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Auditory Anthology

Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar

Embark on a journey through time and imagination with "Auditory Anthology," a weekly podcast bringing to life the most captivating science fiction stories. Each episode, award-winning voice-artist and host of Weird Darkness Darren Marlar breathes life into a unique blend of classic and modern tales, ranging from time-honored masterpieces to groundbreaking works by emerging authors. Curated and produced by Keith Conrad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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All Episodes

21:01

Tales From the Blue Line - The Patient Time Forgot

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/05/20

A young nurse receives a page from a hospital room that no longer exists—and discovers a patient who claims he’s been waiting since 1953.Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit

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16:19

Slaughter On Dornel IV By Ivar Jorgensen

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/05/15

This week’s story is Slaughter On Dornel IV By Ivar Jorgensen. It was first published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy in April of 1957. Most of the time, getting in a fight in a bar is a very bad idea. But for Larry, a human getting ready for a big boxing match on Dornel IV, it just might save his lifeIf you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack:

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21:13

Tales From the Blue Line - Dreams Before Dying

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/05/13

When Tom begins dreaming about deadly accidents—before they happen—he’s forced to confront a terrifying connection to strangers who never wake up.Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit

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24:14

The Golgotha Dancers By Manly Wade Wellman

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/05/08

After discovering a mysterious and disturbing painting in a museum, a man brings it home—only to find that some works of art were never meant to live beyond the canvas.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.comBy becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely ad-free!Curator: Keith Conrad

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20:13

Tales From the Blue Line - Parallel Shifts

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/05/06

While adjusting to the night shift at a rural Mississippi hospital, a new nurse begins to suspect that reality itself is shifting around her—and that she may be the only one who notices.Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series,

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18:43

The Engineer By Frederick Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/05/01

At the bottom of the Atlantic, a small leak in Subatlantic Oil’s drilling chamber triggers a race against time — and a chilling reminder that ambition, arrogance, and pressure don’t just build under the sea.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.comBy becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely

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20:17

Tales From the Blue Line - Alternate Programming

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/04/29

During a quiet late shift at a rural TV station, two staffers discover their broadcast has mysteriously crossed into a parallel reality—one where a familiar celebrity’s life has taken an impossible turn.Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.If you have a story you’d like to

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30:16

The Star by H.G. Wells

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/04/24

This week’s story is The Star by H.G. Wells, which might be a prequel to The War of the Worlds. There’s actually a cameo by Ogilvy the Astronomer and the Martians, who are watching all of the hijinks on Earth from afar… probably with less envious eyes than they are in War of the Worlds.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack:

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17:23

Tales From the Blue Line - Phantom Vitals

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/04/22

A night-shift nurse discovers a ghostly presence lingering in an empty hospital bed, its vital signs still active on the monitor years after the patient’s death.Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit

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25:23

The Shrine by Walt Sheldon

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/04/17

This week’s story is The Shrine by Walt Sheldon. A skeptical American journalist journeys to a remote Japanese shrine in search of a story about magic—but what he finds challenges his understanding of everythingIf you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.comBy becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode

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14:43

Tales From the Blue Line - A World of Her Own

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/04/15

A screenwriter battling exhaustion and mounting pressure finds the line between fiction and reality dissolving when her dark, brooding anti-hero begins to rewrite his own story—and refuses to stay on the page.Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.If you have a story you’d like to

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26:05

Infiltration by Algis Budrys

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/04/10

This week’s story is Infiltration by Algis Budrys. An alien sleeper agent—hiding in human form for half a million years—senses the end of his mission approaching, as enemies prepare for the final move in a secret war humanity never knew it was hosting.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.comBy becoming a paid subscriber

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14:18

Tales From the Blue Line - The Time Traveler

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/04/08

A weary ER nurse's routine night is upended when a mysterious, burned patient from the future arrives with a cryptic warning of an impending disaster—and only she can stop it.Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can

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34:25

Hang Head, Vandal By Mark Clifton

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/04/03

This week’s story is Hang Head, Vandal By Mark Clifton. On a desolate Martian plain, a discarded spacesuit stuffed with straw sways from a homing tower—left behind by a crew fleeing the silent guilt of having unknowingly ignited the slow, unstoppable destruction of an alien civilization hidden beneath the dust.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack:

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17:19

Tales From the Blue Line - Frame by Frame

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/04/01

After a grueling night at the studio, a TV producer wakes to find himself trapped in a time loop—repeating the same day again and again—until a mysterious figure appears with a cryptic clue that might be his only way out.Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.If you have a story

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15:44

Escape by Lu Evans

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/03/27

This week’s story is Escape by Lu Evans. As four criminals escape from a prison on Titan and celebrate their newfound freedom aboard their stolen ship, one of them begins hearing an eerie knocking from outside the spacecraftIf you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.comBy becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every

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17:10

Tales From the Blue Line - Silent Ward

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/03/25

When a young nurse is assigned an overnight shift in a hospital room long avoided by staff, she uncovers a chilling secret that blurs the line between life, death, and something far stranger.Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the

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25:02

Mr. Replogle's Dream By Evelyn E. Smith

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/03/20

An ambitious art gallery celebrates the rise of a mysterious new artist, only to discover that his identity may change the meaning of creativity—and humanity—forever.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.comBy becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely ad-free!Curator: Keith Conrad

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17:47

Tales From The Blue Line - Broadcast From Beyond

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/03/18

When an advanced AI director begins making increasingly strange creative choices on set, a skeptical producer discovers that the artificial intelligence isn't just pushing artistic boundaries—it's receiving and transmitting something far beyond human understanding.Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute

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30:35

Title Fight by William Gault

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/03/13

In a historic battle for the middleweight championship, Alix 1340—more than just a machine—must decide if he is a symbol of revolution or something far greater when the fate of both man and machine hangs on a single word.Title Fight was first published in Fantastic Universe in December of 1956.If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack:

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