Épisodes

  • Flowering Evil by Margaret St. Clair
    Dec 4 2025

    A lonely aunt’s pride in her exotic, gift-giving nephew turns to dread when his latest botanical offering—the Venusian “Rambler”—proves to be a massive, blood-sucking, mind-controlling carnivorous plant that begins feeding on local animals until it finally sets its sights on her.

    If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/


    You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.com

    By becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely ad-free!


    Curator: Keith Conrad linktr.ee/keithrconrad

    Narrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/


    Other shows hosted by Darren:

    Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/

    Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymag

    Micro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrors

    Retro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradio

    Church of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    20 min
  • Tales From the Blue Line - The Midnight Janitor
    Dec 2 2025

    The exhausted staff of a hospital’s chaotic night shift comes to depend on an unsettlingly silent, unscheduled janitor nicknamed “Saint Squeegee,” who materializes exactly when and where messes, accidents, and minor crises erupt, leading the nurses to believe he is either a guardian angel or a cleaning ghost.


    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.

    If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/


    You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.com

    By becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely ad-free!


    Curator: Keith Conrad linktr.ee/keithrconrad

    Narrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/


    Other shows hosted by Darren:

    Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/

    Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymag

    Micro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrors

    Retro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradio

    Church of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    10 min
  • X Minus One: Chain of Command
    Nov 30 2025

    Back in January of 2024 when we launched Auditory Anthology, one of the first short stories we shared was Chain of Command by Stephen Arr.


    Here’s a link to the episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/579BArR03hwf1UgSP5kZwq?si=c505422014504396


    This is another story that was originally featured on the 1950’s radio drama X Minus One. We’ll be back with our normal original content on Tuesday and Thursday, but in the meantime for your listening pleasure here’s the X Minus One episode Chain of Command, which originally aired November 21st 1956. We hope you enjoy it.

    If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/


    You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.com

    By becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely ad-free!


    Curator: Keith Conrad linktr.ee/keithrconrad

    Narrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/


    Other shows hosted by Darren:

    Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/

    Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymag

    Micro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrors

    Retro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradio

    Church of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    32 min
  • Escape From Pluto By William Oberfield
    Nov 27 2025

    Exiled Martian dictator Marcius Kemble, maddened by defeat and banished to frozen Pluto, believes he has secured an escape ship from the mysterious native inhabitants, only to discover too late that his vengeful return to the inner solar system is foiled by a fatal design flaw: the ship is made of mercury and will melt under the heat of the sun.

    If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/


    You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.com

    By becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely ad-free!


    Curator: Keith Conrad linktr.ee/keithrconrad

    Narrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/


    Other shows hosted by Darren:

    Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/

    Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymag

    Micro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrors

    Retro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradio

    Church of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    18 min
  • Tales From the Blue Line - The Phantom Channel
    Nov 25 2025

    The late-night technician at an outdated TV station discovers a mysterious phantom channel that broadcasts a live, eerie feed of their town, only to realize the footage isn’t showing the present, but the immediate, inevitable future, with predictions that quickly turn from strange coincidence to terrifying catastrophe.


    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.

    If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/


    You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.com

    By becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely ad-free!


    Curator: Keith Conrad linktr.ee/keithrconrad

    Narrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/


    Other shows hosted by Darren:

    Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/

    Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymag

    Micro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrors

    Retro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradio

    Church of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    10 min
  • X Minus One: The Lights on Precipice Peak
    Nov 23 2025

    Back in January of 2024 when we launched Auditory Anthology, one of the first short stories we shared was The Lights on Precipice Peak by Stephen Tall.


    Here’s a link to that episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7IDdvopOUIyvGjaVvxKjp4?si=f09f5d43000e411b.


    This is another story that was originally featured on the 1950’s radio drama X Minus One. It was one of my favorite episodes and I was very excited when I found the short story. We’ll be back with our normal original content on Tuesday and Thursday, but for now here’s the X Minus One episode Lights on Precipice Peak, which originally aired March 13th 1957. We hope you enjoy it.

    If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/


    You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.com

    By becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely ad-free!


    Curator: Keith Conrad linktr.ee/keithrconrad

    Narrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/


    Other shows hosted by Darren:

    Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/

    Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymag

    Micro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrors

    Retro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradio

    Church of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    24 min
  • The Cosmic Express by Jack Williamson
    Nov 20 2025

    Bored with the comforts of 25th-century civilization, a famous adventure novelist and his bride convince a drunken friend to use an experimental teleportation device, the Cosmic Express, to send them to the primitive, wild jungles of Venus, where their romanticized notions of "back to nature" are instantly and miserably crushed.

    If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/


    You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.com

    By becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely ad-free!


    Curator: Keith Conrad linktr.ee/keithrconrad

    Narrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/


    Other shows hosted by Darren:

    Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/

    Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymag

    Micro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrors

    Retro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradio

    Church of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    26 min
  • Tales From the Blue Line - The Vending Machine Prophecy
    Nov 18 2025

    The night shift at the hospital is dramatically altered when the staff discovers that the old, untrustworthy vending machine, an office joke, starts dispensing eerie and hyper-specific fortune tea bottles that accurately predict everything from missed birthdays to patient emergencies on their floor.


    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.

    If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/


    You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.com

    By becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely ad-free!


    Curator: Keith Conrad linktr.ee/keithrconrad

    Narrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/


    Other shows hosted by Darren:

    Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/

    Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymag

    Micro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrors

    Retro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradio

    Church of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    12 min