Chet Chetter's Tales from the Morgue
Syndicated
Syndicated · 1930–1955
21 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1930–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 21
- Genre
- horror
A newspaper morgue as framing device for horror — cheap, regional and genuinely unsettling. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
6 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 96 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 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Case of the Missing Hour · 17 Mar 2026
- 2. Sign Off · 24 Mar 2026
- 3. Dead Air · 31 Mar 2026
A Room Above the Street
4 Aug 2026 · 42 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Long Silence
28 Jul 2026 · 57 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Dead Air
21 Jul 2026 · 20 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Sign Off
14 Jul 2026 · 35 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Case of the Missing Hour
7 Jul 2026 · 50 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Night Broadcast
30 Jun 2026 · 1h 5m
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Last Train Out
23 Jun 2026 · 28 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Signal at Midnight
16 Jun 2026 · 43 min
The one everybody argues about.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1930–1955
Other series the network carried while Chet Chetter's Tales from the Morgue was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
Vintage
Beyond Midnight
PG57 EpisodesTwice weekly
Turn the lights out. That was always the instruction.
Vintage
Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
PG52 EpisodesWeekly
Turn the lights out. That was always the instruction.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Chet Chetter's Tales from the Morgue
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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