The story concerns two well-behaved children, living with their mother and their baby sibling in the forest. One day the children meet a strange little girl, who tells them that she has a tiny man and woman in a box, and will only show them to naughty children. The children return home, and do their best to be naughty despite ... Read More »
New Chilling Tales narrator Otis Jiry brings this tale by Craig Groshek to life with his 15+ years of voiceover experience. Listen as he tells the tale of an old man and his young son, who live alone in the rural countryside in some very depressing conditions following the death of the boy’s mother. The boy, with no friends and ... Read More »
Voiceover artist Jonathan Jones narrates this well-produced original tale from the mind of writer Craig Groshek, which centers on a farmer named Richard Mayes and his wife, who is about to give birth to a son. From the beginning, they both know something is wrong, for the baby is growing exponentially and eating far more than is typical. Once the ... Read More »
Please welcome new Chilling Tales narrator Henrique Couto as he makes his first appearance on our site today! In this Scottish legend, as adapted by author John Macklin his book, World’s Most Bone-Chilling “True” Ghost Stories, a band of witches places a curse on an infant, and the girls’ guardians, in an attempt to protect her from the bizarre spell, ... Read More »
From Nancy Robert’s 1978 book Appalachian Ghosts comes this tale, originally titled “The Angel of Death,” about a woman and her ill husband. In a desperate attempt to make sense out of her new circumstances, the wife visits a witchwoman of sorts, and is told some alarming news: that under no circumstances is she to let anyone open the cemetery gate across ... 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 »
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 »
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 »
“The Big Toe” is a short horror film adaptation of the story of the same title as featured in Alvin Schwartz’s legendary book of scary folktales, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, about a poor boy who finds a big toe sticking out of the ground near a local cemetary. Being the resourceful chap he his, he decides to ... 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 »
From 1973 comes this rip of the infamous tale “The Dare” from vinyl record “Scary Spooky Stories,” a classic released by Troll Records and narrated by several of CBS Radio Workshop’s finest vocal talents of the day. Narrated by the legendary Ralph Bell, “The Dare” is about a boy who accepts a dare to go into a graveyard at midnight ... Read More »
From Ask the Bones, a collection of folklore adapted by authors Arielle North Olson and Howard Schwartz, comes this tale of an unemployed man, who at his time of desperation meets a cousin of his who invites him to stay with her, saving him from homelessness and, presumably, starvation. He and his family enjoy their new life with their cousin ... Read More »
Voiceover artist Jonathan Jones narrates this well-produced original tale from the mind of writer Craig Groshek, which centers on a farmer named Richard Mayes and his wife, who is about to give birth to a son. From the beginning, they both know something is wrong, for the baby is growing exponentially and eating far more than is typical. Once the ... Read More »
This short film was inspired by the short story of the same title, which is featured in the book Scary Stories 3 by Alvin Schwartz. Check it out - it’s an amazing collection of horror stories, with the most freakiest hand-drawn pictures ever. If you enjoyed this tale, perhaps you would be interested in the following items: Read More »
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