Episodes

  • Second Opinion

    Second Opinion
    Jul 21 2026
    15-Minute Nightmares
    Episode 9: Second Opinion
    By Elias Crow

    The finest transplant surgeon in the city never asks where the organs come from - he just makes his rich, frightened patients new, piece by piece, including himself. But when his own failing heart is replaced, the new heart begins to speak in the dark. And it is not the only stolen part inside him that still remembers its name.

    Turn the lights down. We'll be waiting for you in the next installment of 15-Minute Nightmares.

    15-Minute Nightmares is an ongoing horror anthology series by Elias Crow featuring standalone tales of supernatural dread, psychological terror, and chilling twists.

    Perfect for fans of Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone, Creepshow, and modern horror fiction.

    One story. Fifteen minutes. A nightmare you'll never forget.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    11 mins
  • The Waxworks

    The Waxworks
    Jul 21 2026
    15-Minute Nightmares
    Episode 8: The Waxworks
    By Elias Crow

    A con man buys a mouldering seaside waxworks for a song from an old man who cannot stop smiling. The figures in the cold basement are impossibly lifelike - pores, fine hairs, frightened eyes - as if each were a real person stopped at the worst moment of their life. And in an alcove at the back, an unfinished figure is slowly growing his face.

    Turn the lights down. We'll be waiting for you in the next installment of 15-Minute Nightmares.

    15-Minute Nightmares is an ongoing horror anthology series by Elias Crow featuring standalone tales of supernatural dread, psychological terror, and chilling twists.

    Perfect for fans of Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone, Creepshow, and modern horror fiction.

    One story. Fifteen minutes. A nightmare you'll never forget.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    14 mins
  • Plot 47

    Plot 47
    Jul 21 2026
    15-Minute Nightmares
    Episode 7: Plot 47
    By Elias Crow

    Nobody wanted Plot 47 - which is exactly why penny-pinching Gerald Pike took the cursed allotment for a pound a year. The bare black patch at its centre grows anything monstrous and gorgeous in days, as long as you keep feeding it. And what it grows hungry for, in the end, is the one who feeds it.

    Turn the lights down. We'll be waiting for you in the next installment of 15-Minute Nightmares.

    15-Minute Nightmares is an ongoing horror anthology series by Elias Crow featuring standalone tales of supernatural dread, psychological terror, and chilling twists.

    Perfect for fans of Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone, Creepshow, and modern horror fiction.

    One story. Fifteen minutes. A nightmare you'll never forget.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    14 mins
  • Understudy

    Understudy
    Jul 21 2026
    15-Minute Nightmares

    Episode 6: Understudy

    By Elias Crow

    Eleven years in the dark at the side of the stage, watching a lesser talent take the bows. When a gifted understudy finally clears her path to the role of her life, the part is everything she dreamed of. There's just one problem with a role where the heroine dies every single night - and a leading lady who isn't finished with it yet. Turn the lights down.

    We'll be waiting for you in the next installment of 15-Minute Nightmares.

    15-Minute Nightmares is an ongoing horror anthology series by Elias Crow featuring standalone tales of supernatural dread, psychological terror, and chilling twists.

    Perfect for fans of Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone, Creepshow, and modern horror fiction.

    One story. Fifteen minutes. A nightmare you'll never forget.
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    13 mins
  • The Night Shift

    The Night Shift
    Jun 29 2026
    15-Minute Nightmares

    Episode 5: The Night Shift

    By Elias Crow
    A petrol station alone on a black moor road, a clerk with something folded up small and hidden inside him, and a customer who walks in off the dark at four minutes past three every night - buying the same single thing, and looking a little more wrong each time. Some debts wait a very long time to be collected.

    Turn the lights down. We'll be waiting for you in the next installment of 15-Minute Nightmares.


    15-Minute Nightmares is an ongoing horror anthology series by Elias Crow featuring standalone tales of supernatural dread, psychological terror, and chilling twists.

    Perfect for fans of Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone, Creepshow, and modern horror fiction.

    One story. Fifteen minutes. A nightmare you'll never forget.
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    13 mins
  • Table for One

    Table for One
    Jun 28 2026
    15-Minute Nightmares

    Episode 4: Table for One

    By Elias Crow
    The most feared restaurant critic in the country receives a hand-delivered invitation: a private tasting menu, one guest only, cooked by a chef who has admired his cruel work for years. The food, they promise, will be the finest he has ever eaten. He should have asked what was in it.
    Turn the lights down.

    We'll be waiting for you in the next installment of 15-Minute Nightmares.


    15-Minute Nightmares is an ongoing horror anthology series by Elias Crow featuring standalone tales of supernatural dread, psychological terror, and chilling twists.

    Perfect for fans of Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone, Creepshow, and modern horror fiction.

    One story. Fifteen minutes. A nightmare you'll never forget.
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    14 mins
  • The Collector

    The Collector
    Jun 28 2026
    15-Minute Nightmares

    Episode 3: The Collector

    By Elias Crow

    Julian Ashworth has a gift for arriving just before death, and buying treasures from the grieving for pennies. But when a dying old woman offers him everything in her house but one thing — the one thing he wants more than all the rest put together - he learns that some collections choose their next owner very carefully. Turn the lights down.

    We'll be waiting for you in the next installment of 15-Minute Nightmares.

    15-Minute Nightmares is an ongoing horror anthology series by Elias Crow featuring standalone tales of supernatural dread, psychological terror, and chilling twists.

    Perfect for fans of Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone, Creepshow, and modern horror fiction.

    One story. Fifteen minutes. A nightmare you'll never forget.
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    17 mins
  • Deep Sleep

    Deep Sleep
    Jun 16 2026
    15-Minute Nightmares

    Episode 2: Deep Sleep

    By Elias Crow

    Four months without sleep, and then a free little app that records the sounds you make in the night. At first it only proves he sleeps at all. Then, in the dark hours he can never remember, it begins to record a second voice - one that answers him. A story about the things that happen while you're not there to see them.

    Turn the lights down. We'll be waiting for you in the next installment of 15-Minute Nightmares.

    15-Minute Nightmares is an ongoing horror anthology series by Elias Crow featuring standalone tales of supernatural dread, psychological terror, and chilling twists.

    Perfect for fans of Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone, Creepshow, and modern horror fiction.

    One story. Fifteen minutes. A nightmare you'll never forget.
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    17 mins