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‘Creepaway Camp’ 2025 – BloodyFM’s Creepy Podcast Launches Halfway-to-Halloween Event!
Starting NOW, the popular BloodyFM horror fiction podcast Creepy is airing its yearly halfway-to-Halloween event: Creepaway Camp. A fully-scripted production featuring both horror narrations and a wraparound story.
Started in 2017, Creepy began simply enough as a place for the classic creepypastas like Ted the Caver, The Russian Sleep Experiment, NoEnd House and more. Now, eight years later, they have over 1,000 episodes and host both their October 31 Days of Horror event, but also April’s Creepaway Camp.
In 2021, creator and host Jon Grilz got the idea to have a little more fun with the show’s format and create scripts for the cast of narrators to perform to add some more depth to the show. Met with a great reception, Creepaway Camp has become a staple of the show, but still, Jon wanted to do more with it.
This year, on top of hosting the event with his regular narrators, Jon has reached out to several other horror podcasts to make something special, a sort of anthology of horrors, from other popular podcasters.
Asked what was the motivation for the change, Jon said, “When I started podcasting, especially with Creepy, I leaned a lot on the horror community for help getting this started. This is a way for me to go back to our roots and remember that no one really podcasts alone, and the horror community is one that I am so grateful to be a part of. And if people enjoy it, I would love to do even more with other podcasts in the future.”
Familiar shows like NoSleep, Thirteen, Scare You to Sleep, and more will be joining the crew in the bayou to tell stories around the campfire, and do their best to maintain their sanity, because wherever Jon goes, plans tend to fall apart quickly.
New episodes will post on Wednesdays and Sundays throughout April. Make sure not to miss out, subscribe, like and share wherever you listen to podcasts.
It’s been a busy month on Murder Made Fiction podcast. In addition to introducing a new co-host (Perfectly Good Moment‘s Amanda Jane Stern), we spent Pride Month tackling a wide variety of Leopold and Loeb fictional adaptations.
In 1924 Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb plotted to commit the perfect murder when they abducted and killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks. As Amanda outlines in her primer on the case, the men were caught almost immediately and the media circus that followed was billed “the trial of the century”.
Listen to Leopold and Loeb mini primer.
The fallout has reverberated throughout the last century as countless books, plays, musicals, and films have drawn on the case for inspiration. Some are more faithful than others, such as Richard Fleischer‘s 1959 drama Compulsion, which stars a young Dean Stockwell as Leopold and Orson Welles as the boys’ lawyer, John Darrow (named Jonathan Wilk in the film).
Listen to Leopold and Loeb: Compulsion (1959).
Then there are the texts that use the idea of queer-coded killers as a jumping off point, but confuse (or flat-out disregard) the details of the real life case in favour of jumbled fiction. That’s what happens in Barbet Schroeder‘s Murder by Numbers, which awkwardly introduces a tortured backstory for lead actress (and executive producer) Sandra Bullock. The result is an uneven film that misunderstands which of its two competing storylines are actually interesting (hint: it’s the Leopold and Loeb stuff with Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt).
Listen to Leopold and Loeb: Murder by Numbers (2002).
We ended up discussing other (often more successful) titles on Patreon, including 1992’s Swoon (a New Queer Cinema art-house take on the crime), Michael Haneke‘s 2007 Funny Games remake, and gay screenwriter Kevin Williamson‘s Scream, which proved to be a much more reverent and sly interpretation of L&L than we anticipated.
We wrapped up the month with a final summary episode about our favorite adaptations before chatting with author and archivist Erik Rebain, who literally wrote the book on Leopold (Arrested Adolescence) and maintains one of the foremost websites on the crime.
Watch our discussion on YouTube below (or listen here):
Next month: For July, we’re turning our attention to the Boston Strangler, with a look at films from 1964 and 1968, as well as the most contemporary version from 2023, starring Kiera Knightley and Carrie Coon.
Want even more true crime adaptations and Murder Made Fiction? Support the show on Patreon to listen to the aforementioned episodes, as well as a full-length primer on the case and 160+ hours of bonus content.
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