The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society

Join the Society for a visit to The Black Museum! Orson Welles was the host of this unique anthology of crime stories inspired by real events. “The Gas Receipt” is based on the case of Frederick Browne and William Kennedy—a grisly murder archived in Scotland Yard’s legendary Crime Museum. Although the museum is normally only […]

Old Nancy from The Witch’s Tale provides the Society with this week’s episode, The Devil Doctor! The Witch’s Tale was the first horror series ever produced for radio, and writer/director Alonzo Deen Cole set the standard for everything that was to follow. Is this show an innovative work of frenzied genius or does the mad […]

The Society travels to Dimension X for this week’s episode—an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt! Imagine a strange dystopia where children are more interested in the virtual world provided by their technology than they are in the real…oh. Do modern conveniences diminish the human experience? What understanding of death do children really have? Can […]

Only three episodes in and all the rules have been thrown out the window. Join the Society as they listen to an episode of the BBC’s The Price of Fear from…1974? That’s long after the end of the Golden Age of Radio! What’s going on? Can theme stand in the place of plot? Has Vincent Price […]

The Society delves into a gem from the Arch Oboler era of Lights Out! In the story, Edna, Florence, and Kay take a sleigh ride through the country and cross paths with a very ill-tempered supernatural force. Will this story still send a chill down your spine? How long will it take to go from cabaret to […]

Joshua, Tim, and Eric check out a chilling tale from Suspense for this inaugural episode. By reputation, this is one of the finest examples of horror from the golden age of radio, and the Society is ready to share their thoughts on this classic broadcast and try to answer several vital questions. Who makes a sneaky cameo in this story? […]