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Apr 1, 1945 · 25:01
Toasting with wine takes on a more serious tone in this story as one man remembers his tragic past. Franchesca is of…
Apr 15, 1945 · 24:26
Based on the Hans Christian Anderson classic, this radio version is the short tale of Danish Baron Fernandez and his…
Apr 16, 1944 · 28:59
Based on the story Apparition by: Guy de Maupassant
Apr 2, 1944 · 24:56
Listen, the bell has been tolling since the procession began. Since sundown it’s dismal clang has beat upon the town,…
Apr 22, 1945 · 26:01
The Bride of Death is a story of death of a fearful prophecy fulfilled, of a love that could lead only to madness. The…
Apr 23, 1944 · 30:00
Falkland sought the wisdom of the universe beyond the time of man and in return for his immortality he could love no…
Apr 29, 1945 · 24:33
Everyman is truly two beings cursed with the struggle of good and evil within him. What would this duality be like…
Apr 30, 1944 · 28:23
Written by Charles Dickens The Trial For Murder is the strange story as related by Hugh Trilani a juror on the trial of…
Apr 8, 1945 · 25:13
Monsieur Valdemar desperately seeks the expertise of a medical hypnotist for the sake of his dying wife Maria... and…
Apr 9, 1944 · 29:24
The Cask of Amontillado is the story of a man's desire for revenge. Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Aug 29, 1943 · 25:48
It was written by their ancestors many years ago that when the rains are blood red the house of Usher would crumble to…
Dec 10, 1944 · 25:21
Andre Germaine has been condemned by the law of the state and freaky circumstance. He has been accused of his own…
Dec 12, 1943 · 25:02
Aunt Maura is Ralph’s only relative he was so devoted to her and with her constantly. But then when he became engaged…
Dec 17, 1944 · 25:25
Esther was lying in bed half asleep when the clock struck midnight a voice spoke to her. It sounded to her like her…
Dec 19, 1943 · 24:22
Sir John was a headhunter and had hunted down a man who was leader of a fanatical cult who had talked Sir John’s wife…
Dec 24, 1944 · 25:00
The defendant wants to make a statement about the death of the fortune-teller Madam Philomel. Frederick Hippy who is an…
Dec 26, 1943 · 25:53
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Dec 3, 1944 · 25:04
As they rode along in their carriage beyond them on the road they see a man hailing them to stop. It is a tall man in a…
Dec 31, 1944 · 25:00
It was Alan Linley’s first day in New York. He was new to the world of science and he had come to revolutionise the…
Dec 5, 1943 · 27:07
C. Farrell is willing to learn to do anything so long as he earns enough to keep a roof over his head and food in his…
Feb 11, 1945 · 25:00
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Feb 13, 1944 · 25:49
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864. Excellent quality.
Feb 18, 1945 · 25:00
the story is told as narrated by Poe himself conferring with Detective Dupin. Written by: Edgar Allen Poe
Feb 20, 1944 · 26:26
Frankenstein is the immortal story of Dr Victor Frankenstein and his scientific experiments in the creation of human…
Feb 25, 1945 · 24:46
Weird Circle tells the tale this week of The Mysterious Bride. It's 1777 and Alan Sanderson, Laird of Birkendelly spies…
Feb 27, 1944 · 27:26
“Three men dead hanging on a gibbet, hanging and swaying and the gibbet creaking in the wind, it’s not a pretty picture…
Feb 4, 1945 · 24:46
In the parlor of the house are three people Josephine wife of the river man and stepmother to Sarah Belle his teenage…
Feb 6, 1944 · 27:27
Josephine had been a poor girl of 15 when she married her 40 years older husband August a mean man overwhelmed in his…
Jan 14, 1945 · 20:00
Once Major Lexus and detested Captain Zadermeisky intensely but now as he sees him lying there in the monastery and…
Jan 16, 1944 · 24:09
They say that compartment 42a on the 4:15 express train is haunted as a man named Jones was killed there 10 years ago…
Jan 2, 1944 · 24:56
Messier Dupain has invited the police to his apartment to prove to them that the murders in Rue Morgue present no great…
Jan 21, 1945 · 30:00
She keeps telling her self she lives in a world that doesn't believe in ghosts yet after the village clock strikes…
Jan 23, 1944 · 26:28
When Charles Castar and his brother-in-law Richard Litton get lost on hunting trip in Canada they seek refuge at a…
Jan 28, 1945 · 30:00
This Weird Circle presentation, The Tapestry Horse is from the story Metzengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe in 1832 and…
Jan 30, 1944 · 27:07
Charles cannot bear to be in the company of his uncle, his only relative, because he cannot bear to look at his ugly…
Jan 7, 1945 · 25:20
Nicholas Gardiner was assistant to the notorious Dr John Faust he whose fame spread through all the known world, whom…
Jan 9, 1944 · 23:06
A certain Doctor Meniur was working in the experimental laboratory of his office when young Latimer Hemming dropped in…
Mar 11, 1945 · 24:42
One thousand years ago in the holy city of Sonmouth in mother India there stood a temple of gold. And in this temple…
Mar 12, 1944 · 25:38
This house, Tappington Everon called Tappton for short is an antiquated but commodious manor house in the English…
Mar 18, 1945 · 24:14
Author: Prosper Merimee
Mar 19, 1944 · 25:21
The people who pass by the trail and stare at the fearful little old man do not know the real reason Pierre is there.…
Mar 25, 1945 · 25:04
“I know superstition dictates that it’s bad luck for a young man to see his bride the evening before his wedding.…
Mar 26, 1944 · 26:04
An ill wind blows away the present and returns a man’s mind to the horrors of a world gone by, listen to the Weird…
Mar 4, 1945 · 27:12
Listen that’s the long moaning whistle of the through express wailing through the lonesome night crying like a lost and…
Mar 5, 1944 · 25:52
Messier Lehan had been plaguing Messier LeCoque for years to let him write up some of his interesting criminal cases.…
May 13, 1945 · 25:00
Mr Westwick was at the hotel and requested room 14. He had a special reason for requesting that room; he was there to…
May 14, 1944 · 28:25
Nurse Hester had been the nurse of the house of Ferndale for many years and now she recalls long ago how Miss Maud and…
May 20, 1945 · 25:03
I remember reading Markheim as a child and then being introduced to it by accident once more as a young man when I…
May 28, 1944 · 29:33
Manton had killed his wife and children at the old house that nobody had lived in for ten years and was now haunted.…
May 6, 1945 · 24:42
Written by: Arch Obler
May 7, 1944 · 29:04
This is Weird Circle time at the Ogden Playhouse and an adaptation of the Frederick Marriott story The Werewolf. There…
Nov 12, 1944 · 25:23
Lady Ligeia had died after falling off a cliff and Sir Charles was going away and leaving everything and his castle to…
Nov 14, 1943 · 24:53
Lorna opened her kitchen door and called to her husband but then found him murdered, dead sprawled across the matting…
Nov 19, 1944 · 25:33
Some thirty years ago the Spanish Marquis offered the French general all that he possessed if they would spare his…
Nov 21, 1943 · 25:21
Philip Nolan was an officer in the pay of the United States Army whose boyhood dream turned in to a living nightmare…
Nov 26, 1944 · 25:17
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nov 28, 1943 · 27:01
“Gentlemen of the Jury I have in my hand a manuscript that Dr Alex Manette unearthed the night of February the 12th…
Nov 5, 1944 · 25:34
Author: Wilkie Collins
Nov 7, 1943 · 25:03
Have you ever noticed how very much a woman is like a beast? The resemblance no doubt is due to the fact that they have…
Oct 1, 1944 · 25:35
Mr Vespermon was having his eyes tested when he noticed a pain at the back of his head when the optician shone his…
Oct 10, 1943 · 25:35
What was it? Nobody knows but something or somebody haunted the house. The borders at Mrs Dimity’s boarding house…
Oct 15, 1944 · 26:09
George Hiley was in Marshalsey prison for the debt of $500 because of business failure and his Father-in-law’s refusal…
Oct 17, 1943 · 24:56
Mr. Gardner was a landowner and had just collected his rents and had a large sum of money in his bureau drawer and…
Oct 22, 1944 · 25:24
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oct 24, 1943 · 24:26
It was a dark house dreary too. Shadows crept down the walls. The house was old and filled with memories of better…
Oct 3, 1943 · 25:11
Jack Westcot was Manning’s best friend and was the liveliest of people until they lest America. Manning was writing a…
Oct 31, 1943 · 24:49
Laura is having a party and her and Bill Wilson are planning to announce their engagement at midnight when suddenly…
Oct 8, 1944 · 25:59
Harry and Lucile were very much in love convinced that nothing could keep them apart not even death. Lucile wanted to…
Sep 10, 1944 · 24:48
Out of the past phantoms of a world gone by speak again the immortal tales, The Phantom Picture…Author: Washington…
Sep 12, 1943 · 25:24
A gypsy was is sitting on the steps of a museum with a lady and telling her a story in exchange for a penny. The story…
Sep 17, 1944 · 25:50
Is it true that when you are very close to death the dead are really able to reach out to protect you? Ralph Zant and…
Sep 19, 1943 · 25:03
Gordon Pym was reading the shipping news one morning whilst visiting a friend in Boston when he saw an ad from an old…
Sep 24, 1944 · 25:18
Here is the ruin of the great bell tower built by the great Banadona four centuries ago. It doesn’t look like much, a…
Sep 26, 1943 · 25:01
Madam Journalle, a fat and pot marked woman has a hold on Pierre and has charms to extract large amounts of money from…
Sep 3, 1944 · 28:48
The Dream Woman is a strange tale about a man who is cursed to have nothing but bad luck on his birthday in five-year…
Sep 5, 1943 · 25:40
The tale of the House and the Brain discloses the horror in mans mind and takes us to London, to a large house in the…
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