Alfred Hitchcock Presents: “BEING A MURDERER MYSELF” by Arthur Williams – A Classic Horror Story!
Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: A.I. voices are NEVER used in the podcast.,.. EVER! This true crime and paranormal podcast is narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
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IN THIS EPISODE: It’s Thriller Thursday and this week it’s a story published in 1957 in the hardback anthology, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do On TV”. Written by Arthur Williams, the story was also used and adapted for “The Late Alfred Hitchcock Presents” radio show for the BBC in 2010 as part of the five part series of dramatizations of stories deemed too unsuitable for the original Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series. If Alfred Hitchcock liked it this much, and the TV networks thought it was too much for audiences in the mid 1950’s… I can only assume it will be just perfect for our consumption.
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Being a Murderer Myself” by Arthur Williams, from the anthology “Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do On TV”: https://amzn.to/2U59cIY
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Originally aired: June 21, 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, Weirdo's. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find |
| 0:13.6 | stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained. |
| 0:25.4 | Coming up in this episode, it's Thriller Thursday, and this week it's a story published |
| 0:31.2 | in 1957 in the hardback anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV. |
| 0:40.0 | Written by Arthur Williams, the story was also used and adapted for the late Alfred |
| 0:44.8 | Hitchcock Presents radio show for the BBC in 2010. It was part of a five-part series of |
| 0:51.4 | dramatizations of stories that were deemed too unsuitable for the original |
| 0:56.0 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series. |
| 0:58.8 | Well, if Alfred Hitchcock liked it this much and the TV networks thought it was too |
| 1:03.6 | much for audiences in the mid-1950s, I can only assume it'll be just perfect for our consumption. |
| 1:11.6 | Now, bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me into |
| 1:19.3 | the weird darkness. Being a murderer myself, I was very interested in the statement recently made by a well-known |
| 1:37.7 | reviewer of murder stories that the best and most stimulating detective stories being |
| 1:43.5 | written today are those that stress the puzzle |
| 1:45.8 | of why, at least co-equally with who and how. It's gratifying to see, even if it is only in the |
| 1:54.5 | field of fiction, that the character of a murderer is at last being considered worthy of |
| 1:59.6 | more detailed analysis. |
| 2:01.9 | In the past, too much importance has been attached to discovering the identity of a murderer |
| 2:07.3 | and the means of apprehending him. |
| 2:09.8 | On the other hand, I do not consider wasted the time spent on the puzzle of how. |
| 2:15.6 | Since, after all, the method adopted is an indication of the type of man employing |
| 2:20.0 | it. Furthermore, it often decides whether the killer is to become famous as a failure or unknown |
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