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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 • 55 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

    A Life of Death: The Survivor

    A Life of Death: The Survivor

    The enigmatic and dangerous Sadie Jane has been at the heart of over two dozen stories, and now she finally gets to tell her own.  Tragedy, betrayal, dream demons, brain slugs, and hot lead, at the intersection of film noir & David Cronenberg. And you haven't even heard the best part.

    Amazing music by:
    Adam Henry Garcia -- Sadie
    Batillius --, filth pig
    Diogenes in Hell -- Honesty and Something Will Grow
    Gregor Quindel -- Granados Spanish Dance #2
    Lobo Loco -- Nikola Tesla's Dream

    Buy the new book Bedtime Stories for Weird Kids here, or sign up for the Patreon to get a free signed copy!
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    • 50 min
    murdAIR B and B

    murdAIR B and B

    murdAIR B and B is a business that rents haunted houses, crime scenes, and condemned asylums.  Some of the rentals have great history and lore, and will give you an uneasy feeling. Some of them are downright deadly.

    Music and ambient noise was provided by...
    Alex Mason--  Locked Up
    Electric Bird Noise -- Moments like last night make me wanna believe in ghosts
    Chris Zabriskie -- Last night I dreamt I saw true love in your eyes
    all of these are available on free music archive
    Buy the new book Bedtime Stories for Weird Kids here, or sign up for the Patreon to get a free signed copy!
    Listen on Podurama
    Please subscribe through Buzzsprout, Stitcher, Spotify, Podchaser, or iTunes
    Find me on social media on Instagram Facebook and Twitter, or email me direct at AScaryHomeCompanion@gmail.com
    Support our PATREON page! And check out the Redbubble merch shop. 
    Support the show

    • 40 min
    How Evil Wins

    How Evil Wins

    This is how poisonous dreams invade our lives. This is how the demonic Ghastly Ones corrupt souls and woo them to acts of unspeakable evil. This is how evil wins. 

    Featuring the music:
    Daniel Birch  - lost at sea
    Jon Shuemaker - tribe part 1
    Le Chaos Entre 2 Chaises -- ephemeral part 1 and part 3
    Act – The Nightmare
    Dan Lily with the gordo the clown theme song

    all of this music comes from free music archive, an amazing online collection of original music. support these artists.
    Buy the new book Bedtime Stories for Weird Kids here, or sign up for the Patreon to get a free signed copy!
    Listen on Podurama
    Please subscribe through Buzzsprout, Stitcher, Spotify, Podchaser, or iTunes
    Find me on social media on Instagram Facebook and Twitter, or email me direct at AScaryHomeCompanion@gmail.com
    Support our PATREON page! And check out the Redbubble merch shop. 
    Support the show

    • 49 min
    Swan Song

    Swan Song

    In this season finale, the Priest with Red Hands holds court over Jessica Meanwhile, as an armed contingent prepares to storm the building and do whatever possible to save her. But does she need saving? Or is there a grander plan at work?

    Music provided by
    Filmy ghost
    Serge Quadrado
    Soulaflair
    Tab and Anitek
    Universfield
    and Lobo Loco
    all of this music comes from free music archive, an amazing online collection of original music. support these artists.
    Buy the new book Bedtime Stories for Weird Kids here, or sign up for the Patreon to get a free signed copy!
    Listen on Podurama
    Please subscribe through Buzzsprout, Stitcher, Spotify, Podchaser, or iTunes
    Find me on social media on Instagram Facebook and Twitter, or email me direct at AScaryHomeCompanion@gmail.com
    Support our PATREON page! And check out the Redbubble merch shop. 
    Support the show

    • 40 min
    Bedtime Stories for Weird Kids : The Read Along

    Bedtime Stories for Weird Kids : The Read Along

    Seven frightful tales perfect for the Halloween season, read by a host of creepy storytellers. All taken from a book of stories meant to be read aloud, along the lines of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. 

    Guest Storytellers:  Angela Sachse, Jamie Lee Hensley, Karl Auffenberg, Kevin Sario, and resident voice wizard Dan Jopling

    Music provided by Chelsea Oxendine and Pathios Productions

    Buy the new book Bedtime Stories for Weird Kids here, or sign up for the Patreon to get a free signed copy!
    Listen on Podurama
    Please subscribe through Buzzsprout, Stitcher, Spotify, Podchaser, or iTunes
    Find me on social media on Instagram Facebook and Twitter, or email me direct at AScaryHomeCompanion@gmail.com
    Support our PATREON page! And check out the Redbubble merch shop. 
    Support the show

    • 48 min
    Killer Kween: Terror at the Drag Show

    Killer Kween: Terror at the Drag Show

    It's Halloween night, and Lady Miss Midnight Pearl is throwing the spookiest drag show of the year. Is a masked madman on the loose? Is the Phantom of the Club real? Or is it a Killer Kween? 80s slasher style done with a fierce twist! 

    Edited and produced by Jeff Davidson
    starring the stellar vocal talents of Alexander Crider-Evans

    Featuring the music:
    Disco High - Ultracat
    Poker Face - City Rain
    Hard Love - Beat Mekanik
    Dancing Twins - Pianochocolate
    Party Tonight - Lobo Loco
    And Chelsea Oxendine with the hit single Midnight Pearl (which can be downloaded here!)

    Buy the new book Bedtime Stories for Weird Kids here, or sign up for the Patreon to get a free signed copy!
    Listen on Podurama
    Please subscribe through Buzzsprout, Stitcher, Spotify, Podchaser, or iTunes
    Find me on social media on Instagram Facebook and Twitter, or email me direct at AScaryHomeCompanion@gmail.com
    Support our PATREON page! And check out the Redbubble merch shop. 
    Support the show

    • 35 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
55 Ratings

55 Ratings

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

t0ecutter ,

American horror at its best!

Two smoking barrels of Gothic Americana! A perfect podcast for lovers of Lovecraft and Gaiman. I cannot recommend this highly enough!

Confused and frustrated! How does the podcast keep getting ever better?! Is there no limit to how good it can get? I hope not!!! For anyone who may be a John Carpenter, Robert Rodriguez and Tarantino fan this podcast is a must! 6 out of 5 gore covered ninja stars to the face!

So how do we get a streaming service to make this into a never ending series? If you want a lesson in creating fantastic anti-heroes and truly depraved villains follow this podcast.

Layer upon layer upon layer of storytelling. This podcast is a so layered it is a baclava of horror, nightmares and blood. I am running out of accolades for this show and am concerned that the writer will soon consider me a sycophant…or possibly an unhinged stalker. Hahahahahaha!!! But no really listen to this podcast it’s wicked good. And portable! You can listen to it anywhere! Even in your car! Which definitely is NOT parked just two houses down from the writers abode. Pinky swear.

Ok final review. Something about a judges decree or some legal mumbo jumbo. This is a five star podcast. Give it a good listen and great rating. You can also follow the shows pages on IG and Facebook and Patreon….even if I am no longer allowed to for “certain reasons”.
(Note: the above was to make the world smile and by no mean a serious concern. Pinky swear!)

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