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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:

Santa’s Little Helper: A Monster Child Turns Christmas Eve into a Bloodbath Dec 16, 2023

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A small-town Santa gets a new helper whose smile contains far too many teeth. Charles Campbell’s “Santa’s Little Helper” follows Ronnie Baxley through a bitter Christmas Eve at a South Carolina tree-lighting celebration. His usual elf is missing, the pay is poor and the people in line offer little kindness. Then a strange child named Sarah volunteers to help—and seems unusually sensitive to cruelty. This dark holiday creature story turns humiliation and resentment into a partnership Ronnie never expected. Someone is finally taking Santa’s side. That may be terrible news for everyone else.
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Christmas at Pendleton Way Station — Cassillia Taibon Battles an Undead Santa Dec 15, 2023

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In 2099, Santa Claus has become a raider of the settlements surviving Hellweaver’s apocalypse. Rob Fields’s “Christmas at Pendleton Way Station” sends Cassillia Taibon into a winter stronghold that will trade a vital device only if she protects its people through Christmas. Zombie elves, corrupted reindeer and a bloodthirsty Saint Nick make the bargain a battle for survival. This science-fantasy horror adventure continues Cassillia’s mission through a ruined future, where holiday visitors arrive armed and hungry. Can one traveler hold the station until morning?
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Christmas Horror Books with Cameron Chaney of Library Macabre Dec 14, 2023

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Build a darker December reading pile with Henrique Couto and Cameron Chaney of Library Macabre. Their Christmas horror conversation includes R. L. Stine’s “Silent Night,” “Secret Santa” and the anthology “Hark! The Herald Angels Scream,” moving between holiday slashers, horror comedy and unsettling winter fiction. Cameron also discusses his own “Autumncrow High: Fresh Hell.” This book-focused episode explores the pleasure of getting comfortable with a story designed to make you uncomfortable. Familiar traditions, snowbound nights and carefully wrapped gifts can all hide something worth reading after dark.
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Christmas at the Psych Ward: A Killer Santa Stalks Sumpter Behavioral Health Dec 13, 2023

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A Santa-suited killer turns a snowbound psychiatric ward into a maze with no easy exit. Bruce Haney’s “Christmas at the Psych Ward” follows Caleb and fellow patients at Sumpter Behavioral Health Center as communications fail and they must rely on one another to survive. Holiday isolation becomes an immediate threat, forcing Caleb to confront his despair while other lives depend on his choices. This Christmas slasher story combines friendship, vulnerability and the fight to be believed when help is out of reach. Contains suicidal themes and graphic violence.
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Doorway to Horror — A Cursed Movie Leads to a Vampire Dimension Dec 12, 2023

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A Christmas movie night opens a doorway into a town full of vampires. In Rob Fields’s “Doorway to Horror,” Mouse, Arial, Mona and Bailey watch an unfamiliar disc at a holiday sleepover, then find Strickfield changed beyond recognition. The sky stays dark, familiar faces are hungry and the film that might take them home has vanished. This feature-length cursed-media adventure combines alternate realities, vampire survival and the friendships that hold the Strickfield stories together. Finding the disc means crossing a place that remembers their faces for entirely different reasons.
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Terrifying & True | Ronald Gene Simmons: The Christmas Familicide & Arkansas Mass Murder Dec 11, 2023

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Ronald Gene Simmons killed sixteen people in Arkansas during Christmas week in 1987. Terrifying & True follows the family isolation and abuse preceding the murders, the killings at the household and the later attacks in Russellville. Written by Morgan Moore, this episode examines the investigation and court proceedings without losing sight of the relatives, children and coworkers whose lives were taken. A holiday gathering became part of a plan built around control and grievance. What warning signs surrounded Simmons before the violence reached its final days? We're telling that story tonight.
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Unknown Broadcast | Cold Storage & Murder Comes at Midnight — Gothic Graves and Maritime Peril Dec 10, 2023

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A mother declared dead is still alive, and her son wants to keep his inheritance. “Cold Storage” opens four vintage radio dramas with a Gothic family secret, followed by the seafaring revenge of “Habit,” a rented country house in “Murder Comes at Midnight” and John Dickson Carr’s crime puzzle “Nothing Up My Sleeve.” Unknown Broadcast gathers CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Inner Sanctum and Suspense, with Ruby Dee and John Baragrey starring in the first tale. From a concealed captive to a captain steering toward danger, familiar routines become cover for motives nobody should trust.
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A Christmas to Remember — A Snowbound Road Trip Becomes an Organ-Theft Nightmare Dec 09, 2023

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A Christmas drive home ends in a snowy ditch, and the strangers who stop to help have something else in mind. Joe Solmo’s “A Christmas to Remember” follows a man returning north after nearly a decade away. His pickup overturns on the New York State Thruway, leaving him injured, freezing and desperate for rescue. The figures approaching through the blizzard seem like his only chance—until their conversation turns toward what they can take from him. This holiday body-horror story makes roadside help an organ-harvesting nightmare. What will a Christmas miracle cost someone else?
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Cutting Deep Into Horror | Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984): Killer Santa, Trauma and Controversy Dec 08, 2023

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A childhood trauma, a Santa suit and a disastrous holiday shift turn Christmas into a slasher nightmare. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit “Silent Night, Deadly Night” (1984) on Cutting Deep Into Horror, discussing the film that made a murderous Santa one of horror’s most notorious seasonal images. The conversation explores its disturbing setup, holiday atmosphere and place in Christmas horror, with spoilers for the movie. Join the hosts for a closer look at how cheerful decorations and familiar traditions become part of Billy’s terror—and why this dark December staple still provokes discussion.
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Christmas Horror Movie Watchlist — Gremlins, Deadly Games & Darker Holiday Picks Dec 07, 2023

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Build a Christmas horror watchlist with Henrique Couto and David Denoyer as they talk through seasonal films that put monsters, murder and mayhem beside the tree. Their picks include “Gremlins,” “Deadly Games” (also known as “Dial Code Santa Claus”) and “Black Xmas” (2006), spanning mischievous creature chaos, a child’s fight against a holiday intruder and a bloodier return to a slasher setting. This movie conversation offers a route beyond a single killer-Santa formula. Find a familiar favorite to revisit or a stranger holiday discovery, with two horror fans explaining what makes their choices worth a winter night.
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