Gothic Fiction
Suspense
Suspense brings classic tales of danger and uncertainty to radio, using sound, performance, and carefully paced storytelling to draw listene…
Out of the Past: Murders in the Rue Morgue
Murders in the Rue Morgue is a landmark mystery by Edgar Allan Poe, featuring the brilliant amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin. In a seeming…
The World's Greatest Short Stories
Experience a radio presentation of Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Death of Olivier Bécaille,” about a man who is mistakenly bel…
General Motors' Hour
Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost follows an American family who move into an English country house despite warnings that it is haunted. T…
Favorite Story
Favorite Story is a radio anthology that brings classic works of literature to life as dramatic performances. This recording presents Nathan…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale follows Dr. Henry Jekyll, a respected London physician whose experiments reveal a darker side of his n…
The Story Lady
The Story Lady presents a youth-oriented telling of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, a tale about beauty, vanity, and the consequen…
The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray follows a young man whose portrait bears the marks of the life he leads while his own appearance re…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a Gothic tale of a respected London doctor whose experiments expose a darker side of hum…
Mercury Theatre on the Air
Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre company bring Bram Stoker’s Dracula to radio in a dramatic adaptation of the classic vampire story. The…
Sears Radio Theater
Sears Radio Theater is an anthology radio drama, with each installment presenting a self-contained story performed for the ear. Its broad ra…
Zorro: Ghost of the Mad Monk
Zorro, the masked defender of the oppressed, rides through a world of danger and injustice in this dramatic adventure. The title suggests a …
The World's Greatest Short Stories
“Markheim” is a radio presentation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story, a psychological tale set on Christmas Day. After a visit to an a…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale follows Dr. Henry Jekyll, a respected London physician whose experiments reveal a darker side of his n…
Living Fiction
Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost brings a playful supernatural tale to radio. When an American family moves into an English country house…
Favorite Story
Favorite Story is a dramatic anthology in which host Ronald Colman introduces adaptations of literary works chosen as personal favorites by …
Special Holiday Broadcasts
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” is a supernatural tale by M. R. James, centered on an antiquarian whose curiosity leads him into…
The Body Snatchers
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body Snatchers” is a dark tale of grave robbing and medical ambition, adapted here as a radio play. Its unsett…
Columbia Workshop
Columbia Workshop was an experimental radio series that explored what the medium could do as a form of storytelling. Its broadcasts ranged a…
Best Plays
Outward Bound is a drama by Sutton Vane, set aboard a mysterious ocean liner whose passengers gradually discover that their voyage is unlike…