The time is the summer of 1958. The place is Dewmont, Texas, a town that the great American postwar boom has somehow passed by. A sad, hollow beat trails the kids who tune into rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to the skin like thin molasses.
For blissfully ignorant thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchell, the end of innocence comes with his discovery of an old trove of passionate yet troubled love letters that lead him to a long-ago house fire and the tragic deaths of two very different young women. Obsessed with investigating their fates, Stanley finds a guide and mentor in black, elderly Buster Lighthouse Smith, a retired Indian Reservation policeman who now runs the projector at the drive-in theater owned by Stanley's parents. The laconic Buster tutors Stanley on the finer points of Sherlock Holmes, the blues, and life's lost dreams.
But not every buried thing stays dead. And in one terrifying night of rushing creek water and thundering rain, an arcane, murderous force will suddenly rise from the past to threaten the boy - and test the limits of Buster's strength and wisdom. In the end the old man teaches Stanley a lesson that will haunt him always, about the forever short distance between living flesh and the dust from which it came.
Written By - Charles Dickens
Narrated By - Colonial Radio Theatre
Published By : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air
Duration : 1 hour 16 minutes
Categories : Audio Theater
Drama
Dramatizations
Horror & Suspense
Classics
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A classic Charles Dickens story set on New Years Eve - with the haunted chimes in a church tower More info... |
Written By - Kay Hooper
Narrated By - Dick Hill
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
Duration : 9 hours 35 minutes
Categories : Detective
Detective
Horror & Suspense
Thrillers
Horror & Suspense
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He's no ordinary kidnapper. Not only does he strike again and again, but he collects the ransom, gets away safely, and leaves his helpless hostages dead. Now, after months of eluding the best that... More info... |
Written By - Robert Crais
Narrated By - James Daniels
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
Duration : 7 hours 59 minutes
Categories : Horror & Suspense
Crime
Thrillers
Horror & Suspense
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Elvis Cole's relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. When she moved from Louisiana to join Elvis in Los Angeles, she never dreamed that violence would so easily touch her life -- but... More info... |
Written By - George Toudouze/James Poe
Narrated By - Full Cast Production
Published By : One Act Audio Theatre
Duration : 30 minutes
Categories : Dramatizations
Horror & Suspense
Horror & Suspense
Horror & Suspense
Thrillers
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One isolated lighthouse. Three misfit men. Thousands upon thousands of ravenous flesh-eating RATS! More info... |
Written By - David Lindsey
Narrated By - Dick Hill
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
Duration : 10 hours 26 minutes
Categories : Horror & Suspense
Horror & Suspense
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The faceless are Paul Bern's business. As a forensic artist in Austin, Texas, Paul painstakingly reconstructs the likenesses of unfortunate souls whose features have been obliterated by crime or... More info... |
