Auditory Anthology

Auditory Anthology

Embark on a journey through time and imagination with 'Auditory Anthology,' a weekly podcast bringing to life the most captivating science fiction stories. Each episode, award-winning voice-artist and host of Weird Darkness Darren Marlar breathes life into a unique blend of classic and modern tales, ranging from time-honored masterpieces to groundbreaking works by emerging authors. Curated and produced by Keith Conrad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

October 16, 2025 22 mins

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...

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October 12, 2025 38 mins

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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October 9, 2025 21 mins

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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October 7, 2025 38 mins

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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September 30, 2025 10 mins

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...

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September 25, 2025 31 mins

A test pilot's experimental flight goes wrong, but he returns from the edge of space with a terrifying tale and an urgent warning: humanity has been quarantined by an alien force, and the world will end with the next nuclear explosion.

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After forgetting to leave money for her son's lost tooth, a weary mom's life is upended when a bizarre note and official calendar from the Tooth Fairy reveal a secret, unionized world of nocturnal service workers.


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 stories to...

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September 18, 2025 18 mins

In a kingdom ruled by a semi-barbaric king, a young man's fate rests on a barbaric game of chance—unless the princess who loves him can use her secret knowledge to save him from either a hungry tiger or an arranged marriage.

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September 16, 2025 15 mins

An overnight news archivist, bored by his mundane job, uncovers a cache of bizarre video clips revealing that the world of local TV news is far stranger and more paranormal than anyone could ever imagine.


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 stories to help the...

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September 11, 2025 20 mins

A psychiatrist who dreams of a peaceful chicken farm is confronted with a new patient whose fantastical delusion is so convincing, it makes the doctor question not only his patient's sanity, but his own reality.

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A weary ER nurse's late-night delivery to the hospital's records department leads her to a disorienting, shadow version of the building where time and reality are bent, and she is a ghost of a different time.


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 stories to help...

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September 4, 2025 28 mins

A routine geological event spirals into a continent-altering cataclysm, forever transforming the American landscape and the lives of millions.

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September 2, 2025 12 mins

A night shift ER nurse’s quiet evening turns surreal when a patient is admitted with a deep cut on his temple, and her computer system reveals he was pronounced dead in the exact same hospital room just four days earlier.


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...

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August 28, 2025 33 mins

A cynical man's drunken rants about Martians secretly controlling the world take a sudden turn when he realizes the reporter he's been confiding in might be one of the few humans who can actually see them.

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A news reporter finds herself investigating a series of tragedies across the city, only to discover a silent, mysterious dog who always appears at the scene just before a death occurs.


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 stories to help their commute pass a li...

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When alien invaders attempt to subdue a small group of backwoods humans with their advanced weaponry, they discover that their plans have been foiled by what they believe is the planet's formidable defenses, and one simple-minded man.

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August 19, 2025 12 mins

A skeptical woman who believes there’s no such thing as ghosts moves into an old apartment, where her bathroom mirror begins commenting on her daily life


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 stories to help their commute pass a little faster.

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