Atlanta Radio Theatre Company

Since 1984, The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company has been performing a combination of radio performances, studio productions, and live audience performances, for which they have a variety of awards. They view what they do as what "old time" radio theater would have become, had it survived and thrived in the U.S. after the introduction of television in the 50's.

All Hallow's Moon
On Halloween night, and in a small western town the last few residents wait for the last stagecoach. But this place is about to become a ghost town in more ways than one! A woman arrives who claims to be pursued by the Devil himself, in the guise of a gambler. An original story by ARTC's Thomas E. Fuller, with a magnificent live performance by a great cast and crew. This chilling tale will keep you wondering, and shivering, until the final hand is played out. Winner of the 1999 Ogle Silver Award for Best Horror Audio Theatre production!
(1 CD) )

The Island of Doctor Moreau
by H G Wells
H. G. Wells' classic science fiction story is perhaps the original Mad Scientist tale. Castaway Edward Pendrick washes ashore a mysterious island, occupied by the enigmatic Dr. Moreau. Moreau has abandoned civilization to have the freedom to pursue his experiments -- the full reality of which Pendrick slowly begins to discover. Winner of the 1997 Silver Mark Time Award for Best Science Fiction Audio Production of the Year.
(1 CD)

The Happy Man
Society finds a humane alternative to capital punishment which is not quite as humane as it may seem. (1 CD)

Special Order
An antiquarian bookseller gets a special order for the Necronomicon -- a fictional book that drives all who read it insane. It doesn't really exist, so there can't be any harm in searching for the book, can there? Of course there can... (1 CD)

Robert Heinlein
The Man Who Traveled in Elephants
From the pen of science fiction writer Robert A Heinlein, comes an unexpected, gentle tale about life, love, busses, and the circus. This wonderful production stars science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, and features an introduction by Ray Bradbury (1 CD)

Solution Unsatisfactory
Robert Heinlein's disquieting tale of an un-restricted arms race, and the logical, but unacceptable, resolution. Written in 1939, this story anticipates the nuclear arms race, and "mutually assured destruction". (1 CD)

The Menace from Earth
A young girl on the moon has many problems -- including a "menace" from Earth -- a beautiful tourist competing for her boyfriend's attentions. A charming tale from Robert Heinlein.(1 CD)

The Passion of Frankenstein
Through Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s seminal novel, and through a number of movies and other works loosely based on it, the Frankenstein legend has entered popular culture. The original novel, and the best of the other works, explore the moral gray area between creator and creation -- and the creation isn't necessarily the real monster. And damsels don't always know from where the distress comes. This remarkable original story by ARTC's Thomas E. Fuller presents a new way of looking at a familiar legend. (1 CD)

The Brides of Dracula
This dark thriller explores, the erotic side of the Dracula story. You may think you know the story of Dracula, but until you've heard this tale, you don't know the whole story. This play makes a psychosexual exploration of the vampire legends, fascinating and great fun at the same time. Mature concepts, deftly handled -- a wonderful original script by Thomas E. Fuller, based upon Bram Stoker's novel and the Dracula legends, but unearthing a whole new way of looking at the story. (1 CD)

The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde
Freed from restraints, from guilt, from society, from inhibitions, from guilt, from duty -- what is a man? Angel or devil? Master or monster? When science gives him the chance, Dr. Jekyll will find out. (1 CD)

Last Dragon to Avondale
As a young lady waits for the subway, the roar of an approaching train becomes a very different kind of roar -- and the train becomes a creature of quicksilver and flames. It all in her imagination -- isn't it? (1 CD)

H. P. Lovecraft

The Shadow over Innsmouth
Something is wrong in the decayed seacoast town of Innsmouth... something is wrong in the crumbling buildings... something is wrong in the cold deep waters...
Something is wrong in the blood. (1 CD)

The Rats In The Walls
Surely it is possible to outlive the past. Surely it is possible to outrun one's ancestors, to outrun history -- to outrun fate. Surely a man's destiny lies in his own hands, and not in the misdeeds of men a hundred generations dead. Beware... the last of the Delapore line has come home. (1 CD)

The Dunwich Horror
Have you seen the fires burning? The mad fires blazing from the ancient stone circles atop Sentinel Mountain? Have you heard of the horrible events of seventy years ago? Do you know the name Whately? No? You're not from Dunwich then, are you? All the better for you. (1 CD)

At The Mountains Of Madness
A radio interview prompts an old man to recall the results of an ill-fated arctic expedition from the 1920's. What exactly was uncovered there, at the mountains of madness?