Scary Stories Told in the Dark — A Horror Fiction Anthology Series

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from authors The Dead Canary, Jameson Curnick, Matthew Sara, and Jonathan Reiman, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about horrific hobbies, animal instincts, risky residents, and creepy camps. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: https://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s3e05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from authors Dr. Elsewhere, S.R. Underschultz, H.K. Reyes, and Tom Farr, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about familial frights, insistent entities, time-defying technology, and devilish deities. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: https://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s3e04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you five terrifying tales from authors Justine Anastasia, S.R. Underschultz, R.A. Brewster, Kevin Thomas, and Mr. Twelve, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about absurd appetites, friends to die for, mysterious maladies, perilous programming, and territorial terrors. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: https://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s3e03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from authors James Curnick, The Dead Canary, Jimmy Juliano, and Andrew Harmon, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about animatronic abominations, school lockdowns gone spooky, creeping creatures, and rituals gone wrong. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: https://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s3e02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from authors Colby Newton, Anton Scheller, Immutatus, and William Meikle, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about apocalyptic abominations, sinister static, nightmarish nursery rhymes, and beasts beneath the waves. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: https://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s3e01 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you five terrifying tales from authors Alice Thompson, Stephen McCool, Lady.Katie512, and Cameron Suey, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about insidious inventions, eerie elders, creepy closets, and predators with a purpose. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: https://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you five terrifying tales from authors James Colton, J.J. Cheesman, Aneal Pothuluri, Christopher Maxim, and Prolix, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about fascinated felines, horror-strewn hallways, eerie effigies, subterranean secrets, and malevolent amusements. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from authors Katie H., Phil Zona, Maya Ellert, Jacob Newell, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about ominous openings, unforgettable footage, malevolent motels, and books with bite. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from Sarah Kearsey, Peter Shilston, Michael T. Guidry, and an anonymous author, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about dreadful darkness, cavernous crypts, paranormal pacts, and fiendish faculty. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from authors N. Christ, Keith Daniels, Alex Lowe, and Alex Taylor, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about repulsive reflections, fearsome forests, bone-chilling books, and lurid legends. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from authors Jacob Beach, Josh M. Parker, Spyda Barnes, and InfernalNightmare333, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about nefarious numbers, villainous visitors, macabre melodies, and paranormal predators. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from authors Brandon Wills, Keith Daniels, Danielle Hamilton, and CuriousInsect, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about cryptid encounters, heightened horrors, ominous omens, and inhuman entities. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you five terrifying tales from authors StupidDialUp, Joe Terrell, and Stephan D. Harris, as well as two anonymous authors, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about eerie encounters, terror-stricken towns, paranormal pacts, vengeful anniversaries, and infernal forerunners. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from authors Keith Daniels and Paul Breen, Jr., as well as two anonymous authors, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about lakeside legends, ghastly games, fiendish forests, and malevolent memories. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from authors Ryan Haddon, Jimmy V., Keith Daniels, and an anonymous author, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about the dark side of slumber, with tales about noisy nightmares, hidden horrors, watchful wraiths, and descents into darkness. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from authors Coffeelover309, Marcus Arias, Michael Paige, and an anonymous author, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about horrors in the hollows, beckoning bright-eyed entities, sinister sinkholes, and cunning cryptids. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from authors Daniel DuBois, Blood Empress, Moonlit Cove, and an anonymous author, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about about vanishing acts, haunted highways, eerie executions, and unsettling scarecrows. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales from authors Aaron Shotwell, Kenneth Kohl, Quadrant, and Argylle, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about nefarious nature, nightmarish neighbors, dystopian dregs, and sinister societies. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you five terrifying tales from author Dave Stancliff, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about voices from beyond the grave, nameless lakes both legendary and lurid, murderous mysteries, the unsettling side of utopia, and derelict dangers. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales by authors Brian Martinez, Meagan J. Meehan, Jon Grilz, and Drew Stepek, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about horrific hunger, phantasmal fiends and friendship, haunted hotels, and the painful side of pleasure, all of them from the cutting room floor of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights’ newest crowd-funded horror anthology series, live now at Kickstarter.com. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you five terrifying tales by authors Marshall Bannana, Kevin Thomas, Hagen Loyd, Nick Llanes, and Maxwell Malone, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about demonic doppelgangers, paranormal premonitions, not-so-imaginary friends, malevolent masquerades, and vanishing victims. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales by authors Ahriannah Victoria, Harlan Guthrie, Todd Martin, and Ghost_Eye_Tree, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about horrific headaches, paranormal pranks, uninvited guests, and faceless fears. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales by authors Jimmy Juliano, Moonlit Cove, M4Z3, and an anonymous author, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about following phantasms, criminal incompetence, twisted takes on urban legends, and the nightmarish side of nature. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales by authors Tonia Brown, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, ranging from Lovecraftian horror from a bygone era, to tales about the unexpectedly undead, what’s waiting beneath the waves, and unexplainable sounds from underground. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales by authors Andrea Gullino, Adam Gray, James Colton, and Jonathan Reiman, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about undetectable demons, sinister swamps, towns out of time, and the death-scented depths of a lurid lake. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales by Felix Blackwell, Matt Dymerski, Michael Whitehouse, and Miles Voltaire, about dancing in the darkness, stalking shadows, cataclysmic countdowns, and the paranormal price of pain. You’re listening to the standard edition of tonight’s program, which includes the first two stories. If you’d like to show your support and enjoy an extended version of this and or other episodes, with twice the terror, visit SimplyScaryPodcast.com and click “Patrons” in the upper menu to sign up today. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales by Jeff Hartin, Sasha Brokov, Jack London, and an anonymous author, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about mysteries on the seas, unusual abductions, dangers in the depths, and elixirs of immortality. You’re listening to the standard edition of tonight’s program, which includes the first two stories. If you’d like to show your support and enjoy an extended version of this and or other episodes, with twice the terror, visit SimplyScaryPodcast.com and click “Patrons” in the upper menu to sign up today. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you four terrifying tales by Sasha Brokov, Adam Davies, Al Bruno III, and Emerald Lee, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about inhuman visitors, vanishing vehicles, sleepless specters, and manifest imaginations. You’re listening to the standard edition of tonight’s program, which includes the first two stories. If you’d like to show your support and enjoy an extended version of this and or other episodes, with twice the terror, visit SimplyScaryPodcast.com and click “Patrons” in the upper menu to sign up today. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you five terrifying tales by John Casuccio, Moonlit Cove, H.P. Lovecraft, and two who prefer to remain anonymous, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about unsettling after-school activities, secret passageways, unearthed oddities, and dangerous games as old as time. You’re listening to the standard edition of tonight’s program, which includes the first two stories. If you’d like to show your support and enjoy an extended version of this and or other episodes, with twice the terror, visit SimplyScaryPodcast.com and click “Patrons” in the upper menu to sign up today. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s2e01 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Good evening… this is Otis Jiry, host of _Scary Stories Told in the Dark_. I hope you’ve enjoyed the first season of the program, and all 24 episodes. Myself and the team at Chilling Entertainment and the Simply Scary Podcasts Network are hard at work on Season 2, which begins right on schedule this upcoming Wednesday, May 16, now with three *free* stories per episode. But, in case you who just can’t wait until next week for your fill of frights, you’re in luck, as I come to you today with the gift that keeps on giving. If you don’t already know, mine is not the only horror audio drama on the Simply Scary network. We also produce the program that started it all, the _Simply Scary Podcast_, which frequently features yours truly, and which just launched its third season this past Tuesday. Season 3, episode 1 features me in a starring role, so don’t miss it. (You can see that episode here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/the-simply-scary-podcast/3x01/) If you’re not a subscrib...

In this twenty-fourth episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you two terrifying tales from Michael Whitehouse and Jack Mason, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about not-so-fond memories of school days gone by, wherein our protagonists have things far more sinister than peer pressure and test scores to deal with. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this twenty-third episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you two terrifying tales from Michael "ShadowSwimmer77" Landry, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, both of them entries in Landry's series, The Wicker Saga, series of standalone yet interconnected stories that together serve to tell a larger narrative, beginning when a man investigates the decades-old mystery and superstitions surrounding a supposedly haunted house in the town of Arthur's Wake. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this twenty-second episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you two terrifying tales from Sarah Piper and Aaron Shotwell, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about the choices presented when mere man comes face to face with entities that possess the power to make... or break them. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this twenty-first episode of _Scary Stories Told in the Dark_, we bring you two terrifying tales from Michael Whitehouse and CreepyCarbs, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about the imperfections of memories, and of the dangers created by their impermanence and, alternatively, their longevity. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this twentieth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you two terrifying tales from [Aaron Shotwell](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/aaron-shotwell/) and an anonymous author, performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), about the occult nature of the fabric of our collective reality, and the (sometimes unwelcome) entities that exist on its outskirts, just outside of our detection. If you pay enough attention, you too might find yourself introduced to these "_Unseen Spectres."_ See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e20](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e20) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this nineteenth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you two terrifying tales from [Dan David](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/dan-david/) and [Joshua L. Hood](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/joshua-l-hood/), performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), about the strange things that are known to happen – and that have been known to be encountered – when one ventures off the well-worn path, and into the small towns that make up what we call "_The Boondocks." _See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e19/](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e19/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this eighteenth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we pick up where part 3 of author [Eric Dodd](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/eric-dodd/)‘s series “_The Stairs and the Doorway_” left off last week, and continue the saga with the fourth part – and the conclusion – of his thrilling tale, entitled "_The Side Tunnel,"_ again performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/). Join us once more as explore the secrets beneath our feet, in a search for answers, and perhaps closure. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e18/](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e18/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this seventeenth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you three terrifying tales from author [Eric Dodd](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/eric-dodd/), all of them connected and part of the same series of events, performed here in sequential order by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/). Journey with us in the dismal depths of dormant places, which hold secrets darker than the Stygian pits from whence they come, and discover what happens when mortal man comes face to face with its eternal inhabitants, with no choice but to listen to its "_Whispers in the Dark."_ See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e17/](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e17/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

In this sixteenth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you chapters 7-9 - and the thrilling conclusion - of author [Jasper DeWitt](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/jasper-dewitt/)'s epic horror saga, performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), which chronicles the events in the life of a practicing psychiatrist and his interactions with the patient that nearly drove him out of medicine. We hope you enjoy the finale of "_The Patient._" See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e16](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e16) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this fifteenth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you chapters 4-6 of author [Jasper DeWitt](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/jasper-dewitt/)'s epic 9-part horror saga, performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), which chronicles the events in the life of a practicing psychiatrist and his interactions with the patient that nearly drove him out of medicine. Join us again next week for the thrilling conclusion of the story, with a performance of the final 3 chapters of "_The Patient_." See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e15/](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e15/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this fourteenth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you the first three terrifying chapters of an epic 9-part horror saga by author [Jasper DeWitt](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/jasper-dewitt/), performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), which chronicles the events in the life of a practicing psychiatrist and his interactions with the patient that nearly drove him out of medicine. Join us again next week, when we continue telling this thrilling story, with a performance of the following 3 chapters of "_The Patient."_ See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e14/](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e14/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this thirteenth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you two terrifying tales from [J.D. McGregor](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/jd-mcgregor/) and [Robert Ahern](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/robert-ahern/), performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), which explore what might happen when one discovers that there is more to life… and death… than they had always imagined, or been told. Once our protagonists discover the truth, will their own inevitable ends be as fairytales, or will they be doomed to live "_Happily Never After_?" See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e13/](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e13/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho...

In this twelfth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you two terrifying tales from [K. Banning-Kellum](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/k-banning-kellum/) and [L. Chan](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/l-chan/), performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), about the darker side that every city has lurking in its clandestine depths, which to this day continue to remain undiscovered thanks to the select few that – whether out of fear or greed – maintain their _"Best Kept Secrets."_ See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e12/](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e12/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this eleventh episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you two terrifying tales from [Douglas Greenwood](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/douglas-greenwood/) and [Dylan Charles](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/dylan-charles/), performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), which transport us to two mystery-shrouded towns, where the arrival of prodigal son and an unusual visitor changed everything and left everyone who met them suffering from "_Nostalgic Nightmares."_ See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e11/](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e11/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this tenth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you two terrifying tales from [Jon Grilz](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/jon-grilz/) and [J.D. McGregor](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/jd-mcgregor), performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), which explore (and exploit) the all-too-true fear many have of finding themselves trapped in constricted spaces. Before diving in, be sure to take a gulp of air. As you become transported into the confined space of Grilz and McGregor’s minds, you might just find yourself "_Breathless."_ See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e10/](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e10/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.c...

In this ninth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you two terrifying tales from [Michael Marks](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/michael-marks/) and [Arthur Conan Doyle](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/arthur-conan-doyle/), performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), which in its protagonists' efforts to explore and exploit newfound heights promises to give new meaning to the phrase “_Fear of Flying_.” See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e09/](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e09/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this eighth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you chapters 4-7 – and the thrilling conclusion – of [William Hope Hodgson](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/william-hope-hodgson/)'s masterpiece “_The Hog_”, performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), which makes clear that just outside the periphery of man, there lie those which have desires regarding us which are incredibly more dreadful to our minds when comprehended than an intelligent sheep would consider our desires towards its own carcass. These monstrosities, Hodgson writes, reside within the “_The Outer Circle_.” See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e08/](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e08/) Learn more about you...

In this seventh episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you the first three terrifying chapters of [William Hope Hodgson](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/william-hope-hodgson/)'s masterpiece “_The Hog_”, performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), which will ensure that you never look at wildlife the same way again. For once you’ve seen beyond the veil, there’s no coming back from the “_Dreadful Eternity_.” See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e07/](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e07/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this sixth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you two terrifying tales from [Dustin Koski](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/dustin-koski/) and [Anansi](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/anansi/), performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), which will provide ample reason to stay as far away from dark forests and campsites for the rest of your lives. If it weren’t for the occasional sound of a twig snapping, after all, you might not even be aware of the “_Watchers in the Woods_.” See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e06/](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s1e06/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this fifth episode of _[Scary Stories Told in the Dark](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/shows/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/)_, we bring you two terrifying tales from [Ben Pienaar](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/ben-pienaar/) and [Thomas O. Wagner](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/authors/thomas-o-wagner/), performed by host and narrator [Otis Jiry](http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/performers/otis-jiry/), about making what at first appears to be a deceptively simple choice: make a deal, get a reward. But as many often do, our protagonists find out that there are many different interpretations of an agreement to be had. The only remaining two questions are: which end of the bargain will they end up on, the victim’s, or the opportunist’s? And, wherever they find themselves, will it be worth both the “_Risk and Reward_?" See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: [http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark...