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Golden Radio Hour
A mystery, suspense, and speculative-fiction anthology introduced by an enigmatic traveler who guides listeners into tales of crime, fate, the supernatural, and strange possibilities.
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Two paranoid elderly sisters believe relatives want their money and flee their home in a desperate escape that ends with grim irony.
A manipulative girl's schemes turn her devoted father against his new wife and reveal a frightening cruelty beneath her innocence.
A doctor discovers his former professor's artificial-life experiments have created a self-aware intelligence with dangerous plans.
An elaborate fake-murder blackmail plot collapses when one overlooked physical detail exposes the deception.
A man's attempt to leave a mysterious, cat-like woman brings a terrifying campaign of obsession and revenge.
A desperate man turns to crime to help his wife, only for the decision to end in a tragic reversal.
A woman seeks a hypnotist's help to move her consciousness into her beautiful sister's body, with horrifying consequences.
A man engineers his wife's death for another woman and is eventually trapped by his own manipulation and past.
A German submarine carrying Hitler on a secret escape voyage encounters an inexplicable and terrifying doom beneath the Atlantic.
A father's carefully planned crime to prevent his son's marriage backfires with devastating and unexpected consequences.
A man trying to dispose of an unwanted trunk is driven toward madness when it repeatedly and impossibly returns.
Mysterious telephone calls feed a possessive husband's paranoia until he commits murder and discovers a devastating truth.
A composer's desire for solitude is followed by a suspicious series of accidents involving his three devoted sisters.
A scientist's attempt to create life is transformed into terror when sensational publicity appears to give his experimental matter monstrous form.
After a New Year's accident, a man's life becomes a horrifying cycle of amnesia and murder.
A condemned showman promises revenge from beyond the grave, and those responsible for his death begin dying under full moons.
A reporter tracking a mysterious woman linked to several killings discovers a terrifying truth about who—or what—she is.
An honest man's effort to save his sick wife tempts him into burglary and ultimately murder.
A mind reader's oppressive control over his wife is challenged by her hidden love for another man.
An antique bell associated with death appears able to restore the dead, but every resurrection demands a terrible price.
A man responsible for a deadly train wreck is haunted and pursued by a spectral locomotive called the Judgment Special.
A scientist obsessed with insect control faces a terrifying backlash in the Louisiana swamps.
A timid professor's precise plan to escape his cruel wife goes fatally wrong on a deserted Maine shore.
A stockbroker is terrorized by a former partner newly released from prison who seems to be arranging his death step by step.
A woman's overwhelming fear of dying takes the form of a mysterious stranger in a black derby, blurring terror and reality.
A man paroled for murder discovers that the person he was convicted of killing is still alive.
Two petty crooks tunneling toward a bank vault stumble onto a treasure far older and greater than the money they intended to steal.
A New Orleans honeymoon becomes nightmarish when a husband's jealousy over his wife's fascination with a jazz musician pushes him toward violence and hallucination.
A bank robber betrayed by his partner waits years to exact a chilling revenge inside a dark cavern.
A skeptic of spiritualism receives a letter in his own handwriting that appears to have been dictated by his dead brother.
A radio writer pushed beyond endurance by his tyrannical boss designs a murder around the very gimmick the boss declared impossible.
A man is haunted by the vengeful spirit of his dead, cat-obsessed wife as he tries to remarry.
A desperate man claims to have discovered a secret Martian invasion but finds himself trapped by everyone else's disbelief.
An isolated albino scientist perfects invisibility and uses it in a descent toward murder and concealment.
A man's attempt to rid himself of his meddling mother-in-law ends in murder and a trunk that refuses to stay gone.
A mild man tries to frame his unfaithful wife for his own staged murder, but the plan exposes his true character.
Two relatives eager for an inheritance devise a murderous plan against their wealthy, reclusive aunt.
A man's effort to escape his obsessively devoted wife turns supernatural when death does not end her hold on him.
Treasure hunters pursuing pirate gold discover that a ghostly presence seems to claim the treasure for itself.
A publicist's staged suicide stunt turns into actual murder and is finally exposed by an unexpected scientific clue.