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Tales of Suspense

Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1940 through 1962. One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, Suspense was subtitled “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills” and focused on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era.

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Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christie's...

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/12/22

Hercule Poirot's Christmas was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 19 December 1938. It was published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1939 under the title of Murder for Christmas. A paperback edition in the US by Avon books in 1947 changed the title again to A Holiday for Murder. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and is a locked room mystery. The premise is a family reuniting for Christmas, and they find the host of the gathering murdered in

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43:53

Ruth Rendell's PEOPLE DON'T DO SUCH THINGS (Radio Drama)

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2024/12/02

For many, many years BBC Radio 4 has had a regular drama slot on weekday afternoons. These afternoon dramas have ranged far and wide in what they cover, but tales of a dark kind, with or without supernatural themes, have been pretty common. This story of suburban murder is based on a story by Ruth Rendell, and features an excellent cast that includes the League of Gentlemen's Reece Shearsmith.

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Charles Dickens' A HOUSE TO LET

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2024/11/25

A festive tale by three eminent Victorian writers working together - Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell. Distressed by an unsettling sign of life in a derelict house across from her new London home, Sophonisba relies on the competitive efforts of an elderly admirer and her manservant to unravel the secrets of the "house to let".

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114:01

The Cemetery (D.E. Athkins) Spinetingling Audio Drama

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/11/15

It all started out as a party and then there was a game of hide-and-seek and before anyone knew what was happening someone was killed. The game was over, but was there still someone out there - still playing the game?

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135:28

Agatha Christie's EVIL UNDER THE SUN

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2024/11/09

"Evil Under the Sun" is a detective fiction novel by British author Agatha Christie, featuring her famous detective Hercule Poirot. The novel, first published in 1941, unfolds at a secluded hotel in Devon where Poirot is vacationing. The tranquility of the resort is disrupted by the presence of the flirtatious and beautiful Arlena Stuart, who captures the attention of several guests and becomes the subject of their animosity. Arlena is found murdered in a cove, strangled, setting the stage for a

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56:54

Séance on a Wet Afternoon (BBC Radio) Mark McShane...

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/11/04

Séance on a Wet Afternoon is a 1964 British crime thriller directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the 1961 novel by Mark McShane. The film stars Kim Stanley as Myra Savage, a mentally unstable medium, and Richard Attenborough as her submissive husband, Billy. Set in London, Myra convinces Billy to kidnap a child, Amanda Clayton, aiming to use the crime to boost her clairvoyant reputation by helping the police solve it. Their scheme involves holding Amanda captive while pretending to assist in her

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Agatha Christie's Peril at End House (BBC Radio)

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/10/26

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective. Hercule Poirot and his good friend Captain Hastings are enjoying a well-deserved break on the Cornish Riviera, in the idyllic village of St Loo. Wandering along the terrace of the Hotel Majestic on the first morning of their stay, Poirot literally falls at the feet of a pretty, dark-haired girl and, much to Hastings’ delight, insists that she join them for a cocktail. The girl is Nick Buckley, last in a long

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The Midnight House (BBC Radio) M.R. James' The Mezzotint

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/10/20

Mr. Williams, the curator of a university art museum (implied to be Oxford), receives a disturbing engraving in this loose adaptation of the M.R. James story of the same name.

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Lovecraft's COLOUR OUT OF SPACE (Radio Theatre)

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/10/18

The Colour Out Of Space is adapted from the story by H.P. Lovecraft for Atlanta Radio Theatre. Written in March 1927, tonight's tale details the misadventures of a surveyor from Boston who goes to Arkham, Massachusetts to learn the truth behind a shunned place the locals call "the blasted heath"...

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THE THING! (Who Goes There?) John W. Campbell

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/10/16

Who Goes There? is a 1938 science fiction horror novella by John W. Campbell, following a group trapped in a scientific outpost in Antarctica infested by shapeshifting monsters. Who Goes There? was first published in the August 1938 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine and was also printed as The Thing from Another World. Its extended, novel version, found in an early manuscript titled Frozen Hell, was finally published in 2019.

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40:34

5 Characters in Search of an Exit (Twilight Zone...

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/10/05

A clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer, a bagpipe player, and an Army major are trapped in a cylindrical room. They don't know who they are or how they got there - and their only hope for finding out is to escape.

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DRACULA (Ladybird Classics Story)

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/10/03

Ladybird is an old and much-loved British children's book publisher, and their distinctive, slender hardback books covered a variety of subjects, in the fields of both education and entertainment. Among their vast catalogue they had a large library of retellings of classic novels - always told in direct language, and always beautifully illustrated. In the 1980s, the vogue for audio-books for children - 'story tapes' - led to a good many of these books being turned into rather rich and atmospheric

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29:31

Wolf Hunt (Escape!)

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/10/02

Voice legend PAUL FREES stars along with William Conrad in this excellent story of werewolf horror! Back in the the "old country" guys are disappearing out in the woods . . . Meanwhile the "moronic son" of the local warden seems to enjoy being alone in the woods, as he explains that he feels the need to be "crouched down and ready to strike" Hmm. . Is HE a werewolf? Then the wife of a local woodsman seems to be eerily drawn into the forest. Could SHE be a "she-wolf?" Paul Frees & Conrad then

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87:01

Hallowe'en Party (BBC Radio) Agatha Christie &...

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/10/01

"Hallowe'en Party" by Agatha Christie is a gripping detective novel featuring the illustrious Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver.During a Halloween celebration organized at Rowena Drake's home in the town of Woodleigh Common, a young girl named Joyce Reynolds shockingly claims she witnessed a murder. Although initially dismissed as fanciful, the situation takes a dire turn when Joyce is found drowned in an apple-bobbing bucket. Distraught, mystery novelist

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114:28

"Trick or Treat" (Spinetingling Audio Drama) by...

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/09/30

Exactly one year ago, on Halloween night, Elizabeth Bedford had been murdered in the very same room now occupied by Martha, and now, after receiving threatening phone calls, Martha is scared out of her wits.

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Agatha Christie's THREE ACT TRAGEDY (BBC Radio)

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/09/23

John Moffatt stars as Hercule Poirot in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization of Agatha Christie's famous novel. Hercule Poirot is a guest at a weekend house party, given at the Cornish cliff-top home of the celebrated actor Sir Charles Cartwright. The other visitors include keen amateur detective Mr. Satterthwaite and distinguished Harley Street nerve specialist Sir Bartholomew Strange. Death visits the house soon after Poirot's arrival, the victim an elderly clergyman who's only had a sip of dry

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57:16

The Lodger (BBC Radio) Marie Belloc Lowndes Adaptation

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/09/16

1888: Fear grips London after multiple murders, as the mysterious Mr Sleuth takes lodgings with the Buntings. Stars Jon Glover.

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A School Story (BBC Radio) M.R. James Adaptation

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/09/09

Two men are discussing the folklore of the private schools they attended. One tells of a Latin teacher named Mr. Sampson who kept a Byzantine coin that he would show his students. Later at night the narrator's friend sees a man sitting on Sampson's window-sill, but when he returns with the narrator he's gone. Originally aired November 28, 1980.

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44:39

Murder on the Space Shuttle (CBS Radio Mystery Theater)

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/09/06

It's a science-fiction whodunit set 700 years in the future. In space...will anybody hear you scream? Originally aired: March 9, 1981

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12 Hours of Ghostly Mysteries

Tales of Suspense ·

2024/04/06

Enjoy a twelve hour compilation of the spookiest CBS Radio Mystery Theatre, Suspense, Luxe Radio & more! asylumbookstore.com

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