I love coming across the weird detail which can then set the brain ticking. In his last years, the British horror master Algernon Blackwood had a segment on BBC radio during which he would narrate some of his horror stories. Though it is now a largely forgotten form of 20th century horror fiction, radio-dramas were an important outlet for many forms of imaginative literature. I'm very grateful to BBC Radio for providing me with my first chance to write professionally, and it's something I continue to write for. I've been adapting a series of Greek and Roman classics, and at the moment I'm midway through adapting the Aeneid .
Radio is definitely a very valuable resource for aspirant writers in Britain.
Obviously, the main benefit of it as a medium, both for producer and writer, is that it doesn't cost anything to realize grandiose dramatic visions. I've been able to write about shipwrecks, the battle of Thermopylae and the trial of Oscar Wilde, all without having to worry about a budget at all. As to its progeny, the only audio I have done is an abridged recording by Richard E. Grant of The Vampyre in the States, published by Pocket Audio under its US title Lord of the Dead . Similarly, your writing seems to show a balance of these two elements. However, in the 20th century, horror literature has shifted from the purely atmospheric British horror writers like Algernon Blackwood or M.R. James to the largely event-based horror of Richard Matheson through Stephen King.