Admit it:  you’ve daydreamed a ton about what your life would be like if you had superpowers.  In your daydreams, there’s no downside.  But in real life? The realistic impact of superpowers is the focus of the series you’ll hear here:  The Phone Booth. The premise is deceptively simple:  what would happen if the bulk of humanity woke up one day with superhuman abilities? The consequences are complex — full of drama, mystery, and the struggles of humans and humanity.  Podcaster Joe Pollard travels the world, interviewing these people who went to sleep ordinary, and woke up as something else. This intriguing series is producedRead More →

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We’ve been celebrating quite the Summer of Suspense – both in real life with the vagaries of the COVID pandemic, and in our imaginations with some fist-clenching stories of horror, mystery, and mayhem.  With Autumn on the horizon, we’ll continue that motif one more time, but with a local eye. Midnight Audio Theatre is produced in Columbus, Ohio.  This final jaunt into the genre kicks off with a series produced in the Columbus neighborhood, and it’s new to the show:  Distress Frequency.  This is a horror, sci-fi and adventure anthology series that harkens back to the Golden Age of Radio, yet with a modern flair.  Read More →

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It’s so good, everyone wants more…so this entire episode continues the saga of Station to Station from the Procyon Podcast Network. When we left the story in Midnight Audio Theatre‘s last episode, Miranda Quan was trying to make sense of the recorder and notebooks of her missing research partner while doing her own experiments onboard a research vessel somewhere in the North Pacific.  Jonathan’s work, meanwhile, slowly leads to new revelations – which create more questions than answers. Now, as we hear chapters three and four (“Analysis Paralysis” and “Attention Metrics”), Miranda continues mulling over notes and gets the results from her neglected test samples.  And, lestRead More →

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Horror by itself terrifies enough – but combine it with another genre, and it completely engages your imagination. The proof:  Station to Station, an edge-of-your-seat series centering on Dr. Miranda Quan and the research ship Astrid.  On the eve of her ten-week research mission, she realizes something sinister lurks in the heart of her ship…and she must find answers as she unravels a deadly conspiracy, dodges dangerous threats, and fights to survive in the frigid waters of the North Pacific. We’ll hear the first two chapters in this episode:  “Standard Operating Procedure” and “Workplace Wellbeing.”  The series is produced by the Procyon Podcast Network. You’llRead More →

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Scared yet? If you’ve been checking out the last couple of episodes, you’ve been treated to pulse-pounding thrillers marked by murder and mayhem.  This next tale is perfect listening for a hot summer day, because it will send a chill right down your spine. Campfire Radio Theater returns with “Blood Puppets.”  If you think clowns are creepy, just wait until you hear the puppets of a local television show invade the dreams of an anxiety-ridden single mother – giving her a taste of horrifying events soon to be part of her waking world.  Will there be a price to pay, or will these puppets doRead More →

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New stories from old friends – that’s what’s in store for you in this episode.  We’re continuing our horror motif with some heart-pounding terror from our buddies at Campfire Radio Theater. Campfire Radio Theater specializes in horror, and their expertise shows in this adaptation of the spine-tingling short story by Joe R. Lansdale, “Incident On and Off a Mountain Road”.  Lansdale wrote the comedy-horror novella Bubba Ho-Tep, which became a cult-classic movie with Bruce Campbell. There’s no room for humor in this piece, though — it’s all harrowing suspense when the heroine, Ellen, is figuratively running from a bad relationship.  But after a night-time car crash inRead More →

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We’re moving from fun fantasy to abject horror with this episode’s sole feature: Janus Descending, by No Such Thing Radio. Janus Descending follows the stories of Peter and Chel:  two xenoarchaeologists who launch an expedition to survey a small planet in a binary star system.  Their focus is on the remains of an alien civilization.  They soon realize that the monsters who destroyed that civilization still lurk in the ruins…and scientific discovery is fast forgotten as Peter and Chel find themselves in a game of cat-and-mouse, with their own lives in the balance. Jordan Cobb created and produced this high-suspense story; she also plays Chel. Read More →

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Fantastic fantasy continues as we bring you the next two episodes of Rainbow Demons, just to make sure you get good and hooked on this creative tribute to the fantasy genre and video games – especially Legend of Zelda. The series started as a creative test…but with a couple of episodes under his belt, creator Klim Levene decided the concept was sound, so he enlisted both students and pros to take Rainbow Demons to the next level.  That quality really shines through as you listen to episodes three and four, “Demons & Wizards” and “The Forgotten City.” Once again, we’ll follow that with chapter twoRead More →

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Fantasy fans, it’s time to tickle your ears with a tantalizing tale that twists the typical into a triumph of storytelling! Rainbow Demons follows the formula of a fantasy quest story, but takes its cues from the real world.  For example, with so much rainy weather in Vancouver – where creator Klim Levene lived at the time he started the series – rainbows as supernatural occurrences were…well, a natural!  In this case, rainbows contain coins scattered within themselves, instead of being all together in a pot at the rainbow’s end.  And Vancouver’s fog?  Levene’s story makes that the whispered work of a demon.  Then thereRead More →

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Fire up your auditory boilers:  it’s steampunk time! This episode of Midnight Audio Theatre marks the debut of an innovative, highly creative series in our fold:  The Tales of Sage and Savant.  The series busts storytelling convention in many ways; for example, our two heroes die at the end of every season…because that’s how they stay alive. Confused?  Not once you know the show’s delightfully deadly premise.  Dr. Petronella Sage conducts research at Kings College in reanimating dead tissue to advance the science of limb replacement.  She accidentally electrocutes herself during one of her experiments, separating her consciousness from her body.  Along with her dedicatedRead More →

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