(Bonus Episode) “ZERO HOUR” by Ray Bradbury

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

When children across the country begin playing a mysterious game called “Invasion,” only one mother senses the chilling truth behind their countdown to zero hour. | “Zero Hour” was first published in Planet Stories (Fall 1947). The most famous place to read it is in Bradbury’s classic, The Illustrated Man - https://amzn.to/3ZTftYr .

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	Do you like my horrorable humor episodes called Mind of Marler?
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0:10.1	Comedic creeps, sarcastic scares, frivolous frights, macabre madness.
0:15.4	Every week I dive into strange history, twisted true crime, and paranormal weirdness.
0:20.1	All the stuff you'd expect from me on weird Darkness, but delivered with dark comedy, satire,
0:25.0	and just the right amount of absurdity.
0:27.5	Monsters, myths, mysteries, mirth, and more every Monday with Mind of Marler.
0:32.4	I like alliteration, can you tell?
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1:03.9	Darkness to start listening. Zero Hour by Ray Bradbury, published in Planet Stories
1:10.1	Fall 1947.
1:13.8	Oh, it was to be so jolly!
1:17.0	What a game!
1:18.3	Such excitement they hadn't known in years!
1:21.4	The children catapulted this way and that across the green lawns, shouting at each other,
1:27.0	holding hands, flying in circles,
	...

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