Dreadtime Stories

Dreadtime Stories

Dreadtime Stories is a horror podcast hosted by Malcolm McDowell, featuring fully-dramatized audio dramas written by top writers, including Max Allan Collins ("Road to Perdition") and featuring celebrity guest stars. Each 45-minute horror story has new characters with recurrent elements of nail-biting suspense, shocking violence, and dark humor. The series was co-created by Carl Amari, Tom DeFeo and Max Allan Collins and produced/directed by Carl Amari.

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August 23, 2022 47 mins
Ever wonder what the dead might have to say when they are alone with each other? It turns out that the dead are neither comical nor menacing. They are just tired and lost and in search of peace. They are people like you and me who want to rest now that their work is done. The problem is, the system wants to continue to exploit them even beyond death. It’s a grim proposition but the logical extension of our society when a sinister c...
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Under hypnosis at a party, hip young artist Nora Chaney becomes Heather, a high school girl attending a prom in the heavy metal eighties, where – making love in the parking lot with her boy friend – she is butchered by a sexually-deranged serial killer. Is the party game just Nora’s vivid imagination running away with itself, perhaps fueled by her own hang-ups? But when Nora begins having vivid dreams that foretell current crimes b...
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September 6, 2022 53 mins
Molds. Spores and fungus. As the first occupants of the planet earth they would reluctantly surrender their domain to plants, insects and animals. But their surrender was not without a price. It's a debt about to be repaid with great interest when a fungus outbreak, that turns people into killer Zombies, may spread worldwide. To access more classic radio shows visit classicradioclub.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...
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September 13, 2022 48 mins
At rustic Wagon Wheel Lodge, a vicious killer has struck, but while the police seek a man, the real predator is a werewolf. Jack Wolff has feasted upon the flesh of women for decades, a smooth, handsome charmer living off inherited money, moving from one hunting ground to another, as he takes victim after victim. At the lodge, his prey is a lovely, under-age teenage girl with abusive parents. Jack plays the savior while he has some...
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September 20, 2022 48 mins
Dying for a new apartment? A young couple learn too late to trust their suspicions, when they find themselves caught in a trap devised by a demented genius. With less than an hour until they meet a particularly horrible death, can they outwit their captor, or are they in a cell with only one way out? To access more classic radio shows visit classicradioclub.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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September 27, 2022 48 mins
In Chicago, in the early thirties, gang wars are an everyday occurrence. Mobster Louie Carboni is used to such violence. But what can the hideous decapitation murders of seven college professors, courtesy of a maniac dubbed the Mangler, have to do with the mob? And what does the mob’s personal doctor – Dr. Stein – have to do with the murdering Mangler? The answer lies in the Mangler himself – a monster who once was a man – as well ...
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October 4, 2022 54 mins
For James Nemeroff, art no longer imitates life, it predicts life. And death. On a miserably hot summer day, has artist James Nemeroff drawn a vision of the future? A future involving a particularly grisly murder? Can Nemeroff triumph over fate, or is it his destiny to be involved in a senseless and sickening crime? What is his role? Witness, victim or killer? To access more classic radio shows visit classicradioclub.com Learn mor...
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October 11, 2022 48 mins
Sick of being bullied, timid Dave Chersky summons his favorite comic book character, The Dark Enforcer, and commands the demonic behemoth to slaughter his tormentors. When Dave is forced to face the severity of his actions, he discontinues his vengeful rampage…but it may be too late to restrain the bloodlust of his monstrous minion. To access more classic radio shows visit classicradioclub.com Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
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October 18, 2022 52 mins
Most politicians would kill for a high approval rating. The powerful Lorrimer family don’t need your approval – but they kill anyway. Conspiracy expert Isaac Salt is determined to uncover all the Lorrimer’s secrets, even if it means sneaking onto their private island. But what’s waiting for him there is the last thing in the world he expects. To access more classic radio shows visit classicradioclub.com Learn more about your ad c...
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October 25, 2022 49 mins
Mercy Mathers looks like a blonde angel, but everyone knows she’s the wildest party girl in Clarion High. But when her boozy, slutty antics cause the death of nearly the entire high school football team’s starting line-up, Mercy seeks forgiveness by way of religion. Once she’s saved, Mercy feels compelled also to save the bad boys she once sought out for her own pleasure. Now she offers them herself to compel them, too, to find the...
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November 1, 2022 56 mins
Victor Rippon is a lonely man from a small town. Ever since his wife left him, he lives a quiet, bleak existence, with no friends to speak of. His only real interest is his favorite writer, Rex Christian. Victor is obsessed with Rex’s horror stories, which somehow seem more real to him than his own boring life. Why do Rex’s stories have such hypnotic power over his readers, until they believe that they are not only reading them but...
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November 8, 2022 54 mins
After a four-year tour of duty in Viet Nam, Private Daniel Conway is glad to be home in Clover Ridge, Iowa. But his joy is short-lived when he is haunted by frightening visions of The Hangman, a vicious Viet Cong officer with a penchant for torture whom Daniel encountered during his stay in a prisoner-of-war camp. Pushed to the brink of madness by the continual appearances of his tormenter, Daniel is forced to ask himself an unthin...
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November 15, 2022 55 mins
New York in the early 20th Century – something is murdering and mutilating the families of the city’s noted psychologists. Is a former colleague of Dr. Alex Quentin responsible for these horrible crimes? Or is the culprit from a place beyond human comprehension? To access more classic radio shows visit classicradioclub.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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November 22, 2022 50 mins
Some scientists believe that all of the water on earth was the result of icy comets bombarding the primordial planet and simply melting into deep oceans, lakes and seas. Others believe that ancient microorganisms hitched a ride and gave rise to life for the first time. It seems to be a preposterous proposition. Unless you consider that a fresh comet is en route with the seeds of a new form of life, or perhaps...a new form of death....
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November 29, 2022 46 mins
When a young couple move into their dream house, it turns out to be a nightmare of Amityville proportions. Can a ghost-hunting team exorcise the demons, or are they haunted by demons of their own? And is the madman who slew his own family with a vengeful blade still seeking vengeance on any who dare enter his domain? To access more classic radio shows visit classicradioclub.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...
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