A South African horror and supernatural anthology built around standalone tales of ghosts, psychological terror, the uncanny, and other dark subject matter.
Available dates and episode numbers come from the verified catalog; undated recordings remain in their validated sort order.
A city clergyman temporarily swaps parishes for a quieter country posting, but one daughter becomes obsessed with an old house at Brickett Bottom and disappears after visiting its elderly occupants. When her family searches for her,…
Lost on snowy northern moors, hunter James Murray takes shelter with an eccentric recluse before setting out for a mail coach that can return him to his waiting wife. At the crossroads he boards a coach…
Christine, a lonely adopted child, begins talking and playing with an imaginary older brother named Harry. Her adoptive mother's unease grows as the supposedly imaginary companion becomes increasingly unsettling to the adults around her.
A reclusive millionaire builds an isolated mansion with steel walls, armored shutters, sealed electrical systems, and backup power so that nothing from the outside world can reach him. The security system backfires when the supposedly impenetrable…
Two officers meet on a wartime train and become friends. Alex invites Major Peter Buckel home, where Peter falls in love with Alex's sister Angela; after Peter and Angela marry, all three travel to Brighton and…
A writer seeking solitude buys remote Lanceford House and discovers a locked attic room, a green vase that comes with a warning not to move it, and stories that previous owners died horribly. His determination to…
An aspiring journalist agrees to spend an entire night alone in a museum's Hall of Horrors so he can publish an account of the experience. Surrounded by wax figures of notorious murderers, his confidence steadily gives…
Wealthy William Tinsley becomes convinced that every insect is an agent of evil spying on him and secretly pours his fortune into exterminating them. His campaign against the 'watchers' grows obsessive as he fears the creatures…
“The Phantom Groom” is a cataloged installment of Beyond Midnight. The recording is cataloged with a broadcast date of February 14, 1969.
A businessman sailing from England to America is assigned a ship's cabin whose previous occupant vanished after screaming in the night. Though the crew urges him to move, he insists on finding a rational explanation for…
A doctor becomes worried about scientist Farlow, whose recurring dream continues night after night as if he is being transported to another time and place. Each new dream brings armed horsemen closer, and Farlow fears the…
Penniless David Snowden marries young heiress Bonnie Daniels despite the hostility of her wealthy mother. While the newlyweds scheme to escape her interference, David becomes increasingly obsessed with a locked fourth-floor room in the decaying mansion…
A railway signalman stationed on an isolated stretch of track is haunted by a spectral figure whose appearances seem to warn of terrible accidents. A visitor tries to understand the man's story as the warnings become…
Writer Simon Crutchley, staying at a hotel in Rouen, repeatedly sees a sorrowful woman in a walled garden who disappears before he can reach her. Hotel staff warn him that whatever he does, he must not…
A writer staying in a widow's home becomes the unwilling medium through which her dead husband, Sidney, tries to deliver a final message. What begins as a literary visit turns into direct contact with the spirit…
Sixteen-year-old Angela Peters is murdered and evidence points toward the family chauffeur, George Yarrow, but police cannot make the case stick. When he returns to the household believing he has escaped consequences, Angela's scientist father has…
A couple busy turning their new house into a home receive a letter from P. St. J. Hobart claiming that the property is rightfully his inheritance. Hobart dies in a plane crash while traveling from Australia,…
A writer stays with his cousin at a rural vicarage while finishing a book and becomes increasingly fascinated by the attractive housekeeper, Mrs. Smiff. His interest turns to fear when he notices an impossible detail: she…
“The Paul Henry Expedition Aka a Smile to Drive You Mad” is a cataloged installment of Beyond Midnight. The recording is cataloged with a broadcast date of July 11, 1969.
During a Hawaiian holiday, a photograph draws attention to a mysterious traveling couple. Attempts to trace them fail because people forget their names and even written hotel records seem to lose them, turning the search into…
Lilian, already afraid that her husband is slipping away toward her best friend, discovers an old crystal ball while wearing a yellow gown. What she sees in it suggests a terrible future involving herself, her daughter,…
An aging escape artist, desperate to prove that his fame has not faded, announces a spectacular stunt in which he will be shackled, bound in a straitjacket, and dropped into the sea. His wife has plans…
A man spends years searching the world for the ship on which his fiancée vanished. When he finally finds the missing vessel, it appears deserted but strangely well kept, as though its crew might have left…
Beside a log fire, an older man tells his grandson about a fashionable ball he attended long ago and the woman he met there. The nostalgic recollection of Campion's and a vanished social world slowly acquires…
Newlyweds return from their honeymoon delighted with their new home, but the wife's happiness fades when she becomes convinced that someone or something is watching and stalking her. The haunting is tied to a murder committed…
Socialite Rupert Orange loses the fortune his aunt intended him to inherit when her will is overturned and falls from glittering society into poverty. At his lowest point, an extraordinary bargain offers him a path back…
Jane and James Brooks are baffled when an object at their home moves with impossible force and no visible cause. A hunter friend rigs cameras and trip wires in an attempt to photograph whatever unseen presence…
Newlyweds Laura and Harry settle near an old Norman church whose housekeeper repeats a legend that the church's marble knights come alive on All Saints' Eve. What seems like local superstition becomes terrifying when the figures…
Riley McGraw kills Stoney Likens but the death is ruled self-defense. Likens's son Verge believes his father was murdered and begins pursuing McGraw, turning the disputed killing into a cycle of revenge.
Robert Holmes is only days from his fortieth birthday and becomes consumed by jealousy and fear that his younger wife Eloise is attracted to younger men. Instead of confronting his insecurity, he lets the age gap…
An aspiring journalist agrees to spend an entire night alone in a museum's Hall of Horrors so he can publish an account of the experience. Surrounded by wax figures of notorious murderers, his confidence steadily gives…
Sixteen-year-old Angela Peters is murdered and evidence points toward the family chauffeur, George Yarrow, but police cannot make the case stick. When he returns to the household believing he has escaped consequences, Angela's scientist father has…
“Beyond Midnight xx-xx-xx (xx) Cassius Touch” is a cataloged installment of Beyond Midnight. The exact broadcast date remains unverified in this catalog.
Clara tells the man she loves that a family curse prevents them from marrying. The curse reaches back to Salem, where an innocent woman was executed for witchcraft after a false accusation, and Clara believes her…
A writer staying in a widow's home becomes the unwilling medium through which her dead husband, Sidney, tries to deliver a final message. What begins as a literary visit turns into direct contact with the spirit…
Bradley, a boorish police-beat reporter, amuses himself by playing practical jokes on everyone around him, including Pop Henderson, the night attendant at the morgue. His insistence on turning death into a joke eventually produces consequences he…
A writer seeking solitude buys remote Lanceford House and discovers a locked attic room, a green vase that comes with a warning not to move it, and stories that previous owners died horribly. His determination to…
A railway signalman stationed on an isolated stretch of track is haunted by a spectral figure whose appearances seem to warn of terrible accidents. A visitor tries to understand the man's story as the warnings become…
A doctor becomes worried about scientist Farlow, whose recurring dream continues night after night as if he is being transported to another time and place. Each new dream brings armed horsemen closer, and Farlow fears the…
Writer Simon Crutchley, staying at a hotel in Rouen, repeatedly sees a sorrowful woman in a walled garden who disappears before he can reach her. Hotel staff warn him that whatever he does, he must not…
