Short Story Theater

A man claiming to be 120 years old tells of the days when he was the top boss of crime in New York and Chicago, and he recruited a young guy from The Five Points to be his assistant. The boy's name was Alphonse Capone, also known as "Scar-Face".

Fate. Must we be a slave to it? Or can we change the life that has been predetermined for us. That is the dilemma facing Josh Lamont, after his tea-leave-reading family members predicted he would die young by falling through thin ice in rural New Hampshire!

New information on the more than 120 year old Lizzie Borden case? Yes. Short Story Theater does indeed have some fresh details about the world's most famous double murder - the brutal axe slaying of Lizzie Borden's greedy father and his second wife. Details on the inside.....click on in. And if you like the show, please subscribe to our podcast.

The adventures and misadventures of a Texas gunslinger culminate in a surprising ending on Cinco de Mayo un 1905, in a wild West Texas town.

Everybody knows the story of the ill fated ship The Titanic – but what many people don't know, is that the tragic sinking of the largest ship ever built – was simply a real life re-enactment of the very same tragedy, involving a nearly identical ship, as described in a fictional book that was written 14 years before the tragedy of the titanic. Was this co incidence or was it pre-cognition.

The 85 Year Old Dot to Dot Detective, Rick Bates, has hired John Charles Weeks to document his most unusual cases, and this is Weeks' first story, The Case of The Vanishing Homeless.

On a hot afternoon at a SO FLA beach, everyone is in the water, except Asa Bittridge and a young lady standing next to an ancient baby buggy. Asa offers to watch over her charge, so the girl can escape the heat by going in the ocean. Almost as soon as she leaves, he is nearly frightened to death by the "Thing in the Baby Buggy"! What is it?

Beware of Midnight on the 31st of March - a tale of loss, of hope, and of battles internal and external. It's a fight against the attack of March 31st.

Helen discovers something very unsettling about her boyfriend of two years, whose nickname is 'The Handler'.

Deep in the tropics of South Florida, two rival Gator gangs are waging a gun-fight at the edge of the Everglades, resembling a World War One battle. Gator-Town Police Chief Rocco and his guys are outnumbered four to one and don't have a tenth of the firepower that the rival gang members possess. Suddenly a disembodied voice from deep in the glades, summons the chief and offers a seemingly unlikely...

The discarded carolers were tossed aside as useless and value-less. Consigned to the town dump, they were precariously close to a conveyor belt that could drag them into the steel jaws of the deadly trash compactor. Old Joe Chase saved them from destruction, but could they help him as he faced losing his house to the bank?

Some of us can never say goodbye to our best pal. Mr. Martin B. Closegrain was perhaps one of those - or perhaps he never had to say goodbye to his Samantha!

Long ago when the earth was flat, evil creatures ruled the land, the sea, and even the air. One man alone was able to smite these monsters. His name was Kane. Only Kane, no other name, until he was given a Ju Ju stick that could equally repel or bash the most vile of evil demons. It was the staff of Solomon, and with it: Kane became, Solomon Kane. This is his story.

Three - (3) - strange exhibits in Bill Russo's Museum of Wacks!

Bill Russo whose account of his Puckwudgie sighting has been heard and seen countless times, brings to Short Story Theater, his thoughts on the most deadly place in the area where he lived for many years - the Bridgewater Triangle.

Enter the Wacks Museum to learn the eerie tale of The Green Man as well as the saga of The Crying Boy - two strange exhibits in Bill Russo's Short Story Theater's museum of oddities.

Welcome to the "Wacks Museum". Exhibit One is a 3 foot tall ghost doll named Robert. He was the inspiration for Chucky, the little monster in the Child's Play series of films. The real life Robert is on display at a museum in Key West, Florida. This is the actual story of haunted Robert. It's Episode 29 of Season Two of Bill Russo's Short Story Theater.

The Midnight Bus to Your Head will pick you up at your house, whether you live in Portland, Maine or Portland Oregon or anywhere else in the United States. As to where it takes you....listen to the tale to find out.

The entire household staff of the Lamont Mansion is on alert when the 6 year old heiress to the Duke's fortune tumbles down a set of marble stairs while clutching her doll. Only the doll is injured and the future Duchess is unhurt. When the broken toy is sent to the doll doctor for repair, the adventure begins!

Revealed! The Secret of How the World's Sixth Richest Person built a 55 billion dollar fortune from an investment of one dollar! A True Story!

The colorful Mr. Pepper was universally regarded as the best teacher in Maine. Near the end of his 16th. year in the town of Bell's Neck, trouble arrived when all of his students failed all of their exams. If Mr. Pepper could not inspire these students, who could?

The Thing At the Window has no face. No body. It cannot be smelled, touched, or seen, but it's there. And it can be heard. It comes at midnight on hot summer nights when people have their windows open....

"Jilted" - A word carved in a tree. But in the word lies the strange story of a wood carver, and the two women he loved. The tale comes with a twist, but the real twist is what happened to the author, Bill Russo, as he wrote the last lines of this audio play. Stay tuned to the very end to get the details.

Discovered in the wreckage of a large, flat bottomed boat found adrift at the base of a mountain in the Northeast Hemisphere of Earth; the Book of Gord may be a fake news story. It could be an ancient allegory. Each listener must weigh the tales before making a judgment.

The poignant memoirs of three Marine Corps veterans of the Korean War, as told from the Halls of Carrabba's Italian Grill to the Old Guys Lunch Bunch.