains overflow and puddles stretch like mirrors, it remembers who gave first… and who owes. In this unforgettable descent into creeping dread, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights founder Craig Groshek delivers a story that will make you think twice before glancing into standing water—or lending ki...
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June 11, 2025 • 35 mins
When the rain begins to fall, it carries more than water from the sky. In tonight’s unnerving descent into terror, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights invites you to face what might be lurking above the clouds—waiting for an invitation to slip inside. This episode delivers a slow-building nightmare where unease grows drop by drop, pulling you into a world where instinct turns against you, and escape may not be an option. Performed by th...
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June 9, 2025 • 72 mins
Something’s out there—and it looks just like you. In this chilling episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, host Steve Taylor invites you on a journey into the uncanny, where trust becomes a gamble and identity is anything but certain. When familiar faces begin acting strange, and memories can’t be relied on, the line between truth and imitation starts to blur. Featuring a gripping performance by Nick Goroff and an ensemble cast,...
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June 4, 2025 • 44 mins
In this haunting episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, silence becomes a battleground—and your own body is no longer your own. When the last thing you can trust is the sound coming from your own mouth, what’s left to hold on to? Join host Steve Taylor and returning narrator SomberReads for a descent into creeping horror where identity frays, language turns traitor, and the quiet harbors something far more sinister than any scr...
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June 2, 2025 • 25 mins
We’ve all heard the creaks in the night—the soft clicks in the walls we tell ourselves are just the house settling. But what if they aren’t? What if something else is listening? Watching? Waiting? In this haunting installment, host Steve Taylor guides you through a tale where childhood tragedy leaves a mark too deep to bury, and the line between memory and monster begins to blur. From one of horror’s most unsettling voices comes a ...
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