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Welcome to Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales and Other Weird Stories—a carefully curated collection of unsettling fiction, paranormal encounters, and truly strange tales from writers around the world.
Each episode explores the uncanny: stories that linger, disturb, and quietly unsettle rather than simply shock. Some are frightening. Others are strange, folkloric, or deeply weird—but all are rooted in the paranormal and the unknown.
The current season releases new episodes every Friday from May 1 through October 30, bringing you a steady procession of eerie and curious tales to carry you through the darker half of the year.
Until then, dive into more than 120 episodes from past seasons—an extensive archive of paranormal fiction, available to listen to free.
Are you a writer of paranormal or weird fiction, and want to hear your work brought to life?
Submit your stories at FrighteningTales.com.
Listener discretion is advised.
These stories vary in tone and content and may include unsettling themes or triggers.
All stories are © copyright their respective authors. I have negotiated allowances to perform these tales with the blessing of those authors. This is non-transferable and reproductions or recreations of these stories is prohibited. All Music and FX are allowed through subscription to EpidemicSounds.com. All Rights Reserved. Original Theme Song: Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales, is copyright Mark Wilhelm.
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Today’s episode… is written by Glenn Dungan, currently based in Brooklyn, NYC. He exists within a Venn diagram of urban design, sociology, and good stories.
When not obsessing about one of those three, he can be found at a park drinking black coffee and listening to podcasts about murder.
For more of his work, please visit his website, whereisglennnow.com.
You can also find him on substack, "WhereisGlennnow?"
and also on Instagram at...you guessed it, @whereisglennnow.
Today’s episode… is written by Dustin Ridout, the dad of two lovely but sometimes scary kids, a Colorado area physician and a lover of horror stories on cold rainy nights. Here's his tale he calls Tiny.
Today’s episode… is written by Rob Morton… Rob hasn’t shared much about himself other than that he claims the story he’s about to share is 100% true.
Today’s episode… is written by A.G.R., a graduate of Florida International University and a writer and author. He majored in interdisciplinary studies and had minors in philosophy and sociology, which provided him with knowledge in various areas and research skills. His interests in writing are Horror and Mysteries. A.G.R.’s other interests are video games, paranormal research, and reading. When he is not writing, he gives ghost tours and tells ghost stories. A.G.R.’s work has been featured in the literary magazine, Gods Cruel Joke.
Link to previous work: https://www.godscrueljokelit.com/agrcurtains
Today’s episode… is written by Paul O’Neill, an award-winning short story writer from Fife, Scotland. His works have been published by the No Sleep Podcast, Crystal Lake, Sinister Smile Press, Scare Street, Vanishing Point Magazine, Hell Bound Books, Grinning Skull Press, and many other publications and competitions.
Paul would love you to join his Short Story Club on Substack, where he and over 150 readers analyze the classics regularly. Link in the notes.
But now listen to Paul’s tale: On the Thirteenth Night.
https://substack.com/@pauloneill722362?utm_source=global-search
Today’s episode… is written by Brian J. Smith, author of nine horror novels such as Dead River and Consuming Darkness! His most recent second short story collection “Strange Discovery And Other Strange Discoveries” was published in July 2024; his splatter western “Blood On The Sand” is due out this year. He resides in south eastern Ohio, drinks a lot of coffee, has too many books but continues to buy more!
If you’d like to follow Brian on social media look for him on Bluesky at: bubbywriteshorror9,
On Threads and Instagram under horrorauthor9
and on Amazon under https://www.amazon.com/author/brianjsmith.
He tells me this story was first published in Books Of Horror Vol. 2 Community Anthology released in 2020 and reprinted in his second short story collection "Strange Discovery And Other Strange Discoveries" in July of 2024.Here now is his tale Strange Discovery as presented by Wilhelm.
Today’s episode… is written by Devin Langan a full-time social worker up in the great white north of Canada where he dabbles in writing for animation, and horror as a hobby.
Today’s take is the first writing that Devin has submitted for a North American audience at Creepypasta stories. If you'd like to reach out to Devin write him here: dlangan9653@gmail.com
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Author Ryan Andrus asks the question... what if an object were to reach out across time and space to your awareness? What if that object became the sole desire of your life? An item you'd even kill for. And what if others learned of such an object? Things that were not quite human? Our tale today dives into just that.
Look for more dark tales at Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales.
Today’s episode… is written by Jethro Pili for Reedsy Prompts. Jethro has been writing horror and other fiction for a number of years now. And is one of the authors who allowed me to read several of his stories in season 1. I’ve come so far from there now… you can find him on Reedsy Prompts I’ll provide a link in the notes. Thank you for all your support over the years Jethro… I hope you enjoy your tale… The Enemy of my Enemy.
Today’s episode… is written by Lorna Pearl. A Creative Writing student living in New York with their spouse and two Sphynx cats, Titan and Shiva. Originally from the South East of England, Lorna has been writing stories since childhood. When not writing, you can find Lorna immersed in the latest horror, thriller books and new-release movies. I now present to you their story… Twigs
For more stories, tune in to FrighteningTales.com
Today’s episode… is written by Dillon Hendrick, a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner living in South Texas with his beautiful wife and two kids. Look for his short story coming out soon in a collection known as Trash Tales. He’s currently chipping away at a new short story that he hopes to be finished with later this year.
But for now, here’s his tale… Ice Cream in the Woods.
For more dark tales, visit me at https://frighteningtales.com
Today’s episode… is written by Chloe DeVos a young writer, of poetry and stories. Some of her poetry has been published in local journals. When not writing, She enjoys drawing, reading manga, taking walks, and studying history.
To learn more about Chloe you can find her on :
Twitter at @WomanDust
Instagram at @svengoolienewmar,
and on her Wordpress blog at:
https://digitalcommonplacebookblog.wordpress.com/?_gl=1*ejkn1h*_gcl_au*ODk4MDA1ODY5LjE3MjY0MzU4ODU.
Today’s episode… is written by Ananth Ram a mysterious author from unknown parts. Ananth writes a number of creepy pastas and has stories available on Amazon. If you’d like to learn more about Ananth visit:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Ananth-Ram/
Today’s episode… is written by Fernando Sanchez, a technical writer, creative writer, and lover of the written word. Born under the sign of Aquarius. Fernando ran with wolves as a child and chased ghosts and demons with a smirk on his face. Did I mention he loves writing?
Here’s his tale: Watchers at the Black Gate.
Today’s episode… sees the return of author MN Wiggins, a surgeon who operates on people—legally . . . mostly.
He is an author, voice actor, and humorist from the American South. His Arkansas Traveler series recently released, Physician's Guide to Homicide on Amazon.
Dr. Wiggins’s short stories have been featured in Black Petals, Medicine and Meaning, as well as the podcasts: Frightening Tales and Creepy. He has forthcoming stories in The Hooghly Review, Flunk magazine, AcademFic, Thirteen, and The Night’s End. Dr. Wiggins’s complete works may be found at MNWiggins.com You can find his other frightening tale in season 4 called the Rejuventator.
Today’s episode…is written by Rose Engel who makes her home in Austin, Texas.
Rose participates in regular writing groups… I believe we used to call those covens. She is currently working on her 4th novel. Her writing adores leaning into the world of Greek mythology, romance and villain origin stories…
Find more of Rose, visit her on Instagram @growinwithrose!
For more frightening tales visit me at frighteningtales.com
Some words can describe things physical or mental... but in today's story, the title applies to both.
Today's tale …is written by author Kim Bossert a lab tech at an IVF clinic who just enjoys a good story. Kim has a love of short scary stories from skin-crawlers told around the campfire to classic internet creepypastas. This is the first of her stories that has seen distribution beyond torturing her friends and family. She also enjoy cosplay, baking, and spoiling her two cats.
Author Lonnie Russo is an author of short fiction from the East Coast of the United States.
He grew up around his grandmother's haunted house, the graveyard down the block, and the funeral home in which many of his relatives worked.
While he enjoys exploring all topics, he considers himself largely a genre writer of horror, science fiction, and romance, of all things, but he also believes all stories are made of the same stuff—something extraordinary happening among the ordinary. He resides with his partner and two cats.
You can find more work by Lonnie here:
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/lonnie-russo/
For more frightening tales... visit frighteningtales.com if you're brave enough.
Written by Matt Martinek. Matt is passionate about a number of creative pursuits writing horror is just one of them. You can find Matts most recent project: Fright! Stories of Murder, Monsters, and Mayhem as well as his book The Oddest Couple: The Collected Edition at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.com.
Written by Helen Mihajlovic, she predominantly writes short horror stories, but has written science fiction, surrealist and fantasy tales.
Her stories can be found at Dark Dossier magazine and Horror Novel Reviews. Her novella 'The Darkness of Judith' has recently been published through Unveiling-Nightmares Press (now Baynam Books Press), it is also available on Amazon.
For more scary stories listen at Frighteningtales.com... if you're brave enough.
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