5.1/10501 votesLoading...#1 - The Tale of the Stone Maiden
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 4/16/2000
When Julie breaks up with her boyfriend Kevin, he mysteriously disappears. It's then up to Julie to uncover a centuries old legend that led to his disappearance, and to bring him back. Trouble is, there's a mysterious statue in the park that has other plans for Kevin.
Director: Adam Weissman
Writer: N/A
5.2/10571 votesLoading...#2 - The Tale of Jake the Snake
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 3/20/1999
During ice hockey try-outs, Wiley finds a stick that used to belong to Jake the Snake, a great player. While using the stick, Wiley seems to have a natural talent for hockey and even makes the team. Soon after, he not only gets an ego, calling himself Wiley the Snake, but starts to shed his skin and gain a strange appetite for mice... Similar to a snake.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.5/10714 votesLoading...#3 - The Tale of the Unexpected Visitor
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 1/13/1996
Using the equipment of Jeff's father, who's working on a special space project, two friends send some of their music into space. This apparently attracts the attention of an alien creature who has received their message.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.5/10568 votesLoading...#4 - The Tale of the Zombie Dice
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 2/27/1999
Some kids discover that Mr. Click, the owner of the giant video arcade, has a sinister secret. If he challenges you to a game, don't play him, because if you lose you may never be seen again!
Director: Adam Weissman
Writer: N/A
5.7/10516 votesLoading...#5 - The Tale of the Time Trap
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 5/7/2000
Jason buys an ancient lamp from Sardo at his Magic Mansion. Yes indeed, it holds a genie who will grant his every wish. But this isn't an ordinary genie, and Jason will pay a high price for every wish he makes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.9/10555 votesLoading...#6 - The Tale of the Hunted
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 3/27/1999
A girl living in rural Canada is pressured by her dad and friends to go wolf hunting with them, but a mysterious wolf called The Blaze is about to show her the cruelty of hunting through an animal's eyes.
Director: Lorette Leblanc
Writer: N/A
6.0/10547 votesLoading...#7 - The Tale of Vampire Town
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 4/24/1999
Adder, a self-proclaimed teenage vampire hunter, gets more than he bargained for when he convinces his parents to travel to Wisteria for a vacation. Trouble ensues when during his hunt for vampires, some local townspeople think he's a vampire and start to hunt him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.2/10570 votesLoading...#8 - The Tale of the Gruesome Gourmets
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 3/13/1999
Brothers Tommy and David discover some scary secrets about their new upstairs neighbors. They seem to be inviting guests over that never return. Clues within the neighbor's apartment seem to prove that they're eating their guests.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.2/10623 votesLoading...#9 - The Tale of the Walking Shadow
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 4/10/1999
When the local high school decides to stage Macbeth, it unleashes some terrifying ghosts lurking backstage. Ross and Vanessa find out why the play is haunted and must get rid of the gremlins without getting blood on their hands.
Director: N/A
Writer: James Morris
6.2/10581 votesLoading...#10 - The Tale of Bigfoot Ridge
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 5/15/1999
Danielle stumbles upon a strange mystery when she travels to Bigfoot Ridge in search of her missing friend, Gina.
Director: Lorette Leblanc
Writer: N/A
6.3/10549 votesLoading...#11 - The Tale of the Many Faces
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 6/4/2000
Emma wants to be a model, but doesn't think she's pretty enough. She meets a strange woman, Madame Visage, who thinks Emma is absolutely beautiful. So beautiful, in fact, that she wants to steal her face!
Director: Lorette Leblanc
Writer: N/A
6.5/10614 votesLoading...#12 - The Tale of the Forever Game
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 2/6/1999
When Peter gets fed up with his tag-along sister Monica, he speeds up on ahead of her and his friend during their bike ride. They become seperated and Peter finds himself trapped in a place where he's forced to play a mysterious game, and his friend and sister are trapped in the woods until the game is finished. If Peter wins this game, he'll be free to leave. But if he loses, he'll be trapped there forever.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10710 votesLoading...#13 - The Tale of the Virtual Pets
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 2/20/1999
Isabel and Kate discover that Diggers, the newest and coolest Virtual Pets around, have a mind of their own, and playing with them can be very dangerous.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10563 votesLoading...#14 - The Tale of Oblivion
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 4/17/1999
On the way to school, Max and Shelly visit Sardo's Magic Mansion to get some art supplies. Sardo talks Max into buying a pencil box containing a pencil and eraser. At school Max uses his new art supplies and learns that they erase more than just drawings!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10358 votesLoading...#15 - The Tale of the Last Dance
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 5/21/2000
Tara plays the violin beautifully. So beautifully, that someone has fallen in love with her. But this person lives in underground caves and isn't a normal human being. He wants Tara to be his, and his alone, and will stop at nothing to have her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10581 votesLoading...#16 - The Tale of the Night Nurse
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 6/11/2000
Nicki and AJ are seeing the ghosts from a birthday party that happened many years ago. It's the party of a little girl who died mysteriously, and everyone blamed her Nurse. Now, the Nurse is back, and she's trying to make history repeat itself.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/10818 votesLoading...#17 - The Tale of the Hungry Hounds
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/19/1992
Two girls go to an attic where one of them tries on a uniform that belonged to a dead relative where her spirit lives on.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: N/A
6.6/10507 votesLoading...#18 - The Tale of the Misfortune Cookie
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 2/13/1999
Wishing that his life was more exciting, David gets more than he bargained for when he uses an ancient set of fortune cookies. However, his new life doesn't turn out exactly as he'd expected.
Director: Lorette Leblanc, Adam Weissman
Writer: N/A
6.6/10534 votesLoading...#19 - The Tale of the Reanimator
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 4/30/2000
Julie works for Mr. Doyle in his plant store. He's a nice but strange guy, and she discovers that he's cooking up something odd in his workshop. It's a potion that brings dead plants hack to life! Question is, what would happen if the potion were poured on a grave?
Director: Adam Weissman
Writer: N/A
6.7/10458 votesLoading...#20 - The Tale of the Vacant Lot
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 1/20/1996
A young girl, who feels inferior to her peers, encounters a strange woman in an empty lot who seems to have everything she'd ever want. The woman doesn't seem to want anything important in return. But when the young girl starts losing her looks, she finds that what she's given up is more important to her than she thought.
Director: D.J. MacHale, Ron Oliver
Writer: Scott Peters
6.8/10980 votesLoading...#21 - The Tale of the Sorcerer's Apprentice
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/17/1992
Dean, a troubled student, awakens an ancient secret hidden in the school.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: Stephen Zoller
6.8/10465 votesLoading...#22 - The Tale of the Manaha
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 12/30/1995
A blithe boy name Jonah enlists in a camping expedition with a group of misfits where an ancient legend has awoken in the woods.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/10514 votesLoading...#23 - The Tale of the Lunar Locusts
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 4/9/2000
Jake meets a beautiful new girl at school who wants to wear his ring. Jake thinks she's great, until he starts to see that there's something very strange about this girl. She's not from his neighborhood and she's not from his town. In fact, she's not from his planet.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/10926 votesLoading...#24 - The Tale of the Final Wish
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/19/1993
Jill is a thirteen year old that still loves things her peers have grown out of, such as unicorns and fairy tales. One night she wishes that she could be in a fairy tale world forever. After her wish is granted, she finds that living in a fairy tale isn't as happy as she'd once imagined.
Director: D.J. MacHale
Writer: Chloe Brown
6.9/10321 votesLoading...#25 - The Tale of Prisoners Past
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 12/2/1995
Scott and his step-brother hate each other and can't seem to get along. After fighting on their school field trip to a famous prison, they accidentally release One-Eyed Jack, an ex-prisoner's ghost, and he follows them home. They finally have to learn to cooperate in order to get the ghost to rest in peace.
Director: Ron Oliver
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Every episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark?!
This spooky anthology series for kids recounts ghost stories told by the young members of the Midnight Society as they gather around a campfire. Each...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"The Tale of the Stone Maiden" is the worst rated episode of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?". It scored 5.1/10 based on 501 votes. Directed by Adam Weissman and written by N/A, it aired on 4/16/2000. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Tale of Jake the Snake".