Kaidankai: Ghost, Supernatural, and Dark Short Fiction
The Kaidankai is a short fiction podcast featuring strange, supernatural, and dark stories across horror, fantasy, science fiction, and the uncanny. The Kaidankai presents original short stories from experienced and emerging authors that explore the unsettling edges of human experience. These tales can be touching, scary, gruesome, funny, and even heartwarming. From ghostly encounters and supernatural revenge to speculative futures and uncanny moments, the stories span genres while sharing a common atmosphere of mystery and unease. The Kaidankai is narrated with a focus on mood, pacing, and immersion. Whether a story leans toward horror, fantasy, science fiction, or something harder to define, each episode invites listeners to step into a world just slightly off-kilter.
Episodes
A tense supernatural horror story exploring power, privilege, family, and the hidden costs of getting exactly what someone...
Inspired by Japanese folklore surrounding the Ubume, this chilling tale blends modern life with ancient fears, asking what happens when ordinary people cross paths with something that should exist only in stories.
Atmospheric, unsettling, and darkly imaginative folk horror.
Alice Kinerk enjoys writing...
A haunting psychological horror story that taps into a very human trait.
Author Bio: Growing up with TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, and Star Trek, Ivan Ri...
A gothic supernatural horror story filled with mirrors, whispers, and creeping dread.
Originally from the UK and living in the USA for nearly...
As a climber reflects on the choices that brought her to the world's highest peak, strange figures begin to move through the snow and something unseen stalks the mountain's isolated expeditions. On Everest, survival can become far more terrifying than the climb itself.
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A chilling psychological horror story abou...
A haunting...
A bleak, atmospheric tale of war and cosmic horror.
David Horn is a Colorado-based writer whose fiction explores the border between history, memory, and the uncanny. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Rooted Literary Magazin...
Here is an article about multiple alternate universes potentially affecting our lives an...
A psychological horror story that builds into something deeply disturbing.
Kyle Walker is a writer and playwright living in Valdez, Alaska. His short stories have appeared in ...
A darkly surreal horror story blending humor, dread, and visceral terror.
Alex Grass was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He lives in B...
Blending classic nautical horror with a creeping sense of dr...
In this powerful and unsettling story by Shannon Massey, one woman reflects on her past while trying to rebuild her life in a new home. But as strange and unexplainable events begin to unfold, it becomes clear that something isn’t quite right—and that some things refuse to stay buried.
Blending psychological horror with deeply person...
A haunting blend of science fiction and horror, this story explores intelligence, existence, and the possibility that something may still be out there.
If you enjoy sci-fi horror, co...
“The Cauldron” is a dark, unsettling horror story that blends real-world fear with a chilling sense of inevitability—where consequences may come fro...
Blending supernatural horror with emotional depth, Hannah Sawyer explores memory, loneliness, and the quiet persistence of the past. This haunting and...
When an unexpected shortcut presents itself, the line between ambition and reality blurs.
Blending psychological tension with subtle supernatural horror, Ki...
Blending supernatural horror with humo...
When a writer’s adolescent fascination with summoning the Devil resurfaces years later, memory, intoxication, and chance collide to reveal that some invocations are never truly undone. This dark, surreal tale explores temptation, guilt, addic...
The Kaidankai Podcast features original short fiction exploring horror, fantasy, scien...
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