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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?
Hosted by Malcolm McDowell and commissioned by Fangoria—America’s #1 source for horror—this original short story is fully dramatized to thrill and chill you!
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The Dreadtime Stories Series

The Late Shift
By: Dennis Etchison
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Ever wonder what the dead might have to say when they are alone with one another? 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... Read more »
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Wolf
By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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A Good Head on His Shoulders
By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In Chicago, in the early 1930s, 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?
Hosted by Malcolm McDowell and commissioned by Fangoria—America’s number-one source for... Read more »
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A Fungus Among Us
By: Steve Nubie
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 47 minutes
Abridged: No
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.
Hosted by Malcolm... Read more »
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Table Scraps
By: Carl Amari, Fangoria & M. J. Elliott
Narrated by: Fangoria, Malcolm McDowell, Malcolm McDowell & a full cast
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
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. Read more »
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Living Space
By: M. J. Elliott
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
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?
Hosted by Malcolm McDowell and commissioned... Read more »
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Reincarnal
By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Mercy
By: Fangoria, Max Allan Collins & Carl Amari
Narrated by: Fangoria, Malcolm McDowell, Malcolm McDowell & a full cast
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
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 lineup, Mercy seeks forgiveness by way of religion. Once she's saved, Mercy feels compelled to save the bad boys she once sought out... Read more »
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Talking in the Dark
By: Dennis Etchison
Narrated by: Malcolm McDowell & a full cast
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A fully dramatized radio drama from Fangoria’s Dreadtime Stories to thrill you and chill you!
In Talking in the Dark, Victor Rippon is a lonely man from a small town. Ever since his wife left him, he’s lived a quiet, bleak existence, with no friends to speak of. His only real interest is his favorite writer, Rex Christian. Victor is obsessed with... Read more »
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The Dark Enforcer
By: Barry Richert
Narrated by: Malcolm McDowell & a full cast
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of a comic book store owner who is tired of being bullied so he summons “the Dark Enforcer,” mighty protector of the oppressed to vanquish his enemies.
Hosted by Malcolm McDowell and commissioned by Fangoria—America’s number-one source for horror—this original short story is fully dramatized to thrill and chill you! Read more »
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A Heated Premonition
By: M. J. Elliott & Carl Amari
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on the famous short story “August Heat” by W. F. Harvey, this is the story of two men whose glimpses, each of the other’s possible future, lead them to a strange and paralyzing standoff.
Hosted by Malcolm McDowell and commissioned by Fangoria—America’s number one source for horror—this original short story is fully dramatized to thrill and... Read more »
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