Part radio drama, part podcast, and all Edgar Allan Poe. A new spine-tingling play for your ears every month, adapted from America’s most famous horror and suspense writer. Gothic frights, by The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre.
Latest episodes
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22 min
Emma
In this episode of Poe Theatre on the Air, we’re doing something a bit different – a reading of Chapter One of the book “Emma,“ by Jane Austen. It’s fitting that we take this littl…
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58 min
Some Words with a Mummy
This episode of Poe Theatre on the Air presents one Poe’s comedic stories, “Some Words with a Mummy,” sponsored in part by a generous donation from Kurt Gustafson and family. The s…
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14 min
A Valentines Day Special
This special Valentine’s Day installment of Poe Theatre on the Air features Valentine’s Day and love poems from Poe — and a lesser known poem to Poe from his wife. We begin with a…
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54 min
The Spectacles
Written by Jade Greene and performed and recorded live at the Poe Room of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, “The Spectacles” is one of Poe’s comedies (yes, he wrote comedies!). In this…
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55 min
Hop-Frog
Hop-Frog was written by Kris Faatz, and directed and produced by Alex Zavistovich, with the voices of Jen Bevarelli, Mikey Bevarelli, and Alex Zavistovich. Poe Theatre theme by Gre…
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33 min
Poe Theatre on the Air Presents “The Pit and the Pendulum” A Halloween Special
Set during the Spanish Inquisition, this intense and pulse-pounding radio drama tells the story of an unnamed prisoner forced to choose between several lethal options when sentence…
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39 min
The Poe Theatre - The Beast in the Caves
Three years ago, The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre was invited to take part in a project called “The Media of Mediumship,” with the University of Stirling in Scotland and the Un…
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1 h 07
The Poe Theatre On The Air - The Purloined Letter
Hear the third and final story in Edgar Allan Poe’s Auguste Dupin trilogy of mysteries! Dupin and his assistant help the Paris police find a stolen letter, which is being used for…
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28 min
The Masque of the Red Death and Shadow (a Parable)
This Halloween special edition of Poe Theatre on the Air features two readings of the works of Edgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of the Red Death” and “Shadow (a Parable).” Published in…
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1 h 09
The Mystery of Marie Roget
The second of Poe’s Auguste Dupin detective stories, “The Mystery of Marie Roget” follows Dupin and his biographer as they unravel the case of a missing perfume worker, found dead…
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40 min
The Eye That Saw Death
Last year The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre was invited by The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival to adapt for the stage an early and little-known story by William…
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1 h 07
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Murders in the Rue Morgue Recorded live at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon, The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre presents Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue…
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12 min
"The Bells," read by Helen Atkinson Wood
In this episode we celebrate the anniversary of Poe’s well-known poem “The Bells,” written in May 1848 and published posthumously in 1849. The Bells describes the cycle of adult li…
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27 min
The System Of Doctor Goudron And Professor Plume
Season One Finale! This story has been adapted into several international motion pictures (including one as recently as 2008), and was the musical subject of the world-famous progr…
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22 min
The Fall of the House of Usher, Part Two
Madeleine Usher is alive, after all. In this episode, we listen back to the story of how she was mistakenly entombed, and how that was the beginning of the end for the Ushers and t…
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23 min
The Fall of the House of Usher, Part One
Summoned to the aid of an old college friend, our protagonist embarks on a journey to a mysterious ancestral home and encounters not only the unfortunate friend but his frail and g…
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28 min
Hop Frog
Intrigue, revenge and death in the Royal Court! First published in 1849, the year of Poe’s death, this story has been adapted numerous times, including having been sung by David Bo…
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22 min
Never Bet the Devil Your Head, Part Two
Happy Halloween! In the conclusion of this two-part series, the Author and Toby Dammit stumble upon a mysterious little man in a covered bridge. Toby cannot resist demonstrating hi…
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22 min
Never Bet the Devil Your Head, Part One
Toby Dammit was a man of questionable moral fiber. Coming home from a pub one night, he learns the consequences of a life of excess, and his trademark saying gets put to the ultima…
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22 min
Poe Theatre On The Air - Edgar Allan, Part Two
In this second episode of our guest production “Edgar Allan” by The Coldharts,Edgar and his nemesis have the first meeting of their secret society. Edgar reveals a terrible secret,…