Freelancer Passes Night in Cellar With Wax Throat-Cutter Never Caught by Paris Police

THE AIRWAVES — A broadcast of vintage radio drama, posted by the Weird Darkness podcast, offers listeners a long evening in the company of wax figures and unsolved crimes, according to the program's description.

The headline offering is "A Night In The Waxworks," an episode of Beyond Midnight dated January 31, 1969. As summarized in the post, a broke freelance journalist talks his way into spending a night alone in the cellar of Marriner's Waxworks. He sits with his back to the wax likeness of a Paris throat-cutter whom, the summary says, the police never caught.

The program is not a single story but a marathon. According to the posted chapter list, it opens with CBS Radio Mystery Theater's "The Dominant Personality," from January 26, 1979, and runs through nine titled episodes, among them MindWebs, Molle Mystery Theater, Mr. Keen and The Black Museum. The final entry, timed at 4 hours 37 minutes, is left blank.

The ordering of titles on the list ranges from 1945 to 1979. Several are marked as having been remastered, edited or cleaned up by Weird Darkness for easier listening. The notes add that the audio may not be pristine, but should be an improvement on the original files, some of which were described as unusable or hard to hear.

The post does not say whether the journalist survives his night, and this newspaper, in the interest of the listener, declines to speculate.