199 episodes

Drinking whiskey in the kitchen and telling scary stories around the fire. Music and mayhem, fearful fiction and furious fact, tall tales and terrible truths. A Scary Home Companion is a sinister variety show, featuring original stories and original music

A Scary Home Companion Nathaniel Hensley

    • Fiction
    • 4.7 • 57 Ratings

Drinking whiskey in the kitchen and telling scary stories around the fire. Music and mayhem, fearful fiction and furious fact, tall tales and terrible truths. A Scary Home Companion is a sinister variety show, featuring original stories and original music

    Inventing a New Kind of Murder : a Horror Noir

    Inventing a New Kind of Murder : a Horror Noir

    This is a long-lost radio broadcast from 1943, from a canceled suspense show. It was called "Lights, Camera, Murder" and got the program immediately canceled. For the first time in 80 years, this shocking and prescient story can be heard. Follow a young movie producer and his assistant as they plunge into the depths of the San Francisco underworld. FeaturingMargueritte Sinclair as Mildred TaftJanuary Sommers as Dorothy ShawJack Bennet as Johnn Beane JuniorChip Vandawagon as Luca Sanguine...

    • 30 min
    The Madman Always Kills Twice: A Horror Noir

    The Madman Always Kills Twice: A Horror Noir

    San Francisco, 1941 -- hardboiled gumshoe Mike Bolan gets a case too lucrative to pass up. The local gangsters think someone had been making their working girls disappear. Bolan has never heard the term "serial killer" before, but he's about to get an education in madness and depravity. Featuring the stunning music:Lisa Hammer – jazzy intrigue and jazzy inquisitors Pitor Hummel – midnight bluesLobo Loco – phantom hunters and shadow man Listen on PoduramaPlease subscribe through...

    • 36 min
    Demolition Derby of the Damned

    Demolition Derby of the Damned

    The final showdown between good and evil, as the demonic ghost of the Kill Car aims to end things for good for Lurleen Stokes. But Lurleen has a Kill Car of her own, and a few tricks up her sleeve. Buckle up, buttercup, this is gonna be a rough ride. Music:Kristin Hersh provided Crookedand Beat Mekanik blessed us with One More, Sinner, Ma n Pa, and Harley Davidson.All of this music and tons more is at FMASupport the Show.

    • 47 min
    The Girl Who Loved Stephen King

    The Girl Who Loved Stephen King

    On the run for her life, Bergie gets lost deep in the Old Forest called Crooked Neck, where chaos and nature run wild, and vagabond devils lurk. Can the lessons about fear she learned from old Stephen King novels help her survive? Featured Music:Burning sunshine by LOBO LOCODocumentary dark, Dark ambient texture, and Scary forest by SERGE QUADRADORegeneration, Caution, Time is running out, Dark premonition by AUDIOREZOUT Listen on PoduramaPlease subscribe through Buzzsprout, Stitche...

    • 43 min
    The Haunting of Crooked Neck

    The Haunting of Crooked Neck

    Thanks to the devious and now-deceased Kill Car Cult, the murderous ghost of Earl Joe Hendershot has returned. The sheriff enlists legendary driver Lurleen Stokes to right this wrong,. but it turns out Lurleen has a haunting of her own. Beat Mekanik -- Harley DavidsonLobo Loco -- Burning Sunshinejoint c beat laboratory -- tavern smokeLite saturation -- hard work Ov Moi Omm -- I was differentAll music available on FreeMusicArchive.org Listen on PoduramaPlease subscribe through Buzzs...

    • 36 min
    The Hog Who Roared: A Bedtime Story for Weird Kids

    The Hog Who Roared: A Bedtime Story for Weird Kids

    What happens when Disney tropes go sideways? With a little bit of Bambi, some Dumbo, and a splash of Fox & the Hound, join us for an episode about an orphan hog with a traumatic past and a terrifying future. Guest vocals by the one and only Dan JoplingStory inspiration from Brett Jarboe Music provided by:Andrew howes, pigs out Axletree, the silent groveBig Blood, frost farm Smallpox, squeal like a pig, nedSoft and furious, green pigListen on PoduramaPlease subscribe th...

    • 39 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
57 Ratings

57 Ratings

Bono1548 ,

Scary home companion

Most entertaining. One of my favorites.

Blowfish and the Hooties ,

Nate Hensley…

I used to work custodial for a school district, very early hours, like the sun’s not out yet for a while early. I was picky with my podcasts/listening materials, as this market of podcasting is incredibly over saturated, and when you gamble with listening to something new and unheard of by yourself, more often than not you end up listening to trash.

Early one summer morning, working in an elementary school by myself, I started listening to the “Night of the Long Knives” saga of A Scary Home Companion. I was terrified and hooked.

The pictures he helped paint in my head of these characters, and longer down the road noticing the DEVELOPMENTS of these characters he created, has to this day been unparalleled.

Nate Hensley belongs in podcasting, and you outta subscribe. Start with the Machinist.

Buck4001 ,

Awesomely Scary

Hella good stories ... awesome work !!
Best Horror Universe out right now, may be ever

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