From our earliest days we've gathered around the fire for warmth and comfort.

But beyond the light of the dying embers, there is the darkness.

And it's in the darkness of the night where we find ourselves waiting, yearning for the dawn to banish our fears.

But our campfire holds more than firelight.

For with us, you will hear the tales that make the nightmares engulf you.

And you dare not close your eyes.

Brace yourself for the no sleep podcast. No Sleep Podcast

Welcome to the No Sleep Podcast.

I'm your host David Cummings. In the past I've talked a lot about how I got

introduced to audio horror when I was a teenager, old-time radio shows

replayed by a local radio station on Sunday nights.

Yep, ever wonder why we release episodes on Sundays?

It's an homage to my Sunday night audio horror days.

But there was another way I got into horror,

and it was via TV stations playing old horror movies

on either a Friday or Saturday night.

I would often sleep over at my best friend Greg's house.

We'd stay up late and watch a couple of movies.

Sometimes they were the classic British hammer movies featuring Dracula or Frankenstein.

Sometimes we'd get the black and white classic horrors from Universal.

Bride of Frankenstein was always a fave of mine.

And other times we'd get those wonderful Kaiju movies from Japan with monsters like

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