Beyond Midnight
Beyond Midnight is South African radio horror with a colder, more supernatural emphasis than many American anthology series. Produced for Springbok Radio, it moves through ghosts, madness, uncanny encounters and literary adaptation with a restrained style that often lets the story’s premise create the fear.
Where to Start
Researched entry points from recordings already in the Golden Radio Hour archive.
The Paxton's House (the House at Brickett Bottom)
This is an early surviving broadcast in the GRH holdings and gives a useful point of comparison within the surviving material.
Episode details →A True Ghost Story
This is a middle-period broadcast in the GRH holdings and gives a useful point of comparison within the surviving material.
Episode details →Mr. Mcgraw and His Victim
This is a later surviving broadcast in the GRH holdings and gives a useful point of comparison within the surviving material.
Episode details →Program History
A South African horror and supernatural anthology built around standalone tales of ghosts, psychological terror, the uncanny, and other dark subject matter.
South African horror/supernatural anthology produced by Michael McCabe as the successor to SF68.
The run breaks into several distinct periods: Springbok Radio run (November 1, 1968 to April 24, 1970) on Springbok Radio.
The stories often return to haunted rooms, houses and enclosed spaces, ghosts, hauntings and supernatural visitation, fear, obsession, madness and psychological terror, murder, death and lethal intent, ships, sea travel and maritime horror, and fate, revenge and supernatural consequence.
The show also sits in a wider radio history that includes South African commercial radio anthology, Transition from science fiction to supernatural horror, Biotex-sponsored commercial radio, and International horror literature adapted for South African radio.
All Episodes & Recordings
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The Paxton's House (the House at Brickett Bottom)
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.…
The Phantom Coach
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…
Harry
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…
Short Circuit
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…
The Honeymooners aka Honeymoon
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,…
Lancerford House
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…
A Night in the Waxworks aka Waxwork
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…
Insect Man aka Insects
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…
The Phantom Groom
“The Phantom Groom” is a cataloged installment of Beyond Midnight. The recording is cataloged with a broadcast date of February 14, 1969.
All at Sea
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…
The Dream
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…
The House Was a Sphinx
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…
The Train
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…
The Evil Face
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…
A True Ghost Story
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…
Yarrow
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…
Hobart aka a Man Called Hobard
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…
Little Happenthatch
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…
The Paul Henry Expedition aka a Smile to Drive You Mad
“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.
Under the Hull Tree aka Under the Hav Tree
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…
The Crystal Ball aka Yellow Dressing Gown
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…
The Great Fellini
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 Happy Return
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…
Take Your Partners
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…
Something Haunts This House
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…
Rupert Orange
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…
The Picture
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…
Authur's Return
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…
Mr. Mcgraw and His Victim
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…
40th Birthday
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…
A Night in Murders Den
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…
An Eye for an Eye
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…
Cassius Touch
“Beyond Midnight xx-xx-xx (xx) Cassius Touch” is a cataloged installment of Beyond Midnight. The exact broadcast date remains unverified in this catalog.
Cataclysm
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…
Dear Ghost
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…
Don't Joke in the Morgue
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…
Green Vase
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…
Hello, Down There
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…
Janizaries of Emillion
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…
Let Me See Your Face
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…
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