Not quite a death-bed confession, but at age 90 and knowing there will be no birthday cake with 91 candles for him, an old man reveals a dark secret that he has kept hidden in the deepest part of his mind for almost seven decades.

The greatest Sci Fi series ever seen, was viewed in the theater of the mind - old time radio - under the title of X-Minus-One. Here is a little-known episode of that series

The legendary Wampum Belt, a priceless Native American treasure, thought to be lost for centuries, was actually in a tepee on THE FIFTH FLOOR of a museum.

Chapter two of the iconic, original Winnie the Pooh collection of stories, as enacted by Basil Nightingale of Short Story Theater. You can also view this episode on the Bill Russo YouTube channel to see the original illustrations.

Chapter One of Winnie The Pooh, from the original book published nearly a century ago. Read by Basil Nightingale.

"The House of the Past" Notes by Bill Russo.
Some dreams are more than dreams. So lifelike, they seem real. Such is the case with the surreal musings of Algernon Blackwood, as described by Chiquito Crasto of Australia for Episode 14 of Season 3 of Short Story Theater.

A deranged maniac is murdering people with a weapon that matches their name. Mr. Hammer was killed with a hammer. Mr. Gunn was shot with a pistol. Retired Cape Cod Police Chief Rick Bates is summoned from his barstool in Key West and asked to return to New England to use his 'Baits' to apprehend the "Name Game Killer".

A lonely, older woman standing by the edge of her private beach on Cape Cod, sees a young man emerge from the waves. He approaches her. Is he a fortune hunter, a serial killer, or the Fountain of Youth?

Short Story Theater takes a page from the David/Seinfeld book and presents "Five Minutes of Wasted Talk While Waiting for a Bus"

In a tiny New Hampshire village, the hand of a mass murderer was chopped off at the wrist, after he was hanged. The body remained buried but the gruesome hand, finger-walks all around town trying to strangle everyone within reach!