Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales
Welcome brave listeners to my curated collection of frightening tales! Scary stories and ghostly yarns by authors from all over the world. Join me every Friday from May till Halloween for dark and horrifying stories of the paranormal. Make yourself comfortable and settle in for a spooky time, there are currently more than 100 episodes of paranormal stories for you to listen to... if you're brave enough. Have a frightening story of your own? Please submit it at FrighteningTales.com. "LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED" These stories are varied and may contain an assortment of triggers.
Episodes
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 follow B...
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 and on Reddit under the name Arctic_Wolf_9653
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.
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
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://fright...
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*ODk4...
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:
Today’s episode… is written by Fernando Sanchez, a technical writer, creative writer, and lover of the written word. Born under the sign of Aquarius. Fernando ran with wolves as a child and chased ghosts and demons with a smirk on his face. Did I mention he loves writing?
Here’s his tale: Watchers at the Black Gate.
Today’s episode… sees the return of author MN Wiggins, a surgeon who operates on people—legally . . . mostly.
He is an author, voice actor, and humorist from the American South. His Arkansas Traveler series recently released, Physician's Guide to Homicide on Amazon.
Dr. Wiggins’s short stories have been featured in Black Petals, Medicine and Meaning, as well as the podcasts: Frightening Tales and Creepy. He has forthcoming ...
Today’s episode…is written by Rose Engel who makes her home in Austin, Texas.
Rose participates in regular writing groups… I believe we used to call those covens. She is currently working on her 4th novel. Her writing adores leaning into the world of Greek mythology, romance and villain origin stories…
Find more of Rose, visit her on Instagram @growinwithrose!
For more frightening tales visit me at frighteningtales.com
Some words can describe things physical or mental... but in today's story, the title applies to both.
Today's tale …is written by author Kim Bossert a lab tech at an IVF clinic who just enjoys a good story. Kim has a love of short scary stories from skin-crawlers told around the campfire to classic internet creepypastas. This is the first of her stories that has seen distribution beyond torturing her friends and family. Sh...
Author Lonnie Russo is an author of short fiction from the East Coast of the United States.
He grew up around his grandmother's haunted house, the graveyard down the block, and the funeral home in which many of his relatives worked.
While he enjoys exploring all topics, he considers himself largely a genre writer of horror, science fiction, and romance, of all things, but he also believes all stories are made of the same stuff—...
Written by Matt Martinek. Matt is passionate about a number of creative pursuits writing horror is just one of them. You can find Matts most recent project: Fright! Stories of Murder, Monsters, and Mayhem as well as his book The Oddest Couple: The Collected Edition at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.com.
Written by Helen Mihajlovic, she predominantly writes short horror stories, but has written science fiction, surrealist and fantasy tales.
Her stories can be found at Dark Dossier magazine and Horror Novel Reviews. Her novella 'The Darkness of Judith' has recently been published through Unveiling-Nightmares Press (now Baynam Books Press), it is also available on Amazon.
For more scary stories listen at Frighteningtales....
It's another double feature!
The first tale is written by… Matthew Jon Smith, an up-and-coming author in the horror genre. Matthew is a 41-year-old web programmer working for the public education system, to learn more about Matthew visit him at www.matthewjonsmith.com
The second part of our episode is a tale written by Harlinn Draper, an American fiction author. Born in the charming town of Corbin, Kentucky, Harlinn was inst...
Welcome to a triple feature this week. With 3 dark tales to satisfy your hunger for horror.
The first tale "The Smoke of Her Burning" written by Deidra Lovegren. Her published works include The Medicine Girl, The Medicine Woman, and 21 Conversations—a collection of dialogue-only short stories. You can also find her Anthology The Lady of the Match, her work translated into Arabic, debuted at the 2024 Cairo Internationa...
Welcome back to season 5 brave listeners. We start the season with a dark tale double feature!
The First tale is called Despair written by author Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc. You can find more of her work at:
https://linktr.ee/theandreadeanvanscoyoc
The Second tale is called The Sköll and the Swine written by Suzie Lockhart & Bruce Lockhart 2nd.
You can find more of Suzie's writing here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00DTI...
Listener Discretion is Advised. (Language, Visceral Depictions and Gore.)
Skeeter was a mountain of a man with an insatiable thirst and he wasn't finicky about what he drank so long as it got him drunk. But when a mystery bottle found Skeeter it would take him on a nightmare journey.
Performance © copyright Mark Wilhelm
Story © copyright Mike Mann. all rights reserved.
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