(BONUS AUDIO) “The Man Who Hated Mars” by Randall Garrett

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Darren Marlar

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

He was sentenced to a dusty prison under an alien sky… and he’d do anything to escape. Colonel Anthony Fallon isn’t like the other men stuck on Mars. He’s smarter. Sharper. Angrier. And he’s got a plan. In a world where exile means a slow fade into obscurity, one bitter man decides to fight the system — no matter the cost. But on Mars, nothing ever goes the way you expect.
Originally published: Amazing Stories in September 1956

ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast 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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0:00.0	Now, there's a new way to share weird darkness with the weirdos in your life.
0:04.0	It's a skill on your Amazon Echo device.
0:06.7	Just say, play Weird Darkness, and you'll immediately start hearing the newest episode.
0:11.1	With your Amazon Echo or Smart Device, you can let me keep you company all day and all night.
0:16.5	And it's easy to tell your friends how to tune in, too.
0:19.1	Just tell your Amazon device, play weird
0:21.3	darkness to start listening. Hold the kaleidoscope to your eye. Peer inside. One twist changes
0:30.6	everything. A woman awakens in a grotesque, human-sized arcade game. A mysterious cigar box purchased at a farmer's
0:41.2	market releases an ancient gin who demands a replacement prisoner. An elderly woman possesses
0:48.5	the terrifying power to inflict pain through handmade dolls. An exclusive restaurant's sinister secret menu includes
0:58.4	murder-for-hire and harvested organs. With each turn through these 20 tales, Reddit No Sleep
1:07.1	Favorite AP Royal reshapes reality, creating dazzling patterns of horror that entrance
1:14.9	as they terrify.
1:17.2	The kaleidoscope, 20 terrifying tales of horror and the supernatural by AP Royal, narrated
1:24.1	by Darren Marler.
1:25.9	Here a free sample on the audiobooks page at weirddarkness.com.
1:30.3	The Man Who Hated Mars by Randall Garrett from Amazing Stories September,
1:36.3	1956.
1:37.3	I want you to put me in prison, the big hairy man said in a trembling voice. He was addressing his request to a thin woman sitting behind a desk that seemed much too
1:50.1	big for her.
1:51.4	The plaque on the desk said, Lieutenant Phoebe Harris, Terran Rehabilitation Service.
1:58.3	Lieutenant Harris glanced at the man before her for only a moment before she returned her eyes
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