Fear From the Heartland — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Podcast
Fear From the Heartland is a horror fiction anthology podcast, with each episode featuring terrifying tales from talented authors, brought to life by professional voice actor and audiobook narrator, Paul J. McSorley, accompanied music.
Episodes
Years after escaping the masked stranger who imprisoned her, Zella travels to the prison where he is serving his sentence. She tells herself she has come to prove that he no longer owns any part of her. But the scars covering her body are not the only things she carried out of that basement. Something lives inside Zella, something hungry enough to sense the darkness clinging to everyone around her and patient enough to wait f...
Jessica thought the worst part of being a New York City bike messenger was the traffic. Then an ordinary delivery sent her into a silent alley—and into the jaws of something that should not exist. When she awakens inside a facility hidden from the outside world, Jessica learns that everyone she knew believes she is dead. Her rescuers claim they are protecting her from creatures concealed behind supernatural disguises, a...
After losing his daughter, Richard retreats to his childhood home in the Missouri countryside, searching for the solitude he needs to write—and the strength to let go of a place crowded with painful memories. But something has fallen near the abandoned Pea Ridge mine, and the surrounding woods are no longer behaving as they should. The animals have disappeared. An acrid, ammonia-like odor drifts between the trees. Somet...
When two friends journey to a remote Vietnamese island to investigate rumors of a Bigfoot-like creature, they expect blurry photographs, strange footprints, and perhaps another internet hoax. Instead, they stumble upon a secret so disturbing it challenges everything they believe about the human mind—and the price some people are willing to pay to escape it.
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The world is dying. A green mist blankets the land, the dead refuse to stay dead, and humanity's last flicker of hope grows dimmer with every passing day. Yet amid the ruin, a weathered healer discovers a frightened young woman whose greatest strength has yet to reveal itself. What begins as an act of mercy becomes the first step in a legend. Together they will cross kingdoms scarred by war, encounter spirits both benevolent ...
When Robert Morgan was a teenager, a strange old shaman placed a black arrowhead into his hand and warned him never to let anyone else touch it. He dismissed the encounter as the ramblings of a madman—until the people around him began dying in impossible ways. Now, decades later, Robert has built the perfect life: wealth, success, a loving family, and a respected career. But beneath the surface, something ancient has be...
Beyond the wasteland, beyond the last safe road, a mountain waits with its mouth open. Drawn onward by secrets, old wounds, and forces they barely understand, two men descend into a place of firelit stone, blind horrors, and ancient judgment. What they find below is not merely hidden history, but something living, watchful, and hungry. This episode promises a savage journey into darkness where every step forward feels fated&m...
When the world begins to unravel, it isn’t always monsters or plagues that bring humanity to its knees. Sometimes, it’s the choices we make for love. In this chilling episode, two unforgettable tales explore what happens when devotion, betrayal, and desperation collide with the end of everything we thought we knew. In one story, a fractured couple struggling to hold their marriage together must navigate a landscape wher...
In this chilling episode, humanity clings to survival in the shadow of a catastrophe that refused to stay buried. Safe havens come with conditions. Miracles arrive with strings attached. And the line between protector and predator grows thinner with every passing day. As civilization flickers in the ruins, listeners are invited into a world where salvation wears a reassuring smile, science promises second chances, and hope may be t...
This season-opening episode of Fear From the Heartland plunges listeners into a brutal, myth-soaked world crafted in the mind of author Hank Belbin, where forgotten gods leave monuments instead of mercy, where guidance may be a trap, and where simply enduring can mark you for something far worse than death. As the journey presses westward into hostile territory shaped by violence, decay, and unseen intelligence, one truth becomes i...
Before the headlines. Before the panic. Before the questions no one could answer— There was the night everything went wrong. This episode follows the eerie disappearance of a rising New York star and the unseen forces that converge around him: a volatile family bound by blood, a relentless pursuer with a long memory, and a performance that was never meant for human eyes. As the truth unravels, it becomes clear that the real s...
In the blistered ruins of a world that has forgotten mercy, one man’s defiance becomes a spark in the kingdom of the damned. Across the desert wastes of Zimitra, faith is measured in blood, and the gods wear the faces of their victims. When a fallen assassin awakens beneath the knife of his captors, he is offered a single, unholy bargain—freedom, in exchange for a sin greater than any he has yet committed. From the mind...
In this chilling episode of Fear From the Heartland, the line between guardian and monster blurs, and innocence collides with the demands of blood and shadow. When old pacts tremble and dark legacies fall into new hands, survival means choosing between loyalty and damnation. Enter a world where contracts bind deeper than family, where every smile may hide a fanged snarl, and where even the most fragile soul can become the sharpest ...
When the lights go out and the world drifts into sleep, some secrets refuse to stay buried. In this haunting episode, we explore the thin veil between devotion and destruction, love and obsession, safety and terror. Two lives, worlds apart, are bound by the monsters that rise from within—and by the chilling truth that sometimes the greatest danger isn’t out there in the dark…it’s waiting at home.
In this pulse-quickening episode of Fear from the Heartland, host Paul J. McSorley invites you to peer into the shadows with three unnerving tales from master storyteller Xavier Poe Kane. Beneath the surface of everyday lives, something sinister stirs—twisted hungers, impossible missions, and long-forgotten promises that demand to be kept. Tonight’s stories bend genre and morality alike, dragging you through grim back a...
The lights are low. The previews are over. The film begins… In this haunting episode of FFTH, what begins as an investigation into a missing audience spirals into something far more disturbing. Inside an aging suburban theater, the shadows stretch too long, the air buzzes with forgotten memories, and the screen holds more than a story—it holds a secret. One that shouldn’t be seen. One that refuses to fade. So gra...
Some names should never be spoken. And some promises echo louder in the dark. In this haunting episode of From Folklore to the Heartland, journey into the shadowed wilds of Slavic legend and twisted fairy realms, where ancient beings still barter in blood and gold—and the price of love may be far more than you’re willing to pay. Guided by the bone-cracking footsteps of Baba Yaga herself, host PJM presents a tale where n...
When the dead start walking the streets of New Orleans, only one man seems to notice something's terribly wrong—and he's just unpacked his last moving box. In a city known for its mysteries, something ancient has awakened… something that doesn't fear bullets, boundaries, or the light of day. From abandoned mausoleums to back-alley bars, whispers grow louder: of shadows with no eyes, of men who shouldn’t be breath...
Two voices. One question: Would you listen if it sounded like someone you loved? When the wind howls and the light begins to flicker, something ancient stirs just beyond the threshold. In tonight’s episode, FFTH delivers a pair of haunting tales where isolation breeds temptation, and grief becomes the perfect bait. From the cliffs of a storm-battered lighthouse to the soot-choked hearth of a woodland cottage, the voices are c...
War never truly ends—it just changes shape. In this episode of Fear from the Heartland, the battlefield isn’t a jungle, a desert, or a distant warzone. It’s closer. Too close. When an unstoppable force begins its quiet invasion, one man finds himself fighting a war no one else seems to see, a war where the enemy is small but merciless, methodical, and multiplying. Paul J. McSorley delivers a chilling performance i...
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