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https://weirddarkness.com/category/mitm/ is the horror fiction home of Weird Darkness. Classic horror stories, creepypastas, and modern horror fiction — with the occasional turn into horror-tinged science fiction — narrated by Darren...
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Midnight in the Macabre is the horror fiction home of Weird Darkness. Classic horror stories, creepypastas, and modern horror fiction — with the occasional turn into horror-tinged science fiction — narrated by Darren Marlar for anyone who loves being told a dark story in the dead of night. New episodes air primarily on Friday nights at midnight, with the occasional extra tale dropping through the week, always at the stroke of twelve. Bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and join us at Midnight… in the Macabre!
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10 OCT 2026 · The doors are locked, the library is dark, and ten-year-old Lucy is about to find out she isn't the only one still inside behind those locked doors.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/Creeger
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Creeger the Creeper” by Scott Donnelly, written for http://www.microterrors.com/.
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 10, 2026
LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://weirddarkness.com/OFFICIAL A presentation of Weird Darkness, at https://weirddarkness.com.
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9 OCT 2026 · Seventeen months after the war's official end, a six-man survey crew of ex-servicemen hikes into the jungle behind Co Khao to lay markers for a French power company, and on their first night, after a ball of blue light crosses the twilight sky, they find a smooth black sphere hanging a foot off the ground at the edge of the trees.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DarkRealm
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“THE BLACK SPHERE” by Patrick Greene
Author Patrick Greene on Amazon: https://amzn.to/46WmloK
Author Patrick Green website: https://fearwriter.wordpress.com/
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 09, 2026
LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://weirddarkness.com/OFFICIAL A presentation of Weird Darkness, at https://weirddarkness.com.
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8 OCT 2026 · A lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut rides home alone from an autumn party at the Van Tassel farm on a borrowed plow horse named Gunpowder, along the same roads the people of Sleepy Hollow say belong at night to the ghost of a Hessian trooper, still out looking for the head a cannonball took from him.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/LegendOfSleepyHollow
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Legend of Sleep Hollow” by Washington Irving: https://tinyurl.com/9ra9bj4
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 08, 2026
LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://weirddarkness.com/OFFICIAL A presentation of Weird Darkness, at https://weirddarkness.com.
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7 OCT 2026 · In the spring of 1942, seven-year-old Scott Paradine was playing hooky down by the creek when a scorched metal box tumbled down the bank, packed with toys no store on Earth had ever stocked – an abacus whose beads slid off in a direction no grown-up could follow, a crystal cube full of tiny people who did whatever he thought at them, and a doll whose insides didn't match any anatomy chart. Scott and his two-year-old sister Emma figured the toys out fast, their father couldn't work them at all, and the child psychologist he brought home to dinner came away convinced the toys were teaching the kids to think in a way no adult could follow.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mimsy
SOURCES and RESOURCES: "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett, the pen name of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, first published in Astounding Science Fiction, February 1943
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 07, 2026
LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://weirddarkness.com/OFFICIAL A presentation of Weird Darkness, at https://weirddarkness.com.
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6 OCT 2026 · Six members of a space expedition find themselves hunted by a shapeshifting monster that appears from nowhere on a desolate alien world, seeming to pick them off one by one.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SixFrightenedMen
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Six Frightened Men” by Randall Garrett (Originally published in ‘Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy’ June 1957)
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 07, 2026
LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://weirddarkness.com/OFFICIAL A presentation of Weird Darkness, at https://weirddarkness.com.
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6 OCT 2026 · The skyrockets at a Mars casino town's Marsy Gras keep ruining $1,000 photographs of the night sky at the Mars Observatory, so the astronomers start offering tourists free horoscopes, and every one warns the reader he'll lose consistently at Harvey's Club.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HoroscopeRacket
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “$1,000 A Plate” by Jack McKenty: https://amzn.to/3NcdSFo
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 06, 2026
LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://weirddarkness.com/OFFICIAL A presentation of Weird Darkness, at https://weirddarkness.com.
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5 OCT 2026 · Jim's DUI keeps him off Uber, so he signs up with a rideshare app called Cerber, and his first fare, a seven-and-a-half-foot man who never lets Jim see his face, pays $1,279.37 for one ride to Fort Miley.
A NOTE FROM DARREN: I thought I’d bring back a classic from my flagship podcast, Weird Darkness. I often get comments on YouTube, on Facebook, or receive an email saying that someone liked a certain episode for this reason or that. Usually it’s a comment about how creepy or scary a specific story was, or it’s someone sharing an incident that happened to them that was similar. Or more often than not, just a note of encouragement to thank me for the podcast (which I do love getting, by the way). But very few episodes have garnered the amount of positive feedback that “I Drive For Cerber” has, which I have posted several times simply because people keep asking for it. So for those of you who have never heard it before, or for those of you who loved it the first time and wouldn’t mind another go-around, I proudly present, “I Drive For Cerber” by Mofucious.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/cerber
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “I Drive For Cerber” by Mofucious: https://www.creepypasta.com/i-drive-for-cerber/
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 05, 2026
LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://weirddarkness.com/OFFICIAL A presentation of Weird Darkness, at https://weirddarkness.com.
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4 OCT 2026 · When a mysterious curfew grips the small town of Grove City, Ohio, young Sean discovers during his Halloween weekend visit that the recent string of vicious attacks might be connected to local legends about monsters lurking in the shadows.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/grovecitywerewolf
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Grove City Werewolf” by Scott Donnelly at https://microterrors.com/
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 04, 2026
LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://weirddarkness.com/OFFICIAL A presentation of Weird Darkness, at https://weirddarkness.com.
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3 OCT 2026 · A grayish-black disk the size of a truck tire turns up in the ditch by a professor's front lawn in upstate New York, and whatever touches it, from a clod of dirt to the end of a spade, dissolves into it; by the next day, it's eight feet across. A blowtorch, and a sledgehammer don't do any better against it.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/DontFeedIt
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Leech” by Robert Sheckley: https://amzn.to/3TXtU9N
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 03, 2026
LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://weirddarkness.com/OFFICIAL A presentation of Weird Darkness, at https://weirddarkness.com.
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2 OCT 2026 · A work of fiction. Based on "The Thing at Nolan" by Ambrose Bierce (1891), retold in a present-day setting. | Charles May walked into the woods with a spade and never came home, and while his son sat in a hospital bed under arrest for killing him, five men eight miles away in Nolan swore they'd watched Charles walk through a store that same afternoon with his head split open.
EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ThingAtNolan
SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Thing at Nolan” by Ambrose Bierce (public domain), modernized by Darren Marlar
WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.
Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: October 02, 2026
LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://weirddarkness.com/OFFICIAL A presentation of Weird Darkness, at https://weirddarkness.com.
https://weirddarkness.com/category/mitm/ is the horror fiction home of Weird Darkness. Classic horror stories, creepypastas, and modern horror fiction — with the occasional turn into horror-tinged science fiction — narrated by Darren...
show more
Midnight in the Macabre is the horror fiction home of Weird Darkness. Classic horror stories, creepypastas, and modern horror fiction — with the occasional turn into horror-tinged science fiction — narrated by Darren Marlar for anyone who loves being told a dark story in the dead of night. New episodes air primarily on Friday nights at midnight, with the occasional extra tale dropping through the week, always at the stroke of twelve. Bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and join us at Midnight… in the Macabre!
show less
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| Author | Darren Marlar |
| Organization | Darren Marlar |
| Categories | Fiction , Science Fiction , Drama |
| Website | weirddarkness.com |
| darren@marlarhouse.com |
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