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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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24:32

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/08/12

Four unfortunate elders are given a second chance at youth, but will their old habits leave them trapped in a cycle of regret?Originally published anonymously in 1837, it was later published in Hawthorne's collection Twice-Told Tales, also in 1837If 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

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22:38

A Matter Of Ethics By Russ Winterbotham

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/08/07

A staid chemistry teacher's quiet life is upended when a beautiful, scantily clad alien woman from the Pleiades, on a mission to catalog Earth's "primitive" social customs, invites herself to live with him, just as his big career break arrives.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

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13:20

Tales From the Blue Line - The Replay

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/08/05

While cleaning out her late father's house, a grieving woman discovers an old audio cassette that appears to be a recording of her own future.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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23:48

The Invisible Enemy by Arnold Castle

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2025/07/31

In a future where war is simulated through electrohypnosis to curb real-world violence, a young man undergoes his "combat experience" only to discover the true, lasting cost of engineered peace.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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14:52

Invariant by John Pierce

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/07/29

Dr Homer Green used his invention, a rejuvenation treatment that lets your body always heal any damage to it perfectly, on himself. That was on September 11, 1943. Now it’s August 4, 2170 – more than 200 years later. He looks exactly the same.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

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21:54

Wanderlust by Alan E. Nourse

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/07/24

A farmer tries to dissuade his son from pursuing a life as a space adventurer, hiding a terrible secret about his own past that he fears will forever bind his son's fate to his.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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12:41

Tales From the Blue Line - The Little Man In The Mirror

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/07/22

A nursing student encounters a quiet teenager in a psych ward who claims his reflection is learning, watching, and slowly preparing to take his place in the real world.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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18:56

Planet of Dreams by James McKimmey

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/07/17

On a seemingly utopian "Dream Planet" where every need is met, a benevolent leader's carefully constructed paradise unravels when his pampered inhabitants, starved for purpose, rebel against a life without work or struggle.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

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13:39

Tales From the Blue Line - Ghosted

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/07/15

A man's promising first date takes a bizarre turn when the charming woman he met begins sending him strange texts that lead him to a shocking and impossible truth about who she really is.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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30:52

Lazarus Come Forth by Ray Bradbury

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/07/10

A jaded morgue ship attendant, desperately searching for his lost son, uncovers a 300-year-old mystery when he revives a perfectly preserved corpse that holds the key to ending a brutal interstellar war.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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13:32

Tales From the Blue Line - The Apartment Upstairs

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/07/08

When a nursing graduate moves into her first apartment, the unsettling sounds from the sealed-off attic above her—where no attic should be—lead her to a chilling discovery about the building's tragic past.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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25:46

The Water Eater by Winston Marks

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/07/03

When a curious beer truck driver accidentally creates a strange, water-hungry jelly in his kitchen, a lost weekend spirals into a terrifying discovery that could doom all of Lake Michigan—and maybe a whole lot more.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

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22:11

Tales From the Blue Line - They Came From Channel Six

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/07/01

A cynical local news reporter investigates an alleged alien abduction in a quiet suburban cul-de-sac, only to uncover a hilariously mundane truth behind the "otherworldly" events.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

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25:27

Rough Beast by Roger Dee

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/06/26

When a vicious alien monster crash-lands in the Florida Keys, two telepathic researchers and a reclusive hermit find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against a creature far more terrifying than they could ever imagine—or so they think.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

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11:39

Tales From the Blue Line - The Shadowless Man

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/06/24

An ER nurse's routine night shift turns unsettling when a mysterious patient with a strange injury and no shadow appears, leaving her to question reality and forever change how she perceives the unseen.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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21:58

Zen by Jerome Bixby

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/06/19

When a paleontologist on an asteroid expedition encounters the last of an alien race, he faces an impossible request and a startling discovery that could change the future of two species.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

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14:29

Contact Lost by Keith Conrad

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/06/17

Back in 2020 during the middle of the COVID pandemic, I released a sci-fi novel called Righteous Might. There was a movie I really liked as a kid called “The Final Countdown.” It wasn’t exactly a big hit in its day but by the time I came on the scene it used to play late at night all over the place. In it the USS Nimitz was caught in a storm, and when they came out the other side they found themselves back on December 6th, 1941 the day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As you might

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28:51

The Star Beast by Damon Knight

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/06/12

A murder aboard a starship, a vanished secret to faster-than-light travel, and the only witness is a silent, shapeshifting alien who may not be what it seems.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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13:08

Tales From the Blue Line - Tape 83

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/06/10

An intern uncovers a mysterious news tape from a station that doesn’t exist—airing a broadcast from two days in the future.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 https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You

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1:48:57

Blowups Happen by Robert Heinlein

Auditory Anthology ·

2025/06/08

In this episode we’re sharing the story "Blowups Happen", written in 1940 by Robert Heinlein. Among other things, Heinlein might be best known as the writer of Starship Troopers. This story was also featured on Weird Darkness, the paranormal podcast hosted by our narrator Darren Marlar. You can check out that podcast at Weird Darkness dot com."Blowups Happen" describes the tensions among the staff of a nuclear reactor. Heinlein's concept of a nuclear reactor was one of a barely contained explosion,

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