https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/suspense-premiere-season-1942--7204821enSociety & CultureCopyright 07 Audio Networkhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/eac6330d8c0f188562380fb4886a88cc.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/suspense-premiere-season-1942--7204821Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:07:16 +000007 Audio Network07 Audio Networkinfo@07audio.loveSuspense first hit the air in 1942 and ran for two decades, earning its reputation as radio's premier "theatre of thrills" through tightly wound scripts and atmospheric scoring. This 1942 season captures the show in its earliest, boldest form,...false3b23ac8f-b0ac-5058-8a50-cbb30a10a3ceepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-vanishing-bride-of-capri--73405101https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73405101Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:01:00 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 1st, 1942. A young American couple's honeymoon cruise into Italy's glittering Blue Grotto turns unsettling when locals stare at the new bride with unmistakable dread. As their boatman ferries them beneath the low sea-arch into the glowing...1758blue grotto,capri italy,disappearance,honeymoon,john dickson carr,mystery,old-time radio,suspense dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/two-sharp-knives--73349736https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73349736Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:00:57 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 22nd, 1942. A mild-mannered small-town assistant police chief stumbles into a big-city murder case when a wanted fugitive steps off the midnight train. Adapted from a Dashiell Hammett story and starring Stuart Erwin, this 1942 Suspense...17631940s radio drama,dashiell hammett,fugitive manhunt,hard-boiled noir,murder mystery,small-town police,stuart erwin,train depotfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cottage-on-the-downs--73349734https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73349734Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:01:00 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 15th, 1942. Peter Lorre stars as a mild-mannered mathematics professor who dotes on his young wife with unsettling intensity in this 1942 Suspense classic. Isolated in a remote Sussex cottage on a howling December night, a seemingly cozy...17741940s drama,domestic suspense,english countryside,john dickson carr,old-time radio,peter lorre,poison mystery,psychological thrillerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-body-snatchers--73240938https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73240938Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:20 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 24th, 1942. A resurrection gang creeps through a moonlit English churchyard in 1832, digging up a freshly buried corpse to sell to anatomy schools — until a grieving family's midnight vigil turns the job deadly. Based on John Dickson Carr's...17681832 england,body snatchers,gothic thriller,grave robbing,historical crime,john dickson carr,old-time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-chamber-that-plays-cards--73217834https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73217834Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:19 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 17th, 1942. A skeptical reporter, tipped off by a jittery night watchman, investigates strange goings-on inside Madame Tussaud's wax museum during a London air raid. What starts as a puff piece about eerie dummies turns unsettling when he...17331940s radio drama,air raid suspense,madame tussauds,mystery thriller,old-time radio,psychological horror,wax museum,world war ii londonfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-bet-with-death-coney-island-s-deadly-wager--73197523https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73197523Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:18 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 10th, 1942. A chance encounter in a Coney Island funhouse pulls a young woman into a stranger's desperate secret: he's staked his life on a bizarre wager against his wealthy stepfather, with only five hours left on the clock. Orson Welles...17871940s mystery,coney island,deadly wager,john dickson carr,old time radio,orson welles,radio drama,suspense thrillerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-devil-in-the-summer-house--73197315https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73197315Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:23 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 3rd, 1942. A lawyer and a homicide detective meet at twilight in an abandoned Hudson Valley estate, drawn there by an impossible letter — one addressed from a dead man about a suicide that happened twenty-five years earlier. As a storm...18021940s radio drama,anonymous letter,ghost story,gothic mystery,haunted house,hudson valley,old-time radio,suicide mysteryfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/drums-over-zanzibar--73197233https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73197233Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:00:21 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Oct 27th, 1942. On a moonlit island off the East African coast, a British Residency braces for an uprising as native drums pound through the night and rumors swirl of a towering witch doctor marching toward the shore. When a mysterious stranger...17391940s mystery drama,africa adventure,colonial espionage,john dickson carr,old-time radio,suspense thriller,witch doctor,zanzibarfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-coin-that-vanished--73197163https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73197163Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:20 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 30th, 1942. In a New York gentlemen's club, a circle of writers debate whether detective fiction's plots are mere formula — until one of them recalls the classic tale of a priceless coin passed around a dinner table that mysteriously...17651940s mystery,amateur detectives,gentlemen's club,missing coin,old-time radio,psychological drama,radio theatre,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-passage-to-benares-blood-at-the-temple-gate--73197082https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73197082Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 23rd, 1942. An American psychologist vacationing in Trinidad wakes with a splitting headache and no memory of his night — only to learn that a bride was murdered in the Hindu temple where he may have slept. As the groom sits in jail and...17971940s drama,amateur detective,anthology series,locked room mystery,murder mystery,old time radio,psychological thriller,tropical settingfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-kettler-method--73196974https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73196974Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:18 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 16th, 1942. A rain-soaked sanitarium on a lonely hill becomes a pressure cooker of dread as Dr. Morrissey tries to calm a brilliant surgeon driven mad by a fatal operation gone wrong. As the storm rages on without end, the patient's...17871940s drama,madness and obsession,old time radio,psychological thriller,radio theater,rainstorm atmosphere,sanitarium setting,suspense classicsfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hitch-hiker--73196856https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73196856Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:18 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 2nd, 1942. Driving alone from Brooklyn to California, a young man named Ronald Adams keeps spotting the same shabby stranger thumbing a ride along the highway — impossibly, over and over, hundreds of miles apart. Orson Welles reprises his...17521940s drama,haunting stranger,old-time radio,orson welles,psychological horror,road trip terror,supernatural mystery,suspense anthologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cave-of-ali-baba--73193010https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73193010Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:31 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Aug 19th, 1942. A prim, meticulous man leads a double life as a masked member of a secret society run like a modern-day Forty Thieves, complete with coded pigeon messages, hidden safes, and passwords straight out of the Arabian Nights. When two...17691940s mystery,carrier pigeons,dorothy l sayers,masked criminals,old-time radio,radio drama,secret society,suspense thrillerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wet-saturday--73193008https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73193008Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:00:36 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jun 24th, 1942. A rain-soaked English country house becomes the setting for a family's darkest secret in this adaptation of John Collier's celebrated short story. When the Princey family faces a crisis on a dreary Saturday afternoon, they must...17511940s radio drama,black comedy,english countryside,family secrets,john collier,murder mystery,old-time radio,psychological thrillerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-non-dead-woman--73159071https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73159071Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:03:35 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jun 17th, 1942. A commuter train ride turns to quiet horror when a young husband finds a 17th-century poisoner's portrait tucked into a manuscript—and recognizes his own wife's face staring back at him. Adapted from John Dickson Carr's classic...17801940s radio drama,gothic mystery,john dickson carr,old-time radio,poisoner,psychological suspense,reincarnation,suburban horrorfalsefull