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Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Official Podcast

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Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Official Podcast

By: Nickelodeon Podcasts
Narrated by: Jeremy Ray Taylor, Mason Versaw
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Prepare yourself to be immersed in a series of spine-tingling, bone-chilling tales of horror. Doom-haunted houses, avenging undead monsters, and science experiments gone horribly, horribly wrong all await listeners in Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Official Podcast. There’s even a scourge of popular high school kids creeping around. One shudders at the thought.

Crafted by a talented team of actors and writers, these stories dare to explore the darkest depths of the imagination. Each curated sound pulls you deeper into the story: a whisper in the woods, a creak in the floorboards, a moan in the graveyard. And each story reveals shocking secrets and unravels terrifying mysteries. In the theater of your mind, horror has no limits.

It’s almost midnight now. Time for one last tale. Are you brave enough to listen? Or are you afraid of the dark?

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  • Trailer

    Trailer
    Aug 24 2023
    This original podcast releases September 28, 2023! Follow now for all episodes to show in your Library then.
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    Less than 1 minute
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  • The Tale of the Last Hide and Seek

    The Tale of the Last Hide and Seek
    Sep 28 2023
    Four kids take their Hide and Seek game to an abandoned factory, where the urban legend about the Night Watchman MAY be more than just a story.
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    16 mins
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  • The Tale of the Haunted Holiday

    The Tale of the Haunted Holiday
    Sep 28 2023
    Mark and Kat go on a family trip with their dad, where they discover that they are not the only ones in the vacation house they rented.
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Jeremy Ray Taylor
Mason Versaw

About the Performer

Jeremy Ray Taylor is an American actor, producer, director, and podcaster who found his passion for acting at the age of eight. He is best known for his lead roles as Ben in the hit film It and Sonny in Goosebumps 2: Slappy’s Revenge. His most recent projects include Big Sky and Senior Year.
Jeremy is from Bluff City, TN. Born to parents Michael and Tracy Taylor and the youngest of the family, Jeremy grew up in East Tennessee, where he learned a strong work ethic on the family farm.
Jeremy has the unique ability to successfully transition from drama to comedy, as seen in his movie Senior Year.
He loves stretching himself and pushing his acting skills to the next level with every opportunity that comes his way.

About the Performer

Mason Versaw is a performer from Ashtabula, Ohio. He can currently be seen in a series regular role opposite Lana Condor in the Netflix miniseries Boo, Bitch as well as in a supporting lead role in the feature film Sex Appeal (Hulu/American High). Mason also had a heavily recurring guest role on the Gossip Girl reboot (The CW). Previously, he appeared in a large co-star guest role on Blue Bloods (CBS) and had a supporting role in Lin-Manuel Miranda's tick, tick... BOOM!, playing a young Jonathan Larson. Commercially, he can be seen in major spots for Instagram and Apple. He trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute and is also an incredible singer. In addition to acting, Mason is an all-star basketball player.

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Love it for the nostalgia, good for kids during car rides especially during spooky season.

Reminds me of watching it as a kid

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I loved this show growing up and loved this podcast as much! Can't wait to hear more!!!

I need more!!!!!!

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I loved AYAD as a kid. I was there EVERY Saturday night for SNICK.

I remember with GREAT fondness listening to the stories of Sardo (NO Mister, accent on the "DOH"). The kid getting trapped in the pinball machine-arcade was right up my proverbial alley.

With the invention of streaming, I was able to introduce the show to my kids, who also loved it. They were young enough at the time that they even got a little freaked out and we had to go on hiatus, but now, at ten, they're back in again.

So when I found this podcast, I immediately downloaded it. We listened to it one rainy day on a short road trip to go to (of all things) a retro video game festival.

Well, we enjoyed it quite a bit. The season was short and took us the length of a drive from Salem, OR to Eugene, OR. The stories were -wildly- varied, from creepy supernatural to just...weird and off-putting. But the performances, though a bit over-the-top at times, were fitting in with the whole aesthetic of teens/pre-teens trying to scare each other with stories. The framing bit, of the kid doing his own podcast with his brother interfering, helped break a lot of the "oh my god, this is actually happening and is scary" potential, which made it a possible for even younger listeners to enjoy.

The stories themselves were fun. Imaginative, if a little derivative, but pretty much what you'd expect from the franchise if you watched as a kid, like I did. One genuinely creeped me out, one had an incredibly ridiculous ending...which became amazing after the narrator decided to present an entirely different ending! That made me and my kids laugh at how it went from shocking to hilarious. The final episode of the season was disturbing in all the right ways, and really fits the "gore-love" that my kids are in, without being actually too graphic.

All in all, an incredible series and I really hope another one is produced and distributed. Well worth the listen!

Excellent and Over Far Too Soon

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I'm surprised how similar it is to the original show for the most part. sent me down nostalgia lane. 💖

how similar

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A true throwback to the original series that captures the spirit of the show while balancing the perfect amount of 90’s cheese and light horror. Bring on Season Two.

Great!

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I love how it feels like I'm back in the 90s watching it on TV again

the stories

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I can’t wait until we get more! It really brings me back (though I wish we were called the midnight society).

Throwback

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Kind of miss the line from the show, but the content of this reboot/spin off I’m not really sure what to call this has been entertaining. So glad to have found this!

Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Society

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Amazing scary great old school horror stories need more got to have more to good please don’t stop making this toooo great don’t stop over the moon awesome great please keep making this sooooooo great entertainment pleaaaaaaasssseeeeeeee don’t stop never stop keep these coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome

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This was good!!!! They didn't skip a beat with the keeping of the vibe of the show. Looking forward to more shows.

Flashback

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