Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark

When Elaine begins seeing a hulking shape that only appears in darkness and dissolves the instant a light comes on, an aging scholar of the supernatural warns her fiancé that something ancient has marked her — and is methodically removing everyone standing between it and her. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other pod...

A filling station on a lonesome stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, an old man paying with colonial gold, a red-haired traveler asking directions to a town nobody has heard of, and a hitchhiker who has been waiting a hundred and eighty years for a ride. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the fu...

A radiation-scarred inventor has built a submarine that burrows through solid bedrock, parked it beneath the city, and aimed its torpedoes at the fault line — and the planets are sliding into position to help him pull the trigger. Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of...

A dollar at a dusty curio shop buys a mummified foot — and the thirty-century-old princess who comes with it. Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show...

An accountant on his first field assignment is the only man who can stop a catastrophe, and the project director has a debriefing schedule designed to bury him until it's too late. Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR C...

In a storm-bound country sanatorium, a brilliant scientist driven mad by one fatal mistake insists the immortal Count Cagliostro speaks to him from beyond the grave — guiding his hand toward an experiment that has already killed once before. Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the f...

A scholar returns from the Indian jungle carrying a bronze idol, a borrowed god, and a body count that will follow him across an ocean. | #RetroRadio EP0641 Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMP...

When a geologist proved that human grief and human joy were being siphoned to the stars as fuel for somebody else's machine, the world spun into cults and suicides and small wars — but the professor had a wooden crate, a Cumberland cottage full of secrets, and a private answer he wasn't ready to share with the man writing the checks. | #RetroRadio EP0640 Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, App...

For seventy years the woman in the green silk dress hung quietly in an old man's house — long enough, as it turned out, to learn how to step down off the wall. | #RetroRadio EP0639 Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR C...

She rented the house for the view — for the ageless, indifferent sea outside every window, for the poems she planned to write, for the phone calls to the men she used to love. But the housekeeper wasn't a housekeeper. The groundsman wasn't a groundsman. The little pink pills weren't vitamins. And somewhere out past the fog, a great white ship was drifting closer to shore… carrying the one man she'...

“Silent Shock”: She rented the house for the view — for the ageless, indifferent sea outside every window, for the poems she planned to write, for the phone calls to the men she used to love. But the housekeeper wasn't a housekeeper. The groundsman wasn't a groundsman. The little pink pills weren't vitamins. And somewhere out past the fog, a great white ship was drifting closer to shore… carrying...

All songs are eventually released to major streaming platforms and music apps such as Spotify, Apple Music and iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, and most other services worldwide . Songs always appear here first before distribution elsewhere. Eight flawless pearls, six native divers, and a captain willing to do the math — the sea keeps better books than he does. ABOUT THE SONG:...

“The Six Who Did Not Die”: Eight flawless pearls, six native divers, and a captain willing to do the math — the sea keeps better books than he does. | #RetroRadio EP0637 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Waiting Room” (September 05, 1977) 00:45:54.440 = Creeps By Night, “Six Who Did Not Die” (July 11, 1944) *...

All songs are eventually released to major streaming platforms and music apps such as Spotify, Apple Music and iTunes, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora , and most other services worldwide. Songs always appear here first before distribution elsewhere. Based on the story, “Interface To Terror” from the April 21, 2026 Weird Darkness #RetroRadio marathon, “Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook: T...

Inspired by the title story of the April 21, 2026 Weird Darkness #RetroRadio marathon, “Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook: The Crucifix Was Just a Warning!” https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0636/ A scholar pays pocket change for a priceless medieval scrapbook a terrified French sacristan was desperate to sell — and finds out that night what he actually bought. ABOUT THE SONG: "Two Hundred Fifty Francs" place...

An English archaeologist talks a terrified French sacristan out of a priceless medieval scrapbook for pocket change — and finds out that night why the old man was so eager to sell. | #RetroRadio EP0636 Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://weirdd...

“Physician Of The Dead”: A scientist in revolutionary Paris believed the severed head keeps thinking after the blade falls, and the night he finally proved it was the night he learned whose voice was waiting in the sack. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0635 Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the...

She placed the ads, she made them rich, and she watched them starve to death in the morning papers — now she's singing about it, and she isn't sorry. ABOUT THE SONG "Come Home Rich" is a 1953 crime-jazz and orchestral noir fusion, sung in the voice of a femme fatale physicist calling men across time into the trap she built for them. The verses move in smoky street-level crime-jazz — walking uprigh...

“The Old Die Rich”: They found him in an alley, dead of hunger, with seventeen thousand dollars sewn into the lining of his coat. He wasn't the first. He wouldn't be the last. Every one of them old. Every one of them starved. Every one of them carrying a bank book whose entries went back fifty years — in ink only months old. Private investigator Mark Weldon has chased the pattern across the city,...

“Three O’Clock”: A watchmaker spends six weeks secretly building a bomb to kill his wife — but on the day he sets it to blow, two burglars tie him up in the very basement where the clock is ticking. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0633 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Area 13” (August 26, 1977) ***WD 00:44:07.9...

A watchmaker spends six weeks secretly building a bomb to kill his wife — but on the day he sets it to blow, two burglars tie him up in the very basement where the clock is ticking. ABOUT THE SONG "Three O'Clock" is an original Static Wax composition written in the style of a 1940s/50s pop crooner ballad — smooth, intimate, and deceptively dark. The song follows watchmaker Stapp through his meticu...

"The Leech!" is a novelty doo-wop song inspired by "The Leech," a 1954 episode of the classic radio horror anthology Nightmare (April 7, 1954). When a desperate man kills his lover's husband to finally set them free, he discovers that getting rid of a body is far easier said than done — and the dead have a terrifying way of refusing to stay gone. Static Wax from Weird Darkness Retro Radio brings o...

“The Leech”: When a desperate man kills his lover's husband to finally set them free, he discovers that getting rid of a body is far easier said than done — and the dead have a terrifying way of refusing to stay gone. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0632 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Return to Pompeii” (Augu...

"Let Me See Your Face" is a 1920s Delta blues song inspired by ‘Let Me See Your Face’, an episode of Beyond Midnight — the South African horror anthology that aired on Springbok Radio from 1968 to 1970 — originally broadcast on April 14, 1969. Though the episode aired in the late 1960s, the story itself is set in 1920s, making Delta blues the natural musical language for this tale. When a writer t...

“Let Me See Your Face”: When a writer takes a room at a quiet Rouen hotel, a mysterious woman glimpsed alone in the moonlit garden at midnight awakens in him a fascination so powerful, no warning — and no fear — can stop him from seeking her face. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0631 CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Thea...