The Simply Scary Podcast

In this episode of The Simply Scary Podcast, we'll be your guide through the twisted worlds and disturbed imagination of authors Jackson Laughlin, Wynne F. Winters, Zamil Akhtar, and Pen_Phantom13, with tales concerning bad news, messages from beyond the grave, sinister secrets, the not-so-delusion last words of a dying man, and the unusual lengths a man goes to in order to win someone's affection. See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/the-simply-scary-podcast/3x04/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of The Simply Scary Podcast, we'll be your guide through the twisted worlds and disturbed imagination of author Jake Tri. In honor of our production of the audio edition of Jake’s chilling collection, Nightmare Soup II: The Second Helping, performed by the one and only G.M. Danielson, tonight we bring to life five of Jake’s most terrifying tales, from both his first and second books in his series. If you enjoy what you hear tonight, please show your support for both indie horror and the author by purchasing a copy of Nightmare Soup II: The Second Helping, now available on Amazon.com, or at NightmareSoup.com, where you can pick up not only the digital edition, but the audiobook as well, featuring 25 sinister stories performed by G.M. Danielson himself. See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/the-simply-scary-podcast/3x03/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a

In this episode of The Simply Scary Podcast, we bring you four terrifying tales, from authors P. Oxford, Meagan J. Meehan, Phil Zona, and Patrick Zac, concerning unsavory smells, unusual pets, suspicious spouses, and sins that cannot be concealed. See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/the-simply-scary-podcast/3x02/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of The Simply Scary Podcast, we bring you four terrifying tales, from authors Tobias Wade, Michael Squid, Pen_Phantom13, and Phoenext85, concerning scorned lovers, broadcast glitches, unwelcome visitors, and unsettling secrets beneath our feet. See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/the-simply-scary-podcast/3x01/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode we will bring you the stories of author Peter Lalush. This North Carolina native is not only an author and musician, but a filmmaker as well, steeped in the lore of the notoriously haunted region. Lalush draws his inspiration from that very same lore, as well as from his own supernatural experiences, in order to craft an ultra dark reality. Prepare yourselves as we stare into the nightmare dimension of Peter Lalush and discover that “The Abyss Stares Back." See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s2/2x13 thqvgykx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight’s episode is our third in a series of episodes dedicated to one terrifying author and the fear that they can create. We will be highlighting The Simply Scary Podcast’s staff editor/author, Charlie Davenport, for our feast of fright. His stories will tickle the corners of your minds with horrors that will seem as familiar as they are unsettling. Davenport's anguished anecdotes will show us the dangers of being considered, “One of Our Own." See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s2/2x12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meagan Meehan is our author for this episode, and it is her birthday, so the Simply Scary Podcast crew of malevolent miscreants have a special delivery for her special day. They will attempt to extract the most fearsome stories she has stored in her terrifying imagination. Join us we explore the Meagan’s mind, as only we can, in this very special on the road episode, “Monsters and Mayhem.” See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s2/2x11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode will see the first in a series of episodes dedicated to one terrifying author and the fear that they can create. For this evening’s event, we have compiled a collection of stories from the works of Manchester-based author, Gareth Shore. For you, this Ray Bradbury-inspired wordsmith will unfold dark horizons guaranteed to threaten your slumber. His tormented tomes will provide evidence that, without a shadow of a doubt, “All’s Well That Ends.” See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s2/2x10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In our continuing effort to spotlight up and coming authors, this episode is dedicated to works introducing you to the frightening worlds of author Cosmas McCoy. His work has been featured in print as part of the anthology “What World Is This?: And Other Stories”. In addition, he has written screenplays for horror films. This studying Catholic priest takes time from his higher works in America’s Northeastern corridor to delve into the dark world of the imagination to unleash upon us the fruits of his haunting universe. Join us as we take a journey toward the malevolent with today’s episode, “Neither Seen Nor Heard From.” See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s2/2x09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This shows offering brings together the essence of all definitions of the word passion. More importantly, passion as defined by the state or capacity of being acted on by external agents or forces. Let us see how these forces touch our waking world to transform it into a nightmare reality, otherwise known as our "Passion Plays." See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s2/2x08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the world of concrete facts and hard evidence, we are constantly on the lookout for those who would use the art of distraction to keep our attention on the left hand, so we won’t notice what the right hand is doing. This is not to say that the world does not have its mysteries, but we must recognize that for most instances, there is a perfectly rational explanation… or is there? Our stories will shine a light on that very question as we explore how easy it is for dark forces to manipulate the naive with a bit of “Sleight of Hand." See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s2/2x07 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We dedicate this presentation to the work of author William Dalphin. Not since Stephen King’s “Night Shift” have we seen a short story anthology with as much bite as this Indiana native’s generous compilation of 35 harrowing nightmares in his book, “Don’t Look Away”, soon to be available on Amazon.com! We have worked directly with the author to choose some of the most tantalizingly of his terrifying tomes from his shriek-inducing collection to adapt for you, in order that you might experience his nightmares in vivid psycho-color audio, like only the Simply Scary Podcast can provide. We are proud to present our exclusive auditory renditions of William Dalphin’s most spine-tingling selections. Whatever you do, “Don’t Look Away." See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s2/2x06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We come together once again to traverse the deep dungeons of our story vault and we have compiled for you a collection of frightening stories that would be right at home on a Hollywood horror stage as well as on the casting couches of the soulless realm that is Tinsel Town. Join us as we take a behind the scenes look at death from a different angle. Ready your 3-D glasses and let the cameras roll as we explore our audible version of “Film Noir." See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s2/2x05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, we share with you how scarring certain coming-of-age experiences can be, tapping into the hidden horrors of adolescent anxiety, which promises to shatter your own dear recollections. In doing so, the mirrors of your mind's eyes shall become a portal to your long-suppressed and darkest of (not-so-fond) memories. Make way for this truly terrifying installment, as we explore “Through a Glass Darkly.” See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s2/2x04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Collectively etched into our psyche is the fear of the comet and doom from above, while the shadowy reflections of our mind wonder if the world we inhabit is as real as our five senses lead us to believe. Our guilty consciences secretly fear judgment while nature’s signs portend doom from below. Top that off with the fear of an overreaching authority that may not be trustworthy in fully disclosing facts, and you have a hearty recipe for horror - Simply Scary style! For this collection of creepiness, it is our pleasure to render you closer to your ending, by beginning a journey towards the naked abyss of ever-changing realities, parallel dimensions and cosmically-scaled horrors that are the harbingers of "Conspiracy and Armageddon." See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s2/2x03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode we have assembled this convocation to undergo an expedition of haunting proportions, for we are summoning and being summoned. Prophetic perception taps into a realm that drips with malignant spirits and death is everywhere. Our tales promise to besiege you with consternation, so beware of this episode’ "Entities and Visions." See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s2/2x02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

They say that sometimes the most frightening things are those that you cannot see. And from our horrifying experiences, you’ve become very familiar with how effective unsettling sounds can be. You know how a deep rumbling unsettles your tummy and your soul; how an almost silent whisper blowing by your ear sends your courage deep into hiding; how both the scurrying of claws on a hard surface and the bellowing of a demonic entity turn the spine to jelly. So for our opening episode of the second season of The Simply Scary Podcast, we devote our exploration to both ends of the audio spectrum, both “Screams and Whispers." See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s2/2x01 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Due to extenuating circumstances, the Season 2 premiere of The Simply Scary Podcast will be delayed until 1/18/17\. To tide you over, we offer up this smorgasbord to terrorize your palate. Join The Other Half as he takes you on a dark journey into the mind of Associate Producer Ronnie Dickison. He has collected 5 of the most disturbing tales from Ronnie’s catalog to offer you here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We want to thank you for making the first season of The Simply Scary Podcast so very successful, and we hope the beginning of our second season will unsettle you just as well. We are scheduled to premiere Season 2 on January 11th, 2017\. Until then, we would like to present you with this mini episode to make sure you are properly hungry for our premiere. See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s1/1x19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the stockings are hung, the Hanukkah candles are lit, and as we practice the seven principles of Kwanzaa, we all try to be a little less impatient and more forgiving at this time of year. Even those who do not celebrate ritual December holidays seem to have a glow about them as the Gregorian calendar approaches the zero hour. We here at The Simply Scary Podcast are no different, in that we feel the spirits of Christmas as we prepare you for Yuletide scares. So settle your debts and fill a cup with the nog of your choice, as we invite the first of many haunting spirits to visit us tonight. And listen closely as you hear those "Slay Bells Ring." See full episode details, including credits and more information about the featured authors and performers, here: http://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/episodes/s1/1x18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices