The Witch's Tale
WOR / Mutual
WOR / Mutual · 1931–1938
Broadcasts
60
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1931
The run
- Network
- WOR / Mutual
- Years active
- 1931–1938
- Surviving broadcasts
- 60
- Genre
- horror
The Witch's Tale was written by Alonzo Deen Cole and ran from 1931 to 1938 out of WOR New York, framed by Old Nancy the Witch of Salem and her cat Satan. It is among the earliest sustained horror anthologies in American radio. These recordings stream from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
15 dated broadcasts across 96 years on the air, with 94 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Case of the Missing Hour · 17 Jun 2025
- 2. Sign Off · 24 Jun 2025
- 3. Dead Air · 1 Jul 2025
- 01
The Long Silence
4 Aug 2026 · 19 min
- 02
Dead Air
28 Jul 2026 · 34 min
- 03
Sign Off
21 Jul 2026 · 49 min
- 04
The Case of the Missing Hour
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 4m
- 05
Night Broadcast
7 Jul 2026 · 27 min
- 06
The Last Train Out
30 Jun 2026 · 42 min
- 07
Signal at Midnight
23 Jun 2026 · 57 min
- 08
A Room Above the Street
16 Jun 2026 · 20 min
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