![]() ![]() This podcast doesn’t pack the pure horror punch of a good old-fashioned ghost story but the narratives it weaves are wonderfully creepy and always impressive. where things happen to get pretty strange. Welcome to Night Vale is a fictional podcast presented as a radio show being broadcast from the utterly damned town of Night Vale, located out in some undisclosed desert in the Southwestern U.S. Welcome to Night Vale, however, should be a well-crafted, glorious exception. Most of us generally prefer “real-life” spooky stories when it comes to our horror. Take a listen now and then catch up with the TV show as well. Host Aaron Mahnke picks a subject like werewolves, Lovecraft, or even something as basic as fire and then explores the ways that humanity has crafted legends and symbols out of them to scare ourselves. Lore: The Challenges of Adapting a Scary Podcast By Chris Longo With that in mind, we’ve compiled 13 horror podcasts most likely to get you to believe in those bumps in the night once more. We’re beginning to discover just what the strengths of podcasts can be and one of them for sure is the auditory medium’s ability to terrify its listeners. Today’s podcasting renaissance goes hand in hand with our current horror renaissance. Now it’s the podcasting medium’s turn to pick up the horror flag and run with it. Books have been killing the spooky story game for awhile. There are other mediums, however, that allow you to create the image or concept that terrifies you most in your own head. Usually they do quite a good job despite the difficulty of the medium, bless them. The problem is that visual mediums like movies and TV shows usually have to reveal the horrifying thing they’re trying to plant into your mind. But horror in all its splendid forms helps us believe that maybe that thing that went bump in the night is actually a ghost, a ghoul, or some other kind of supernatural occurrence. The adult, web-surfing version of you knows that when things go bump in the night it’s probably because the house is settling or the damn cat has knocked over a bottle of shampoo in the shower again. Nothing can get you back into the mindset of childlike wonder quite like the experience of getting scared. ![]()
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