About Night Tales
Night Tales is a free horror audio library in the creepypasta tradition. Every episode is a self-contained short story — roughly five to fifteen minutes — narrated and ready to listen in your browser. No account, no subscription, no ads interrupting the dark part.
What is creepypasta?
Creepypasta is internet horror fiction — short, often anonymous scary stories that have been passed around online since the early 2000s. The name is a play on “copypasta,” internet slang for copy-pasted text. Creepypastas are typically written in a confessional first-person voice, presenting themselves as real accounts. The best ones weaponise everyday settings — a familiar video game, a childhood TV show, a house you grew up in — and make them feel permanently wrong.
The genre gave us Slender Man, The Backrooms, Jeff the Killer, Ben Drowned, and hundreds of lesser-known stories that are genuinely terrifying. Night Tales publishes original audio episodes in this tradition, and maintains a Hall of Fame of the most iconic community stories with full lore breakdowns.
What we publish
Episodes rotate across twelve horror sub-genres:
- Liminal spaces
- Sleep paralysis
- Found footage
- Stalker in the house
- Haunted technology
- Deep woods
- Dolls and mannequins
- Wrong childhood memory
- Zombie outbreak
- Vampire lore
- Sci-fi horror
- Cosmic horror
How to listen
Every story plays directly in your browser — hit play on any episode and it starts. Night Tales is also a podcast. Subscribe on Spotify or paste the RSS feed into any podcast app: nighttales.app/feed.xml.
The Hall of Fame
Alongside original episodes, Night Tales maintains a curated reference to the most iconic community-written creepypastas — with lore breakdowns, origin stories, and links to the originals. A guided introduction to the genre. Start with The Backrooms, Jeff the Killer, or Candle Cove.
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