After Dark | Scary Horror Stories
byAfter Dark Studios
Fiction
Welcome to After Dark®, your destination for terrifying creepypasta, scary stories, and immersive horror tales told after dark. Each story delivers chilling narratives filled with paranormal encounters, urban legends, and psychological horror designed to keep you awake long after the lights go out. Turn off the lights, put on your headphones, and experience the scariest horror stories—after dark. New episodes every Friday at 8pm EST. * * * EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER: This podcast contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT intended for chi...
Episodes(40 episodes)
"Mommy, I Think Something's Wrong With Me" | Part 2
After her daughter stumbles into her bedroom with skin peeling off in strips and blood filling her slippers, a mother realizes the terrifying sickness devouring her child is spreading—and no one is coming to help.
Author: Jake Bible
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EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:
This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT intended for ch...
Published: Jul 4, 2025Duration: 32:14
"Mommy, I Think Something's Wrong With Me" | Part 1
After her daughter stumbles into her bedroom with skin peeling off in strips and blood filling her slippers, a mother realizes the terrifying sickness devouring her child is spreading—and no one is coming to help.
Author: Jake Bible
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EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:
This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT intended for ch...
Published: Jul 1, 2025Duration: 37:34
The Goddess, the Dog, and the Damned
A deadbeat dad, unknowingly killed in a car crash with his family, must race a sarcastic goddess in a muscle car through the afterlife’s Crossroads—where the winner decides their eternal fate.
Author: Jake Bible
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EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:
This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT intended for children under the age...
Published: Jun 25, 2025Duration: 44:15
The War is Over. The Tyrant Has Fallen. Now They're Coming For Me.
As a jubilant mob celebrates the fall of a brutal regime, the general’s wife flees with her children—only to face the vengeance of a city that remembers every atrocity she once ignored.
Author: Dave Kavanaugh
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EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:
This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT intended for children under the...
Published: Jun 12, 2025Duration: 39:50
There's A House In My Neighborhood That Wasn't Here Yesterday
Three sharp-tongued seniors uncover a mysterious gingerbread house in their Arizona retirement community—only to discover it offers youth, power, and beauty… for a blood-soaked price.
Author: Jake Bible
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EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:
This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT intended for children under the age of 18. Parental guidance is strongly advised for...
Published: Jun 8, 2025Duration: 46:07
The Emergency Alert System Played A Message That Wasn't For Us
As emergency alerts flood the nation and a White House broadcast ends in blood, two women wrestle with paranoia, supernatural theories, and a chilling message commanding one unthinkable act: kill the one you love most.
Author: Jake Bible
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EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:
This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT intended for children...
Published: May 21, 2025Duration: 37:48
3 Sci-Fi Horror Stories
Step into a nightmarish future where technology turns against us, alien terrors lurk in the void, and humanity’s darkest fears are no longer fiction—they're just the beginning.
Author: Dave Kavanaugh
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EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:
This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT intended for children under the age of 18. Parental guidance is s...
Published: May 10, 2025Duration: 46:01
My Silent Protector Leaves Behind a Trail of Bodies
Bound to a monstrous guardian born from tragedy, a girl struggles to survive high school and her own unraveling sanity, as the creature lurking at her side answers every threat with unstoppable, bloody violence.
Author: Jude Irons
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EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:
This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT intended for children under...
Published: May 1, 2025Duration: 39:48
A Child Led Me Into the Moor. What I Found Should Not Exist.
A country vet follows the trail of a mysterious predator into the Yorkshire moors—only to discover that something ancient, hungry, and heartbreakingly deceptive has awakened in the bog.Author: Dave Kavanaugh* * *EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT intended for children un...
Published: Apr 19, 2025Duration: 42:46
Frozen Chains
A forgotten spirit, trapped in the ruins of her own murder and consumed by a cold hunger for warmth, struggles to recall her past and resist harming the living—until a long-lost descendant offers her the chance at peace and redemption.Author: Jude Irons* * *EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or...
Published: Apr 5, 2025Duration: 47:11
The Hunter, The Vampire, and the Girl
In the shadowed alleys of a sultry southern city, a devoted young woman lures strangers to feed the ancient vampire she loves—until a relentless hunter arrives, and their dark romance spirals into a tragic descent of blood, betrayal, and burning daylight.Author: James Tully* * *EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. Th...
Published: Mar 29, 2025Duration: 32:59
Let's Talk About Death
A death doula answering a call in historic London discovers her client is not just dying—but preparing to be reborn, through a ritual of ancient blood magic that puts her unborn child at the center of a monstrous bargain for immortality.Author: Dave Kavanaugh* * *EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of ag...
Published: Mar 22, 2025Duration: 1:12:51
The End is Nigh
When a cynical therapist begins to unravel after a disturbing patient warns her of an impending apocalypse, she must question her sanity, reality, and the terrifying possibility that his delusions might be the truth.Author: Jude Irons* * *EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT intended...
Published: Mar 18, 2025Duration: 53:05
Slasher vs. Mafia | Yara's Story (Part 2)
A young woman raised in a world of brutal crime enlists the help of a deranged butcher—who happens to be the city’s most feared serial killer—to wage a bloody war against her own family, but as their violent crusade escalates, the line between revenge and obsession begins to blur.Author: Dave Kavanaugh* * *EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of vio...
Published: Mar 15, 2025Duration: 1:01:11
Slasher vs. Mafia | Yara's Story (Part 1)
A young woman raised in a world of brutal crime enlists the help of a deranged butcher—who happens to be the city’s most feared serial killer—to wage a bloody war against her own family, but as their violent crusade escalates, the line between revenge and obsession begins to blur.Author: Dave Kavanaugh* * *EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of vio...
Published: Mar 11, 2025Duration: 1:18:15
Grandma's House
A young woman returns to her estranged grandmother's decaying home, only to discover that something far more sinister than neglect has taken root within its walls.Author: Jude Irons* * *EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT intended for children under the age of 18. Parental guidance...
Published: Mar 8, 2025Duration: 46:50
Skin Deep
A widow's desperate pursuit of acceptance at an exclusive country club leads her to a mysterious black dress that grants her the power to command admiration—but at a horrific cost.Author: James Dean Tully* * *EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT intended for children under the age of...
Published: Mar 4, 2025Duration: 36:20
The Pursuit of Happiness
A woman who has spent her life unable to feel or connect with others embarks on a journey through surreal and unsettling realities, guided by a mysterious Djinn, in search of something—anything—that might finally make her whole.Author: Jude Irons* * *EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense themes, strong language, and graphic depictions of violence intended for adults 18 years of age or older. These stories are NOT...
Published: Mar 1, 2025Duration: 53:06
On The Altar
A devoted handmaiden, bound by tradition and fear, leads a child bride to a ritual sacrifice, but as the weight of guilt and horror festers, she must decide whether to betray the temple that raised her or risk her own life to save an innocent soul—unraveling a truth that will bring about divine wrath.Author: Jude Irons* * *EXPLICIT CONTENT DISCLAIMER:This episode contains explicit content not limited to intense th...
Published: Feb 25, 2025Duration: 53:52
The Homeless Man on the Corner Always Warned Me About the End… I Should've Listened | Part 2
When a burned-out hotel receptionist in Hastings witnesses a strange meteor crash into the English Channel, she brushes it off as just another weird occurrence in her mundane life. But when the town’s eccentric "Tin Man" vanishes into the ocean—only to return… changed—she realizes something is terribly wrong. The water shimmers with an unnatural silver sheen, people begin acting strangely, and an eerie green light stains the night sky. As reality unravels and an ancient force awakens beneath the waves, she must uncover the truth before the world is swallowed whole. The end isn’t coming… it’s already...
Published: Feb 22, 2025Duration: 37:19