<![CDATA[Digital horror content in Indonesia increasingly combines mystical storytelling with conversational humor, spontaneous host responses, and platform-based audiovisual performance. However, limited attention has been given to how YouTube horror-humor narratives organize fear, humor, and cultural familiarity as coherent digital storytelling. This study aims to analyze the construction of horror-humor narratives in three episodes of the YouTube channel Padepokan Malam Kliwon (PMK) using Walter Fisher’s Narrative Paradigm. This research employed a qualitative approach with narrative analysis of video transcripts and metadata. The analysis focused on narrative structure, narrative coherence, narrative fidelity, good reasons, and the function of host humor. The findings show that PMK constructs horror through spatial escalation, contrasts between ordinary and supernatural realities, and the accumulation of testimonies. Narrative coherence is built through plot consistency, material details, and narrator characterization, while narrative fidelity is shaped through cultural markers related to popular mystical discourse. The discussion demonstrates that host humor functions as an emotional mediator that transforms fear into a shared, negotiable, and entertaining conversation. This study concludes that PMK’s narrative appeal does not depend on empirically verifying supernatural experiences, but on transforming unverifiable mystical events into coherent, culturally resonant, and affectively manageable digital storytelling. ]]>
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