DEATH BY FICTION: He Read His Own Murder Written In a Novel – His Wife and Boss Are His Killers!
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 294 minutes
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Summary
A man discovers that his favorite detective novels predict true crimes. Then he finds a book in the series that seems to indicate his own future. The novel tells of how his boss and his wife plan to kill him so they can marry. They discuss “How To Kill Rudy!” | #RetroRadio EP0518
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “How To Kill Rudy” (December 02, 1976)
00:44:55.201 = Philip Marlowe, “Bums Rush” (September 03, 1949)
01:14:08.227 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Ghost in Merdock’s Swamp” (February 09, 1947) ***WD
01:40:10.714 = The Black Mass, “A Predicament” and “Tell-Tale Heart” (June 20, 1964) ***WD
02:09:09.901 = Beyond Midnight, “The Crystal Ball” (August 01, 1969)
02:37:59.715 = MindWebs, “Light Of Other Days” (June 03, 1979)
03:01:35.098 = It’s Murder, “Picture Wire Murder” (August 10, 1944) ***WD
03:15:01.948 = Mystery In The Air, “Horla” (August 21, 1947) ***WD
03:44:53.774 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Two Men in a Furnished Room” (November 28, 1947)
04:14:09.818 = The World Adventures Club, “Living Mummy” (1932) ***WD
04:27:25.090 = Murder at Midnight, “Dead Come Back” (November 19, 1946)
04:51:24.256 = Show Close
(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
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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 | Hey, weirdos. Just wanted to let you know that on the Weird Darkness YouTube channel recently, we've been having fun doing a live chat each weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central Time. I set up the YouTube channel to premiere a video at that time, usually the podcast episode for the day, and then during the premiere, we all hang out in the YouTube live chat. Even if you've already heard that day's episode here in the podcast, you're |
| 0:21.2 | still welcome to join us for the YouTube chat. It's every weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central |
| 0:26.0 | time. And sometimes I do it over the weekends, too, because I have no social life whatsoever. |
| 0:31.6 | You can find my channel at weirddarkness.com slash YouTube. That's weirddarkness.com |
| 0:36.3 | slash YouTube. This episode is sponsored by awful movie reviews on YouTube. That's weirddarkness.com slash YouTube. This episode is sponsored by awful movie |
| 0:40.4 | reviews on YouTube. I've been a fan of awful movie reviews for a couple of years now, and I never |
| 0:45.4 | miss an episode. Every Friday, you get a new comedic video covering a gosh, awful, horrible, terrible, |
| 0:51.3 | wretched, or just plain boring movie in the horror or sci-fi genre. |
| 0:55.4 | B-monster movies, films directed by notorious names like Ed Wood or Roger Corman, flicks made |
| 1:00.9 | on budgets lower than your monthly grocery bill, special effects you'd swear were created |
| 1:05.1 | by someone who's colorblind, cinematography, so shaky, you'd swear a three-year-old was trying |
| 1:09.4 | to hold the camera, audio recording in the film that, well, you see where I'm going here. They even take requests for awful movies you'd like to see them review in the future. You'll probably learn about flicks you've never even heard of while laughing along with the host. You can find awful movie reviews on YouTube by simply searching for awful movie reviews. I've also placed a link to them on my |
| 1:28.4 | sponsors page so you can find them easily. And if you're like me, at the end of each awful movie |
| 1:33.0 | review, you'll be saying it aloud with the host, what an awful movie. |
| 1:38.5 | Hey weirdos, as we get closer to Halloween and our 10-year anniversary of this podcast, I'd love to |
| 1:43.9 | get your |
| 1:44.2 | opinions on how I'm doing, what you like, what you don't like, what you'd like to see more |
| 1:48.9 | of, what you'd change if you were in charge, well, you get the idea. I have a new weird |
| 1:54.0 | darkness survey on the website so you can send me your opinions, and it's completely |
| 1:58.0 | anonymous, so you can be completely honest. |
| 2:05.4 | This is a new survey, so even if you did give your opinion before, you can do so again, |
| 2:07.0 | and I'd appreciate you doing so. |
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