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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:

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe: A Snowbound Cabin Reading from Weekly Spooky Jan 12, 2024

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Snow surrounds Henrique Couto’s cabin as he reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Inside the poem, a grieving narrator tries to lose himself in books until a tapping sound brings an unexpected midnight visitor. The bird offers a single word, but each question makes its answer harder to bear. This complete Gothic poetry reading pairs a winter fireside atmosphere with Poe’s portrait of mourning, memory and obsession. Lenore is gone, the raven remains, and the narrator cannot stop asking for comfort from a voice that has none to give. A quiet night becomes an intimate descent into dread.
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Homecoming Queen Killer Part 2: Loralee Returns & a Rivalry Turns Bloody Jan 10, 2024

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The girl Melisande tried to resurrect is now walking the school halls under another name. Rob Fields’s “Homecoming Queen Killer: Part 2” follows Loralee Hardy as she approaches the goth teenager who attempted the cemetery spell. Attraction grows, but a vicious homecoming contest and Loralee’s possessive instincts make romance dangerous. A job at Roth’s Rings promises ordinary teenage life; the violence surrounding the candidates suggests something else. This supernatural slasher chapter continues the five-part Shore City saga. Begin with Part 1 before meeting the new transfer student.
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Blood and Snow: A Murdered Heiress Rises in the Backwoods of Strickfield – Best of 2023 Jan 08, 2024

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A teenage heiress flees a gunman into a blizzard, where the Backwoods of Strickfield hold something worse than the cold. In Rob Fields’s “Blood and Snow,” Veronica Grande’s inheritance has made her a target, and the family conflict follows her toward a poisoned river. A later expedition finds bare footprints and signs that the wilderness has not kept its dead. This feature-length Best of 2023 story combines winter survival, supernatural revenge and a fortune nobody can claim safely. The searchers came prepared for snow. They are less prepared for what walks through it.
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Unknown Broadcast | Malice Aforethought: A Country Doctor’s Calculated Poison-Murder Trial Jan 07, 2024

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A country doctor begins treating his wife’s headaches with a plan to make himself a widower. Unknown Broadcast presents “Malice Aforethought,” a Suspense adaptation of Francis Iles’s crime novel. Edmund Bickleigh wants freedom from Julia and a future with another woman; his medical authority offers a way to disguise calculation as care. But a confident explanation can become dangerous when other people remember its details. This psychological murder drama follows an apparently respectable man whose greatest weakness may be his belief that he has considered everything.
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Prom Queen Killer: Complete Strickfield High Slasher Miniseries | SLASHBACK Jan 05, 2024

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Prom-queen candidates are being murdered, and an unexpected nomination puts Loralee Hardy in the contest. Rob Fields’s complete four-part “Prom Queen Killer” follows the vicious campaign at Strickfield High, where wealthy rival Taylor Mirren intends to win and secrets threaten every friendship. Queer romance, family trauma and masked-killer suspense build toward the dance everyone is preparing for—and some students will never attend. This feature-length SLASHBACK collects the whole high-school slasher mystery in order. Who wants the crown badly enough to kill for it?
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Homecoming Queen Killer Part 1 of 5 — Loralee Hardy Rises from the Grave Jan 03, 2024

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After a cemetery dare, Strickfield’s Prom Queen Killer is walking again. Rob Fields’s “Homecoming Queen Killer: Part 1” opens a five-part supernatural slasher saga as goth teenager Melisande LaPalla attempts a resurrection spell on Loralee Hardy’s grave. At Shore City East High, a new homecoming contest is already breeding threats and jealousy. Melisande does not realize what may have followed her home—or how dangerous its idea of devotion can be. This opening chapter pairs undead romance with school rivalry and a killer who sees protection as permission to murder.
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Over the Scare — Demonic Radio Séance Horror | Best of 2023 Jan 01, 2024

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A recovered cassette captures a radio stunt becoming a demonic emergency. In Henrique Couto’s “Over the Scare,” Rick and Rock invite New Orleans medium Sophia Martin into the WGAB studio, expecting jokes and a ratings boost. A challenge to prove her powers brings a presence called Lock onto the air—and into the hosts’ private lives. This Best of 2023 audio horror story combines talk-radio satire, possession and buried guilt, making every caller part of a broadcast that should have ended sooner.
Starring Henrique Couto, Dan York and Rachael Redolfi.
Sponsored by HenFlix: https://henflix.com/.
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Unknown Broadcast | Russian New Year: Bomb Plot at Saint Basil’s Cathedral Dec 31, 2023

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A New Year’s service at Saint Basil’s Cathedral becomes the target of a revolutionary plot. Boris wants the tsar and imperial court dead; Prince Ogarev has a private grievance that makes him useful. Unknown Broadcast presents “Russian New Year,” a Suspense drama in which servant Olga Korolska is drawn between devotion and political violence. Snow and celebration fill the square while the conspirators prepare their attack. This historical thriller asks what happens when the people inside a planned explosion stop being symbols and become someone the plotters cannot bear to lose.
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Four New Year’s Horror Stories — Devils, Ghosts and Deadly Bargains Dec 29, 2023

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Four New Year’s horror stories make midnight a dangerous threshold. Dan Wilder’s “Even the Devil Tells the Truth, Sometimes,” “Satan’s Shotgun” and “Stakes n’ Shoguns” bring infernal bargains, undead gunslingers and Dracula’s legacy into the turning of a year. David O’Hanlon’s “A Few Cold Ones” adds a modern holiday encounter with its own deadly possibilities. Narrated by Henrique Couto, this collection mixes supernatural Westerns, revenge, dark comedy and blood-soaked resolutions. Old debts do not disappear just because the calendar changes—and some creditors have all eternity to collect.
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Alien Zombie Punks from Upstate New York: A New Year’s Eve Invasion at Max’s Kansas City Dec 27, 2023

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New Year’s Eve at Max’s Kansas City becomes an alien massacre in Dan Wilder’s “Alien Zombie Punks from Upstate New York.” Three friends drive through the snow for a night of loud bands and cheap thrills, but shadow creatures tear through the club before meteors bring the attack into the streets. A fleeing punk discovers that some victims are getting back up—and they are not looking for another concert. This science-fiction horror comedy mixes New York’s punk scene with extraterrestrial invasion and fast-moving zombies. Can friendship survive a night that changes what it means to be alive?
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