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Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark

Welcome to Retro Radio: Old Time Radio In The Dark! Here I bring you shows from the Golden Age of Radio in the darker genre. I’ll have classic radio of the macabre and horror, mysteries and crime, and even some dark science fiction.

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4:59

STATIC WAX, “The Lobometer”

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/22

All songs are eventually released to major streaming platforms and music apps such as Spotify, Apple Music and iTunes, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, and most other services worldwide. Songs always appear here first before distribution elsewhere.Based on the story, “Interface To Terror” from the April 21, 2026 Weird Darkness #RetroRadio marathon, “Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook: The Crucifix Was Just a Warning!” https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0636/A quiet inventor, a bullying brother,

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5:25

STATIC WAX, "Two Hundred Fifty Francs"

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/22

Inspired by the title story of the April 21, 2026 Weird Darkness #RetroRadio marathon, “Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook: The Crucifix Was Just a Warning!” https://weirddarkness.com/wdrr0636/A scholar pays pocket change for a priceless medieval scrapbook a terrified French sacristan was desperate to sell — and finds out that night what he actually bought.ABOUT THE SONG: "Two Hundred Fifty Francs" places the bargain and its consequences in the musical language of 1883, the year the story itself unfolds. The

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287:29

Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook: The Crucifix Was Just a...

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/22

An English archaeologist talks a terrified French sacristan out of a priceless medieval scrapbook for pocket change — and finds out that night why the old man was so eager to sell. | #RetroRadio EP0636Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show

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292:01

Ninety-Three Human Heads in a Sack and One of Them...

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/21

“Physician Of The Dead”: A scientist in revolutionary Paris believed the severed head keeps thinking after the blade falls, and the night he finally proved it was the night he learned whose voice was waiting in the sack. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0635Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times

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5:15

STATIC WAX: "Come Home Rich"

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/20

She placed the ads, she made them rich, and she watched them starve to death in the morning papers — now she's singing about it, and she isn't sorry.ABOUT THE SONG"Come Home Rich" is a 1953 crime-jazz and orchestral noir fusion, sung in the voice of a femme fatale physicist calling men across time into the trap she built for them. The verses move in smoky street-level crime-jazz — walking upright bass, brushed drums, muted trumpet, minor-key piano — while the choruses lift into cinematic orchestral

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313:05

They Died of Hunger, Their Pockets Full of Cash! |...

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/20

“The Old Die Rich”: They found him in an alley, dead of hunger, with seventeen thousand dollars sewn into the lining of his coat. He wasn't the first. He wouldn't be the last. Every one of them old. Every one of them starved. Every one of them carrying a bank book whose entries went back fifty years — in ink only months old. Private investigator Mark Weldon has chased the pattern across the city, and the pattern keeps leading back to a brownstone on Eldridge Avenue, and a beautiful red-haired

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3:44

STATIC WAX: "Three O'Clock"

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/18

A watchmaker spends six weeks secretly building a bomb to kill his wife — but on the day he sets it to blow, two burglars tie him up in the very basement where the clock is ticking.ABOUT THE SONG"Three O'Clock" is an original Static Wax composition written in the style of a 1940s/50s pop crooner ballad — smooth, intimate, and deceptively dark. The song follows watchmaker Stapp through his meticulous six-week murder plot, his helpless terror as the clock ticks toward three, and the devastating irony

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309:11

He Built A Bomb To Kill His Wife, Then Got Trapped In...

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/18

“Three O’Clock”: A watchmaker spends six weeks secretly building a bomb to kill his wife — but on the day he sets it to blow, two burglars tie him up in the very basement where the clock is ticking. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0633CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Area 13” (August 26, 1977) ***WD00:44:07.927 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Scarecrow And Snowman” (January 22, 1944) ***WD (LQ)01:12:50.567 = Quiet

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2:48

STATIC WAX | "The Leech"

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/17

"The Leech!" is a novelty doo-wop song inspired by "The Leech," a 1954 episode of the classic radio horror anthology Nightmare (April 7, 1954). When a desperate man kills his lover's husband to finally set them free, he discovers that getting rid of a body is far easier said than done — and the dead have a terrifying way of refusing to stay gone.Static Wax from Weird Darkness Retro Radio brings old radio drama back to life through original songs written in the musical style of the era each story

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297:02

He Killed For Love, But The Corpse Wouldn't Stay Dead...

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/17

“The Leech”: When a desperate man kills his lover's husband to finally set them free, he discovers that getting rid of a body is far easier said than done — and the dead have a terrifying way of refusing to stay gone. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0632CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Return to Pompeii” (August 22, 1977)00:45:31.192 = Mystery House, “Murder For Laughs” (November 04, 1945) ***WD01:11:14.814 = Night

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5:16

STATIC WAX | "Let Me See Your Face"

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/16

"Let Me See Your Face" is a 1920s Delta blues song inspired by ‘Let Me See Your Face’, an episode of Beyond Midnight — the South African horror anthology that aired on Springbok Radio from 1968 to 1970 — originally broadcast on April 14, 1969. Though the episode aired in the late 1960s, the story itself is set in 1920s, making Delta blues the natural musical language for this tale. When a writer takes a room at a quiet Rouen hotel, a mysterious woman glimpsed alone in the moonlit garden at midnight

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297:28

The Ghost in the Garden Would Not Show Her Face – He...

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/16

“Let Me See Your Face”: When a writer takes a room at a quiet Rouen hotel, a mysterious woman glimpsed alone in the moonlit garden at midnight awakens in him a fascination so powerful, no warning — and no fear — can stop him from seeking her face. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0631CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Instrument” (August 19, 1977)00:45:33.056 = The Black Mass, “Oil of Dog” and “Esme” (January 13,

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296:32

He Killed His Blind Uncle And Got Away With It — Then...

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/15

“The Dead Walk at Night”: A man who murders his blind uncle to claim his inheritance thinks he has escaped justice clean — until the dead man's cane begins tapping its way down the darkened staircase toward his room. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0630Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All

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3:35

STATIC WAX | "The Sound Of The Old Man's Cane"

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/15

What if a classic radio story became a song — in the time it takes place? Static Wax reimagines featured RetroRadio stories as songs from their era."The Sound of the Old Man's Cane" is a 1930s-style big band number inspired by Dead Walk at Night, an episode of Inner Sanctum Mysteries originally broadcast on September 20, 1942. The story follows a man who murders his blind uncle to claim his inheritance and escape a life of servitude — only to find that the dead don't stay silent, and the sound of a

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5:30

STATIC WAX: "The Together Place"

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/14

"The Together Place" is an original Static Wax composition written in the style of a 1940s torch ballad — mournful, intimate, and quietly devastating. The song follows Rose Craven from her first whispered mentions of a sister named Lily, through the shared dreams and shared suffering that bind them across worlds, to the moment Rose closes her eyes and follows her twin into the unknown. The torch ballad style was chosen to mirror the era suggested by the story's atmosphere — a haunted, candlelit

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304:42

She Spoke To A Sister No One Else Could See — And...

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/14

“The Together Place”: A small-town doctor and his retired nurse are drawn into the haunting mystery of a young woman who speaks with absolute certainty of a twin sister no one has ever seen — and a place called Kamaloka, the Together Place, where the dead are never truly alone. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0629Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here:

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STATIC WAX | "The Name On The Door (Means Nothing At...

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/13

A cheerful housewife follows a hunch about her husband's biggest customer — and pulls on a thread that unravels a marriage, a murder, and a spy ring hiding in plain sight.ABOUT THE SONG"The Name On The Door (Means Nothing At All)" is an original Static Wax composition written in the style of a 1970s pop ballad — warm, melodic, and quietly devastating. The song follows Armina Saunders from the moment she steps off a diverted plane into a city she's never seen, through the unraveling of everything she

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312:38

Her Husband's Biggest Customer Didn't Exist — And...

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/13

“For Want of a Nail”: When a woman's plane makes an emergency landing in a small South Dakota town, a quick visit to her husband's biggest customer leads her down a rabbit hole of lies, a fake company, and a murder — and the deeper she digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0628Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here:

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290:26

He Sold His Soul for Eternal Youth And Hid It Behind...

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/12

“The Picture of Dorian Gray”: When a beautiful young man wishes that his portrait would bear the burden of aging and sin in his place, he is free to pursue a life of endless pleasure and cruelty — but the portrait keeping his terrible secret cannot stay hidden forever. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0627Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here:

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302:05

They Put Him on the Gallows, And the Gallows Refused...

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark ·

2026/04/11

“Haunted Hangman”: When the gallows mysteriously fail on the morning of his execution, a convicted murderer's claims of innocence force a desperate prison governor to question whether the real killer has been inside the prison walls all along. | #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness | EP0626Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here:

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