Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season

Horror history is already leaning toward Halloween as Candyman, Until Dawn, Don't Breathe, The Last Exorcism, and Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions mark major anniversaries from August 24 through August 30. This Week in Horror History turns late summer into a pre-Halloween horror primer packed with slasher games, home-invasion suspense, supernatural urban legends, documentary-style exorcism horror, occult detective stories, and a devilish Stephen King recommendation for spooky season.

This weekly horror release-date roundup revisits the movies, games, creators, and dark legends that helped shape the genre while giving Halloween fans an early fall watchlist filled with cult horror, supernatural thrillers, horror games, and dark folklore.

Inside this episode:
• August 25, 2015 - Until Dawn - Supermassive Games turns the teen slasher into an interactive survival horror game where every choice can decide who lives until sunrise.
• August 26, 2016 - Don't Breathe - Fede Alvarez traps three thieves inside a dark Detroit house where silence, geography, and Stephen Lang's relentless homeowner become weapons.
• August 27, 2021 - Candyman - Nia DaCosta returns the mirror-born Chicago legend to Cabrini-Green and connects supernatural folklore with memory, gentrification, art, and racial violence.
• August 27, 2010 - The Last Exorcism - A fraudulent preacher invites a documentary crew to expose one final ritual, only to enter a case that may not have a rational explanation.

Deep-Cut Spotlight - Lord of Illusions - Clive Barker mixes occult horror, private-eye noir, cult devotion, and stage magic that may be hiding something terrifyingly real.
Plus: a horror birthday roll honoring Tim Burton, David Fincher, William Friedkin, and Mary Shelley; and a Weekly Recommendation for Needful Things, the Stephen King Castle Rock nightmare where every perfect purchase comes with one terrible favor. 

From player-controlled slasher choices and a blind homeowner hunting intruders in the dark to the Candyman legend, Clive Barker's real magic, and Stephen King's small-town temptation, this August 24-30 horror history roundup is built for Halloween fans, spooky season listening, cult horror discovery, and anyone assembling an early fall horror movie and horror game watchlist.

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Elisa Lam's death at the Cecil Hotel remains one of the internet age's most haunting true crime mysteries, even though the case received an official ruling. In January 2013, the twenty-one-year-old Canadian traveler disappeared from the notorious downtown Los Angeles hotel after appearing in the now-famous Cecil Hotel elevator video. Nineteen days after she was last publicly seen, she was found inside a rooftop water tank.

This pre-Halloween true crime investigation follows the documented Elisa Lam case while separating evidence from the haunted-hotel folklore that grew around it. We examine the Cecil Hotel's dark history, Elisa's final days at Stay on Main, the LAPD search, the elevator doors that remained open, the rooftop-access question, the open tank hatch, and the Los Angeles County medical examiner's conclusion: accidental drowning, with bipolar disorder listed as a significant contributing condition.

The silent elevator footage became one of the defining creepy videos of modern true crime. Viewers searched it for a hidden pursuer, a ghost, an edited-out figure, the Elevator Game, or proof that the Cecil Hotel was cursed. Early reports made the roof sound unreachable and suggested Elisa could not have entered a sealed tank alone. But court filings and the maintenance worker's sworn account reveal a more grounded - and still deeply frightening - story.

As Halloween season approaches, Elisa Lam's story continues to circulate through haunted-hotel lists, paranormal theories, real-life horror collections, Netflix documentaries, and true crime podcasts. This episode explores why the official explanation never satisfied the internet, how web sleuths transformed ambiguity into modern folklore, and what is lost when a vulnerable young woman becomes only the figure in a red hoodie.

Inside this episode:
Elisa Lam's 2013 disappearance from the Cecil Hotel and Stay on Main
What the viral elevator video actually shows, including the door-hold control
The rooftop water tank, open hatch, and possible access routes
The medical examiner's accidental-drowning ruling and toxicology evidence
Richard Ramirez, Jack Unterweger, the Black Dahlia claim, and the Cecil Hotel's haunted reputation
The Elevator Game, Dark Water parallels, Netflix, web sleuths, and modern folklore Was the Cecil Hotel case ever an impossible locked-room mystery - or did millions of viewers build a supernatural story from everything the camera could not show? 

We're telling that story tonight.

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Unknown Broadcast boards four old-time radio train mysteries where every timetable points toward danger. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, Suspense, and The Whistler send us through a forgotten station, Balkan intrigue aboard the Orient Express, a supernatural railway warning, and one very expensive ride to nowhere. Your ticket is already punched. Please do not ask who is sitting in the empty compartment.

▣ The Train Stops — At a forgotten station where no passenger train should stop, an old railway watcher hears the timetable come alive again.
✦ Orient Express — A businessman bound for Istanbul finds an armed stranger in his compartment and is pulled into a rushing night of Balkan intrigue.
⚑ The Signalman — A haunted railway worker receives impossible warnings beside a dark tunnel, each one arriving just ahead of disaster.
✉ Ticket to Nowhere — A driver hears a passenger boast of a fortune and quietly changes the destination from a country lodge to murder.

The radio suspense is over, but the last train is still approaching—and this station has not existed for years.

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Four scary stories unleash serial killers, witchcraft, a werewolf curse, supernatural seduction, and a gigantic killer gummy worm. Celebrate Summerween and Halloween in summer with a complete horror fiction anthology packed with occult rituals, crime horror, murder mysteries, supernatural monsters, body horror, and dark comedy.

Two criminal brothers follow a wealthy woman home expecting an easy robbery. Instead, they interrupt a secret witchcraft ritual involving an ancient enchanted collar—and one thief begins transforming into a bloodthirsty werewolf-like monster. 

Then a mysterious woman named Roxie overwhelms Jake Blackmon with an unnatural attraction before disappearing from his life. When she returns and orders him to kill, Jake discovers that Roxie is not human—and that other men may already be trapped beneath the same supernatural influence. 
Next, emotionless Strickfield vigilante Raigen Devereux battles a dangerous fever while hunting the Queen of Hearts serial killer through a raging blizzard. Bodies marked with playing cards, preserved human hearts, a kidnapped former fiancé, and a deeply personal connection transform the investigation into a deadly confrontation between two killers. 

Finally, an ex-con named Penn accepts a criminal job and discovers that his employer murders victims for their tattooed skin. Trapped inside an unfinished high-rise with a skin-suit serial killer, Penn receives unexpected supernatural help when a magical tattoo transforms a bag of candy into an enormous, flesh-dissolving gummy worm monster. 
 
Tonight’s Scary Stories:
“Crime and Bedevilment: The Falling Out of Two Brothers” by Joe Solmo
An occult crime-horror story featuring two thieves, a secret coven, an ancient magical collar, and a robbery that unleashes a savage werewolf curse.
“Roxie” by Charles Campbell
A supernatural seduction story about a mysterious nonhuman woman who charms ordinary men into committing murder on her behalf.
“Sick With Rage” by Rob Fields
A Strickfield serial-killer thriller featuring Raigen Devereux, the Queen of Hearts killer, stolen human hearts, a missing former fiancé, and a deadly investigation during a blizzard. “The Worm Has Turned” by David O’Hanlon
A darkly funny supernatural monster story involving criminals, stolen tattooed skin, a magical amulet, National Gummi Worm Day, and one gigantic candy creature with a taste for killers.

These four terrifying tales combine serial-killer horror, supernatural crime, witchcraft, occult rituals, cursed transformations, werewolf horror, supernatural seduction, murder investigations, preserved human hearts, skin-suit killers, giant monsters, body horror, revenge, survival horror, and dark comedy.

Perfect for listeners searching for scary stories, horror audiobooks, horror fiction podcasts, serial-killer stories, supernatural thrillers, witchcraft horror, occult horror, werewolf stories, crime horror, murder mysteries, monster stories, giant-creature horror, body horror, dark-comedy horror, Strickfield stories, Summerween entertainment, and Halloween podcasts.

The summer nights are hot, but somewhere a blizzard is hiding a killer, an ancient collar is waiting for its next victim, and an innocent bag of candy is preparing to become something enormous.

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Tonight She Comes (2016) is a blood-soaked supernatural slasher for horror fans building their Halloween watchlists—a cabin-in-the-woods nightmare that mutates into occult body horror, splatter comedy, and resurrection horror. On this episode of Cutting Deep into Horror, hosts Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi revisit the outrageous independent horror film that has stayed with them for a decade and explain why its strangest choices are far more deliberate than they first appear.

Henrique and Rachael trace the story from its apparently unstoppable, blood-covered killer and intentionally foolish slasher characters to a rural family protecting its cabin with glowing blood runes. The mystery soon explodes into an occult resurrection ritual involving virgins, non-virgins, menstrual blood, a pentagram, and one revolting chalice. They also revisit discovering the movie through the Movies at the Asylum theatrical series, discuss The Asylum, Sharknado, and low-budget B-movie culture, and break down the film’s sleeping-bag homage to Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood.

As Weekly Spooky ramps up toward Halloween season, the conversation digs into the movie’s grotesque humor, gory special effects, supernatural rules, and deliberately blurred ideas of protagonist and antagonist. Why does Felicity gradually become the closest thing the story has to a protagonist? How can a movie this absurd still follow a carefully constructed internal logic? And why does its spectacularly gruesome rebirth ending feel earned rather than random?

For listeners filling a spooky-season podcast queue with slashers, strange indie horror movies, occult rituals, and unforgettable body horror, Tonight She Comes is one nightmare that refuses to stay buried.

Inside this episode:
Discovering Tonight She Comes during the Movies at the Asylum theatrical series
The supernatural slasher and cabin-in-the-woods setup
Deliberately foolish characters, horror clichés, and genre self-awareness
The Friday the 13th Part VII sleeping-bag kill homage
Blood runes, virgin blood, menstrual blood, and the resurrection ritual
Why Felicity becomes the closest thing the film has to a protagonist
Gory effects, occult body horror, and the unforgettable rebirth ending
Full spoilers throughout.

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