Old Time Horror Radio | Old Time Radio

Old Time Horror Radio | Old Time Radio

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, dark fantasy, and vintage otr radio. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/old-time-horror-radio-old-time-radio--7219126/support.

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October 28, 2026 • 30 mins
Escape presents “The Loup-Garou,” episode 157, originally broadcast on CBS Radio Network on November 16, 1952. This original play was written by William Froug and directed by Norman Macdonnell, with William Conrad, Georgia Ellis, and John Dehner among the cast.

In the Louisiana bayous, an enigmatic stranger named Zeb grows close to Marie, a young woman in a Cajun community. When misfortune stirs old fears, the vi...
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Dark Fantasy presents “The Headless Dead,” episode 10, originally broadcast January 23, 1942. This NBC Red Network sustaining drama originated from WKY in Oklahoma City.

Skeptical visitor Frederick J. Holman takes an after-hours tour of the Tower of London with watchman Mr. Swifte, who knows every chilling legend surrounding its ancient stones. Inside the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula, stories of the Tower&rsquo...
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October 23, 2026 • 30 mins
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. ...
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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...
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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...
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October 16, 2026 • 25 mins
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 unsettli...
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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-treate...
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October 12, 2026 • 16 mins
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 hos...
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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 ste...
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October 7, 2026 • 30 mins
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....
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October 2, 2026 • 30 mins
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 mis...
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September 30, 2026 • 27 mins
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 su...
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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 epis...
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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...
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September 23, 2026 • 26 mins
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 insan...
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September 21, 2026 • 30 mins
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 ...
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September 18, 2026 • 30 mins
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 st...
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September 16, 2026 • 23 mins
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 t...
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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 pub...
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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 ...
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