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FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of Terror
Enjoy a family fright night with classic chills and traditional thrills.
FRIGHTLY! brings classic ghost stories, weird fiction, and original tales of the uncanny into the cold light of your headphones (or car). From haunted manors to twisted minds, discover Gothic atmosphere, psychological suspense, and the unsettling beauty of a well-told tale. Hear the masters of the macabre alongside new stories that carry on their haunting traditions. Some tales deliver a shiver; others let the unease creep…
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FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence — How Much Luck Is Enough?
A beautiful woman married for love, and the love turned to dust. The family lives in style, always a little past its means, and the house has started to…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Willows - Part Two by Algernon Blackwood — Something Beyond the River Is Watching
Below Vienna, the Danube floods out into a wilderness of sandbars and willow scrub that the maps mark only as marshes. Two old friends, an Englishman and a…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Willows - Part One by Algernon Blackwood — Something Beyond the River Is Watching
Below Vienna, the Danube floods out into a wilderness of sandbars and willow scrub that the maps mark only as marshes. Two old friends, an Englishman and a…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorYuki-Onna by Lafcadio Hearn — A Promise Made in the Storm
A blizzard on the river. A ferryman’s empty hut. An old woodcutter and his young apprentice bar the door and wait for morning. Lafcadio Hearn’s retelling of a…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Hum by Don McDonald — A Widower Follows a Sound Beneath His House
It starts on a Tuesday in October, at ten minutes to three in the morning. A low tone with no seam in it. Hollis Pike's neighbors can't hear it. His phone…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Is the Cure Worse Than the Illness?
John is a physician, and he has a plan for his wife. Rest. Fresh air. No visitors who might excite her. Absolutely no writing. He's rented a colonial mansion…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorBelow Ten Thousand by Don McDonald — All the Time and No Time
He has four words. He's had them for forty-two years. He's said them in the car, he's said them in the shower with the water running, and he still can't get…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Black Cat — A Classic Tale of Human Horror by Edgar Allan Poe
As a boy he was teased for his tenderness. He kept birds, rabbits, a dog, a small monkey. And a cat, enormous and entirely black, who followed him from room to…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorStill Water by Don McDonald — Four aircraft carriers in a lake?
Dr. Nathan Cole measures water for a living. It's quiet work, gauges and spreadsheets, the slow arithmetic of things that don't change much. Then a reservoir…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorLuella Miller – A Chilling Classic Short Story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Everyone in town has a story about Luella Miller. She never seems to lift a hand, yet somehow, help is always at her side. And those who give it—well, they…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorAutopay — An Original Short Story by Don McDonald
There is a job nobody warns you about. After the dying comes the paperwork, the hold music, the strangers in call centers who need proof that she is gone. For…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Hanging Stranger — A Classic Sci-Fi Horror Tale by Philip K. Dick
Ed Loyce spends his days fixing radios and televisions in a small town where nothing much happens. One evening he climbs out of his basement workroom, walks…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorHis Own Voice — An Original Story by Don McDonald
Winter, 1906. A clerk who speaks to no one from Saturday to Monday buys a mahogany graphophone for far less than it’s worth. The widow selling it keeps her…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorMurder of Crows – an Original Short Story by Don McDonald
There’s a reason crows gather in cemeteries. They remember. They watch. And sometimes, they wait. Murder of Crows isn’t a tale borrowed from the past—it’s one…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Boarded Window — A Classic Haunting Tale by Ambrose Bierce
In 1830, a few miles from what would one day become Cincinnati, the forest still ran unbroken. A man named Murlock lived alone at the edge of it, in a log…
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FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Willow Walk — A Classic Tale by Sinclair Lewis
Jasper Holt counts other people's money at the Lumber National Bank, and he is very good at it. Out in Rosebank, at the end of a brick path a block long and…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorAugust Heat — A Classic Tale by W.F. Harvey
August 20th, 1910. The worst heat in living memory, the kind that flattens a city and slows the blood. An artist named James Clarence Withencroft spends the…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Rips — An Original Story by Don McDonald
There are things we expect from the world. Walls stay still. Rooms hold their shape. The spaces we live in behave. And when they don’t, we look for…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Diary of a Madman – A Classic Tale of Terror by Guy de Maupassant
There is a special horror in hearing a mind unravel from the inside. In The Diary of a Madman, Guy de Maupassant pulls us into the private writings of a man…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Tell-Tale Heart – A Classic Tale of Terror by Edgar Allan Poe
A man insists he is calm… reasonable… even kind. Yet something small and ordinary, something most people would ignore, begins to consume him. It creeps into…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorA Haunted House–a Classic Ghost Story by Virginia Woolf
There’s a certain kind of ghost story that doesn’t knock at the door or rattle chains. It whispers. It lingers. It asks you to listen a little more closely…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Damned Thing–a Classic Scary Story by Ambrose Bierce
In this unsettling tale, Ambrose Bierce invites us to witness an inquest—one that begins as a routine matter and unravels into something far stranger. A man…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Monkey's Paw–a Classic Tale of Terror by W.W. Jacobs
There are stories that whisper warnings, and then there are stories that lean in close and breathe those warnings right into your ear. This is one of the…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Pale Man–a Classic Scary Story by Julius Long
Julius Long’s The Pale Man is a masterclass in quiet dread—an intimate journal of a traveler who becomes aware of a strange newcomer haunting the corridors of…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Judge's House – A Classic Ghost Story by Bram Stoker
Some houses advertise their menace. Others wait. In The Judge’s House, Bram Stoker gives us a quiet old home with a history no one wants to speak aloud. A…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorA Wireless Message - A Supernatural Short Story by Ambrose Bierce
A Wireless Message is a brief, uncanny tale about a man who receives an impossible warning in the dead of night—one that seems to pass through neither voice…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Furnished Room – a Classic Haunted Tale by O. Henry
In “The Furnished Room,” O. Henry trades his usual light touch for something far more haunting. A weary young man arrives at a shabby New York boarding house…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Man with Two Lives – A Chilling Old West Tale by Ambrose Bierce
When a young man survives an event that should have ended his story, he returns changed in ways no doctor—or priest—can explain. Lean, eerie, and unmistakably…
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of TerrorThe Cask of Amontillado - A Classic Scary Story by Edgar Allan Poe
Beneath the streets of old Italy, where carnival laughter drowns out good judgment, Edgar Allan Poe takes us into one of literature’s most unsettling descents…