Auditory Anthology

After missing his train by the usual five minutes, a habitually late man finds himself trapped in a hauntingly empty subway station where the clocks have stopped, the passengers have his own face, and the next stop is always the same. 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, whic...

Just a few weeks ago here on Auditory Anthology we shared the Ray Bradbury story The Veldt. Here's our version of the story: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3kRCIf3AIK1wusehXNhngZ?si=1d7f3f3f828d4be4 This is another story that was featured on the 1950's radio drama series X Minus One. It originally aired in August of 1955. If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit...

A scientific experiment goes awry, leaving a man trapped between two worlds and forcing science to confront the limits of perception. 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 list...

A mysterious carnival prize becomes a vessel for fear, imagination, and the unsettling power of what we choose to believe. 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...

Back in January of 2024 when we launched Auditory Anthology, one of the first short stories we shared was Zero Hour by Ray Bradbury. Here’s a link to that episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1tZ7cShJ2kKtqQna8DT86n?si=28fa19a6e71a456b 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...

Faced with an alien predator whose weapons render Earth’s strongest defenses useless, Commander Jon McPartland must execute a desperate scientific bluff and a high-stakes tactical gamble to save the Solar System from total annihilation. 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 su...

After stumbling into a mysterious Chicago tavern where the patrons treat him like a long-lost legend, a reserved young man disappears from his life forever, leaving his friends to eventually discover that the bar, and everyone inside it, never existed at all. 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...

Back in January of 2024 when we launched Auditory Anthology, one of the first short stories we shared was Prime Difference by Alan Norse. Here’s a highlight from that episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/52Uf0lF35EPpfxfbWpKR8X We’ll have a link to that episode in the show notes. This is another story that was originally featured on the 1950’s radio drama X Minus One. We’ll be back with our no...

I have always been bothered by the line in the Andy Williams Christmas song "It's the most wonderful time of the year" when he says "There'll be scary ghost stories." I always wondered who told scary ghost stories for Christmas. So naturally, with Christmas falling on a Thursday, I decided it was a good idea to share a scary ghost story. Here is "The Signalman" by Charles Dickens, certainly a writ...

It's Christmas Eve! It's A Wonderful Life has been a part of my family's Christmas experience my entire life. Back in 1947, Lux Radio Theater created a radio adaptation of It’s A Wonderful Life. This production stars Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed reprising their iconic roles as George and Mary. Just like the movie, George goes on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery, guided by the bumbling ye...

Christmas wouldn't be complete without the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, and today we’re enjoying a very special version. We’re featuring Darren Marlar’s audiobook of A Christmas Carol. Whether you’ve heard this story a hundred times or are hearing it for the first time, Darren’s narration brings every character to life, from the rattling chains of Jacob Marley to the infectious joy of Tiny Tim. Let’...

Back in 2024 when we launched Auditory Anthology, one of the first short stories we shared was The Snowball Effect by Katherine MacLean. Here’s a link to our original episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ScU47W6gsiDYnZKPZByDT?si=f38308411b994a2a 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...

Working his first shift at an abysmal call center for the “Vital-Link Wellness Band,” new hire Elias quickly realizes that the red status light on the wristbands is not a glitch but a death timer, and his scripted, seemingly nonsensical instructions are actually guiding the wearers to their exact, preordained places of demise. If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can vis...

On his first solo overnight shift at an old radio station, a young announcer is guided and mentored by the station’s kindly, veteran engineer, only to discover in the morning that the man who kept him company—and whose tools still sit on the console—died years ago in the locked transmitter room. Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chica...

One of my favorite episodes of X Minus One was The Merchants Of Venus, so when I was looking for stories to share on Auditory Anthology, it was one of the first ones I looked for. We released our version of the story on April fourth of twenty twenty-four: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Y7AjqxR4KTNvtGHSnpKeT?si=26632dbb02104263 Here is the episode of X Minus One originally aired on July eighteen...

When George and Lydia Hadley realize their children’s expensive, automated nursery… which projects any mental landscape with vivid reality… has been stuck on a terrifying, lion-filled African veldt, they find their attempt to shut down the machine may lead to a deadly confrontation with the technology that has replaced them as parents. If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, yo...

The overnight staff at a dimly lit newsroom learns to dread… and then depend upon… a cranky, anonymous 11:37 p.m. caller on Line Seven who relentlessly complains about the station’s coverage of future events, accurately predicting everything from escaped goats at City Hall to the weatherman fainting live on air. Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line in...

Back when we launched Auditory Anthology, one of the first short stories we shared was Man's Best Friend by Evelyn E. Smith. It's a story that describes a very different way of picking political leaders. Here’s a ink to that episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0SWMjsljmNR9bgtWkAuKbu This is another story that was originally featured on the 1950’s radio drama X Minus One. We’ll be back with o...

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/ Yo...

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...

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 Thu...

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...

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...

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...

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 v...