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Eight Million Dollars From Mars by Winston Marks
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A meticulous criminal’s perfect plan to escape with his stolen fortune is undone by an extra, seemingly harmless inoculation during his pre-flight medical check, which subjects him to a nine-month, living hell of physiological torture on his journey to Mars.
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X Minus One: Man's Best Friend
24:46|Back when we launched Auditory Anthology, one of the first short stories we shared was Man's Best Friend by Evelyn E. Smith. It's a story that describes a very different way of picking political leaders.Here’s a ink to that episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0SWMjsljmNR9bgtWkAuKbuThis 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 Man's Best Friend, which originally aired April 24th 1957. We hope you enjoy it.
Flowering Evil by Margaret St. Clair
19:47|A lonely aunt’s pride in her exotic, gift-giving nephew turns to dread when his latest botanical offering—the Venusian “Rambler”—proves to be a massive, blood-sucking, mind-controlling carnivorous plant that begins feeding on local animals until it finally sets its sights on her.
Tales From the Blue Line - The Midnight Janitor
10:02|The exhausted staff of a hospital’s chaotic night shift comes to depend on an unsettlingly silent, unscheduled janitor nicknamed “Saint Squeegee,” who materializes exactly when and where messes, accidents, and minor crises erupt, leading the nurses to believe he is either a guardian angel or a cleaning ghost.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.
X Minus One: Chain of Command
31:38|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, which originally aired November 21st 1956. We hope you enjoy it.
Escape From Pluto By William Oberfield
18:26|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.
Tales From the Blue Line - The Phantom Channel
10:10|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 and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.
X Minus One: The Lights on Precipice Peak
23:43|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 Thursday, but for now here’s the X Minus One episode Lights on Precipice Peak, which originally aired March 13th 1957. We hope you enjoy it.
The Cosmic Express by Jack Williamson
26:20|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.
Tales From the Blue Line - The Vending Machine Prophecy
11:58|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 spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.