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LitReading - Classic Short Stories and Timeless Tales
From Short Storyverses
Fiction
FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of Terror
by Short Storyverses
Today: #86 in Fiction on our combined chart.
Today: #172 in Fiction, United Kingdom on our combined chart.
Today: #110 in Fiction, South Africa on our combined chart.
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Ranking history · United States
Latest daily rankings: Oct 27. New rankings will appear after the next update.
Position on the Fiction combined chart over the last 14 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better.
Episode releases
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Castbox |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27 | #86 | #56 | #44 | #46 |
| Oct 26 | #88 | #55 | — | #51 |
| Oct 25 | #97 | #67 | — | #80 |
| Oct 24 | #105 | #77 | — | #69 |
| Oct 23 | #86 | #55 | #48 | #56 |
| Oct 22 | #73 | #46 | #43 | #44 |
| Oct 21 | #73 | #45 | #42 | #45 |
| Oct 20 | #74 | #44 | #37 | #38 |
| Oct 19 | #67 | #40 | #48 | #45 |
| Oct 18 | #74 | #42 | — | #56 |
| Oct 17 | #91 | #55 | — | #59 |
| Oct 16 | #87 | #53 | — | #53 |
| Oct 15 | #91 | #58 | — | #60 |
| Oct 14 | #92 | #59 | — | #61 |
Latest episodes
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The Hum by Don McDonald — A Widower Follows a Sound Beneath His House
October 24, 2026 · 25 minIt starts on a Tuesday in October, at ten minutes to three in the morning. A low tone with no seam in it. Hollis Pike's neighbors can't hear it. His phone can't record it. The audiologist says his hearing is fine, better than fine, and…
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Is the Cure Worse Than the Illness?
October 22, 2026 · 39 minJohn is a physician, and he has a plan for his wife. Rest. Fresh air. No visitors who might excite her. Absolutely no writing. He's rented a colonial mansion for the summer and given her the big room at the top, the old nursery, with…
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Below Ten Thousand by Don McDonald — All the Time and No Time
October 19, 2026 · 13 minHe has four words. He's had them for forty-two years. He's said them in the car, he's said them in the shower with the water running, and he still can't get the stress to fall where it belongs. Now the seatbelt sign is on, the descent has…
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The Black Cat — A Classic Tale of Human Horror by Edgar Allan Poe
October 15, 2026 · 26 minAs a boy he was teased for his tenderness. He kept birds, rabbits, a dog, a small monkey. And a cat, enormous and entirely black, who followed him from room to room and would have followed him into the street. Now he sits in a cell with a…
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Still Water by Don McDonald — Four aircraft carriers in a lake?
October 12, 2026 · 45 minDr. Nathan Cole measures water for a living. It's quiet work, gauges and spreadsheets, the slow arithmetic of things that don't change much. Then a reservoir gains four inches overnight with no rain, no inflow, no explanation, and gives…
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Luella Miller – A Chilling Classic Short Story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
October 8, 2026 · 36 minEveryone in town has a story about Luella Miller. She never seems to lift a hand, yet somehow, help is always at her side. And those who give it—well, they never quite look the same afterward. Some tales of horror are loud and bloody. This…
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Autopay — An Original Short Story by Don McDonald
October 5, 2026 · 18 minThere is a job nobody warns you about. After the dying comes the paperwork, the hold music, the strangers in call centers who need proof that she is gone. For two years she was her mother’s caregiver. Now she is her mother’s administrator…
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The Hanging Stranger — A Classic Sci-Fi Horror Tale by Philip K. Dick
October 1, 2026 · 38 minEd Loyce spends his days fixing radios and televisions in a small town where nothing much happens. One evening he climbs out of his basement workroom, walks into the square, and sees something no decent town would put up with. Then he…
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His Own Voice — An Original Story by Don McDonald
September 28, 2026 · 12 minWinter, 1906. A clerk who speaks to no one from Saturday to Monday buys a mahogany graphophone for far less than it’s worth. The widow selling it keeps her eyes on the snow. Her husband, she says, liked to keep his own voice. He carries it…
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Murder of Crows – an Original Short Story by Don McDonald
September 22, 2026 · 26 minThere’s a reason crows gather in cemeteries. They remember. They watch. And sometimes, they wait. Murder of Crows isn’t a tale borrowed from the past—it’s one I wrote for New Tales Told, a series of original stories that echo in the spaces…
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The Boarded Window — A Classic Haunting Tale by Ambrose Bierce
August 26, 2026 · 12 minIn 1830, a few miles from what would one day become Cincinnati, the forest still ran unbroken. A man named Murlock lived alone at the edge of it, in a log house with one door and one window. The window was boarded shut. Nobody living could…
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Frightly!
August 14, 2026 · 1 minFear Deserves Better Storytelling Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
About the show
Enjoy a family fright night with stories that thrill—but don’t traumatize.
FRIGHTLY! drags classic and original horror tales into the cold light of your headphones (or car). From haunted manors to twisted minds, each story is performed with cinematic intensity—no cheap jump scares, no clichés, just unsettling beauty and bone-deep dread. Hear the masters of the macabre reborn, alongside new nightmares crafted to feel too real for comfort. Discover tasteful tales of terror without gratuitous gore. Frightly! features classic chills and traditional thrills.
Because fear deserves better storytelling.
FRIGHTLY! is part of Short Storyverses (shortstoryverses.com), a growing collection of podcasts devoted to exceptional storytelling. Explore Litreading—our original classic short story podcast featuring a variety of timeless tales; Season’s Readings to brighten your holidays any time of year; New Tales Told for original storiesr; and
Readastorus for for younger listeners. Search for all of these titles wherever you get your podcasts.
All episodes are narrated by professional voice actor, Don McDonald
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