Auditory Anthology

After calling a customer support line for his broken streaming box, Evan is horrified when the voice on the other end begins using an unnervingly cheerful tone to reveal private memories, predict his immediate future, and ultimately prove she knows more about his life than he does.

Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own bran...

A few weeks ago, on our classic sci-fi series we shared the story “The Outer Limit” by Graham Doar. It was originally published in The Saturday Evening Post in December of 1949, but I originally heard it on an episode of the 1950’s radio drama X Minus One. I mentioned in the episode that Darren and I were unable to find a copy of the original story, so we actually adapted the original radio drama script into a short story version.

Crouching on an alien desert, a man must quickly identify a sixty-foot-tall, seemingly indestructible monster that appeared from nowhere after it kills two of his crew, only to realize the terrifying creature is not a product of alien evolution but a powerful, localized psychological weapon.

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Exhausted ER Nurse Tanya faces the most bizarre intake of her career at 2:45 a.m.—an alleged extraterrestrial named Todd in a silver tracksuit who, claiming a dislocated shoulder, proceeds to break the hospital’s equipment, reveal Tanya’s secret life plans, and vanish, leaving behind only a mysterious metal lunchbox.

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On the eve of Halloween in 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air convinced America that Martians had landed and were actively destroying the planet.

Auditory Anthology presents the complete, legendary radio drama of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. Listen as this groundbreaking performance unfolds in real-time, delivered with such convincing realism that it sparked mass panic across the United States.

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Professional skeptic and journalist Fortenay strong-arms his way aboard a scientific vessel to expose what he believes is a colossal underwater hoax, only to be dragged by the desperate chief scientist to the six-mile-deep bottom of the ocean where they encounter a colossal, ancient structure.

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A small-town TV reporter’s quiet late shift is hilariously interrupted by a local family reporting a bizarre Bigfoot sighting near the highway, sparking a town-wide debate over whether the creature was eight feet tall or simply a six-foot-three basketball player in khaki cargo shorts.

Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own b...

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Curator: Keith Conrad linktr.ee/keithrconrad

Narrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/

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An English professor’s momentary distraction during a boring visit from a former pupil and his fiancée hurls him into a terrifying, shoddy alternate reality that reveals the shallow, self-obsessed world inside the young woman’s mind.

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A 911 operator thought he’d heard it all until a deluge of panicked calls reports that Mothman, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster have descended upon Atlanta, forcing him to take cryptid sightings with the same seriousness as a misplaced Wi-Fi password.

If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/

You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Sub...

If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/

You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.com

By becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely ad-free!

Curator: Keith Conrad linktr.ee/keithrconrad

Narrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/

Other shows hosted by Darre...

When an inventor shows his friend a seemingly harmless rubber ball that converts heat into kinetic energy with every bounce, their simple experiment quickly turns into a desperate race to contain a runaway engine of infinite power before it destroys a city.

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What Janet expects to be a late-night, mandatory corporate meeting about layoffs instead traps her in an endless “alignment session” with her living coworkers and a new set of employees spanning multiple centuries, all equally committed to the quarterly goals of eternity.

Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird...

After an acclaimed artist disappears, a colleague reveals the macabre secret of his genius: his terrifying, hyper-realistic paintings of demonic ghouls were drawn not from imagination, but from life.

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Seventeen-year-old Billy Weaver is charmed by the bizarrely cheap and cozy Bed and Breakfast he stumbles upon, only to discover that his sweet, forgetful landlady has a sinister connection to her last two tenants.

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Convinced that the skeleton inside him is a hostile, separate entity trying to take over his life, a perpetually anxious man seeks out a questionable "bone specialist" whose strange, whistling methods only confirm his terrifying delusion.

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A curious writer investigating a long-abandoned church in Providence unwittingly awakens an ancient, malevolent entity drawn to darkness, leading to his terrifying, inevitable doom.

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A meticulous criminal’s perfect plan to escape with his stolen fortune is undone by an extra, seemingly harmless inoculation during his pre-flight medical check, which subjects him to a nine-month, living hell of physiological torture on his journey to Mars.

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While working the quiet graveyard shift in the emergency room, Nurse Carla’s routine is shattered when all sound mysteriously vanishes, replaced by cryptic, desperate messages flashing across the patients’ heart monitors.

Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky st...