Legendary Mystery Airwaves · solgoodmedia.com

Lights Out - The Little People

·31 min·3 clips
Peter Stransky tells his bound wife Ellen he will use the methods of the savage Ivaros tribe to shrink and preserve the body of her dead lover John.
A 1940s radio drama about explorer Peter Stransky who, after his wife Ellen leaves him for John Douglas, uses poison and South American tribal techniques to shrink and preserve both bodies as macabre trophies. The story follows his descent into madness as he displays the shrunken figures in lectures before ultimately being haunted by their spirits at sea.

As heard by us

A jealous revenge story with a trophy-room chill.

This Lights Out story turns a jealous husband's revenge into a grim, theatrical broadcast, and it lands best when it stays fully inside its own menace.

Read the full review in PlayNext →

Why you'd press play

You want a cruel revenge tale with old-radio bite and a memorably grim image.

Read the full recommendation in PlayNext →
Listen to the show on