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Basil Copper
He awoke for the third consecutive occasion at dawn, sweating and terrified, with the details of the dream vivid in his mind. His hands were clutching the simple iron frame of the bedstead above his head and the Jews of his night terror had soaked the linen of the bedding. His name was Farlow. He was a genius in his line, that of higher physics. He was also a friend and acquaintance of mine, and I believe it my duty to tell his story. Not that I know what it all means, but I do know that Farlow was not mad. And yet, why should a celebrated scientist be admitted at his own request as a private patient to Green Mansion for rest and observation? Green Mansion is, not to put too fine a point on it, a luxuriously appointed mental home. You see, my friend Farlow experienced a brand of mental torture that is perhaps
Farlow
greater than anything ever recorded, more terrible
Basil Copper
than anything dreamed up by the horror
Farlow
writers of the last two centuries.
Basil Copper
He traveled further than any other into the regions that lie beyond midnight.
Farlow
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Basil Copper
Father was an old friend of mine and I have pieced the story together
Farlow
as it was told me over a
Basil Copper
longish space of time, both from his own lips and from those of the superintendent, Dr. Sandquist, a psychiatrist of great sympathy and brilliance. It was a month or more after
Farlow
the onset of the dream that Farlow
Basil Copper
had written to tell me that he
Farlow
would appreciate a visit. I didn't contact you before, Basil, because. Well, you knew, of course, that I'd come into this place.
Basil Copper
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Narrator/Letter Reader
So, no, I don't worry.
Farlow
I don't for one moment worry about battle. I want to tell you a story. Sorry, Yes, a story with as yet no end. You must forgive me, in the telling of it, if I. My thoughts aren't clear, if I ramble.
Basil Copper
Yes, of course. I mean.
Farlow
What? I've been having dreams. At least, I like to call them dreams. I.
Basil Copper
Dreams?
Farlow
Yes, I say dreams. They are all bits of one, the same dream. Let me try to begin at the beginning. This dream world is a place of terror and fear for me. I try to find the place. I studied maps and atlases of the whole world, but I haven't found.
Basil Copper
Yeah, Miss. But surely if it's a dream play.
Farlow
No, wait. You'll see. Early one morning, about one o', clock, a month or so ago, perhaps it was two months, I don't know. This morning I came home very tired. I think perhaps I'd been overdoing things in the laboratory. Of course, I worked too hard. What physicist doesn't? I was hungry anyway. I had rather a heavy meal, nearly a pint of black coffee, white. And of course I didn't sleep, not until nearly 3 o', clock, and I dreamed. But the thing is, although I know I was within a dream, I also knew I was awake in this dream. I was cold and I was in water, shallow water. I knew that I was in deadly danger of my life, or at least I had been. My mouth was soaked with moisture and salt. And then I felt sand between my toes, which were bare. I opened my eyes and I found myself in the shadows of the wildest, bleakest shore I have been ever seen. I was exhausted and I started to drag myself up onto a long beach of sloping white sand. It was dawn When I awoke. It was just ten past three. I know that the last time I'd looked at the clock before sleeping, if you can call it that, the time was only a minute or two before three. And yet I know I had been away for hours. Yes, but you know you must do
Basil Copper
the second or two In a dream must be.
Farlow
I mean, can be stretched to eternity.
Basil Copper
Yes, I know.
Farlow
But I'm afraid it's not as easy as that. You see, I felt very frightened, and I switched on the light and got out of bed. And between my toes there was sand, and my pyjamas were soaked with cold salt water. You can imagine how terrified I was. The situation is bizarre, unbelievable, and yet it is perfectly true. I'm not mad.
Basil Copper
Frightening. I agree. Well, the strength of a dream.
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Farlow
Not a dream, Basil, but many dreams. And in all of them I am in the same place, upon that same shore. And I am progressing. Each time I dream a little longer, see more things. Good heaven. A week passed before I dreamed again. And then, just as before, I found myself first in the water and then on the beach. I was coughing. I felt almost drowned. The vision went on even longer. The shore was wild and beautiful, and I knew it to be somewhere in the east. It was not the east as known today, but at a time of great antiquity. It was misty and the sun came up through the mist. Somehow it seemed a younger sun we know today. And then I awoke. Came back, if you like, through the veil.
Basil Copper
And this time was. I mean, were you.
Farlow
I was wet with seawater. Yes. My third dream began with me already lying on the beach. I'd somehow recovered from being in the sea. The sun was well up. I felt as if I'd been lying on the beach for at least three hours. In the fourth dream, the sun was higher still in the sky. It was. It was like. It is like a cinema film projected over and over again. A little more of each time I see. I'm afraid that's all that you'll be supposing my sanity to be in question.
Basil Copper
I have every belief in your sanity. Of that I assure you.
Farlow
I may continue to visit you I'm counting on it. I need you.
Basil Copper
No other knows of the dreams.
Farlow
Dr. Sloanquist, his reaction, He. He's puzzled, of course, but very sympathetic.
Basil Copper
I'll come again in three days.
Farlow
Please do.
Basil Copper
Of course I was fully aware of my friend's fears. Not only did he feel his sanity to be suspect, if in fact he was journeying in or on some other plane, would he, during one of the dreams, fail to get back? Would he be lost from this 20th century world? I offered to stay with him in his room and watch. I was sure that some quiz would agree to this. But father would not agree. He said this might prevent him from returning. I think if any other man in
Farlow
the world had told me the story,
Basil Copper
I would be skeptical, perhaps even disbelieving. But from beginning to end, the frightening and bizarre climax, I believed him. I found him on my next visit considerably agitated.
Farlow
The sequence is advancing faster now. The terrifying thing is, when I awoke or became conscious in the dream, I was hardly more than damp and I was a long way up the beach. But this isn't all. When I awoke here in my room, my pyjamas had gone. Dressed differently in some sort of open neck blouse thing made from linen. And my lower half was covered in a pair of baggy pantaloons. What's happening to me? Basil and other two me's existing on different planes, or what? I fear I am traveling in these dreams towards some kind of fate. And I shall be able to do nothing to prevent it when it happens. What will they find here in the bed in this world? On my return,
Basil Copper
I was prevented from seeing Farlow for almost three weeks. I had to leave the country on business. I cut short my trip though, and hurried back. Because I too had a dream. Nothing terrifying, just the common garden nightmare in which my friend Farlow was in dire straits. I went immediately to Green Mansion. Sanquist assured me that all was apparently well with the physicist, at least on the surface. And indeed I found him quite calm
Farlow
and rational from the night before. Nothing. I haven't dreamed for two nights. The last time was Friday. Basil, A week or so ago. Sunquist asked me if I thought it would be possible to bring something back from. From the dream world at the shore.
Basil Copper
Sunquist asked you that?
Farlow
You're surprised Sanquist is taking this seriously,
Basil Copper
and so am I. I assure you. Physicists of your reputation, Stanning, do not tell fairy tales. Go on. The.
Farlow
The doctor said your dreams have been averaging through your week, never more. Each time, each one's progressive. There's bright sun now in the dreams and the waves are quite calm and in the distance I'm able to see the spires of some city heaven.
Basil Copper
But you said you tried to bring something back. Were you successful?
Farlow
Have you a cigarette?
Basil Copper
Of course. Here. From a drawer he took out something wrapped in white cloth. He brought it across to me and put it down on the table in front of me.
Farlow
Have a look at this. It's all right. Don't be alarmed. There's nothing unpleasant.
Basil Copper
I must confess my hand was a little unsteady as I unwrapped the cloth. What I had before me was a
Farlow
piece of reddish colored rock about 6
Basil Copper
inches long and 3 wide, weighing perhaps a couple of pounds. You don't mean to say you actually brought this back from.
Farlow
Yes, that's exactly what I do.
Basil Copper
Have you had anyone look at this thing?
Farlow
Smithers, one of the best geologists we've got. He was quite excited and puzzled too. He places it at the time of Christ. He says it comes from a world of approximately 1960 years ago. What upset him though was the fact that there's been no weathering since. That piece of rock is as it was then. I have some whiskey here. Would you care for a. Now an effective spray on furniture polish that gives a wax shine instantly. Johnson's Pledge Just spray on and
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Farlow
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Basil Copper
Business again claimed me for several weeks. Soon after Faro's incredible revelation, we kept in touch by letter and I learned that there had been considerable progression in the dreams. He was dreaming them now, five or six times a week. When I saw him again. His face was gaunt, his eyes bright and unnatural.
Farlow
In this other place, I've forgotten all about my ordeal in the sea. I can see spires and turrets of the city quite clearly now. And strange as it may seem, I feel in the dream quite light hearted. It's as if. As if I should be there. As if I'm there for a purpose. I know the name of the city, Emiliano. How I know its name, I can't imagine. It's not in any modern atlas. I've searched and searched. Heaven knows it's a beautiful city. Each time these dreams come, I feel stronger and stronger. I've taken to running along the beach, splashing in and out of the water. I gaze at this distant city which progressively draws nearer. It's a joyous city, shrouded in a rosy mist. It's. It's like Mont St. Michel on a bright spring morning. Multiply Mont St. Michel a hundred fold, and there you have a million. Next, in my dreams, the banners and more and more turrets of a million were seen across a vast stretch of foaming strand more than a mile wide, which was stained all pink and gold with the light of the rising sun. And I knew that there was a woman in a million who was waiting for me. A woman who is waiting for me. And I know, too, that I love her. The last two 20s, November. I was walking towards his cities and suddenly I became aware of something. A faint white shape, hazy, like something seen through gauze, away near the city wall. I'm only half a mile away now. I can see this moving shape or collection of shapes. It seems to be stationary, and yet at the same time, it also appears to be moving at an incredible speed. Suddenly I feel afraid. A press of cold air seems to disperse the last of the mist. And suddenly I feel terribly afraid. I'm still walking, walking towards Emilio. And then. I wake up. Or I should say I woke up, for that was my last dream and I experienced it only last night. I was sweating and icy cold and terribly afraid. And I'm afraid to sleep tonight. I've asked Dr. Sandquist to stay not far from me tonight. Shall we have a whiskey? Basil, Each time I drink with you, I feel it may be for the last time.
Basil Copper
I was visiting Farlow every day. Now, in the mornings, my business was forgotten. I made what arrangements I could so that my living should not altogether go to rack and ruin. But I have to confess that for the greater part of the daylight hours, and sometimes in the dead of night too, my thoughts were constantly with the tortured man who was one of my greatest friends. One thing still puzzled me. Above all else, you realize, like you and like the splendid Dr. Sondquist, the whole business completely confuses me. There's another thing. Listen. You have been at Green Mansion for a long time now, quite early. Soon after the onset of those dreams, you volunteered to Come here. Now? Why? Why so soon? I mean, surely we're not so very strange, so very frightening to begin with, before waking up and finding sand on your feet and there's seawater in your clothes. Is there something you haven't told me? Yes.
Narrator/Letter Reader
What is it?
Farlow
The voices.
Basil Copper
Voices?
Farlow
The Janissaries of Emilia.
Basil Copper
What?
Farlow
I've never told you before. From perhaps the second dream onwards, I've heard that phrase in the wind. It seemed called from somewhere. The Janissaries of Aemelion. Voices I've heard clamoring. The Janissaries. What do you make of it?
Basil Copper
Janissaries were a sort of. Sort of guard, weren't they?
Farlow
Yes. I had Sonicus to bring me the book. The Janissaries were a body of Turkish infantry in olden times, the personal bodyguard of the Sultan of Turkey. They were abolished in 1826. The reference book also gives them as personal instruments of tyranny. Turkish soldier.
Basil Copper
But out of this time, of the period being 2000 years ago, or the
Farlow
east, the Janissaries were a terribly ancient force which existed under many names. They also operated outside Turkey in the East. In my dream. They are coming. This white shape, it's a body of horsemen. The Janissaries of a million. In my last dream battle, I distinguished the very robes they wear. I could almost see their faces very well.
Basil Copper
You surely can't take this seriously? I mean, this. This late?
Farlow
You haven't heard me out. I now know the nature of the threat.
Basil Copper
Threat?
Farlow
I am trying to reach the city. I know I shall never reach the city. Crossing the water to reach me are a body of horsemen clad in white robes.
Basil Copper
Can a dream do to harm you?
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Basil Copper
In my opinion, you need perhaps more skilled medical advice than Sonist can give you, my friend. If I might suggest.
Farlow
Morning, Mr. Basil Copper.
Basil Copper
That night, even I doubted Faro's sanity. I didn't go to see him for three days. When next I did go, he seemed to have forgotten our disagreement. I was shocked by the sight of him. He was even more fine drawn and gaunt than ever the dream had progressed. He was able, he said, to see the cruel oriental faces of the horsemen now. They carried shorts, heavy bladed swords. They wore turban. They looked so rapacious and sadistic that his dream self was near to fainting with fear. He believed the end was very near. Now.
Dr. Sandquist
He's half the man he was. He lies all day upon his bed, listening to the birds, smoking, dreading the night. He says no man can help him.
Basil Copper
Can anyone help him? Dr. Stoneqrist, can you help him?
Dr. Sandquist
I don't know. For the first time in my career, I am completely and utterly baffled. One thing I do know, though there is no physical danger, we are unable to help him. Then he may lose his mind for good. But that a dream can harm him other than mentally, no.
Basil Copper
I only saw Faro once more. I remember the occasion very well. It was a Thursday evening, late spring. I was feeling helpless and more gloomy than ever. I can remember
Farlow
so many things to give mankind my research, my work. A sense of doom fills my horizon. Those faces. Those ghastly faces. The cruel eyes. If Sunquist is not successful, they will reach me. And it'll be the end. The Janissaries of a Million. The Janissaries of a Million.
Dr. Sandquist
Come in, please, Mr. Copper.
Basil Copper
The matron didn't want me to see you, Doctor. She tried to put me off with the superintendent.
Farlow
The place.
Dr. Sandquist
Please close the door.
Basil Copper
Well, the place is crawling with policemen now. I've come to see Father.
Dr. Sandquist
I have bad news for you, I'm afraid. Parlo died in the night.
Basil Copper
But what happened?
Farlow
He had a heart attack.
Dr. Sandquist
There was nothing we could do.
Basil Copper
Why are the police here, then?
Dr. Sandquist
That is about another matter now.
Basil Copper
I'm sorry, Doctor. I insist. He was my dear friend. Do you. Do you believe that he was mad?
Dr. Sandquist
I sometimes believe that I may be.
Basil Copper
What does that mean, Doctor? I want to know. Why the police, sir.
Dr. Sandquist
I can rely on your complete discretion.
Basil Copper
Absolutely.
Dr. Sandquist
You are completely aware of all the progressive stages of Parlo's dreams or visions.
Basil Copper
He gave me his confidence.
Dr. Sandquist
He was very quiet during the last day or two of his treatment. He became very agitated on the last afternoon, though. He told me that these Janissaries of a Million were so close that he could almost touch them. He said if he slept that night, he knew he would die. I told him that the night would prove him wrong. I. I said it was the last crisis. He would come through it and lead a normal life again. He was put on the sedatives that night. At 4 in the morning, the whole sanatorium was aroused by the most appalling screams. Photographs have been taken. Investigations are being held at county level. Photographs are on the disc over there.
Farlow
Mr. Copple.
Basil Copper
When I had taken my leave of Dr. Sunquist, I drove back to my house. I wrapped the piece of rock Farlow had given to me in a piece of sacking and weighted it with stone secured by wire. And I drove out to the point and hurled it into the deepest boat part of the sea. And the thing haunts my brain, and naturally my sleep, too has become more and more broken. I pray earnestly that I never dream the same dream as far you see showed me the photographs, though I think they would have been better destroyed. Faro's room, which was padded, contained no sharp edges or weapons of any kind, and yet, make no mistake about it, though the thing is scientifically impossible. Varo had been hacked to pieces as surely as if a dozen men had attacked him with sharpened swords or knives.
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Farlow
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Basil Copper
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Podcast: Harold's Old Time Radio
Host: Harold’s Old Time Radio
Episode Title: Beyond Midnight – The Dream
Date: March 13, 2026
This episode of Beyond Midnight revisits radio horror storytelling from the "Golden Age of Radio." "The Dream" presents a chilling account of Farlow, a brilliant physicist whose recurrent, vivid dreams blur the boundaries of reality. As he finds himself reliving nightmarish experiences on a mysterious ancient shore, his experiences confound both his closest friend and his psychiatrist, suggesting that the mind harbors realms as dangerous as any in the waking world.
The language is intense, fearful, and haunting—evoking classic gothic horror. The storytelling interweaves rational skepticism with supernatural dread, as Farlow and those around him struggle between scientific explanations and evidence of another world infiltrating their reality.
This episode epitomizes psychological horror on radio: the boundaries between dream and waking life disintegrate, physical consequences spill from nightmare into reality, and the most rational minds confront the inexplicable. The story sustains a sense of mounting dread and tragic inevitability up to its shocking end, lingering with listeners and encapsulating the eerie magic of old-time radio horror.
For listeners who missed this episode:
"The Dream" is a masterful blend of supernatural suspense and psychological drama—ideal for fans of vintage radio who savor immersive, unsettling narratives about the limits of reason and the dangers that may lurk... just beyond midnight.