Weekly Spooky: Scary Christmas Stories | Terrifying Tales to Creep Your Holiday

• This Week in Horror History | Black Christmas, Young Frankenstein & Ghost Story (December 15–21)

  Bundle up, my spookies—this week’s This Week in Horror History digs into Christmas horror movies, winter ghost stories, and festive frights from December 15–21. We’re hanging the stockings and turning off the lights as we revisit the classics that made the holidays just a little more terrifying.We kick things off with Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (1974), a black-and-white horror-comedy love letter to the Universal Monsters era. It proved that audiences were happy to unwrap creepy laughs during the holiday season, turning a modest budget into a massive hit and cementing itself as a cozy winter comfort watch for monster kids everywhere.From there, we head into the snow-choked terror of Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)—the grim, stalker-in-the-attic slasher that helped invent the blueprint for holiday horror slashers. Killer POV shots, obscene phone calls, sorority sisters in danger, and a cozy Christmas setting turned sinister make it a must-watch Christmas horror movie for anyone who likes their tinsel tangled with blood.We then unwrap some Christmas horror gaming with the PS1-style indie nightmare Christmas Massacre, where retro graphics, a whispering Christmas tree, and a deeply disturbed killer turn nostalgic winter vibes into something nasty and unforgettable. If you’re into indie horror games, lo-fi visuals, and brutally mean Christmas horror, this one belongs on your December playlist.For fans of analog horror and late-night weirdness, we shine a frosty spotlight on Local 58’s Real Sleep—a fake infomercial that slowly mutates into something cosmic, invasive, and deeply wrong. It’s perfect for those long, cold nights where the TV glow is the only light in the room.Our Deep-Cut Spotlight settles on Ghost Story (1981), a wintry ghost tale about regret, buried secrets, and a haunting that refuses to stay in the past. Legendary performances and snow-dusted atmosphere make it an ideal December ghost story to curl up with while the wind howls outside and the Christmas lights flicker.Along the way, we celebrate horror icons with birthdays this week, revisit the seismic impact of Wes Craven’s Scream (1996) as a late-December slasher staple, and build you a Christmas horror watchlist loaded with slashers, ghost stories, analog nightmares, and cold-weather horror comfort films.Where to watch this week’s picks (U.S.):Black Christmas (1974) – Currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Peacock, Shudder, AMC+ and more, and also free with ads on platforms like Tubi and The Roku Channel. Ghost Story (1981) – Streaming on Amazon Prime Video (including Prime with ads), with digital rent/buy options on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. Christmas Massacre (Game) – Available digitally on Steam, GOG, PlayStation, Xbox, and directly from the Puppet Combo store for PC collectors. Young Frankenstein (1974) – As of this week it’s not on major subscription services in the U.S.; your best bet is grabbing a digital copy or Blu-ray from retailers like Amazon and other disc shops. Hit play on this episode of This Week in Horror History for a Christmas horror history lesson you can turn directly into a holiday horror movie night—plus the details on our sponsor’s special seasonal deal.Support the show and get a tasty energy drink without the crash at AspireDrinks.com and get 25% off with promo code SPOOKY at checkout!🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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• Black Christmas: A Cursed Snow Globe Christmas Horror Story

  Weekly Spooky brings you a Christmas horror story about a broke newsboy, a hidden antiques shop, and a cursed snow globe that can tilt luck itself—if you’re willing to pay. Inside the glass sits a miniature winter town… and with each whispered wish, the flakes swirl… and a few turn black.At first, it feels like a miracle: debts vanish, odds bend, and the world finally stops kicking you in the teeth. But the snow globe keeps count. The town inside begins to glow with holiday lights, the season creeps closer, and the promise of “Black Christmas” stops sounding like a joke.Because when the last wish is spent, the bargain doesn’t end. It collects.Bundle up and hit play for a bleak, gritty, supernatural holiday nightmare packed with bad luck, blood money, and the kind of Christmas magic you don’t survive twice.Black Christmas by Rodri GoInstagram: @unhappy_storieswww.unhappystories.net🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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• Terrifying & True | Père Fouettard: The French Krampus and the Dark Side of Christmas

  When most people think of Christmas, they picture cozy lights, warm cocoa, and jolly Saint Nick. But in parts of France and Belgium, children grew up with a much darker figure stalking the snowy streets: Père Fouettard, the “French Krampus” — Saint Nicholas’ brutal Christmas punisher. In this chilling episode of Terrifying & True, we unwrap one of Europe’s scariest Christmas legends, where miracle stories, war, and fear-based parenting all twist together in the shadows of the holiday season.We travel from the glowing Saint Nicholas Day festival in Nancy, where modern light shows retell the butcher’s crime, back to the Middle Ages, when tales of three boys butchered, salted, and resurrected turned Saint Nicholas into a protector—and doomed their killer to walk forever by his side with a whip and a sack for bad children. Then we follow the story into the 1500s and the Siege of Metz, where a grotesque, whip-wielding effigy of Emperor Charles V helped transform a political insult into a permanent Christmas bogeyman.As the legend spreads, Père Fouettard becomes the nightmare shadow of Saint Nicholas Day: chains clanking on cobblestones, a hooded figure in filthy black, a bundle of switches in one hand and an empty sack in the other, ready to terrorize misbehaving kids while the saint hands sweets to the good. Along the way, we meet his terrifying cousins across Europe: Krampus in the Alps, Hans Trapp in Alsace, Knecht Ruprecht and Belsnickel in Germany, Schmutzli in Switzerland, and Zwarte Piet in the Low Countries—a whole dark Christmas folklore universe built on the promise of gifts… and the threat of pain.Inside this episode:The butcher of Nancy – How a medieval story of murdered schoolboys, salted flesh, and a miraculous resurrection birthed one of the most disturbing Christmas horror tales in Europe.Saint Nicholas and his punisher – Why the beloved gift-giver needed a Christmas enforcer, and how Père Fouettard became the terrifying counterpart to holiday joy and presents.From siege to street parade – How a mocking effigy during the Siege of Metz slowly evolved into the ragged, terrifying figure marching beside Saint Nicholas in winter festivals today.Krampus and the other Christmas monsters – The wider world of scary Christmas creatures, from horned demons to scarecrow cannibals haunting the Advent season.Fear as a Christmas tradition – How generations of parents used whips, sacks, and coal as holiday pressure to keep kids “good” before Christmas morning—and why that idea is finally being questioned.Folklore in a changing world – The modern controversies over blackface portrayals, Zwarte Piet, and racist imagery, and how some communities are trying to keep the tradition while shedding its ugliest parts.If you love Christmas horror, spooky folklore, dark European legends, and the idea that not every Christmas story ends with cozy cheer, this episode drags you straight into the shadow side of the holidays—where Saint Nicholas brings the gifts… and Père Fouettard brings the whip.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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• Unknown Broadcast | Six Horror Stories of Guilt, Poison, and the Pendulum

  Unknown Broadcast returns with classic old-time radio horror stories—radio suspense steeped in paranoia, poison, prison clocks, and a blade that never stops its kiss. Settle in, my dear: this ghost stories podcast slips between classic OTR chambers—Mystery Theater, Escape, The Whistler, and more—where alibis are stitched on ocean liners, serpents nest under sheets, and justice keeps perfect time. Tonight’s anthology is candlelit, close-mouthed, and very patient. Breathe quietly.🚢 Sea of Troubles — A clever man trades places on the S.S. Empress and thinks he’s outsailed consequence; the wake behind him says otherwise.   🐍 Poison — In a dark room, a whisper: don’t move. Something cold is coiled beneath the sheet, and the clock refuses to help. 🗝️ Escape by Death — A sealed ledger opens; debts are tallied in hush and ash, and only one exit is properly marked. 🕵️ You Can’t Trust a Stranger — A pleasant voice, a harmless favor, a turn of the key… and suddenly every shadow knows your name. ⏳ The Last Day of a Condemned Man — Footsteps count backwards; the final morning tastes of iron and prayer. 🕳️ The Pit and the Pendulum — Stone, rats, and a blade that sings closer with each breath you dare. Stay very still, my dear—some doors unlock when you breathe too loudly, and some blades do not miss twice.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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• Christmas Horror Stories: Snow, Santa & Slaughter

  Trade Hallmark cheer for brutal Christmas horror stories in this binge-length Weekly Spooky special. We’re talking Christmas horror, twisted folklore, and bloody urban legends—killer elves, demonic Santas, zombie outbreaks, and holiday vengeance that turns tinsel into a crime scene. If you crave scary Christmas stories with mature themes, this winter horror stories anthology is your new holiday tradition.Settle in for seven chilling stories where the North Pole runs red: a cyborg warrior duels a demonic Santa in a blizzard-choked war zone, a drunk mall Santa gets his very own razor-toothed “little helper,” Strickfield’s darkest secrets boil over into violent Christmas horror, and a vengeful elf leads a black-ops mission against the most evil kids on the planet. From department-store Santas under siege to undead yuletide nightmares, every tale dives deep into spooky seasonenergy with candy canes, carols, and carnage.Inside this Weekly Spooky Christmas horror compilation you’ll hear:Christmas at Pendleton Way Station — by Rob Fields – In a snow-blasted future, a battle-hardened cyborg faces a hellish Santa and his zombified reindeer outside a fortified way station, where one last stand could save what’s left of humanity’s Christmas.Santa’s Little Helpers — by Charles Campbell – A washed-up small-town Santa finally gets some backup: a wide-eyed elf girl with rows of razor-sharp teeth who’s ready to repay every pitying glance and cruel word in blood.Inner Rage — by Rob Fields – In Strickfield, the holiday gloss can’t hide the rot—until bottled-up fury and dark forces ignite a Christmas Eve of payback, turning festive lights into a backdrop for revenge.A Zombie’s Christmas — by Rob Fields – A secret lab, an infected girl, and a seething Catholic school misfit collide as a zombie plague crashes into Christmas, dragging Strickfield into a nightmare of rage, contagion, and holiday hell.Welcome Home — by Mike Ashkewe – A troubled soul returns home for the holidays, only to find that the ghosts of the past aren’t metaphors—they’re hungry, patient, and waiting under the twinkling lights.The Day that Santa Died — by Charles Campbell – When armed security realizes the “elves” stalking a packed department store are real, Christmas Eve becomes a tactical nightmare and the big man in red becomes the ultimate high-value target.Scary Christmas To All — by David O’Hanlon – War-scarred assassin elves, the North Pole’s Black Mittens, and a renegade named Candy Pain threaten to kill Christmas itself—unless Peppermint Ray can carve a path through the naughty list.Perfect for late-night listening with the tree glowing and the room dark, this episode packs Christmas horror, spooky stories, and full-on splatter into one massive holiday horror anthology. Press play, my spookies… and let the chilling stories of snow, Santa, and slaughter carry you all the way to New Year’s.🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon!👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: [email protected]🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

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