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The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
From: Jennifer March
Series: Not Your Mother's Storytime
Caption: The Open Boat, Credit: Robert Quakenbush
Based on Crane's real-life experience while serving as a journalist corresponding from the Cuban War of Independence. The steamship on which he was...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 57:01
THE LAST BROADCAST
From: Marc Powell
Caption: BELI-E-E-E-VE
KBBX radio Journalist Charlie O'Dowd bites off more than he can chew after strong-arming an informant into an interview that reveals a lethal consp...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2019
  • Length: 12:18
Wildwood Park: A Short Thriller Starring Denis O'Hare
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: American Horror Story's Denis O'Hare, Credit: FX Networks
Denis O’Hare (“American Horror Story”, Tony winner for Take Me Out), and Kristine Nielsen (Tony nominee for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) st...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR) and KUNM


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 30: The In-Between
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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A possessed basement. A magic mirror. A shop of spirits. Mysterious lights where they don’t belong. Gather around the campfire as we open the porta...

Bought by WRFA-LP, Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WKMS, KQED and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Snap 819: Campfire Tales 4 - Primal, 9/7/2017
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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Have you ever happily wandered the woods? Not a care in the world. Then right after sunset felt a hot, oily breath breathing down your shoulder? ...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
Ep 8: A Night at the Theatre
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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Taking the initiative, June and David infiltrate a society fundraiser at the American Theatre but quickly realize they are in over their heads. Wil...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 27:47
Ep 7: A Pleasant Getaway
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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June and David check in to a bed and breakfast on Chuckanut Drive that is so much more than it seems. Will they escape intact? Find out in "A Pleas...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 32:21
Ep 5: The Mt. Baker Detour
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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A scenic roadtrip takes a turn for the strange and bizarre as June and David become entangled with a small rural town. Will they escape it's strang...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 26:29
Ep 6: The Dwellers in the Deep
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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June and David dive into the coal mining history of Bellingham as a mysterious group tries to purchase the Blue Canyon Mine. Find out what secrets ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 26:18
Ep 4: The Graveyard Ghouls
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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A case of bodysnatching leads June and David to a rather peculiar funeral home and then a peak behind the curtain of who really runs Bellingham. Wh...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 31:24
Ep 3: The Fairhaven Phantom
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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A mysterious encounter in the Mason block of Fairhaven sets June and David digging through Fairhaven's sordid past. What ghastly secrets will be re...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 25, 2017
  • Length: 30:35
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 2: The Sehome Scare
From: KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
Series: Bellingham Terror
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A strange attack on Sehome Hill brings David Phillips and June Harper face to face with a dangerous assailant. Will they escape in time? Find out i...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 27:49
  • Purchases: 1
The Blizzard by David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Jesse Eisenberg
THE BLIZZARD, a mystery thriller, features Jesse Eisenberg and Pulitzer-finalist Heidi Schreck. A snowed-in screenwriter surprised by menacing, cre...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 19:27
Listening in the Dark 4: Creature Feature
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: Listening in the Dark
Caption: Listening in the Dark: Creature Feature
There’s something strange in the Great North Woods, and it’s leaving a swath of destruction everywhere it goes!

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
#5: Lone Road to the Lost North
From: Aleph Null
Series: Letters From N
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They're more powerful than you think. This changes everything.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 12:21
#3: Manufactured Paranoia
From: Aleph Null
Series: Letters From N
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Cal's journey in the town continues, growing paranormal and colliding with an ancient mythology.

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 12:32
  • Purchases: 1
#2: The Human Condition
From: Aleph Null
Series: Letters From N
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Cal digs deeper into his shared mystery with N. The letters are surprisingly timely-what could that mean?

  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 13:49
Listening in the Dark 3: Ghost Story
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: Listening in the Dark
Caption: Listening in the Dark 3: Ghost Story
Two tales of terror from the Icebox Radio Theater. It's an hour filled to the brim with the true 'spirit' of Halloween.

Bought by 'The Sea', KMUN, WRGY, KKWE Niijii Radio, and WVPE


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:09
  • Purchases: 5
The Fall of the House of Usher
From: Kevin Herren
Series: Macabre Mansion Presents...
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"The Fall Of The House Of Usher" starring Kevin Sorbo, John Billingsley, Bonita Friedericy and Jim O'Rear. An Audio Drama adaptation of the classic...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Fall of the House of Usher: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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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
Flu
From: Billy Senese
Series: Midnight Radio Theater
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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
TG 0102 The Whispering
From: Matthew Nielson
Series: Troublesome Gap
Caption: Mind the Gap, Credit: Matthew Nielson
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
Listening in the Dark
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: Listening in the Dark
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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
Blood Oath
From: Billy Senese
Series: Midnight Radio Theater
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Blood Oath is a story about eternal love and longing.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2009
  • Length: 36:38