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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 120 episodes from past seasons—an extensive archive of paranormal fiction, available to listen to 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 © copyright 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 is prohibited. All Music and FX are allowed through subscription to EpidemicSounds.com. All Rights Reserved. Original Theme Song: Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales, is copyright Mark Wilhelm.

Recent Episodes

DEC 14, 2025

Zea Mindwerl’s ”Fear”

<p>Author Zea Mindwerl shares this story she wrote for a prompt at Blog.Reedsy.com. It's a dark tale about the unknown things out in the dark of night. And hammers home the idea that there's no place like the safety of home in a tale she calls FEAR.</p><p><br /></p><p>The story was originally posted in 2023 but has since gone missing from my podcast... I have no idea why. But in the time that's past from when I originally posted this and now I've learned so much about audio recording and mastering. So I've applied that to the original performance and updated the effects with new ones from my subscription with Epidemic Sounds.</p>

14 MIN

DEC 14, 2025

Jim Cort’s Reaper

<p>Imagine being followed around by death itself... for seemingly no reason at all. Jim Cort dives into this idea in this original story.</p>

19 MIN

DEC 14, 2025

N Bonds, The Bookshop

<p>A nostalgic look back at horror alumni Nelson Bond. Who's aged old writing paved the way for todays contemporary authors. His tale The Bookshop, explores the secrets often found in seemingly innocuous places. </p>

30 MIN

NOV 1, 2025

Don’t Look at the Angel on Cobbler Street

<p>Today’s episode… is written by <strong>Glenn Dungan</strong>, currently based in Brooklyn, NYC. He exists within a Venn diagram of urban design, sociology, and good stories. </p><p>When not obsessing about one of those three, he can be found at a park drinking black coffee and listening to podcasts about murder. </p><p>For more of his work, please visit his website, <a href="http://whereisglennnow.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">whereisglennnow.com</a>. </p><p>You can also find him on substack, "<a href="https://substack.com/@whereisglennnow" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">WhereisGlennnow?</a>" </p><p>and also on Instagram at...you guessed it, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/whereisglennnow/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@whereisglennnow.</a> </p><p><br></p>

39 MIN

OCT 31, 2025

<p>Today’s episode… is written by Dustin Ridout, the dad of two lovely but sometimes scary kids, a Colorado area physician and a lover of horror stories on cold rainy nights. Here's his tale he calls Tiny.</p>

47 MIN