“The Man in the Black Suit” is a short story by Stephen King. It was originally published in the October 31, 1994 issue of The New Yorker magazine. In 1995, it won the World Fantasy Award and the O. Henry Award for Best Short Fiction. In 1997, it was published in the limited-edition collection Six Stories. In 2002, it was ... Read More »
Welcome to Chilling Tales For Dark Nights our newest narrator – Emma Froh! Emma’s stories have been featured here before, narrated by our other voiceover artists, but this is her first appearance as a narrator. In this mesmerizing tale narrated by Emma Froh, author Christopher Bloodworth introduces us to an unnamed mother and her son Jesse. Life is normal until ... Read More »
A mother and her daughter are on a leisurely ride across empty, rolling country. The good times are shattered when Mom turns a blind corner and crashes into a deer in the road. The collision sends the van off the road and down into a field where it comes to rest upside down. Miraculously, both of them have survived, but Mom ... Read More »
Jonathan Jones narrates this first-person psychological tale of terror by author Georgia Brandon, about a man living alone in an apartment, who is kept awake at night by the noises emanating from his neighbor’s apartment. His paper-thin walls do nothing to soften the banging…or the tapping…the desperate, pleading tapping, which seems to beg for his attention. Who…or what…is trying to ... Read More »
A man, scorned by his ex, plots to steal the newborn child that she had with another man – at any cost. This original story by Mr. Al Bruno III is narrated by none other than the one and only Mr. Creepypasta himself. Please welcome him to Chilling Tales For Dark Nights as he narrates this submission from one of ... Read More »
Keenon Brevik voices this tale written by author Craig Groshek, about a hopelessly stubborn man whose very stubbornness leads to his untimely disappearance. The story was produced as an entry into the Wisconsin Public Radio “flash fiction” horror writing contest in October 2012. To see/hear more of Keenon Brevik, check out his YouTube channel here. Curfew Source: Chilling Tales For Dark ... Read More »
This is perhaps the most popular creepypasta story / meme on the entire Internet, with the exception of Slenderman. It is the story of a disgruntled youth who goes to extreme measures to change his appearance after becoming a sociopath rather suddenly, following some…unpleasant…events. The rendition of the tale is told here by YouTube phenomenon Mr. Creepypasta. Please show your ... Read More »
One day, a man finds the hay bales from his farm scattered all over his fields, and at first assumes that it is the work of pranksters. But when he attempts to put the bales back, he upsets the actual culprit. The perpetrator soon sends him a macabre message – a message that changes everything. And then the man sees ... Read More »
A wonderfully short and haunting tale of a little girl, her mother and a lone tree out in a field which would be better off left alone – written and produced by author Katy Towell. Her neighbor warned them, but everyone knows that meddling neighbors can’t be trusted. Right? Click here to check out Katy Towell’s published books! Don’t Go ... Read More »
An excellent animated short horror film written and produced by Emlyn Boyle. It is based on a rhyme he wrote in 2008. Per Emlyn himself, “Anyone who really loves ghost stories, gothic tales, horror stories, Halloween, scary rhymes, macabre poetry, gothic fairy tales, vampire stuff, Tim Burton movies, or just films and animation in general should appreciate it.” And we do! ... Read More »
This is the story of a girl named Tilly, who hears a disembodied voice calling to her in the night, and each night it gets closer, and closer…and closer. This tale comes from an amazing classic scary folktale book entitled Whistle in the Graveyard by author Maria Leach. It has been out of print for years, but if you can ... Read More »
In this S.E. Schlosser tale of terror from Pennsylvania, featured on Schlosser’s website, www.americanfolklore.net, as well as in her published collection of Texas folktales and scary stories, Spooky Pennsylvania: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore, a couple gets into a car wreck in quite possibly the worst location possible – the site of a grisly axe murder in Erie, Pennsylvania. ... Read More »
In this S.E. Schlosser tale of terror from Texas, featured on Schlosser’s website, www.americanfolklore.net, as well as in her published collection of Texas folktales and scary stories, Spooky Texas: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore, a cocky fiddle player comes face-to-face with a challenger in a bar and the two agree to a duel of sorts. But the fiddle ... Read More »
Narrated by Anne Marie, this is the tale of a mother, in needle of a cradle for her newborn baby, who just happens to find one washed ashore, and decides to take it home. When the cradle begins rocking itself, the mother blames it on the wind. But the truth soon comes out. This classic tale comes from the epic ... Read More »
This is the story of a shopkeeper who sees the same woman rush into her store several nights in a row, always grabbing a bottle of milk and then running out into the night. After several nights of this bizarre behavior, he and a few friends decide to follow her, to find that she is returning – to a graveyard. ... Read More »
From the book Railway Ghosts and Highway Horrors by Daniel Cohen, and as narrated by storyteller Barnabas Deimos, comes this thrilling retelling of a tale from the desolate highways of the United States. Prior to reading the story in this book, I had never heard this particular tale, which revolves around a truck driver who visits a diner late at night which ... Read More »
In January 2012 the winner of a contest to promote Daniel Radcliffe’s new movie “The Woman in Black” was announced. Budding young writer, Nicola Torch, age 16, from Lancashire, England, beat 177 other haunting and harrowing tales to become the winning entry with her story “Fear of Hue.” The story is a classic tale of a haunting. As part of ... Read More »
From the book Scary Story Reader, as narrated by storyteller Steven Long, comes this retelling of a tale from Ireland about a spoiled youth named Tad O’Cain, who after spending many nights in bars engaged in all sorts of debauchery, gets a wake-up call to return to a more noble lifestyle. What it takes to get him to realize the ... Read More »
Craig Groshek tells this short tale about an Irish parish priest named Father McSweeny, who was unpopular but respected in life and who died young, to the relief of many. But rather than rest in peace, Father McSweeny had other plans. Original story source: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t12596.html Father McSweeny Author: Anonymous Narrator: Craig Groshek Father McSweeny, an Irish priest, returned to the town ... Read More »
Today Jonathan Jones and Chilling Tales bring you something a bit different. This original short story by author Kayla Anderson, produced here with her kind permission, tells the tale of a girl left alone as her father went off to war. She is left to tend to a mirror in the basement of their home, tasked with cleaning it daily ... Read More »
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