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Old Time Horror Radio | Old Time Radio brings you chilling horror, supernatural mystery, and dark suspense from the golden age of radio. Enter stories of ghosts, monsters, haunted places, strange experiments, psychological terror, and encounters with the unexplained. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Featuring classic horror anthologies, eerie supernatural tales, and unforgettable performances, Old Time Horror Radio celebrates the darker side of vintage broadcasting. Rediscover classic old time radio horror, supernatural stories, mystery, suspense, paranormal drama...
Episodes(40 episodes)
The Whistler - "Ticket to Murder" (1949)
The Whistler presents “Ticket to Murder,” originally broadcast on October 30, 1949. Episode 387 of the Signal Oil-sponsored CBS Pacific Network suspense series, this story was written by Adrian Gendot and features Bill Forman as the ominous Whistler.In nighttime Kansas City, lonely Eve Benton overhears troubling voices from the next hotel room—words about a stolen necklace, a large cash offer, and danger. A train ticket soon carries her toward San Francisco, where a chance encounter turns the journey into a tense contest of secrets and suspicion.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produc...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 30m 26s
Suspense - "Murder in Black and White" (1949)
Suspense presents “Murder in Black and White,” episode 336, originally broadcast on CBS on April 14, 1949. Edmund Gwenn stars in this tightly wound 1949 thriller, produced and directed by Anton M. Leder.Rice Archer is a businessman who trusts nothing to chance. With a tab-by-tab notebook and a carefully arranged hotel alibi, he waits in room 459 for word that his plan has unfolded exactly as intended. But as the expected confirmation fails to arrive, each passing hour turns his meticulous routine into an increasingly unnerving ordeal.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual intr...
Published: Oct 21, 2026Duration: 30m 32s
The Devil and Mr. O - "The Hungry One" (1972)
The Devil and Mr. O presents “The Hungry One,” episode 18, originally broadcast January 14, 1972. Hosted by Arch Oboler, this syndicated presentation revives his earlier Lights Out tale, “Meteor Man,” with Bret Morrison featured in the cast.During a nighttime meteor shower, Professor Russell Adams and his wife, Diane, recover a small fallen meteorite near their home. Their scientific examination soon brings them face-to-face with an unsettling presence from beyond Earth.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listenin...
Published: Oct 19, 2026Duration: 29m 39s
The Weird Circle - "The 415 Express"
The Weird Circle presents “The 415 Express,” episode 21, originally broadcast January 16, 1944. This syndicated suspense anthology was produced by NBC’s Radio Recording Division.Adapted from Amelia B. Edwards’s Victorian railway ghost mystery “The Four-Fifteen Express,” the story follows a passenger aboard an express train who finds himself sharing a compartment with a profoundly unsettling fellow traveler. As the journey continues, an uncanny mystery involving missing money, robbery, and murder begins to unfold.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consi...
Published: Oct 16, 2026Duration: 25m 8s
Molle Mystery Theatre - "Ghost with the Gun Afrs Myst Phs 138" (1945)
Molle Mystery Theatre presents “Ghost with the Gun,” originally broadcast October 26, 1945. This surviving presentation is Armed Forces Radio Service Mystery Playhouse #138. Hosted by Bernard Lenrow as Geoffrey Barnes, the program adapts Anthony Boucher’s recent short story, later reprinted as “Trick-or-Treat.”On Halloween night, a man answering his front door is shot by a small trick-or-treater in a ghost costume. With few clues and a victim whose connections raise troubling questions, police face a tense, seemingly impossible whodunit in this grounded seasonal mystery.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introducti...
Published: Oct 14, 2026Duration: 26m 26s
Dark Fantasy - "The Sleeping Death" (1942)
Dark Fantasy, “The Sleeping Death” (episode 30), originally broadcast June 12, 1942, on the NBC Red Network. Written by Scott Bishop, the pseudonym of George M. Hamaker, this story reworks an earlier Tales of the Witch-Queen installment, “The Deathmaker of Shillingham Road.”Troubled by a mysterious worsening condition in his leg, Paul Wentworth is taken to Fairchild Sanitarium, an isolated island hospital believed to have been closed for a decade. As a doctor urges immediate treatment and former colleague Linda Young arrives at the institution, Wentworth begins to sense disturbing connections to a scandal from his past. Only the first half of this...
Published: Oct 12, 2026Duration: 16m 41s
The Devil and Mr. O - "Paris Macabre" (1972)
The Devil and Mr. O presents “Paris Macabre,” episode 21, originally broadcast February 4, 1972. This installment repackages Arch Oboler’s 1943 Lights Out drama “The Ball,” with Bea Benaderet and Jane Morgan featured in the cast.Two young American visitors in Paris seek adventure at an unusual artists’ masquerade ball, only to find the masked gathering and its peculiar customs growing steadily more unsettling. Written, produced, and directed by Arch Oboler, this is a compact exercise in mounting supernatural dread.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently clean...
Published: Oct 9, 2026Duration: 29m 34s
The Sealed Book - "Murderer Unknown"
The Sealed Book presents “Murderer Unknown,” episode 23, originally broadcast on August 19, 1945. In this Mutual Broadcasting System chiller, the Keeper of the Book is played by Philip Clarke.A prosperous but unscrupulous businessman begins receiving black-bordered letters warning that his life is in danger. As the threats become more personal, wealth and influence prove scant protection against an unseen enemy. Written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan, the story was adapted from their earlier Mysterious Traveler tale.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and...
Published: Oct 7, 2026Duration: 30m 35s
Escape - "Two and Two Make Four" (1954)
Escape presents “Two and Two Make Four,” episode 223, originally broadcast on CBS on August 21, 1954. This final-season suspense tale was written by Walter Brown Newman and features Shepard Menken and Joyce McCluskey.After recovering from a head wound in Calais, a merchant sailor blacks out and awakens in England with no memory of crossing the Channel. His search for an explanation becomes a tense mystery of missing time, uncertain facts, and an unseen pursuer—against a backdrop that may conceal an impossible route beneath the English Channel.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly...
Published: Oct 2, 2026Duration: 30m 24s
The Whistler - "Grave Secret Ep Afrs" (1949)
The Whistler presents “Grave Secret,” originally broadcast February 27, 1949. This circulating AFRS version is commonly cataloged as episode 351. Written by Steve Hampton, the suspense drama features Sarah Selby, Howard McNear, and Betty Lou Gerson.In the quiet, tree-shaded Eldridge neighborhood, Harriet Eldridge maintains a carefully controlled household routine built around a steady flow of letters from her supposedly absent wealthy employer. But when the employer’s niece arrives unexpectedly from Australia, polite questions begin to threaten a secret that may not stay buried.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a shor...
Published: Sep 30, 2026Duration: 27m 28s
The Devil and Mr. O - "Vacation with Death" (1971)
Old Time Horror Radio presents The Devil and Mr. O, episode 11, “Vacation with Death,” originally broadcast November 26, 1971.A family’s bargain summer rental in an old country house soon proves unsettling. An uneasy caretaker, strange organ music after dark, and their young son’s talk of an unseen old woman turn a holiday escape into a supernatural domestic chiller. Written by Arch Oboler, this episode is the syndicated retitling of his earlier Lights Out tale, “The Organ.”Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently clean...
Published: Sep 28, 2026Duration: 29m 37s
Dark Fantasy - "The Thing from the Sea" (1941)
Dark Fantasy presents “The Thing from the Sea,” originally broadcast November 28, 1941. In this third known episode of the NBC Red Network supernatural anthology, Hollywood actor Philip Hayward and his companions sail aboard the yacht Dolphin toward New Zealand—until an unseen force brings their voyage to a terrifying halt.Written by Scott Bishop, the pseudonym of George Marion Hamaker, this early maritime chiller blends Pacific peril, lost-civilization legend, and eerie supernatural menace as the stranded travelers encounter signs that something ancient may be stirring beneath the sea.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newl...
Published: Sep 25, 2026Duration: 25m 41s
The Weird Circle - "Declared Insane"
The Weird Circle presents “Declared Insane,” episode 5, originally broadcast September 26, 1943. Adapted from Honoré de Balzac’s L’Interdiction, this literary suspense drama was written by Peggy Mayer, with Morris Hamilton and Oscar Turner among the production team behind the series’ early adaptations.In France, Judge Popinot receives a petition to have the Marquis d’Espard declared insane. As the inquiry examines an estranged marriage, disputed finances, and family loyalties, the case raises unsettling questions about motive, reputation, and who stands to gain from the judgment.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced cont...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 26m 6s
The Sealed Book - "Devil Island"
The Sealed Book presents “Devil Island,” episode 4, originally broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System on April 8, 1945. Hosted by Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, this mystery-terror tale was written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan, with Jock MacGregor producing and directing.Anne Drake arrives at her family’s desolate New England island to meet the father she has never known and take up residence in the cliffside Drake Manor. But the grim old house, its secretive inhabitants, and troubling tales of instability in the Drake family soon leave her questioning what can be trusted.<...
Published: Sep 21, 2026Duration: 30m 41s
The Devil and Mr. O - "Nature Study" (1971)
The Devil and Mr. O presents “Nature Study,” episode 8, broadcast November 5, 1971. Hosted and written by Arch Oboler, this syndicated presentation rebroadcast Oboler’s earlier Lights Out drama, originally heard on NBC on June 22, 1943. The cast includes Cathy Lewis and Mary Jane Croft.A scenic canyon excursion turns into a tense ordeal when a devastating rockslide leaves four travelers cut off amid the steep walls and fallen boulders. As the group faces uncertainty and mounting pressure, the disaster becomes a grim test of conscience and secrets.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produc...
Published: Sep 18, 2026Duration: 30m 20s
Suspense - "Death Notice" (1959)
Suspense presents “Death Notice,” episode 789, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on February 8, 1959. Victor Jory stars in this late-run drama, directed and produced by William N. Robson.After Charlie Slade receives a devastating medical diagnosis, he is forced to confront the life he has been living and the people closest to him. With time suddenly uncertain, an ordinary domestic world takes on new urgency in this reflective suspense drama.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent list...
Published: Sep 16, 2026Duration: 23m 33s
Molle Mystery Theatre - "The Man Who Murdered in Public Afrs Myst Phs" (1945)
Molle Mystery Theatre, episode 75, presents “The Man Who Murdered in Public,” originally broadcast on March 6, 1945. Adapted from Roy Vickers’ Department of Dead Ends mystery story, this NBC drama later circulated in an Armed Forces Radio Service Mystery Playhouse presentation hosted by Peter Lorre.George Macartney falls under suspicion after a troubling series of apparent drowning accidents unfolds in public view. This inverted detective mystery builds its suspense around a chilling question: when everyone suspects the same man, how can investigators prove it?Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a shor...
Published: Sep 14, 2026Duration: 30m 45s
Dark Fantasy - "Death Is a Savage Deity" (1942)
Dark Fantasy presents “Death Is a Savage Deity,” originally broadcast on NBC on January 30, 1942. Identified in surviving reference listings as episode 11, this supernatural thriller was written by Scott Bishop and originated from WKY in Oklahoma City.In a wealthy household shadowed by mounting calamities, Delores grows increasingly alarmed for her fiancé, Jim Harvey, and those around her. With ominous warnings from her formidable Aunt Wanna, the concern of maid Alma, and disturbing hints of a long-buried family past tied to Haitian occult practices, the menace seems to close in on the mansion, its conservatory, and its dark lily pond...
Published: Sep 11, 2026Duration: 25m 31s
Escape - "A Tooth for Paul Revere" (1948)
Escape, “A Tooth for Paul Revere,” originally broadcast July 4, 1948, is episode 45. This Fourth of July historical fantasy adapts Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1937 short story, with a radio adaptation by John Dunkel and direction by Norman Macdonnell.Massachusetts farmer Lige Butterwick has one pressing concern: a miserable toothache. Sent toward colonial Boston to seek the help of silversmith Paul Revere, Lige’s practical mission leads through the tense, colorful world of the American Revolution. Harry Bartell stars as Lige, with Parley Baer as Revere and Berry Kroeger in multiple roles.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original...
Published: Sep 9, 2026Duration: 30m 24s
The Weird Circle - "The Curse of the Mantle"
The Weird Circle presents “The Curse of the Mantle,” episode 32, originally broadcast April 2, 1944. This supernatural suspense drama adapts Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1838 tale “Lady Eleanore’s Mantle,” with Maurice Tarplin credited in the cast.In colonial Massachusetts, Lady Eleanore, the governor’s niece, acquires a luxurious mantle shadowed by a sinister reputation. As the garment’s influence seems to grow, her fiancé George Helwyse faces mounting unease in a community already gripped by fear and a smallpox outbreak.Old Time Horror Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/ma...
Published: Sep 7, 2026Duration: 25m 1s