{"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 | Haunted Hotels & Body Horror Satire — June 8–14","slug":"this-week-in-horror-history-haunted-hotels-body-horror-satire-june-8-14","published_at":"2026-06-09T09:00:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weekly-spooky-horror-stories-scary-tales-692630/this-week-in-horror-history-haunted-hotels-body-horror-satire-june-8-14","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-haunted-hotels-body-horror-satire-june-8-14--72403900","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72403900/twihh_june_8_june_14_2026.mp3","summary":"Horror history gets weird, reflective, and dangerously snackable this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 8–14 with mischievous monsters, haunted hotels, supernatural comedy, demonic hauntings, creepy mirrors, and one killer dessert that may be eating America alive. This episode digs into a packed week of classic horror movies, cult horror sequels, supernatural blockbusters, 1980s horror, haunted-house horror, and strange consumer-satire body horror, including the release of Gremlins, the same-day arrival of Ghostbusters, the wider theatrical expansion of The Shining, the hit sequel The Conjuring 2, and the mirror-filled nightmare of Poltergeist III. Inside this episode: • Gremlins turns one cute little mogwai into small-town monster chaos and helps push Hollywood toward the PG-13 rating. • Ghostbusters brings haunted libraries, demonic possession, rooftop apocalypse, and paranormal exterminators into one of the biggest supernatural comedy franchises ever. • The Shining expands wider in U.S. theaters, pulling more audiences into Stanley Kubrick’s cold, hypnotic nightmare inside the Overlook Hotel. • The Conjuring 2 sends Ed and Lorraine Warren to the Enfield haunting and introduces one of modern horror’s most memorable demonic figures. • The Deep-Cut Spotlight goes to Poltergeist III, the strange 1988 sequel that traps Carol Anne inside a haunted Chicago high-rise full of mirrors, elevators, cold hallways, and unfinished supernatural business. Plus: a horror birthday roll featuring Johnny Depp, Natalie Portman, Jurgen Prochnow, and Adrienne Barbeau, a creepy look at how horror sneaks into family homes, hotels, corporate towers, grocery aisles, and blockbuster comedy, and a weekly recommendation for Larry Cohen’s weird, gross, and sharply satirical…","meta_description":"Horror history gets weird, reflective, and dangerously snackable this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 8–14 with mischievous monst…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1450,"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-haunted-hotels-body-horror-satire-june-8-14/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-haunted-hotels-body-horror-satire-june-8-14.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}