THE LOST FRANKENSTEIN RADIO SHOW FROM 1931: All 13 Episodes Back-to-Back | Vintage Horror Audio
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 175 minutes
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Summary
NOTE: Episodes in this series are low quality. You can still hear and understand the story, but some people may find the quality distracting. But you have to expect some degradation when listening to something that is almost 100 years old!
Step back to 1931 and experience the complete 13-episode Frankenstein radio serial that aired the same year as the legendary Boris Karloff film—a rarely heard vintage horror dramatization starring George Edwards as Baron Victor Frankenstein. Bolt your doors, turn off your lights, and journey into the darkness for over two hours of classic old-time radio terror. | #RetroRadio EP0546
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open, Introduction to “Frankenstein”
00:02:46.604 = Part 01: “The Wanderer”
00:15:43.563 = Part 02: “Strange Genesis”
00:29:01.911 = Part 03: “The Power And The Price”
00:42:00.781 = Part 04: “The Monster Returns”
00:55:39.429 = Part 05: “A Death in The Woods”
01:08:08.822 = Part 06: “The Hunter And The Hunted”
01:21:39.422 = Part 07: “The Promise”
01:34:21.772 = Part 08: “Reunion on Ornkey Island”
01:47:22.910 = Part 09: “Bitter Homecoming”
02:00:23.457 = Part 10: “Vendetta”
02:12:40.793 = Part 11: “Escape and Exile”
02:25:29.324 = Part 12: “Pursuit”
02:38:21.820 = Part 13: “The Last Death”
02:51:40.621 = Show Close
(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode 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.
Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library
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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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"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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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:25.8 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:37.9 | The Black Museum. Affiliated stations present |
| 0:40.9 | Escape |
| 0:41.8 | All of fantasy |
| 0:44.8 | Inner Sanctum Miss |
| 0:48.2 | Lights out |
| 0:51.2 | Murder Murder At Minow Lights out. Murder. |
| 0:56.0 | Admini |
| 0:59.0 | The sealed book. |
| 1:06.0 | Presents |
| 1:07.0 | Suspense |
| 1:09.0 | I am the whistler. |
| 1:13.6 | Welcome, Weirdoes. |
| 1:15.6 | I'm Darren Marler, and this is Retro Radio, Old Time Radio in the Dark, presented |
| 1:21.6 | by Weird Darkness. |
| 1:22.6 | I'll have stories of the macabre and horror, mysteries and crime, and even some dark science |
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