News, Reviews, and Commentary on all forms of science fiction, fantasy, and horror audio. Audiobooks, audio drama, podcasts; we discuss all of it here. Mystery, crime, and noir audio are also fair game.
“This is the greatest event in all the history of the human race, up to this time. Today is New Year’s Day of the year One. If we don’t change the calendar historians will do so. This is our change,… Read moreJuly 20, 1969: Walter Cronkite and Bill Stout interview Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein
A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins was first published in the magazine Household Words, April 24, 1852. The Weird Circle – A Terribly Strange Bed Adapted from the story by Wilkie Collins; Performed by a full cast 1 |MP3|… Read moreA Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins
Vincent Price hosts this adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic vampire story. The setting is changed, moving the events up to 1922, and placing the action in Vienna. Price begins the program quoting these lines from Lord Byron’s 1813… Read moreSears Radio Theater: Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu [RADIO DRAMA]
Told as if from 70 years after the events, this adaptation of the classic of Gothic Fiction, is very very good. For more opinions check out the comments over on the CBSRMT.com page for this episode. CBSRMT #0318 – Carmilla… Read moreCBSRMT: Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu [RADIO DRAMA]
Henry Slesar was one of the most prolific scripters for the late-1970s early-1980s CBS Radio Mystery Theater. But before his career in radio drama Slesar was an author of Science Fiction. Like Alfred Bester, who also wrote for CBSRMT, Slesar… Read moreCBSRMT: A God Named Smith by Henry Slesar [RADIO DRAMA]
Anthony Hope’s 1894 novel, The Prisoner Of Zenda, gave rise to a craze for a new sub-genre of romance novels – the “Ruritanian romance” – so called after the fictional European country in which the titular “prisoner” is found. The… Read moreCBSRMT: The Prisoner Of Zenda