Welcome to Retro Radio: Old Time Radio In The Dark! Here I bring you shows from the Golden Age of Radio in the darker genre. I’ll have classic radio of the macabre and horror, mysteries and crime, and even some dark science fiction. 5-hour marathons posted seven days per week with a variety of shows included each day!
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Sep 30, 2026 · 5:03:42
In the year 3978, Earth is fifteen days from running out of the fuel it runs on, and the only planet that can sell it more is ruled by a queen who stopped selling a year ago.…
Sep 29, 2026 · 5:02:30
Arch Oboloer’s “Night”: Chicago firemen tell one of their own why their station hasn't made a Thursday-night run in twenty years, in Arch Oboler's play about a single night…
Sep 27, 2026 · 5:04:00
Left alone at a Ninth Avenue bus stop on the day a U.N. ambassador is kidnapped, a detective's girlfriend picks up a ringing pay phone and hears a stranger tell her the ransom is…
Sep 26, 2026 · 4:59:15
Oliver Carsons has spent three nights trying to stay awake in a locked, barred bedroom, and every night a tall man with a face like a skull comes in to tell him he'll pay for…
Sep 25, 2026 · 5:02:08
A 53-year-old computer executive lets his 29-year-old boss push a receptionist of 31 years out the door, then chases the company's youth craze onto the tennis court with a heart…
Sep 25, 2026 · 5:00:51
A struggling young doctor answers a newspaper ad for a strong, steady-nerved beetle expert, and the lawyer who hires him at a hundred pounds a day won't tell him what the job is.…
Sep 22, 2026 · 5:00:52
A woman whose migraines have already cost her a husband and two children lets psychic healer Bryce Bond hypnotize her back through her past lives, and each life she lands in puts…
Sep 21, 2026 · 4:59:13
A Washington legal secretary kneels on a Georgetown sidewalk with a dying stranger who names his killer only as the man in black, and by morning the police have no body, no…
Sep 20, 2026 · 5:04:19
Three months out of Dundee and anchored to unbroken Arctic ice, a whaling crew starts hearing something come aboard at night and go straight down into the captain's locked cabin.…
Sep 19, 2026 · 5:00:50
A man who can't bear to be touched, let alone loved, comes home one night convinced that something in the house has grown fond of him. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts,…
Sep 18, 2026 · 5:06:28
There's only one way out of the Forever Alley, a cop was parked in front of it all night, and the man inside still vanished. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,…
Sep 17, 2026 · 5:06:58
Two men on a hunting vacation in the Adirondacks wake to find a small metal box sitting in their cabin doorway, a tag on top calling it a free promotional model of a brand-new…
Sep 16, 2026 · 5:01:31
A young engineer brings his pregnant wife home to the Philippine mountains, where his grandmother insists the only thing that will quiet his beheaded grandfather's ghost is the…
Sep 15, 2026 · 5:09:11
A physicist who has spent five years and twenty million dollars chasing one missing equation leaves his attaché case in a highway diner, where the seventeen-year-old at the cash…
Sep 14, 2026 · 5:02:33
A movie actress worn down by a lifetime of asthma puts her hand in a bald doctor's and agrees to let him remove her head, on his promise that a prettier one is on the way. Look…
Sep 12, 2026 · 5:02:09
A young intern at a state asylum wires a homemade telepathy set to the forehead of a dying, illiterate mountain man whose ravings describe palaces of fire he could never have…
Sep 11, 2026 · 5:01:42
Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster, a bedridden heiress alone in a New York townhouse asks the operator to ring her husband's office, gets crossed into a stranger's…
Sep 11, 2026 · 1:34
On Friday, September 11th, three weeks before anyone could buy it, I played the entire audiobook of my new book live on Patreon, start to finish, with the chat open the whole…
Sep 11, 2026 · 5:01:51
A stroke has left a wealthy recluse unable to speak or move, and every night after dark his eyes fix on something beside his bed that nobody else in the room can see. Look for…
Sep 10, 2026 · 5:16:24
A bank robber who chose permanent exile on Mars over fifteen years in a cell has spent a decade freezing in the mines, and a stolen spaceship is about to take him back to Earth.…
Sep 9, 2026 · 5:02:53
A healthy, happy lawyer dozing on his porch after tennis is told he's dead, and the only man who can take his place has just decided he likes living and refuses to die. Look for…
Sep 8, 2026 · 5:06:18
A merchant seaman on his first voyage walks out of a candlelit shop in Libya with a solid gold coin he can't pawn, sell, gamble away, or throw into the sea, and then a shipmate…
Sep 6, 2026 · 5:21:11
A magazine writer who has spent a week seducing an ironmaster's wife in a Pennsylvania mill town accepts her husband's offer of a midnight tour of the blast furnaces, the night…
Sep 6, 2026 · 4:59:21
A young heiress starts getting stomach cramps after her kindly cousins move in with her, and the only one who warns her is the imaginary playmate she made up as a child. Look for…
Sep 5, 2026 · 5:00:39
A cash-strapped couple inherits Great Aunt Hester's country manor on one sole condition: her cat, Saladin, lives out its days there in the style to which it's accustomed, and the…
Sep 4, 2026 · 5:13:27
Three Army scientists in a shack on the Jersey cliffs bounce the first radio signal off the moon, and a few nights later the generators start switching themselves on at midnight.…
Sep 3, 2026 · 4:57:58
A Navy-trained scuba diver hired to hunt a Spanish treasure ship reaches the end of his guideline 175 feet down, sees something no one else on the crew can explain, and asks for…
Sep 2, 2026 · 5:03:31
Hours from the electric chair for the murder of a nightclub singer, gangster Duke Malone rebuilds his whole life in his head — starting at fourteen in a pool hall, refusing the…
Sep 1, 2026 · 5:05:01
Kitty Morgan designed every room of the mansion her lover built in the Adirondacks, and when he ended it between them, she made him a promise about that house and then kept it. A…
Aug 30, 2026 · 5:01:02
A rookie phenom hitting .392 takes a fastball to the head, and comes out of the coma carrying a stranger's offer he can't shake and a batting slump he can't break. Look for this…
Aug 29, 2026 · 4:59:51
A gust of wind shuts John Greenwood out of his own Christmas Eve party, and the constable who finds him climbing back in through a broken window says the house has been empty and…
Aug 28, 2026 · 5:01:21
A young London couple rent a room in a house that has stood unlivable for four hundred years, and the one woman who has ever managed to live there tells them the tenants who…
Aug 27, 2026 · 5:01:28
A gentleman and a veiled lady took an empty first-class compartment on the Manchester Express out of London, and by the next station they'd vanished from the moving train,…
Aug 26, 2026 · 5:00:07
In colonial Massachusetts, a dying woman made her husband lock her gowns and jewels in an attic trunk and swear that her sister would never open it – a promise Henry James turned…
Aug 24, 2026 · 5:01:39
An old television set starts picking up broadcasts from years that haven't happened yet, and what the couple watching sees convinces them that some futures are worth killing to…
Aug 24, 2026 · 4:59:36
Two sisters walking the Overbury downs at dusk spot a quaint red brick house at the bend of the road in Brickett Bottom, and only one of them can see it. Look for this podcast on…
Aug 23, 2026 · 4:59:38
Fifty dollars a month for a furnished mansion in the country seems like the bargain of a lifetime, right up until they hear organ music in the house where no organ can be found.…
Aug 23, 2026 · 5:06:29
The man who bought the twenty-room house next door to the Powells keeps no car, no telephone, and every light in the place burning through the night, and a neighbor's dog that…
Aug 21, 2026 · 5:10:51
A man boards the 4:15 out of London in December of 1856, shares a locked compartment with a fellow passenger the whole way, and steps off to find that everyone insists he…
Aug 19, 2026 · 5:13:52
Murdoch Glourie has walked the halls of his family's Scottish castle every midnight for two hundred years, and now an American grocery millionaire has bought the place and means…
Aug 18, 2026 · 5:02:37
A trapeze flyer chasing a somersault no one has ever landed shares a drink with a circus fire eater who calls himself Lou Cipher, and walks away believing a bargain has been…
Aug 18, 2026 · 5:13:31
Jim Harker kills a traffic constable on a fog-blind road at midnight and drives away without reporting it, and from that night forward every trip down that same stretch of road…
Aug 16, 2026 · 4:58:05
In a fog-bound London mansion emptied of its furniture and its servants, a young man lives alone beneath a wax-sealed black door at the top of the stairs that his father's…
Aug 16, 2026 · 5:09:34
Speciality of the House: Sbirro's has no menu, no sign and no interest in new customers, and the handful of men who eat there have taken a solemn oath never to speak of the one…
Aug 15, 2026 · 5:01:15
Harry and Sarah Kemp paid ten thousand dollars for a ten-month-old baby and never once asked what they were buying. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart…
Aug 14, 2026 · 5:00:10
“Sub-Basement”: Down in the black tunnels beneath the store, the doors have sealed shut, the watchman is lying with his throat torn open, and whatever did it is dragging itself…
Aug 13, 2026 · 5:08:52
There is a man not yet sixty with the face of someone eighty, who sleeps only by daylight and spends every night awake with a buckhorn knife within his reach, ever since a woman…
Aug 12, 2026 · 4:59:07
“Death Spell” – A wealthy man swears his beautiful wife is quietly working a spell to kill him, every doctor insists he's in perfect health, and the struggling artist who moves…
Aug 11, 2026 · 5:02:31
“The Kitchen Table” – A young couple pays a suspiciously low price for a neglected old farmhouse and lovingly begins restoring the home’s long-buried kitchen — never guessing…
Aug 9, 2026 · 5:06:21
“The Speaking Clock”: In a Bond Street antique shop where a hundred clocks tick out of time and one of them speaks with a dead man's voice. Look for this podcast on Apple…
Aug 9, 2026 · 5:08:26
A young scientist's growth-ray experiment leaves his terrified wife and a delivery boy trapped in a locked laboratory with a monstrous, six-foot creature they're certain will…
Aug 8, 2026 · 4:59:39
Two enemy fighter pilots—one American, one Soviet—crash side by side in the frozen Arctic, drained of all power by something that fell from the stars and is patiently waiting for…
Aug 7, 2026 · 5:05:45
A Marine pilot vanished over the Atlantic in 1945 with no wreckage, no body, and no explanation — and more than thirty years later, forty people would swear he was still alive.…
Aug 6, 2026 · 5:01:21
“The Girl He Left Behind”: A young nurse turns down her soldier sweetheart's marriage proposal but keeps the ring he insists she hold onto, and when word arrives that he was…
Aug 5, 2026 · 5:11:23
An aging millionaire’s fixation on a battered toy car draws his family into a tense mystery rooted in a tragedy from the past. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,…
Aug 4, 2026 · 5:02:50
There is a story about a man who knew everything the world would ever know because he claimed to be born ten thousand years too soon — a man who could foresee every future but…
Aug 3, 2026 · 5:01:46
Every time David Delano tries to propose to the beautiful Charlotte Marsden, a figure in old-fashioned evening dress appears in the room — visible only to him and to Charlotte's…
Aug 2, 2026 · 5:06:44
A young bride's uncanny knowledge of history's deadliest catastrophes convinces her husband she's hiding something — but the truth behind her secret is older than he could ever…
Jul 30, 2026 · 5:06:42
A killer holes up in a snowbound hotel room with a dead woman in the closet — and finds he can't stop talking to her. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart…
Jul 30, 2026 · 5:00:56
A phony spiritualist who fakes contact with the dead to swindle grieving clients gets more than she bargained for when the voices calling back from Summerland might not be fake…
Jul 28, 2026 · 5:02:34
A man wakes up convinced he murdered someone in his sleep, and the marks on his own body say the dream might not have been a dream at all. Look for this podcast on Apple…
Jul 28, 2026 · 4:59:45
Six strangers board a night train crawling through the worst winter in years — a divorced businessman, a runaway couple, a wealthy man running out of time, and an elderly woman…
Jul 28, 2026 · 11:01
This isn’t one of my usual stories or episodes – but it is still terrifying (to me, at least). Over the weekend, a devastating cyberattack locked me out of my Google account,…
Jul 27, 2026 · 5:00:49
A young scholar’s visit to his reclusive uncle on a lonely Shetland island leads him into a nightmare of black rituals, impossible memories, and a mystery that defies time…
Jul 25, 2026 · 5:01:19
A Broadway couple buys the vacant Connecticut house no agent in town will touch, covers the den wall with a floor-to-ceiling photograph of an African jungle, and begins to notice…
Jul 24, 2026 · 5:08:20
“Adventure of the Beauty Queen”: A woman wakes to a voice from a thousand years in the future, telling her a machine has searched all of history for beauty and found her. Look…
Jul 23, 2026 · 4:55:46
A lifelong friend's death leaves Jason Clark hearing that friend's voice picking winners at the track, an unbroken streak that draws the attention of the bookmakers he's bleeding…
Jul 22, 2026 · 4:57:53
A waterlogged model boat that keeps appearing wherever Professor Anders goes — dripping, shivering, impossible to be rid of — carries a name, a drowning, and a debt that refuses…
Jul 21, 2026 · 4:46:27
A Christmas Eve margin call sends a rich man's nephew scrambling for six thousand dollars he doesn't have, with a voice in his head whispering that theft and worse would be so…
Jul 19, 2026 · 4:52:07
A fortune-teller's crystal globe shows his clients a single vision of their own deaths — and one by one, they begin to make it come true. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts,…
Jul 19, 2026 · 5:15:18
A film crew arrives at Wicklow Manor to shoot on location, where a centuries-old legend says a mandrake's shriek lures the heartbroken to their deaths from the tower — and within…
Jul 19, 2026 · 5:07:34
A chemist, lost on a lonely country road at nightfall, keeps glimpsing a laughing little girl no one else in the isolated mansion will admit exists. Look for this podcast on…
Jul 17, 2026 · 5:06:41
A skeptical London professor sets out to expose a plain, lame hypnotist as a fraud, never suspecting that the woman he dismisses has already decided he belongs to her. Look for…
Jul 16, 2026 · 5:12:10
An unknown gunman murders the last of the wealthy Van Cleek line, and when two reporters break into the family's boarded-up mansion to photograph it before demolition, they find…
Jul 16, 2026 · 5:08:27
A Soho painter can't stop painting the same 19th-century woman — until she starts talking back, insisting she was murdered and thrown down a Manhattan well, and demanding he hear…
Jul 14, 2026 · 5:16:33
The Master Constipator discovers another galaxy ripe for conquest and sets out to bring it under his rule, placing him on a collision course with Lord Primasludge. The story is a…
Jul 12, 2026 · 4:49:23
A man who has feared death every day of his life wakes among strangers who cannot die — and finds that to them, he is something called an “atavus” — drawn by lot into what they…
Jul 11, 2026 · 5:00:57
“Judas Kiss: The Traveling Clairvoyant of Tipton Mountain” — A hermit who claims he can watch distant events from inside a hollow pine tree becomes convinced the woman renting…
Jul 10, 2026 · 4:20:43
Stranded in the Nicaraguan jungle beside an ancient temple, three adventurers and their companions discover its priests serve a horror that's all too real — man-sized vampire…
Jul 9, 2026 · 5:06:11
A young samurai's forbidden love for a warlord's daughter follows him past the grave, when her returning ghost lures him into a fatal embrace no sacred charm can prevent. Look…
Jul 8, 2026 · 5:02:18
A nightgown-clad stranger in a flying saucer repeats two nonsense words to everyone who'll listen—but only a lonely hospital cleaner can understand what he's really saying, and…
Jul 7, 2026 · 4:59:24
When a corporate jet is torn through a fold in space and time, its passengers find themselves offered a second chance a thousand years from home — if they're willing to leave…
Jul 6, 2026 · 4:58:57
A locked-room death, a fragile heiress convinced her dead mother is beckoning her from the top of the marble stairs, and three witnesses who all swear they've seen the ghost as…
Jul 5, 2026 · 21:45
In a world that has finally outlawed war, every boy must still report for combat at fifteen — and Tom is about to learn exactly what that means. “The Invisible Enemy” by Arnold…
Jul 5, 2026 · 20:25
A mild-mannered chemistry teacher weighing a lucrative job offer against the quiet life he loves finds his decision complicated when a woman claiming to be from the Pleiades…
Jul 4, 2026 · 5:05:49
An old villager's tale about a beautiful, undead noblewoman feels like harmless folklore to two visiting American brothers — right up until the night one of them meets her. Look…
Jul 4, 2026 · 5:06:50
A routine trip to claim an inheritance becomes a waking nightmare when a young couple discovers their own coffins waiting for them at a lonely, decaying estate. Look for this…
Jul 3, 2026 · 5:16:36
“The House And The Brain”: A skeptical scientist who swears the supernatural is nonsense spends one night in a house no tenant will stay in—and discovers a terror that follows…
Jul 2, 2026 · 5:05:40
“Crazy Town”: Two bomber pilots who rain death on defenseless villages crash behind the walls of a hidden asylum, where a soft-spoken madman insists they've finally come home to…
Jul 1, 2026 · 5:08:53
A tough-talking builder tells his psychiatrist that a man he's never met keeps killing him in his dreams — and then she starts having the same dream. Look for this podcast on…
Jun 29, 2026 · 4:50:51
A skeptical reporter is sent to debunk England's most famous UFO hotspot — but the more nights he spends on Star Hill, the harder it becomes to dismiss what he sees, and the…
Jun 28, 2026 · 4:52:50
A drifter set to die in the gas chamber for a murder he didn't commit offers one last gift to the man who framed him — never imagining what that gift might carry. Look for this…
Jun 27, 2026 · 5:08:33
Two downed pilots wash up on a deserted Pacific island and discover that the atomic bomb tests there have bred something monstrous in the lagoon — and it's coming ashore. |…
Jun 26, 2026 · 5:04:43
His fiancée disappears without a trace the night they were supposed to set their wedding date, and the deeper Peter digs, the closer he gets to a secret the government would…
Jun 24, 2026 · 5:01:31
David and Jane Francis come home from a European holiday to find the wealthy widow who'd sublet their country house dead of fright — and the rooms left behind tell of melted…
Jun 24, 2026 · 10:30
Step right up, Weirdos! Got a strange idea rattling around in your skull — a haunting nobody believes, a cryptid your uncle swears he saw, some true-crime case that still keeps…
Jun 24, 2026 · 5:04:50
Two young Parisians dreaming of artistic greatness stumble upon a squalid countryside farm, where one becomes fatally transfixed by a strange, silent girl the family keeps like…
Jun 23, 2026 · 4:54:19
A young woman hired to care for an invalid widow in a crumbling Hudson River mansion soon learns why her brooding employer forbids every mirror in the house—and why the dogs are…
Jun 22, 2026 · 5:08:09
A young doctor returns to her childhood slum to open a free clinic, but when a dying patient vanishes from her examination room and his grieving cousin swears the boy has simply…
Jun 21, 2026 · 4:58:33
Four aged friends gather in an eccentric doctor's shadowed study, where he offers each of them a single glass of water he swears was drawn from the Fountain of Youth. Look for…
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