A Youtube channel started by author Craig Groshek to promote his short stories. It's since greatly expanded and now has various contributors producing dramatic readings of classical horror stories, popular creepypastas, and original stories. Usually the original stories they produce are contest winners.
It's notable for being unusually high effort among dramatic reading channels with a considerable amount of sound effects and often using original music. They also feature short videos from other channels with permission.
Regular readers include:
- Jordan Antle
- Jeff Clement
- Jesse Cornett
- David Cummings
- Barnabos Deimos
- Craig Groshek
- Otis Jiry
- Jonathon Jones
- Heather Ordover
Guest readers include:
- Cryaotic reading "Last of the Sparks"
- Mangaminx reading "You've Known This Your Whole Life" and "Betsy the Doll"
- Markiplier reading "The Scarecrow Corpse"
- Patrick Rothfuss reading "August Heat"
- Tay Zonday reading "Mr.Leaves" and "The Raven"
- Daniel Radcliffe reading "Fear of Hue"
- John Wolfe reading "White Noise" and "Tombstoning"
Stories can be submitted for production at their site. Their channel is available here. As of this writing, an animated series is in production, with a Kickstarter set for the 15th of February.
Their videos contain examples of:
- 20 Minutes into the Future: "A Skipping Record". Some listeners did not appreciate the perceived commentary.
- Ambiguous Ending
- And I Must Scream: The ending of "I'm At Your Bedroom Window". The protagonist is trapped in the motel, unable to leave or be seen or heard by anyone.
- Army of Lawyers: The protagonist threatens to use this while being interrogated in "The Fat Guy Gets the Girl". He seems confident to admit some horrendous things as a result.
- Asshole Victim: Oh, so many. The one in "The Stranger" stands out.
- Cool Old Guy: Otis Jiry of the authors.
- Creepy Child: The one in contest winner "The Swing" is probably the most memorable.
- Creepy Doll: They've done several fanfics of Five Nights at Freddy's (with Scott Cawthon's permission).
- Cruel Twist Ending: Particularly "Betsy the Doll" featuring a delusional child later learning in her adulthood that she killed her little sister because she thought her sister was a doll.
- Deal with the Devil: "The Proposition"
- Ensemble Cast: Both "The Rake" and Jeff The Killer feature some pretty big ones.
- Gorn: Usually averted, but definitely present in stories like Bob the Butcher. The site's submission rules state that they will not accept stories with it.
- Government Conspiracy: At least as scary as the titular being in "The Scarecrow Corpse".
- The Grim Reaper: The implied identity of the thin man in "The Mourner".
- Haunted House: The one in "Welcome" comes complete with a ghost realtor.
- Human Pet: The protagonist of "The Thing That Stalks the Fields"
- Heroic Sacrifice: Ambiguously Psychosis.
- Ironic Nursery Rhyme: "Milk Teeth" features a particularly cruel one about the end of the birth of human beings and the spawning of monsters instead.
- Monster Clown: The villain of "The Killing Joke"
- Organ Theft
- Reluctant Monster: Implicitly the case with "Sarah O'Bannon".
- Slasher Smile: So prevalent that some of the readers have admitted they're sick of reading about how a villain has a supposedly creepy smile.
- Stalker with a Crush: The villain in Just £3 a Month Can Save a Child's Life denies he is this despite acting like one. The one in "I Couldn't Resist You" is a bit more open about it.
- Troll Fic: "The Demon Within"
- Villain Protagonist
