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Ambrose Bierce wrote a number of stories in which the narrator kills one or both parents. In this case the narrator and his father are burglars and...
- Added: Mar 05, 2012
- Length: 07:22
A doctor has an uncanny ability not only to determine if someone is going to die but when. He continues to practice this specialty after his own de...
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 08:07
A falling apart cabin in a gulch reveals part of its secret to a travelling hunter who spends the night there. He learns the rest later.
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 18:01
In his private workshop, the inventor Moxon has created a mechanical chess player. It has an attitude; a murderous one.
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 23:35
A woman who is a landlady and something of a skinflint strikes an agreement with a pious old lodger that, if it's possible, the one to die first wi...
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 05:18
A true story told live in London. As a trader, Shaun had it all - money, cars, women - until he got into dealing drugs as well as shares. This is h...
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 09:50
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 19:53
What happens when you create a monster mash-up of "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Radiolab"? Here's the answer.
- Added: Oct 25, 2011
- Length: 03:28
This week on The Score with Edmund Stone, we conjure up some musical apparitions.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WEKU, WNMU-FM, KSQM 91.5 FM and more
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
A fiddler taunts the Quaker owner of a haunted mansion of his fear to occupy the place. In front of a bunch of tavern regulars the owner offers the...
- Added: Aug 25, 2011
- Length: 06:32
Today, we dive into the haunting world of Edgar Allan Poe. The show includes writers Daniel Handler (aka, Lemony Snicket) and Laura Lippman, as wel...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMUN, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KRZA
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 27:34
- Purchases: 5
Real vampires are nothing like the ones we see depicted in Twilight or True Blood. Most of them are just trying to get by. (NOTE: This is a radio d...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 10, 2011
- Length: 07:00
- Purchases: 2
A walking tour of the famous, infamous, Millennium mystery series. Local guide walks us through the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo hotspots in Stockho...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 1
This true gothic story was told by author Randy Osborne in which he recounts life with his eccentric grandmother, her 35 cats, and a retribution th...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 10:24
Unreasonable demands from BEYOND THE GRAVE!
- Added: Nov 02, 2010
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 2
The inability to tell time has forced six-year-old Jaybird to become an outlaw and to face a darkness that did not exist to him before now.
- Added: Oct 26, 2010
- Length: 57:48
- Purchases: 3
What if Apollo 11 had crashed?
Bought by KSFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., The Story, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUT and more
- Added: Jul 13, 2010
- Length: 15:21
- Purchases: 7
We wake John Bauer up from his vacation on the West Coast before 6:00am his time.
- Added: Jul 09, 2010
- Length: 08:33
Flu is about a family who seclude themselves in the mountains during a dangerous epidemic of the swine flu.
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 41:49
This is an interview with the head of the English Dept. at Virginia Tech. Her book is the back story to the Seung -Hui Cho murders which occurred o...
- Added: Apr 13, 2010
- Length: 27:44
The Conservation Group from Eco wakes the next morning, lost in the mountains, and try to make sense of it all.
- Added: Feb 28, 2010
- Length: 13:43
Storyteller Imakhu's popular African American version of this classic comical folktale about a hateful man who will not die. From Imakhu's one-woma...
Bought by KUT and Remix Radio
- Added: Jan 15, 2010
- Length: 13:45
- Purchases: 2
Episode 1 of The Sparkle. I found this awesome notebook full of stories on the bus.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 29:14
- Purchases: 1
A night time ghost hunt through Port Arthur, Tasmania
- Added: Sep 14, 2009
- Length: 02:23
- Purchases: 3
Ready for some good old-fashioned scares this Halloween? Then the Icebox Radio Theater is ready to deliver with a trio stories designed to chill y...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WRGY, KKWE Niijii Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUT and more
- Added: Sep 06, 2009
- Length: 54:45
- Purchases: 10
