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The Weird Circle presents “The Cask of Amontillado,” episode 33, originally broadcast April 9, 1944. This adaptation is based on Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale of vengeance.

Expanding on Poe’s original story, the drama follows Montresor after his return from years of forced captivity. Convinced that his former friend Fortunato betrayed him and profited from his ruin, Montresor finds their reunion charged with old grievances and carefully nurtured revenge. The cast includes Norman Lloyd and Bernard Lenrow.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:52 Original Broadcast
27:18 Closing

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The Weird Circle, episode 8, “Knights Bridge Mystery,” originally broadcast October 17, 1943. This syndicated supernatural and mystery anthology adapts Charles Reade’s “The Knightsbridge Mystery,” with Alfred Shirley, Roland Winters, and Cameron Andrews.

At the Swan Inn near Knightsbridge, a stable worker is drawn into a baffling double-murder investigation. Witness accounts suggest an impossible presence in two places at once, deepening the unease around the inn, its stables, and a crime that defies easy explanation.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:53 Original Broadcast
25:56 Closing

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The Weird Circle presents “Wuthering Heights,” episode 31, originally broadcast March 26, 1944. This approximately 27-minute adaptation draws on Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel.

On the windswept moors of northern England, Cathy and the orphan Heathcliff share a fierce bond tested by class, ambition, and Cathy’s connection to Edgar Linton. When Heathcliff returns to the old manor, long-suppressed tensions begin to stir.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:37 Original Broadcast
28:03 Closing

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The Weird Circle, episode 21, “The 415 Express,” originally broadcast January 16, 1944. This New York-produced syndicated supernatural anthology adapts Amelia B. Edwards’s Victorian railway ghost story, “The Four-Fifteen Express.”

A passenger aboard an express train encounters a deeply unsettling fellow traveler, drawing an ordinary journey into a shadowy mystery of vanished money, robbery, murder, and the uncanny.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
24:55 Closing

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The Weird Circle, episode 24, “The Niche of Doom,” originally broadcast February 6, 1944. This syndicated supernatural-horror anthology adapts Honoré de Balzac’s gothic tale “La Grande Bretèche.”

Framed by the unsettling sound of persistent tapping, Josephine Merret recalls an unhappy marriage to the domineering Auguste, with her maid Rosalie and a man named Pierre drawn into the mounting tension within the Merret home. Featured performers include Lesley Woods, John Gibson, and Michael Fitzmaurice.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
27:19 Closing

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The Weird Circle, Episode 27, “The Feast of Redgauntlet,” originally broadcast February 27, 1944. This 30-minute supernatural drama adapts “Wandering Willie’s Tale,” Sir Walter Scott’s eerie tale within his 1824 novel Redgauntlet. Featured performers include Burford Hampden, Arnold Moss, John Moore, and Walter Kinsella.

In Scotland, tenant Steenie Steenson faces a threat to both his livelihood and his reputation when he cannot prove a crucial rent payment to the cruel Sir Robert Redgauntlet. Drawn toward the forbidding Redgauntlet estate in search of evidence, Steenie enters a world of old grievances, dark countryside, and Scottish Gothic unease.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
28:05 Closing

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The Weird Circle presents “Frankenstein,” episode 26, originally syndicated on February 20, 1944. This 30-minute NBC syndicated adaptation brings Mary Shelley’s landmark 1818 novel to radio, with Chester Stratton, James Van Dyk, and Richard Saunders featured in the cast.

Victor Frankenstein’s obsessive natural-history studies lead him to a forbidden experiment in his basement laboratory—and to consequences he cannot easily contain. As his creation moves beyond his control, Victor must confront the responsibility he bears toward the being he has made and the danger facing those closest to him.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
27:05 Closing

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The Weird Circle, episode 25, “The Heart of Ethan Brand,” originally broadcast February 13, 1944. This NBC-syndicated adaptation draws on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 tale “Ethan Brand.”

On a mountainside beside a glowing lime kiln, lime-burner Bartram and his young son Joe receive an unsettling nighttime visitor: Ethan Brand, a former lime-burner returning from a long search for what he calls the Unpardonable Sin. A dark American Romantic fable of knowledge, isolation, and moral consequence.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:39 Original Broadcast
26:28 Closing

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The Weird Circle, “A Terrible Night,” originally broadcast January 23, 1944, is episode 22 of the anthology series. Adapted from Fitz-James O’Brien’s 1856 short story, it features a cast that includes Will Geer, Arnold Moss, Michael Fitzmaurice, and Lesley Woods.

During a hunting trip in the Northwest Territories, two city men lose their way in the Canadian woods and find overnight shelter in an isolated house. But their host Joel’s unsettling manner—and his hostility toward “little people”—turns a welcome refuge into a night of mounting unease.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:42 Original Broadcast
27:03 Closing

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The Weird Circle, episode 23, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” first syndicated January 30, 1944. This approximately 27-minute supernatural-horror adaptation draws on Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short story.

Written by Peggy Mayer and directed by Mayer and Morris Hamilton, the full-cast production features Ian MacAllaster, Walter Vaughn, and Julian Noa. Produced by Oscar Turner, The Weird Circle presents Poe’s unnerving tale in the series’ notably spare dramatic style.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
27:45 Closing

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