Thursday, February 23, 2017

Hey horror fans! This is your chance to help make CHILLING TALES FOR DARK NIGHTS: THE ANIMATED HORROR SERIES


Chilling Tales for Dark Nights is a popular horror-themed audio storytelling series and YouTube channel produced by Chilling Entertainment, created in late 2012 by lifelong scary stories fanatic Craig Groshek, and produced by a multinational team of independent authors, sound designers, composers, illustrators and voice over artists. The series is known for its immersive high-quality enhanced audio book style productions, which feature full casts, professional voice acting, exceptional sound effects and original cinematic scores.

As of February 2017, the Chilling Tales for Dark Nights YouTube channel has released more than 800 audio productions, and is followed by 170,000+ subscribers, and has accumulated nearly 18 million views. Its programs have been prominently featured on the Dark Matter Radio Network and the world’s largest podcast network, PodcastOne, and its adaptations of horror classics have been utilized for educational purposes in classrooms around the world, and as part of the Washington, DC-based SeeNoSun Literacy Project. 

Over the course of its storied history, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and The Simply Scary Podcast have accumulated hundreds of unsolicited fan testimonials and iTunes 5-star reviews, and the team behind the series has had the pleasure of adapting fiction penned by Bram Stoker award winners, as well as New York Times bestselling authors. They've also featured guest performances by the likes of renowned fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss, as well as multi-million subscriber YouTube personalities such as Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach,  Tay Zonday,  Rob Dyke, and Cryaotic.

Having worked diligently to bring radio theater “back from the dead” for more than 4 years, the team behind the audio excellence of Chilling Tales for Dark Nights and the critically-acclaimed Simply Scary Podcast are determined to take their high-quality audio productions to the new level, by producing the world’s first-ever fully-animated horror anthology television series. 

Once successfully funded, any episodes produced will be distributed to campaign backers, as well as used to demonstrate the potential of the series to networks such as Netflix, Amazon, SyFy Channel and others.   

The series is produced and directed by the duo of CTFDN creator Craig Groshek and executive producer Jesse Cornett, and is illustrated and animated by an accomplished team of artists including David RomeroGiselle Rosser and Bo Mathorne (the filmmaker responsible for the award winning short film, the Backwater Gospel).