4: S3E04 – "Winter's Tale" – Horror Hill

In this episode of Horror Hill, we bring you a terrifying feature-length tale from author T.W. Grim, performed by host and narrator Jason Hill, a story that's bound to send shivers down your spine, whether it's winter or not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A bad Saturday Night Live parody

The narrator/host is difficult enough to tolerate (some other episodes of the podcast, with different readers, are good), but given such stupendously bad writing, he gets to a level that's hard to believe anyone could suffer for more than five minutes. If this were intended as a parody of awful horror fiction, it would work...for a 5-minute comedy sketch. The plot is pretty good, but the writing would be laughable if I didn't know that people are paying for this trash. And, again, the host is insufferably terrible--even when he isn't narrating the story, I have to fast-forward through his idiotic, clownish commentary.

Bottom line: It's worth picking through the episodes of this podcast for the few buried gems, but this episode isn't one of them.