Tales to Terrify
The unseen creature whose ravenous fangs dog your every step as your footfalls echo down the midnight alleyway. — A long, icy shadow looming over you, making the hairs on your neck rise and your breath turn to ragged puffs of mist. — Unearthly howls that pierce the night, pulling you from the comfort of sleep with feverish, heart-pounding dread. — Welcome to Tales to Terrify, a weekly horror fiction podcast that gets under your skin, lays eggs and hatches writhing baby horrors nursed on your darkest fears. We're unique in our simplicity, bringing pure tales of terror to your ears audiobook-style – unadulterated and unadorned. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/talestoterrify. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome to episode 715. We have one tale for you this week, about a stray dog that causes otherworldly chaos.
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Erica Waters’ (Un)canny: A Study in Canine Folklore as read by Krystal Hammond: 00:02:24
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Welcome to episode 714. We have two tales for you this week, about guardian eldritch horrors and the risks of messing with time.
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Good Evening: Halloween Flash Contest and Thank-yous: 00:01:06
[Trigger] Laila Amado’s Heaven is Experiencing Staffing Shortages and Somehow This is My Problem as read by James Barnett: 00:04:00
Akis Linardos’ Rerolling the Dice as read by Maxwell Zenner: 00:09:58
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Welcome to episode 713. We have two tales for you this week. First, a woman has one hell of a mess to clean in her bathroom. Then, we get to the bottom of who’s haunting the house.
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Good Evening: Halloween Flash Contest & Patreon Author Interview Series feat. JV Gachs: 00:01:06
R. S. Nelson’s Supplies Needed to Clean the Bloodbath in My Bathroom as read by Mel Rose: 00:04:15
Q.E.D.’s A Fight With a Ghost...
Welcome to episode 712. We have two tales for you this week. First, a woman running from her dark past battles curiosity at the sounds in the attic. Then, a girl carries her guilt deep into the subway where she shelters from the apocalypse with a band of misfits.
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Good Evening: Halloween Flash Contest: 00:01:06
Mark H. Harris’ Don’t Look as read by Jennifer March: 00:03:48
Avra Margariti’s Dawn to Dust ...
Welcome to episode 711. We have one classic tale for you, about a remote country house where the halls echo with haunting music and the footsteps of spectral children.
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Good Evening: Halloween Flash Contest: 00:01:06
Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Old Nurse's Story as read by S. H. Cooper: 00:04:58
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Welcome to episode 710. We have two tales for you this week. First, a young woman facing eviction turns to an online ritual for help. Then, we learn the secret to keeping fish at its freshest: necromancy.
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Good Evening: Patreon Bonus: 00:01:06
John Betancourt’s Sock It To Me as read by Danielle Hewitt: 00:03:35
[Trigger] T. R. Steele’s Julian of the Eels as read by Drew Sebesteny: 00:12:36
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Welcome to episode 709. We have three tales for you. About the blurred line between myth and reality, putting a price tag on the immortal soul, and the pull of freedom in the face of genetic servitude.
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Obiwulu Chisom Peace’s The Whispering Groves as read by Anne Marie Lewis: 00:03:28
J. V. Gachs’ An Hour Before We Met as read by Sarah Mehra: 00:15:47
Blaize M. Kaye’s&...
Welcome to episode 708. We have one tale for you this week, about a grieving mother desperate for relief from her parental responsibilities who seeks sanctuary at a play centre built on buried secrets.
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Good Evening: Submissions and Patreon Interview Series: 00:01:06
[Trigger] Anne Wilkins’ Hidden Treasure as read by AJ Fitzwater: 00:04:28
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Hidden Treasure contains scenes of Animal Death a...
Welcome to episode 707. We have one classic tale for you tonight, about a preserved finger with a personality all its own.
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Sabine Baring-Gould’s A Dead Finger as read by Brian Rollins: 00:02:45
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Original Score by Nebulus Entertainment
Welcome to episode 706. We have two tales for you this week. First, a passenger learns things work a little different at the airport. Then, a Soviet scientific expedition sent to investigate a meteor impact site discover they may be the subjects rather than the observers.
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Derek Alan Jones’ Everything That Was All of Me as read by Dan Gurzynski: 00:02:31
Damir Salkovic’s Exit Horizon&n...
Welcome to episode 705. We have two tales for you this week. First, we learn that immortality isn’t everything it’s chalked up to be. Then, she waits in the deep, listening for the voice that will call her home.
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Edd Vick’s Dead by Night as read by Rish Outfield: 00:02:34
Donovan Douglas Thiesson’s Janelle is Still Janelle as read by Amy Paonessa: 00:14:19
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Welcome to episode 704. We have a classic tale for you this week, about an ancient tower, a mysterious grave, and the two men who stumble across its nightly inhabitant.
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F. Marion Crawford’s For the Blood is the Life as read by Charles Conover: 00:02:49
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Welcome to episode 703. We have two tales for you. First, we learn that even villains can fall in love. Then, a man clearing out his childhood home uncovers dark truths about a childhood friend.
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Good Evening: Patreon Author Interview Series: 00:01:06
Chris Riley’s Hatchet Man as read by Colin Duncan: 00:03:18
[Trigger] Rob Gillham’s The Horrid Tale of Jeremy Timkins as read by Georgia Cook: 00:16:26
Welcome to episode 702. This week , we meet a young Scottish woman who inherits the duty of tending to an old stone shelter… and the ancient thing that dwells within.
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[Trigger] F. W. Weatherstone’s The Bothy in the Field as read by Stephanie Nemeth-Parker: 00:02:48
TRIGGER WARNINGS
The Bothy in the Field contains scenes of Animal Death.
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Welcome to episode 701. We have three tales for you this week. First, a boy learns the importance of respecting old traditions. Then, we sample an exclusive menu with the most exotic of flavours. And finally, a woman chosen for ritual sacrifice holds her people’s future in her hands.
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Good Evening: Submissions: 00:01:06
Derek Alan Jones’ A Name in the Winter as read by Jay Reynolds: 00:03:44
Nick Badot’s The...
Welcome to episode 700. We have two tales for you this week. First, a pastor seeks to avenge his murdered family with the help of an unlikely ally. Then, a young artist learns the deadly cost of heartbreak.
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Philip Madden’s The Pastor as read by Curtis Michael Holland: 00:03:01
[TRIGGER] Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Cold Embrace as read by Dennis Robinson: 00:13:43
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Welcome to episode 699 We have three tales for you, about a modern-day Frankenstein’s monster, a horny teen who gets more than just a hookup, and a young woman trapped inside her house by a mysterious guest.
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Good Evening: Submissions are open: 00:01:06
[Trigger] Tabitha Lord’s Monster as read by Amanda Stribling: 00:03:37
Bryan Carrigan’s One August Night as read by Summer Brooks: 00:13:11
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Welcome to episode 698 and happy StokerCon! We have two tales for you this week. First, a strange child develops a special bond with the hermit in his garden. Then, a woman goes to extreme lengths to leave her abusive husband.
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Good Evening: StokerCon 2025: 00:01:06
Daniel Stride’s The One Who Saw Too Much as read by Jesse Holt: 00:04:09
[Trigger] Rachel Bolton’s Stoker-nominated And She Had Been So Reasonab...
Welcome to episode 697. We have one tale for you this week, about a woman torn between who she feels she should be and true beast that lurks within her.
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[Trigger] A. A. Nour’s Lonely Skin as read by Erin Grassie: 00:03:09
TRIGGER WARNINGS
Lonely Skin contains scenes of Animal Death.
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...Welcome to episode 696. We have two tales for you this week: about a man on an empty highway struggling to trust his fading memory, and a woman whose skepticism is tested by her lover’s carnal faith.
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Good Evening: 00:01:06
Derek Alan Jones’ Somewhere on US-50, Sometime in the Night as read by Drew Sebesteny: 00:02:36
Akis Linardos’ Baited by Water’s Shadow as read by Michelle Kane: 00:12:07
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