Horror Hill — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast

After an eternity spent wandering the burning caverns of Hell, a nameless Southern soul is offered something almost unimaginable: a promotion. His new handler calls him Country and promises him water, shelter, and occasional passage back into the world of the living. All Country must do is enter the body of a girl believed to be possessed, follow the instructions transmitted through a strange insect-like device, and obey the rules governing Hell’s ancient contest with Heaven. Unfortunately, Country has received no training, understands almost nothing about his assignment, and has no intention of returning to the caverns. When his first mission places him inside a dark toolshed with three armed men closing in, desperation turns a carefully controlled operation into a nightmare of confusion, violence, and infernal consequences.
Blending black comedy, supernatural terror, and uncompromising brutality, Drew Stepek's “A Little Bit Country” takes listeners into a vision of Hell where damnation has departments, suffering comes with paperwork, and every opportunity may be another form of punishment.
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In Moonville, pumpkins are everywhere—but no one dares carve them. When a reckless childhood prank leaves one prized pumpkin shattered across a neighbor’s porch, John expects punishment. Instead, he finds seeds appearing where they shouldn’t, decorations that seem to follow him with unseen eyes, and an enigmatic young woman who knows far more about him than she should. Drawn into her strange and intoxicating world, John begins to suspect that his hometown’s most cherished tradition conceals something unnatural. Something has been growing quietly inside Moonville—and once John discovers the truth, he may never look at the people around him the same way again.
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Private investigator Marlo Stark has built his career confronting mysteries that would unsettle lesser men. When Anne Hanpenberg hires him to locate her missing brother, the assignment carries him deep into the German mountains and through the doors of a crumbling ancestral castle where every corridor seems to conceal another secret. Fredrick Hanpenberg has vanished, but the evidence he left behind points toward something far more disturbing than an ordinary disappearance: grotesque journals, hidden chambers, hooded intruders, and a forbidden staircase descending into the earth. As Marlo follows the trail beneath Castle Hanpenberg, he begins to suspect that he was not merely hired to solve a mystery.
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Seacrist Elementary had always suffered from an unusually high number of absences. In the autumn of 1977, people finally began to understand why. A dead man is found sitting inside a locked classroom. A missing administrator’s name appears on a crude grave marker. Fire alarms ring without cause, children report impossible encounters, and a camera captures something that could not have happened. Yet every incident is explained away, forgotten, or buried beneath the next. Eighteen years after the school closed, former student Cy Wistrom awakens from a mysterious coma with his childhood memories suddenly restored. Now he is ready to reveal what happened during Seacrist’s final months.
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This week on Horror Hill, descend beneath the streets of Salem for Henry Kuttner's classic “The Salem Horror”, a tale of witchcraft, forbidden knowledge, cosmic evil, and the terrible designs concealed just beneath the surface of the ordinary. Seeking solitude in an aging Salem house, a novelist discovers a secret chamber buried behind the walls of his cellar, a forgotten room belonging to a witch whose name has haunted the city for centuries. Within its strange geometric designs, he finds something he desperately needs: silence, concentration, and inspiration unlike anything he has experienced before. As forgotten dreams, whispered legends, and increasingly ominous warnings begin to converge, the sanctuary beneath his home starts to feel less like a workspace and more like a doorway. And somewhere beyond that doorway, something ancient may have been waiting a very long time for someone to open it.
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