Drew Blood's Dark Tales — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Podcast

In the fall of 1956, a stranger arrives in Belle Carne with a fiddle and an invitation the whole town seems eager to accept. His tent has appeared beside the bandstand, admission is free, and he promises enough music to keep everyone dancing until morning. For George and his friends, it sounds like a welcome escape from another uneventful evening. Even the local preacher has joined the crowd. But beneath the stranger’s cheerful patter, something feels wrong—and inside his candlelit tent, the excitement begins to take on an unnerving urgency. Everyone is welcome at the performance. Before you step inside, however, you might want to ask why he’s so eager to fill the floor.Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

Scott Madsen has grown accustomed to sleeping alone. After years of sharing a bed and a troubled marriage, he can finally stretch out, settle in, and rest undisturbed. Then a cold touch follows him out of a dream. He wakes to find a hand wrapped around the foot he left outside the covers. Someone is beside his bed—or beneath it. Whoever it is won’t answer him. And when the grip tightens, Scott realizes that reaching the bedroom door may be far more dangerous than staying where he is.Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

A disturbing broadcast interrupts an ordinary evening in rural Vermont. At an abandoned cemetery, police have surrounded a mausoleum, a doomsday cult refuses to surrender, and the cameras are still rolling. Then a black fog pours across the grounds—and the transmission ends. Norman believes there must be an explanation. But as the darkness spreads through the countryside, cutting off roads and silencing communications, the emergency on television becomes a threat to the home he shares with his wife, Wendy. Authorities have issued a simple instruction: stay indoors. With the windows disappearing behind an impenetrable blackness, Norman gathers what he needs to keep them safe. Outside, shapes are moving through the fog. Inside, every unanswered question makes the house feel smaller.Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

Three friends arrive in Nepal determined to conquer Mera Peak before their vacation days run out. They have climbing experience, a tight budget, and every reason to believe the warnings about an off-season ascent are overly cautious. Clear skies and easy progress seem to prove them right. Then the snow begins, an injury slows their pace, and one of them claims a stranger has been watching him sleep inside his tent. There are no unfamiliar tracks outside, and his companions are reluctant to believe him. But as visibility dwindles and the distance between the climbers grows, the possibility that someone is following them becomes harder to dismiss. High on the mountain, with the weather closing in, they must decide how much they can trust one another—and what they are willing to believe before it is too late.Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

Gillean Rush has everything a rock star could want: sold-out arenas, endless indulgence, and a career that seems destined to burn forever. There is only one problem. None of it truly belongs to him. After a triumphant performance, Gil is approached by a stranger in a spotless white suit with forty thousand dollars, an irresistible proposition, and the promise of freedom from the manager who made him famous. But as Gillean may soon discover, some contracts cannot be broken, and some gift comes with conditions buried deep in the fine print. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/

On the outskirts of Nobility, Texas, Colt makes his living buying and selling the things respectable people pretend they don’t want. Guns, drugs, stolen goods—everything has a price at Colt’s Junk, provided the local police receive their share. Then two men arrive with something Colt has never seen before: an ancient, mummified body stitched together from the remains of multiple people. Colt expects the grotesque discovery to earn him a small fortune. But after nightfall, the corpse begins to move—and its damaged limbs seem to be asking for help. When satisfying its needs brings an extraordinary change in Colt’s luck, a single illicit purchase becomes the foundation of a far more horrifying enterprise.Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/