{"podcast":{"title":"Horror Hill — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast","slug":"horror-hill-a-horror-fiction-anthology-and-scary-stories-series-podcast-783538","podcast_index_feed_id":783538,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5169683.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5169683","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43599868.png","author":"Chilling Entertainment","episode_count":347,"summary":"Horror Hill is a horror fiction podcast, spun off from Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and its popular YouTube channel of the same name. The show stars voice actor Erik Peabody as both host and narrator, and features the hand-picked work of hundreds of talented authors. You haven't found the darkness. The darkness has found you.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/horror-hill-a-horror-fiction-anthology-and-scary-stories-series-podcast-783538"},"episode":{"title":"S14 Ep21: S14E21 - \"Heavy Handed\" - Horror Hill","slug":"s14-ep21-s14e21-heavy-handed-horror-hill","published_at":"2026-04-24T01:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/horror-hill-a-horror-fiction-anthology-and-scary-stories-series-podcast-783538/s14-ep21-s14e21-heavy-handed-horror-hill","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/horror-hill-a-horror-fiction-anthology-and-scary-stories-series-podcast-783538","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8894840","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8894840.mp3?modified=1777083748&sid=5169683&source=rss","summary":"When Kim’s estranged mother dies, the last thing Melissa expects is for their life together to be overtaken by the past Kim tried so hard to leave behind. Joshua is only a child, newly orphaned and clearly damaged by a strange upbringing. Melissa wants to be patient. She wants to support the woman she loves. But Joshua’s arrival brings more than grief into their home. He brings cloth masks with painted faces, handmade punishment dolls, whispered family rules, and a devotion to customs that should have ended with his mother’s death. At first, Melissa tells herself it is trauma. Then Kim begins to change. Old habits return. Old beliefs take root. The apartment grows smaller by the day, until love, obligation, and fear become impossible to separate. In Jason Fischer’s “Involuntary Dependent,” Horror Hill invites you into a domestic nightmare where family is not just something you inherit. Sometimes, it inherits you. Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chillingtalesfordarknights/","meta_description":"When Kim’s estranged mother dies, the last thing Melissa expects is for their life together to be overtaken by the past Kim tried so hard to leave behind.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3344,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/horror-hill-a-horror-fiction-anthology-and-scary-stories-series-podcast-783538/episodes/s14-ep21-s14e21-heavy-handed-horror-hill/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/horror-hill-a-horror-fiction-anthology-and-scary-stories-series-podcast-783538/s14-ep21-s14e21-heavy-handed-horror-hill.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}