Lights Out | Old Time Radio
Lights Out | Old Time Radio brings you chilling horror, supernatural mystery, and psychological suspense from the golden age of radio. Enter strange worlds filled with ghosts, monsters, nightmares, dark experiments, unexplained forces, and stories designed to unsettle the imagination. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Created by Wyllis Cooper and later famously associated with Arch Oboler, Lights Out became one of radio’s most influential horror series, known for daring stories, eerie sound design, and unforgettable atmosphere. Rediscover classic old time radio horror, supernatural stories, suspense, psychological thrillers, dark fantasy, and vintage radio. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/lights-out-old-time-radio--7222656/support.
Episodes
A family’s bargain summer rental in an old furnished country mansion soon feels less like a holiday retreat than a place with a deeply unsettled past. Stormy nights, an ominous caretaker, strange organ music, and their young son’s unsettling observations draw Chuck and Ann into an...
Occult investigator Mr. Saladin is drawn into a mounting airline emergency where threats and disasters seem to defy ordinary explanation. Written by Lights Out creator Wyllis Cooper and directed by Albert Crews, the suspenseful drama pits Saladin a...
Musical maestro Alex Nadova finds his jealousy stirred by the friendship between his wife, Catherine, and young artist David Smith. Written, directed, and produc...
In the Kruger family home, Ella’s resentment toward her possessive mother-in-law, Mrs. Kruger, places growing pressure on her marriage to the good-natured Jay. A persistent, unsettling knock soon tra...
Inside the cramped diving bell, the journey becomes a tense, claustrophobic clash over power, conscience, and responsibility. William Conrad stars as His Excellency, with Ted Re...
Three city roommates set out by horse-drawn sleigh for a winter outing in the snowbound countryside, where they find a forgotten burial ground concealed beneath the drifts. A local superstition and a startling inc...
Paul Martin, isolated and wounded by a lifetime of rejection over his appearance, revisits painful memories as he faces a deeply personal crisis. Told in Oboler’s intense, subjective flashback style, the drama finds a not...
Four tourists on a scenic canyon excursion find themselves cut off after a rockslide leaves them trapped among the fallen boulders. As the pressure mounts, fear, guilt, and buried secrets begin to test the stranded group. The cast...
On the remote island of Sakhalin, a harsh penal colony is ruled by Commandant Renikoff as his private domain. When an official inspector arrives, the isolated prison outpost becomes a setting of intimidation, authority, and mounting danger for its politica...
Set in the Taylor home after a bitter late-night marital quarrel, “Cat Wife” follows John and Linda Taylor as resentment, fear, and an unsettling comparison push their domestic conflict into uncanny territory. A tense, grotesque example of Lights ...
A family’s bargain summer rental in an old country house proves anything but restful. With an uneasy caretaker, a troubling history, and ominous organ music echoing through the property, the...
In David’s private laboratory, a research scientist pursues an experimental process that may restore dead animals to life. As his wife and collaborator Ruth encourages the work and their friend Ed warns of its dan...
After Major Treveson receives devastating news in India, he follows a dangerous trail to Chicago in search of answers. With his devoted servant Jeersing at his side, Trev...
During a tense rehearsal in a radio studio, actors and their director find their work disrupted by an elderly coffin...
Hall insists he has never dreamed—until a disturbing nightmare and an uncanny recurring presence begin to blur the boundary between sleep and waking life. Framed by a tense courtroom wait, this psychological...
Meek Harold Maggs brings home a locked traveling trunk purchased at auction, much to his wife’s displeasure. As the mysterious bargain takes over their modest home, an ordinary household dispute turns increasingly ominous.
In a couple’s apartment, a bitter domestic quarrel is interrupted by a terrifying visitor only the two of them can see. As isolation and shared fear tighten their grip, Oboler builds an unsettling tale of dread ...
Set in England during the reign of King George III, the story follows Samuel Jones, a state executioner whose professional certainty begins to erode as he reflects on the work that has ma...
Two young typists stay late in a broadcasting company’s script department to prepare a new Lights Out script, but the familiar after-hours office begins to feel increasingly strange and isolating. Oboler tu...
Condemned man Mac Rogan is consumed by the need to settle an old score in a dark tale of vengeance that contemporary listings described as reaching beyond the grave.
Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced conte...
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