Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales & Other Weird Stories
Welcome to Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales and Other Weird Stories—a carefully curated collection of unsettling fiction, paranormal encounters, and truly strange tales from writers around the world. Each episode explores the uncanny: stories that linger, disturb, and quietly unsettle rather than simply shock. Some are frightening. Others are strange, folkloric, or deeply weird—but all are rooted in the paranormal and the unknown. The current season releases new episodes every Friday from May 1 through October 30, bringing you a steady procession of eerie and curious tales to carry you through the darker half of the year. Until then, dive into more than 120 episodes from past seasons—an extensive archive of paranormal fiction, available to listen to free. Are you a writer of paranormal or weird fiction, and want to hear your work brought to life? Submit your stories at FrighteningTales.com. Listener discretion is advised. These stories vary in tone and content and may include unsettling themes or triggers. All stories are © copyright their respective authors. I have negotiated allowances to perform these tales with the blessing of those authors. This is non-transferable and reproductions or recreations of these stories is prohibited. All Music and FX are allowed through subscription to EpidemicSounds.com. All Rights Reserved. Original Theme Song: Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales, is copyright Mark Wilhelm.
Episodes
Author Zea Mindwerl shares this story she wrote for a prompt at Blog.Reedsy.com. It's a dark tale about the unknown things out in the dark of night. And hammers home the idea that there's no place like the safety of home in a tale she calls FEAR.
The story was originally posted in 2023 but has since gone missing from my podcast... I have no idea why. But in the time that's past from when I originally posted this and now I've lear...
Imagine being followed around by death itself... for seemingly no reason at all. Jim Cort dives into this idea in this original story.
A nostalgic look back at horror alumni Nelson Bond. Who's aged old writing paved the way for todays contemporary authors. His tale The Bookshop, explores the secrets often found in seemingly innocuous places.
Today’s episode… is written by Glenn Dungan, currently based in Brooklyn, NYC. He exists within a Venn diagram of urban design, sociology, and good stories.
When not obsessing about one of those three, he can be found at a park drinking black coffee and listening to podcasts about murder.
For more of his work, please visit his website, whereisglennnow.com.
You can also find him on substack, "WhereisGlennnow?"
Today’s episode… is written by Dustin Ridout, the dad of two lovely but sometimes scary kids, a Colorado area physician and a lover of horror stories on cold rainy nights. Here's his tale he calls Tiny.
Today’s episode… is written by Rob Morton… Rob hasn’t shared much about himself other than that he claims the story he’s about to share is 100% true.
Today’s episode… is written by A.G.R., a graduate of Florida International University and a writer and author. He majored in interdisciplinary studies and had minors in philosophy and sociology, which provided him with knowledge in various areas and research skills. His interests in writing are Horror and Mysteries. A.G.R.’s other interests are video games, paranormal research, and reading. When he is not writing, he gives ghost to...
Today’s episode… is written by STEPHEN MCQUIGGAN, self-proclaiming he’s the original author of the bible; he vowed never to write again after the publishers removed the dinosaurs and the spectacular alien abduction ending from the final edit.
His other, lesser-known, novels are A Pig’s View of Heaven and Trip a Dwarf.
For more dark tales visit me at frighteningtales.com
Today’s first story… is written by Eleazar Nolan. This is a tale that has been passed down through Eleazar’s family. I’m told that Eleazar has been hunting for where this story may have originated. It’s subtly similar to an old brother’s Grim tale ‘The Juniper Tree’. This version feels like a natural American folk mutation of that old European root: it shifts the bones of the story into Illinois soil, adds religious framing, and sw...
Today’s episode… is written by Paul O’Neill, an award-winning short story writer from Fife, Scotland. His works have been published by the No Sleep Podcast, Crystal Lake, Sinister Smile Press, Scare Street, Vanishing Point Magazine, Hell Bound Books, Grinning Skull Press, and many other publications and competitions.
Paul would love you to join his Short Story Club on Substack, where he and over 150 readers analyze the classics re...
Today’s episode… is written by Steve Loiaconi a journalist and a graduate of George Mason University's MFA program.
His fiction previously appeared in Griffel, the Mystery Tribune, Mythaxis, Zooscape, and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as the anthologies Open All Night, Why Didn’t You Just Leave, and Found 2.
He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, son, and dog.
More of his work can be found at: steveloiaconi.wordpress.com...
Today’s episode… is written by Brian J. Smith, author of nine horror novels such as Dead River and Consuming Darkness! His most recent second short story collection “Strange Discovery And Other Strange Discoveries” was published in July 2024; his splatter western “Blood On The Sand” is due out this year. He resides in south eastern Ohio, drinks a lot of coffee, has too many books but continues to buy more!
If you’d like to follo...
Today’s episode… is written by Devin Langan a full-time social worker up in the great white north of Canada where he dabbles in writing for animation, and horror as a hobby.
Today’s take is the first writing that Devin has submitted for a North American audience at Creepypasta stories. If you'd like to reach out to Devin write him here: dlangan9653@gmail.com
Author Ryan Andrus asks the question... what if an object were to reach out across time and space to your awareness? What if that object became the sole desire of your life? An item you'd even kill for. And what if others learned of such an object? Things that were not quite human? Our tale today dives into just that.
Look for more dark tales at Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales.
Today’s episode… is written by Jethro Pili for Reedsy Prompts. Jethro has been writing horror and other fiction for a number of years now. And is one of the authors who allowed me to read several of his stories in season 1. I’ve come so far from there now… you can find him on Reedsy Prompts I’ll provide a link in the notes. Thank you for all your support over the years Jethro… I hope you enjoy your tale… The Enemy of my Enemy.
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Today’s episode… is written by Lorna Pearl. A Creative Writing student living in New York with their spouse and two Sphynx cats, Titan and Shiva. Originally from the South East of England, Lorna has been writing stories since childhood. When not writing, you can find Lorna immersed in the latest horror, thriller books and new-release movies. I now present to you their story… Twigs
For more stories, tune in to FrighteningTales.com
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Today’s episode… is written by Dillon Hendrick, a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner living in South Texas with his beautiful wife and two kids. Look for his short story coming out soon in a collection known as Trash Tales. He’s currently chipping away at a new short story that he hopes to be finished with later this year.
But for now, here’s his tale… Ice Cream in the Woods.
For more dark tales, visit me at https://frig...
Once a season I like to dive into the history of Horror and revisit one of the great works that helped to shape the genre. Today’s story is written by none other than Roald Dahl. Despite being renowned for children’s literature. Roald Dahl was a huge fan of Horror, and especially enjoyed a good ghost story. In fact he has a collection of horror stories available at your local book store called “Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories. H...
Today’s episode… is written by Chloe DeVos a young writer, of poetry and stories. Some of her poetry has been published in local journals. When not writing, She enjoys drawing, reading manga, taking walks, and studying history.
To learn more about Chloe you can find her on :
Twitter at @WomanDust
Instagram at @svengoolienewmar,
and on her Wordpress blog at:
https://digitalcommonplacebookblog.wordpress.com/?_gl=1*ejkn1h*_gcl_au*OD...
Today’s episode… is written by Ananth Ram a mysterious author from unknown parts. Ananth writes a number of creepy pastas and has stories available on Amazon. If you’d like to learn more about Ananth visit:
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