Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, July 1951, the story “Pen Pal” by Stephen Marlowe introduces us to Matilda, a young woman looking for love by submitting letters to a literary magazine. That’s something much more common when the story was published in 1951 and probably pretty close to using a dating app these days. When she thinks she’s found the love of her life, things get really strange. SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… “Pen Pal” by Stephen Marlowe:...

Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/425wh2ys IN THIS EPISODE: When Roland T. Owen signed in to rent a room at the Hotel President in Kansas City on the afternoon of January 2nd, 1935, it began a chain of strange and bizarre events and behavior that baffle mystery and crime enthusiasts even today. (The Horror in Room 1046) *** If you are planning a visit to the beautiful Banff Hotel in the Canadian Rockies you might discover that the rumor is...

Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4wkj3puk IN THIS EPISODE: We’ll look not only at the horrible events of the Jonestown massacre itself, but what life was like for those in The Peoples Temple cult before the mass suicide took place. Plus, we’ll look through the eyes of first responders who came upon the grizzly scene immediately after, and how they dealt with the horrors they stepped into. SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… “Jonestown:...

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Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show.  IN THIS EPISODE: As we step into the Halloween weekend, I thought it might be fun to share some Halloween-themed creepypastas. Four fictional stories, in fact. And to add to the “Halloweenishness” of this episode, rather than spooky music in the background, as you can...

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. *** Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/HalloweenNovel IN THIS EPISODE: A rare and haunting treasure: the long-out-of-print novelization of John Carpenter's 1979 horror classic *Halloween*, written by Curtis Richards. True to...

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. IN THIS EPISODE: These are a few ghost stories, just for the kids, to get them (and you) in the mood for the day’s spooky activities! SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE… Ghost Stories for Kids from How Stuff Works: https://tinyurl.com/y53fb6o8 Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. = = = = = (Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I...

Find more from Doorway To Nightmare at https://doorwaytonightmare.com. IN THIS EPISODE: Winslow Swan from the Doorway To Nightmare podcast gave me the privilege of starring in one of their creepy episodes – and this is the result! If you like this episode, you might want to subscribe to their podcast – because in the near future I’ll be starring in another episode – Edgar Allan Poe’s classic, “The Masque of the Red Death!” CUSTOM LANDING PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/interviewwiththeauthor

NOTE: Episodes in this series are low quality. You can still hear and understand the story, but some people may find the quality distracting. But you have to expect some degradation when listening to something that is almost 100 years old! CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open, Introduction to “Frankenstein” 00:02:45.307 = Part 01: “The Wanderer” 00:15:41.905 = Part 02: “Strange Genesis” 00:29:00.105 = Part 03: “The Power And The Price” 00:41:59.415 =...

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. *** Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8vmm35 IN THIS EPISODE: The 1938 radio drama of “War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells, as performed by Mercury Radio Theater and Orson Welles. SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THIS EPISODE… “War...

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. IN THIS EPISODE: “The Last Voyage of Demeter” is an extract from the most terrifying vampire fiction in literary history, Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” from 1897. The thrilling novel is a gothic horror classic written in epistolary form through a series of journal entries,...

Darkness Syndicate members get both parts as one episode, and commercial-free: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bpa5jumf Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was a 15 minute radio serial that ran for 52 episodes from September 9, 1943 to February 16, 1944 starring George Edwards. George Edwards (born as Harold Parks, 11 March 1886 in Kent Town, South Australia – 1953) was an Australian actor and producer. Edwards was a pioneer of the radio serial in Australia.Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library = = = =...

Darkness Syndicate members get both parts as one episode, and commercial-free: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bpa5jumf Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was a 15 minute radio serial that ran for 52 episodes from September 9, 1943 to February 16, 1944 starring George Edwards. George Edwards (born as Harold Parks, 11 March 1886 in Kent Town, South Australia – 1953) was an Australian actor and producer. Edwards was a pioneer of the radio serial in Australia.Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library = = = =...

Darkness Syndicate members get the commercial-free version with all artwork created for the YouTube and podcast thumbnails: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/vat86pdz IN THIS EPISODE: Everyone knows about Dracula. Most everyone has seen at least one film starring the undead blood-sucker, or has read the novel by Bram Stoker. But only the real fans of Dracula know about the real people and true stories that inspired Bram Stoker to create the character. SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE...

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. *** Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3pbefs2v IN THIS EPISODE: A Pittsburgh, Kansas radio host gets a fright from a UFO – and his report is so convincing it became one of the first officially investigated UFO reports in the...

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. *** Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckjxukk IN THIS EPISODE: If you ever missed death by an inch, and you believe you had a little help, you may be one of many people with guardian angel stories. Even for nonbelievers, a...

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. *** Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version plus all artwork created and considered for use as YouTube and podcast thumbnails: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4nhmsbb3 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:56.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Death of Halpin Fraser” (April 10, 1975) 00:49:56.049 = Ghost Stories BBC, “Midnight Express”...

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. Darkness Syndicate members receive the ad-free version: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8nw7a7 IN THIS EPISODE: Five men disappear, and the more closely you look at the case, the more you question what exactly happened to each one of them. It is such a strange case, that a...

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. IN THIS EPISODE: Originally published in the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1947. In the story, "World Organization" is like a world police. They've disarmed the states, & are powerful enough to keep them disarmed. That's when the USA initiates a war...

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. *** Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version plus all artwork created and considered for use as YouTube and podcast thumbnails: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5duy6xu9 IN THIS EPISODE: Time travel, time slips, lost time, traveling to other dimensions and realities....

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. IN THIS EPISODE: A scream of brakes, the splash into icy waters, a long descent into alkaline depths ... it was death. But Ned Vince lived again ... a million years later, thanks to the strange creatures who had evolved on Earth after the Age of Man! Originally published...

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. *** Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free early release with all artwork created and considered for use as YouTube and podcast thumbnails: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ycktw658 IN THIS EPISODE: Deep in the bowels of London is a railway built to serve not the living...

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. *** Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free early release: https://www.patreon.com/posts/114730504 IN THIS EPISODE: How did Pearl Curran, an ordinary St. Louis housewife, become the center of one of the greatest paranormal mysteries of all time? (Patience Worth And The...

Donate to our October 2024 OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS campaign at https://weirddarkness.com/overcoming. Weird Darkness is narrated by professional full-time voice actor Darren Marlar. No A.I. voices are ever used in the show. *** Darkness Syndicate members received the early release ad-free version with all artwork created for the YouTube and podcast thumbnails: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/59cej2c8 IN THIS EPISODE: On September 1, 1969, about 40 people in Berkshire County, Massachusetts...