388: 388: Routine Mortality - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

388: 388: Routine Mortality - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

Author: Chilling Entertainment July 24, 2025 Duration: 53:16
Hospitals. Care homes. Recovery wards. They’re built on a promise: that behind every clean hallway and gentle voice lies safety, compassion, and healing. But what if that promise is a lie? In this chilling installment of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, we step behind the sanitized curtains of institutional care to find something far more disturbing lurking beneath. Featuring a haunting original tale from Craig Groshek and brought to life by the voice of Otis Jiry, this episode explores what happens when routines turn sinister—and when the real horror begins long after the lights go out. To watch the podcast on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/ChillingEntertainmentYT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/ChillingTalesPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this ...

There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles in when the lights go out, a space where the imagination begins to turn shadows into shapes. Chilling Tales for Dark Nights: A Horror Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast lives in that space. Produced by Chilling Entertainment, LLC & Studio71, this weekly anthology doesn’t just tell stories-it builds atmospheres. Each episode gathers a selection of distinctly creepy tales from a roster of talented horror authors, but the experience goes far beyond the page. Professional voice actors lend their talents to give each character a breath and a pulse, while carefully designed sound effects and an unsettling musical score wrap around the narration, pulling you deeper into every unfolding nightmare. This is a fiction podcast crafted for those who find a strange comfort in a well-told scare, where the artistry of audio transforms into something vividly haunting. It’s for listeners who appreciate the craft behind the chill, understanding that the most lasting fears are often those heard in the dark.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

Chilling Tales for Dark Nights — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast
Podcast Episodes
439: 439: The Illusion of Choice - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:53
In this haunting episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, illusion and intent blur beneath the glow of stage lights and the quiet ache of longing. What begins as wonder slowly reveals something far more insidious—an ex…
438: 438: Wild Places - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:19:55
Beyond the reach of cell signals and familiar roads lie stretches of land that refuse to be tamed—where old legends still breathe, and the wilderness remembers every trespass. In those forgotten corners, confidence becom…
437: 437: Inherited Wounds - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:19
In this episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, we explore the unseen weight of legacy—the quiet burdens we inherit, the warnings we dismiss, and the objects that outlive the people who once held them close. When grie…
436: 436: Feeding the Machine - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:51
In this episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, fear isn’t just an emotion. It’s a currency. Tonight’s tale invites you into a place where courage is encouraged, hesitation is frowned upon, and the machinery never sto…
435: 435: Cold Enough to Kill - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:23
In our latest episode, we invite you into a frozen world where distance becomes dangerous, silence grows heavy, and survival is never guaranteed. Far from help and stripped of comfort, ordinary people are forced to confr…
434: 434: A Taste of Terror - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:46
In this episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, the terror is subtle, intimate, and deeply personal. It begins with something familiar—connection, care, the promise of belonging—and slowly transforms into something fa…
433: 433: Dead Air - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:24
When the world goes still, something else starts paying attention. In this unsettling episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, listeners are drawn into a broadcast where sound is more than atmosphere—it’s a fragile bar…
432: 432: Built on Bones - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:25
In this chilling episode of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, the past presses in from all sides—etched into landscapes, institutions, and the quiet spaces where memory is meant to fade. As night settles, a dying man disco…
431: 431: Salvation or Damnation - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:07
When you’re offered a way out—real relief, real escape—how closely do you read the fine print? In this, our latest episode, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights descends into a world where hope is engineered, desperation is cu…
430: 430: Borrowed Days - Chilling Tales for Dark Nights [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:31
Time is supposed to move forward—one second after another, steady and impartial. But what if it doesn’t? In our latest episode, we invite you into a world where time slips, stalls, and quietly exacts its due. Hosted by S…