{"podcast":{"title":"Weekly Spooky | Scary Stories for Spooky Season","slug":"weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630","podcast_index_feed_id":692630,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5621141/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.weeklyspooky.com/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/58fa5100916ce89aa01e342df5e21c72.jpg","author":"Henrique Couto","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Join Henrique Couto for Halloween horror stories and spooky tales! Explore urban legends, haunted houses, cursed objects, vampires , werewolves , and cryptids in expertly narrated, mature-themed stories perfect for spooky season . Every Monday and Wednesday, get scary frights with cinematic sound design, dark humor, and twist endings. Whether you're into horror stories , creepy legends, or seasonal specials, Weekly Spooky delivers the scariest stories for late-night chills, road trips, and binge listening. Discover more at WeeklySpooky.com , and fuel your spooky season with terrifying tales—mature themes included. Subscribe now for weekly updates on the scariest, most haunted stories, right in your ears!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T18:19:21.071139+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630"},"episode":{"title":"This Week in Horror History | Cosmic Nightmares & Gothic Sequels June 15–21","slug":"this-week-in-horror-history-cosmic-nightmares-gothic-sequels-june-15-21","published_at":"2026-06-16T09:00:12+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630/this-week-in-horror-history-cosmic-nightmares-gothic-sequels-june-15-21","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-week-in-horror-history-cosmic-nightmares-gothic-sequels-june-15-21--72406851","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72406851/twihh_june_15_june_21_2026.mp3","summary":"Horror history gets iconic, aquatic, gothic, apocalyptic, and completely unhinged this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 15–21 with motel terror, shark sequels, dark superhero nightmares, zombie blockbuster chaos, and one wild space-vampire cult classic that brings cosmic horror crashing down on Earth. This episode digs into a packed week of classic horror movies, cult horror, summer blockbusters, gothic comic-book horror, zombie disaster cinema, and 1980s Cannon Films madness, including the New York premiere of Psycho, the U.S. release of Jaws 2, the theatrical arrival of Batman Returns, the blockbuster zombie outbreak of World War Z, and the Deep-Cut Spotlight on Tobe Hooper’s bizarre 1985 space vampire epic Lifeforce. Inside this episode: • Psycho rewrites the rules of horror moviegoing, turns the Bates Motel into a nightmare landmark, and makes one ordinary shower one of the most famous crime scenes in cinema. • Jaws 2 drags audiences back to Amity Island for more shark terror, seaside panic, and one of horror’s most frustrating “nobody believes the guy who is right” sequel setups. • Batman Returns transforms Gotham into a twisted Christmas horror fairy tale full of sewer lairs, circus gangs, stitched leather, abandoned children, corporate monsters, Catwoman, and the Penguin. • World War Z reimagines the zombie apocalypse as global disaster cinema, with the undead moving less like slow corpses and more like a rushing human flood. • The Deep-Cut Spotlight goes to Lifeforce, Tobe Hooper’s strange, ambitious, and deeply excessive Cannon Films cult classic about Halley’s Comet, alien vampires, life-draining seduction, plague victims, and London falling apart under cosmic horror. Plus: a horror birthday roll featuring Courteney Cox, Laurie Metcalf…","meta_description":"Horror history gets iconic, aquatic, gothic, apocalyptic, and completely unhinged this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 15–21 with…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1352,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630/episodes/this-week-in-horror-history-cosmic-nightmares-gothic-sequels-june-15-21/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630/this-week-in-horror-history-cosmic-nightmares-gothic-sequels-june-15-21.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}