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The Slanted Hallway




Horror Audio Drama


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Super scary stories that are certain to scare, but they also may make you think....From 1952 to 1972 The Slanted Hallway thrilled and terrified (and sometimes aroused) audiences around most of the world and some parts of South Dakota. Presented by “The Narrator” the anthology series produced several hundred radio plays artistically crafted to frighten with horror and thrill with adventure and mystery, also they had an episode called “Doe-man”. Recovered and remastered from their extensive archives for modern ears…whether they like it or not.


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Episodes:

A very Slanted Christmas: IV

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:40:06 -0500

Tales of yuletide wonder and low-tide horror!

 

Harry Beatnick and the Bongos of Fate!

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:01:00 -0500

Harry Beatnick wants to be the world's greatest beat poet, will his bongos help him beat the odds? 

 

USPS: SVU

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 04:38:00 -0500

In the criminal justice system crimes against the swift completion of a courier’s appointed route are considered especially heinous. In Milwaukee the dedicated Agents of the Inspector General’s office who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

 

Spooky Microwave!

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 04:16:00 -0500

When Linda Richards goes to the store she's tricked by a salesman with a devil tale and a devil beard into buying the most devilish method of heating food! And now all her precooked frozen chickens have come home to roost! 

 

Pirates of the Carabiner!

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 04:30:00 -0500

Edmund Hadley wishes to be the first to summit Everest, but those dastardly Mountain pirates are doing their thing and it really gets in his way! 

 

My Grandma Bit Me! (And you won’t believe what happens next!)

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 04:30:00 -0500

Gertrude Fasola lived a simple life, its her death that's complicated! DOCTORS HATE HER!

 

Exorcisms For Busy Housewives Side B!

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 04:30:00 -0500

Sometimes the only way to show off how good you are is to make someone else pay for it!

 

Exorcisms for Busy Housewives Minisode

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 04:30:00 -0500

A PSA to all those good-for-nothing housewives out there. 

 

Someone Like Me

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 04:30:00 -0400

A Baron of industry comes to grips with his own mortality in the only way he knows how: throwing more money at the problem.

 

Tomorrow

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 04:30:00 -0400

A man who has it all, but doesn't know what he wants.

 

The Book of the Dead

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 04:30:00 -0400

Famed sleuth, Grant Shields is at it again as he snoops around Milwaukee for the person responsible for killin all these people and whatnot. 

 

The Pearl Of The Huron

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 04:30:00 -0400

Private investigator Grant Shields is on the hunt for answers once more. But is he asking the right questions? Boy, that'd sure be a problem if he wasn't. 

 

The Harem of the Maharaja

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 04:30:00 -0400

Private Investigator Grant Shields is about to nab the greatest art thief of all time!

 

The Crown Prince

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 04:30:00 -0400

A west-Arkansas town finds out that their breath stinks. Listen to find out if they take it well.

 

Rambeaux

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 04:30:00 -0400

A veteran chef is forced by a cruel restauranteur to flee deep into the back of house and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers. Jean J. Rambeaux is a former waiter/busboy who did 5 tours in a Vietnamese restaurant and won three "Pep Boys 'Does Everything for Less' Gold Stars", but his past still haunts him.

 

My Dinner With a Vampire

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 04:30:00 -0400

In this particularly terrifying installment of The Slanted Hallway, a blood-drinking baron invites a political cartoonist into his big spooky mansion. What she uncovers is not that scary, to say the least. But to say the accurate amount would be to say that what she uncovers is VERY scary indeed. Join us next week for a story about either a vampire, a werewolf, a ghost, or Frankenstein!

 

The Sealman

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 04:00:00 -0400

Goshen City needs a savior A.S.A.P hopefully the son of a billionaire philanthropist can figure out how to carry on his father's legacy of philanthropy. 

 

”Out There” Part 4 of 4

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 04:30:00 -0400

The ultimate conclusion to the 4 part series. The entire world waits with bated breath for the answer to what's OUT THERE. See how I did that? That's how you know it's going to be good. Clever stuff. Clever stuff. Oh! Am I still typing? Whoops! Just gotta take my fingers off the keyb 

 

”Out There” Part 3 of 4

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 04:30:00 -0400

In part three of this series. We follow a dedicated public servant on his quest to save his great nation from... themselves? How could that be? Listen to find out!

 

”Out There” Part 2 of 4

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 04:30:00 -0400

Part 2 of this episode? It's even more..... unusual. John Brown is still a lousy nerd who's scared so we all have to listen to him. OR DO WE????? The FBI is on the case. 

 

”Out There” Part 1 of 4

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 04:30:00 -0400

This episode? It's pretty..... unusual. John brown is a lousy nerd but he's scared so we all have to listen to him. OR DO WE?????

 

The Hitchhiker

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 04:20:00 -0400

Edith hag is going for a typical standard completely unremarkable trip from one place to another place OR IS SHE?????

 

Little Green Men

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 04:30:00 -0400

Creepy things keep happening to the livestock in America's heartland, and one man will have to step up and put his bum on the line, for America. 

 

It’s Dead O’clock Somewhere

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 04:30:00 -0400

Sasha Petrodollarsevitch is after his dead wife's killer. He's also an FBI agent, and he's also a karate expert. 

 

The Fear Beneath Our Feet

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 04:30:00 -0400

A past-her-prime scientistess wonders if she can find a man before she's all dried up. Or I guess it's a metaphor for that or something.

 

Goldilocks and the Narrator Fistfight in Heaven

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 04:30:00 -0400

But actually the narrator fights with a malfunctioning censor as he tries recount a classic fairy tale... OR DOES HE???????

 

Cabin in the Suburbs

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:30:00 -0400

George, Luanne, and Billy are three typical teeny-boppers who spend a weekend getting stabbed and stuck and poked at camp Stickypokeystabby.

 

Herbert West: Animator

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 04:30:00 -0400

Compare to H.P Lovecraft's classic tale of horror. Or compare to a nice lasagna. You know how you can just stick a lasagna right back in the oven the next day to enjoy a second time? Well let's just say, when a young art student goes to stick that lasagna back in the oven, the oven door closes with his hand inside, because his oven isn't on a level surface like the factory instructions say, no he's trapped inside: THE SLANTED HALLWAY.

 

Jessica Saves

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 04:30:00 -0400

A young lady is possessed and her only hope lies with her local exorcist. 

 

Third Degree Love Burns

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 12:06:39 -0400

In this week's episode, the National Christian Council On Fire Prevention, or  N.C.C.F.P for short, teaches us the importance of good, Christian, fire safety.  Fire Safety. It's about fire safety. 

 

The Man With The Golden Voice

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 04:30:00 -0400

We've found it, the scariest thing in the world: someone stating their ill-informed opinions loud enough for more than say, 100 people, to hear them. Only this time it isn't their trusty government official doing it, it's somebody else! And that somebody else is a hobo! And that hobo's name is Marty! And those opinions are numerous! Scared yet? 

 

Civil War of the Worlds

Wed, 25 May 2022 04:30:00 -0400

The Civil War pitted brother against brother... and ALIEN AGAINST MAN?????

 

Off the Rails

Wed, 18 May 2022 04:00:00 -0400

A story about a town, a man, a sheriff, a mayor, townsfolk, and whats this a psychopaths on the loose???? Say it ain't so- But it is!

 

A Wintery Tale of Friendship, From The Narrator

Wed, 11 May 2022 08:15:36 -0400

The Narrator spends some time telling the story of a mouse and a cat???? But this is no ordinary game of cat and or mouse????

 

Worm Hercules

Wed, 04 May 2022 04:30:00 -0400

Everyone's favorite threat of total annihilation is back with, The Cold War! Let's just hope our leaders don't slip up for even a second. 

 

A Table For Two

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 04:30:00 -0400

A question that has driven a wedge between otherwise happy couples since time immemorial: "Where do you want to eat tonight?". Find out if Thomas and Victoria Adder can survive!

 

D.I.A.R.Y of a S.P.Y

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 04:30:00 -0400

Henry Schlecter is a spy. The Matterhorn. A briefcase with some very important information in it. You get the idea.

 

The Therapist

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 04:00:00 -0400

William White may be sick with something, just like the rest of us probably are. And just like the rest of us, he should pay somebody indefinitely in order to fix or kind-of fix those not easily defined ailments. OR SHOULD HE?

 

Spearmint Ubik

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 04:00:00 -0400

In an alternate science fiction reality, a man finds himself so destitute he is willing to sell his body for experimental testing at the local Gaggiman's Consumer Goods Factory. The experiment may or may not go awry, which may or may not cause him to end up in a science fiction reality even less scientific and more fictional than his own. Special thanks to Andrew Orvedahl for playing the main character, Phillip K. [CENSORED].

 

Monkey World

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 04:35:20 -0400

The monkeys of Monkey World live on a planet a lot like our own... except its got monkeys on it. Now that's good Sci-Fi.

 

La Revolucion De Las Galletas

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 04:00:00 -0400

Based on the Cookie Revolution of 1959.

 

Seduction of the Blade

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 04:00:00 -0400

There's only one thing Tommy Doyle loves more than fire, and that's edged weapons. 

 

A Prize In Every Box

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 04:00:00 -0500

A mother's greatest fear is letting her child have too much fun. Toys combined with sugary treats push these Mothers to the very brink of their very patience.

 

Run For The Roses

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 04:00:00 -0500

A young lady strives to cross the finish line first, as the city she grew up in the fields outside of falls into ruin behind her. Oh and that young lady is a HORSE! Brothers feuding etc. 

 

The Greatest Story Ever...STOLEN

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 02:01:52 -0500

The world awaits for the greatest artist to ever do any kind of art, to do his art. Which happens to be stealing from them and getting away with it. 

 

The Last Time Machine

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500

A man finds out for himself whether or not time travel is a good basis for a scary story.

 

The Nuclear Family

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500

A middle-American family just like your family, or my family, or the family that lives in the identical house in between our two families. Tune in every Wednesday at a reasonable hour for more stories of a family just like your family, except the house is bigger, and nobody works, and everyone is happy all the time.   

 

The Jazzbound Heart

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 01:02:02 -0500

Julie must decide between staying with her somewhat boring husband, or murdering the innocent in the name of Satan and John Coltrane.

 

The Fourth Estate!

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Can a small newspaper stand up to competition and big government??? Will internal struggles rip them apart????? Whats black and white and read all over? Hopefully the paper, or maybe not?

 

My Husband, The Cannibal!

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:15:44 -0500

Gladys is as happy as can be! She has the perfect home, the perfect life, the perfect husband. That is of course, until she discovers he has a secret: He’s been messing around on the side… with eating people! Which is very messy.

 

Laurence of the Holy Land

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:20:15 -0500

A man named Laurence is sentenced to die, but instead has the adventure of a lifetime.

 

 

 

 

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A Bedtime Story with the Narrator

Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500

The narrator recounts one of his favorite childhood stories for yours and mines listenings pleasures. SPOOKY

 

The Monsters Are Due On Lo Mein Street

Wed, 29 Dec 2021 03:20:50 -0500

From the files of Detective Grant Shields. P.I.. Grant finds himself lost once more amidst an investigation which threatens his beloved home city. 

 

A Very Slanted Christmas: III

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:42:22 -0500

Tales of both yuletide and horror!

 

Bug Money Goes Bust!

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 01:21:47 -0500

Could bugs be living in their own little world that's exactly like ours?

 

The Curious Case of Moonshine

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:21:37 -0500

The Brothers Harpe sure do love drinking and murdering. But will their murdering get in the way of their drinking? Will their drinking get in the way of their murdering? Will they quit all their sinful ways and find Jesus? Perhaps on some latter day.

 

Trouble in Deadwood, South Dakota

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 22:21:58 -0500

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… one town’s attempt to restore its former glory? Superiorman meets his greatest challenge yet- but it might not be what you think…

 

On Borrowed Ideas

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 02:06:23 -0500

A youngster named Pud and his gramps hatch a plan to thwart his nagging aunt Drippy along with Death himself, using the power of wishes.

 

Money Talks

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:30:07 -0500

Shlomo must protect his loved ones from a horrible horrible curse.

 

SCARY-osis

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:07:25 -0500

A young lady tries to get her spine fixed by a doctor but instead a bunch of scary things happen to her. 

 

Two Peeved Fellas

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 01:00:00 -0400

Oh these two fellas? Well you could most definitely call them a number of things, but "PEEVED" is number one! Number two? "MURDEROUS!"

 

Is Anyone There?

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:12:25 -0400

Follow Dorothy's magical journey through the magical world of... TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD OPERATION?

 

Farewell to Men

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 05:38:46 -0400

Clark Chesterfield singlehandedly wins the Korean war. Spooooooky.

 

Love In Rome

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 05:21:07 -0400

American hero and professional-extraordinaire: Clark Chesterfield, finds romance in the eternal city. God help anyone who stands in his way. 

 

Ruskies On The Run

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:13:22 -0400

From "The Adventures of Clark Chesterfield: American Extraordinaire". Watch, with your ears, as America battles to maintain its perfect winning streak of wars. 

 

The Last Shanty

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Pirates died out long ago… or did they? Follow a rich playboy "Piratologist" down a dark and twisted gangplank to find out! This one… makes quite a splash.

 

It Didn‘t Pay the Utilities

Wed, 22 Sep 2021 01:42:56 -0400

The very president of no less than the very United States is tasked with handling the very fate of humanity in this very episode! How, you ask, aliens and our very relations there with is how!

 

Beast From the Bayou

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:09:00 -0400

By and by a Bayou Baddy baits and berates a bundle of buddies...

 

Bad Bag

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:01:00 -0400

A mild-mannered receptionist finds herself not-so-mildly-mannered after enduring a myriad of injustices. How will she choose to right these wrongs? With a certain… not-good satchel perhaps?

 

Jason and Maryanne

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Star crossed star are star crossed at one another, now they must star cross swords and wits in a battle of swords and wits...

 

Dog Cop

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 01:00:44 -0400

Dog Cop!

 

669 Cabot Street

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:54:39 -0400

The Smiths are moving into the neighborhood! And they're looking for quiet suburb living but what they got was nothing but 669 CABOT STREET

 

Group 48

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 00:23:00 -0400

What happens in the Arctic, stays in the Arctic! Which is unfortunate for Captain Blackwood's radar crew "Group 48", there's some-Thing trapped with them up there...

 

The Best

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:52:00 -0400

Simply? Yes it is. 30 something episodes and they keep coming but this week? We're all assaulted by THE BEST

 

The Golden Boys

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 09:09:25 -0400

They've still got it. Age is just a number. Thank you for bein' a friend. You're a pal and a confidante. 

 

The Beautiful Game

Wed, 26 May 2021 18:20:01 -0400

A boxer wonders if the beating he's about to take is really worth it.

 

The Last Nightstand

Wed, 12 May 2021 18:13:25 -0400

A gang of criminals succeeds in selflessly contributing towards the accomplishment of a common goal. Or do they? Hmmmm.

 

Three Ring Séance

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 07:06:26 -0400

A debunker hunkers himself to hear, he has become his greatest fear: an aloof unthruther whose debunking junk is totally bunk. 

 

Horrorlulu

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 02:47:05 -0400

A government agent is tasked with investigating a Hawaiian restaurant.

 

The Phantom Differential

Fri, 02 Apr 2021 13:31:31 -0400

A man buys a used car and gets exactly what he paid for. He also gets an auto loan, an auto loan financed perhaps by the Slanted Hallway cosigned with the Devil himself.  Also, the car may or may not be haunted. 

 

The Sons of Lillith

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 01:16:48 -0400

A late night television variety show's host has something he needs to get off of his chest.

 

Tour de Fear

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 07:00:50 -0500

A romantic getaway to Paris isn't so peaceful for this married couple. Perhaps they should've first considered signing an armistice with the Slanted Hallway. Or would terror simply await them in the North of Africa, or in Russia, or in their minds? Was it all in their head? Surely it could have been!

 

The Cinnamon Crysanthemum

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:29:33 -0500

Another detective story from the files of private investigator Grant Shields, as he tracks down a horrid killer who could be ANYONE!

 

The Soot over Inn's Mouth

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:33:05 -0500

A highly educated and well-to-do gentleman is appalled to find the truth about a small village in Maine.

 

A Fine Pair of Boots

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 21:17:53 -0500

A man of much low status, and low class, and wet feet is granted protections from such things by his garb. Is hard how explain in English. Just Gogol it.

 

Murder On The Mystery Express

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:39:36 -0500

Chugga-chugga choo-choo, there's a gruesome murder that needs solving!

 

Christmas Spectacular II

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 06:36:08 -0500

A very SLANTED CHRISTMAS!

 

The Most Dangerous Dame

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:52:58 -0500

A renowned huntress is in pursuit of The Most Dangerous Game. Or is she? In pursuit. The one in being pursued. Ah?

 

When the Ink Runs Dry

Thu, 26 Nov 2020 22:22:29 -0500

Animation magnate, Chase Ashby, is hassled while trying to do whatever he wants.

 

It Happened on the Mezzanine

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:01:00 -0500

A penny saved is a penny earned, and don't trust anyone, not even a wife.

 

The World's Greatest Salesman

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:01:00 -0400

Is he? Is she??????? Are they??????? Listen to find out, or don't and not???????

 

Mr. Narrator Having a Stroke of Genius 2

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:01:00 -0400

Mr. Narrator takes us on a miniature adventure on the foggy sloped paddocks, the leaning barn floors, the slanted stallways or the equine world. This story is about horses. We think.

 

The Doe Man

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 23:19:06 -0400

A man makes a deal with the Devil, everything works out for him, and 'The Devil' doesn't try to pull any fast ones.......... OR DOES HE?

 

Into the Mist

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 23:49:33 -0400

Tonight we will be taking a glimpse into one of those perilous moments that cam before victory was certain. We are lead by our interned Captain, Mortimer Falstaff, and the crew of the USS Biddeford, a corvette possibly outnumbered and certainly out matched in their pursuit of the DKM WURSTBITTE.

 

The First Stroke of Genius

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 23:44:16 -0400

Mr. Narrator graces us with a tale from OUTER SPACE????

 

News From Little Lake Better Times

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:17:55 -0400

On this episode a guest writer and Mr. Narrator take a slightly Slanted take on the classic radio program, 'Prairie Home Companion'. What could go wrong in the lives of two totally unsupervised children wandering around the great depression? Listen to find out...

 

Scary Stogie

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:07:31 -0400

The Fond Du Lac Hummingbirds have a new ringer on their team, its not a player but a bunch of stogies with a scary power...

 

The Book That Reads You

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 22:29:42 -0400

Straight from the mouth of madness, Milton Crane's newest novel has a very confusing and terrifying power...

 

The Curse of Agnes Meyerscough

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 02:06:59 -0400

 

The worst curse that any who curses has ever been cursed!

 

Footsteps

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:41:49 -0400

Brave members of the Metropolitan Police Department must solve a near unsolvable murder, before the killer strikes again! A difficult task, made all the more difficult when your warrants are processed by the First Circuit Court of The Slanted Hallway!

 

Spooky Mansion

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 23:20:51 -0400

Everything isn't what it seems at the Spooky Mansion motel...

 

The Smell of Crime

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 02:00:33 -0400

From the files of Detective Grant Shields

 

Heartbeat Rises

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:47:40 -0400

One bad man's good deeds will not go unpunished!....Slanted!

 

The Coal Mine

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:09:30 -0500

We watched The Lighthouse. 

 

Saving Up

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:43:52 -0500

A married couple has their lives turned upside by one innocent piggy bank with driving goggles...sounds SLANTED!......HALLWAY!

 

The Red Planet

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:58:28 -0500

A space adventure for the ages! Captain Clark Chesterfield hurdles through the stars to meet with Martian Communists!

 

Flirting with Death

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:44:28 -0500

Consider dear listeners, two friends, Sam Burns and Artie Fitzroy, and a chance meeting with fate. The place The Oyster River Pub. Half Irish bar, half ugly, all slanted hallway..........

 

Hangman

Tue, 31 Dec 2019 21:32:40 -0500

The most dangerous man with an extra finger in the West is dead...or is he?!?!

 

Christmas Spectacular

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 10:08:10 -0500

A scary selection of stories of yuletide terrors designed to scare.