Dreadtime Stories

Gulfstream Studios

Dreadtime Stories is a horror podcast hosted by Malcolm McDowell, featuring fully-dramatized audio dramas written by top writers

  • 43 minutes 46 seconds
    House of Blood

    When a young couple move into their dream house, it turns out to be a nightmare of Amityville proportions. Can a ghost-hunting team exorcise the demons, or are they haunted by demons of their own? And is the madman who slew his own family with a vengeful blade still seeking vengeance on any who dare enter his domain?


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    29 November 2022, 10:00 am
  • 47 minutes 57 seconds
    Here Comes the Sludge

    Some scientists believe that all of the water on earth was the result of icy comets bombarding the primordial planet and simply melting into deep oceans, lakes and seas. Others believe that ancient microorganisms hitched a ride and gave rise to life for the first time. It seems to be a preposterous proposition. Unless you consider that a fresh comet is en route with the seeds of a new form of life, or perhaps...a new form of death. 


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    22 November 2022, 10:00 am
  • 52 minutes 48 seconds
    Psychomanteum

    New York in the early 20th Century – something is murdering and mutilating the families of the city’s noted psychologists. Is a former colleague of Dr. Alex Quentin responsible for these horrible crimes? Or is the culprit from a place beyond human comprehension?


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    15 November 2022, 10:00 am
  • 51 minutes 56 seconds
    The Final Battlefield

    After a four-year tour of duty in Viet Nam, Private Daniel Conway is glad to be home in Clover Ridge, Iowa. But his joy is short-lived when he is haunted by frightening visions of The Hangman, a vicious Viet Cong officer with a penchant for torture whom Daniel encountered during his stay in a prisoner-of-war camp. Pushed to the brink of madness by the continual appearances of his tormenter, Daniel is forced to ask himself an unthinkable question: Has The Hangman followed him home?

     

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    8 November 2022, 10:00 am
  • 53 minutes 47 seconds
    Talking in the Dark

    Victor Rippon is a lonely man from a small town. Ever since his wife left him, he lives a quiet, bleak existence, with no friends to speak of. His only real interest is his favorite writer, Rex Christian. Victor is obsessed with Rex’s horror stories, which somehow seem more real to him than his own boring life. Why do Rex’s stories have such hypnotic power over his readers, until they believe that they are not only reading them but living them? As Christmas draws near, Victor has a chance encounter with Rex and learns the answer to this and the age-old question: Where does a writer really get his ideas?  


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    1 November 2022, 9:00 am
  • 46 minutes 36 seconds
    Mercy

    Mercy Mathers looks like a blonde angel, but everyone knows she’s the wildest party girl in Clarion High. But when her boozy, slutty antics cause the death of nearly the entire high school football team’s starting line-up, Mercy seeks forgiveness by way of religion. Once she’s saved, Mercy feels compelled also to save the bad boys she once sought out for her own pleasure. Now she offers them herself to compel them, too, to find the Lord. But bad boys tend to be bad, and to prevent them from backsliding, Mercy has to sacrifice them before they can fall from grace. But what guy would ever guess that the sexiest, most beautiful girl in school is a homicidal maniac on a mission from God? 


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    25 October 2022, 9:00 am
  • 49 minutes 1 second
    Table Scraps

    Most politicians would kill for a high approval rating. The powerful Lorrimer family don’t need your approval – but they kill anyway. Conspiracy expert Isaac Salt is determined to uncover all the Lorrimer’s secrets, even if it means sneaking onto their private island. But what’s waiting for him there is the last thing in the world he expects.



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    18 October 2022, 9:00 am
  • 45 minutes 23 seconds
    The Dark Enforcer

    Sick of being bullied, timid Dave Chersky summons his favorite comic book character, The Dark Enforcer, and commands the demonic behemoth to slaughter his tormentors. When Dave is forced to face the severity of his actions, he discontinues his vengeful rampage…but it may be too late to restrain the bloodlust of his monstrous minion.


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    11 October 2022, 9:00 am
  • 51 minutes 13 seconds
    A Heated Premonition

    For James Nemeroff, art no longer imitates life, it predicts life. And death. On a miserably hot summer day, has artist James Nemeroff drawn a vision of the future? A future involving a particularly grisly murder? Can Nemeroff triumph over fate, or is it his destiny to be involved in a senseless and sickening crime? What is his role? Witness, victim or killer?


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    4 October 2022, 9:00 am
  • 45 minutes 54 seconds
    A Good Head on His Shoulders

    In Chicago, in the early thirties, gang wars are an everyday occurrence. Mobster Louie Carboni is used to such violence. But what can the hideous decapitation murders of seven college professors, courtesy of a maniac dubbed the Mangler, have to do with the mob? And what does the mob’s personal doctor – Dr. Stein – have to do with the murdering Mangler? The answer lies in the Mangler himself – a monster who once was a man – as well as in the true identity of Dr. Stein, who has a very illustrious if infamous heritage. And by the end of this lightning-streaked, stormy night, gangster Carboni’s status as head man in town will be brutally challenged. 


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    27 September 2022, 9:00 am
  • 45 minutes 23 seconds
    Living Space

    Dying for a new apartment? A young couple learn too late to trust their suspicions, when they find themselves caught in a trap devised by a demented genius. With less than an hour until they meet a particularly horrible death, can they outwit their captor, or are they in a cell with only one way out?


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    20 September 2022, 9:00 am
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