Just Chills – Short Scary Stories

A man thinks he has gotten away with murder. 

Late at night, a voice calls out from a closet. What or whom does it want? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A classic horror story by William Hope Hodgson. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Who is this? Who is Coming? A classic scary story by M.R James. A professor finds a whistle in ancient ruins. Perhaps he shouldn't blow it. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app. 

When a man's jealousy drives him to spy on his best friend, he stumbles upon a chilling secret tied to an eerie bird cry in the dead of night. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

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A scary story by Ralph Adams Cram. Two boys get lost in the wilderness. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Everyone close to her dies. Who or what is Luella Miller? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

An organ that must be played. Night and Day. Until... If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A scary story by E F Benson. A man is followed every night but he can't see anyone. He can only hear the steps. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A house that only a young woman can see. An old lady that only she can speak to. A chilling horror story by Amyas Northcote.  If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Two tales of revenge by Robert Barr - Purification and An Alpine Divorce.

Trigger warning: Suicide references

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A short scary story with the lesson: If a stranger invites you to tea with their wife, don't accept. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A young man accepts a well paid job that seems very easy. Almost too easy. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

The prequel to the classic scary story Dracula by Bram Stoker. An Englishman's journey to Transylvania takes an unexpected, terrifying turn. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A professor staying at a Danish inn realises that the room number 13 appears and then disappears. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

When you're lost at night in an unfamiliar town, don't sleep at the nearest inn! If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Til death do us part. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A creepy horror story by H G Wells. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Stranded at a remote inn, a man realises quickly that something sinister is lurking in his room. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

What's in the box? What's in the box! If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A man visits an old friend that he hasn't heard from in 10 years. He settles into his room for the night. What is behind the bolted door in the corner? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A ship is attacked by a huge sea serpent. A huge, hungry, sea serpent. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A weary traveller out of money, food and hope knocks on a farm door. The old man inside is very welcoming. Perhaps he shouldn't stay....  If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Based on an El Salvadorian folk tale, a man goes to extraordinary lengths to marry his sweetheart.  If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

You can find out more about Melinda and her work here: https://www.melindabrasher.com  

One of Charles Dicken's earliest stories. A young doctor waits for his first client. When she arrives, shrouded in black, the case unfolds unlike anything he ever expected. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Every room is booked. What is a schoolmaster on vacation to do at this time of night? Stay in someone else's room. They won't be back tonight... Warning: this story mentions suicidal thoughts. If you or someone you know is having these thoughts, please seek help immediately.

What happened when the man who tried to kill Kay escaped from the mental hospital? A scary tale from the author of the Lady Vanishes, Ethel Lina White. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A man takes his chances and rents a room that is said to be haunted. He is certain that he will break the curse. Wait. What's this dagger doing there? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app so you don't miss the next one.

How do you solve a problem like blackmail? Well, I can think of one way. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app so you don't miss the next one.

What lurks in those snowy mountains? Is it human? Is it looking for a mate? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app so you don't miss the next one.

What happens with an old lady helps the wrong young man and let's him through her front door. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app so you don't miss the next one.

A chilling tale of revenge from Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app so you don't miss the next episode.

A ghost story about pride, missed opportunities and a tap, tap, tapping beyond the wall. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app so you don't miss the next episode.

A house can be haunted. But can an engine? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app so you don't miss the next episode.

Four friends enter the Toll House. How many will leave - alive? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app so you don't miss the next episode.

Cited as the inspiration for Coraline by Neil Gaiman. A weird tale of two children and how far they will go to be told a secret. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app so you don't miss the next episode.

If you see a shadow of a woman moving across the moors at night. Don't follow it. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app so you don't miss the next episode.

Don't go in the water! Octopus like creatures attack the coast of an English town. They have a taste for human flesh. Gobble. Gobble. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A doll delivers a ghostly message to a doll doctor. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

That shape is not a trick of the light. And it's getting closer.... If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Who or what is Carnivorine? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A ghost story from the author of Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Are twins connected even in death? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

The classic scary story by Edgar Allan Poe. A rebroadcast because we're taking a teeny break over the long weekend. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Don't talk to strangers. And definitely don't accept drinks from them! If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Why does he always wear a high collar? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Some things are best left well enough alone. A creepy tale by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Rebecca wants to take her niece home with her. But the stepmother stands in the way. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

From the writer of Little Women, one of the first mummy stories. What lies in the tomb, should stay in the tomb.  If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

All is fair in love and war. A creepy (no pun intended!) by Edith Nesbit.

For Women's History Month, we are featuring classic tales from some female writers that you may never have heard of. Or you might now know they wrote horror stories.

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No good deed goes unpunished. A creepy tale by Dora Sigerson Shorter. For Women's History Month, we are featuring classic tales from some female writers that you may never have heard of.

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Warning: story includes injury to a child.

When the music plays, all must dance! A creepy tale by Jessie Douglas Kerruish. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

This March, we are featuring short scary stories by women in horror. Some you might have heard of, most you have not.

A woman watches drama unfold between her fellow travellers on a train. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Another short scary story by E F Benson. A vacation turns terrifying in a house that harbours dark secrets. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A man remembers his first day as a pizza boy many summers ago. What was Mr Guthrie's Familiar? A story by Glenn Dungan. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Find Glenn Dungan here: whereisglennnow.com

A different type of horror. What happens when you start to lose everything but don't know why? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A betrothed couple are parted by distance but will they be parted by Death? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

From the author of Frankenstein, a gothic tale of a doomed romance. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A boarder in a haunted house experiences a terrifying attack one night as he drifts off to sleep. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A man sentenced to death during the Spanish Inquisition is tortured in a dark pit. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

On their honeymoon, a man leaves his wife for an expedition in the woods but is never seen again... Will Wistman's Woods give up its secret? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

From the author of "The Snow", a writer plots revenge on his nemesis. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Another classic ghost story by M R James. Williams receives a mezzotint of a house from an art dealer. At first, he does not think it is worth the price. But then, where did that figure come from? And why does it move every day?

From the author of Dracula, a student seeks solitude in a small village with an isolated old house.  If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Two creepy stories by W F Harvey: August Heat and The Clock. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Another eerie ghost story by Charles Dickens. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

What is this? What is this shadow on the wall? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Mary and Ned Boyne move from America to the village of Lyng in Dorsetshire. Enjoying their new wealth, they joke that they want an old house with a ghost. Be careful what you wish for...

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From the author of North and South, a nurse tells the tale of the silent ghost that demanded justice and revenge. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Why did a vicar lose his senses after a long walk on a cold, dark, wintry night? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Two sisters dream the same dream. Will they meet their doom on a stormy Boxing Night? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Two siblings inherit a large estate and the ghost that comes with it... If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A woman is missing a plate from the set she bought many years ago from a remote old country manor. The new owner might be able to help. But that old manor is said to be haunted. How badly does she want the plate? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A man decides to spend the night in a house that many believe is haunted. He may live to regret his decision... A ghost story by B.M.Croker. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A servant tells an eerie story about an inky shadow and harbingers of death. A creepy story by E Nesbit. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A second wife faces the spectral presence of the first. A classic ghost story by Hugh Walpole. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app

Who is this? Who is Coming? A classic scary story by M.R James. A professor finds a whistle in ancient ruins. Perhaps he shouldn't blow it. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app. And let me know if you enjoy this episode without music.

A ghost story by Arthur Conan Doyle (author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries).  Is he exhausted or is there a woman looking out from inside the silver mirror? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app

A little change of pace in this episode. A slightly humorous ghost story by Richard Middleton. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A skin crawling horror story by E F Benson.  What evil is lurking or wriggling in the Villa Cascana? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A classic ghost story by Algernon Blackwood. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A classic scary story by E F Benson.  A recurring nightmare haunts a man for years. What happens when the dream becomes reality? If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A classic scary story by Edith Nesbit. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A classic horror story by William Hope Hodgson. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

One of the most famous stories in American Literature by Ambrose Bierce. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A classic ghost story by H.G. Wells. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A horror story by TJ Lea. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A classic scary, ghost story by Charles Dickens. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A horror story by Troi Blackthorne. Naomi has recently moved into a new apartment and reluctantly befriended her roommate Emily. When a strange girl appears next door, will Naomi discover the secret that she is hiding? Or will she die trying?

Be careful what you wish for! A classic scary story by W.W Jacobs. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A classic ghost story by Amelia B Edwards. A young man gets lost in the snow in the Yorkshire Moors. But that is only the start of the night's terrors. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

The classic scary story by Edgar Allan Poe. The inspiration for the current hit Netflix show - The Fall of the House of Usher. If you like this episode, please remember to follow the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A scary story by Russell C Connor. A father discovers that his son's favourite toy might not be just a toy. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

Find more of Russell's work here: https://www.darkfilament.com/

If you have a short, scary story that you would like to submit to the show, contact us at [email protected]

The prequel to the classic scary story Dracula by Bram Stoker. An Englishman's journey to Transylvania takes an unexpected, terrifying turn. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

A horror story by TJ Lea. A family is terrorised by men that should be collecting garbage but want to collect much more. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.

If you have a short story that you would like to submit to the podcast, contact us at [email protected]

Welcome to the first episode of the Just Chills podcast. In this episode, I read the grim, scary story The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe.

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