Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales & Other Weird Stories

Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales & Other Weird Stories

For more Frightening Tales visit me at frighteningtales.com Welcome to Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales and Other Weird Stories—a carefully curated collection of unsettling fiction, paranormal encounters, and truly strange tales from writers around the world. Each episode explores the uncanny: stories that linger, disturb, and quietly unsettle rather than simply shock. Some are frightening. Others are strange, folkloric, or deeply weird—but all are rooted in the paranormal and the unknown. The current season releases new episodes every Friday from May 1 through October 30, bringing you a steady procession of eerie and curious tales to carry you through the darker half of the year. Until then, dive into more than 130 episodes from past seasons—an extensive archive of paranormal fiction, available to listen to for free. Are you a writer of paranormal or weird fiction, and want to hear your work brought to life? Submit your stories at FrighteningTales.com. Listener discretion is advised. These stories vary in tone and content and may include unsettling themes or triggers. All stories are © copyrighted by their respective authors. I have negotiated allowances to perform these tales with the blessing of those authors. This is non-transferable, and reproductions or recreations of these stories are prohibited. All Music and FX are allowed through a subscription to EpidemicSounds.com. All Rights Reserved. Original Theme Song: Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales, is copyrighted Mark Wilhelm.

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September 18, 2026 24 mins

📍Scotland

✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by JS Apsley, an author based in Glasgow, Scotland, This story was published by Underside Stories on 1 May 2025. His debut fiction submission, "Immersion", won the Ringwood Short Story Prize and was published in January 2025.

He has since gone on to publish over 30 short stories in journals / magazines around the world. His story, "Jenny Greenteeth...

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📍USA. Dr. Isabella Urbano doesn't believe in curses, demons or the Evil Eye.

Then an elderly patient tells her a story about a murderer, an impossible infection and an ophthalmologist who discovered something alive inside a man's optic nerve.

She should have walked away.

Instead, she looked.

And then it said, “I see you.”

✍️ Today’s Tale… MN Wiggins is an internationally publ...

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September 4, 2026 26 mins

Today’s Tale… is written by Gary D, and he’s located up in Ontario, Canada. 

After a lifetime spent in sales & marketing, and having sold just about everything and anything that you can imagine, he’s both travelled and lived in various locations across our planet.

And as the tread on his tires thins and he starts to apply the brakes to slow down, over the last year or so, He’s finally found t...

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August 28, 2026 28 mins

📍USA.

⚠️Trigger Warning: Child loss / Miscarriage. 

❤️ Special Thanks to Mia, a British voice artist, originally from the south of England, who now lives and works in Ontario, Canada. She has voiced projects for Mercedes-Benz, MARVEL, the UK’s National Health Service, easyJet, Action Against Hunger, Pfizer, and the United Nations. ✍️ Today's tale is written by Marisól De La Rosa, a new wri...

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August 21, 2026 18 mins

📍USA.

✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by Jeremy Barber, a weird fiction/psychological horror writer whose fiction is based in New England. His stories explore trauma, PTSD, the horror that stems from the ordinary becoming distorted. He is currently working on his first collection of interconnected horror stories.

In this tale, a New York Cop arrives on a call to something altogether unexpected.

You can fi...

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August 14, 2026 50 mins

📍Canada.

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Welcome, loyal listeners. I’m your host, Wilhelm, and I’m also this week’s author.

A group of wealthy young adults head out to sea for a little fun, only to discover that they’ve sailed into waters that should have been left alone. Because some curses don’t follow you. They wait for you to enter their ...

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☠ Greetings, loyal listeners.

I wanted to offer a little something for writers and dark creatives who need something to listen to while they work, when spoken words are simply too distracting.

I've licensed this collection of music for you to enjoy, and I hope it helps put you into that creative space where the work starts to flow.

👁 60 minutes of dark ambience for writing, creating, and wandering somew...

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📍USA.

✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by Bailley Burbage, passionate about writing for many years, using her craft to escape and create a place for people to land. A recent college graduate, she continues to pursue her lifelong love of storytelling while working on her debut novel. Bailley enjoys exploring new ideas, creating immersive worlds, and writing stories that connect with readers on an emotiona...

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July 31, 2026 32 mins

📍USA.

✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by Billy Mitch, an author and artist who lives in Georgia. He has three dogs and a cat. When he isn’t creating a world full of monsters, he likes to spend his time painting. His writing has been featured in Strangest Fiction, Horror Sleaze Trash, ParABnormal Magazine, Unfed Writer's Digest, Dog Water Magazine, and others. Here is his tale, Strange Season. About a ...

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July 24, 2026 22 mins

📍Spain.

✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by Ausiàs Tsel is a writer from the Valencian Country whose Mediterranean Gothic fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Pithead Chapel, Neon & Smoke, Flash Fiction Magazine, Black Sheep (Hobb's End Press), and miniMAG. He writes in Catalan/Valencian and English. More at ausiastsel.com.

For more stories, you can find him on Substack: ausiastsel.substack.co...

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July 17, 2026 27 mins

📍USA. ⚠️  Trigger Warning: Suicide.

✍️ Written by author M.A., a medical school student who previously studied dentistry before making the shift to medicine. He enjoys watching movies, reading, writing stories and songs, and he hopes that someday he and his stories will make it big. Perhaps that can start with his tale… 

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July 10, 2026 35 mins

📍CANADA.

✍️ Today’s Tale… written by Evelyn Hart, who writes from the spaces between ordinary moments. Her stories are less interested in monsters than in the patient conversations we have with the things we believe are merely observing us. She believes the most unsettling horrors are never sudden. They emerge one unnoticed moment at a time.

The companion was designed to learn his habits....

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July 3, 2026 31 mins

📍USA.

✍️ Today's Tale is by Author C.N Webster's story about choices made in the woods at night. And a reminder that there’s always someone - or something - worse lurking in the dark.

C.N. Webster is an English Horror/Dark Fantasy writer who has lived in the US for the past fifteen years.

He is the author of ‘Bad Blood’, available on Amazon.

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June 26, 2026 30 mins

📍USA.

✍️ Today's tale is by Chandler Smith, who shares his winter tale of a search party that finds the wrong thing out in the woods.  Chandler Smith resides in a small town in Southeast Texas. And has always loved scary stories, finding inspiration to be a writer through Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy. Chandler is greatly inspired by the familiarity you get with others when you're living in a s...

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June 19, 2026 37 mins

📍USA.

✍️ Today's tale is by Author Damir Salkovic, no stranger to horror.

An aficionado of horror and the weird, living in Virginia with his wife and a dynamic duo of cats. He enjoys reading, travelling, and low-budget horror movies. Damir is the author of one short story collection and two novels. His shorter work has been featured in the Lovecraft eZine, Black Cat Weekly, Scare Street's "Night Terrors" series, and...

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June 12, 2026 47 mins

📍USA.

✍️ Today's tale is by Author Douglas J. Moore teaches us about the history of Witchcraft in this tale; he calls Kay and the Black Cat. The performance is an adaptation of a larger story. Douglas J. Moore is an author from New England who writes horror, speculative fiction, and alternative history. His work is often inspired by lost and legendary New England and the classic writers who hail from...

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June 5, 2026 18 mins

📍UK.

✍️ Today's tale is by Author Michael Byrne, who shares this dark folklore with us this week. An age-old lesson to always be wary of crossing faery kind. This husband and wife learn what it means to get what you wish for.  

Michael Byrne is originally from Rochdale, Lancashire, and is now based in London; he writes folklore and horror-infused fiction. His work has been featured in Scri...

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May 29, 2026 30 mins

📍USA.

✍️ Today's tale is by Asher Ellis, teaching us that karma has a way of settling the score. Carlos would never have guessed how this job was going to end. Not in a million years. It was supposed to be easy. Hijack the yacht of some playboy the world wouldn't miss and make out like bandits. But things don't exactly go to plan. 

Other works by Asher Ellis: THE REMEDY published by Full Fathom Five, which two...

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May 22, 2026 22 mins

📍UK/USA.

✍️ Andrew Hodges, an English writer living in the United States, shares his story, where in the southern United States is a house where a little old lady lives, a little old lady who was old when Dad was a boy. A little old lady whose garden isn't just right, where the little old lady... isn't just right. And I have the poor luck to live next door.  You can find more of Andrew's writing ...

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May 15, 2026 20 mins

📍USA.

✍️ Today's tale is by writer Kaci Skiles Laws, who steps away from her poetry to entertain us with her tale, POTSY. There's something in the house... something in the dark recesses of its rooms... something calling itself... POTSY.  To find Kaci's writing on Amazon, CLICK HERE. or visit Kaci's website!

🕯️ Loyal Listeners, thank you for joining me once more for a tantalizing tale of the...

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