Suspense and Horror – Retro Radio Podcast

Keith Heltsley

Audio dramas from the era of classic radio. Chills, thrills, Suspense, ghost stories, and dark fantasy. Get your fix for creepy tales just like your grand parents used to do. Turn out the light and listen in the dark, if you dare.

  • 29 minutes 50 seconds
    Suspense – The Singing Walls. ep56, 430902
    A young man seems to have fallen in with a bad crowd. When he wakes up, he realizes his strange dream, was no dream at all. Feeling guilty, and being…
    17 February 2025, 9:23 am
  • The Whistler – A Present for Ricky. ep228, 461007
    Clyde is an aging dancer who learns that his younger dance partner and wife is looking to dump him. Who is Ricky? What can Clyde do to hang on to…
    10 February 2025, 12:26 pm
  • The Shadow – Hounds In The Hills. ep22, 380220
    A boy is in the woods near an old house that is said to be haunted. Dogs howl, and old Sadie give the house the reputation it deserves. Is the…
    11 January 2025, 2:03 pm
  • 28 minutes 3 seconds
    The Shadow – The Poison Death. ep19, 380130
    A rash of poisoning has broken out, and the mayor gets a letter claiming that the Shadow is fed up with crimefighting. The Shadow is now bent on holding the…
    4 January 2025, 2:04 pm
  • 24 minutes 29 seconds
    Quiet Please – Rain on New Years Eve. ep30, 471229
    https://retro-otr.com/files/QuietPlease/471229ep30QuietPlease_RainOnNewYearsEve.mp3
    29 December 2024, 1:25 pm
  • 23 minutes 51 seconds
    Inner Sanctum Mysteries – Murder Faces East. 481213
    After a few morbid bits of humor about freezing to death, the feature gets started. A recently arrested man sits in a gloomy jail cell. In flashback and narrative, we…
    17 December 2024, 2:24 pm
  • The Shadow – League Of Death. 380109
    A courtroom decision puts a man behind bars, but Lamonte Cranston and Margot Lane think it’s a case for the Shadow to be involved with. The sentenced man leaves a…
    11 November 2024, 2:04 pm
  • Quiet Please – And Jeannie Dreams Of Me. ep70, 481017
    Ernest Chapel presents a story of a troubled man. He has had a lifelong recurring dream. What do the elements of the dream mean? Tall oaks, a big house with…
    31 October 2024, 1:24 pm
  • 44 minutes 25 seconds
    CBS Radio Mystery Theater – The Charnel House. ep970, 790411
    To discover the truth about her father’s death, a young woman becomes a staff member in the rest home in which he resided. There she uncovers a horrifying and gruesome…
    30 October 2024, 2:24 pm
  • Hermit’s Cave – Reflected Image of The Desert. ep3, 1930’s
    Two men are on foot in the desert, struggling with a battle of thirst. Is their vision of a woman a mirage, or has she directed them to a source…
    28 October 2024, 3:08 pm
  • 25 minutes 38 seconds
    Inner Sanctum Mysteries – Death Of A Doll. 481018
    Our gruesomely punny host presents a newspaper story. A story of a man, the doll of a dead girl, and the devil. How did such a scene come to be?…
    25 October 2024, 1:23 pm
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