Trilby and the Strange Cure of Svengali | #RetroRadio
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 303 minutes
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Mystery Theater, “Trilby” (September 30, 1977)
00:47:17.842 = Radio City Playhouse, “Mother” (September 11, 1949)
01:17:06.447 = Max Haines Mystery, “Arthur Gusy” (Mid 1940’s)
01:40:56.965 = The Sealed Book, “Escape By Death” (April 15, 1945) ***WD (LQ)
02:11:50.125 = The Shadow, “The Man Who Lived Twice” (February 09, 1941)
02:35:04.740 = Sleep No More, “Death of Oliver” and “Fishhead” (December 26, 1956) ***WD
03:04:24.816 = BBC Spinechillers, “Cupboard Beneath The Stairs” (April 2006)
03:18:28.728 = Strange Wills, “Treasure To Starboard” (July 13, 1946)
03:48:08.450 = Strange, “Captain Robinson” (1955)
04:01:53.644 = Suspense, “Suspicion” (April 03, 1948)
05:00:47.763 = 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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| 0:00.0 | The monitor flatlines. The doctors work fast. The paddles charge. His family watches from the corner of the room. |
| 0:11.0 | And Bob Frisbee, husband, father, lifelong pilot, feels something snap. |
| 0:18.0 | He wakes in a room he doesn't recognize. |
| 0:22.1 | No windows. |
| 0:23.4 | A door with no handle. |
| 0:25.4 | Light with no source. |
| 0:27.6 | And seated across a carved antique table is a man with a file, an impossibly thick file, |
| 0:35.6 | who introduces himself only as Mr. O. You're in the waiting room, |
| 0:41.5 | he says, and we have a great deal to get through. Everything Bob has ever done is in that file. |
| 0:51.6 | Every person he wronged and never faced. Every wound he carried that quietly poisoned |
| 0:57.8 | the people around him. Every dark corner of life that looked from the outside, perfectly ordinary. |
| 1:05.5 | Above them, a golden wheel appears, and the spokes that are dark are the ones that matter most. |
| 1:12.8 | But this isn't just a life review. |
| 1:15.9 | Behind the veil of the world Bob thought he knew something has been moving, ancient, deliberate, |
| 1:22.8 | with a face that doesn't belong on anything that was ever human. |
| 1:27.5 | There are forces here that don't want Bob to finish what he has started, and the waiting |
| 1:32.1 | room has an escape tunnel, but Mr. O. won't tell him where that leads. |
| 1:38.9 | The Waiting Room, a novel by L.A. Marzuli, the researcher who has spent decades pulling |
| 1:43.9 | back the veil on the |
| 1:45.1 | supernatural world, most people pretend isn't there. Narrated by Darren Marler. You die. Then, |
| 1:53.7 | the reckoning begins. The Waiting Room by L.A. Marzuli, a new audiobook, available now on the audiobooks page at |
| 2:02.6 | Weird Darkness.com. The Black Museum. Affiliated stations present. |
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