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For more Frightening Tales visit me at frighteningtales.com


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 130 episodes from past seasons—an extensive archive of paranormal fiction, available to listen to for 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 © copyrighted by 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 are prohibited. All Music and FX are allowed through a subscription to EpidemicSounds.com. All Rights Reserved.
Original Theme Song: Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales, is copyrighted Mark Wilhelm. 

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Room #6 to a Hell of My Own

Room #6 to a Hell of My Own

2026-10-3048:54

📍ArgentinaIt was supposed to be simple... pick up the tapes, finish the film and make a fortune... But, it couldn't have gone more wrong. ✍️In this tale… by Hernan Salvarezza, a system Administrator in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hernan has published stories in anthologies such as Murderous Ink Crimeoucopia, The Horror Zine, Belanger Books, and Altair Publishing Australia, and has been featured in international short story contests,  and has written articles for Convesio, Shell Us, and other private-sector magazines. Hernan has worked as a freelance line and acquisition editor for Blood Bound Books, and dabbles in slush pile reading for lightspeed.com and Crystal Lake Publishing. Here’s his tale… 🕯️Loyal Listeners, thank you for joining me once more for a tantalizing tale of the weird and paranormal. Like, subscribe, and share Frighteningtales wherever you can!👁 For more than 150 previous episodes, visit ⁠frighteningtales.com⁠ 👁 For Show Merch visit: ⁠https://frighteningmerch.myspreadshop.ca⁠ 👁 Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/16811384/join ⁠
Double Feature: The Bellowing & Halloween Lives!

Double Feature: The Bellowing & Halloween Lives!

2026-10-2336:10

📍USA✍️ In this week's double feature we first present a tale… by Jeremy Barber an author of weird fiction and psychological horror whose stories are rooted in Massachusetts and the surrounding landscapes of New England. His fiction explores PTSD, trauma, and the unsettling moments when the ordinary turns into horror itself. Jeremy is currently at work on a collection of interconnected short horror stories set in New England. He shares with us today a tale called ‘The bellowing’. Jtbarberwrites.bsky.social ✍️ Then we’ll join author Nick Swain, who writes dark, strange, and often genre-blending fiction. His stories have appeared in HellBound Books' Shopping List anthologies 1-3, Crime Pays, and Weirdbook Annual: Zombies!, with two more stories forthcoming in Campfire Publishing's Let the Right One Simmer, Volume One. He is currently drafting his first novel. He shares with us his tale, Halloween Lives! 🕯️Loyal Listeners, thank you for joining me once more for a tantalizing tale of the weird and paranormal. Like, subscribe, and share Frighteningtales wherever you can!👁 For more than 150 previous episodes, visit ⁠frighteningtales.com⁠ 👁 For Show Merch visit: ⁠https://frighteningmerch.myspreadshop.ca⁠ 👁 Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/16811384/join ⁠
The Man Who Walks Backward

The Man Who Walks Backward

2026-10-1626:38

📍USA✍️ This week's tale… written by Justin Alcalá, an award-winning Mexican-American horror and dark fiction writer. Born and raised in Chicago, he now lives with Bigfoot in the mountains of North Carolina. In the past fifteen years, Justin has published four novels and over sixty short stories in American literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. He’s won several literary awards, including the Speculative Literature Foundation Finalist Award for A Dead-End Job and Horror Writers Association Grant for The Taming of the Cthulhu. You can find Justin on Instagram, Twitter, Goodreads, TikTok and Wordpress. If you enjoy this story, you can visit Justin’s previous Frightening Tale “How the Devil Bargains” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m8AjcHEjxA&t=12s Find more on this author here: https://www.justincalcala.com/https://www.instagram.com/justin.alcala/ https://x.com/JustinAlcala 🕯️Loyal Listeners, thank you for joining me once more for a tantalizing tale of the weird and paranormal. Like, subscribe, and share Frighteningtales wherever you can!👁 For more than 150 previous episodes, visit: ⁠frighteningtales.com⁠ 👁 For Show Merch visit: ⁠https://frighteningmerch.myspreadshop.ca⁠ 👁 Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/16811384/join ⁠
A Gary D Triple Tale | Frighteningtales.com

A Gary D Triple Tale | Frighteningtales.com

2026-10-0939:02

📍CAN✍️ In this week's tale …The ad said fishing equipment. But that may have just been the bait.3 stories written by author Gary D, from Ontario, Canada.Edna's Dirty Little SecretSpiders... Yes, that's right, them big, fat juicy spiders!PunkinheadAfter a lifetime in sales and marketing, Gary has travelled and lived in various places around the world, all while carrying around what he describes as a highly overactive imagination.For decades, that imagination has been busy producing creepy, unsettling, ghostly and downright bizarre stories, both fictional and inspired by experiences from his own life.After years of keeping those stories in a synopsis log, Gary has finally found the time to bring them to life.🕯️Loyal Listeners, thank you for joining me once more for a tantalizing tale of the weird and paranormal. Like, subscribe, and share Frighteningtales wherever you can!👁 For more than 150 previous episodes, visit ⁠frighteningtales.com⁠ 👁 For Show Merch, visit: ⁠https://frighteningmerch.myspreadshop.ca⁠ 👁 Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/16811384/join ⁠
A Youth's Grave Robbing Folly

A Youth's Grave Robbing Folly

2026-10-0229:47

📍USA✍️ In this week's tale… They came looking for fortune. They made the mistake of thinking the dead wouldn't miss their things.  Written by author Gaetan Battaglia. He has had one novel and ten short stories published by Pegasus Publishers, Three Ravens Publishing, Dragon Soul Press, Colp, Pesto Comics, and Red Cape Publishers. Several narrations have been adapted on YouTube by channels such as Grimms Library and DarkLittleVoices, among others. Writing:https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Gaetan+Battaglia&i=stripbooks&crid=1C4R35KNT8J9Y&sprefix=gaetan+battaglia%2Cstripbooks%2C181https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Gaetan+Battaglia&ref=nav_sb_noss_l_16Spring into SciFi 2026, Volume 2: https://cloakedpress.com/sis2026/Big Smoke Pulp, Volume 2: https://bigsmokepulp.com/🕯️Loyal Listeners, thank you for joining me once more for a tantalizing tale of the weird and paranormal. Like, subscribe, and share Frighteningtales wherever you can!👁 For more than 150 previous episodes, visit: frighteningtales.com 👁 For Show Merch, visit: ⁠https://frighteningmerch.myspreadshop.ca 👁 Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/16811384/join
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