Weird Circle | Old Time Radio

About Weird Circle | Old Time Radio

The Weird Circle | Old Time Radio brings you eerie horror, supernatural mystery, suspense, and dark fantasy from the golden age of radio. Enter haunting adaptations of classic stories filled with ghosts, madness, murder, strange forces, and encounters with the unexplained. 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. The Weird Circle became a memorable supernatural anthology, adapting works by celebrated authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others into atmospheric radio drama. Rediscover classic old time radio horror, supernatural stories, gothic fiction, mystery, suspense, dark fantasy, and vintage radio.

Publisher

Old Time Retro Radio

Category

arts · fiction · fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Dec 2025

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

75 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   The Weird Circle - "The Shadow" (Old Time Radio)

   The Weird Circle, episode 72, “The Shadow,” originally broadcast April 15, 1945. This surviving approximately 25-minute supernatural drama adapts Hans Christian Andersen’s 1847 literary fairy tale. A man finds that his shadow has separated from him and taken on a life of its own. As the familiar image becomes an unsettling human double, this compact horror tale explores the dread of losing control over one’s own identity. Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:46 Original Broadcast 25:29 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio (https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio)

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   18 Oct 2026

   The Weird Circle - "The Duel Without Honor" (Old Time Radio)

   The Weird Circle, “The Duel Without Honor” (Episode 59), originally broadcast January 14, 1945. This 30-minute NBC-syndicated installment adapts Alexandre Dumas’s military tale “Zodomirsky’s Duel.” Framed by a conversation at a monastery, the drama follows the arrival of the accomplished Captain Zodomirsky at the frontier garrison town of Valines. His interest in Marianna Ravensky and his contempt for the officers’ established code bring him into a volatile rivalry with Lieutenant Stamm, where pride, military honor, and the threat of a duel hang heavily in the air. Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:53 Original Broadcast 26:54 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio (https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio)

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   16 Oct 2026

   The Weird Circle - "The Burial of Roger Malvin" (Old Time Radio)

   The Weird Circle presents “The Burial of Roger Malvin,” episode 47, originally broadcast October 22, 1944. This 30-minute NBC-syndicated adaptation draws on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1832 short story “Roger Malvin’s Burial,” with featured performers Stacy Harris and Inge Adams. In the aftermath of a colonial frontier raid, wounded survivor Reuben Bourne returns to civilization carrying the weight of a promise made to his older companion, Roger Malvin. Years later, as Reuben, Dorcas, and their family attempt a fresh start in the New England wilderness, the past presses ever closer in this tale of survival, conscience, and foreboding. Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:50 Original Broadcast 27:47 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio (https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio)

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

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