NF Halloween Re-Release: Sometimes the Darkness Wins

Scared To Death

Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins

True Crime, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture, Horror

4.7 • 13.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Hello Creeps and Peepers! Welcome to a Halloween revisiting of a few of my favorite Nightmare Fuels as we lead up a special new Halloween Nightmare Fuel release. Let's take another look (or a first look if you're new!) at Sam. Sam's a strange doll found by a young boy, Jack, when he and his sister and mother moved into a new home following the death of Jack's father. Sam looks like she comes from another world, and she does. And her world is full of nothing but evil...

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0:00.0	The Welcome or welcome or welcome back to an old edition of Nightmare Fuel, Creeps and Peepers.
0:32.0	I decided a while back that it would be fun to revisit some of last year's nightmare fuels the week of Halloween.
0:38.4	On Halloween, you'll get a new story called The Dead House, a story that actually takes place
0:43.5	on Halloween, so that's fun. Today, tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday, you'll get some of my
0:48.6	favorite early stories that maybe some new listeners haven't heard yet. This first one,
0:53.8	sometimes the darkness wins,
0:55.7	was originally released on March 15th, 2024,
1:00.0	only the fourth original short horror story I wrote.
1:03.7	I was inspired to write it after seeing a certain doll
1:06.0	on the cover of a very strange doll magazine
1:09.1	that somebody sent to me as a joke.
1:11.6	The doll on the cover, in my opinion, not funny at all, creepy as hell.
1:17.1	And it became the inspiration for Sam, who you'll meet right when this story starts.
1:22.8	Thanks to AMC's Fear Fest for sponsoring this nightmare fuel re-release,
1:26.9	I still highly recommend
1:28.6	noise cancellation headphones for the ultimate listening experience.
1:33.2	Time now for the tale of sometimes the darkness wins.
1:40.7	Who made you?
1:43.5	Darlene stood in her son's room, holding the bizarre little doll in her hands.
1:47.9	She'd never seen another one quite like it.
1:49.8	It was clearly made by hand and not mass-produced.
1:53.0	This, whatever this was, was someone's custom creation.
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