POUL ANDERSON (1926-2001)

Call Me Joe - Sci-Fi Radio
Inside Earth - Tales of Tomorrow (lost)
The Light - X Minus One
The Martian Crown Jewels - Seeing Ear Theater
My Objective, All Sublime - Mind Webs
Planet of Geniuses - Exploring Tomorrow
Time Heals - Exploring Tomorrow

ISAAC ASIMOV (1920-1992)

The Caves of Steel - BBC, 1989
C-Chute - X Minus One
The Foundation Trilogy - BBC (8 part series, 1973 or 77)
Hostess - X Minus One
Liar! - Exploring Tomorrow
Nightfall - Dimension X; X Minus One; CBC
Pebble in the Sky - Dimension X
Robot City - producer unknown

ALFRED BESTER (1913-1987)

Adam and No Eve - Mind Webs
The Boy Wonder - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Future Eye - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
The Man from Ultra - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Now You See Them, Now You Don't - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
One Girl in a Million - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Tiger! Tiger! - BBC (aka The Stars My Destination)
Two Plus Two Equals Death - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
The Walking Dead - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
From The Shadow - The Destroyer; The House that Death Built; The Little Man who Wasn't There; The Man who was Death

RAY BRADBURY (1920- )

A Sound of Thunder - Bradbury 13; SF 68; Golden Apples of the Sun (BBC); Future Tense (as 'An Imbalance of Species')
And So Died Riabouchinska - Suspense; Tales of the Bizarre (BBC)
April Witch - Golden Apples of the Sun (BBC)
August 2026 - BBC (same story as 'There Will Come Soft Rains')
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms - see 'The Fog Horn'
The Crowd - Suspense; BBC (1986)
Dandelion Wine - Theater 10-30
The Day it Rained Forever - CBC's Bradbury Times Five; Tales of the Bizarre (BBC)
Fahrenheit 451 - Studio 71(CBC); BBC (1982)
Forever and the Earth - Norman Corwin
The Fog Horn - CBC's Theater 10-30(as 'The Beast'); Golden Apples of the Sun (BBC); Mind Webs
The Fox and the Forest - Bradbury 13; CBC; on Dimension X & X Minus One as 'To the Future'; BBC (1959)
Frost and Fire - CBC's Bradbury Times Five; Sci-Fi Radio
The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl - Golden Apples of the Sun (BBC); Tales of the Bizarre (BBC)
The Flying Machine - Golden Apples of the Sun (BBC)
The Gift - Mind Webs
Golden Apples of the Sun - Golden Apples of the Sun (BBC); separate BBC production, 1954
The Great Conflagration Up at the Place - Norman Corwin
Hail and Farewell - CBS Radio Workshop; Golden Apples of the Sun (BBC)
The Happiness Machine - Bradbury 13; Theater 10-30
Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You - Tales of the Bizarre (BBC)
Here There be Tigers - Bradbury 13
I Sing the Body Electric - Bradbury Times Five; Tales of the Bizarre (BBC); CBC Playhouse
Jack in the Box - Tales of the Bizarre (BBC)
The Jar - Tales of the Bizarre (BBC)
Kaleidoscope - Dimension X; Suspense; Bradbury 13; The Shape of Things to Come (BBC); Mind Webs
Killer, Come Back to Me - Molle Mystery Theater
The Lake - Radio City Playhouse
Leviathan 99 - BBC
The Lonely One - see 'The Ravine'
The Man - Bradbury 13
The Man Upstairs - Tales of the Bizarre (BBC)
Marionettes, Inc. - Dimension X; X Minus One
The Meadow - World Security Workshop
Miss Helen Loomis - Theater 10-30
Mr. Jonas and Grandpa - Theater 10-30
The Murderer - Golden Apples of the Sun (BBC)
Next in Line - Fear on Four
The Pedestrian - Theater 10-30
Pillar of Fire - 2000 X
The Playground - The Vanishing Point
The Ravine - on Suspense & Adventure Theater as 'The Whole Town's Sleeping'; CBC Playhouse (aka 'Bradbury Times Five') as 'The Lonely One'; Bradbury 13;The Vanishing Point
The Rocket - NBC Short Story
The Screaming Woman - Suspense (2 versions, 1948, '55); Bradbury 13
The Scythe - Tales of the Bizarre (BBC)
The Smile - BBC (1991)
Season of Disbelief - CBS Radio Workshop
Skeleton - Tales of the Bizarre (BBC)
Something Wicked This Way Comes - independent production
Summer Night - Suspense
The Summer Raptures of Ray Bradbury - CBC
There Was an Old Woman - Bradbury 13
There Will Come Soft Rains - BBC (4 versions, 1962, '71, '74, '77); Dimension X; X Minus One
To the Chicago Abyss - independent production of WBAI, New York
To the Future - see 'The Fox and the Forest'
The Veldt - aka 'The World the Children Made'( BBC); CBC Playhouse (aka 'Bradbury Times Five'); Dimension X; X Minus One; Bradbury 13; BBC (1959); Mind Webs
The Whole Town's Sleeping - see 'The Ravine'
The Wind - Bradbury 13; Radio City Playhouse; Tales of the Bizarre (BBC); Theater 10-30 (as 'The Searching Wind')
The World the Children Made - see 'The Veldt'
Zero Hour - Adventure Theater; Dimension X; Escape; Suspense (3 versions, 1955, '58, '60); X Minus One; Future Tense

from THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES

And the Moon be Still as Bright - Dimension X; X Minus One; Omni Audio Experience
Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed - Bradbury 13
The Earthmen - Escape
Dwellers in Silence - Dimension X; X Minus One
Mars is Heaven - ABC Radio Workshop; Dimension X (2 versions); Escape; X Minus One; Future Tense
The Martian Chronicles - Dimension X
Night Call, Collect - Bradbury 13; Tales of the Bizarre (BBC)
The Off Season - Omni Audio Experience

ARTHUR C. CLARKE (1917-2008)

A Fall of Moondust - BBC
A Walk in the Dark - Mind Webs
Breaking Strain - CBC
Childhood's End - BBC; CBC's The Vanishing Point (1989)
The Haunted Spacesuit - Mind Webs
The Nine Billion Names of God - CBC's The Vanishing Point; Mind Webs
Rescue Party - Omni Audio Experience
The Sentinel - Mind Webs
The Songs of Distant Earth - BBC
The Star - Family Theater (aka 'The Exploration' or 'The Other Sheep'); Mind Webs
Summertime on Icarus - Mind Webs
Venture to the Moon - BBC
Wall of Darkness - Sci-Fi Radio

JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924)

The Brute - Escape
Heart of Darkness - Mercury Theater of the Air; This is My Best; NBC University Theater
Typhoon - Escape

PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1982)

The Defenders - X Minus One; Future Tense
Colony - X Minus One
Imposter - Sci-Fi Radio; Mind Webs
Made in Avak - Exploring Tomorrow
Sales Pitch - Sci-Fi Radio
We Can Remember it For You Wholesale - BBC

CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870)

A Christmas Carol - Hallmark Playhouse; Favorite Story; Campbell Playhouse - 2 versions - 1938/ 39; BBC; CBS Radio Mystery Theater; Globe Theater
A Tale of Two Cities - Mercury Theater of the Air
The Bagman's Story - BBC (1963)
Dr. Manette's Manuscript - The Weird Circle (an excerpt from 'A Tale of Two Cities')
The Ghost's Bargain - BBC (1990)
The Haunted Man - BBC (1990)
No Thoroughfare - BBC (1964)
Oliver Twist - Mercury Theater of the Air; CBS/General Mills Radio Adventure Theater
The Pickwick Papers - Mercury Theater of the Air
The Queer Client - The Weird Circle
The Signalman - Suspense (3 versions- 1953, '56, '59); Columbia Workshop; Nightfall; The Weird Circle & NBC Short Story (as 'The Thing in the Tunnel'); Beyond Midnight (as 'Hello Below There'); Lights Out; Mystery Theater (CBC)
Trial for Murder - Weird Circle

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930)

(For the sake of brevity and because they don't quite fit the chosen venue of this site, I have decided not to include any of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories)

The Beetle Hunter - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (as 'Never Answer an Advertisement')
The Black Doctor - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (as 'Doctor Eduardo')
The Brown Hand - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (as 'The Dagger of Almohades')
The Captain of the Pole Star - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
The Lost Special - Escape; Suspense; Nightfall; CBS Radio Mystery Theater (as 'The Mysterious Rochdale Special')
The Lost World - BBC (4 versions- 1949/ 52/ 58/ 75); Alien Voices
The Parasite - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
The Poison Belt - BBC (1944, '49)
The Ring of Thoth - Escape
The Sealed Room - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (as 'The Black Door')
The Winning Shot - CBS Radio Mystery Theater ( as 'The Black Sheep and the Captain')

HARLAN ELLISON (1934- )

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - Chillers (BBC)
Pain God - Mind Webs
Repent, Harlequin! Said the Tick-Tock Man - 2000 X; Mind Webs

ROBERT HEINLEIN (1907-1988)

By His Bootstraps - independent production of WBAI, NY (reading? partial dramatization?); 2000 X
Destination: Moon -Dimension X
The Green Hills of Earth - CBS Radio Workshop; Dimension X; X Minus One
Requiem - Beyond Tomorrow; Dimension X; X Minus One
The Roads Must Roll - Dimension X; X Minus One
Universe - Dimension X; X Minus One

RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)

A Friend's Friend - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (as 'That's What Friends are For')
As Easy as ABC - 2000 X
At the End of the Passage - CBS Radio Mystery Theater; Tales of the Supernatural (BBC)
The Bisara of Pooree - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
The Drums of the Fore and Aft - Escape
The House Surgeon - Tales of the Supernatural (BBC)
The Man who Would be King - Escape; Suspense
The Mark of the Beast - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (as 'The Leopard Man'); Tales of the Supernatural (BBC)
Mowgli & Tiger, Tiger - CBS/General Mills Radio Adventure Theater
My Own True Ghost Story - Tales of the Supernatural (BBC)
The Phantom Rickshaw - Tales of the Supernatural (BBC)
They - Tales of the Supernatural (BBC)
The Wish House - Tales of the Supernatural (BBC)

HENRY KUTTNER (1915-1958)

Absalom - Mind Webs
Housing Problem - CBS Radio Workshop
The Proud Robot - 2000 X
The Twonky - Sci-Fi Radio
Vintage Season - Sci-Fi Radio

MURRAY LEINSTER (1896-1975)

A Logic Named Joe - Dimension X; X Minus One
The Castaway - SF 68
First Contact - Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow; X Minus One
If You was a Moklin - X Minus One
The Lost - Dimension X (as 'The Lost Race')
The Other Now -Tales of Tomorrow
The Mad Planet - 2000 X
Sam, This is You - X Minus One

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)

At the Mountain of Madness - BBC
Beyond the Wall of Sleep - Mindwebs, 1983
The Dunwich Horror - BBC; Suspense, 1945
The Lurking Fear - BBC
The Outsider - BBC
The Rats in the Walls - BBC
The Reanimator (Herbert West: Reanimator) - BBC
The Statement of Randolph Carter - BBC
The Thing on the Doorstep - BBC
Young Man of Providence (?) - BBC

Many more recent dramatizations have been produced within the past 15 years.

EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)

The Bell Room - BBC
Berenice - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
The Black Cat - Hall of Fantasy; Mystery in the Air; Hollywood's Open House
The Cask of Amontillado - CBS Radio Mystery Theater; Hall of Fantasy; Weird Circle; NBC University Theater
The Case of Monsieur Valdemar - Weird Circle
The Fall of the House of Usher - CBS Radio Mystery Theater; Escape; NBC Short Story; Weird Circle; NBC University Theater
The Gold Bug - Family Theater; CBS/General Mills Radio Adventure Theater; BBC ('01)
The Imp of the Perverse - NPR Horror House
Masque of the Red Death - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (a modernized adaptation); NPR; CBC's Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Metzengerstein - Columbia Workshop; The Weird Circle (as 'The Tapestry Horse')
Murders in the Rue Morgue - CBS Radio Mystery Theater; Weird Circle; BBC, 2000;
The Mystery of Marie Roget - Suspense; BBC (as 'The Real Mystery of Marie Roget')
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - Weird Circle
Never Bet the Devil Your Head - CBS Radio Workshop
The Oblong Box - CBS Radio Mystery Theater; Weird Circle; NBC Short Story
The Pit and the Pendulum - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (modernized adaptation); Appointment with Fear; Suspense (4 versions- '43, '47, '57, '59)
The Premature Burial - CBS Radio Mystery Theater; Hollywood's Open House
The Purloined Letter - NBC University Theater
The Raven - Tales from the Tomb
The Returned - Weird Circle
Tales of Edgar Allen Poe - NBC University Theater
The Tell-Tale Heart - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (modernized adaptation); Favorite Story; Nightfall; Hall of Fantasy; Mercury Summer Theater; NBC Short Story; The Inner Sanctum; Weird Circle; Columbia Workshop; The Inner Sanctum; Mystery in the Air; Mystery Theater (CBC); BBC (1987)
William Wilson - Weird Circle
The Strange Case of E. A. Poe - (BBC, 1984)

FREDERIK POHL (1919- )

The Haunted Corpse - X Minus One (2 versions)
The Map Makers - X Minus One
The Midas Plague - The Shape of Things to Come (BBC)
The Space Merchants - CBS Radio Workshop
Target One - X Minus One
Tunnel Under the World - X Minus One (2 versions); BBC (2000); Future Tense

ROBERT SHECKLEY (1928-2005)

A Wind is Rising - X Minus One
Bad Medicine - X Minus One
Early Model - X Minus One
Grey Flannel Armor - X Minus One
The Lifeboat Mutiny - X Minus One
The Native Problem - X Minus One
The Petrified World - Mind Webs
Protection - X Minus One; Future Tense
The Seventh Victim - X Minus One
Shape - Sci-Fi Radio
Skulking Permit - X Minus One (2 versions)
Something for Nothing - X Minus One
The Trap - X Minus One
The Watchbird - SF 68; Tales of Tomorrow; 2000 X

MARY SHELLEY (1797-1851)

Frankenstein - Witch's Tale, 1932 (13 part series); Favorite Story; Weird Circle; Suspense (2 versions); NBC Short Story; National Radio Theater of Chicago; Theater X; BBC - 1931, '85, ' (aka 'The Modern Prometheus'), '94, '99
Frankenstein Revisited - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Is This Murder - Quiet, Please

ROBERT SILVERBERG (1935- )

A Sleep and a Forgetting - 2000 X
After the Myths Went Home - Mind Webs
Double Dare - X Minus One
Dying Inside - BBC (2001)
The Moon is New - Exploring Tomorrow
Overpopulation - Exploring Tomorrow
Sound Decision - Exploring Tomorrow
Sundance - Sci-Fi Radio
To See the Invisible Man - Mind Webs
To the Dark Star - Mind Webs
When We Went to See the End of the World - Mind Webs

CLIFFORD SIMAK (1904-1988)

Courtesy - Dimension X; X Minus One
Drop Dead - X Minus One
How To - X Minus One
Junkyard - X Minus One; independent production by Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound (1997)
Lulu - X Minus One
Project Mastodon - X Minus One

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894)

The Black Arrow - CBS/General Mills Radio Adventure Theater; Family Theater
The Body Snatchers - CBS Radio Mystery Theater; Nightfall
The Bottle Imp - Witch's Tale; CBS Radio Mystery Theater ( as 'The Imp in the Bottle'); BBC, 1994; Favorite Story; Tales of Mystery and Imagination (CBC)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - BBC (at least 8 versions, 1930, '44, '56, '66, '85, '93, '94, '96; Weird Circle; NBC Short Story; CBS Radio Mystery Theater; Favorite Story; US Steel Hour; Monterey Soundworks
The Isle of Falasa - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Kidnapped - CBS/General Mills Radio Adventure Theater
Lodging for the Night - Family Theater
Markheim - BBC (1994); Hall of Fantasy; Weird Circle; CBS Radio Mystery Theater ( as 'Markheim - Man or Monster?'); Mysterious Circumstances
The Sire de Maltroit's Door - CBS Radio Mystery Theater; Escape; Playhouse of World Famous Authors
The Suicide Club - see 'The Young Man with the Cream Tarts'
Treasure Island - Mercury Theater of the Air; Playhouse of Favorites; CBS/General Mills Radio Adventure Theater; Family Theater
The Wrong Box - BBC (1998)
The Young Man with the Cream Tarts - Escape; CBS Radio Mystery Theater & ABC Mystery Time (as 'The Suicide Club')

THEODORE STURGEON (1918-1985)

Hurricane Trio - 2000 X
Mr. Costello, Hero - X Minus One
The Sky was Full of Ships - Beyond Tomorrow ( as 'Incident at Switchpath'); Mind Webs
Saucer of Loneliness - X Minus One; Future Tense
The Stars are the Styx - Tales of Tomorrow (lost); X Minus One
That Low - Hour 25

JULES VERNE (1828-1905)

20 000 Leagues Under the Sea - BBC ( 3 versions, 1945 & '55, 72); Favorite Story; Family Theater; CBS/General Mills Radio Adventure Theater
Around the World in 80 Days - Mercury Summer Theater; Mercury Theater of the Air; Favorite Story
Dr. Ox's Experiment - BBC (1998)
In the Year 2889 - 2000 X
Journey to the Center of the Earth - BBC ( 5 versions, 1946, '55, '62, '68, '94); Alien Voices; CBS/General Mills Radio Adventure Theater
The Mysterious Island - CBS Radio Mystery Theater

KURT VONNEGUT (1922-2007)

Harrison Bergeron - Mind Webs; BBC?
Thanasphere (BBC reading)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow - 2000 X

H. G. WELLS (1866-1946)

The Crystal Egg - Theater 10-30 (CBC)
The City of the Dead - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
The Country of the Blind - BBC (6 versions, 1933, '45, '46, '54, '59, '66); Escape( 3 versions, 1947, '48, '49); Favorite Story (as 'The Strange Valley'); Suspense (2 versions, 1957, '59) CBS Radio Mystery Theater (as 'Search for Eden')
The Door in the Wall - BBC (1991, 2001)
Dream of Armageddon - Escape; 2000 X
The First Men in the Moon - BBC ( 5 versions, 1948, '53, '54, '81, '96, '99); Alien Voices
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid - BBC (1986)
The Food of the Gods - BBC
The Invisible Man - BBC (1948); Alien Voices; Atlanta Radio Theater Co.
The Island of Dr. Moreau - CBC; BBC; Atlanta Radio Theater Co.
Jimmy Goggles, the God - Escape
The Magic Shop - Favorite Story; Tales of Mystery and Imagination (CBC); BBC (1986)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles - BBC ( 5 versions, 1934, '44, '51, '56, '75); Escape; CBS Radio Mystery Theater
The New Accelerator - BBC
Pollock and the Porrah Man - Escape; Dark Ventures
The Purple Pileus - BBC (5 versions, 1935, '37, '39, '44, '63)
The Sleeper Awakes - BBC (1972)
The Star - BBC
Things to Come - BBC
The Time Machine - Favorite Story; Escape; Alien Voices; BBC (1974);Atlanta Radio Theater Co.; Seeing Ear Theater (2000)
Tono- Bungay - BBC (5 versions, 1951, '52, '66, '73, '93); NBC Theater
The Truth About Pyecraft - BBC (4 versions, 1946, '49, '53, '65); Vanishing Point
The War in the Air - BBC
The War of the Worlds - BBC (1950, '67, '87); Lux Radio Theater; Mercury Theater of the Air (1938); Hour 25; NPR (1988, '94)); CBC (1997); independent production by Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound (2000)
Watcher of the Living - CBS Radio Mystery Theater

JOHN WYNDHAM (1903-1969)

Consider Her Ways - BBC (1985)
The Chrysalids - BBC( 2 versions, 1970, '80); Nightfall (re-broadcast of 1980 BBC version); The Shape of Things to Come
Chocky - BBC (3 versions, 1968, '75, '98)
The Day of the Triffids - BBC (6 versions - 1953, '57, '68, '71, '73, '01)
The Kraken Wakes - BBC (2 versions,1954, '98); CBC
The Midwich Cuckoos - BBC, 197?
Meteor - The Vanishing Point
Pawley's Peepholes - BBC (2 versions, 1968, '75)
Survival - Fear on Four (BBC)
The Trouble with Lichen - BBC 1962

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