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Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

Weekly Spooky is your year-round Halloween podcast for scary stories: original horror fiction, urban legends, haunted places, cryptids and dark folklore, alongside true crime, paranormal mysteries and horror history.

Hosted by filmmaker and narrator Henrique Couto, the feed combines cinematic horror stories, dark humor, twist endings, old-time radio nightmares, horror-movie discussion, and investigations into the strange and unexplained. Recurring programs include Weekly Spooky fiction, Terrifying & True, Thursday Thrills, Unknown Broadcast, This Week in Horror History, Cutting Deep Into Horror, Monthly Spooky, and seasonal story compilations.

During Halloween and spooky season, discover scary stories of haunted houses, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, urban legends, ghost stories, monster encounters, and long-form horror marathons for late-night listening, fall drives, and Halloween parties. Mature themes included.

Explore the complete world of Weekly Spooky at https://weeklyspooky.com/ and follow the podcast for new nightmares throughout the week.

Copyright: © Copyright Henrique Couto

Latest Episodes:

6 Holiday Horror Stories — Killer Santas, Christmas Ghosts & Winter Terror Dec 19, 2024

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Six Christmas horror stories make holiday refuge, Santa’s helpers and family reunions dangerously unreliable. This Weekly Spooky marathon runs over three hours, narrated by Henrique Couto.
Includes “Xmas at the Psych Ward” by Bruce Haney; “Christmas at Pendleton Way Station” and “Inner Raige” by Rob Fields; “Santa’s Little Helper” by Charles Campbell; “The Day That Santa Died” by Keith Tomlin; and “Scary Christmas to All” by David O’Hanlon. From a snowbound ward to the North Pole, the season of giving becomes a season of survival.
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More scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/
Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Christmas at Murder Mansion: Bethany, Harpy & the Ghosts of Grimm Manor Dec 18, 2024

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Harmony Mirren needs help from someone she has treated badly: Bethany Martinson’s nighttime counterpart, Harpy. A Christmas encounter leads them back to Grimm Manor, where dangerous spirits have unfinished business. Rob Fields’s “Christmas at Murder Mansion” turns a holiday rescue into a return to Strickfield’s notorious haunted house, combining ghostly revenge with an uneasy alliance. Bethany and Harpy know the mansion is no place for a festive visit. Getting everyone safely away may require more than surviving the ghosts.
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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More scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/
Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Cutting Deep Into Horror | Better Watch Out (2016): Christmas Home-Invasion Horror Dec 17, 2024

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A babysitting job becomes a Christmas nightmare in “Better Watch Out” (2016), but the familiar home-invasion setup has something vicious hiding inside it. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi unpack the holiday thriller’s shifting power dynamics, cruel surprises and performances, including Olivia DeJonge as Ashley. Cutting Deep explores how the film uses the safety of a decorated suburban home to unsettle its audience. This conversation includes full spoilers, so watch before joining the discussion if you want its twists preserved.
Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.
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More scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/
Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Christmas Eve Babysitters — A Strickfield Holiday Horror Story Dec 16, 2024

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A Christmas Eve babysitting job promises Mona Ables and Bailey Downs easy holiday money. At the Mirren home, the parents offer generous tips—and somehow already know Bailey’s name. Then a monster crashes through the glass doors, leaving the two friends scrambling to protect the children. Rob Fields’s “Christmas Eve Babysitters” turns pizza and a movie into a fight for survival in Strickfield. This Christmas horror story mixes a creature attack with a household full of secrets, including what happened to the family’s previous sitter.
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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Unknown Broadcast | House of Fear — Disturbing Art, Murder Plots & Psychological Suspense Dec 15, 2024

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Fear enters a house, a painting, a bank teller’s life and a crowded restaurant in four vintage radio dramas. Unknown Broadcast presents “House of Fear,” “Fear Paints a Picture,” “Fear” and “Pattern for Fear,” drawing from The Whistler, Suspense, CBS Radio Mystery Theater and Inner Sanctum. Lana Turner stars in a story where a portrait becomes unsettlingly personal, while other characters discover how quickly ordinary anxieties can become dangerous obsessions. More than two hours of old-time radio suspense turn familiar rooms and routines into places of suspicion.
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Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

A Cruel Yule — Three Christmas Horror Novellas Dec 14, 2024

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Three Christmas horror novellas turn Strickfield’s holiday traditions into a long night of supernatural danger. “The Mall Overnight” brings terror after closing; “Home Sweet Horror” leads into an orphanage nightmare; and “Christmas Arcadia” draws its characters toward a deadly holiday game. Written by Rob Fields and narrated by Henrique Couto, “A Cruel Yule” collects all three feature-length stories in more than four hours of festive horror. Familiar faces, strange bargains and Christmas monsters make this a marathon for listeners ready to spend the season somewhere unsafe.
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Secret Santa: An Office Gift Exchange Reopens a Deadly Rejected Romance Dec 13, 2024

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An office Secret Santa exchange gives Floyd Bennett another reason to think about Carol Tatum—and a rejected romance he has not put behind him. What should be a harmless workplace tradition becomes charged with resentment, expectation and a gift whose meaning is anything but simple. Charles Campbell’s “Secret Santa” turns the familiar rituals of an office Christmas into a psychological horror story about obsession and the danger of treating another person’s choice as unfinished business. Some presents should stay wrapped.
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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7 Stories of Mistletoe and Mayhem! Horrifying Tales of Christmas! Dec 12, 2024

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Seven Christmas horror stories turn festive food, wish lists and family traditions into trouble. Includes “Christmas Cranberries” by L. F. Falconer; “The Naughty List” by Keith Tomlin; “Lady Frankenstein” by Rob Fields; “All I Want for Christmas” by Morgan Moore; “Blood on the Snow” by Shane Migliavacca; “Twelve Days” by Mike Ashkewe; and “A Christmas to Remember” by Joe Solmo.
Narrated by Henrique Couto, this Mistletoe Mayhem collection brings more than two hours of holiday monsters, dark wishes and seasonal suspense to your longest winter evening.
Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.
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A Chain Letter Christmas: Charity Mirren Faces the Curse That Killed Her Dec 11, 2024

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Charity Mirren and Mica Collins thought they had destroyed the chain letters that threatened them. Then a Christmas card arrives with a new version of the curse—and a sender determined to finish what he started. Rob Fields’s “A Chain Letter Christmas” returns to Strickfield for a supernatural revenge story where a holiday greeting carries deadly instructions. Can Charity and Mica break a curse designed specifically for them, or has their enemy found the one message they cannot escape? Be careful which envelope you open.
Sponsored by HenFlix.com.
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Cutting Deep Into Horror | The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017): Guilt, Revenge, and Family Horror Dec 10, 2024

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A surgeon’s connection to a teenage boy becomes an impossible threat to his family in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (2017). Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi discuss Yorgos Lanthimos’s unsettling psychological horror, with Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan at the center of its cold, increasingly nightmarish exchanges. Cutting Deep examines guilt, punishment and the unbearable choice driving the film, including its deliberately uncomfortable performances. Full spoilers: this conversation goes through the story and its ending.
Sponsored by https://henflix.com/.
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More scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/
Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

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