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Weekly Spooky: Scary Halloween Stories | Terrifying Tales to Creep Your Night

Weekly Spooky: Scary Halloween Stories | Terrifying Tales to Creep Your Night

By: Henrique Couto | Halloween Horror Expert | Master of Horror Stories
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Explore urban legends, haunted houses, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, and cryptids in expertly narrated, mature-themed stories perfect for spooky season. Every Monday and Wednesday, get scary frights with cinematic sound design, dark humor, and twist endings.

Whether you're into horror stories, creepy legends, or seasonal specials, Weekly Spooky delivers the scariest stories for late-night chills, road trips, and binge listening. Discover more at WeeklySpooky.com, and fuel your spooky season with terrifying tales—mature themes included.

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  • This Week in Horror History | Misery, Scrooge & Violent Night

    This Week in Horror History | Misery, Scrooge & Violent Night
    Nov 25 2025
    This Week in Horror History is your winter horror watchlist, breaking down Christmas horror movies, winter thrillers, and classic ghost stories for the week of November 26–December 2. In this episode of the Weekly Spooky horror podcast, host Henrique Couto revisits Misery (1990), Scrooge / A Christmas Carol (1951), Violent Night (2022), deep-cut sequel The Descent Part 2 (2009), and cult anthology Deadtime Stories (1986) to help you build the perfect cold-weather horror marathon.We start in the snow with Misery (1990), Rob Reiner’s adaptation of Stephen King’s cabin-fever nightmare. A bestselling author crashes in a blizzard and wakes up trapped with his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, whose devotion turns surgical. It’s tense, wintry, and weirdly cozy in that “stuck inside with the storm howling outside” way—perfect for the dark days after Thanksgiving.How to watch (U.S.): You can see it for free on Tubi, or rent it wherever you like to do that sort of thing.Then we slide straight into holiday hauntings with Scrooge / A Christmas Carol (1951), one of the most iconic Christmas ghost stories ever filmed. Alastair Sim’s Ebenezer Scrooge is dragged through past, present, and a terrifying future by rattling chains, graveyards, and skeletal specters. It’s gothic, eerie, and still strangely comforting—a reminder that Christmas horror began with moral dread and vengeful spirits long before killer Santas.How to watch (U.S.): You can watch it free on Tubi, on Plex, or wherever you rent your movies.From there we jump to modern holiday carnage with Violent Night (2022), where Santa picks up a sledgehammer and goes to war with mercenaries during a Christmas Eve hostage situation. It’s loud, cathartic, funny, and surprisingly sweet at its core—ideal Black Friday recovery viewing when you want bloody Christmas action, tinsel, and a very bad night for the naughty list.How to watch (U.S.): It’s streaming on Peacock, or you can snag it anywhere you rent digital movies.The Deep Cut Spotlight crawls underground with The Descent Part 2 (2009), the much-maligned cave sequel that deserves another look. Sarah is dragged out of the caves amnesiac and traumatized, only to be pressured into leading a rescue team back into the darkness. What follows is a brutal, grim follow-up packed with creatures that feel a little too plausible—perfect “cozy nightmare fuel” as you settle into your turkey coma and wonder what’s lurking just beyond your flashlight beam.How to watch (U.S.): It’s free to watch on Plex, or rentable wherever you normally pick up digital horror movies.To cap the episode, Henrique recommends Deadtime Stories (1986), a trashy, off-the-wall horror anthology movie that leans into fairy-tale weirdness and late-night TV vibes. It feels tailor-made for cold-weather sleepovers: campy, bizarre, and just dangerous enough to feel like you shouldn’t be watching it right before bed.How to watch (U.S.): You can watch it free on TubiTV, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, Fandango at Home Free, and Plex, or with a subscription on Amazon Prime Video and Sling TV.Along the way, we roll through the Birthday Roll, raising a drumstick to horror favorites like Peter Facinelli, Joe Dante, and Nestor Carbonell, and talk about how Christmas horror has evolved—from the moral reckoning of Scrooge to Santa as bruised action hero and the creeping dread of being trapped, whether you’re snowed in or sealed underground. If you’re hunting for winter horror movies and Christmas horror classics to plug into your December calendar, this week’s horror history has you covered.This episode is sponsored by Cozy Earth — ultra-soft, temperature-regulating bamboo sheets, comforters, and loungewear that keep you warm without overheating while you binge scary movies. Get comfy, my spookies! 41% off at CozyEarth.com with code SPOOKY — supports the show!🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com
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    22 mins
  • Monthly Spooky | Haunted Mansions, Holiday Scares, and the Sin Eater!

    Monthly Spooky | Haunted Mansions, Holiday Scares, and the Sin Eater!
    Nov 24 2025
    Thanksgiving horror, turkey-day traditions, haunted mansions, Sin Eater folklore. Henrique & Michelle serve cozy table talk (leftovers, cranberry, Black Friday) before carving into eerie headlines and a feast-themed deep dive into the Sin Eater—perfect for the season of big meals and bigger myths.

    Inside this episode
    • Turkey-day talk: best leftovers (mashed-potato + cranberry sandwich), Black Friday timing and plans.
    • Feature: The Sin Eater — where the legend comes from, how the ritual worked, and why it lingers at the holidays.
    • Haunted house vibes and post-dinner horror movie picks (ideal “day-after-Thanksgiving” viewing).

    Plus fresh spooky news
    • Haunted palace reports from abroad.
    • Skyfire & booms: meteor/fireball sightings.
    • Archaeology shocks: Roman sarcophagus discovery and 1,700 historic graves unearthed in the Midwest.

    This episode is sponsored by Cozy Earth — ultra-soft, temperature-regulating bamboo sheets, comforters, and loungewear that keep you warm without overheating while you binge scary movies. Get comfy, my spookies! 41% off at CozyEarth.com with code SPOOKY — supports the show!

    🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!

    🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!
    👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join

    📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!
    • Twitter: @WeeklySpooky
    • Facebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpooky
    • Email: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

    🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !
    👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
    🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
    🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com
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    2 hrs and 12 mins
  • Unknown Broadcast | Family Secrets & Fatal Footfalls: Four Horror Stories of Murder and Betrayal

    Unknown Broadcast | Family Secrets & Fatal Footfalls: Four Horror Stories of Murder and Betrayal
    Nov 23 2025
    We return with old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR, and radio suspense for a pre-Thanksgiving vigil, my dear—where family tables creak, footsteps count down to doom, and a song in the parlor hushes murderous hearts. Tonight’s reliquary opens to four chillers, a clutch of shadows to keep the knives honest and the lights low.
    • 🕰️ Family Ties — The portrait smiles, the phone rings, and blood remembers what the living forget, my dear.
    • 🥧 Just One Happy Little Family — The perfect supper setting: polite voices, careful smiles… and a place set for catastrophe.
    • 🪜 Seven Steps to Murder — Count them softly: one through seven, each a rung lower into the dark. The Whistler is listening.
    • 🐦 Birdsong for a Murder — A gentle tune cages terrible impulses; the canary sings while the heart sharpens its beak. (A fitting hymn in this “time of giving thanks,” is it not?)

    Draw closer. We’ll carve the silence and pass the fear—Unknown Broadcast for lovers of classic OTR horror storiesand radio suspense, my dear. Keep listening; the dark is so very patient.

    🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!

    🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!
    👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join

    📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!
    • Twitter: @WeeklySpooky
    • Facebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpooky
    • Email: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

    🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !
    👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
    🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
    🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com
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    1 hr and 56 mins
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