Chilling Tales for Dark Nights: A Horror Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast
Chilling Tales for Dark Nights is a horror fiction anthology podcast, with each weekly episode featuring several creepy tales from talented authors, brought to life by professional voice actors, and accompanied by SFX and music. For advertising opportunities please email PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com We wanna make the podcast even better, help us learn how we can: https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4 Privacy Policy: https://www.studio71.com/us/terms-and-conditions-use/#Privacy%20Policy.
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December 1, 2025 • 88 mins
In our latest episode, we invite you into a world where salvation comes softly… and exacts a price no one sees coming. A desperate father, a mysterious discovery in the woods, and a fragile hope he cannot bear to question set the stage for a tale that blurs the line between miracle and menace. As comfort turns uncanny and relief bends into ruin, listeners will find themselves asking the same haunting question as the characters with...
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November 26, 2025 • 48 mins
In this episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, host Steve Taylor invites you to step back into the deep woods of 1984, where a group of forgotten kids, sent away for a taste of normalcy, found something far more terrifying waiting for them among the trees - a story of innocence lost, of friendships forged under fire, and of the haunting realization that some horrors don’t stay in the past. Pack a flashlight, stay with the group...
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November 24, 2025 • 39 mins
In this spine-tightening installment of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, guest host Nicholas Goroff invites you into the warm glow of a secluded country home—where a friendly tarot reading is only the first sign that something is very, very wrong. A quiet evening of curiosity turns into a descent into old magic, buried secrets, and the kind of wisdom carved from places no card deck can reach. Featuring an unforgettable performance b...
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November 19, 2025 • 53 mins
Beneath the frozen silence of the Alaskan wilderness lies a bunker that was never meant to be uncovered… and a truth no one was ever meant to hear. In this chilling episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, guest host Nicholas Goroff guides you deep below the surface—into a labyrinth of concrete corridors, sealed rooms, and a project shrouded in secrecy. What begins as a quest for understanding soon unravels into a confrontation w...
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November 17, 2025 • 39 mins
In this chilling new episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, guest host Nicholas Goroff invites you down a dirt road lined with tidy apple trees and friendly small-town smiles—places where nothing bad is supposed to happen. But when a newcomer’s dream orchard bears its first harvest, the townsfolk discover that the sweetest fruit sometimes hides the darkest secrets. Featuring a haunting tale by Micah Edwards and brought to life ...
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November 12, 2025 • 41 mins
Beneath the calm surface of a backyard pool lies a memory too deep to forget, and too terrifying to ignore. In this gripping episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, guest host Nicholas Goroff invites you to slip beneath the waterline of a childhood summer that turned suddenly, violently dark. Featuring “The Deep End” by Sam Garrison, performed by rising Evil Idol contender Jay Sterling, this installment explores the fragile boun...
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November 10, 2025 • 41 mins
In this unnerving episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, guest host Nicholas Goroff invites you into the kind of story that leaves a mark long after the final word is spoken—a tale born from childhood shadows, warped reflections, and the silent gaze of a stranger who stands exactly where he shouldn’t. Featuring “The Man at the Fence” by Brad Calderon—performed by Evil Idol 2025 standout Girl in the Dark—this episode explores th...
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November 5, 2025 • 36 mins
In the silent hours before dawn, a lone priest prepares for another uneventful night in a darkened cathedral. But when the confessional door creaks open, he finds not a sinner seeking redemption… but a presence that should never have walked the earth. What begins as a routine vigil spirals into a confrontation with an ancient truth—one whispered in tones no mortal was ever meant to hear. Tonight, a visitor steps out of legend and i...
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November 3, 2025 • 45 mins
In this haunting episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, guest host Nicholas Goroff invites you into the uneasy quiet of creative obsession—where deadlines whisper, inspiration corrodes, and the mind becomes its own worst adversary. Featuring a gripping performance by Geoff Sturtevant and atmospheric production by Drew Blood, tonight’s tale explores the razor-thin border between dedication and disaster… and what happens when tha...
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October 29, 2025 • 38 mins
In the quiet woods of Ohio, a summer camp’s final weekend of the season takes a dark turn when an innocent campfire story begins to feel far too real. Host Steve Taylor invites you to revisit one of the most haunting tales from the Chilling Tales for Dark Nights archives — a grim reminder that not all monsters hide under beds, and not every ghost story ends with a ghost. Featuring the late Jeffrey Ebright’s unforgettable classic “H...
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October 27, 2025 • 72 mins
In this chilling archive special, guest host Malcolm Blackwood (of Scary Stories Told in the Dark) takes the reins to resurrect a haunting classic from the early days of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights. Tonight’s broadcast invites you into the lab of a man who believed every mystery could be measured—until he tuned into something that was never meant to be heard. Turn up your volume—if you dare—and experience a story where curiosity...
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October 22, 2025 • 43 mins
Some debts aren’t paid in this life. When the lights go out and the doors lock behind you, faith becomes fear—and every sin demands its due. In this chilling episode hosted by Nick Goroff, journey into a world where guilt festers, churches whisper in the dark, and the line between justice and damnation disappears entirely. From the haunted imagination of J.M. Cennamo and the haunting voice of Erik Peabody comes a tale that asks: wh...
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October 20, 2025 • 44 mins
When the lights go out, the past comes calling. Host Steve Taylor invites you to revisit the haunted roots of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights in this special archival showcase — two chilling tales resurrected from the vault that built the house of horror. Within these stories lie the echoes of guilt, the whispers of something waiting just beyond the door, and the unmistakable pull of the dark when curiosity goes too far. Turn back t...
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October 15, 2025 • 45 mins
Beneath the whispering canopy of the northern woods, something ancient is stirring. The air is sharp with cold and fear, and the pines seem to watch as strangers trespass where they shouldn’t. When the fire dies and the last echo fades, only hunger remains—deep, patient, and waiting. In Chilling Tales for Dark Nights: Episode 412 – “Hunger in the Pines”, host Steve Taylor leads you into the heart of the wilderness, where madness we...
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October 13, 2025 • 37 mins
When the world has fallen silent and the last embers of daylight fade, even the faintest shadow can learn to whisper. In this haunting episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, host Steve Taylor guides listeners through a landscape where hope flickers, memory haunts, and the darkness is never as far away as it seems. Featuring “Melancholy” by Jasyn Turley — winner of the October Writing Challenge — this broadcast plunges into the ...
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October 8, 2025 • 45 mins
Reality doesn’t always play by the rules. In tonight’s episode, a quiet walk through a familiar park leads to something no camera can truly capture — a presence that shouldn’t exist, and a world beginning to break down around it. As perception falters and the lines between what’s real and what’s imagined blur, one thing becomes certain: some horrors don’t need to touch you to reach you. They just need to be seen.
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October 6, 2025 • 77 mins
Some homes are built to shelter us. Others are built to hide what we can’t bear to face. In this week’s chilling installment, host Steve Taylor invites you to step across the threshold of a house where every wall has a secret — and every secret has a body. Behind the façade of ordinary suburbia lies a legacy of obsession, guilt, and something far older and darker than madness itself. From the haunted imagination of Quincy Lee, “The...
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October 1, 2025 • 51 mins
This week, host Steve Taylor invites you to wade into waters best left untested. In our latest episode, faith and fear run together in dark currents, pulling you toward something ancient beneath the surface. When a forgotten journal resurfaces on the banks of an Ohio river, it whispers of devotion, madness, and the thin line between salvation and surrender. What begins as a story of love and belief soon becomes a chilling meditatio...
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October 1, 2025 • 43 mins
In this latest episode, we invite you to the chilling finale of our Evil Idol Resurrection series with Episode 407: “Dark Cures.” In this haunting installment, two unforgettable performances from the 2020 Evil Idol competition resurface, each exploring the terrible cost of salvation. From whispered bedtime tales that conceal unspeakable truths to a desperate act of devotion that opens the door to something far worse, these stories ...
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September 30, 2025 • 37 mins
In this episode, the fourth entry in Chilling Tales for Dark Nights’ chilling five-part series, host Steve Taylor resurrects one of the most unforgettable performances from the Evil Idol archives. A tale of family, memory, and the unearthly threads that bind us long after death takes center stage, delivered with haunting power by a finalist whose voice has lingered with listeners for years. Step into the dark and discover why this ...
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