Harrowing Tales Horror Stories

Harrowing Tales Horror Stories

by Harrowing Tales

Season 1

Open House: A 1989 Home Selling Horror Story

In 1989, a laid-off father has one chance to save his family from foreclosure: sell the house before the bank's deadline. Every Saturday, he lets strangers walk through it. In this original horror story, a man alone in a house staged for buyers hosts open house after open house, with the beds made up in his children's empty rooms. At the first one, a friendly man in a sport coat lingers after everyone else has gone, and the proud homeowner gives him the full tour: the alarm they never set, the broken lock on the slider, the bulkhead held shut by a single hasp. The weeks go by. Two lines on a sign-in sheet are in the same handwriting. Then a young family makes an offer, just in time. A slow-burn, unsettling tale of a house for sale, a stranger who asks ordinary questions, and a secret one man has kept for thirty-five years. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you. 🎧 If this one got under your skin, follow Harrowing Tales for new scary stories every week, and leave a rating to help other listeners find the show. 📺 Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: Harrowing Tales All Harrowing Tales stories are original works of fiction.

What She Drew: A Farmhouse Imaginary Friend Horror Story

The summer she was four, a little girl drew the same picture every night: the family farmhouse, the dog, the sun in the corner, and a tall gray friend with no face. Her mother kept every drawing, all two hundred of them. In this original horror story, a woman looks back on a hot summer in 1991, on five acres at the edge of a hayfield, where her daughter played all day inside a sturdy wire fence, always in view of the kitchen window. The imaginary friend seemed harmless, even sweet. So did the soaked shoes on dry afternoons, and the burrs in her socks from somewhere that wasn't the yard. Then, on Labor Day weekend, the mother walks out past the fence for the first time all summer, and turns around. A slow-burn, unsettling tale of childhood drawings, an imaginary friend, and the treeline at the edge of a quiet farm. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you. 🎧 If this one got under your skin, follow Harrowing Tales for new scary stories every week, and leave a rating to help other listeners find the show. 📺 Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: Harrowing Tales All Harrowing Tales stories are original works of fiction.

The Window Fan: A 1980s Summer Horror Story

The summer she was twelve, in 1987, a heat wave came, her mother bought a box fan, and she ran it in her bedroom window every night. It was the best sleep she ever had. In this original horror story, a woman looks back on a hot July on a quiet gravel road outside town, where everybody knew everybody's truck by the sound of it. Her room was the one at the back corner of the house, with a low windowsill she loved. On the rare nights the fan went quiet, from a blown fuse or a summer storm, she could hear slow footsteps in the grass right outside. So she worked out a system and kept the fan on high every night after that. It worked. Then, in September, her father went out to mow the back yard. A slow-burn, unsettling tale of childhood summers, the noise we fall asleep to, and what it might be covering up. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you. 🎧 If this one got under your skin, follow Harrowing Tales for new scary stories every week, and leave a rating to help other listeners find the show. 📺 Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: Harrowing Tales All Harrowing Tales stories are original works of fiction.

The Ride Home: A 1980s Babysitting Horror Story

Every Friday night in 1985, a fourteen-year-old babysat for a family four blocks down, and every Friday the kids' father came home around eleven and drove her home. He was polite and quiet, and he always waited until she got inside. In this original horror story, a woman looks back on the year she spent babysitting for a nurse who worked the overnight shift. The key was kept under a flowerpot, the kids were asleep by nine, and the house was all hers until the storm door opened. It became routine, eleven rides home in all. Only much later does she notice the small things: the long way around the school, the questions about her family, the porch light, the back door left open. A slow-burn, unsettling tale of small-town 1980s nostalgia, a babysitting job, and how comfortable a routine can make you. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you. 🎧 If this one got under your skin, follow Harrowing Tales for new scary stories every week, and leave a rating to help other listeners find the show. 📺 Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: Harrowing Tales All Harrowing Tales stories are original works of fiction.

Nineteen Below: An Ice Storm Horror Story

The night an ice storm knocked out the power, two brothers were home alone at the top of a dead-end hill. Then a light started blinking in the treeline below the house. In this original horror story, a seventeen-year-old and his eleven-year-old brother ride out a winter storm with a woodstove and a handful of candles, their mother stranded in town and the phone lines down. Their road goes nowhere and nobody drives it after dark. So when a flashlight flickers in the woods, again and again, in a pattern he can't work out, he makes a careful decision: blow out every candle, lock every door, and keep count. Hours later, someone climbs the porch steps. A slow-burn, unsettling tale of a rural winter night, a stranger in the dark, and the choices you make when you're the only one keeping watch. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you. 🎧 If this one got under your skin, follow Harrowing Tales for new scary stories every week, and leave a rating to help other listeners find the show. 📺 Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: Harrowing Tales All Harrowing Tales stories are original works of fiction.

Small Door: An Attic Crawlspace Horror Story

When he was eleven, there was a small door in his bedroom wall that led into the crawlspace behind it, and it would not stay shut. Nobody in the family had opened it. So one night, he left it open to see what would happen. In this original horror story, a man looks back on the old house he grew up in, where the second floor sat tucked under the roof and a narrow crawlspace ran behind every wall. What started as a door left ajar became months of watching, one night he has never forgotten, and a family that moved away without talking about it. Years later, he goes back to the house with a camcorder and a friend, and the new owner has a story of her own. Then, thirty years on, he finds the tape. A slow-burn, unsettling tale of a childhood bedroom, an attic crawlspace, and something in the dark that is patient. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you. 🎧 If this one got under your skin, follow Harrowing Tales for new scary stories every week, and leave a rating to help other listeners find the show. 📺 Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: Harrowing Tales All Harrowing Tales stories are original works of fiction.

Off Season: A Coastal Campground Horror Story

Seven friends rent a cabin in a beach town that has shut down for the winter. There's no one on the streets and nothing moving on the roads, just a single sheriff's patrol car parked at the campground entrance, keeping watch. In this original horror story, a cheap December getaway to the coast turns into a long, rain-soaked night. The campground is flooded and the town is deserted. A stranger collapses in the road by the lighthouse, an old car idles outside the bathrooms with its lights off, and a woman sitting alone in the rain says something the narrator still can't explain. Then, at three thirty in the morning, the trucks arrive. A slow-burn, unsettling tale of an empty off-season town, a camping trip gone wrong, and a night that turns out to be far more dangerous than anyone realized. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you. 🎧 If this one got under your skin, follow Harrowing Tales for new scary stories every week, and leave a rating to help other listeners find the show. 📺 Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: Harrowing Tales All Harrowing Tales stories are original works of fiction.

Night Shift: A Hotel Graveyard Shift Horror Story

A hotel night clerk writes a lie to get out of the last two hours of his shift. By morning, the lie has come true, and something knew about it before he did. In this original horror story, a twenty-six-year-old front desk clerk works the graveyard shift at a high desert hotel, where nobody checks in after midnight and the only company is Marcus, the quiet security guard. One slow night he sneaks out early and leaves his manager a made-up excuse: his brother stranded on a lonely highway past the old fairgrounds. It was supposed to be harmless. Then his phone rings. A slow-burn, unsettling tale of night shift horror, a creepy phone call, and a lonely road where something is waiting. No gore, no jump scares, just quiet dread that stays with you. 🎧 If this one got under your skin, follow Harrowing Tales for new scary stories every week, and leave a rating to help other listeners find the show. 📺 Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: Harrowing Tales All Harrowing Tales stories are original works of fiction.

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