Knifepoint Horror

Mon, 09 Jun 2025

A story of desperate men, bad decisions, terrible timing, and unexpected faces in the dark. Additio...

Fri, 23 May 2025

Originally heard on the Alexandria Archives podcast, this is the final recording of a man whose chos...

Fri, 09 May 2025

In this ghost story of the Southern Gothic, a new landowner is rapidly submerged in a relative's mur...

Mon, 28 Apr 2025

Originally heard as ‘Q & A With a Vampire Killer’ on the Alexandria Archives podcast, this is a ...

Sun, 13 Apr 2025

Ask people in the Cleveland area about The Ron Tanglethorn Show and you might get a few nods here an...

Fri, 07 Mar 2025

A youthful lark across the states takes a man into the heart of an awful anomaly. Music: “Outside...

Fri, 07 Feb 2025

Opening statements in what would come to be considered one of the strangest trials in the history of...

Sun, 05 Jan 2025

When two colleagues in crime come together again after years apart, one reveals a looming threat mor...

Wed, 16 Oct 2024

A dark October country road, a driver, a hitchhiker... and a strange, strange story told across cold...

Wed, 25 Sep 2024

An educator's watch of the winter skies sets him in anxious motion to shelter the innocent. Music: ...

Tue, 27 Aug 2024

Five shorter tales… and just a smidgen more. Intro music by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror Po...

Sat, 27 Jul 2024

The 19th-century reign of the mysterious Buth Sugo was detailed only in this one ugly, bloody, regr...

Fri, 21 Jun 2024

Many people who hear things behind their walls suspect their house is haunted, but can’t prove it....

Fri, 24 May 2024

There’s always a small element of worry that comes when you leave a stranger to watch your propert...

Fri, 12 Apr 2024

Always go very, very slowly through your radio dial, especially late at night. You never quite know ...

Fri, 08 Mar 2024

All the user reviews of the real-life bar at the center of this story are exactly what you’d expec...

Mon, 05 Feb 2024

A snowy walk reveals the beginnings of a mystery that grows weirder with each passing hour. Music: ...

Fri, 05 Jan 2024

For the dead of winter, an old-fashioned ghost story set in a hot and humid place. Patreon: https:...

Fri, 13 Oct 2023

On the hurting streets of Claysmith, Connecticut, a hideous comedy of errors engulfs the innocent an...

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

It seemed like a simpler time, and the problems faced by the people in that small rural town seemed ...

Thu, 24 Aug 2023

There's usually a moment as you drive alone late at night on a long, desolate country road when you ...

Sun, 11 Jun 2023

For sale by Baltimore County: 3 BR, 2 BA single family dwelling on 1/3rd acre in residential section...

Fri, 19 May 2023

In a suspiciously quiet and unspoiled setting, three friends are beckoned by the liberation found wi...

Mon, 10 Apr 2023

The story of Joel and Sammie, a young couple suddenly divided by something terrifying—and then bon...

Fri, 17 Mar 2023

In the world of short-term rentals, the personalities bound to the transaction sometimes briefly cla...

Tue, 17 Jan 2023

Things were already tense inside a house in the middle of nowhere, and then at the wrong moment, the...

Tue, 06 Dec 2022

As a small town struggles to defend itself against cruel interlopers, the hour of vengeance draws ev...

Mon, 07 Nov 2022

Year by year, step by quiet step, a well-intentioned collective of great minds evolves into somethin...

Sat, 01 Oct 2022

Eight very different stories for the season. 1. hitcher 2. Is It That Time Again? 3. prodigal...

Sun, 21 Aug 2022

There are reliable narrators, there are unreliable narrators… and then there are outliers like the...

Fri, 15 Jul 2022

A filmmaker recalls the details of his darkest project: the people who endured it, the illusions he ...

Fri, 22 Apr 2022

Many is the band that wishes they could have a second chance at what turned out to be their final pe...

Sun, 06 Feb 2022

No one in attendance at the talk on that December night in New England, 2021, really knew what they ...

Mon, 06 Dec 2021

The tomb would soon sit unnoticed, perhaps forever, in the wild grass of the lonely cemetery. But on...

Fri, 01 Oct 2021

You are invited to a place in the mountains where one man decided that no matter what the date, it w...

Fri, 24 Sep 2021

A documentarian’s celebrity puff piece takes a dark turn when her subject reveals the story of a f...

Fri, 09 Jul 2021

There is a curious fact about the tiny railway station mentioned by the teller of this story that he...

Mon, 10 May 2021

Someday, when you find yourself alone in a place like the one where this story occurred, take note o...

Mon, 15 Feb 2021

What’s the shortest time you’ve ever lived somewhere before you left in frustration? What was th...

Thu, 03 Dec 2020

Within every grandiose scheme, there lies the seed of possible disaster. Some of these disasters are...

Fri, 16 Oct 2020

For Halloween, a tale of two people dwelling among the monsters who own the night. Music: 'Altered ...

Sat, 03 Oct 2020

The letters and diaries of several 19th century soldiers allude to “the terrible Demon of Moscow”...

Fri, 07 Aug 2020

'What about the forest where this terrible thing happened?' people sometimes ask when they hear the ...

Wed, 08 Jul 2020

Each nighttime visitor to the tiny house in the country was more unwelcome than the one before ... b...

Sun, 07 Jun 2020

Conflicting feelings about a banished relative lead to a visit a long time in coming … but each st...

Fri, 10 Apr 2020

A college professor has a mysterious story to tell to a prized student, but his timing and motive ar...

Sat, 21 Dec 2019

For the people in a small town in upstate New York, what happened was just another sordid true crime...

Thu, 03 Oct 2019

The featured story of this brief trilogy imagines that perhaps, Earth's final confrontation between ...

Fri, 02 Aug 2019

Nothing that has four walls and a roof can be eliminated as a possible breeding ground for the super...

Mon, 03 Jun 2019

Memories of three weird occurrences that cannot be explained merge for their living witness into a c...

Mon, 08 Apr 2019

A man who insists on the existence of a relative no one else has ever seen delves dangerously into t...

Wed, 24 Oct 2018

A man blinded by infatuation learns the object of his desire has intentions to become something from...

Wed, 25 Jul 2018

Maybe your own town holds one: a folk tale, discredited and in many ways absurd, that nevertheless w...

Mon, 11 Jun 2018

A man in trouble, wanting only an escape from a crisis, stumbles across a mystery which leads to ano...

Thu, 29 Mar 2018

Another tale of lands touched by both enigmatic beauty and dormant, uncategorizable cruelty.  The ...

Wed, 24 Jan 2018

For the haunted, any calm explanation of a supernatural phenomenon is a comforting one, no matter wh...

Sun, 12 Nov 2017

A man thrust onto the streets must navigate their disturbing sights and sounds, all the while living...

Fri, 13 Oct 2017

Three tales of Knifepoint Horror. 1. thrifting 2. west 3. The Cleaver John Graham: Jason H...

Wed, 16 Aug 2017

A boy growing up in post-Depression Kansas learns there are no truly innocuous objects as long as th...

Thu, 29 Jun 2017

Built as a place of solace for those who could no longer fully fend for themselves, the house should...

Wed, 17 May 2017

A conflict in memory between two brothers leads to a return to a place where childhood may have been...

Tue, 04 Apr 2017

These 10 stories were originally produced as video monologues for YouTube over the course of a year ...

Sat, 10 Dec 2016

In a mysterious, undefined era, a desperate foot journey traverses a winter wilderness that promises...

Fri, 22 Jan 2016

The next time you take a long country drive, look to your left and right as the scenery rolls by, th...

Thu, 29 Oct 2015

He was a teenager who suddenly had no place to sleep, no money, and no options. The world had quickl...

Fri, 11 Sep 2015

In the space of minutes, a travel writer venturing alone in remote waters goes from a state of envia...

Sun, 19 Jul 2015

Somewhere near your house it stands, one of those decaying places that people always whisper about a...

Mon, 01 Jun 2015

There exists in this life a very real, horrifying phenomenon that science cannot yet extinguish. It ...

Fri, 03 Apr 2015

It seemed like such a simple deal, but it felt wrong from the very beginning--and led to a glimpse o...

Thu, 12 Feb 2015

A comfortable suburban existence begins to fracture with a single sound. You may have heard it somet...

Thu, 01 Jan 2015

A tale made specifically for the campfire--a simple tale of the woods, long-buried secrets, and lett...

Fri, 05 Dec 2014

Some places are so remote that just to explore them is an invitation to the phantoms that know we're...

Fri, 17 Oct 2014

A man attempting to solve a strange gap in his memory meets a man claiming to offer an answer--one t...

Wed, 19 Mar 2014

Very few people had ever even heard of the Poldrict House, let alone investigated it. Surely the lac...

Tue, 21 Jan 2014

A cruel game of psychological brinksmanship among thieves breaks the sanity of its most dangerous co...

Sat, 11 Jan 2014

The unexpected phone call's origin raised many questions, but for a man anxious to discover real evi...

Tue, 08 Oct 2013

Another three tales roughly and tersely told. 1. bells 2. lighthouse 3. army Music: Kevin ...

Fri, 21 Jun 2013

Here are three stories that don't quite fit into the mold of those previously offered. 1. mounta...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012

The secluded castle, once rumored to harbor evil, had been redeemed by the influence of piety and in...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012

A brief history of a brilliant creator slowly becomes a tale of shadows, footsteps, and terror when ...

Sun, 04 Dec 2011

Whether high school student Garrett Markish was truly evil or under the influence of forces he could...

Sun, 30 Oct 2011

Two fugitives desperate to escape both the police and the elements become aware of a far greater hor...

Fri, 23 Sep 2011

A knock at the door in the dead of night begins a mystery involving a gruesome crime and a vengeanc...

Tue, 16 Aug 2011

A nighttime expedition to a sleepy town uncovers the truth behind seemingly groundless rumors. Musi...

Sun, 02 Jan 2011

Read by Neil Donnelly. In a previous episode, 'house', the psychic researcher Aramis Churchton make...

Sun, 02 Jan 2011

Read by Neil Donnelly. In a previous episode, 'house', the psychic researcher Aramis Churchton make...

Thu, 30 Dec 2010

Read by Dennis Smith. On a dark winter's night, a seeker of ghosts attuned to the strange energy wit...

Sun, 26 Dec 2010

A man's slow descent into depression and addiction opens up a world of once-hidden terrors, the wors...

Wed, 22 Dec 2010

Read by Logan Masterson. Nine seconds was all it took to scar a subway rider for life when the flick...

Fri, 17 Dec 2010

Read by Markham Anderson. The inability of two troubled teens to extricate themselves from the influ...

Sun, 12 Dec 2010

Read by Mike Harris. Few considered the strange substance which spread through a small city to be an...

Thu, 09 Dec 2010

Read by Brian d'Eon. One of the most famous political assassinations in history may have been crypti...

Sun, 05 Dec 2010

A damaged man recalls his time at Seacrist Elementary, the unlikely site of a hideous paranormal out...

Thu, 02 Dec 2010

Read by Markham Anderson. A courteous stranger offers three friends looking for a Halloween hayrid...

Mon, 29 Nov 2010

Read by Mark Nelson. An invitation to a seance leads a Congressman to face the wrath of a tortured s...

Thu, 25 Nov 2010

A cult's act of human sacrifice and resurrection reaches across the twentieth century to leave its i...

Thu, 25 Nov 2010

Read by Mike Vendetti. The corpse of a remorseless killer refuses to decay, breaking the sanity of a...

Tue, 23 Nov 2010

Read by Dennis Smith. An unwitting videographer is drawn into a mysterious researcher's day-long jou...