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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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31:38

X Minus One: Chain of Command

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/11/30

Back in January of 2024 when we launched Auditory Anthology, one of the first short stories we shared was Chain of Command by Stephen Arr.Here’s a link to the episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/579BArR03hwf1UgSP5kZwq?si=c505422014504396This is another story that was originally featured on the 1950’s radio drama X Minus One. We’ll be back with our normal original content on Tuesday and Thursday, but in the meantime for your listening pleasure here’s the X Minus One episode Chain of Command,

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18:26

Escape From Pluto By William Oberfield

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2025/11/27

Exiled Martian dictator Marcius Kemble, maddened by defeat and banished to frozen Pluto, believes he has secured an escape ship from the mysterious native inhabitants, only to discover too late that his vengeful return to the inner solar system is foiled by a fatal design flaw: the ship is made of mercury and will melt under the heat of the sun.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

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10:10

Tales From the Blue Line - The Phantom Channel

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/11/25

The late-night technician at an outdated TV station discovers a mysterious phantom channel that broadcasts a live, eerie feed of their town, only to realize the footage isn’t showing the present, but the immediate, inevitable future, with predictions that quickly turn from strange coincidence to terrifying catastrophe.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

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23:43

X Minus One: The Lights on Precipice Peak

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/11/23

Back in January of 2024 when we launched Auditory Anthology, one of the first short stories we shared was The Lights on Precipice Peak by Stephen Tall. Here’s a link to that episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7IDdvopOUIyvGjaVvxKjp4?si=f09f5d43000e411b.This is another story that was originally featured on the 1950’s radio drama X Minus One. It was one of my favorite episodes and I was very excited when I found the short story. We’ll be back with our normal original content on Tuesday and

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26:20

The Cosmic Express by Jack Williamson

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/11/20

Bored with the comforts of 25th-century civilization, a famous adventure novelist and his bride convince a drunken friend to use an experimental teleportation device, the Cosmic Express, to send them to the primitive, wild jungles of Venus, where their romanticized notions of "back to nature" are instantly and miserably crushed.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

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11:58

Tales From the Blue Line - The Vending Machine Prophecy

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/11/18

The night shift at the hospital is dramatically altered when the staff discovers that the old, untrustworthy vending machine, an office joke, starts dispensing eerie and hyper-specific fortune tea bottles that accurately predict everything from missed birthdays to patient emergencies on their floor.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

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29:00

X Minus One: $1,000 A Plate

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/11/16

Back in January of 2024 when we launched Auditory Anthology, the first short story we shared was $1000 A Plate by Jack McKenty. Here's a link to that first episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2xTy4mKQao1eAjvmt5gkMb?si=e54ccfd5e23a4b7fThis is another story that was originally featured on the 1950’s radio drama X Minus One. We’ll be back with our normal original content on Tuesday and Thursday, but for now here’s the X Minus One episode $1000 A Plate, which originally aired March 21st 1956If you

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24:28

Space-Lane of No-Return By George A. Whittington

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/11/13

When a couple rookie Inter-Planetary Patrol officers a legendary pirate, they realize their mundane “asteroid fishing” equipment holds the secret to defeating the outlaw’s superior defenses.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:

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11:44

Tales From the Blue Line - Hold Music

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/11/11

After calling a customer support line for his broken streaming box, Evan is horrified when the voice on the other end begins using an unnervingly cheerful tone to reveal private memories, predict his immediate future, and ultimately prove she knows more about his life than he does.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

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30:15

X Minus One: The Outer Limit

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/11/09

A few weeks ago, on our classic sci-fi series we shared the story “The Outer Limit” by Graham Doar. It was originally published in The Saturday Evening Post in December of 1949, but I originally heard it on an episode of the 1950’s radio drama X Minus One. I mentioned in the episode that Darren and I were unable to find a copy of the original story, so we actually adapted the original radio drama script into a short story version.Here's our version from the September 25th episode:

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29:45

Six Frightened Men by Randall Garrett

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/11/06

Crouching on an alien desert, a man must quickly identify a sixty-foot-tall, seemingly indestructible monster that appeared from nowhere after it kills two of his crew, only to realize the terrifying creature is not a product of alien evolution but a powerful, localized psychological weapon.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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13:19

Tales From the Blue Line - Alien Insurance Not Accepted

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/11/04

Exhausted ER Nurse Tanya faces the most bizarre intake of her career at 2:45 a.m.—an alleged extraterrestrial named Todd in a silver tracksuit who, claiming a dislocated shoulder, proceeds to break the hospital’s equipment, reveal Tanya’s secret life plans, and vanish, leaving behind only a mysterious metal lunchbox.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

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1:00:52

The War of the Worlds by Orson Welles & the Mercury...

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/10/31

On the eve of Halloween in 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air convinced America that Martians had landed and were actively destroying the planet.Auditory Anthology presents the complete, legendary radio drama of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. Listen as this groundbreaking performance unfolds in real-time, delivered with such convincing realism that it sparked mass panic across the United States.Experience the chilling, masterfully-told tale of alien invasion as it was meant

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18:24

The Man Who Found Out By Roger Dee

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/10/30

Professional skeptic and journalist Fortenay strong-arms his way aboard a scientific vessel to expose what he believes is a colossal underwater hoax, only to be dragged by the desperate chief scientist to the six-mile-deep bottom of the ocean where they encounter a colossal, ancient structure.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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9:50

Tales From the Blue Line - Cargo Shorts Bigfoot

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/10/28

A small-town TV reporter’s quiet late shift is hilariously interrupted by a local family reporting a bizarre Bigfoot sighting near the highway, sparking a town-wide debate over whether the creature was eight feet tall or simply a six-foot-three basketball player in khaki cargo shorts.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

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1:24:09

The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/10/26

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 linktr.ee/keithrconradNarrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/Other shows hosted by Darren:Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/Paranormality Magazine:

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20:09

The Shoddy Lands by C. S. Lewis

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/10/23

An English professor’s momentary distraction during a boring visit from a former pupil and his fiancée hurls him into a terrifying, shoddy alternate reality that reveals the shallow, self-obsessed world inside the young woman’s mind.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

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11:37

Tales From the Blue Line - Take a Number

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/10/21

A 911 operator thought he’d heard it all until a deluge of panicked calls reports that Mothman, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster have descended upon Atlanta, forcing him to take cryptid sightings with the same seriousness as a misplaced Wi-Fi password.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

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1:11:39

Herbert West—Reanimator By H. P. Lovecraft

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/10/19

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 linktr.ee/keithrconradNarrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/Other shows hosted by Darren:Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/Paranormality Magazine:

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22:17

The Big Bounce by Walter S. Tevis

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/10/16

When an inventor shows his friend a seemingly harmless rubber ball that converts heat into kinetic energy with every bounce, their simple experiment quickly turns into a desperate race to contain a runaway engine of infinite power before it destroys a city.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

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