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Jazz Haunts for Halloween
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A "frighteningly" awesome Halloween special! Paranormal jazz encounters...with music from Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Red Norvo, and more.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WLVT, KLCC, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
It's Witchcraft: Songs For A Haunted Halloween (Special)
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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On this episode, we explore some of the most haunting, bewitching, and eerie tunes from the Great American Songbook for the haunted holiday of Hall...

Bought by KCNP, Troy Public Radio, WVPE, Raven Radio, KCNP and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Mid West Music Fest with Festival Director Dylan Hillaker
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Mid West Music Fest with Festival Director Dylan Hillaker

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 37:13
A Call to Words: Veterans & Why They Write
From: New Letters on the Air
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This classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR commemorates Veterans Day with Vietnam veterans and poets, Bill Bauer and H.C. Palmer. Recorded in front audien...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WNJR, KVSC, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
S06 Ep09: A Feast of Frights, 10/30/2021
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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It's Hallowe'en, and there is magic in the air. This week, we hear frightful music of magic and monsters, composed and performed by incredibly tal...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
Listening in the Dark 5: The Music of Eric Zann
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: Listening in the Dark
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H.P. Lovecraft's story is transported to radio's golden age for this drama about a failing violinist who holds the key to saving the world.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2019
  • Length: 45:55
Scared of the Winds
From: Wind & Rhythm
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Be honest, have you ever gotten chills just from hearing the wind howl? What about a wind band wail? This week on Wind & Rhythm, we’ve got a partic...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WBAA, RadioStPete Florida, Delmarva Public Media, WBAA and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 9
MIDNIGHT IN THE ASYLUM CEMETERY
From: Diane Ladley
Series: Hist-eerie
Caption: Image is an actual photo taken by a ghost tour guest inside the asylum cemetery. Could this be the infamous "Gassy Ghost"?
"America's Ghost Storyteller", Diane Ladley, reveals actual, untouched recordings of mysterious paranormal activity experienced by guests of her ha...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Drunk Christmas by James McLindon
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Elizabeth Ashley
Starring Tony winner Elizabeth Ashley, DRUNK CHRISTMAS tells the tale of a teenage runaway and a swerving mother crashing into each other on Christ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 20:48
David Wynn and Carolyn Lyon
From: StoryCorps
Caption: David Wynn (left) and Carolyn Lyon (right)
The scene could be a bleak one — a hospital room, a patient near death, and no family or loved ones present during their final moments. But David W...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Nov 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Black Knight
From: KUER
Series: Radio Hour
Caption: Christ Child and Hans Trapp in Alsace (1863 illustration), Credit: Public Domain
Santa Claus knows when you've been bad or good ... so what happens when you've been very naughty? According to French legend, the black knight Hans...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:55
Hauntings
From: Wind & Rhythm
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Have you carved your pumpkin yet? Did you know that before settling in the US, the Irish and Scottish carved turnips?. Weird, and bit scary. There...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
The Haunting of Science Hall
From: A. Emily Ralph
Series: Aubrey Ralph - Wisconsin Life
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Completed in 1887, Science Hall stands like a gothic red brick fortress, guarding the University of Wisconsin / Madison campus. Over the years, it'...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1
A Week Too Early
From: Talena Sanders
Series: On Autumn (MAR 210 Fall 2015)
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A fiction piece with an excerpt from an interview of the scariest moment in a young man’s life and the terror he experienced that day.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 03:15
Police and Aggressive Leaves
From: Talena Sanders
Series: On Autumn (MAR 210 Fall 2015)
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This piece explores the duality of Halloween and Autumn.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Listening in the Dark 4: Creature Feature
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: Listening in the Dark
Caption: Listening in the Dark: Creature Feature
There’s something strange in the Great North Woods, and it’s leaving a swath of destruction everywhere it goes!

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Rapunzel
From: KUER
Series: Radio Hour
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KUER's RadioWest and Salt Lake City's Plan B Theatre Company present Rapunzel, adapted for radio from the Grimm Fairy Tale.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 21:52
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Winter - "Despair Is My Only Friend Now."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Radio essays recorded in the writer's own voice about topics related to northern Minnesota art, culture and history. Made possible in part by the ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1
A Scary Home Companion
From: Doug Gordon
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What happens when you create a monster mash-up of "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Radiolab"? Here's the answer.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:28
Halloween 2011 - Ghosts 11-43
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: The Score with Edmund Stone
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This week on The Score with Edmund Stone, we conjure up some musical apparitions.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WEKU, WNMU-FM, KSQM 91.5 FM and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
That one halloween
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Scary music for halloween

  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 03:13
Amongst the Ruins
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: The courtyard for the violently insane, New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, Concord, NH, Credit: Christopher Payne
A tour of the abandoned buildings and decrepit remains of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane proves that mental hospitals aren’t that scary af...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 07:34
Tale Spinning Terrors!
From: Jerry Kenney
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Frighten up your holidays with 'edge of your seat' storytelling and holiday music in this 'Tale Spinning' hour of Terror from WYSO Public Radio and...

Bought by KBYS 88.3 FM and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Listening in the Dark
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: Listening in the Dark
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Ready for some good old-fashioned scares this Halloween? Then the Icebox Radio Theater is ready to deliver with a trio stories designed to chill y...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WRGY, KKWE Niijii Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 54:45
  • Purchases: 10
FRANKENSTEIN - Modern Prometheus
From: Craig Wichman
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If you've only seen the movies, you do NOT know this tale of love, death, and obsession...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUNM, KFAI Minneapolis, WRGY, KHNS and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2008
  • Length: 55:32
  • Purchases: 10