Knifepoint Horror

An Oral History of Hell

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Note to listeners: The content of this story is particularly grim, and may be very disturbing to some. 'An Oral History of Hell,' a story written bef...

velocity

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The arrival of something mysterious and deadly in a small town sends a boy’s imagination spiraling. MUSIC: “Fate” by Dave Lahn, “Sentient” ...

bloodborne

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some jobs hold more unusual hazards than others. And some of those hazards are just... oh boy. MUSIC: "Christmas Songs for Children," Arthur Hall, Ed...

fictions

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A classic novel takes on frightening significance for an inexperienced reader. MUSIC: "Cold in Your Bones" by Kyle Preston, "Hallowed World" by E J R...

pretender

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Someone you passed on the street this month was not quite who they appeared to be. And for one in a million people you pass, the self is just a cheap ...

exiles

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A father and son confront the impossible phenomena that wait patiently to strike from within terribly familiar places. MUSIC: “Duality” by Kyle P...

Halloween Special: Amongst the Strangeness

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A horror-lite excursion into my foggy memories of real moments when things suddenly didn't quite add up... and the unknown asserted itself just enough...

Halloween Special: The BUFFET of the UNCANNY!

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here’s an off-the-record, completely unserious Halloween palate cleanser for when you just can’t take doofuses like me trying to scare you anymore...

Another Three for Halloween

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After all these years, a light seems to have been turned on inside that weird old house on the corner--so maybe it's better to stay in tonight. Here a...

slither

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

No homeowner's policy in existence covers everything. Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad...

carrion

08 Sep 2025

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Walk through most neighborhoods, and you get at least a general sense of people’s back yards. But where the truly wealthy live on enormous gated par...

sunken

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Even after museum hours ended that day, some people walked out to the waterside and just looked at the object silently for several minutes, not knowin...

patrolman

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Memories of one very, very strange winter's day in the life of a weary public servant. Additional narration by Linda Wojtowick of 'The Ghosts on This...

swerve

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the moody late hours at The Cask & Pear, an all-night dive bar and diner on the edge of the city, some of the stories patrons tell definitely lean ...

throat

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A young man’s strange natural gift evolves to wield a disturbing influence. MUSIC: ‘Atmo’ by Jamie Bathgate. All rights reserved. Listen ad-...

The Vincents

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this story originally written for the Halloween 2024 episode of Kevin Lane’s Spill Your Guts podcast to accompany a few Knifepoint Horror tales i...

snatchers

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A story of desperate men, bad decisions, terrible timing, and unexpected faces in the dark. Additional narration by Charlotte Kulak. Music: “Om B...

Paranormal Appraisal 151

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Originally heard on the Alexandria Archives podcast, this is the final recording of a man whose chosen profession finally bit back hard. With Amy Paon...

deep

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this ghost story of the Southern Gothic, a new landowner is rapidly submerged in a relative's murky past. Music: “Deja Reve” by DaniHaDani, “...

huntress

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Originally heard as ‘Q & A With a Vampire Killer’ on the Alexandria Archives podcast, this is a former college student’s reflection on an unusua...

postmarks

13 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ask people in the Cleveland area about The Ron Tanglethorn Show and you might get a few nods here and there. Never the most popular late-night offerin...

stranglehold

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A youthful lark across the states takes a man into the heart of an awful anomaly. Music: “Outside Your Grace” by Denhollander, all rights reserve...

Carried by Beasts

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Opening statements in what would come to be considered one of the strangest trials in the history of New York state. Jessica Holt-Ivers: Emma Fradd...

rory

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When two colleagues in crime come together again after years apart, one reveals a looming threat more awful than incarceration… or even capital puni...

here

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A dark October country road, a driver, a hitchhiker... and a strange, strange story told across cold, lonely miles. All stories on the Knifepoint Hor...

harbingers

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An educator's watch of the winter skies sets him in anxious motion to shelter the innocent. Music: “Cicada Killer” by idokay, “The Heir” by E...

A Quick Quintet of Terror

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Five shorter tales… and just a smidgen more. Intro music by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror Podcast. "Hallowed World" by E J R M, all rights res...

majesty

27 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 19th-century reign of the mysterious Buth Sugo was detailed only in this one ugly, bloody, regrettable record.   Music by Dave Lahn, and also ...

crannies

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many people who hear things behind their walls suspect their house is haunted, but can’t prove it. Maybe they’re failing to ask one very simple qu...

doggo

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s always a small element of worry that comes when you leave a stranger to watch your property, children, or pets. Even if you’re fully trust...

steps

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Always go very, very slowly through your radio dial, especially late at night. You never quite know when a faint signal will offer something a little ...

summoners

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All the user reviews of the real-life bar at the center of this story are exactly what you’d expect for a well-liked local business. But then, such ...

sabbatical

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A snowy walk reveals the beginnings of a mystery that grows weirder with each passing hour. Music: “Mercury” from Study of Sound / Doug Reed. A...

detour

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For the dead of winter, an old-fashioned ghost story set in a hot and humid place. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about y...

Devils Everywhere You Turn

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the hurting streets of Claysmith, Connecticut, a hideous comedy of errors engulfs the innocent and guilty alike. The cast (in order of appearanc...

chains

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It seemed like a simpler time, and the problems faced by the people in that small rural town seemed simpler too... or maybe it was a dreadful blindnes...

sideswipe

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There's usually a moment as you drive alone late at night on a long, desolate country road when you succumb to a brief bleak thought of all that can h...

endgame

11 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For sale by Baltimore County: 3 BR, 2 BA single family dwelling on 1/3rd acre in residential section of Seven Bells. Demolition arrangements offered b...

rink

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In a suspiciously quiet and unspoiled setting, three friends are beckoned by the liberation found within their darkest impulses. Music: “Flare St...

bots

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The story of Joel and Sammie, a young couple suddenly divided by something terrifying—and then bonded more strongly against a bizarre and inscrutabl...

Late Checkout

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the world of short-term rentals, the personalities bound to the transaction sometimes briefly clash. Ninety-nine percent of the time, there’s not...

hole

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Things were already tense inside a house in the middle of nowhere, and then at the wrong moment, there was a casual glimpse out the living room window...

gifters

06 Dec 2022

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As a small town struggles to defend itself against cruel interlopers, the hour of vengeance draws ever closer. MUSIC: "Hallowed World" by EJRM and "A...

colony

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Year by year, step by quiet step, a well-intentioned collective of great minds evolves into something to be feared. MUSIC - ‘Through the Past’ by...

A Compendium for Halloween

01 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Eight very different stories for the season. 1. hitcher 2. Is It That Time Again? 3. prodigal 4. panophobe 5. legalese 6. contestants 7...

cleanse

21 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There are reliable narrators, there are unreliable narrators… and then there are outliers like the one heard here. 'Clearly guilty of murder, he som...

D.N.K.

15 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A filmmaker recalls the details of his darkest project: the people who endured it, the illusions he lost to it, and the horrific force that set it all...

pride

22 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Many is the band that wishes they could have a second chance at what turned out to be their final performance—maybe they could have brought more ene...

The Smoke Child

06 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

No one in attendance at the talk on that December night in New England, 2021, really knew what they would hear from the presenter, though they certain...

surveillance

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The tomb would soon sit unnoticed, perhaps forever, in the wild grass of the lonely cemetery. But on its first night of occupancy, one man would keep ...

attraction

01 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

You are invited to a place in the mountains where one man decided that no matter what the date, it will always, always be Halloween night. (And after...

I Was Called Anwen

24 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A documentarian’s celebrity puff piece takes a dark turn when her subject reveals the story of a friend’s haunting. The documentarian Patricia Cl...

prisoner

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There is a curious fact about the tiny railway station mentioned by the teller of this story that he would never know: Almost sixty years before the e...

A Convergence in Wintertime

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Someday, when you find yourself alone in a place like the one where this story occurred, take note of what happens to your footprints as the minutes t...

digs

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the shortest time you’ve ever lived somewhere before you left in frustration? What was the problem—bad neighbors, leaks, noise problems, ...

vacancy

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Within every grandiose scheme, there lies the seed of possible disaster. Some of these disasters are loud, chaotic, and violent ... but sometimes they...

thresholds

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For Halloween, a tale of two people dwelling among the monsters who own the night. Music: 'Altered Communications' by Emanuele Errante, and by Emma...

occupiers

03 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The letters and diaries of several 19th century soldiers allude to “the terrible Demon of Moscow” that once haunted the city’s streets. One witn...

excursion

07 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

'What about the forest where this terrible thing happened?' people sometimes ask when they hear the story of the small town that became so precariousl...

drop-ins

08 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Each nighttime visitor to the tiny house in the country was more unwelcome than the one before ... but the fourth was truly unimaginable. Music by ...

compulsion

07 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Conflicting feelings about a banished relative lead to a visit a long time in coming … but each step toward her house reveals more warning signs. T...

Twelve Tiny Cabins

10 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A college professor has a mysterious story to tell to a prized student, but his timing and motive are no less cryptic. With Amy Paonessa of The Blo...

The Lockbox

21 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For the people in a small town in upstate New York, what happened was just another sordid true crime story. But they would never know just how frighte...

Three for Halloween

03 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The featured story of this brief trilogy imagines that perhaps, Earth's final confrontation between good and evil will take place so quietly you'll be...

laborer

02 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Nothing that has four walls and a roof can be eliminated as a possible breeding ground for the supernatural -- nothing. Music: "Dream" by Jahzzar, So...

transit

03 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Memories of three weird occurrences that cannot be explained merge for their living witness into a common theme. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sor...

The Copper Cup

08 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A man who insists on the existence of a relative no one else has ever seen delves dangerously into the swirling fog of his own youthful perceptions. R...

elements

24 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A man blinded by infatuation learns the object of his desire has intentions to become something from which he may have already missed his chance to es...

circles

25 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Maybe your own town holds one: a folk tale, discredited and in many ways absurd, that nevertheless will not die. Here is a glimpse into one such tale ...

impound

11 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A man in trouble, wanting only an escape from a crisis, stumbles across a mystery which leads to another... and yet another, demanding a return to a d...

The Crack

29 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Another tale of lands touched by both enigmatic beauty and dormant, uncategorizable cruelty.  The narrator: Justy Gee The poem reader: Jes Echo ...

family

24 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For the haunted, any calm explanation of a supernatural phenomenon is a comforting one, no matter where it comes from. But it is never more important ...

moonkeeper

12 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A man thrust onto the streets must navigate their disturbing sights and sounds, all the while living under the threat of a monster moving relentlessly...

Three More for Halloween

13 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Three tales of Knifepoint Horror. 1. thrifting 2. west 3. The Cleaver John Graham: Jason Hill Suzanne: Ariel Alexa Sullivan Gillian: Amy P...

tarp

16 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A boy growing up in post-Depression Kansas learns there are no truly innocuous objects as long as the human imagination can infuse them with fearsome ...

mother

29 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Built as a place of solace for those who could no longer fully fend for themselves, the house should never have been disturbed or even noticed. But th...

attic

17 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A conflict in memory between two brothers leads to a return to a place where childhood may have been hiding something too ghastly to retain in the min...

A Quick Decalogy of Terror

04 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

These 10 stories were originally produced as video monologues for YouTube over the course of a year as a slight change of pace, and now mostly exist o...

Let No One Walk Beside Her

10 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In a mysterious, undefined era, a desperate foot journey traverses a winter wilderness that promises a lonely death--perhaps a natural one, but likely...

fields

22 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The next time you take a long country drive, look to your left and right as the scenery rolls by, the forgotten places where no footsteps tread for we...

guest

29 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

He was a teenager who suddenly had no place to sleep, no money, and no options. The world had quickly become a very scary place ... and then shelter a...

chasm

11 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

In the space of minutes, a travel writer venturing alone in remote waters goes from a state of enviable tranquility to blinding terror. Music: Kevin ...

landmark

19 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Somewhere near your house it stands, one of those decaying places that people always whisper about as they pass by. For every day you age, it seems to...

sleep

01 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

There exists in this life a very real, horrifying phenomenon that science cannot yet extinguish. It strikes a surprising number of people, and none of...

bargain

03 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

It seemed like such a simple deal, but it felt wrong from the very beginning--and led to a glimpse of a horror which, for those with even a little exp...

staircase

12 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

A comfortable suburban existence begins to fracture with a single sound. You may have heard it sometime yourself, but those who have surely possess no...

legend

01 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

A tale made specifically for the campfire--a simple tale of the woods, long-buried secrets, and letting chances to escape terror slip agonizingly away...

lake

05 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Some places are so remote that just to explore them is an invitation to the phantoms that know we're alone. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), L...

vision

17 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

A man attempting to solve a strange gap in his memory meets a man claiming to offer an answer--one too frightening for mere mortals to grasp. Music: ...

presence

19 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Very few people had ever even heard of the Poldrict House, let alone investigated it. Surely the lack of fascination within the paranormal community w...

retaliation

21 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

A cruel game of psychological brinksmanship among thieves breaks the sanity of its most dangerous competitor. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com),...

proof

11 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

The unexpected phone call's origin raised many questions, but for a man anxious to discover real evidence of mysterious forces at work all around us, ...

A Second Quick Trilogy of Terror

08 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Another three tales roughly and tersely told. 1. bells 2. lighthouse 3. army Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative...

A Quick Trilogy of Terror

21 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Here are three stories that don't quite fit into the mold of those previously offered. 1. mountains 2. castle 3.  solitude Music: Kevin Ma...

sisters

24 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

The secluded castle, once rumored to harbor evil, had been redeemed by the influence of piety and innocence until something came through the forest to...

undead

17 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

A brief history of a brilliant creator slowly becomes a tale of shadows, footsteps, and terror when an awful irony reaches out to him with cold, lifel...

outcast

04 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Whether high school student Garrett Markish was truly evil or under the influence of forces he could not overcome did not matter to those who fell be...

sounds

30 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Two fugitives desperate to escape both the police and the elements become aware of a far greater horror lying between them and safety. Listen ad-fr...

visitation

23 Sep 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A knock at the door in the dead of night begins a mystery involving a gruesome crime and a vengeance that can only come in the beyond.  Learn more a...

rebirth

16 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A nighttime expedition to a sleepy town uncovers the truth behind seemingly groundless rumors. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under...