Weird Waves

Welcome to Weird Waves!

Weird Waves is an audio horror site where you can explore the classics and hidden gems of 20th-century radio plays and public-domain audiobooks.

Booth

Control your playlist here—you can also add shows or series from the Archive.

Playlist

    Import & export

    To export your playlist, click the “Export” button and copy the output data to a safe place. To import, paste the data into the box, then click the “Import” button to rebuild the playlist. You can also use this to quickly edit your playlist.

    Archive

    This list includes information about every show available on the site.

      About

      Weird Waves is a fake radio station broadcasting horror and weird fiction! You can find shows in the Archive, check or re-order your playlist in the Booth, and listen to them in the Radio. Have fun!

      The Archive contains:

      series
      shows

      Content notes

      The Archive has content notes for individual shows, but there's a few general ones: death and worse fates, and implicit bigotry in the older series.

      Web archival

      The latest-archived most-functional version of Weird Waves in the Internet Archive is from (audio may load slowly or need to be loaded twice, by adding, removing, and adding the same show to the playlist).

      Streaming

      This section covers how to use Weird Waves as a livestream widget via broadcast software like Open Broadcaster Software (OBS). Most of this only applies if you want to show Weird Waves visually on-stream. Either way, check the main Settings too.

      Note: The Weird Waves stream widget is slightly outdated compared to the web version, as OBS uses outdated software to run browser sources. However, it looks and works roughly the same.

      Making a widget

      1. Create a browser source.
      2. Set its URL to https://weirdwaves.net/stream/widget.html.
      3. Delete its default custom CSS.
      4. Resize and crop it.
      5. Right-click it and select “Interact” to use it just like you are now.

      Customising the style

      Set the theme to “Dark” and font to “Serif”, then add this custom CSS:

      .theme-dark {
	--fore-colour: [colour];
	--back-colour: [colour];
	--hot-colour: [colour];
	--cold-colour: [colour];
}
.font-serif {
	--font-stack: [font];
}

      Replace [colour] with your own colour values. These can be any valid CSS colours: hex codes, RGB values, HTML colour names, etc. Replace [font] with the name of any font installed on your computer. If the name includes a space, wrap the whole name in quotes (e.g. "Comic Sans").

      Copyright?

      All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. The copyright status of old radio broadcasts is murky, but virtually any person or organisation who could press a claim is long dead or gone, and almost nobody cares about the atom-thin penny shavings you'd make from streaming ancient, commercially-irrelevant radio broadcasts on Twitch.

      If you're still concerned, switch on the following toggle to exclude certain series when adding random shows or the entire archive to the playlist: CAS selection, The Mercury Theatre, Mindwebs, Nightfall, and Seeing Ear Theater.

      Some of these (The Mercury Theatre and Nightfall) are muted on Twitch due to copyright claims. The others are possible, but unconfirmed, risks.

      Settings

      Control how Weird Waves looks and functions here.

      • Radio

      • Playlist

      • Content notes

      • Site theme

      • Site font

      Call In

      Got questions, feedback, requests?

      Credits

      Want to know where things came from?

      Shows

      Check the Archive

      Fonts

      Serif font: Bitter (Open Font License) by Sol Matas

      Sans-serif font: Fira Sans (Open Font License) by Carrois Type Design

      Hosting

      Neocities