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Tales of Suspense
Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1940 through 1962. One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, Suspense was subtitled “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills” and focused on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era.
Episodes
Tales of SuspenseAgatha Christie's Man in the Brown Suit (1988)
The Man in the Brown Suit (1988) is a thrilling adaptation of Agatha Christie's globe-trotting mystery. After witnessing a suspicious death at a London train…
Tales of SuspenseThe Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)
Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, dramatised by Stephen Sheridan.The year is 1841 and two grotesque murders have horrified the whole of Paris. Elderly widow…
Tales of SuspenseSherlock Holmes in A STUDY IN SCARLET | Robert Powell and Dinsdale Landen
Witness the moment Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Baker Street sleuth Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson meet for the first time! When an American is found dead with no…
Tales of SuspenseTHE DEMON LOVER by Elizabeth Bowen (Weird Tales)
Step into the shadowed corridors of wartime London with “The Demon Lover”, a spine-tingling radio adaptation of Elizabeth Bowen’s classic ghost story…
Tales of SuspenseSunset Boulevard (Lux Radio Theatre)
Desperate for cash, screenwriter Joe Gillis (Wiliam Holden) has a chance meeting with a faded silent film star. Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) has become a sad…
Tales of SuspenseThe Owl Service | Alan Garner
Mysterious events in a house turn frightening in a gripping reworking of the Welsh Blodeuwedd myth. Stars Siriol Jenkins. When Alison Bradley uncovers a set of…
Tales of SuspenseAgatha Christie's "Adventure of the Western Star"
A famous American film star consults Poirot about a series of letters threatening that her celebrated diamond 'The Western Star' will be stolen on "the night…
Tales of SuspenseRay Bradbury Double Feature (CBS Radio)
Season of Disbelief and Hail And Farewell are two unusual and provocative character studies by Ray Bradbury who also hosts and narrates the program. The first…
Tales of SuspenseThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Radio adaptation by Robert Forrest of Robert Louis Steven's classic gothic horror novella about the consequences of a well-meaning scientist's experiment to…
Tales of SuspenseAgatha Christie's MURDER on the LINKS (Remastered Radio Play)
In Agatha Christie's 1923 detective novel "The Murder on the Links," Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and his colleague Captain Hastings rush to northern…
Tales of SuspenseCharles Laughton is THE BLIND DATE • with June Havoc (Suspense!)
Gloria Lafaye is a stage actress who goes on a blind date. Normally, she never would have accepted...but she's started to worry that she'll never meet anyone…
Tales of SuspenseAFTERWARD by Edith Warton (Weird Tales)
Drawn by the promise of an authentic haunt, New Yorkers Mary and Ned Boyne leave behind the bustle of America for a secluded Georgian house in Dorsetshire…
Tales of SuspenseAgatha Christie's "Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb"
Lady Willard, the widow of the famous Egyptologist Sir John Willard, asks Poirot to investigate the death of her husband. Sir John and the American financier…
Tales of SuspenseIngrid Bergman in GASLIGHT • Lux Radio Theater
The classic Victorian melodrama of induced insanity! It’s many years later since the murder case was closed due to lack of evidence, and memories of Alice…
Tales of SuspenseAgatha Christie's "Million Dollar Bond Robbery"
After a million dollars of American bonds have gone missing on board a ship on the way to New York, the fiancée of the bank officer responsible for…
Tales of Suspense"The WOMAN in BLACK" by Susan Hill
Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor from London, is dispatched to the remote marshlands to settle the estate of the reclusive Mrs. Drablow. As the fog-shrouded…
Tales of SuspenseMiss Marple in A POCKET FULL OF RYE | Starring June Whitfield
In this gripping episode from the beloved BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic mystery A Pocket Full of Rye, the sharp-witted Miss Jane Marple unravels…
Tales of Suspense"The House by the River" • SUSPENSE Radio's One Hour
A poet lives in a home on the Thames, which makes it a convenient place to try to dispose of the body of the maid... until he learns that the body has floated…
Tales of SuspenseInspector Burgess: Long Time No See
In Joan Sadler's Long Time No See, a writer is murdered in his own house during his wife's absence - evidently by someone he knew. Several people seem to have…
Tales of Suspense"Charles Paris: A DEADLY HABIT" by Simon Brett
When Charles gets offered a job in a verbatim theatre piece set in a monastery he isn't very enthusiastic but at least it saves him from having to do anymore…
Tales of SuspenseColeman & Astor "Death Against the Odds"
Two murders in one night cause Inspector Coleman and Sergeant Astor to lose some sleep - and long for the days when sheep-rustling was the worst crime they had…
Tales of Suspense"The Veldt" by RAY BRADBURY • Classic Radio Play
A giant of 20th century genre fiction, Bradbury’s imaginative stories lend themselves particularly well to the audio medium. The Veldt (dramatized by Jack…
Tales of SuspenseANCIENT SORCERIES by Algernon Blackwood (Escape!)
Timid commuter, Arthur Vezin becomes too enchanted with a sleepy and strange French town and its people to leave. He's slowly drawn more and more into their…
Tales of SuspenseR.D. Wingfield's DEADFALL
Harry Davies (Bob Peck), an explosives expert, is in the demolition business blowing up old factory chimneys. But years earlier, he was a special agent in an…
Tales of SuspenseM.R. James' Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You
“Easy enough to whistle, but there's no telling what will answer...” Professor Parkins uncovers a very curious artefact. MR James’s ghostly story adapted by…
Tales of SuspenseFranz Kafka's COUNTRY DOCTOR (The Black Mass) Radio Play
"A Country Doctor" (German: "Ein Landarzt") is a short story written in 1917 by Franz Kafka. The tale follows a medical professional on an emergency visit to a…
Tales of SuspenseThe Day the Earth Stood Still (Lux Radio Theatre)
After a flying saucer lands in Washington, D.C., the United States Army quickly surrounds it. A humanoid emerges and announces that he comes "in peace and with…
Tales of SuspenseI Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Harlan Ellison Drama)
It’s 109 years after the near annihilation of humanity. Just four men and one woman remain, and they have one final battle… with a psychotic computer. Starring…
Tales of Suspense"The Hunt" (Twilight Zone) by Shelley Burman
An old man and a hound-dog named Rip, off for an evening's pleasure in quest of raccoon. Usually, these evenings end with one tired old man, one battle-scarred…
Tales of SuspenseThe House in Cypress Canyon (Suspense!)
The script for this famous broadcast was authored by Robert L. Richards. It was performed only once on Suspense. Its popularity was not contemporary. Its…
Tales of SuspenseH.G. Wells' WAR OF THE WORLDS
"The War of the Worlds" was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation of H…
Tales of SuspenseThe Otherworld Child (Suspense!) by David Calcutt
"It was only when she got back to her cottage and the candles were lit, that she saw what a strange creature it was she'd found..." To ease her granddaughter’s…
Tales of SuspenseAN AMATEUR CORPSE 🎭 Charles Paris Mystery Radio Play
Starring Bill Nighy as the charmingly down-on-his-luck actor turned amateur sleuth. When Charles Paris agrees to take part in an amateur theatre production, he…
Tales of Suspense"The ABC Murders" by Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot Radio Drama
The ABC Murders is a gripping radio adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic detective story, where the brilliant Hercule Poirot faces one of his most baffling…
Tales of SuspenseDEAD ROOM FARCE (A Charles Paris Mystery)
Dead Room Farce is a darkly comedic radio play by Simon Brett, blending the classic elements of murder mystery and farce with a sharp, satirical twist. Set in…
Tales of SuspenseAgatha Christie's "MURDER of ROGER ACKROYD"
Step into the world of deception and intrigue with this full radio adaptation of "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd," one of Agatha Christie's most famous and…
Tales of Suspense"Death at the Desert Inn" by Marcy Kahan
Tune in for a thrilling radio play of "Death at the Desert Inn" by Marcy Kahan, a gripping tale full of suspense, mystery, and intrigue. Set against the stark…
Tales of Suspense"The Haunted Hotel" by Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins' "The Haunted Hotel" is a tale of mystery, gothic horror, and suspense. Set in 1860, the story follows the formidable Countess Narona who…
Tales of SuspenseAgatha Christie's Mysterious Affair at Styles - Hercule Poirot Radio Drama
Agatha Christie’s debut novel was the first to feature Hercule Poirot, her famously eccentric Belgian detective. A refugee of the Great War, Poirot is settling…
Tales of SuspenseRuth Rendell's PEOPLE DON'T DO SUCH THINGS (Radio Drama)
For many, many years BBC Radio 4 has had a regular drama slot on weekday afternoons. These afternoon dramas have ranged far and wide in what they cover, but…
Tales of SuspenseCharles Dickens' A HOUSE TO LET
A festive tale by three eminent Victorian writers working together - Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell. Distressed by an unsettling sign of…
Tales of SuspenseThe Cemetery (D.E. Athkins) Spinetingling Audio Drama
It all started out as a party and then there was a game of hide-and-seek and before anyone knew what was happening someone was killed. The game was over, but…
Tales of SuspenseSéance on a Wet Afternoon (Mark McShane Mystery Drama)
Séance on a Wet Afternoon is a 1964 British crime thriller directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the 1961 novel by Mark McShane. The film stars Kim Stanley as…
Tales of SuspenseThe Midnight House (M.R. James' The Mezzotint)
Mr. Williams, the curator of a university art museum (implied to be Oxford), receives a disturbing engraving in this loose adaptation of the M.R. James story…
Tales of SuspenseLovecraft's COLOUR OUT OF SPACE (Radio Theatre)
The Colour Out Of Space is adapted from the story by H.P. Lovecraft for Atlanta Radio Theatre. Written in March 1927, tonight's tale details the misadventures…
Tales of SuspenseTHE THING! (Who Goes There?) John W. Campbell
Who Goes There? is a 1938 science fiction horror novella by John W. Campbell, following a group trapped in a scientific outpost in Antarctica infested by…
Tales of Suspense5 Characters in Search of an Exit (Twilight Zone Radio Drama)
A clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer, a bagpipe player, and an Army major are trapped in a cylindrical room. They don't know who they are or how they got there -…
Tales of SuspenseDRACULA (Ladybird Classics Story)
Ladybird is an old and much-loved British children's book publisher, and their distinctive, slender hardback books covered a variety of subjects, in the fields…
Tales of SuspenseWolf Hunt (Escape!)
Voice legend PAUL FREES stars along with William Conrad in this excellent story of werewolf horror! Back in the the "old country" guys are disappearing out in…
Tales of Suspense"Trick or Treat" (Spinetingling Audio Drama) by Richie Tankersley Cusick
Exactly one year ago, on Halloween night, Elizabeth Bedford had been murdered in the very same room now occupied by Martha, and now, after receiving…
Tales of SuspenseThe Lodger (Marie Belloc Lowndes Adaptation)
1888: Fear grips London after multiple murders, as the mysterious Mr Sleuth takes lodgings with the Buntings. Stars Jon Glover.
Tales of SuspenseA School Story (M.R. James Adaptation)
Two men are discussing the folklore of the private schools they attended. One tells of a Latin teacher named Mr. Sampson who kept a Byzantine coin that he…
Tales of SuspenseMurder on the Space Shuttle (CBS Radio Mystery Theater)
It's a science-fiction whodunit set 700 years in the future. In space...will anybody hear you scream? Originally aired: March 9, 1981
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Tales of SuspenseAugust Heat (Suspense)
A very hot day finds strange predictions of the future starting to come true in August Heat, presented by Suspense on May 31, 1945. The story was subsequently…
Tales of SuspenseThe Witches' Almanac (CBS Radio Mystery Theater)
An amusing tale of a married witch couple trying to make a potion tat will grant them eternal life. The missing ingredient is a virgin's blood. But problems…
Tales of SuspenseSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Lux Radio Theatre)
Hosted by Cecil B. DeMille, the Lux Radio Theatre presented a live Hollywood performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on the day after Christmas in 1938…
Tales of SuspenseSorry, Wrong Number (Suspense) Ft. Agnes Moorehead
Mrs. Stevenson, an imperious invalid, accidentally intercepts a phone call between two men plotting a murder for that evening. She tries to enlist the help of…
Tales of SuspenseThe Thing in the Window (Suspense) Starring Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery returns to Suspense in a favorite Lucille Fletcher story. The plotline offers a unique and unscrupulous way to get the apartment you really…
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Ghost Hunt (Suspense)
A disc jockey spends the night in a haunted house...with surprising results. Ghost Hunt premiered June 23, 1949 on Suspense. A well-written ghost story with a…