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scop (noun): Old English – bard, minstrel, storyteller

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    Another Door, Another Time-Travel Story

    Which classic time-travel device would you use to escape the clock room in Prime Stage Mystery Theatre’s “Time is Out of Joint”? Find out in today’s installment, which also features some time-travel recommendations from folks active in the field of science fiction, mystery, fantasy, and horror. You can hear it all by clicking here or…

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    Time-Travel Recommendations

    A couple of weeks ago on Prime Stage Mystery Theatre, we asked: What is your favorite time-travel story? We had already listed a dozen titles (all featured in the Mystery Theatre story “Time is Out of Joint”). You can check out our posts of March 3rd and March 8th for more information on those titles,…

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    The Eyes Have It!

    Camera glasses like the ones featured in this week’s Mystery Theatre were a bust when Google and Snapchat tried launching them a few years back. But it seems that smart specs are returning for another try, thanks to companies like Ray-Ban and Facebook. And if they take off this time, I wonder how long we’ll…

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    An Escalating Puzzle for a Way-Out Mystery

    The electric sign reading Way Out glowed before the ascending treads of a stainless-steel escalator. Mounted on the wall beside the rising stairs were advertisements for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Blockbuster Video, and American Pie 2. But soon those early 21st-century advertisements gave way to ones for Crystal Pepsi, Bill & Ted’s Excellent…

  • Prime Stage Mystery Theatre:
    Solving The Mystery of the Clock Room

    Last week’s episode of Prime Stage Mystery Theatre presented the puzzle of an interactive space called the clock room. If you haven’t yet listened to that installment, you can check it out here (where you’ll also find all past episodes in the series). And for those of you who have listened to the segment, here’s…

  • Prime Stage Mystery Theatre Presents:
    A Time-Travel-Classics Mystery

    What is your favorite time-travel story? This month’s audio tale at Prime Stage Mystery Theatre centers on a dozen time travel classics, including some of the genre’s best-known science-fiction titles (The Time Machine, Back to the Future, A Wrinkle in Time), a few that lie on the edge of the genre (A Connecticut Yankee, A…