Join us for 13 nights of Halloween frights: classic tales, old-time radio, campfire lore, and true crime, from October 19-31.

Season 2

Nov. 28, 2024

PSA: Hades On Mortal Gratitude and Folly; A Nod to Thanksgiving and a Warning Against Phishing Scams

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! In this completely unplanned interlude (whose true purpose will become clear shortly), I wish to take a moment to express my gratitude to the patrons of this podcast—th…
Nov. 21, 2024

The Golden Pail, S2E6 of Fireside Folklore with Hades

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! After many months, outtakes, and lost paperwork, we've done it! Here is the long-awaited episode, The Golden Pail , a tale from Palestine, adapted from Ibrahim Muhawi's…
Nov. 19, 2024

Whoopsie Wednesday: Flames of Fortune

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! As is customary for Whoopsie Wednesday, (a segment I still question the sanity of), I present to you a song that didn't make it into the final take of The Golden Pail .…
Nov. 18, 2024

PSA: The Release of the Golden Pail

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! My husband is finally done with that long-awaited Golden Pail . Stay tuned because it will be released on Friday, November 22. In the meantime, I'll be sharing a song f…
Oct. 31, 2024

13 Nights of Halloween: Night 13 - The Man Who Killed Halloween

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Tonight, we make a sojourn into the world of true crime as we look at the true story behind the urban legends about Halloween candy being tainted with drugs or filled w…
Oct. 29, 2024

13 Nights of Halloween: Night 12 - The War of the Worlds

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Though Night 10 is in Pluto's hands, and Night 11 is currently unclaimed, Ares waits for no one, so we bring to you the infamous old-time radio episode, The War of the …
Oct. 27, 2024

13 Nights of Halloween: Night 10 - The Babysitter

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! We know! We're late getting this one out to you, but Halloween is my favorite holiday and having an excuse to prolong my celebrations is always welcome. As we eluded to…
Oct. 26, 2024

13 Nights of Halloween: Night 9 (Reprise) - Those Who Walk In Darkness

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! After Death Robbery ended, my uncle turned and asked me what I meant when I said that Boris Karloff had a voice like molten silver with a sinister undertone. And, as mu…
Oct. 26, 2024

13 Nights of Halloween: Night 9 - Death Robbery

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Thank you for sticking with us through this marathon of episodes! Tonight, my nephew Hephaestus takes the mic and tells us why he chose this old-time radio episode from…
Oct. 25, 2024

13 Nights of Halloween: Night 8 - Urashimataro and the Turtle

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! We're back again and I can't believe I've managed to keep my family together and disciplined enough to get this done! Persephone must have something to do with it. Toni…
Oct. 24, 2024

13 Nights of Halloween: Night 7 - Father Frost

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! We've reached the midpoint of our celebration! Tonight, Hestia will be telling the old Russian tale of Morozko, otherwise known as Father Frost. In this tale, we learn …
Oct. 23, 2024

13 Nights of Halloween: Day 6 - Death Is a Doll

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Tonight, our very own Apollon has chosen an episode of old-time radio from the series Box 13 . Here, we learn that sometimes, the mind can manifest curses more horrifyi…
Oct. 23, 2024

Toss-Up Tuesday: The Olympian Games, Revisited

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! I, Hades, removed an episode from this feed. Yes, though the Underworld doesn't generally let anything go, this time, I struck down something I said. It was the episode…
Oct. 22, 2024

13 Nights of Halloween: Night 5 - High Beams

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Welcome back to another installment of our 13 Nights of Halloween event. What happens when an innocent grocery run turns into a harrowing game of cat and mouse? In toni…
Oct. 21, 2024

13 Nights of Halloween: Night 4 - The Inn

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! We're back with another short story, this time read by Hermes, entitled the Inn by Guy De Maupassant. This story explores isolation and the trick our mind can play when…
Oct. 20, 2024

13 Nights of Halloween, Night 3 - Catch Kill

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Thank you for joining us for our third night in our 13 Nights of Halloween series. Tonight, we'll be listening to "Catch Kill", an episode from the old-time radio show,…
Oct. 19, 2024

13 Nights of Halloween: Night 2 - Mr. Fox

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Thank you for joining us for our second night of Halloween horror. Tonight, we explore the importance of ensuring you know what you're getting into before tying the kno…
Oct. 18, 2024

13 Nights of Halloween: Night 1 - The Masque of the Red Death

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Thank you for joining us on this spooky journey to celebrate Halloween. We start this morbid tour beyond the veil by exploring a universal fear: death. Can opulence and…
Oct. 16, 2024

Whoopsie Wednesday - Terrifyingly Twisted Tricks and Treats

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! While producing the 13 Nights of Halloween, my Underworld Undead Quartet composed some songs that were either too cutesy, too weird, or too out-of-genre to be used, and…
Oct. 9, 2024

PSA: 13 Nights of Halloween for 2024

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! I bring both good and bad news in this update. The bad news is that despite completing the writing of "The Golden Pail," my divine family has been dragging their feet w…
Sept. 8, 2024

Apollon's Rant

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Well, it isn't exactly a story. At least, not in the traditional sense of the word, but sometimes, other, more important things need to be aired, like Apollon's disdain…
Sept. 7, 2024

PSA: Persephone's Promise

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! I know we've been pretty quiet lately, but my husband has actually been working on the Golden Pail, despite the lack of any trailers. It just got to a point where he th…
Aug. 20, 2024

Twisted Tuesday for August 20, 2024 - The Babysitter

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! What happens when Pluto tries to retell an urban legend? He gets flustered, Jupiter gets fired, and everything falls apart. Hopefully, you all know the story well enoug…
Aug. 7, 2024

Twisted Tuesday for August 6 - Pluto Gives Up On the Podcast, Or Tries To, Anyway

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners. I tried my best. I wanted to leave this podcast. Nobody wanted to hear me complain. I couldn't get anyone to cooperate with me. Despite all of my setbacks, though, Hade…