RAS #577 – The Final Reckoning

On Ron’s Amazing Stories we have a full show this week with stories for you and some about you. Our featured story is one of revenge and stars that monster about town Boris Karloff. Tyree tells about his encounter with a shadow appendage, and then we travel back to 1944 for a history lesson about The Codebreakers of WWII. Let’s get it started with you pressing that play button. Enjoy!

Featured Story – The Final Reckoning

Our featured story comes from the master of horror and suspense, Borris Karloff. Did you know that for a very brief time he had his very own radio show? It was titled Creeps By Night. It was broadcast on the Blue Network in 1944. It provided Boris Karloff with his first full-time role on a radio program. The story you will hear today is titled The Final Reckoning and presents a tale of revenge being a dish best served cold. It first aired May 2, 1944.

Other Stories Include – Remedy For Murder, Fairy Tale by Stephen King, It Just Hung There, The Final Reckoning, and Our Amazing Stories – The codebreakers of Bletchley Park

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RAS #576 – Doc Holliday

On Ron’s Amazing Stories we have a theme, and it is the western. Our audiobook review is on a novel by the great Louis L’Amour. Then we have two cowboy stories sent in by you guys followed by an episode of Gunsmoke titled Doc Holliday. So get your favorite beverage of choice, relax, and then press that play button.

Featured Story – Doc Holliday

Our featured story comes from the radio series Gunsmoke. It puts Doc Holliday against a Cattle Baron and his son with Marshall Dillion stuck in the middle. It is titled simply Doc Holliday and first aired on July 19, 1952.

Other Stories Include – A Case Of Oversight, Mistakes Can Kill You, The Man In The Hat, The Kitchen Cowboy, and Doc Holiday

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RAS #575 – Bigfoot In Space

On Ron’s Amazing Stories we have a special show with all new content including a new segment. We have a classic science fiction story titled, I Like Martian Music. Brianna, Olivia, and Brenda share three creepy stories and they are all from Canada. Also, we tell the story of James Harrison who is known as, The Man With The Golden Arm. So press that play button and enjoy the show.

Featured Story – I Like Martian Music

Our featured story comes from the pulp magazine Fantastic Universe September issue 1957. The story plays on the Ray Bradbury theme of The Martian Chronicles but with a twist. Earth has still been destroyed and is looking to find solace on Mars. But do they find the music too much for them? The tale is called, I Like Martian Music and was written by Charles E. Fritch.

There have been a number of interesting theories advanced about life on Mars, but few have equalled Charles Fritch’s intriguing picture of the world of Longtree and Channeljumper in its infinite variations, tonal and thematic. The Mars of these two is an old culture, old and finite.

Other Stories Include – Wife In A Box, Bigfoot From Space, The Singularity Trap, The Man With The Golden Arm, I Like Martian Music, Please Don’t Take The Toy, The Child Speaks, and Don’t Open That Door.

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RAS #574 – A Case Of Identity

This is our first themed program of the Ron’s Amazing Stories podcast in 2023. Rest assured that there will be more to follow. Today we focus on Sherlock Holmes. We will be reviewing a modern day radio drama series from the XM radio producer, Jim French. Also, we will be following that up with the complete and original manuscript from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself and his story A case Of Identity. So press that play button and enjoy the show.

Featured Story – A Case Of Identity

Our featured story was written by the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It focuses on a jilted lover, Miss Sutherland, who has been left at the altar by her fiancé when he mysteriously disappeared on their wedding day. Miss Sutherland approaches Sherlock Holmes to help find him, and he discovers that the truth is stranger than fiction. It is titled A Case Of Identity and was first published in a collection of short stories called The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in September of 1891.

Other Stories Include – A Rose By Murder, and The Ripper Inheritance

Program Note: David Clark read our featured story today. If you want to visit his website Very Small Rocks click this link.

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RAS #573 – Child’s Play

On Ron’s Amazing Stories this time we have four brand new listener tales, and It’s all about the dog. Will Rogers once said, If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. I can’t say he is wrong. Also, we play a science fiction story from the series X-Minus One and we review Andy Weir’s newest audiobook, Project Hail Mary. So press that play button and let’s get started.

About Sylvia Shults: Sylvia is a Librarian, Author, and Ghost Hunter. She has spent a lifetime in the pursuit of the weird and strange. Her non-fiction works include Ghost of the Illinois River, Fractured Spirits, Fractured Souls, 44 Years in Darkness, The Spirits of Christmas, Days Of The Dead, and her latest release Grave Deeds and Dead Plots. All of her books are available on Amazon and you can find out more on her blog page.

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Featured Story – Child’s Play

Our featured story this week comes from the classic radio series X minus One. Have you ever thought, Man if there were only two of me I could get things done. Well, today we take a look at what that could be like. A milquetoast lawyer accidentally receives a package in the mail containing a cloning machine from the future, with which he sets about making a duplicate capable of turning his life around. But does it work? We will find out in the story Child’s Play. It first aired on X-Minus One on October 20, 1955.

Other Stories Include – Rawlings Is Dead, Project Hail Mary, Ghost Dog Playing, The Dog Is In The Crate, Leia’s Visit, Garbage Can Puppy, and Child’s Play.