Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Halloween

Amanda and Felipe barely escaped the Sullivan house as teenagers. Now a Halloween birthday reunion brings them back with two old friends. A child is crying upstairs, and the woman who died there remembers their first visit. “The House on Telford Circle” is a haunted house horror story of old costumes, unfinished romances and a search for answers in a home with a murderous past. The four friends came to revisit a childhood nightmare. Will the house let them leave again?

Written by Bruce Haney. Narrated by Henrique Couto.

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Sleepy Hollow’s Headless Horseman turns Ichabod Crane’s ride home into a nightmare. Join Henrique Couto as he follows Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from Brom Bones’ ghost stories at an autumn feast to a silent rider and a desperate race for the church bridge. Explore the real Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and an older German headless-rider legend collected by the Brothers Grimm. What was chasing Ichabod—and would the churchyard really keep him safe? Settle in for Halloween ghost stories, dark folklore and the eerie sound that lingers after the chase.

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Jack Scratch returns with three scary Halloween stories from Millhaven, where every invitation has a price. A widower’s bargain to save his wife comes due. A trick-or-treater meets Mr. Pickles, a beautiful cat whose owner obeys a murderous voice. Two police officers enter a Halloween party—and the doorway disappears. Keith Tomlin’s “Jack Scratch’s Neighborhood Nightmares” brings together “The Debt,” “The Voice” and “The Choice,” narrated by Henrique Couto. This supernatural horror anthology turns porch lights, candy bowls and familiar homes into traps. Jack promises a tour. He never promises a way home.

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Candy Haul by Tyler Belmont turns trick-or-treating into a goblin Halloween horror story. Twelve-year-old Daniel wants the biggest candy haul in the neighborhood, and his new friend Ivan has the most convincing costume he has ever seen. But when Ivan steals his candy wagon and disappears into the woods, Daniel follows—and the path home vanishes. Now a grinning trickster is setting the rules, and his appetite goes far beyond sweets. Can Daniel survive the games and find his way out? Narrated by Henrique Couto, this tale of childhood Halloween nostalgia turns vicious for fans of scary Halloween stories.

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From October 26–November 1, Halloween horror history turns trusted broadcasts into nightmares. Revisit Saw’s locked-room terror, The Walking Dead’s zombie TV debut, and the BBC’s Ghostwatch, where familiar presenters made a fictional haunting feel real. Explore SIGNALIS and its damaged memories, then separate Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds radio broadcast from the nationwide panic myth. Celebrate Cary Elwes, Winona Ryder, Peter Jackson and Toni Collette, and 35 years of Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs. Join Henrique Couto for horror movie anniversaries and a Halloween watchlist with teeth.

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