{"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 | Dracula, Maximum Overdrive & Deep Blue Sea (July 20–26)","slug":"this-week-in-horror-history-dracula-maximum-overdrive-deep-blue-sea-july-20-26","published_at":"2026-07-21T09:00:26+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630/this-week-in-horror-history-dracula-maximum-overdrive-deep-blue-sea-july-20-26","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-dracula-maximum-overdrive-deep-blue-sea-july-20-26--72973688","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72973688/twihh_july_20_july_26_2026.mp3","summary":"Dracula , The Hills Have Eyes , Nope , Maximum Overdrive , and Deep Blue Sea headline this episode of This Week in Horror History , covering July 20 through July 26. Summer horror gets seductive, sun-scorched, mechanical, extraterrestrial, and shark-infested as we explore gothic vampires, desert survival horror, reverse-horror gaming, Jordan Peele’s terrifying vision of spectacle, Stephen King’s killer-machine apocalypse, and genetically engineered sharks loose inside an underwater laboratory. Inside this episode: July 20, 1979 — Dracula releases in the United States Frank Langella gives Count Dracula a dangerous combination of gothic romance, theatrical charm, and supernatural menace. This version of Bram Stoker’s vampire proves that evil does not always need to force its way through the door. Sometimes it gets invited inside. July 22, 1977 — The Hills Have Eyes premieres in Tucson, Arizona Wes Craven turns an ordinary family road trip into a brutal desert survival nightmare. When a shortcut leaves the Carter family stranded far from civilization, the open landscape becomes a trap filled with heat, isolation, violence, and another family watching from the hills. July 23, 2020 — Carrion releases This reverse-horror video game flips the familiar monster formula by letting players become the creature. A growing mass of teeth, tendrils, and hunger escapes through a research facility while terrified scientists and guards discover that containment has completely failed. July 22, 2022 — Nope releases in U.S. theaters Jordan Peele turns the sky into a haunted house in a strange and ambitious collision of UFO horror, creature-feature spectacle, Hollywood exploitation, western imagery, animal behavior, and the dangerous human need to capture the impossible on camera. Deep-Cut S…","meta_description":"Dracula , The Hills Have Eyes , Nope , Maximum Overdrive , and Deep Blue Sea headline this episode of This Week in Horror History , covering July 20 throu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1255,"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-dracula-maximum-overdrive-deep-blue-sea-july-20-26/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-dracula-maximum-overdrive-deep-blue-sea-july-20-26.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}