S10 Ep21: S10E21 - "The Black Pill" - Drew Blood's Dark Tales Podcast
Drew Blood's Dark Tales — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Podcast
Chilling Entertainment
4.8 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This week on Drew Blood's Dark Tales, author Aaron Shotwell invites listeners into a waking nightmare where sleep becomes escape, time becomes meaningless, and one mysterious black pill changes everything. What begins as a desperate attempt to disappear from reality spirals into a vision of devastation so vivid, so disturbingly intimate, that it refuses to fade upon waking. As ruined cities, hollow-eyed survivors, and impossible figures emerge from the darkness, one man is forced to confront the terrifying cost of apathy—and the unbearable question of whether the future he witnessed was ever truly a dream at all.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, it's me again. |
| 0:01.9 | You know what's really easy to do and even easier to forget? |
| 0:05.0 | Help me out and hit that like button if you're listening on YouTube. |
| 0:08.3 | If you're listening somewhere else, what the hell? |
| 0:10.5 | Pop in and give me a thumb. |
| 0:12.2 | Say hi while you're at it. |
| 0:13.6 | Helps me a ton with that damn algorithm. |
| 0:16.2 | And besides, it's always nice to see you there. |
| 0:18.8 | All right then. |
| 0:19.8 | Let's hop on that crazy train. |
| 0:22.0 | All the board! |
| 0:47.1 | Oh, shit. Hey, welcome, friend. |
| 0:49.8 | Well, bad news and good news tonight. |
| 0:53.0 | Bad news first, right? |
| 0:55.1 | Well, turns out that Nigerian royalty money I was expecting isn't going to come through this week. |
| 1:01.5 | Must have been some kind of clerical error or something. |
| 1:05.1 | But hey, it's a World Golf Day, which is why Chester here is wearing his black lipstick and nail polish. |
| 1:13.3 | No, I'm not celebrating this one with you, Chester. That kind of get-up ain't befitting of royalty. |
| 1:19.8 | Anyway, come on then, friend. All right. So let's change up the rigamarole this week. |
| 1:28.8 | As many of you know, YouTube demonetized us recently and wiped out a significant revenue stream. |
| 1:35.2 | If that's where you're listening to me right now, please subscribe to Chilling Tales for Dark Nights on Rumble, so we can help pick up the pieces over here. |
| 1:44.0 | Hmm. But Drew, I don't like no Rumble. |
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