SKELETON by Ray Bradbury – The Enemy Within: Not All Murderers Are Visible | Classic Horror Fiction
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
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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.
DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
IN THIS EPISODE: It’s #ThrillerThursday and this time I bring you a strange story from master storyteller, Ray Bradbury. The story is odd in the beginning and gets slowly darker as it progresses. Our protagonist, Mr. Harris, has slowly become more and more obsessed with his own skeleton – which he only sees as a symbol of death, as an enemy. He sees his skeleton not as a part of him, but as a separate entity continually working against him… eventually coming to believe his skeleton is trying to kill him. While it’s obvious the man is quite mad, it’s still an interesting journey as he plunges further down into his madness as the story moves forward.
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Skeleton” by Ray Bradbury: https://amzn.to/3TY0esq
Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library.
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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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Originally aired: April 11, 2024
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/skeleton
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| 0:00.0 | Do you like my horrorable humor episodes called Mind of Marler? |
| 0:05.9 | If so, and you'd like more, it now has its very own podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Comedic creeps, sarcastic scares, frivolous freights, macabre madness. |
| 0:15.1 | Every week I dive into strange history, twisted true crime, and paranormal weirdness. |
| 0:19.9 | All the stuff he'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? |
| 0:34.3 | You can find a list of where you can subscribe to the podcast at weirddarkness.com |
| 0:38.5 | under the menu tab for podcasts. |
| 0:42.5 | Now there's a new way to share weird darkness with the weirdos in your life. It's a skill |
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| 1:04.2 | to start listening. |
| 1:05.8 | They've been here for thousands of years, making their presence known in the shadows. They might be seen |
| 1:13.1 | by a lonely motorist on a deserted road late at night, or by a frightened and confused husband |
| 1:18.7 | in the bedroom he is sharing with his wife. Perhaps the most disconcerting part of this phenomenon |
| 1:24.5 | boils down to this question. Has the government been aware of their |
| 1:29.5 | presence all along and is covertly working with them towards some secret end? |
| 1:35.8 | In the audiobook, Rungs of Disclosure, what once was fringe is now reality. While listening, |
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