The Twilight Beacon: Recent Episodes
Jason and Jacob Burgess
This October, step back in time with Jedediah D. Blackwell, transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest. Relive the golden age of radio horror & mystery, enjoy history's darkest tales, and catch the signal from the Twilight Beacon.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the heart of Appalachian America, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents our 2023 Halloween special, with four vintage radio broadcasts of Edgar Allen Poe stories: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, The Gold Bug and Never Bet the Devil Your Head.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the heart of Appalachian America, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two vintage radio broadcasts of Escape adapted from classic literature: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story, The Lost Special and Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the heart of Appalachian America, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two vintage radio broadcasts with stories of oversized crawling creeps: The Spider from Lights Out and Tanglefoot from Quiet Please.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the heart of Appalachian America, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two vintage radio broadcasts with stories of haunted houses: Stranger in the House from The Mysterious Traveler and Bells from Suspense.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the heart of Appalachian America, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two vintage radio broadcasts of Hall of Fantasy: The Masks of Ashor and Demon of the Night.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the heart of Appalachian America, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two vintage radio broadcasts of Dimension X featuring adaptations of Robert Heinlein stories: Destination Moon and The Green Hills of Earth. Also included in these episodes from 1950, radio relics of the Korean War, a live announcement of the start of hostilities between North and South Korea and then a Christmas Message from Harry S. Truman as the hostilities hit home for Americans.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the heart of Appalachian America, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two vintage radio broadcasts of Lights Out: He Dug it Up and Cat Wife with Boris Karloff.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the heart of Appalachian America, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two vintage radio broadcasts of Quiet Please: Kill Me Again and Never Send to Know.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the heart of Appalachian America, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two vintage radio broadcasts of The Mysterous Traveler: If You Believe and The Man in the Black Derby.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the heart of Appalachian America, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two vintage radio broadcasts with stories by H.G. Wells: Jimmy Goggles, the God and The Country of the Blind, featuring Raymond Burr.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two vintage radio broadcasts of the radio program Escape: Casting the Runes and Papa Benjamin.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two vintage radio broadcasts of Dimension X: And the Moon Be Still as Bright from Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles and The Martian Death March.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two vintage radio broadcasts of Inner Sanctum: The Black Seagull, featuring Peter Lorre and Death in the Depths.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two of the most beloved Christmas broadcasts of all time: The Charles Dickens literary masterpiece, A Christmas Carol, starring Lionel Barrymore and Orson Welles followed by It's A Wonderful Life, with James Stewart and Donna Reed reprising their roles from the iconic film by Frank Capra.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents four tales of terror that orignally aired as Halloween episodes: Calling All Souls, A Corpse for Halloween, Don't Tell Me About Halloween and Lazarus Walks. These vintage broadcasts of the programs Suspense, Inner Sanctum and Quiet Please feature original episodes from radio's golden age.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two stories of adventure directly from the pages of history: The Wreck of the Old 97 and It Is Later Than You Think. These vintage broadcasts of the programs Suspense and Quiet Please feature original episodes from radio's golden age.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two favorite episodes of X Minus One: Philip K. Dick's The Defenders and Tom Godwin's Cold Equations. These vintage broadcasts feature adapted episodes from this science fiction series of radio's golden age.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic radio episodes featuring stories by Edgar Allan Poe. These vintage broadcasts feature original episodes from radio's golden age.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic radio episodes featuring impressve guest stars, The Shadow of Death from Inner Sanctum, with Richard Widmark and Blood Bath from Escape, starring Vincent Price. These vintage broadcasts feature original episodes from radio's golden age.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two favorite episodes of Dimension X: Jack Williamson's With Folded Hands and Ray Bradbury's Mars Is Heaven. These vintage broadcasts feature adapted episodes from the premiere science fiction series of radio's golden age.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two favorite episodes of Hall of Fantasy: The Night the Fog Came and The Crawling Thing. These vintage radio broadcasts feature original scripts from the outrageous and entertaining horror series that originated in Utah before getting syndicated acress the U.S.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two favorite episodes of Quiet, Please: Take Me Out to the Graveyard and How Beautiful Upon the Mountain These vintage radio broadcasts feature original scripts by Wyllis Cooper and compelling performances by Ernest Chappell.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents a special extra-length Halloween episode, featuring the best and most terrifying classic radio programs we have to offer, Edgar Allen Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado, Ray Bradbury’s Zero Hour, Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, Vincent Price in Three Skeleton Key and Orson Welles in The War of the Worlds.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic tales of terror from his collection of recordings from the golden age of radio. This Sci-Friday episode features two science fiction stories of encounters with strangers from space, The Outer Limit from the 3/17/57 airing of Suspense and No Contact from the 4/29/50 broadcast of Dimension X.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic tales of terror from his collection of recordings from the golden age of radio. This episode features two metafiction stories from the radio program Lights Out, Murder in the Script Department from the 5/11/43 airing and The Coffin in Studio B from the 7/13/46 broadcast.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic tales of terror from his collection of recordings from the golden age of radio. This episode features two stories reimagining the fate of a certain failed Austrian artist who became the most hated man in the world, Death at 50 Fathoms from the 4/18/50 airing of The Mysterious Traveler and Time On My Hands from the 9/25/60 broadcast of Suspense.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic tales of terror from his collection of recordings from the golden age of radio. It’s Sci-Friday on The Twilight Beacon, when we brings you two science fiction stories that will thrill you and chill you, Isaac Asmiov’s NIghtfall from the 9/29/51 airing of Dimension X and Northern Lights from the 1/30/49 broadcast of Quiet Please.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic tales of terror from his collection of recordings from the golden age of radio. The Twilight Beacon brings you two iconic voices of American radio and film, Orson Welles in The Hitch-Hiker from the 9/2/42 airing of Suspense and Richard Widmark in Make Ready My Grave from the 4/23/46 broadcast of Inner Sanctum.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic tales of terror from his collection of recordings from the golden age of radio. The Twilight Beacon brings you a night dedicated to one of the most iconic performers in horror, Boris Karloff. We replay two of his most chilling radio appearances, Death Robbery from the 7/16/47 airing of Lights Out and The Wailing Wall from the 11/6/45 broadcast of Inner Sanctum.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell hosts, with two classic tales of terror from his collection of recordings from the golden age of radio. The Twilight Beacon presents Sci-Friday, with Planet Zevious from the 8/2/49 airing of The Mysterious Traveler and Ray Bradbury’s Kaleidoscope, as performed on the 7/12/55 broadcast of Suspense.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic tales of terror from his collection of recordings from the golden age of radio. The Twilight Beacon presents two of Jedediah’s favorites, The Thing on the Fourbleboard from the 8/9/48 airing of Quiet Please and The Signalman, adapted from a Charles Dickens tale and performed on the 11/4/56 broadcast of Suspense.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic tales of terror from his collection of recordings from the golden age of radio. The Twilight Beacon presents two stories adapted for radio programs from classic American Literature, Stephen Crane’s The Open Boat from the 7/19/53 airing of Escape and H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror from the 11/1/45 broadcast of Suspense.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic tales of terror from his collection of recordings from the golden age of radio. The Twilight Beacon presents its inaugural Sci-Friday with two stories about science experiments gone wrong, The Green Plague from the 6/17/52 airing of The Mysterious Traveler and Oxychloride X from the 2/16/43 broadcast of Lights Out.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic tales of terror from his collection of recordings from the golden age of radio. This episode features a pair of stories from the radio program Escape that were later adapted into Hollywood films, Leiningen Versus the Ants, from the 1/14/48 airing and The Birds, originally broadcast on 7/10/54.
The Twilight Beacon is on the air. Transmitting from an unknown location in the American southwest, Jedediah D. Blackwell presents two classic tales of terror from his collection of recordings from the golden age of radio. This episode features Ghost Hunt, from the 6/23/49 airing of the radio program Suspense, with guest star Ralph Edwards. Also featured is The Shadow People, from Hall of Fantasy, originally broadcast on 9/5/52.