The best musical version of “The Hearse Song” I have ever heard – check out more of Harley Poe’s work online at www.chainsmokingrecords.com.  If you’re interested in purchasing the book this song/story was originally published in, click here to check out Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The Hearse Song Source: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Author: Alvin ... Read More »

Narrator Christina Cross tells this tale from Robert D. San Souci’s fantastic collection adapted folklore, Even More Short & Shivery, about a dying man and his friend, who wishes his companion would stop complaining and just die already.  Rather than wait for nature to take its inevitable course, they decide to tempt death in the most recent way possible: asking ... Read More »

In this short “story,” crisis is personified.  Crisis looms in the dark, waiting for the opportune moment to strike, threatening at all times to reduce you and everything you love to shambling wrecks. The text is from a British Red Cross advertisement written and launched in 2012.  Here, a creepy spin is put on it by UK narrator Steven Long ... Read More »

This wonderfully original and award-winning short-film by Matt Bloom of Hurricane Films is based on the theory that as death approaches time slows to a crawl.  The question is – who is going to die and how? *WINNER: BEST HORROR/SCI FI: London Independent Film Festival* *WINNER: PLATINUM REMI DIRECTING AWARD: WorldFest, Houston* *WINNER: SILVER ACE AWARD: Las Vegas Film Festival* ... Read More »

Voiceover artist Jonathan Jones tells this tale from Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark about a pair of young men who come across a strange creature in a farm field one afternoon.  Though they are not sure what “the thing” is at first, its purpose becomes clear many years later. The Thing Source: Scary Stories to Tell ... Read More »

WINNER: Best Short Film and Best Concept, 2006 Chicago Horror Film Festival, October (Chicago, IL) A pumpkin is kidnapped from the pumpkin patch, stabbed and disemboweled in a ritual known as “Halloween.” Brought to you by Blame Society Productions. Directed by Aaron Yonda Voice of Pumpkin…Matt Sloan Demon 1…Ouisia Whitaker-Devault Demon 2…Maya Whitaker-Long Demon 3…Carmen Prater-Bellver Demon 4…Sara Prater-Bellver Kidnapper ... Read More »