{
  "title": "GREAT TALES OF IMAGINATION",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "After the series had run its brief summer course on Monday evenings, it was shortly brought back\nfor an equally-brief Friday night run.",
  "origination": "WOL, Washington, D.C.",
  "duration": "October 6-10, 1947",
  "personnel": "Larry Frommer (adapter), Larry Geraghty (reader), Charles Keaton (organist).",
  "extant_recordings": "None.\nSTORY TIME—“EDGAR ALLAN POE SERIES”\n[Monday-Friday—11:00-11:15 AM]\nOct. 6, 1947\nOct. 7, 1947\n“The Black Cat”\nOct. 8, 1947\nOct. 9, 1947\nOct. 10, 1947\nSTRANGE\nStories of the supernatural\nORIGINATION: WJZ, New York City, New York (ABC).\nDURATION: May 30-September ??, 1955.\nPERSONNEL: Walter Gibson (scriptwriter, producer, narrator), Drex Hines (director),\nSheldon Stark (scriptwriter), Charles Woods (announcer).\nCASTS: Robert Dryden, Hal Holbrook, Stephan Schnabel, Lawson Zerbe, Bill Zuckert.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Deadman’s Reef” (5/30/55), “The Flying Dutchman,” “The\nGhost Train,” “Greenwood Acres,” “The Great Eastern,” story about hillbilly feud (#50).\n[NOTE: The complete set of scripts are archived in the Walter Gibson collection at the\nThousand Oaks Public Library, Thousand Oaks, California. Also, the following scripts\nwere documented by Randolph Cox as existing in Walter Gibson’s files: “The Ghost of La\nChatraine,” “Killed by a Ghost in a Taxi,” “Lightening a Ghost House,” “The Percy Castle\nGhost” and “Washington Irving Bishop.”]\nSTRANGE\n[Monday thru Friday—7:30-7:45 PM]\nMay 30, 1955 “Deadman’s Reef”\n[“…First segment (30) spun the yarn\nabout the ghost who guided the\nBritish ship Sultana out of the\npassage of a reef off the Cape of\nGood Hope. Stephan Schnabel and\nBill Zuckert were good as the captain\nand the seaman who went through\nthe experience…”] (Variety)\nMay 31, 1955\nTHE STRANGE AND THE SINISTER\nReadings of stories by William Croft Dickinson. Listed as “stories of the supernatural.”\nDickinson was a Scottish historian and author whose short stories were influenced by M.\nR. James.\n[Times obituary, May 24, 1963] “No account of his career would be complete without a\nreference to his revival in 1947 and subsequent editorship of the Scottish Historical\nReview or of his effective ghost stories and charming children’s books.”\nORIGINATION: Home, London (BBC).\nDURATION: October 9-13, 1961.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Let the Dead Bury Their Dead” (10/10/61), “A Work of Evil.”\n(10/13/61).\nTHE STRANGE AND THE SINISTER\n[Monday-Friday—10:45-11:00 PM]\nOct. 9, 1961 “The Sweet Singers”\nOct. 10, 1961 “Let the Dead Bury Their Dead”\nOct. 11, 1961 “Return at Dusk”\nOct. 12, 1961 “The Black Dog of Wolf’s Crag”\nOct. 13, 1961 “A Work of Evil”\nTHE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE\n(Variety, July 16, 1947) “BBC plans to offer WNEW a serial in five episodes… Story isn’t\ncompleted until the final (fifth) program is heard.”\nORIGINATION: Home Service, London (BBC).\nDURATION: September 9-October 7, 1944.\nPERSONNEL: Lance Sieveking (scriptwriter), Hugh  Stewart (producer).\nCAST: Raymond Lovell (Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde), et al.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.\nTHE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE\n[?????—8:30-9:00 PM]\nSep. 9, 1944 [1]\nSep. 16, 1944 [2]\nSep. 23, 1944 [3]\nSep. 30, 1944 [4]\nOct. 7, 1944 [5]\nTHE STRANGE DR. KARNAC\n[Broadcasting, 1/25/43] “WKY, Oklahoma City, on Jan. 23, 9:30-10:00 p.m. (EWT), started\na new thriller series, The Strange Dr.Carnak, authored by Scott Bishop, continuity editor\nof the Oklahoma City Broadcaster, who is known to radio fans for his horror series, Dark\nFantasy.”\nORIGINATION: WJZ, New York City, New York (BLUE).\nDURATION: January 23-April 24, 1943.\nPERSONNEL: Scott Bishop (scriptwriter), Stuart Buchanan (director), Fred Cole\n(announcer), Bob Hamilton (organist).\nCASTS: Horace Braham, Jean Ellyn, Joseph Julian, Mandel Kramer, Alice Reinheart, James\nVan Dyke, et al.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nTHE STRANGE DR. KARNAC (WJZ, NEW YORK)\n[Saturday—7:30-8:00 PM]\nJan. 23, 1943 “Meet Me at the Morgue”\nJan. 30, 1943\nFeb. 6, 1943\nFeb. 13, 1943\nFeb. 20, 1943\nFeb. 27, 1943\nMarch 6, 1943\nMarch 13, 1943\nMarch 20, 1943\nMarch 27, 1943\nApril 3, 1943\nApril 10, 1943\nApril 17, 1943\nApril 24, 1943\nTHE STRANGE DR. WEIRD\nCreated by Robert Arthur and David Kogan. Dr. Weird lives in “that cute little house on\nthe other side of the cemetery.”\n[NYW-T, 11/9/44] “Politically weary radio personnel awoke yesterday morning to\ndiscover that WOR’s The Strange Dr. Weird had staged its debut election night. Its star,\nmaster-of-dialects Maurice Tarplin, wondered if anyone heard him. But with the din and\nshouting over, he’s determined to continue our already complicated lives with escape\nproblems on this new mystery series…”\nORIGINATION: WOR, New York City, New York.\n[NOTE: The series played in syndication on about 30 stations.]\nDURATION: November 7, 1944-June 19, 1945.\nPERSONNEL: Robert Arthur (scriptwriter), David Kogan (scriptwriter), Jock MacGregor\n(producer-director), Maurice Tarplin (voice of “Dr. Weird”), Dick Willard (announcer).\nCASTS: Arline Blackburn, Phil Clark, Martin Wilson, et al.\nSPONSOR: Adam Hat Stores.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Journey into the Unknown”\nTHE STRANGE DR. WEIRD (WOR)\n[Tuesday—7:00-7:15 PM]  ????\nNov. 7, 1944 “The House Where Death\nLives”\n[Tuesday—7:15-7:30 PM]\nNov. 14, 1944\n“The Summoning of Chandor”\nNov. 21, 1944\n“Journey into the Unknown”\nNov. 28, 1944\n“Murder Comes Home”\nDec. 5, 1944 “Death in the Everglades”\nDec. 12, 1944 “The Man Who Talked with\nDeath”\nDec. 19, 1944 “The White Pearls of Death”\nDec. 26, 1944 “Stand-In for Murder”\nJan. 2, 1945 “The Tiger Cat”\nJan. 9, 1945 “The Murder Ship”\nJan. 16, 1945 “Beauty and the Beast”\nJan. 23, 1945 “Survival of the Fittest”\nJan. 30, 1945 “The Man Who Lived Twice”\nFeb. 6, 1945 “Dark Wings of Death”\nFeb. 13, 1945 “The Secret Room”\nFeb. 20, 1945 “Knife of Death”\nFeb. 27, 1945 “Murder Will Out”\nMarch 6, 1945\n“The Voice of Death”\nMarch 13, 1945\n“The Two Faces of Death”\nMarch 20, 1945\n“The Man Who Knew\nEverything”\nMarch 27, 1945\n“He Woke Up Dead”\nApril 3, 1945 “Devil’s Cavern”\nApril 10, 1945\n“When Killers Meet”\nApril 17, 1945\n“Dead Man’s Paradise”\nApril 24, 1945\n“Ghost Ship”\nMay 1, 1945 “The Man Who Played Dead”\nMay 8, 1945 “Murder—One Million B.C.”\nMay 15, 1945 “Picture of a Killer” ?\nMay 22, 1945 “Revenge from the Grave” ?\nMay 29, 1945\nJune 5, 1945\nJune 12, 1945\nJune 19, 1945\nSUPERNATURALLY SPEAKING\nWere these scripts ever produced by any station?\nORIGINATION: The Script Library, New York City, New York.\nDURATION: Scripts offered for sale in 1941.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nSUPERNATURALLY YOURS\nAre these pilots? No confirmation of broadcasts has yet been found.\nORIGINATION: Unknown.\nDURATION: Circa 1947.\nPERSONNEL: Ken Nordine (narrator)??\nSPONSOR: Schoenhofen-Edelweiss Co. (Edelbrew Beer).\n[NOTE: The actual commercial in “Was It a Dream?” refers to the product as “Edelbrew.”]\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Was It a Dream?” (2/24/47), “The Cyprian Cat” (4/23/47).\n`\nT\nTALES FROM FIDDLER’S GREEN\nGhostly legends and fantasies of the sea dramatized by Thomas Gilchrist, who\napparently wrote nothing but sea stories.\nORIGINATION: C???, Vancouver, British Columbia (Trans-Canada Network).\nDURATION: June 27-September 26, 1953.\nPERSONNEL: Thomas Gilchrist (scriptwriter), Raymond Whitehouse (producer).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nVANCOUVER THEATRE—“TALES FROM FIDDLER’S GREEN”\nJune 27, 1953\n“The Case of the Dying\nLegend”\n[“…The Flying Dutchman released\nfrom curse to forever sail the seas\nagainst the wind is brought to\nFiddler’s Green along with his\ntemptress…”] (CCBS Bibliography)\nJuly 4, 1953 “The Ear of Captain Jenkins”\n[“…Sir Robert Walpole infiltrates\nFiddler’s Green to find captain\nwhose false tale about his lost ear\nprecipitated Anglo-Spanish War…”]\nJuly 11, 1953 “The Red Hand of Ulster”\n[“…Irish sailor is brought down to\nthe sailor’s Elysium, Fiddler’s Green\nto be told the true tale of the origin\nof the Red Hand of Ulster sign…”]\nJuly 18, 1953 “The Tale of the Modern\nStormalong”\n[“…Denizens of Fiddler’s Green\nhear merry tale in which crusty old\nshipowner, his daughter and his\nassistant all find mates on a cruise.”]\nJuly 25, 1953 “The Scarf of O’Shane”\n[“…Grim fate befalls Irish sailor in\nafterlife who, cursed with snakes by\nnative woman for murder with\nscarf, died at sight of scarf coiled.”]\nAug. 1, 1953 “The Lost Ships”\n[“…Message in bottle that sinks to\nFiddler’s Green tells of young\nsailor’s discovery of a piracy\noperation that funds a Utopian\nisle…”]\nAug. 8, 1953 “The Phantom Trip”\n[“…While Neptune presides, the\nDeep Sea Board of Wind, Wave and\nTide hears the tale of a captain who\nsolved a murder and saved an\ninnocent man…”]\nAug. 15, 1953\n“The Return”\n[“…Sailor returns from the dead to\nconfront his brother who stole his\nfiancée twenty years ago to gain her\nfather’s business…”]\nAug. 22, 1953\n“The Midnight Leadsman”\n[“…Sailor, whom ship’s crew\ndiscerns has murdered evil captain\nresponsible for his parent’s death,\nkills himself and enters Fiddler’s\nGreen…”]\nAug. 29, 1953\n“The Teardrop of Tarina”\n[“…Water nymph of Fiddler’s Green\nweaps pearl tear for native diver she\nloves that leads to his death at hands\nof Englishmen…”]\nSep. 5, 1953 “The Fugitive of the Faradon”\n[“…Board of Fiddler’s Green hears\npetition for entry of doctor who,\nwhen he went to sea to avoid mercy\nkilling charge, saved a ship’s dog…”]\nSep. 12, 1953 “The Drums of Whangaroa”\n[“…Tale of greedy shipowner who\nwillfully sent his men to their death,\nand his fitting punishment in the\nsailor’s afterlife, Fiddler’s Green…”]\nSep. 19, 1953 “The Eyes of Stormy Grey”\n[“…Board of Fiddler’s Green is\nregaled by romantic tale, as it\narranges for reunion of one of their\nsailors and his recently deceased\nwife…”]\nSep. 26, 1953 “Passing Ship”\n[“…Tale of love triangle between\nman, wife and ship, wife’s death in\nwar, husband’s revenge on enemy\nand couple’s reunion in Fiddler’s\nGreen…”]\nTALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL\nSubject for further research.\nORIGINATION: CJOC, Lethbridge, Alberta.\nDURATION: [January 11-April 25], 1941.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nTALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL\n[Saturday—11:00-11:15 PM]\nJan. 11, 1941\n[Hockey on Jan. 18]\nJan. 25, 1941\n[Hockey on Feb. 1]\n[No show on Feb. 8]\nFeb. 15, 1941\nFeb. 22, 1941\nMarch 1, 1941\n[Hockey on Mar. 8]\nMarch 15, 1941\n[Hockey on Mar. 22]\n[Hockey on Mar. 29]\nApril 25, 1941\nMay 17, 1941 To be announced\nJune 7, 1941 To be announced\nJuly 5, 1941 CBS Dance Orchestra\nTALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL\n[Washington Post, January 20, 1946] “Tales of the Supernatural’ debuts tonight at 11:30\nover WWDC-ABS with a dramatization of Poe’s ‘Cask of Amontillado.’”\nORIGINATION: WWDC, Washington, D.C.\nDURATION: January 20-February 10, 1946.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nTALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL\n[Sunday—11:30-11:45 PM]\nJan. 20, 1946 “The Cask of Amontillado”\nJan. 27, 1946\nFeb. 3, 1946\nFeb. 10, 1946\nTALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL\nAn Australian series, done several years after World War II (judging from internal\nevidence in one of the episodes, where a five-year-old murder is placed during the same\nyear that the Allies were bombing Berlin).\nORIGINATION: Grace Gibson Productions, Sydney, New South Wales (electrical\ntranscriptions).\nDURATION: Circa 1948-1950.\nPERSONNEL: Kevin Brennan (narrator).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “The Last Lord Reddingcourt,” “I Shall Rise Again,” “A Species of\nSeaweed,” “The Strange Companion” (#7), “Out of the Mist.” (#8).\nTALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL\n[1]\n[2]\n[3]\n[4]\n[5]\n[6]\n[7] “The Strange Companion”\n[“…Two travelers hear a tale of\nmurder—told by a ghost…”]\n[8] “Out of the Mist”\n[“…A medium conjures up death.”]\nTitles with unknown numbers:\n“I Shall Rise Again”\n“The Last Lord Reddingcourt”\n“A Species of Seaweed”\nTALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL\nListed in the Modesto Bee, Thursday, October 2, 1952, KGO, 9:15-9:30.\nTALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL\nListed in the radio log of the Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, on the following\ndates.\nORIGINATION: CJOC, Lethbridge, Alberta.\nDURATION: July 20-[December 7], 1953.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nTALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL (CJOC)\n[Monday—10:45-11:00 PM]\nJuly 20, 1953\nJuly 27, 1953 Not listed\nSep. 7, 1953\nSep. 14, 1953\n[Monday—11:45-11:55 PM]\nSep. 28, 1953\nOct. 12, 1953\nOct. 26, 1953\nNov. 30, 1953\nDec. 7, 1953\nTALES OF THE WEIRD AND UNKNOWN\nCited in the Sperdvac Radiogram, March 1988; no further information is known.\nORIGINATION: Unknown (electrical transcriptions).\nDURATION: Circa 1940s.\nPERSONNEL: Charles Crowder (scriptwriter).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nTEATRO DA MEIA-NOITE\n“If you have a strong heart, you are invited to hear the Midnight Theater. Real facts,\nradiotelephoned to Ivo Ferro and Ubiratan Lustosa and interpreted by our cast of radio\ntheater. Tonight, at midnight…but only for those who have nerves of steel.”\nUbiratan Lustosa: “One time Ivo Ferro and I were discussing our programming. We\nknew we had a dead space in the schedule—midnight to four in the morning. We\ndecided to create a terror theater to fill that space\n“We decided to make a rotation in the task to write the radiofonizacoes… One night\nIvo would recount the story of “The Man of the Foot Redondo,” then another night I\ncounter-attacked with “The Mule Without a Head.” Then Ivo would come back with “The\nCry of the Wolfman” and I answered with “The Mansion of Punished Souls.” And so we\ncarried on a friendly competition of terrifying stories.\n“We used to advantage many narratives sent by letter from the listeners, but also we\ninvented much thing. The presentation was to the living creature to the midnight. We\nused much sonoplastia, with howls, moans, creak of doors, outbursts of laughter and\nstrong shouts of horror, thunderstorms, musical vignettes, an equipment of sounds to\nimpress the listeners.\n“One night, after the presentation, I went to eat a sandwich in the Minhorn Bar and\nlater I caught a taxi to go home. Without knowing who I was, the cab driver recounted\nthe story to me that he had heard on the radio. It was what I had written and we had\npresented that night. He made some additions and I confess that my history well more\nimpressive left. He had a gaiato that he worked ina gas station, close to the Public Stroll,\nthat left the service of loudspeakers the all volume to relay our causos of terror…with all\nits howls and moans. To that he reed-echo in the dawn. The neighborhood, scared,\ncertain time gave part in the policy.\n“Everything was going well until one day when Rolff Mario, our sonoplasta (sound\neffects man), said to Ivo that he would not work on the midnight show any longer, even\nif it meant tendering his resignation to the station. It seems that when going home after\nthe broadcast, through the deserted city, he had to walk a good stretch on the edge of\nthe municipal cemetery. Every little noise scared him, and his nerves just couldn’t stand\nthe tension. Since he was essential for the success of the program, we started to record\nthe show ahead of time, usually around eight o’clock in the evening.”\nORIGINATION: PRB-2, Curitiba, Parana (Radio Clube Paranaense).\nDURATION: Circa late 1950s-early 1960s.\nPERSONNEL: Ivo Ferro (scriptwriter, director), Ubiratan Lustosa (scriptwriter, director),\nRolff Mario (sound effects).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.\nTEATRO DE HORROR\nA Brazilian radio horror series. Need more information.\nORIGINATION: ???, Rio de Janeiro (Radio Standard).\nDURATION: Circa 1940s.\nPERSONNEL:\nSPONSOR: Goodyear.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.\nTEATRO DE MISTERIO\nThe newspaper ads proclaimed “Misterio! Crimen! Horror!” Just what were the\nproportions of these three elements remains to be determined and evaluated.\nORIGINATION: XEW, Mexico, D.F.\nDURATION: Circa 1950-1951.\n[NOTE: Have newspaper annotations for March 1 and 22, and April 5, 19, and 26, 1951,\nat a broadcast time of 7:15-7:45 p.m.]\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nSPONSOR: Jarabe Bre-A-Col.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nTEATRO DE TERROR\nThe opening to this show was included in an accompanying CD to Tavares’ book, but he\ndoesn’t mention it in the main text.\nORIGINATION: Brazil.\nDURATION: Unknown.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.\nTEATRO FANTASIA\nIt is uncertain whether this series produced by Radio Cadena Nacional specialized in\ndark fantasy, romantic fantasy, or whimsical fantasy. Most of the episode titles are\nsufficiently ambiguous to beggar description. “Laughter of the Dead” and “The Club of\nthe Phantoms” seem like safe bets, but what are we to make of “Boardinghouse for\nStudents,” “The Inheritance,” “The Dowry Hunter,” “Destiny,” “The Kiss,” “Without Name,”\n“Clear Water,” “Divine Love,” “Love and Sorrow,” and “Whirlwind”?\nORIGINATION: XEX, Mexico, D.F. (RCN).\nDURATION: Circa 1953.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nTELLER OF HAWAIIAN TALES\n“Son of a pioneer family of Kaua’i, author Eric Knudsen spent most of his life as a\nrancher, hunter, lawyer, and legislator. These sixty tales were originally narrated by\nKnudsen on his radio program which aired during the black-out nights of World War II.\nThey quickly became a welcome diversion from the news of fighting around the globe.\nTold in the first person, it seems as though ‘Elika, Teller of Tales’ actually experienced\nthese encounters with gods, goddesses, ghosts and cowboys along his journeys through\nHawaii’s peaks and valleys.”\nORIGINATION: KGMB, Honolulu, Hawaii.\n[The syndicated series was released by Bell Transcriptions, a division of Bell Records Ltd.]\nDURATION: Circa 1942-1945.\nPERSONNEL: Eric A. Knudsen (storyteller).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “The One-Eyed Akua” (#1), “The Ghost Dance on Punchbowl”\n(#11), “Sweet Leilehua” (#12), “An Incident in the Niihau Channel” (#16), “The Wreck of\nThe Thunderer” (#32), “The Sleeping Boy” (#35), “For the Love of Kaala” (#50), “The Ditch\nthe Menehune Built” (#2?).\nTHE TERROR\nEdgar Wallace’s play was a late-comer to radio, coming years after its London stage\npremiere in 1927 and two movie versions in 1928 and 1938.\nORIGINATION: Home Service, London (BBC).\nDURATION: ???? ??, 1947.\nPERSONNEL:\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nTHE TERROR\nCited by Gary Rhodes in his excellent book on Bela Lugosi.\nORIGINATION: Proposed (but never produced) by Edward D. Wood, Jr.\nDURATION: Proposal and one script written in 1954.\nPERSONNEL: Bela Lugosi (proposed star), Edward D. Wood, Jr. (scriptwriter).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nTERROR TALES\nIt is uncertain whether this originated as a series of radio broadcasts or if it was an\noriginal for LP album release.\nORIGINATION: Unknown.\nDURATION: Circa 1959.\nPERSONNEL: Robert P. Hamelton, Martha Wentworth (voice of “The Old Sea Hag,”\nvarious voices).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Terror Train,” “Mice from Outer Space,” “Devil Octopus,”\n“Shipwreck,” “The Spooky Wheer,” “Slumber Mice.”\nLE THEATRE DE LA PEUR\nListed in Radio Guide in 1941.\nORIGINATION: CBF, Montreal, Quebec (CBC).\nDURATION: Circa 1941.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nLE THEATRE DU GRAND GUIGNOL\nA series of adaptations done on French-Canadian radio.\nORIGINATION: CKVL, Montreal, Quebec.\nDURATION: August 20, 1948-1949.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.\nTHEY WALK BY NIGHT\n“In the silent, somber depths of a waxwork museum, before an old caretaker, highlights\nof the lives of Rachmaninoff, Alexandre Dumas, Catherine the Great, Crippen and many\nothers are re-created.”\nORIGINATION: AWA Limited, Sydney, New South Wales (electrical transcriptions).\nDURATION: Recorded and released in syndication in 1963.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: The entire series of 52 broadcasts.\nTHEY WALK BY NIGHT\n[1] “Judas Iscariot”\n[2] “Colonel Blood”\n[3] “Dan Morgan”\n[4] “Wyatt Earp”\n“THREE SKELETON KEY”\n[TOKYO MONSTER HOAX]\nA TOUCH OF STRANGE\nThis CBC fantasy series combined equal parts of whimsy and horror.\nORIGINATION: C???, Toronto (CBC Trans-Canada).\nDURATION: April 1-August 12, 1960.\nPERSONNEL: John Alexander Bethune (scriptwriter), Robert Brome (scriptwriter), Eric\nCameron (scriptwriter), Michael Judge (scriptwriter), Walt Kelley (scriptwriter), Alan\nRossiter King (scriptwriter), Hector MacFayden (scriptwriter, producer), Kae McRae\n(scriptwriter), Alan Pearce (scriptwriter), George Salverson (scriptwriter).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nA TOUCH OF STRANGE\n[Friday—5:30?-6:00 PM]\nApril 1, 1960 “They” (by Rudyard Kipling)\nApril 8, 1960 “The Tin Cup” (by Richard\nStockton)\nApril 22, 1960\n“The Swan”\nApril 29, 1960\n“A Song for a Lady” (by\nCharles Beaumont)\nMay 6, 1960 “The Last Clock” (by James\nThurber)\nMay 13, 1960\nMay 20, 1960\nMay 27, 1960\nJune 3, 1960\nJune 10, 1960\nJune 17, 1960\nJune 24, 1960\nJuly 1, 1960 “Between the Silences”\nJuly 8, 1960 “Judgment Morning”\n[“…A greedy brother connives to get\nthe land rights from his sister by\nplanning their funerals to pretend\nthey are already dead; he\nsucceeds…”] (CCBS Bibliography)\nJuly 15, 1960 “The Wart and the Wizard” (by\nTerence Hanbury White)\nJuly 22, 1960 “The Lesson”\n[“…A professor commits his fortieth\nmurder of the day when he stabs yet\nanother unsuspecting student who\nfails to grasp his lecture on\nphilology…”] (CCBS Bibliography)\nJuly 29, 1960 “There Are 43,200 Seconds in a\nDay” (by Peter Ustinov)\nAug. 5, 1960 “The Hungry One”\n[“…Young man is eventually eaten\nalive by a huge cactus sent to him by\na former housekeeper who despised\nhim as a child…”] (CCBS\nBibliography)\nAug. 12, 1960\n“The Town on the Edge of the\nEnd”\n`\nU\nUNCANNY STORIES\nEdward Mason created this series for the BBC.\nORIGINATION: Light Programme, London (BBC).\nDURATION: November 10-December 15, 1958.\nPERSONNEL: Archie Campbell (producer), Edward J. Mason (scriptwriter).\nCASTS:\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “The Wise Man from the East” (11/24/58), “An Ear for Music”\n(12/1/58), “Things That Go Bump in the Night” (12/8/58), “A Small Still Voice” (12/15/58).\nUNCANNY STORIES\n[Monday—7:30-8:00 PM]\nNov. 10, 1958\n“The Fascinating Hobby of\nMr. Cranberry Parfitt”\nNov. 17, 1958\n“Such Stuff As Dreams Are\nMade On”\nNov. 24, 1958\n“The Wise Man from the\nEast”\nDec. 1, 1958 “An Ear for Music”\nDec. 8, 1958 “Things That Go Bump in\nthe Night”\nDec. 15, 1958 “A Still Small Voice”\nTHE UNINVITED\nAustralian series of ghost stories.\nORIGINATION: Artransa, Sydney, New South Wales.\nDURATION: Circa 1970s.\nPERSONNEL: Jim Bradley (director), Richard Lane (scriptwriter).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Tom Fenton haunted by phantom woman (#28).\nTHE UNINVITED\n[?????\n[1] “Night of the Monster”\n[2] “Untimely End”\n[3] “Deadlier Than the Dream”\n[4] “Dead Ringer”\n[5] “The Restless Spirit of\nPolkington Manor”\n[6] “The Letter”\n[7] “Tale of Two Bridges”\n[8] “In Death as in Life”\n[9] “Revenge on a Swiss\nMountain”\n[10] “Out of the Fog”\n[11] “Car 8, Suite 22”\n[12] “The Stray Brown Dog”\n[13] “Tell Them Who I Was”\n[14] “The Miller with Three\nThumbs”\n[15] “The Evil of Bellengate\nHall”\n[16] “Death Came Four Years”\n[17] “Guest Spirit at a Séance”\n[18] “Seven Steps to Death”\n[19] “Message from Miss\nJanet”\n[20] “The Lonely”\n[21] “Wrath of a Mountain”\n[22] “The Prophet”\n[23] “A Kind of Lust”\n[24] “Drury Lane Affair”\n[25] “Incident at Rybridge”\n[26] “A Room for One Night”\n[27] “The Lady in the Lake”\n[28] “Something Hidden”\n[29] “Come To Me, Lady”\n[30] “The Angry Princess”\n[31] “A Salt Smell Like the Sea”\n[32] “From the Other Side, a\nQuesting Spirit”\n[33] “The Kiss of Death”\n[34] “The Scent of a Grave\nMatter”\n[35] “The Dream Goes On”\n[36] “The Mask of Vengeance”\n[37] “Never Too Late”\n[38] “The Ghost That Wasn’t”\n[39] “To Death—and Beyond”\n[40] “Duel of the Dead”\n[41] “The Unbelievers”\n[42] “Dead Reckoning”\n[43] “The Smallest Cry”\n[44] “A Measure of Time”\n[45] “Private World, Deadly\nWorld”\n[46] “Coach to Eternity”\n[47] “The Scent of Magnolias”\n[48] “Wherever You Go”\n[49] “Do Me a Favour Before\nYou Sleep”\n[50] “The Extra Man”\n[51] “Another World for Henry\nGittins”\n[52] “The Witch of the Woods”\nUNUSUAL PEOPLE\nSeries of psychological and supernatural thrillers.\n[VARIETY] “’Unusual People,’ which marked its first anniversary on the air with its\nMarch 6 broadcast, represents an ambitious attempt at programming for this N.Y. indie\nstation. Birthday also maked expansion of the show, previously occupying a 15-minute\nniche, into half-hour dramatic fare.”\nORIGINATION: WEVD, New York City, New York.\nDURATION: Circa 1944-1945.\nPERSONNEL: Jack Curtis (announcer), Edward Ludlum (producer-director).\nCAST OF “CARMILLA”: Michael Blair, Harriet Burke, Marion Chancer, Sterling Cheseldine,\nHelen Thomas (Carmilla).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nUNUSUAL PEOPLE\n[Tuesday—10:30-11:00 PM]\nMarch 6, 1945\n“Carmilla”\nUNUSUAL TALES\nBBC series of H. G. Wells stories.\nORIGINATION: Home Service, London (BBC).\nDURATION: September 28-November 2, 1951.\nPERSONNEL: Felix Felton (scriptwriter), Laurence Gilliam (scriptwriter), Lance Sieveking\n(scriptwriter), Martyn C. Webster (producer).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nUNUSUAL TALES\n[Friday—9:58-10:05 PM]\nSep. 28, 1951 “Mr. Ledbetter’s Vacation”\nOct. 5, 1951 “The Man Who Could Work\nMiracles”\nOct. 12, 1951 “The Crystal Egg”\nOct. 19, 1951 “The Door in the Wall”\nOct. 26, 1951 “The New Accelerator” / “The\nStolen Bacillus”\nNov. 2, 1951 “A Deal in Ostriches”\n`\nV\nEL VAMPIRO DE ORLOV\nThis horror serial from Peru\nORIGINATION: ????, Mendoza.\nDURATION: Circa 1950s.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nVANCOUVER THEATRE —“13 HORROR DRAMAS”\n[Winnipeg Free Press, November 9, 1959] “Two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe will be\nheard on CBW at 11. Introduced and adapted by Ian Thorne, The Black Cat and Mr.\nValdemar are the fifth in a series of 13 horror dramas being presented on Vancouver\nTheatre.”\nOver the years Thorne also did radio adaptations of Daphne du Maurier’s “The Birds”\n(December 6, 1957), Wilkie Collins’ “The Dream Woman” (May 13, 1956), Max\nBeerbohm’s “Enoch Soames” (July 13, 1959),\nORIGINATION: CBW, Vancouver, British Columbia (CBC Trans-Canada).\nDURATION: October 12-??????, 1959\nPERSONNEL: Neil Sutherland (producer), Ian Thorne (scriptwriter, host).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nVANCOUVER THEATRE—“13 HORROR DRAMAS” (CBW, VANCOUVER)\n[Monday—11:00-11:30 PM]\nOct. 5, 1959 “The Doll” (by Algernon\nBlackwood)\nOct. 12, 1959 “The Gentleman from America”\n(by Michael Arlen)\nOct. 19, 1959 “The Wendigo” (by Algernon\nBlackwood)\nOct. 26, 1959\nNov. 2, 1959 “The Screaming Skull” (by\nFrancis Marion Crawford)\nNov. 9, 1959 “The Black Cat” / “Mr.\nValdemar”\nNov. 16, 1959\n“The Horla” (by Guy de\nMaupassant)\nNov. 23, 1959\n“The Grave Grass Quivers” (by\nMackinlay Kantor)\nNov. 30, 1959\n“The Monkey’s Paw” (by W. W.\nJacobs)\nDec. 7, 1959 “A Shipment of Mute Fate” (by\nMartin Storm)\nDec. 14, 1959 “The Resurrection of Solly\nMoon” (by Walter D. Edmonds)\nDec. 21, 1959 “The Woman at Seven\nBrothers” (by Wilbur Daniel\nSteele)\nDec. 28, 1959 “The Beast with Five Fingers”\n(by W. F. Harvey)\nJan. 4, 1960\nTHE VISITOR\n“He had his own program, ‘The Visitor,’ last semester on WNUR, a program on which he\nread stories by Edgar Allan Poe, with emphasis on the suspense tales.”\nORIGINATION: WNUR, ??????, Illinois.\nDURATION: Circa 1957.\nPERSONNEL: Ronald Sims (reader).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.\nVOICE IN THE NIGHT\n“Horror stories of other days and of today…”\nNew Orleans horror series—“horror stories of other days and of today…”\nSometime in the summer of 1941 Orval Anderson was replaced as the “Voice in the\nNight” by another WWL staffer, Mike Clarke.\nORIGINATION: WWL, New Orleans, Louisiana.\nDURATION: March 28-December 29, 1941.\nPERSONNEL: Orval Anderson (narrator), Mike Clarke (narrator), Ed Hoerner (scriptwriter,\ndirector, various roles), Don Lewis (various roles), Ray McNamara (novachord).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nVOICE IN THE NIGHT\n[Friday—8:45-9:00 PM]\nMarch 28, 1941\nApril 4, 1941\nApril 11, 1941\nApril 18, 1941\nApril 25, 1941\n[Monday—9:30-9:45 PM]\nApril 28, 1941\nMay 5, 1941\nMay 12, 1941\nMay 19, 1941\nMay 26, 1941\n[“…the story of three ‘notorious\nwerewolves’.”]\nJune 2, 1941\nJune 9, 1941 “Calvados Castle”\nJune 23, 1941\nJune 30, 1941\n“The Strange Story of\nChristopher Craig”\nJuly 7, 1941\nJuly 14, 1941 “The Strange Story of Jan van\nDirk”\nJuly 21, 1941\nJuly 28, 1941 “The Strange Story of Barry\nMerrett”\nAug. 4, 1941 “The Strange Story of Abner\nBailey”\nAug. 11, 1941\n“Hangman’s House”\nAug. 25, 1941\nSep. 1, 1941\nSep. 8, 1941 “The Strange Story of Dr.\nCamelford”\nSep. 15, 1941 “The Strange Story of Wykoff”\nSep. 22, 1941\n[Monday—10:00-10:15 PM]\nSep. 29, 1941\nOct. 6, 1941\nOct. 13, 1941\nOct. 20, 1941\nOct. 27, 1941\nNov. 3, 1941\nNov. 17, 1941\nNov. 24, 1941\nDec. 1, 1941\nDec. 8, 1941\nDec. 15, 1941\nDec. 29, 1941\nSources for log information: New Orleans Times-Picayune, New Orleans Item and the\nTribune, New Orleans States.\nTHE VOICE IN THE NIGHT\n[Paul M. Peckins, OTR Digest, March 1, 1995] “WINS AM radio in NYC circi [sic] 1954-59\nthere was a late night show of a guy with a great voice reading scary stories (Tell Tale\nHeart, Pit and the Pendulum and other Edgar Allen Poe type stuff). I think his name was\nsomething like Stanley or Sid Gross and the show was a half hour or an hour long on\nFridays/Saturdays??”\n[dcrtv.com mailbag] Hi, Re: n 5/18/05 Steve Feinberg wrote: \"I read a message on your\nsite from a Ron Friedman of Huntington, NY (5/6/03). He was asking if anyone\nremembered a 1958 NY radio show on WINS called \"The Voice in the Night\" narrated by\nSidney Gross. Well, I more than remember it. Twenty five years ago I tracked down\nSidney Gross, met him in Manhattan and obtained a few tapes from him. I'm sure Ron\nwould love to know this.”  I, too, remember Sidney Gross and his voice in the night\nprogram. is it possible to gert copies of the tapes that you refer to. Thanks. Joel Levine\n(8/22/05)\nDave: I read a message on your site from a Ron Friedman of Huntington, NY (5/6/03).\nHe was asking if anyone remembered a 1958 NY radio show on WINS called \"The Voice\nin the Night\" narrated by Sidney Gross. Well, I more than remember it. Twenty five years\nago I tracked down Sidney Gross, met him in Manhattan and obtained a few tapes from\nhim. I'm sure Ron would love to know this. How could I get in touch with him? Do you\nhave his e-mail address or any contact information on him? Thanks. Steve Feinberg\n(5/18/05)\nDave, Talking to my son tonight (he's 24, I'm 57), l recalled for him a radio show that I\nlistened to when I was 14 years old in 1958, called \"A Voice in the Night\" on WINS radio\nin NYC. It was a story-telling program, airing every Sunday night at midnight, narrated\nby Sidney Gross. So I did a Google search on the show's name and the narrator's name\ntogether, and got exactly one hit, and it was from your September 1998 mailbag, and I\nreproduce it here: “I wonder how many people remember the Sunday midnight show\n\"The Voice In The Night\" with Sidney Gross (sp) on 1010 WINS?” (September 14,\n1998)..... Is there any way for me to correspond with the author of that note? I don't see\nany information about who that may be. I guess it's a long shot, but at my stage in life, it\nwould be a hoot to be in touch with someone who shares that memory from 45 years\nago. Thanks for reading this and for any help you can give. Ron Friedman, Huntington,\nNY (5/6/03)\n[New York Times, January 24, 1958] “Radio station WINS will try out a new program\nconsisting of readings of various works in literature. Listeners to the experimental\nprogram will be encouraged to submit their views on such programming to the station.\n“The first program will begin tomorrow at midnight and continue until 12:30 A. M.\nSunday. With organ music in the background, it will feature Sidney Gross reading\npassages by Edgar Allan Poe.”\nSidney Gross was also a disc jockey and a jazz aficionado who hosted various music\nprograms over the years, including the International Jazz Club on WJZ in 1953.\nORIGINATION: WINS, New York City, New York.\nDURATION: January 25, 1958-\nPERSONNEL: Sidney Gross (narrator).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Yes (details to follow).\nTHE VOICE IN THE NIGHT\n[Saturday—12:00 MIDNIGHT-12:30 AM]\nJan. 25, 1958\n[“…With organ music in the\nbackground, it will feature Sidney\nGross reading passages by Edgar\nAllan Poe…”]\nFeb. 1, 1958\n`\nW\nTHE WEIRD CIRCLE\n“In this cave by the restless sea…we are met to call, from out the past,\nstories…strange…and weird. Bellkeeper, toll the bell…so all may know we are gathered\nagain in…the Weird Circle.”\n“Out of the past…phantoms of a world gone by speak again the immortal tale…”\nThe transcription division of NBC was responsible for this foray into the world of literary\nhorrors, all of them courtesy of P.D., and frequently mangled beyond recognition by\nunrecalcitrant scriptwriters who seemed at times to be non-plussed by having to deal\nwith supernatural elements and managed to turn a number of ghost stories into non-\nghost stories.\nA number of the recordings which survive are from a Canadian run of the series in the\nmid-Forties and feature commercials for Ogden’s Cigars (no relation to the author of\nthis tome).\n“A total of 40 stations in the United States and Canada had purchased The Weird\nCircle, two months after NBC’s Radio-Recording Division put the transcribed mystery\nseries of 26 half-hour programs on the market.”\nORIGINATION: NBC Radio-Recording Division, New York City, New York (electrical\ntranscriptions).\nDURATION: 26 episodes were recorded in the early part of 1943 and first released in\nJune; 13 more were recorded in the autumn of that year, and another 13 in the summer\nof 1944. Finally, in April of 1945, the complete package of 78 was advertised for the first\ntime. There was a brief network run of four episodes on ABC in 1947 as a replacement\nfor Murder at Midnight.\nPERSONNEL: Jack Barefield (scriptwriter), Bert Wood (producer).\nCASTS: Eleanor Audley, Fred Barron, Alan Devitt, Carl Eastman, Richard Gordon, Edwin\nJerome, Regis Joyce, Emily Kipp, Arnold Moss, Katherine Niday, Santos Ortega, Alfred\nShirley, Julie Stevens, Chester Stratton, Gladys Thornton, Audrey Totter, Walter Vaughn,\nLawson Zerbe.\nSPONSOR: Peter Hand Brewery Co. (beer; WGN, 1943), Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (Ogden’s\nFine Cut Tobacco; 34 Canadian stations, 1943), Howard Clothes (WNEW, 1943), Sanford\nLabs (household liquid cleaner; KECA, 1943), Bishop’s Portraits (KLX, 1946), et al.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: The entire series of 78 broadcasts.\nTHE WEIRD CIRCLE (DISC SERIES ON WGN)\n[Thursday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nJuly 8, 1943 [1] “The Fall of the House of\nUsher” (by Edgar Allan Poe)\nJuly 15, 1943 [2] “The House and the Brain”\n(by Edward Bulwer-Lytton)\nJuly 22, 1943 [5] “Declared Insane” (by\nHonore de Balzac)\nJuly 29, 1943 [6] “A Terribly Stange Bed” (by\nWilkie Collins)\nAug. 5, 1943 [4] “The Narrative of Arthur\nGordon Pym” (by Edgar Allan\nPoe)\nAug. 12, 1943\n[3] “The Vendetta” (by Honore\nde Balzac)\n[“…a weird story told by an old\nGypsy fortune teller…”]\nAug. 19, 1943\n[7] “What Was It?” (by Fitz\nJames O’Brien)\nAug. 26, 1943\n[8]“The Knightsbridge\nMystery” (by Charles Reade)\nSep. 2, 1943 [9] “The Horla” (by Guy de\nMaupassant)\nSep. 9, 1943 [10] “William Wilson” (by\nEdgar Allan Poe)\nSep. 16, 1943 [11] “A Passion in the Desert”\n(by Honore de Balzac)\n[“…The strange tale of a beautiful\nwhite woman, a panther and a young\nFrench soldier of the foreign service\nalone on the Egyptian desert…”]\nSep. 23, 1943 [12] “Mateo Falcone” (by\nProsper Merimee)\nSep. 30, 1943 [13] “The Man Without a\nCountry” (by Edward Everett\nHale)\nOct. 7, 1943 [14] “Dr. Manette’s\nManuscript” (by Charles\nDickens)\nOct. 14, 1943 [16] “Expectations of an Heir”\n(by Samuel Johnson)\nOct. 21, 1943 [17] “The Hand” (by Guy de\nMaupassant)\nNov. 4, 1943 [15] “The Great Plague” (by\nThomas Hood)\nNov. 11, 1943\n[18] “Jane Eyre” (by Charlotte\nBronte)\n[Saturday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nNov. 20, 1943\n[19] “The Murders in the Rue\nMorgue” (by Edgar Allan Poe)\nNov. 27, 1943\n[20] “The Lifted Veil” (by\nGeorge Eliot)\nDec. 4, 1943 [21] “The Four Fifteen\nExpress” (by Amelia Edwards)\nDec. 11, 1943 [22] “A Terrible Night” (by Fitz\nJames O’Brien)\nDec. 18, 1943 [23] “The Tell-Tale Heart”\n(by Edgar Allan Poe)\nDec. 25, 1943 [24] “The Niche of Doom”\n(by Honore de Balzac)\nJan. 1, 1944 [25] “The Heart of Ethan\nBrand” (by Nathaniel\nHawthorne)\nREMAINING TITLES IN SERIES:\n[26] “Frankenstein” (by Mary\nW. Shelley)\n[27] “The Feast of the Red\nGauntlet”\n[28] “The Murder of the Little\nPig” (by Emile Gaboriau)\n[Based on the story “The Little Old\nMan of Batignolle”]\n[29] “The Spectre of\nTappington” (by Richard\nBarnham)\n[30] “A Strange Judgment”\n[31] “Wuthering Heights” (by\nEmily Bronte)\n[32] “The Curse of the Mantle”\n(by Nathaniel Hawthorne)\n[Based on the story “Lady\nEleanor’s Mantle”]\n[33] “The Cask of\nAmontillado” (by Edgar Allan\nPoe)\n[34] “A Rope of Hair”\n[35] “Falkland” (by Edward\nBulwer Lytton)\n[36] “The Trial for Murder”\n(by Charles Dickens and Charles\nElster Collins)\n[37] “The Werewolf” (by\nFrederick Marryatt)\n[38] “The Old Nurse’s Story”\n(by Elizabeth Gaskell)\n[39] “The Middle Toe of the\nRight Foot” (by Ambrose\nBierce)\n[40] “The Dream Woman” (by\nWilkie Collins”\n[41] “The Phantom Picture”\n(by Washington Irving)\n[42] “The Ghost’s Touch” (by\nWilkie Collins)\n[43] “The Bell Tower” (by\nHerman Melville)\n[44] “The Evil Eye” (by\nTheophile Gautier)\n[45] “The Mark of the Plague”\n(by Daniel Defoe)\n[46] “The Queer Client” (by\nCharles Dickens)\n[47] “The Burial of Roger\nMalvin” (by Nathaniel\nHawthorne)\n[48] “The Fatal Love Potion”\n(by Edward Bulwer Lytton)\n[49] “Mad Monkton” (by\nWilkie Collins)\n[50] “The Returned” (by Edgar\nAllan Poe)\n[51] “The Executioner” (by\nHonore de Balzac)\n[52] “Rapaccini’s Daughter”\n(by Nathaniel Hawthorne)\n[53] “The Wooden Ghost” (by\nJohn Waters)\n[54] “The Last Days of a\nCondemned Man” (by Victor\nHugo)\n[55] “The Warning” (by R. P.\nGillies)\n[56] “The Doll” (by Algernon\nBlackwood)\n[57] “The Diamond Lens” (by\nFitz James O’Brien)\n[58] “The History of Dr. John\nFaust” (by Maurice Baring)\n[59] “Duel Without Honor”\n[60] “The Spectre Bride” (by\nWilliam Harrison Ainsworth)\n[61] “The Tapestry Horse”\n(by Edgar Allan Poe)\n[62] “The River Man”\n[63] “The Ancient Mariner”\n(by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)\n[64] “The Oblong Box” (by\nEdgar Allan Poe)\n[65] “The Mysterious Bride”\n(by James Hogg)\n[66] “The Thing in the\nTunnel” (by Charles Dickens)\n[Based on the story “The Signal\nMan”]\n[67] “The Moonstone” (by\nWilkie Collins)\n[68] “The Pistol Shot” (by\nProsper Merimee)\n[69] “The Possessive Dead”\n(by Theophile Gautier)\n[Based on the story “The\nMummy’s Foot”]\n[70] “The Goblet” (by Ludwig\nTieck)\n[71] “The Case of Monsieur\nValdemar” (by Edgar Allan Poe)\n[72] “The Shadow” (by Hans\nChristian Anderson)\n[73] “The Bride of Death” (by\nLudwig Tieck)\n[74] “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\n(by Robert Louis Stevenson)\n[75] “The Red Hand”\n[76] “The Haunted Hotel” (by\nWilkie Collins)\n[77] “Markheim” (by Robert\nLouis Stevenson)\n[78] “The Black Parchment”\nTHE WEIRD CIRCLE (DISC SERIES ON WJZ-ABC)\n[Monday—10:30-11:00 PM]\nSep. 15, 1947 “The Pistol Shot”\nSep. 22, 1947 “The Fall of the House of\nUsher”\nSep. 29, 1947 “The House and the Brain”\nOct. 6, 1947 “Markheim”\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\nJAMIE KELLY: “Very little is known on the 42/43 series. It’s believed but not confirmed\nthis series from eps. 27 to 52 were recorded at 4BC Brisbane QLD. No one has been able\nto identify the cast apart from 1 or 2 players.”\nORIGINATION: Possibly recorded at 4BC, Brisbane, Queensland.\nDURATION: Recorded and first broadcast circa 1942-1943.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Tourists Accomodated” (#27), “The Power of Lucifer” (#28),\n“Fallon’s Folly” (#31), “The Priest of Sekhet” (#32),”The Mannequin” (#33), “Reunion”\n(#37), “The Hangman’s Roost” (#38), “The Deserter” (#39), “The King Shark God” (#40),\n“The Bells” (#41), “The Cage” (#42), “Dangerous Curve” (#45), “The Will” (#46), “The Hand\nof Glory” (#47), “The Treasure” (#48), “Rappacini”s Daughter” (#51), “The Guardian of the\nTomb” (#52).\nTHE WITCH’S TALE (ARC, 1942-1943)\n[27] “Tourists Accomodated”\n[28] “The Power of Lucifer”\n[29] “The Bed”\n[30] “All Hallows Eve”\n[31] “Fallon’s Folly”\n[32] “The Priest of Sekhet”\n[33] “The Mannequin”\n[34] “The Tiger”\n[35] “The First of June”\n[36] “The Fortune Teller”\n[37] “Reunion”\n[38] “The Hangman’s Roost”\n[39] “The Deserter”\n[40] “The King Shark God”\n[41] “The Bells”\n[42] “The Cage”\n[43] “The Witness”\n[44] “Children of Venus”\n[45] “Dangerous Curve”\n[46] “The Will”\n[47] “The Hand of Glory”\n[48] “The Treasure”\n[49] “Four Ten Rouble Pieces”\n[50] “The Shooting Gallery”\n[51] “Rapaccini’s Daughter”\n[52] “The Guardian of the\nTomb”\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\n“Bear in mind all the later dates are repeats.”   Variant title listings: The Witch’s Tales\n(newspaper program log).\nORIGINATION: 2GB, Sydney, New South Wales (Macquarie Broadcasting Services).\nDURATION: September 10, 1949-September 16, 1950 (first repeat series), ???? 1954-\n[January 29, 1955] (second repeat series).\n[NOTE: The first repeat series may very well have started before September 17. This date\nrepresents the first newspaper listing I have for the show from the Sydney Morning\nHerald. In fact, September 17, 1949 marked the first time in a decade that the Herald\nhad listed radio program schedules on a regular daily basis. If it is assumed that the\nseries ran for 52 episodes, then the starting date would probably have been on\nSeptember 10.]\nPERSONNEL: Queenie Ashton (voice of “Satan,” various roles), Winifred Green (voice of\n“Old Nancy”), Ronald Morse (announcer), E. Mason Wood (producer).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: See information above in the previous two entries.\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\n[????\nSep. 10, 1949 “The Violin”\nSep. 17, 1949 “Four Fingers and a Thumb”\n“THE WOMAN AT SEVEN BROTHERS”\nOne of the great American ghost stories, this tale by Wilbur Daniel Steele was first\npublished in 19??.\nORIGINATION: Various.\nDURATION: Various.\nPERSONNEL:\nCAST [194?]:\nEXTANT RECORDINGS:\nAUTHOR’S PLAYHOUSE (W???, CHICAGO)\n[\n??? ??, 194? “The Woman at Seven\nBrothers”\nVANCOUVER THEATRE—“13 HORROR DRAMAS” (CBW, VANCOUVER)\n[Monday—11:00-11:30 PM]\nDec. 21, 1959 “The Woman at Seven\nBrothers” (by Wilbur Daniel\nSteele)\n`\nX\n`\nY\n“THE YELLOW WALLPAPER”\nThe famous and much-anthologized and analysed story by Charlotte Perkins Gillman…\nORIGINATION: Various.\nDURATION: Various.\nPERSONNEL:\nCAST [1948]: Agnes Moorehead.\nCAST [1957]: Agnes Moorehead.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS:\nSUSPENSE (KNX, HOLLYWOOD)\n[\nJuly 29, 1948 “The Yellow Wallpaper”\n[\nJune 30, 1957\n“The Yellow Wallpaper”\nYOUR FAVORITE GHOSTS\nCited in Canadian National Theatre on the Air, 1925-1961; no further information is\nknown. Fink lists it as being “6 15-minute episodes.” Douglas Nixon wrote the scripts\nunder the pseudonym of Jay Douglas.\nAfter Allan had taken over dramatics at CBR, he strove not only to improve the quality\nbut to broaden the scope of what was being done. “To date,” he wrote to radio writer\nTommy Tweed in Winnipeg, “I have placed the emphasis on comedy and farce to\ncounteract any wartime gloom which may be prevalent, but horror, satirical and\nromantic plays do definitely have a place in our schedule.”\nAllan had already dabbled in creepiness with the mystery series Chains of\nCircumstance, which apparently borrowed its signature intro from Mercer McLeod’s The\nGhost Walker. “It opened,” the show’s music director John Avison recalled, “with Frank\nVyvyan dragging a huge chain across the studio, and Judith Evelyn would scream into\nthe open piano, which made the strings reverberate. Between the clanking chains and\nthe screaming in the piano, it became the beginning of a horror story.”\nActress Claire Murray (soon to become Mrs. John Drainie) found an ardent admirer of\nher work in her future husband. “In the ghost stories, Claire was wonderful,” he wrote in\na diary that he briefly kept during that time. “She did a girl playing herself, a baby, a pig\nand a microphone. Her pig, or hog, was amazing to say the least. I love her!”\nAllan himself wrote ghostly scripts for the various series which he produced in\nVancouver—“Dead Man’s Business,” which ran on Theatre Time (February 21, 1940) and\nwas rebroadcast on Friday Drama Spot (March 29, 1943). [“Two businessmen ruthlessly\ncheat a farmer who kills one of them in revenge; the dead man’s ghost, to atone for his\nevil life, kills the other man.”] “The Devil’s Receipt” on Theatre Time (January 17, 1940).\n[“In seventeenth-century Scotland a tenant farmer pays his rent at the moment of his\nmaster’s death and consequently obtains a posthumous receipt.”] “The Thing That\nWalked” on Theatre Time (December 10, 1940). [“Scholar visits the local haunts of Count\nFleggnus, flayed to death in the Dark Ages, and rids Norway of his cursed search for a\nsecond skin.”]\nORIGINATION: CBR, Vancouver, British Columbia (CBC Pacific Network).\nDURATION: February 10-March 17, 1943\nPERSONNEL: Andrew Allan (producer), Douglas Nixon (scriptwriter).\nCASTS: John Drainie, Fletcher Markle, Claire Murray.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nYOUR FAVORITE GHOSTS\n[???day—\nFeb. 10, 1943\nFeb. 17, 1943\nFeb. 24, 1943\nMarch 3, 1943\nMarch 10, 1943\nMarch 17, 1943\n“YOURS TRULY, JACK THE RIPPER”\nRobert Bloch’s short story was his first taste of authorial fame outside of the pages of\nWeird Tales and the other pulp magazines for which he primarily wrote. After it was\nreprinted in the 1943 anthology The Mystery Companion, it was picked up by the\nproducers of Kate Smith’s radio show as a vehicle for visiting star Laird Cregar, who was\nin New York at the beginning of 1944 to promote his new picture, The Lodger. The\nRipper tie-in with the Bloch story was clearly irresistible.\nORIGINATION: Various originations between 1944 and 1948.\nDURATION: Ca. 1944-1950 (five broadcasts).\nPERSONNEL: Robert Bloch (scriptwriter—1945, Stayed Tuned for Terror), John Dickson\nCarr (host—1950, Murder by Experts), David Kogan (scriptwriter, director—1950, Murder\nby Experts).\nCAST [1944]: Jim Boles (The Bartender), Laird Cregar (Dr. John Carmody), Arnold Moss\n(Sir Guy Hollis).\nCAST [1945] Craig McDonnell (Dr. John Carmody).\nCAST [1948] Zachary Scott (Dr. John Carmody).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: The Kate Smith version and the first Mystery Theater broadcast\nare both available.\nTHE KATE SMITH HOUR\n[Friday—\nJan. 7, 1944 “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper”\nMOLLE MYSTERY THEATRE\n[Tuesday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nFeb. 27, 1945 “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper”\nSTAY TUNED FOR TERROR (NEBLETT PRODUCTIONS, CHICAGO)\n[\n??? ??, 1945 “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper”\nMOLLE MYSTERY THEATRE\n[\n??? ??, 1948 “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper”\nMURDER BY EXPERTS (WOR, NEW YORK)\n[Monday—10:00-10:30 PM]\nFeb. 13, 1950 “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper”\n`\nZ\nSubjects for Further Research (or not)\nEntries found on this page and the following fall into one of several categories:\n(1) Series that were actually broadcast but which my research has not uncovered enough\ninformation to determine if they were actually horror shows or even borderline mystery-\nhorror (eg. LA BIBLIOTECA MISTERIOSA, THE GHOST IN THE GARRET);\n(2) horror series which were announced and/or auditioned but never made it to the air (eg.\nJOURNEY INTO FEAR, MYSTERY HOUSE);\n(3) series that research has revealed do not truly fall within the genre under consideration\n(eg. HORROR PARADE, GHOSTS OF LONDON) or the scope of this book (eg. all internet-\nonly or disc-only audio theater); or\n(4) My cat did a “kitten on the keys” number at my computer while I was off getting\nanother cup of coffee and somehow managed to shift an entry that was situated elsewhere\ndown into this section. (Bad kitty…)\nBATS IN THE BELFRY (KTAB, San Francisco)—Cited in the 1937/38 edition of the\nVariety Radio Directory; two broadcast dates, at least, are confirmed—March 28 and\nApril 4, 1934—but the slant of the show remains unknown. Judging from the slangy\nlevity of the title, this could have been either a horror/mystery series or a zany comedy\nprogram in the manner of Raymond Knight’s Cuckoo Hour or Brad Browne’s Nit Wits. I\nsuspect the latter to be true.\nTHE PHANTOMS (KPRC, Houston)—Not an early spook show but just a mystery singer-\npianist duo, identified only as Phan Tom and Pantoinette, “‘ghosts of the air’, to be\nheard but not to be seen.”\nSelected Bibliography\nBooks:\nABBOT, WALDO. Handbook of Broadcasting. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1941.\nAGUILAR, CHARLIE. La Radio antes de la T.V. Quebradillas: Imprenta San Rafael, 1991.\nALAN, A. J. [pseud. Leslie Harrison Lambert]. Good Evening, Everyone! London:\nHutchinson, 1928.\nALAN, A. J. [pseud. Leslie Harrison Lambert]. The Second A. J. Alan Book. London:\nHutchinson, 193?.\nALAN, A. J. [pseud. Leslie Harrison Lambert]. The Best of A. J. Alan. London: Richards\nPress, 1954.\nALMIRANTE [pseud.????]. Incrivel! Fantastico! Extraordinario! Rio de Janeiro: Francisco\nAlves, 1989.\nANDERSON, ARTHUR. Let's Pretend. Jefferson: McFarland, 1994.\n[ANONYMOUS]. Radio Personalities: A Pictorial and Biographical Annual. New York:\nPress Bureau, Inc., 1936.\nANSPACHER, LOUIS K. Challenge of the Unknown. New York: Current Books (A. A. Wyn),\n1947.\nASHLEY, MIKE. Algernon Blackwood: A Bio-bibliography. Westport: Greenwood Press,\n1987.\nASHLEY, MIKE (ed.). Phantom Perfumes and Other Shades: Memories of GHOST STORIES\nMAGAZINE. Ashcroft, B.C.: Ash-Tree Press, 2000.\nASHLEY, MIKE. Starlight Man: The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood. London:\nConstable, 2001.\nAURRECOECHEA, JUAN MANUEL, and ARMANDO BARTRA. Puros Cuentos III: Historia de\nla Historieta en Mexico, 1934-1950. Mexico City, D. F.: Grijalbo, 1994.\nBARFIELD, RAY. Listening to Radio, 1920-1950. Westport: Praeger, 1996.\nBARNOUW, ERIK. Handbook of Radio Production. Boston: Little, Brown, 1949.\nBAUDOU, JACQUES. 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Manchester:\nHeadpress, 1999.\nALLEN, LEONARD. “Arch Oboler: Literary Light of Radio.” Christian Science Monitor\nMagazine  (August 31, 1940).\nANNA and JENNY. “Blackout Fun.” Pinoy Central (December 15, 1999).\nBANANI, ANNI. “I Don’t Sleep, I Dream...” Stomp and Stammer (June 1998).\nBLACKWOOD, ALGERNON. \"You Can't Tell Ghost Stories on the Radio.\" The Radio Times\n(December 11, 1936).\nBLOCH, ROBERT. “Stay Tuned for Terror.” Gothism (August 1973).\nBOND, JACK. “Shudder Expert.” True Detective (July 1943).\nBOUCK, ZEH. “Tells Weird Tales with Aid of Music.” New York Sun (August 31, 1935).\nBOYLE, HAL. “College Students Use Radio Scripts as Own Compositions.” Maryville Daily\nForum (December 18, 1947).\nBROWN, HI. “The Listener Gets Away with Murder.” Variety (January 4, 1950).\nBUCHANAN, JOAN. “Horror Is Hard Work.” Radio Life (August 24, 1947).\nBURROUGHS, JACK. “Yarn Spinner of the Kilocycles.” Oakland Tribune (November 14,\n1937).\nCANLAS, RUBEN D., JR. “The Lighter Side of Filipino Radio.” The Manila Times (January\n22, 2004).\nCANNON, HARRIET. “Radio & Television: ‘Quiet, Please!’.” Writer’s Digest (May 1949).\nCARR, JOHN DICKSON. “It’s a Dare.” The Radio Times (???, 1943).\nCOVILLE, GARY, and PATRICK LUCANIO. \"The Sound of Darkness: Arch Oboler's 'Lights\nOut!'\" Filmfax (February/March 1994).\nCRAIG, CHARLOTTE. “One of Detroit’s early radio voices.” Detroit Free Press (September\n10, 1981).\nCROSBY, JOHN. “Man Who Gave Rare Talent To Radio Succumbs Broke.” Fresno Bee\nRepublican (August 1, 1955).\nCULLUM, CHARLES. \"Good Night and Bad Dreams.\" Dallas Morning News (March 24,\n1938).\nDANOWSKI, SHAWN. “The Weird Tales of the Witch’s Tales.” Tune In (July 1994).\nDAWES, EDWIN A. \"Leslie Lambert: The Enigma.\" Genii, the Conjurors' Magazine\n(October and November 1999).\nDELL, MERYL. \"They Must Be Scared!\" Radio Guide (August 10, 1935).\nDRUCE, OLGA. “Let the Kids Decide.” Variety (January 7, 1948).\nENGLE, WILLIAM. “Actress Who Starred with the Elder Salvini Plays Witch’s Part on the\nRadio, and Likes It.” New York World-Telegram (April 25, 1932).\nFARBER, STEPHEN. “’Lights Out’ Horror Tales To Get New Life on Radio.” The New York\nTimes (October 30, 1986).\nFIFIELD, BILL. “Lights Out, Everybody.” Radio Guide (August 18, 1939).\nFOOTE, GRACE. “Hollywood Ushers Nonchalant.” Port Arthur News (August 17, 1947).\nFOOTE, GRACE. “Joke’s on Lorre.” Port Arthur News (August 24, 1947).\nFRY, EVELYN and HENRIETTA GARAI. “Alonzo Deen Cole Goes A-Haunting.” The Square\nDeal (n.d.; circa 1934).\nGARDNER, ERLE STANLEY. “They Wanted ‘Horror’.” The Writer’s Digest (August 1939).\nGARMENDIA, SALVADOR. “El Misterio de Las Tres Torres.” El Nacional (November 8,\n1998).\nGEER, CHARLOTTE. “Darling and Dearie.” Newark Evening News (May 7, 1932).\nGODZISZEWSKI, ED. “The Making of Godzilla.” Japanese Giants (September 2004).\nGOULART, RON. \"The Haunted Radio.\" Twilight Zone (August 1983).\nGOULD, JACK. “NBC Bans Crime Shows Before 9:30.” New York Times (September 14,\n1947).\nHAEFELE, DAN. “Frank Martin’s Dual Careers.” SPERDVAC Radiogram (May 1991).\nHALL, GLADYS. \"Horror on the Air.\" Radio Stars (June 1936).\nHALLORAN, URSULA. “He Aims To Please Not Terrorize.” The New York Times (August 5,\n1951).\nHENRY, HANK. “Very Tight Scripting Dominated Early Radio.” Medford Mail-Tribune\n(January 11, 2000).\nHILEY, JIM. “Getting on Our Nerves.” The Radio Times (May 16-22, 1981).\nHOUSTON, JOAN. “Wall Battles Barnard, WKCR Sound Effects.” Barnard Bulletin (April 5,\n1948).\nHUBLER, RICHARD G. “Please Pardon My Scream.” Esquire (July 1943).\nHUSTON, LOU. “Autopsy of the Air.” Radio Life (May 8, 1942).\nHUTCHENS, JOHN K. “The Shockers.” The New York Times (November 8, 1942).\nHUTCHENS, JOHN K. “Mr. Oboler Again.” New York Times (November 15, 1942).\nHUTCHISON, DON, and PETER HALASZ. “Blood On The Snow: A Survey Of Canadian\nHorror Fiction.” The Scream Factory (Autumn 1996).\nIMES, ROB. \"From Whence Came the Hermit's Cave?\" Tune In (September 1994).\nIMES, ROB. “The Hall of Fantasy.” Tune In (July 1994).\nIMHOF, VALERIA, and ABRAHAN MIRANDA. “Sandoval en el papel mas duro de su vida.”\n7 Dias (n.d.).\nJOHNSON, FRED. “Dracula Sees No ‘Talkie’ Future.” San Francisco Call (July 24 or 27,\n1929).\nJORGE, ROME. “Haunted House Goes Pinoy: The Gabi ng Lagim Amusement\nExperience.” The Manila Times (October 31, 2004).\nK.H.—“LISTENER.” “Melodrama Through the Microphone.” Manchester Guardian\n(November 6, 1934).\nK.H.—“LISTENER.” “Pages from a Sketchbook.” Manchester Guardian (July 9, 1934).\nKOGAN, DAVID. “Foreword.” Old Time Radio Mysteries. Radio Spirits, 1999.\nLAWRENCE, RALPH. “Raymond Spoofs the Spooks.” Coronet (October 1944).\nLEE, LILLIAN. “Bring On Your American Ghosts!” Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star (March\n4, 1934).\nLEMONT, VIRGINIA. \"'Unbelievable,' There's a Radio Show That's Guaranteed to Give\nYou Chills.\" Columbus Citizen (March 30, 1937).\nLIND, JEFF. “Once Upon a Ken Nordine.” Illinois Entertainer (May 1977).\nMORSE, CARLETON [sic] E. “Murder Will Out.” Radio Doings (January 1932).\nMOSKOWITZ, SAM. \"Alonzo Deen Cole and The Witch's Tales Magazine.\" Pulp Vault\n(June 1993).\nMOYES, WILLIAM. \"Arch (Fiend) Oboler.\" The Oregonian (July 11, 1939).\n\"O'FAN, RAY DE.\" \"Ghost Series Again Tonight.\" Seattle Post-Intelligencer (January 11,\n1937).\n\"O'FAN, RAY DE.\" \"Hec Chevigny Named Script Head of CBS.\" Seattle Post-Intelligencer\n(January 3, 1937).\nO'NEILL, MARY. \"Cricket's Chirp Helps the Ghost Act.\" The Knickerbocker Press (April 19,\n1936).\nOSES, DARIO. “Dias y noches de radio.” Nuestro (August 2002).\nRADCLIFF, MARION. “Walk Into My Parlor.” The Billboard (February 20, 1943).\nRATHBUN, JOE. “’Inner Sanctum’ Changes Time.” Zanesville Times-Signal (March 9,\n1941).\nREMENIH, ANTON. “Pig Squeal Is Finally Put to Use—in Radio.” Chicago Sunday Tribune\n(May 28, 1950).\nROBERT, BERNES. \"Ghosts Have Trouble in Transmitting Chills by the Microphone.\"\nScreen & Radio Weekly (April 26, 1936).\nROGERS, ERNEST. “’Witch’s Tale’ Is on WSB.” Atlanta Journal (August 1, 1934).\nSANDOVAL, Julio Cesar. “Genesis de la Radiocomedia Nicaraguense.” El Nuevo Diario\n(September 11, 1999).\nSAVAGE, MAURICE. \"Karloff to Curdle Air Waves in 'Dream'.\" San Diego Union (March 23,\n1938).\nSCOTT, CLYDE. \"Spooks That Sell Gasoline in California.\" Broadcasting (July 1, 1935).\nSHALIT, SID. \"Witch's Broom Cleans Up.\" New York Daily News (January 3, 1953).\nSHULTZ, ESTHER. \"Horror Plays Scare Man Who Writes Them.\" Chicago American\n(August 25, 1935).\nSICAM, EDMUND L. “Philippine Radio’s Top Innovators Honored.” Philippine Daily\nInquirer (January 1, 2000).\nSIEGEL, NORMAN. \"Expo as Inspiring as Spanish Revolt to Horror Expert.\" Cleveland\nPress (September 10, 1936).\nSTANICH, RAY. \"'Lights Out' Revisited.\" Remember When (No. 15, n.d.).\nTERRY, DICK. “Triple Threat Man of Radio.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (May 6, 1945).\nTUCKER, GEORGE. “Ghost Story.” Oakland Tribune (May 21, 1934).\nTURNER, ULMER. \"All Is Quiet in Studio as Bill Cooper's Ghost Story Rides the Midnight\nAir!\" Chicago Herald and Examiner (May 7, 1935).\nTYSON, ANDERSON. “New Mystery Play Shows Improvement.” San Francisco Bulletin\n(April 12, 1929).\nVAN HORNE, HARRIET. “Oboler Drives Across Stern Messages; That’s When He Isn’t\nWriting Spine-Chilling Plays.” New York World-Telegram (October 24, 1942).\nWAGNER, GEORGE. “Screams from the Speaker: The Strange Dr. Weird.” Old Time Radio\nDigest (March-April 1992).\nVAN HORNE, HARRIET. “Sound Man Can Cook Up Any Kind of Noise.” New York World-\nTelegram (February 19, 1944).\nWARBURG, J. ROBERT. “Oboler Murders Himself.” PM Daily (September 28, 1943).\nWEISINGER, MORTIMER. \"The Ether Vibrates.\" Science Fiction Digest (December 1932).\nWHITE, KEN. “Love in a Livingroom.” Denver Post (August 9, 1950).\nWOLTERS, LARRY. “Tip to Program Chiefs: Improve Midnight Fare.” Chicago Tribune\n(February 10, 1935).\nUnsigned Articles:\n\"Alonzo Deen Cole Was Born Feb. 22—So Was Schopenhauer.\" Brooklyn Daily Eagle\n(June 12, 1932).\n“Barnitz Will Start Talks on Castles.” Zanesville Signal (June 26, 1927).\n“BBC Whodunit Series Set for WNEW Airing.” Variety (July 16, 1947).\n“Beautiful and Brainy.” Radio Best (January 1948).\n“Biographical Brevities: Alonzo Deen Cole. Radio World (September 5, 1931).\n“Black Threat.” Radio Times (August 9, 1957).\n“Boris Karloff Begins Chiller Series Tuesday.” Lima News (February 15, 1944).\n“British Mysteries Sub for WINS Quiz.” The Billboard (July 19, 1947).\n“Building Mike Casts.” Buffalo Courier-Express (October 4, 1931).\n\"Can't Find Haunted House for Program.\" Variety (May 1, 1934).\n“Carlin May Bring In Scott Bishop of WKY.” Variety (February 11, 1942).\n“CBC Hits Horror Shows.” Broadcasting (December 25, 1944).\n“Celtic Ghosts.” Decatur Herald (October 23, 1927).\n“Chill Shows Flood Radio for Summer.” Washington Post (July 13, 1947).\n“‘City of Dead’ New Thriller on Radio.” Oakland Tribune (September 26, 1930).\n“Collier’s Hour Has ‘Emperor of America’.” Decatur Herald (May 13, 1928).\n“Commercials, Horror Shows Seen Overdone.” The Billboard (March 8, 1947).\n\"Cycle of Ghost Stories Hits Radio.\" Variety (March 4, 1936).\n“Daffies Don’t Buy Razors, Let ‘Lights’ Alone, Sez Oboler.” Variety (May 8, 1946).\n“Doc Mortis celebra Dia de la radio.” La Cuarta (September 21, 2004).\n“Don Douglas 7 Times a Week.” The Billboard (January 22, 1944).\n“Door Squeak Good for One Can of Oil.” Cleveland Plain Dealer (March 30, 1941).\n\"'Dracula' Film on WCFL as Radario.\" Chicago Herald and Examiner (March 16, 1931).\n\"'Dracula' Listed As Too Shuddery for Radio Folk.\" San Francisco Call and Post (July 24,\n1929).\n\"'Dracula' Remade into Radio Thrill Drama.\" Chicago Evening American (March 16, 1931).\n“Dragon in Sun Will Give Dialers Thrill.” Oakland Tribune (September 12, 1930).\n“D’Voir’s Screams Cause of Panic In S.F. Studio.” Oakland Tribune (\n“Eversharp Yanks ‘Lights Out’ Switch.” Variety (August 6, 1947).\n\"Fallecio Ayer El 'Monje Loco'.\" Cine Mundial (May 23, 1972).\n“Faucit Group Will Present ‘Inner Circle’.” Oakland Tribune (November 22, 1931).\n“Fight Horror Shows.” Broadcasting (December 2, 1946).\n“General Foods Shutters MBS ‘House of Mystery’.” Variety (June 5, 1946).\n“Ghost and Ghost-Story.” The [London] Times (September 28, 1936).\n“Ghost Maker of Gower Street.” Radio Life (August 22, 1943).\n“Ghost Makes Good Over KRLD-Columbia To Start Friday.” Dallas Times Herald (March\n24, 1938).\n“Ghost Stories, Piano Team in New Series.” Zanesville Times-Signal (March 24, 1935).\n“Ghost Story To Be Told.” Oakland Tribune (October 31, 1937).\n“Gory Road with Detour Sign.” The Billboard (October 30, 1943).\n“Grim Drama Holds Sway in Serial on WABC.” Jersey Journal (May 6, 1929).\n\"Hard Up for Thrills.\" Los Angeles Times (November 1, 1938).\n\"Harry Bartell....(An Interview).\" Thrilling Days of Yesteryear (January-February 1997).\n\"Haunted House Wanted.\" Variety (December 30, 1936).\n\"'Hermit's Cave' Brought to Local Listeners.\" Cincinnati Times-Star (November 9, 1938).\n“Horror: Bedtime Blood-curdlers with Realistic Sound Effects.” Newsweek (April 20,\n1935).\n“Horror Familiar Theme, Says Cole in Answer to Critics.” New York Sunday American\n(April 30, 1933).\n“Horrors for Night Owls.” Syracuse Herald (April 12, 1935).\n“Horror Shows May Be on the Way Out as the Sponsors Balk.” Kansas City Star\n(November 21, 1943).\n“Inner Sanctum.” Life (February 7, 1944).\n“’Inner Sanctum’ Added To Lever Net Schedule.” Broadcasting (December 18, 1944).\n“The Inside on ‘The Inner Sanctum’.” PM Daily (February 4, 1941).\n“Interest in Civic Theater Grows Daily.” Syracuse Herald (November 5, 1933).\n“Johnnie Neblett Meets Death In Crash of Private Airplane.” Broadcasting (September 23,\n1946).\n“Karloff Creepers Preem on Feb. 15.” Variety (February 9, 1944).\n“Karloff May Blow ‘Lights’ Because It’s ‘Too Bloody’.” The Billboard (August 9, 1947).\n“Leopard-Man Is Central Figure of WEBR Serial.” Buffalo Courier-Express (August 28,\n1932).\n“’Lights Out’ Alumni Still Chilling.” Movie-Radio Guide (July 18-24, 1942).\n\"Lights Out! Horror Stalks the Air.\" Chicago Times (June 21, 1936).\n“Lorre’s ‘Journey’ Costs More Farther He Goes.” Variety (June 28, 1944).\n\"Midnight Horror.\" Radio Guide (March 26, 1938).\n\"Miss Fitz-Allen, Radio Star, Dead.\" The New York Times (February 28, 1935).\n“Mothers Fighting Radio Bogies.” The Literary Digest (March 18, 1933).\n\"Mothers Protest Bogyman on Radio.\" The New York Times (February 27, 1933).\n“Mrs. Neblett Takes ‘Story Goes’ Spot.” Broadcasting (October 14, 1946).\n“Multiplicity of Weird Effects Is Simple Matter to Experts of Radio Broadcasts.” Newark\nSunday Call (November 12, 1933).\n\"Murio el 'Monje Loco'.\" El Universal (May 23, 1972).\n“Mystery Serial By Sax Rohmer on Air.” Lincoln Star (February 22, 1931).\n“NBC’s ‘Lights Out’ Switching to ABC.” The Billboard (April 19. 1947).\n“New and Unique WKY Studios.” Broadcasting (April 15, 1936).\n“New Times Assigned ‘Heatter Show’, ‘Quiet Please’.” St. Petersburg Times (July 20, 1947).\n“No Fooling! These Really Happened.” Sheboygan Press (July 9, 1941).\n“No More Ghosts Threat.” Variety (March 11, 1936).\n\"Not for the Kiddies.\" Variety (October 28, 1936).\n“Operator Starts Radio Ad Campaign.” The Weekly Turnstile (March 2, 1934).\n\"Parental Fears Allayed.\" Brooklyn Times Union (September 20, 1933).\n“Peter Lorre, Man of Mystery, Takes Lead in Drama Series.” St. Petersburg Times (July 6,\n1947).\n\"The Play's The Thing.\" Radio Guide (February 25, 1932).\n\"Plots for Radio Thrillers Come During Calm and Quiet Walks.\" San Jose Mercury Herald\n(May 1, 1938).\n“Program Offers Choice of Von Stroheim or Karloff as Pet Chiller.” Variety (March 22,\n1944).\n“Radio Drama Holds Audience With Mystery.” Sheboygan Press (June 30, 1941).\n\"Radio Experiments with Mass Murder.\" Radio Guide (April 23, 1938).\n“Radio Hallucination, New English Malady.” Cincinnati Enquirer (October 24, 1926).\n“Radio Horror Scenes In Tot Programs Hit.” Nevada State Journal (February 4, 1938).\n“Radio Play of North.” Buffalo Courier-Express (June 19, 1932).\n“Radio Program Builds Audience for Inner Sanctum Mysteries.” Publisher’s Weekly (July\n4, 1942).\n“Radio’s Master Storyteller.” Radio Times (August 5, 1949).\n“Second Episode of Weird Tale to Open.” Oakland Tribune (October 3, 1930).\n“‘Shadow’ Role Takes Breath of Morrison.” Nebraska State Journal (October 17, 1943).\n\"Shall We Banish the Banshee.\" New York Sun (April 8, 1933).\n\"Speaking for WHK and Themselves.\" Cleveland Plain Dealer (January 12, 1930).\n“Spies Aver Striker’s Food Ideas Wierd [sic] as His Serials.” Buffalo Courier-Express (May\n3, 1931).\n“Spook Stuff.” Broadcasting (August 31, 1942).\n“Spooks To Branch Out On Network Program Wednesday.” Lima News (April 17, 1935).\n“Striker at His Wierdest [sic] in Latest WEBR Drama.” Buffalo Courier-Express (February 8,\n1931).\n\"'TAM Engineer, Dreaming of Golf, Almost Stymied by Mystery Hour.\" Cleveland Plain\nDealer (June 24, 1929).\n“Thrills and Chills in New WAPI Thriller.” Southern Radio News (July 28, 1934).\n\"Waxing 'Weird Tales'.\" Variety (February 7, 1933).\n“WCFL’s Keegan To NBC Staff; To Meg ‘Lights’.” The Billboard (July 21, 1945).\n\"We Pay Our Respects to—Matthew Arnold Howlett.\" Broadcasting (January 15, 1934).\n“Weird Tales Appropriate Title for New WEBR Plays.” Buffalo Courier-Express (July 5,\n1931).\n“‘White Zombie’ Will Be Broadcast Tomorrow Night.” Washington Daily News (July 28,\n1932).\n“Whodunits Get Eagle Eye in New NAB Code Setup.” Variety (August 20, 1947).\n“Who’s Who on the Radio: Alonzo Deen Cole.” New York Sun (July 25, 1931).\n\"'Witch's Tale' Sponsored.\" Variety (August 28, 1935).\n“WKY, Coming of Age, to Be Key In New Chain Program Friday.” The Daily Oklahoman\n(November 13, 1941).\n\"WOR to Tell Witch Tales.\" New York World-Telegram (August 1, 1931).\n\"WOR Tradition Broken.\" Newark Evening News (August 22, 1935).\nUnpublished materials (scripts, dissertations, letters, e-mail, interviews, etc.):\nAIPPERSPACH, RUTH G. An Historical Analysis of the Macquarie Broadcasting Service Pty.\nLtd., Sydney, Australia, 1938-1958. Thesis (M.S.), North Texas State University, 1981.\nBACH, JAN. “Re: Ken Nordine’s Faces In The Window.” E-mail to the author, August 27,\n2000.\nBARTELL, HARRY. \"Re: KPRC and Poe series.\" E-mail to the author, September 14, 1999.\nBELLEM, ROBERT LESLIE. Scripts for the KECA program Creeps by Night. Robert Leslie\nBellem Papers (Collection 1008), Department of Special Collections, University Research\nLibrary, University of California, Los Angeles.\nBIEL, MICHAEL JAY. The Making and Use of Recordings in Broadcasting before 1936.\nThesis (Ph.D.), Northwestern University, 1977.\nBLOCH, ROBERT. Scripts for the transcription program Stay Tuned for Terror.\nBROWN, HIMAN. Interviewed by Kurt Kuersteiner, n.d.\nBUEY, KEVIN. “Re: FEN and ‘Macabre’.” E-mails to the author, December 4 and , 2000.\nCOLE, ALONZO DEEN (comp.). Scrapbooks (three volumes for the years 1931-1938).\nCOLE, ALONZO DEEN. Scripts for the WOR program The Witch's Tale (1931-1938).\nCOLE, ALONZO DEEN, and WILL JENKINS. Correspondence between Cole and Jenkins,\n1950-1952.\nCOWAN, LOUIS. Interviewed by Erik Barnouw, April 18, 1967.\nDEL PRADO, CARLOS. Scripts for the KNX program The Black Chapel\nERLENBORN, RAY. \"Witches Tales.\" E-mails to the author, August 31 and September 4,\n2000.\nGIBSON, WALTER. Scripts for the WJZ program Strange (1955).\nGILLIS, DON, and GEORGE LOUDEN. And Then I Wrote. Photostat of typescript, 1950.\nGREENE, JOSEPHINE. “Robert Bloch.” E-mail to the author, July 7, 2003.\nGRIMMER, TOBY. Interviewed by ???. WJR, Detroit, July 6, 1978.\nHALL, FRANCES LEE. Arch Oboler, Radio Dramatist. Thesis (A.M.), Indiana University,\n1944.\nHEXT, CHARLENE B. \"Thriller\" Drama on American Radio Networks: The Development in\nRegard to Types, Extent of Use, and Program Policies. Thesis (A.M.), Ohio State Univesity,\n1949.\nHITE, KATHLEEN. “Borrowed Life.” Script for the August 29, 1946 broadcast of the KNX\nseries The Ghost Walks.\nHOGLIN, JOHN GILES. A Descriptive Analysis of the Programming of WJR, Detroit, from\n1922 to 1970. Thesis (Ph.D.), Wayne State University, 1971.\nHUSTON, LOU. Letter to the author, August 9, 1996.\nJACKSON, ROGER LEE. An Historical and Analytical Study of the Origin, Development and\nImpact of the Dramatic Programs Produced for the English Language Networks of the\nCanadian Broadcasting Corporation. Dissertation (Ph.D.), Wayne State University, 1966.\nJOHNSTONE, JACK. Scripts for the WOR program Who Knows? (1940-1941).\nKELLY, JAMIE. “More on the Witch’s Tale, etc.” E-mail to the author, February 22, 2005.\nKROEGER, GERALD WILLIAM. The History of Boston Radio to 1941. Thesis (Ph.D.), Florida\nState University, 1968.\nMAVRIDIS, ULISES. \"Re: El Monje Loco.\" E-mails to the author, February 10 and 13,\nMarch 5 and 26, 2000.\nMAXWELL, BOB. Postcard to the author, August ??, 1996\nMAYS, RODERICK AINSWORTH. Scripts for the KNX program The Black Chapel (1938-\n1939).\nMCLEOD, ELIZABETH. “House of Mystery: The DC Connection.” Posting to the Old Time\nRadio Digest, December 9, 1999.\nMICHELSON, CHARLES. Letter to the author, August 25, 1997.\nMORSE, CARLTON E. Scripts for various serial programs, including The Cross-Eyed Parrot\n(1930).\nMOSKOWITZ, SAM. Letter to the author, January 13, 1997.\nOBOLER, ARCH. Scripts for the WMAQ program Lights Out (1937-1938).\nOLMSTED, NELSON. Audition disc recorded by Olmsted in 1939.\nPIRKLE, GEORGE EMORY. A History of Science Fiction and the Supernatural in Radio\nDrama, 1930-1970. Thesis (M.A.), University of Georgia, 1971.\nROSS, MIRIAM WOLFF. Telephone interview conducted and transcribed by the author,\nNovember ??, 1996.\nROSS, MIRIAM WOLFF. Christmas card to the author, December 16, 1996.\nSHAW, CHARLES GORDON. The Development of WJR, the Goodwill Station, Detroit.\nThesis (M.A.), Wayne University, 1942.\nSIEGEL, DAVID S. E-mail to the author, September 16, 1999.\nSIEGEL, DAVID S. \"Re: Weird Tales.\" E-mail to the author, January ??, 2001.\nSTRIKER, FRANCIS H. Scripts for Weird Tales and various serial programs, including Ultra\nViolet, The Falcon, Dr. Dragonette, Ghost Ship and Loup-Garou (1930-1932).\nTAZEWELL, CHARLES. Scripts for the WABC programs Terror by Night and The Columbia\nWorkshop (1936-1937).\nTOLLIN, ANTHONY. \"Morrison's Dracula.\" E-mail to the author, July 18, 2000.\nTOLLIN, ANTHONY. \"1932 NBC SHADOW season scripts and Alonzo.\" E-mail to the\nauthor, October 12, 2000.\nVILLEGAS, FROILAN M. Letters to the author, September 10 and December 5, 2000.\nMiscellaneous materials (catalogs, micro-fiche, documentary broadcasts, articles\nand comments at websites, etc.):\n[ANONYMOUS]. Australian Radio Series, 1930s to 1970s: A Guide to ScreenSound\nAustralia’s Holdings. Canberra: National Film and Sound Archive, 1998.\n[ANONYMOUS]. BBC Radio. Author and Title Catalogues of Transmitted Drama, Poetry\nand Features, 1929-1975. Catalogue cards on microfiche, published by Chadwyck-Healey\nLtd.\n[ANONYMOUS]. Dick Barton and All That. BBC Radio, n.d.\n[ANONYMOUS]. The Witch’s Tales, adapted from the Radio Scripts of Alonzo Deen Cole.\n[Tom Moore], 1936.\n[ANONYMOUS]. WJR: Fifty Years of Unique Radio. WJR 50th Anniversary program,\nbroadcast on WJR, May 4, 1972.\nBRENNER, HOWARD S. Catalogs for Mar-Bren Sound Co., issued between 1969 and\n1981.\nBRINEY, R. E. “A couple of comments on Crypt #45...” [letter printed in column “Mail-Call\nof Cthulhu”]. Crypt of Cthulhu (Lammas 1987).\nCAMPBELL, RAMSEY. Return of the Man in Black. A history of horror on British radio,\nbroadcast on The Archive Hour on BBC Radio 4, October 24 and 31, 1998.\nDERBEZ, EUGENIO. Lo Mejor de Derbez en Cuando [DVD]. Santa Monica: Xenon Pictures,\n2004.\nKUERSTEINER,\nKURT.\nRadio\nHorror\nHosts\nwebsite\nat\nmembers.aol.com/radiodrama/horror-hosts.html.\nPAYTON, GORDON R. The Scifi Guy Science Fiction and Horror Audio Drama Catalog.\nWestmont: Gordon R. Payton, 2001.\nQUIROS, CONRADO DE. “Horrors.” Posted to www.inq7.net (October 31, 2001).\nRODRIGUEZ, LAURA and EVA. “El Radioteatro: Un ritual familiar.” Los Andes On Line\n(November 23, 2004).\nSINCLAIR, GRANT. “The Ghost Hunter.” Scottish Memories (January 2005).\nSWANECK, PAULA and PABLO PINTO. “Juan Marino: Entrevista con el creador.” At\nErgocomics website.\nVERDIER, WILLIAM. Interview on FEN 30thth Anniversary Special, produced by Air Force\nSgt. Jim Doherty and broadcast on FEN TOKYO, September 2, 1975.\nIn addition to the above-listed specific references, extended runs of the following\njournals, annuals, magazines and newspapers were researched for program\nlistings, reviews and news items:\nAlbany Times-Union; Anderson Independent; Atlanta Constitution; Atlanta Georgian;\nAtlanta Journal; Austin Statesman.\nThe Billboard; Boston Evening Transcript; Boston Globe; Broadcasting; Brooklyn Daily\nEagle; Brooklyn Times-Union; Buffalo Courier-Express; Buffalo Evening News.\nCharlotte News; Chicago American; Chicago Daily Times; Chicago Herald and Examiner;\nChicago Tribune; Christian Science Monitor; Cincinnati Enquirer; Cincinnati Post;\nCincinnati Times-Star; Clearfield Progress; Cleveland Plain Dealer; Cleveland Press;\nColumbus Citizen.\nDallas Morning News; Dallas Times Herald; Davenport Democrat and Leader; Denver Post;\nDetroit Free Press; Detroit News; Detroit Evening Times; El Diario de Nueva York.\nEdwardsville Intelligencer; Excelsior.\nFort Worth Star-Telegram.\nGhost Stories.\nHollywood Citizen-News; Hollywood Reporter; Houston Chronicle; Houston Post-Dispatch.\nJapan Times; Jersey Journal.\nKansas City Star; Kingston Daily Gleaner; Knickerbocker Press; KPFA Program Folio\nLancaster New Era; Lethbridge Herald; Lima News; London Times; Los Angeles Evening\nHerald and Express; Los Angeles Times.\nManchester Guardian; Manila Times; Mason City Globe-Gazette; Melbourne Age;\nMelbourne Argus; Miami Daily News; Miami Herald; The Microphone; Milwaukee Journal;\nLe Monde; Montreal Daily Star.\nEl Nacional (Mexico, D.F.), Nashville Banner; New Orleans Times-Picayune; New York\nDaily News; New York Evening Graphic; New York Evening Jounral; New York Evenng Post;\nNew York Herald Tribune; New York Sun; New York Times; Newark Evening News.\nOakland Tribune, Oregon Daily Journal; Oregonian.\nPhiladelphia Inquirer Public Ledger; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; PM Daily; Port Arthur News;\nLa Prensa (Buenos Aires); Providence Evening Bulletin.\nThe Radio Annual; Radio Best; Radio Dial (Cincinnati), Radio Guide, Radio Mirror; Radio\nPictorial; Radio Stars; Radio Times; Rand Daily Mail; Rochester Times-Union.\nSalt Lake Telegram; Salt Lake Tribune; San Diego Union; San Francisco Call and Post, San\nFrancisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner; San Jose Mercury Herald; Schenectady\nGazette; Screen and Radio Weekly; Seattle Post-Intellgiencer; Sheboygan Press; St. Louis\nGlobe-Democrat; St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Sydney Daily Telegraph; Sydney Morning Herald;\nSyracuse Herald.\nToronto Globe and Mail.\nEl Universal.\nVariety; Variety Radio Directory.\nWashington Daily News; Washington Post; Washington Star; Washington Times-Herald;\nWeird Tales; Wichita Eagle; Winnipeg Free Press; Winnipeg Tribune; Wireless Weekly.\nZanesville Signal; Zit's Theatrical Weekly.\nCHRONOLOGY\nA historical timeline to the entries in this book\n1923 The Thirteenth Chair (WGY)\nGhost Stories (2LO)\n1924 A. J. Alan (2LO, et al.)\n1925 The Dweller in the Darkness (5Z, 2LO)\n1926 Elliott O’Donnell (2LO)\n1927 Castles and Their Ghosts\nThe Emperor of America\n1928 The Master of Sinister House (W\nThe Tocsin of Tambou (KGO)\n1929 The Haunted House (WABC)\nThe Day the World Ended\nThe Ghost Hour (WABC)\nThe Unseen Hand (KGO)\nThe Haunted House (KMOX)\nHalf Hours with Ghosts (WGY)\n1930 The Cross-Eyed Parrot (KGO)\nThe Dragon in the Sun (KGO)\nThe City of the Dead (KGO)\n1931 The Witch’s Tale (WOR)\n1932 Ghost Stories (KTAB)\nThe Witching Hour (WBBM)\nThe Haunted House of Kildare (KFUL)\n1933 The Columbia Dramatic Guild (WABC)\nDo You Believe in Ghosts? (K\nDo You Believe in Ghosts? (\nGhost Stories (WJZ)\n1934 Lights Out (WENR)\nGhost Stories by Elliott O’Donnell (WEAF)\nAlgernon Blackwood (National Programme,\net al.)\nNightmares (Empire)\nKPRC Dramatic Players [Present Tales by\nPoe] [KPRC]\n1935 True Ghost Stories (WJZ)\nThe Black Death (WJR)\nThe Hermit’s Cave (WJR)\n1936 The Black Chapel (KNX)\n1937 Lost Legends (KEHE)\nAtmospherics (BBC)\n1938 The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet (WABC)\nThe Jade Claw (BBC)\n1939 Tales of the Uncanny (Northern Ireland)\nEl Monje Loco (XEQ)\nLights Out (KFI)\nLights Out (KECA)\n1940 Once Upon a Midnight (KFI / KECA)\n1941 Inner Sanctum Mysteries (WJZ)\nThe Voice in the Night (W\nDark Fantasy (WKY)\n1942\n1943 Horror Inc. (WJZ)\nAppointment with Fear (Home Service)\nThe Mysterious Traveler (WOR)\n1944 Creeps by Nights (KECA)\n1945 The Sealed Book (WOR)\nThe Strange Dr. Weird (WOR)\n1946 Lights Out (WEAF)\nThe Hall of Fantasy (KALL)\n1947 Lights Out (KECA)\n1948\n1949 The Hall of Fantasy (WGN)\n1950\n1951\n1952\n1953 Nightmare (WOR)\n1954\n1955\n1956 Sleep No More (WNBC)\n1957\n1958 Voice in the Night (WINS)\n1959 Horrorscopes (WNBC)\n1960\n1961\n1962\nINDEX\nA cross-reference to names in radio horror series\nAlan, A. J. (pseud. Leslie Harrison Lambert) (1883-1941)\nA.J. ALAN\nArthur, Robert (1909-1969)\nADVENTURE INTO FEAR\nDARK DESTINY\nTHE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER\nTHE SEALED BOOK\nTHE STRANGE DOCTOR WEIRD\nAshton, Queenie\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\nBecker, Don\nPHANTOM OF THE FUTURE\nTALES OF TERROR\nBishop, Scott (pseud. George M. Hamaker)\nDARK FANTASY\nTHE STRANGE DR. KARNAC\nBlackwood, Algernon (1869-1951)\nALGERNON BLACKWOOD\nNIGHTMARES\nBloch, Robert (1917-1994)\nSTAY TUNED FOR TERROR\nBoyce, Burke (1901-19—)\nGHOST STORIES (1933-34)\nTERROR BY NIGHT\nBrown, Himan\nINNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES\nBurdick, Harold “Hal” (1894-1978)\nDO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?\nCaplan, Rupert\nTHE GHOST ROOM\nGREAT TALES OF IMAGINATION\nCarrasco, Salvador (19??-197?)\nEL MONJE LOCO\nChappel, Ernest\nQUIET PLEASE\nChevigny, Hector (1904-1965)\nTHE BLACK CHAPEL\nCREEPS BY NIGHT\nClarke, Philip\nTHE SEALED BOOK\nCole, Alonzo Deen (1897-1971)\nCREEPS BY NIGHT\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\nConning, Brucce\nA STEP ON THE STAIRS\nWHEN GHOSTS WALK\nCooper, Willis (1899-1955)\nLIGHTS OUT\nQUIET PLEASE\nTHE WITCHING HOUR\nCordova, Arturo de\nAPAGUE LA LUZ Y  ESCHUCHE\nCortina, Alfredo\nEL EXPERIMENTO DEL DR. HUGGS\nCuddy, Lucy\nTHE GREEN DRAGON EMERALD\nKPO DRAMA GUILD [EDGAR ALLAN\nPOE STORIES]\nTHE LUMINOUS SHADOW\nDavid, Ben\nGABI NG LAGIM\nDehner, John (1915-19??)\nTHE BLACK BOOK\nTHE HERMIT’S CAVE\nDevitt, Alan (1887-1955)\nTHE EMPEROR OF AMERICA\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\nDoria, Carmen\nLA BRUJA\nDyall, Valentine (1908-1985)\nAPPOINTMENT WITH FEAR\nTHE MAN IN BLACK\nSPEAK OF THE DEVIL\nEdwards, George (18??-195?)\nDR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE\nFRANKENSTEIN\nTALES FROM THE PEN OF EDGAR\nALLAN POE\nElliott, Geraldine (\nTHE HERMIT’S CAVE\nFarr, Finis\nMASTER MYSTERIES\nMYSTERY HOUSE\nTHE PHANTOM OF CRESTWOOD\nFelton, Felix\nATMOSPHERICS\nTHE JADE CLAW\nMACABRE\nMYSTERY AND IMAGINATION\nFelton, Verna\nDO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?\nFerro, Ivo\nTEATRO DA MEIO-NOITE\nFitz-Allen, Adelaide\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\nGreen, Winifred\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\nGremmer, Toby (1881-1981)\nTHE HERMIT’S CAVE\nGreyson, Carl\nTHE HALL OF FANTASY\nGross, Sidney\nHORRORSCOPES\nTHE VOICE IN THE NIGHT\nGross, Sylvester (1909-1938)\nKPRC DRAMATIC PLAYERS [PRESENT\nTALES BY POE]\nHeisch, Glan\nONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\nHowlett, Eric S. (\nTHE BLACK DEATH\nTHE HERMIT’S CAVE\nHuston, Lou (1914-2001)\nTHE HERMIT’S CAVE\nJohnson, Mel\nTHE HERMIT’S CAVE\nJohnson, Raymond Edward\nINNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES\nLIGHTS OUT\nJohnstone, Jack\nDARK DESTINY\nWHO KNOWS?\nKarloff, Boris (1887-1969)\nCREEPS BY NIGHT\nTHE FRIGHTENED\nINNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES\nLIGHTS OUT\nMYSTERIES BY CANDLELIGHT\nSTARRING BORIS KARLOFF\nKeegan, Howard\nFACES IN THE WINDOW\nLIGHTS OUT\nSTAY TUNED FOR TERROR\nKogan, David\nDARK DESTINY\nTHE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER\nTHE SEALED BOOK\nTHE STRANGE DR. WEIRD\nKroeger, Berry\nTHE HAUNTING HOUR\nINNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES\nTHE WEIRD CIRCLE\nLangworthy, Yolande [pseud. ??????]\nTHE HAUNTED HOUSE\nLevene, Reta\nTHE GHOST WALKER\nMERCER MCLEOD, THE MAN WITH\nTHE STORY\nLjungh, Esse W.\nGHOST STORIES\nSTORIES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE\nLorre, Peter (1904-1964)\nINNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES\nJOURNEY INTO FEAR\nMYSTERY IN THE AIR\nNIGHTMARE\nTREASURY OF TERROR!\nLugosi, Bela\nDRACULA\nMYSTERY HOUSE\nMarino, Juan\nEL SINIESTRO DOCTOR MORTIS\nMaxwell, Ted\nTHE CROSS-EYED PARROT\nDEATH AT MIDNIGHT\nLIGHTS OUT\nMays, Roderick Ainsworth\nTHE BLACK CHAPEL\nTHE SHADOW OF KALIOM\nTHE UNBELIEVABLE\nMcCambridge, Mercedes\nINNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES\nLIGHTS OUT\nMcGill, Earle\nTHE GHOST OF BENJAMIN SWEET\nTERROR BY NIGHT\nMcGrath, Paul (1904-1978)\nINNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES\nMcGregor, Jock\nTHE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER\nMcLeod, Mercer\nTHE GHOST WALKER\nMERCER MCLEOD, THE MAN WITH\nTHE STORY\nMorse, Carlton E.\nCAPTAIN POST, CRIME SPECIALIST\nTHE CITY OF THE DEAD\nTHE CROSS-EYED PARROTT\nDEAD MEN PROWL\nTHE DRAGON IN THE SUN\nTHE GAME CALLED MURDER\nTHE RETURN OF CAPTAIN POST\nTHE WITCH OF ENDOR\nNordine, Ken\nFACES IN THE WINDOW\nSUPERNATURALLY YOURS\nOboler, Arch (1907-1987)\nTHE DEVIL AND MR. O\nLIGHTS OUT\nObon, Ramon\nMISTERIOS DE ULTRATUMBAS\nO’Donnell, Elliott\nELLIOTT O’DONNELL\nGHOST STORIES BY ELLIOTT\nO’DONNELL\nO’Flynn, Marie (18??-195?)\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\nOlmsted, Nelson (1914-1992)\nBLACK NIGHT\nLIGHTS OUT\nSLEEP NO MORE\nSOUTHWESTERN DRAMA HOUR\nOsborne, Ted\nTHE BLACK CHAPEL\nCREEPS BY NIGHT\nTHE GHOST WALKS\nINNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES\nKHJ UNNAMED MYSTERY SERIAL\nTHE MAD HATTER\nONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT\nTHE SHADOW OF FU MANCHU\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\nPenman, Charles D.\nTHE BLACK DEATH\nTHE DEVIL’S SCRAPBOOK\nTHE HERMIT’S CAVE\nSWEENEY TODD\nTHE UNSEEN HAND\nPowell, Moray\nADVENTURE INTO FEAR\nTHE CREAKING DOOR\nINNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES\nReadick, Frank\nTHE SHADOW (1932-1933)\nRiveroll del Prado, Carlos\nTHE BLACK CHAPEL\nLOST LEGENDS\nEL MONJE LOCO\nRyder, Klock\nTHE HERMIT’S CAVE\nSmith, Mark (18??-1944)\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\nStriker, Francis H.\nARCTIC DEVILS\nDOCTOR DRAGONETTE\nTHE FALCON\nTHE GHOST SHIP\nLOUP-GAROU\nTHE MAD HATTER\nTHE PHANTOM PIRATE\nPHANTOMS OF THE SEA\nSOUL OF A ROBOT\nULTRA LAVENDER\nULTRA VIOLET\nWEIRD TALES/WEIRD STORY/\nNIGHTMARE\nWEREWOLF\nSwan, Harry\nTHE HAUNTED HOUSE\nTarplin, Maurice\nTHE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER\nTHE STRANGE DR. WEIRD\nTazewell, Charles\nTHE COLUMBIA DRAMATIC GUILD\nTERROR BY NIGHT\nThorne, Richard\nTHE HALL OF FANTASY\nVillegas, Froilan\nGABI NG LAGIM\nWebster, Martyn C.\nAPPOINTMENT WITH FEAR\nTHE MAN IN BLACK\nWentworth, Martha (1889-1974)\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\nWiltten, Virginia\nBLACK NIGHT\nWolfe, Miriam\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\nWood, E. Mason\nINNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES\nTHE WITCH’S TALE\nThis document was created with the Win2PDF “Print to PDF” printer available at\nhttps://www.win2pdf.com\nThis version of Win2PDF 10 is for evaluation and non-commercial use only.\nVisit https://www.win2pdf.com/trial/ for a 30 day trial license.\nThis page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.\nhttps://www.win2pdf.com/purchase/",
  "chronology": "GREAT TALES OF IMAGINATION (CBM, MONTREAL—CBC TRANS-CANADA)\n[Monday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nJuly 7, 1947\n“Under the Terror”\n[OTTAWA CITIZEN: “…dramatizes imaginative tales of some of the world’s\ngreatest writers. Among these are Poe, Balzac, de Maupassant and\nDickens. Tonight’s program will present an adaptation by Hugh Kemp of\nBalzac’s ‘Under the Terror’…”]\nSCRIPT: Hugh Kemp (adapted from the story by Honore Balzac).\nJuly 14, 1947\n“Greenlaw Moor”\n[OTTAWA CITIZEN: “…The CBC in keeping with the weather and with the\ngeneral trend of gruesome and gory stories on the air is presenting a\nweekly series of half-hour dramas on Monday nights… Rupert Caplan\nwill direct an adaptation of a story by the Scottish writer, Andrew Lang,\nentitled ‘Greenlaw Moor’… ‘None of my blood is to set foot upon\nGreenlaw Moor,’ Adam Keane told his children. However, he himself was\nthe first of his family to venture, for over a hundred years, onto the\ncursed moor where his great-great-grandfather had been murdered by\nhis own son, said death to be repaid by the murder of Adam’s son…”]\nSCRIPT: Joseph Schull (adapted from the story by Andrew Lang).\nJuly 21, 1947\n“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (by Washington Irving)\nJuly 28, 1947\n“The Monkey’s Paw” (by W.W. Jacobs)\nAugust 4, 1947\n“The Bet” (by Anton Chekhov)\nAugust 11, 1947\n“The Bells”\nAugust 18, 1947\n“Peter Rugg, the Missing Man” (by William Austin)\n[Friday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nSeptember 19, 1947\nSeptember 26, 1947\n“The Monkey’s Paw”\nOctober 3, 1947\n“The Tall Woman” (by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon)\nOctober 10, 1947\nOctober 17, 1947\n“Storm Signals”\nOctober 24, 1947\n“The Queen of Spades” (by Alexander Pushkin)\nRADIO’S GALLERY OF\nGHOULS\n.      (1923-1962)           .\nSeries regulars Muir Hite and Ben Morris enact an nightmarish opium-den scene from\nthe Dark Fantasy episode “Dead Hands Reaching” for the benefit of the  Radio Guide\nphotographer\nThe ghostly faces of producer John I. Prosser and writer Scott Bishop hover above the\ntypewriter as they pound out plot details for another Dark Fantasy.\nThe earliest ads for the NBC show Inner Sanctum Mysteries emphasized creator-\nproducer Himan Brown’s original name for the series, The Creaking Door, which was\nrejected by the sponsor.\nRaymond Edward Johnson brought ghoulish humor to a new high(?) as the painfully\npunning host who lurked behind that horrible door.\nA new network for Inner Sanctum Mysteries, but the old ghouls still find their way into\nRaymond’s sanctorum. Elspeth Eric and Peter Lorre emote for the CBS microphone in\n1944.\nIn 1945 Paul McGrath replaced Ray Johnson as the creep behind the door. Here\nMcGrath (bursting through said door) and producer Himan Brown act as “cheering\nsection” as another Sanctum killer wraps his murderous mitts around the throat of\nMercedes McCambridge.\nDon Lewis and Orval Anderson in the New Orleans studios of WWL, broadcasting\nanother installment of Ed Hoerner’s 1941 series Voice in the Night—billed as “horror\nstories of other days, and of today…”\nEva La Gallienne, a living legend of the American theatre, became a mistress of the\nmacabre for the Blue network offering, Horror Inc., a short-lived 1943 series of literary\nreadings with sinister organ stylings by Rosa Rio (who also keyboarded The Shadow\nover at Mutual). “Horror, Inc.” reported The Billboard, “digs down to find the bleakest\nand most violent bits that have been written.”\nDon Douglas (the New York radio actor, not the Hollywood supporting player) did all\nof the voices in The Black Castle, including the announcer, the crazed Wizard and his\npet raven Diablo (which meant that each week he introduced the audience to himself\nwith himself perched on his shoulder).\nValentine Dyall brought sepulchral shadings of tone to his role as “The Man in Black,”\nthe sinister compere of the BBC program Appointment With Fear. “The voice wasn’t\nreally that deep,” he insisted, “but that’s the way that people remember it. It was really\nhigher.”\nMaurice Tarplin was a favorite actor of the writing team of Robert Arthur and David\nKogan, appearing in the title roles of their Mutual horror series The Mysterious\nTraveler and The Strange Dr. Weird.\n“I take the train each week at this time.” Maurice Tarplin in character as “The\nMysterious Traveler.”\nAfter nearly three years with Arsenic and Old Lace—both on Broadway and with the road\nshow version—Boris Karloff returned to Hollywood to resume his film career. At the\nbeginning of 1944, the Blue Network, no longer under NBC ownership, inked him to\nhost and star in a new series, Creeps by Night.\nBela Lugosi also had a shot at a series in 1944, but apparently nothing developed\nbeyond the NBC audition disc,  “The Thirsty Death,” which he and John Carradine\nrecorded for the prospective show, Mystery House.\nHorror writer Robert Bloch enjoyed his first taste of fame beyond the pages of Weird\nTales with the radio dramatization of his story “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper”  on Kate\nSmith’s show in 1944. Later that year he created the series Stay Tuned for Terror, which\nadapted 39 of his pulp stories for the syndication market.\nAngeline Orr, the female lead of Stay Tuned For Terror, later married the show’s\nproducer Johnny Neblett and, after his untimely death, attempted to maintain the\nfledgling Neblett production company as a going concern.\nCreator and scripter Juan Marino and other members of the cast of Chile’s El Siniestro\nDoctor Mortis, the longest-running of all radio horror shows, which had its first\nbroadcast in 1945 and ran on (through several station changes) well into the Eighties.\nBoris Aplon prepares to kill the juice big-time in this publicity photo for the 1946\nsummer revival of Lights Out.\nThe 1947 revival of the legendary series lasted only three weeks before it was yanked\nfrom the air-waves. The reason? Star Boris Karloff found Willis Cooper’s scripts\n(resurrected from the early Chicago days of the show) too gruesome for his liking and\nbailed out. (Boris, how could you?!!!)\nPeter Lorre found a terrific outlet for his talents in the 1947 summer series Mystery in\nthe Air, tackling everything from Poe and de Maupassant to modern horror classics like\nNelson Bond’s “The Mask of Medusa.”\nDress rehearsal underway for Mutual’s House of Mystery as “Roger Elliott, the Mystery\nMan” (John Griggs) runs over the script with director Olga Druce.\nMexican film star and heartthrob Arturo de Cordova found a second career in the\n1950s as the host of XEW fright show Apague la luz y eschuche.\nThe Mexican incarnation of The Shadow ran in serialized format in the early 1950s, with\na greater emphasis on fantastical and supernatural happenings than its American\ncounterpart.\nThe cover to the 1951 book based on the popular Brazilian ghost story program. Series\ncreator and host Almirante was a key figure in Brazilian broadcasting and a musical star\nwhose legend shines even to this day.\nMoray Powell compered as “The Host” in the Australian version of Inner Sanctum\nMysteries. With his clipped and precise intonation, Powell came across more as\nsomeone who had emerged from a P. G. Wodehouse frolic rather than from a crypt or\nsinister den.\nIn the mid-Fifties Ken Nordine broadcast out of Chicago, doing horror readings on\nboth radio and television with the WNBQ-WMAQ series Faces in the Window.\nNelson Olmsted carved a unique niche for himself in the 1940s and 50s as a radio\nteller-of-tales in series such as The World’s Greatest Stories and Your Story Tonight. In\n1956, as a new horror cycle began to manifest itself in the cinema and in the antics of\nlate-night TV horror hosts, he selected the best macabre tales from his previous\nprograms and spooked it up on the NBC series Sleep No More.\n`\nM\nMACABRE\nA series of original dramas emanating from the Tokyo studios of the Armed Forces\nRadio Service Far East Network. “The Macabre series began to take shape,” recalled the\nshow’s creator William Verdier, “when we recognized the need for a locally-produced\nmystery program. We originally taped some nine shows which AFRTS in Los Angeles\naccepted and sent around the world.”\n“I guess the most difficult part of the whole thing,” remembered Verdier, “was\ndreaming up ‘those crazy way-out plots,’ as they say. I wrote mainly at home…and\nusually late into the night. I recall writing once until about three in the morning…and\nstopped. It was very quiet. The only thing I could hear in the house was the ticking of\nthe clock. Even the animals were asleep. And I couldn’t think of an ending. So…I went on\nto bed. The ending wouldn’t come. And, convenient as this may sound, I dreamed\nsomething which, as soon as I awoke the next morning, I put right into the script before\nbreakfast.”\nVERIFY: “Mr. Buey was program director at FEN Tokyo since 1946 and its inception. He\ncame into government service from the old Yankee Radio Network on the East Coast.”\n“FEN Tokyo sent AFRTS Los Angeles a set of 15 i.p.s. tapes, from which the disks were\nmastered, as an unofficial competition with one or more ongoing productions at Armed\nForces Network in Germany (AFN).”\nVariant title listing: Macabra (this misspelling occurs in several collectors’ catalogs).\nORIGINATION: FEN TOKYO, Tokyo (Far East Network of the Armed Forces Radio and\nTelevision Service).\nDURATION: November 13, 1961-January 29, 1962 (first series), January 14-April 29,\n1963 (second series), ??????, 196? (Christmas special), December 5, 1969-January 30,\n1970 (third series).\nPERSONNEL: Airman First Class Larry Clements (technical supervision), Airman First\nClass James Conley (sound patterns, scriptwriter), Airman First Class Larry Dooley\n(technical supervision), Air Force Sergeant Bob Eddy (technical supervision, sound\npatterns), Airman Burr Hoyle (announcer), Airman Dave James (announcer), Carolyn\nJohnston (associate director), Air Force Sergeant Al LePage (announcer), Hiroshi Ono\n(technical supervision), Airman Jim Seaberg (scriptwriter), Walt Sheldon (scriptwriter,\ndirector), Air Force Sergeant Newell Stewart (sound patterns), William Verdier\n(scriptwriter, director).\nCASTS: Shirley Ashey, John Buey, Maureen Buey, Airman First Class James Conley, Air\nForce Sergeant Bob Eddy, Army PFC Allan Frank, Mitzie Hennessy, Carolyn Johnston, Air\nForce Sergeant Al LePage, Sandra Morey, Frankie Oka, Milton Radmilovich, James\nSheldon, Walt Sheldon, Air Force Sergeant Newell Stewart, Christine Verdier, William\nVerdier.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Final Resting Place” (11/13/61), “Weekend” (11/20/61), “The\nMan in the Mirror” (11/27/61), “The House in the Garden” (12/4/61), “The Midnight\nHorseman” (12/11/61), “The Avenger” (12/18/61), “Of Incense and Myrh” (12/25/61),\n“The Crystalline Man” (1/1/62), “The Edge of Evil” (1/8/62), “The Strange Diary of Basil\nRene,” “Dark Crossing,” “Who’s a Dummy,” “The Importance of Being Insane,” “Due to\nCircumstances,” “This Will Kill You.”\n[NOTE: This is certainly a unique series to attempt to assign dates to the undated\nepisodes. Our anchoring point in this is James Conley, the only enlisted man to have\nbeen associated with the show all the way through. His advancement through the ranks\nprovides the most solid clues to the chronology of the episodes.\nThe earliest appear to be the following four: “Who’s a Dummy,” “The Importance of\nBeing Insane,” “This Will Kill You,” and “Due to Circumstances.” The first three are\nscripted by Airman Jim Seaberg, and the last by Airman James Conley. Airman Dave\nJames is the announcer. The PSA at the end refers to an Act that went into effect on\n??????.\nNext in the chronology would be “Dark Crossing.” Seaburg is still with the show,\nConley is now Airman First Class, and Dave James is still the announcer.\nNext is “The Strange Diary of Basil Rene.” The script is by William Verdier, and Seaberg,\nConley and James are all still in place.\nNext comes the series of eight shows from 1961-62 that are familiar to most\ncollectors. Most of the scripts are by Verdier, Conley is still Airman First Class, and\nSeaburg and James have gone from the scene.\nFinally, the Christmas show “Of Incense and Myrh.” Conley is now Air Force Sergeant.\nThe announcer is Airman Burr Hoyle, whose tour of duty at FEN was from 1963 to 1967.]\nMACABRE\n[?????\nNov. 13, 1961\n“Final Resting Place”\nNov. 20, 1961\n“Weekend”\nNov. 27, 1961\n“The Man in the Mirror”\nDec. 4, 1961 “The House in the Garden”\nDec. 11, 1961 “The Midnight Horseman”\nDec. 18, 1961 “The Avenger”\nJan. 1, 1962 “The Crystalline Man”\nJan. 8, 1962 “The Edge of Evil”\nJan. 15, 1962\nJan. 22, 1962\nJan. 29, 1962\n[?????\nJan. 14, 1963\nJan. 21, 1963\nJan. 28, 1963\nFeb. 4, 1963\nFeb. 11, 1963\nFeb. 18, 1963\nFeb. 25, 1963\nMarch 4, 1963\nMarch 11, 1963\nMarch 18, 1963\nMarch 25, 1963\nApril 1, 1963\nApril 8, 1963\nApril 15, 1963\nApril 22, 1963\nApril 29, 1963\n[????\nDec. 25, 1963?\n“Of Incense and Myrh”\n[????\nDec. 5, 1969\nDec. 12, 1969\nDec. 19, 1969\nDec. 26, 1969\nJan. 2, 1970\nJan. 9, 1970\nJan. 16, 1970\nJan. 23, 1970\nJan. 30, 1970\nPrograms with unknown broadcast dates (all appear to be pre-1961):\n“Who’s a Dummy?”\n“The Importance of Being\nInsane”\n“This Will Kill You”\n“Due to Circumstances”\n“Dark Crossing”\n“The Strange Diary of Basil\nRene”\nSources for log information: Japan Times.\nTHE MAD DADDY SHOW\n“From our secret laboratory—this is sponge-rubber heaven. Rockin’ and reelin’, havin’ a\nball—Swingin’ and singin’, strait jacket and all!”\nSociologists may make of it what they will, but the birth of rock ‘n’ roll in the mid-Fifties\ncoincides interestingly with the revival of the horror genre.\n“In 1959 WNEW hired the biggest DJ in Cleveland, and the wildest DJ anywhere, Pete\nMyers, to bring his unique style and personality to New York radio. Myers’ air persona,\nThe Mad Daddy, was as wild as wild can get—with continuous sound effects, screaming,\nmaniacal laughter, tons of echo, and lots of rock and roll for the kids.”\n“His career began at WHKK, Akron in 1957 where he created the Mad Daddy persona.\nHe moved to WJW, Cleveland in January 1958 where he stayed until June. In August\n1958, he switched to WHK where he reached the peak of his popularity, hosting record\nhops and after midnight live shows dressed in a Dracula costume.”\n“Cleveland’s very first horror host…Pete “Mad Daddy” Myers… Myers was a very\npopular radio d.j. who talked constantly in rhyme; donning a cape with bat-wings and\nhood, he became WJW TV’s ‘Shock Theater’ host, presenting the Universal greats from\nthe 30’s and 40’s, surrounded by a mad-lab set and a constant flow of dry ice fog.”\nORIGINATION: WHK, Cleveland, Ohio.\nDURATION: August 1958-June 26, 1959.\nPERSONNEL: Pete Myers (voice of “The Mad Daddy”).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.\nTHE MAN IN BLACK\nValentine Dyall’s sinister narrator finally got his own program in this 1949 series.\nDyall was sometimes at pains to separate the reality of his own personality and\ninterests from the dark predilections of his vox persona, but he did so with grisly good\nhumour. “A rumour started,” he wrote in 1954, “with my weekly broadcasts as ‘The Man\nin Black’—that my appetite for mystery and horror was acquired at six years of age,\nwhen Christmas parcels got mixed up and I received The Works of Edgar Allan Poe\ninstead of Mother Goose. It is absolutely untrue. I was only five… There are many other\ncruel falsehoods—that I keep puff-adders as pets, rear Belladonna in my window-box\nand dress like a certain advertisement for a well-known port. The truth is that I have no\npenchant for the macabre—only, like Kipling’s baby elephant, an ‘insatiable curtiosity’, a\nfatal fascination for ‘the sealed room’. I cannot resist an unsolved mystery, and if it\nhappens to involve ‘buckets of blood’—well, that’s no deterrent.”\nORIGINATION: The Light Programme, London (BBC).\nDURATION: January 31-March 21, 1949.\n[NOTE: Recordings of some of the episodes of the series were re-broadcast on\nAustralian radio station 2FC in Sydney from January 20 to ????, 1952.]\nPERSONNEL: John Keir Cross (scriptwriter), Valentine Dyall (voice of “The Man in Black”),\nCleland Finn (producer), David H. Godfrey (producer), Martyn C. Webster (producer).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nTHE MAN IN BLACK\n[Mondayy—8:30-9:00 PM]\nJan. 31, 1949 “Markheim” (by Robert\nLouis Stevenson)\nFeb. 7, 1949 “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come To\nYou, My Lad” (by M.R. James)\nFeb. 14, 1949 “The Middle Toe of the Right\nFoot” (by Ambrose Bierce)\nFeb. 21, 1949 “Our Feathered Friends” /\n“Thus I Refute Beelzy” (by\nJohn Collier)\nFeb. 28, 1949 “The Judge’s House” (by Bram\nStoker)\nMar. 7, 1949 “The Yellow Wallpaper” (by\nCharlotte Perkins Gillman)\nMar. 14, 1949 “The Beast with Five Fingers”\n(by W.F. Harvey)\nMar. 21, 1949 “The Little House”\nMERCER MCLEOD, THE MAN WITH THE STORY\n“New NBC Recorded Production that poses the question: where does fantasy end and life\nbegin?”\nMercer McLeod, the creator of the legendary Canadian horror series The Ghost Walker,\nput on this show for NBC transcriptions with his wife and acting partner, Reta Laverne.\nMcLeod, in a very real sense, could be categorized as the Alonzo Deen Cole of\nCanadian radio, as writer, producer and star of two different series of The Ghost Walker\nin the 1930s and 40s, the Winnipeg series Lend Me Your Ears in 1939, and this series in\nthe mid-40s.\n[NBC ad] “Mercer McLeod, world traveler, actor, writer has every qualification for being\na great storyteller. His strange tales…many from his own pen…follow a time-tested\npattern for entertainment…recreate experiences of adventure, suspense, mystery…bring\nto life a world of legendary fantasy. Portraying all male characters in each program, his\nastounding voice changes and keen sense of pacing give his stories a reality that is\ninescapable. Reta McLeod, his talented wife, plays all feminine parts.\nAudience acceptance for this unusual show is an established fact. Listeners to the\ncoast-to-coast Canadian network voted Mercer McLeod..The Man With The Story one of\ntheir favorite dramatic programs.”\nThe Man with the Story is an oddity, in that it is clearly a horror series and seven out of\nthe eight extant shows have definite supernatural elements in them (some of a rather\ngruesome nature), yet the opening and closing segments do their best to not convey\nany sense of the eerie or horrific. Instead, we have “shimmering skies” organ music, a\ncheerful greeting from McLeod, and silly closing patter (“Say hello, Reta.” “Hello.” “Say\ngoodbye, Reta.” “Goodbye.”)\nORIGINATION: NBC Radio-Recording Division (Orthacoustic transcriptions).\nDURATION: 52 episodes released for twice-weekly broadcast in February, 1946.\n[NOTE: The syndicated series may have been released in Canada prior to this date, or\nthe NBC ad reference may be to the Canadian version of this show, which was then\npicked up for distribution in the States.]\nPERSONNEL: Mercer McLeod (scriptwriter, voice of “The Man with the Story”).\nCASTS: Mercer McLeod, Reta Laverne McLeod.\nSPONSOR: Card’s Drug Store, Hornell (WWHG), et al.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “The Birthday Present” (6/5/47; #6), “The Jungle Speaks”\n(8/20/47; #4), “The Music Box from Hades” (5/4/48; #2), “The Mysterious Drawing”\n(5/13/48; #1), “Two Extra Passengers” (8/10/48; #5), “The Bluestones” (11/9/48; #8), “The\nStory of Ecco” (#3), “Won’t You Believe Me?” (#7).\n[NOTE: The dates listed above were etched onto the disc matrix. The program numbers\nwere (presumably) taken from the disc labels and are at variance with the dates and with\ninternal evidence in the shows themselves.]\nMIDNIGHT MACABRE / MACABRE MYSTERY\nBroadcast from KPO in Oakland in 1944; subject for further research, if possible (no S.F.\nradio coverage at that time).\nORIGINATION: KPO, Oakland.\nDURATION: September 8-November 3, 1944 (Midnight Macabre), November 10, 1944-\nJanuary 5, 1945 (Macabre Mystery).\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nMIDNIGHT MACABRE\n[Friday—11:30 PM-12:00 MIDNIGHT]\nSep. 8, 1944\nSep. 15, 1944\nSep. 22, 1944\nSep. 29, 1944\nOct. 6, 1944\nOct. 13, 1944\nOct. 20, 1944\nOct. 27, 1944\nNov. 3, 1944\nMACABRE MYSTERY\n[Friday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nNov. 10, 1944\nNov. 17, 1944\nNov. 24, 1944\nDec. 1, 1944\nDec. 8, 1944\nDec. 15, 1944\nDec. 22, 1944\nDec. 29, 1944\nJan. 5, 1945\nEL MISTERIO DE LAS TRES TORRES\nThis Venezuelan series ran on Radiodifusora in the 1940s, opening to “shady and\nfrightful tones taken from The Conesecration of the Spring of Stravinski.” Reminisced El\nNacional writer Salvador Garmendia: “Nobody missed an episode. They were histories\ntremebundas in which frequently dreadful murders happened, scenes of narrated\ntortures and prison brutality with despreocupada truculencia; aside from which the old\ntower of Don Eustoquio, where so many innocents had given the core to the terrible\nscent of latrine that dominated in the place, was also the favorite lodging of the\nultratomb messengers, encompinchadas core in pain, witches and all sort of diabolic\nappearances: dwarves, goblins and men without heads. In our illuminated solitary and\nbad big rambling house, the bronchial and whispering tones of the actors left scene and\ncame towards us unfolding their membranosas wings. To all the end hairs were put to\nus.”\nORIGINATION: Radiodifusora, Caracas.\nDURATION: Circa 1940s.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nMISTERIO EN EL AIRE\nBroadcast over the affiliates of Radio Cadena Nacional, this series alternated between\nmystery and detective stories and horror, ranging from the Sherlock Holmes adventure,\n“The Red-Headed League” to an adaptation of Robert Hichens’ classic tale of monstrous\namour, “How Love Came to Professor Gildea.” Other titles in the series included “The\nGreatest Monster,” “The Invisible Bride,” “Revenge of the Dead,” “The Scarlet Triangle,”\n“The Dog with Two Heads,” “The Night of My Death,” and “The Lighthouse.”\nORIGINATION: XEX, Mexico City, Distrito Federal (RCN).\nDURATION: Circa 1953.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nMISTERIOS DE ULTRATUMBA\nCited in Anecdotario de Radio y Television (Esquivel Puerto, 1970); no further information\nis known.\nORIGINATION: XEX, Mexico City, Distrito Federal.\nDURATION: Circa 1950s.\nPERSONNEL: Roberto Aguilar (producer), Ramon Obon (scriptwriter).\nCASTS: Amparo Garrido, et al.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nEL MONJE LOCO\nSometime in the 1950s El Monje Loco switched from XEQ to XEW. The new series took\nthe old 15-minute narrations and turned them into half-hour dramatizations.\nORIGINATION: XEW, Mexico, D.F.\nDURATION: Circa 1950s.\nPERSONNEL: Salvador Carasco (voice of “El Monje Loco”), Ignacio Garcia (organist),\nRamon Obon (scriptwriter), Carlos Riverol del Prado (scriptwriter).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “El Horrible caso de las manos cortadas” (ca. 1958).\nEL MONJE LOCO\nThis Nicaraguan version of the popular Mexican horror series was done by Managua\nstation YNOW (“La Voz de la America Central”), which also did the series Dracula—El\nHombre Vampiro.\nORIGINATION: YNOW, Managua.\nDURATION: Circa 1944.\nPERSONNEL: Narciso Collac (voice of “El Monje Loco”), Julio Cesar Sandoval (producer).\nCASTS: Magda Garcia, Carmen Martinez, Mamerto Martinez Vasquez.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nEL MONJE LOCO\nIn his youth Anibal Gonzalez Irizarry, later the dean of Puerto Rican newscasters,\nemigrated to New York City and for a year was the voice of El Monje Loco on the\nSpanish-language program La Voz Hispana del Aire. This was the only known U.S.\nappearance of this character.\n[WIKIPEDIA] “b. 1927… In 1942, when only 15 years old, he got a job at the radio\nstation WPRA in Mayaguez and soon became the station’s main broadcaster. In 1950,\nAnibal went to New York City, where he worked for WWRL in a program called ‘La Voz\nHispana del Aire’ (The Hispanic Voice on the Air). In that program, he developed a\ncharacter which he called ‘Monje Loco’ (Crazy Priest). In 1951, he joined the radio station\nWENX and was named Director of Spanish Programs. In 1953, Anibal joined the Army\nand later after he was honorably discharged, he returned to New York and continued to\nwork in the radio… In 1956, Anibal returned to Puerto Rico and joined WKAQ, a\nTelemundo affiliate, as its radio announcer.”\nORIGINATION: WWRL, New York City, New York.\nDURATION: Circa 1950.\nPERSONNEL: Anibal Gonzalez Irizarry (voice of “El Monje Loco”).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nMOOD MACABRE\nYears before John Morrow did his Dreadful John at Midnight series at WKCR, the\nColumbia University radio station, an earlier generation of students put on this show.\nUnlike Dreadful John’s solo performance, Mood Macabre appears to have been a full-\nfledged drama production, as evidenced by an announcement in the October 25, 1948\nissue of the Barnard Bulletin that casting for the show would be held “until further\nnotice [on] Monday night after show at 9:30 p.m.”\nThe show first went on the air during the Fall semester of 1948. (A Bulletin article from\nearlier in the year—February 13—noted that “there are three weekly dramatic shows,\n‘Director’s Guild’ on Wednesdays, ‘Blue Lion’s Workshop’ on Thursdays and ‘The\nPlayhouse’ on Fridays. The plays which WKCR does are either originals or adaptations of\nfamiliar plays and short stories.”)\nHelping with the sound effects was Barnard student Betty Wall who, it was reported,\nfound herself “involved in such duties as figuring out the best way to reproduce ‘the\nsound of a corpse falling’ (Betty jumped on a table) and ‘the sound of footsteps’ (Betty\nbalanced herself on a shaky wooden box and stamped for an hour).”\nORIGINATION: WKCR, New York City, New York.\nDURATION: [October 25-November 1], 1948.\nPERSONNEL: Betty Wall (sound effects).\n[Students involved with the Friday night broadcasts of Players Playhouse—including Paul\nA. Flinn (producer) and Wayne Dail (director)—may have worked on this series as well.]\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nMOOD MACABRE\n[Monday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nOct. 25, 1948\nNov. 1, 1948\nMOON MUSIC\n“Special musical arrangements from motion picture sound tracks and radio and TV\nprograms for your after midnight reverie, as arranged by Richard Powell.”\n“Announcer Bob Dalton’s chief chore during the past summer was stroking a feline\nnamed Thanatopsis and commenting on ‘The Black Cat.’ The cat told tales of murder\nand mayhem, with the assistance of Dalton and some rather ancient movies… Dalton,\nwho worked at sounding like the voice of doom for ‘The Black Cat’ television program,\nand who practiced a ghostly intonation for a Sunday night radio show called ‘Moon\nMusic’…”\nORIGINATION: WTOP, Washington, D.C.\nDURATION: Circa 1953.\nPERSONNEL: Bob Dalton (announcer), Richard Powell (music director).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\n“MR. ARCULARIS”\nConrad Aiken’s death fantasy was turned into compelling radio drama, first in Canada\nand then in the U.S.\nORIGINATION: C??, Toronto (CBC Trans-Canada Network).\nDURATION:\nPERSONNEL: Andrew Allan (producer), Gerald Noxon (scriptwriter).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.\nSTAGE 49\n[???day—\nNov. 28, 1948\n“Mr. Arcularis” (no. 9)\nSTAGE 50\n[???day—\nOct. 30, 1949 “Mr. Arcularis” (no. 6)\nSTAGE 53\n[???day—\nJan. 25, 1953 “Mr. Arcularis”\nMURDER AT MIDNIGHT\nSyndicated rival to Inner Sanctum.\nLouis Cowan: “I was in the Office of War Information in the overseas branch… When I\nleft the government I wasn’t quite certain about exactly what I would be doing or at\nleast where I would be doing it, because I didn’t know at that point whether I’d be\nmoving back to Chicago or stay in New York, and we finally decided to stay in New York.\nTeaming up with two former colleagues, Joe Bailey and Al Holander, he determined to\nset up in business. “It was determined that we would set up what would be an\nindependent producing office for radio at that time, and finally managed to locate some\nspace for an office at 250 West 57thth Street—the Fisk Building, which had also had\noffices for the OWI during the war, and it happened that some space was available\nthere. Space then was almost impossible to get, and we did move in there and set up\nour offices.”\n“No expense has been spared to make it—yet it’s offered at a price ½ to 1/3 lower\nthan you’d expect. And the result is a witch’s broth of shivers and suspense that will\nknock your audience for a ghoul!”\nORIGINATION: Louis G. Cowan Productions, New York City, New York (electrical\ntranscriptions distributed through the World Broadcasting System).\nDURATION: Released into syndication in May, 1946.\n[NOTE: The earliest broadcasts of this series were on WJZ from September 16, 1946 to\nSeptember 8, 1947.]\nPERSONNEL: Louis G. Cowan (producer), Max Ehrlich (scriptwriter), Anton M. Leader\n(director),  Peter Martin (scriptwriter), Sigmund Miller (scriptwriter), Raymond Morgan\n(narrator), Bill Morwood (scriptwriter), Robert Newman (scriptwriter), Charles Paul (music\ndirector), Joseph Ruscoll (scriptwriter).\nCASTS: Alan Baxter, Ed Begley, Frank Behrens, Stuart Brody, Betty Caine, Eric Dressler,\nElspeth Eric, Carl Frank, Elsie Mae Gordon, John Harvey, Wendell Holmes, Barry Hopkins,\nEd Jerome, Raymond Edward Johnson, Berry Kroeger, Joe Latham, Charlotte Lawrence,\nAbby Lewis, Robert Lynn, Paul Mann, Mercedes McCambridge, Craig McDonnell, Dick\nNelson, Paul Nugent, Santos Ortega, Bill Quinn, Frank Readick, Ann Shepherd, Helen\nShields, Bill Smith, Hester Sondergaard, Amzie Strickland, Karl Swenson, John Sylvester,\nGeorge Tiplady, Luis Van Rooten, Betty Winkler, Roland Winters, Agnes Young, Lawson\nZerbe.\nSPONSOR: Ehret’s Beer (WJZ).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “The Dead Hand” (#1), “The Man Who Was Death” (#2), “The\nSecret of XR3” (#3), “Wherever I Go” (#4), “Death’s Goblet” (10/21/46),\nMURDER AT MIDNIGHT (DISC SERIES ON WJZ)\n[Monday—10:30-11:00 PM]\nSep. 16, 1946 “The Dead Hand”\nSep. 23, 1946 “The Man Who Was Death”\nSep. 30, 1946 “The Secret of XR-3”\nOct. 7, 1946 “Wherever I Go”\nOct. 14, 1946 “Trigger Man”\nOct. 21, 1946 “Death’s Goblets”\nOct. 28, 1946 “The Heavy Death”\nNov. 4, 1946 “Nightmare”\nNov. 11, 1946\n“The Dead Come Back”\nNov. 18, 1946\n“Terror Out of Space”\nNov. 25, 1946\n“The Creeper”\nDec. 2, 1946 “The Man Who Died\nYesterday”\nDec. 9, 1946 “Till Death Do Us Part”\nDec. 16, 1946 “Murder Is a Lonely Business”\nDec. 23, 1946 “The House Where Death\nLived”\nDec. 30, 1946 “The Kabbala”\n[“…a tale about a professor whose\nsearch for the supernatural brought\ndeath…”]\nJan. 6, 1947 “The Ace of Death”\nJan. 13, 1947 “The House That Time Forgot”\nJan. 20, 1947 “Death Tolls a Requiem” ????\nJan. 27, 1947 “The Thirteenth Floor”\nFeb. 3, 1947 “The Man With the Black\nBeard”\nFeb. 10, 1947 “The Black Curtain”\n[“…a brain surgeon is murdered by\nhis patient…”]\nFeb. 17, 1947 “The Outcast”\nFeb. 24, 1947 “Terror”\nMarch 10, 1947\n“Death’s Worshipper”\nMarch 17, 1947\n“Death Tolls a Requiem”\nMarch 24, 1947\n“Red Wheels”\nMarch 31, 1947\n“The Ape Song”\n[“…a weird drama about a man who\nuses an ape to commit murder…”]\nApril 7, 1947 “The Line Is Dead”\nApril 14, 1947\n“Death Ship”\nApril 21, 1947\n“We Who Are About To Die”\nApril 28, 1947\n“The Living Dead”\nMay 5, 1947 “Island of the Dead”\nMay 12, 1947 “The Corridor of Doom”\nMay 19, 1947 “City Morgue”\nMay 26, 1947 “The Dark Chamber”\nJune 2, 1947 “Death Is No End”\nJune 9, 1947 “The Dark Cellar”\nJune 16, 1947\n“Murder Is Not Enough”\nJune 23, 1947\n“The Face of the Dragon”\nJune 30, 1947\n“The Man Who Died Again”\nJuly 7, 1947 “Death Across the Board”\nJuly 14, 1947 “Fatal Interruption”\nJuly 21, 1947 “The Dispossessed”\n[“…a story of Carnegie Hall and\ngangsters…”]\nJuly 28, 1947 “Appointment”\n[“…the story of a crooked prize\nfight…”]\nAug. 4, 1947 “Glory Train”\nAug. 11, 1947\n“The Black Swan”\nAug. 18, 1947\n“The Face”\nAug. 25, 1947\n“Dead Man’s Turn”\n[“…a man is accused of drowning a\ngirl he never met…”]\nSep. 1, 1947 “Memory of the Dead”\nSep. 8, 1947 “The Mark of Cain”\nAdditional titles with unknown dates:\n“Murder Out of Mind”\nMURDER AT MIDNIGHT (DISC SERIES ON\nWOR-MUTUAL)\n[Monday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nMay 1, 1950 “The Dead Hand”\nMay 8, 1950 “The Man With the Black\nBeard”\nMay 15, 1950 “The Creeper”\nMay 22, 1950 “The Line Is Dead”\nJune 5, 1950 “Nightmare”\nJune 12, 1950\n“The Secret of XR-3”\nJune 19, 1950\n“The Black Curtain”\nJune 26, 1950\n“City Morgue”\nJuly 3, 1950\nJuly 17, 1950 “Terror Out of Space”\nJuly 24, 1950 “The Thirteenth Floor”\nMYSTERIES BY CANDLELIGHT\nEven as Boris Karloff was wrapping up his obligations as host and star of the Blue\nnetwork’s Creeps by Night, he was reported to be a possible star of another proposed\nseries.\nMYSTERIES FROM ENGLAND\n[New York Times] “An arrangement between WNEW and the BBC has been concluded\nunder which top detective fiction dramatized for the British audience will be rebroadcast\nhere from recordings…. Representative programs from three BBC series—Mystery and\nImagination, The Adventures of Julia and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—\nhave been selected by WNEW for presentation during the seventeen-week venture, to\nopen Aug. 10 at 8 P.M.BBC is also arranging a special round table with Dorothy Sayers,\nJohn Dickson Carr and other writers in this field to precede the first program.”\nORIGINATION: WNEW, New York City, New York.\nDURATION: August 10-?????, 1947.\nPERSONNEL:\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nMYSTERIES FROM ENGLAND\n[????\nAug. 10, 1947\n“The Adventures of Julia” [1]\nTHE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER\n“This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the\nstrange and terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill\nyou a little. So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves, and be comfortable—if you\ncan!”\nLong-running mystery / suspense / horror / science-fiction series.\nORIGINATION: WOR, New York City, New York (MBS)\nDURATION: December 5, 1943-March 31, 1945 (first series), July 14, 1946-September\n29, 1946 (second series), December 1, 1946-September 2, 1952 (third series).\nPERSONNEL: Robert Arthur (scriptwriter, producer, director), Bradley Barker (animal\nsound effects), Carl Caruso (announcer), David Kogan (scriptwriter, producer, director),\nDorothy Langley (sound effects), Jock MacGregor (producer-director),  Maurice Tarplin\n(voice of “The Mysterious Traveler”), Paul Taubman (music director), Doc Whipple\n(organist).\nCASTS: Frank Behrens, Ralph Bell, Lon Clark, Eric Dressler, Robert Dryden, John Gibson,\nWendell Holmes, Irene Hubbard, Leon Janney, Joseph Julian, Anna Karens, Ian Martin,\nJan Miner, Elizabeth Morgan, Bret Morrison, Eleanor Phelps, Bryna Raeburn, Frank\nReadick, Stefan Schnabel, Helen Shields, Louis Sorin, Karl Swenson, Maurice Tarplin, Luis\nVan Rooten, Gertrude Warner, Lawson Zerbe.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “House of Death” (1/30/44), “The Good Die Young” (3/27/44),\n“Beware of Tomorrow” (4/9/44), “The Accusing Corpse” (4/16/44), “The Queen of the\nCats” (7/2/44), “Death Laughs Last” (9/24/44), “They Who Sleep” (1/6/45), “The Case of\nCharles Foster” (3/10/45), “Death Comes for Adolph Hitler (3/24/45), “Murder Goes Free”\n(3/31/45).\n“Death Is the Visitor” (8/24/46), “No One on the Line” (9/1/46), “Symphony of Death”\n(9/8/46), “If You Believe” (12/29/46), “New Year’s Nightmare” (1/5/47), “The Woman in\nBlack” (3/9/47), “Dark Destiny” (4/13/47),\nTHE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER\n[Sunday—7:00-7:30 PM]\nDec. 5, 1943 “The Hands That Killed”\nDec. 12, 1943 “Death at Storm House”\nDec. 19, 1943 “King of the World”\nDec. 26, 1943 “Devil Island”\nJan. 2, 1944 “The Clock Struck Midnight”\nJan. 9, 1944 “The Visiting Corpse”\nJan. 16, 1944 “The Strange Journal of\nProfessor Drake”\nJan. 23, 1944 “Murderer Unknown”\nJan. 30, 1944 “House of Death”\nFeb. 6, 1944 “The Man Who Knew Too\nMuch”\nFeb. 13, 1944 “To Have and To Hold”\nFeb. 20, 1944 “The Ugliest Woman Alive”\nFeb. 27, 1944 “The Good Die Young”\nMarch 5, 1944\n“Design for Death”\nMarch 12, 1944\n“Statement by the Accused”\nMarch 19, 1944\n“Welcome Home”\nMarch 26, 1944\n“Stranger in the House”\nApril 2, 1944 “Out of the Past”\nApril 9, 1944 “Beware of Tomorrow”\nApril 16, 1944\n“The Accusing Corpse”\n[Sunday—3:30-4:00 PM]\nApril 23, 1944\n“Escape by Death”\nApril 30, 1944\n“Murder Spins the Plot”\nMay 7, 1944 “I’ll Die Laughing”\nMay 14, 1944 “The Ghost Makers”\nMay 21, 1944 “The Man Who Could Vanish”\nMay 28, 1944 “In Loving Memory”\nJune 4, 1944 “Murder Must Be Paid For”\nJune 11, 1944\n“Death Spins a Web”\nJune 18, 1944\n“The Man With the Stolen\nFace”\nJune 25, 1944\n“Blood on the Moon”\nJuly 2, 1944 “Queen of the Cats”\nJuly 9, 1944 “Broadway, Here I Come”\nJuly 16, 1944 “Death Rings Down the\nCurtain”\nJuly 23, 1944 “The Man Who Couldn’t Die”\nJuly 30, 1944 “Till Death Do Us Part”\nAug. 6, 1944 “My Beloved Must Die”\nAug. 13, 1944\n“Flight from Fear”\nAug. 20, 1944\n“Time on My Hands”\nAug. 27, 1944\n“The Unknown Enemy”\nSep. 10, 1944 “The Bell of Life”\nSep. 17, 1944 “A Dream of Death”\nSep. 24, 1944 “Death Laughs Last”\n[????\nOct. 7, 1944 “The Man the Insects Hated”\nOct. 14, 1944 “Mind Over Murder”\nOct. 21, 1944 “Voice of the Dead”\nOct. 28, 1944 “Invitation to Death”\nNov. 11, 1944\n“She Shall Have Music”\nNov. 18, 1944\n“Journey With Death”\nNov. 25, 1944\n“Footsteps of Fate”\nDec. 2, 1944 “The Cat and the Mouse”\nDec. 9, 1944 “Murder Without Crime”\nDec. 16, 1944 “You Only Die Once”\nDec. 23, 1944 “Christmas Present”\nDec. 30, 1944 “The Embarassing Corpse”\nJan. 6, 1945 “They Who Sleep”\nJan. 13, 1945 “Escape Through Time”\nJan. 20, 1945 “Letter from the Dead”\nJan. 27, 1945 “Death Needs a Witness”\nFeb. 3, 1945 “Farewell Appearance”\nFeb. 10, 1945 “Murder Is So Fatal”\nFeb. 17, 1945 “Wanted for Murder”\nFeb. 24, 1945 “Concerto for Death”\nMarch 3, 1945\n“Murder Is No Accident”\nMarch 10, 1945\n“The Case of Charles Foster”\nMarch 17, 1945\n“Blood Money”\nMarch 24, 1945\n“Death Comes for Adolph\nHitler”\nMarch 31, 1945\n“Murder Goes Free”\n[Sunday—4:00-4:30 PM]\nJuly 14, 1946 “Seven Years To Wait”\nJuly 21, 1946 “It Might Be You”\nJuly 28, 1946 “Summer Heat”\nAug. 4, 1946 “Death Is My Companion”\nAug. 11, 1946\n“Mortal Clay”\nAug. 18, 1946\n“Dynasty of Death”\nAug. 25, 1946\n“Death Is the Visitor”\nSep. 1, 1946 “No One on the Line”\nSep. 8, 1946 “Symphony of Death”\nSep. 15, 1946 “As I Lie Dying”\nSep. 22, 1946 “The Strange Death of C.\nDuvall”\nSep. 29, 1946 “Death Plays the Tune”\n[?????\nDec. 1, 1946 “Friend of the Dead”\nDec. 8, 1946 “Death Is in the Wind”\nDec. 15, 1946 “Death Is a Dream”\nDec. 22, 1946 “Between Two Worlds”\nDec. 29, 1946 “If You Believe”\nJan. 5, 1947 “New Year’s Nightmare”\nJan. 12, 1947 “No Grave Can Hold Me”\nJan. 19, 1947 “Death Is the Dealer”\nJan. 26, 1947 “You Won’t Escape Me”\nFeb. 2, 1947 “Voice from Tomorrow”\nFeb. 9, 1947 “Five Miles Down”\nFeb. 16, 1947 “Murder in Masquerade”\nFeb. 23, 1947 “The Cat Died Twice”\nMarch 2, 1947\n“Dig My Grave Deep”\nMarch 9, 1947\n“The Woman in Black”\nMarch 16, 1947\n“Death Wears My Face”\nMarch 23, 1947\n“Voice of Murder”\nMarch 30, 1947\n“Death Is My Pursuer”\nApril 6, 1947 “You Only Hang Once”\nApril 13, 1947\n“Dark Destiny”\nApril 20, 1947\n“Flight from Fear”\nApril 27, 1947\n“House of Silence”\nMay 4, 1947 “Destination Death”\nMay 11, 1947 “Design for Death”\nMay 18, 1947 “Die She Must”\nMay 25, 1947 “Mind Over Murder”\nJune 1, 1947 “She Walks With Death”\nJune 8, 1947 “I Died Last Night”\nJune 15, 1947\n“Death Is the Judge”\nJune 22, 1947\n“Meet Me at the Morgue”\nJune 29, 1947\n“Murder Without Crime”\nJuly 6, 1947 “Locomotive Ghost”\nJuly 13, 1947 “Dark Is the Night”\nJuly 20, 1947 “Their Cold Companion”\nJuly 27, 1947 “The Man the Insects Hated”\nAug. 3, 1947 “I Dreamed of Dying”\nAug. 10, 1947\n“Nightmare”\nAug. 24, 1947\n“Murder Goes Free”\nAug. 31, 1947\n“Murder at Their Heels”\nSep. 7, 1947 “Vacation from Life”\nSep. 14, 1947 “Big Payoff”\nSep. 21, 1947 “Island of Fear”\nSep. 28, 1947 “Deep Is My Grave”\n[??????\nOct. 7, 1947 “Death Rides the Storm”\nOct. 14, 1947 “Death Is My Host”\nOct. 21, 1947 “Death Is My Caller”\nOct. 28, 1947 “Invitation to Death”\nNov. 4, 1947 “Murder at the Dawn of Time”\nNov. 11, 1947\n“My Date Is With Death”\nNov. 25, 1947\n“Death Guides My Hand”\nDec. 2, 1947 “Death Cancels All Debts”\nDec. 9, 1947 “Death Must Have Revenge”\nDec. 16, 1947 “Christmas Present”\nDec. 23, 1947 “Mr. Trimble’s Turnabout\nChristmas”\nDec. 30, 1947 “Escape to 2480”\nJan. 6, 1948 “Death Is at the Throttle”\nJan. 13, 1948 “Death Must Wait”\nJan. 20, 1948 “The Man in the Black Derby”\nJan. 27, 1948 “Death Has a Vacancy”\nFeb. 3, 1948 “Life Is But a Dream”\nFeb. 10, 1948 “I’ll Dance on Your Coffin”\nFeb. 17, 1948 “Chance of a Lifetime”\nFeb. 24, 1948 “The Man Who Died Twice”\nMarch 2, 1948\n“The Ivory Elephant”\nMarch 9, 1948\n“Alibi for Murder”\nMarch 16, 1948\n“They Struck It Rich”\nMarch 23, 1948\n“Seven Years To Wait”\nMarch 30, 1948\n“Death Is a Dream”\nApril 6, 1948 “When Killers Meet”\nApril 13, 1948\n“They’ll Never Believe Me”\nApril 20, 1948\n“Murder in Jazztime”\nApril 27, 1948\n“The Little Man Who Wasn’t\nThere”\nMay 4, 1948 “They Who Sleep”\nMay 11, 1948 “I Won’t Die Alone”\nMay 18, 1948 “Death Writes a Letter”\nMay 25, 1948 “Death Is My Co-Pilot”\nJune 1, 1948 “Strange Voyage”\nJune 8, 1948 “Murder Is My Business”\nJune 15, 1948\n“Queen of the Cats”\nJune 22, 1948\n“Zero Hour”\nJune 29, 1948\n“You Only Die Once”\nJuly 6, 1948 “The Man Who Vanished”\nJuly 13, 1948 “Bury Her Deep”\nJuly 20, 1948 “The Chase”\nJuly 27, 1948 “The Unexpected”\nAug. 3, 1948 “Terror by Night”\nAug. 10, 1948\n“The Visiting Corpse”\nAug. 24, 1948\n“Murder by Proxy”\nAug. 31, 1948\n“Murder Has a Price”\nSep. 7, 1948 “Unsolved”\nSep. 14, 1948 “Dance of Death”\nSep. 21, 1948 “Death Has a Thousand Faces”\nSep. 28, 1948 “Hideout”\nOct. 5, 1948 “Death Rings Down the\nCurtain”\nOct. 12, 1948 “Broadway, Here I Come”\nOct. 19, 1948 “Death Has a Voice”\nOct. 26, 1948 “Welcome Home”\n[Thursday\nNov. 11, 1948\n“Till Death Do Us Part”\nNov. 18, 1948\n“Death Wears a False Face”\nNov. 25, 1948\n“Agreement To Die”\nDec. 2, 1948 “Farewell Appearance”\nDec. 9, 1948 “Signed in Blood”\nDec. 16, 1948 “House of Death”\nDec. 23, 1948 “A Town Named Christmas”\nDec. 30, 1948 “It’s Later Than You Think”\nJan. 6, 1949 “The Devil and the Deep Blue\nSea”\nJan. 13, 1949 “The Accusing Corpse”\nJan. 20, 1949 “Death Is My Partner”\nJan. 27, 1949 “The Ghost Makers”\nFeb. 3, 1949 “Death Spins a Web”\nFeb. 10, 1949 “Tonight I Die”\nFeb. 17, 1949 “Collector’s Item”\nFeb. 24, 1949 “Time Is Running Out”\nMarch 3, 1949\n“Murder at the Mardi Gras”\nMarch 10, 1949\n“The Dead Can’t Testify”\nMarch 17, 1949\n“Murder Points a Finger”\nMarch 24, 1949\n“I’ll Die Laughing”\n[Tuesday—\nMarch 29, 1949\n“Death Has a Cold Breath”\nApril 5, 1949 “Murder Makes Music”\nApril 12, 1949\n“They Died Screaming”\nApril 19, 1949\n“Out of the Past”\nApril 26, 1949\n“The Hot Seat”\nMay 3, 1949 “Murder Begins at Home”\nMay 10, 1949 “Escape into the Future”\nMay 17, 1949 “The Corpse Comes Home”\nMay 24, 1949 “Behind the Locked Door”\nMay 31, 1949 “Meet Me at the Morgue”\nJune 7, 1949 “Die Once, Die Twice”\nJune 14, 1949\n“No Grave Can Hold Me”\nJune 21, 1949\n“Murder Has a Voice”\nJune 28, 1949\n“She Walks With Death”\nJuly 5, 1949 “The Case of Charles Foster”\n[“…A killer gets the ironic\ntreatment… He gets by with killing\nhis first wife, then is wrongfully\naccused of doing in the second…”]\nJuly 12, 1949 “The Locomotive Ghost”\nJuly 19, 1949 “Murder Is So Fatal”\nJuly 26, 1949 “Voice from Tomorrow”\nAug. 2, 1949 “The Planet Zevius”\nAug. 9, 1949 “Brain Guy”\nAug. 16, 1949\n“Murder Spins the Plot”\nAug. 23, 1949\n“Why Don’t You Die?”\nAug. 30, 1949\n“The Treasure of Superstition\nMountain”\nSep. 6, 1949 “Flight from Fear”\nSep. 13, 1949 “The Cat Died Twice”\nSep. 20, 1949 “Destination Death”\nSep. 27, 1949 “You Only Hang Once”\nOct. 4, 1949 “The Knife”\nOct. 11, 1949 “The Last Survivor”\n[“…Mysterious Traveler lets his\nimagination go hog-wild in a fantasy\nabout a man who’s returning to earth\nin a spaceship, peers through\nporthole, sees earth vanish in a\ncosmic blast; problem, where to go\nfrom there?…”]\nOct. 18, 1949 “Nightmare House”\n[“…A woman takes her dream to a\npsychiatrist…”]\nOct. 25, 1949 “No One on the Line”\nNov. 1, 1949 “The Witness”\nNov. 8, 1949 “Appointment With Death”\nNov. 15, 1949\n“The Mirror of Count\nCagliostro”\nNov. 22, 1949\n“Mortal Clay”\nDec. 6, 1949 “Why Don’t You Stay Dead?”\n[“…story of a drunken actor whose\nwife keeps asking, ‘Why don’t you\ndie?’…”]\nDec. 13, 1949 “The Man No One Knew”\n[Announced as “The Man from\nVenus.”]\nDec. 20, 1949 “Luck of the Irish”\n[“…A man buys questionable stock\ncertificates from a beggar and they\nturn out to be valuable…”]\nDec. 27, 1949 “Death Comes at Night”\nJan. 3, 1950 “Golden Future”\n[“…A press association teletype goes\nhaywire and prints the ‘news of\ntomorrow’…”]\nJan. 10, 1950 “Survival of the Fittest”\n[“The Blind Alley” was the title\nannounced.]\nJan. 17, 1950 “Shadows in the Night”\nJan. 24, 1950 “The Dead Man’s Story”\nJan. 31, 1950 “Extra! Extra!”\nFeb. 7, 1950 “The Man Who Tried To Save\nLincoln”\nFeb. 14, 1950 “The Big Hand”\nFeb. 21, 1950 “Double Sixes”\nFeb. 28, 1950 “Journey into the Unknown”\nMarch 7, 1950\n“Death Rides the Wind”\nMarch 14, 1950\n“The Big Brain”\nMarch 21, 1950\n“Dark Underworld”\nMarch 28, 1950\n“No Grave So Deep”\nApril 4, 1950 “The Man from Singapore”\nApril 11, 1950\n“Flight from Tomorrow”\nApril 18, 1950\n“Death at Fifty Fathoms”\nApril 25, 1950\n“I Died Last Night”\nMay 2, 1950 “S.O.S.”\nMay 9, 1950 “The Big Dive”\nMay 16, 1950 “Voices at Midnight”\nMay 23, 1950 “Lady in Red”\nMay 30, 1950 “Beyond the Law”\nJune 6, 1950 “Murder Without Crime”\nJune 13, 1950\n“Death Has Two Faces”\nJune 20, 1950\n“Die She Must”\nJune 27, 1950\n“Journey Through Time”\nJuly 4, 1950 “Five Miles Down”\nJuly 11, 1950 “Ring Twice for Death”\nJuly 18, 1950 “Killer Return Home”\nJuly 25, 1950 “Gun for Hire”\nAug. 1, 1950 “Footsteps Behind You”\nAug. 8, 1950 “Blood Money”\nAug. 15, 1950\n“Vacation from Life”\nAug. 22, 1950\n“Nightmare”\nAug. 29, 1950\n“Murder Has a Price”\nSep. 5, 1950 “Mind Over Murder”\nSep. 12, 1950 “Tomorrow Is Forver”\nSep. 19, 1950 “Design for Death”\nSep. 26, 1950 “Into the Unknown”\nOct. 3, 1950 “What’s in It for Me?\nOct. 10, 1950 “The Final Hour”\nOct. 17, 1950 “The Cat’s Paw”\nOct. 24, 1950 “House of Silence”\nOct. 31, 1950 “Their Cold Companion”\nNov. 14, 1950\n“The Big Money”\nNov. 21, 1950\n“Escape to 2430”\nNov. 28, 1950\n“Thirteen Steps to Death”\nDec. 5, 1950 “Two Lethal Ladies”\nDec. 12, 1950 “Present for Santa”\nDec. 19, 1950 “The Survivors”\nDec. 26, 1950 “Between Two Worlds”\nJan. 2, 1951 “Never Say Die”\nJan. 9, 1951 “Death Cancels All Debts”\nJan. 16, 1951 “Diamond Fever”\nJan. 23, 1951 “Easy, Easy Money”\nJan. 30, 1951 “I’ll Dance on Your Grave”\nFeb. 6, 1951 “Death Is But a Dream”\nFeb. 13, 1951 “Money in the Bank”\nFeb. 20, 1951 “When Killers Meet”\nFeb. 27, 1951 “The Ivory Elephant”\nMarch 6, 1951\n“World of Tomorrow”\nMarch 13, 1951\n“Knives of Death”\nMarch 20, 1951\n“A Coffin for Charley”\nMarch 27, 1951\n“The Man Who Died Twice”\nApril 3, 1951 “X Marks the Spot”\nApril 10, 1951\n“50,000 B.C.”\nApril 17, 1951\n“The Little Man Who Wasn’t\nThere”\nApril 24, 1951\n“Chance of a Lifetime”\nMay 1, 1951 “The Planet Zevius”\nMay 15, 1951 “Death in the Swamps”\nMay 22, 1951 “Judgment Day”\nMay 29, 1951 “Fatal Mistake”\nJune 5, 1951 “The Unexpected”\nJune 12, 1951\n“Big Jackpot”\nJune 19, 1951\n“Another Man’s Murder”\nJune 26, 1951\n“I Won’t Walk Alone”\nJuly 3, 1951 “The Restless Skeleton”\nJuly 10, 1951 “Death Writes a Letter”\nJuly 17, 1951 “They’ll Never Believe Me”\nJuly 24, 1951 “Visitors from Infinity”\nAug. 7, 1951 “Terror by Night”\nAug. 14, 1951\n“The Chase”\nAug. 21, 1951\n“When the Dead Return”\nAug. 28, 1951\n“Fire in the Sky”\nSep. 4, 1951 “Death Has a Thousand Faces”\nSep. 11, 1951 “Strange Destiny”\nSep. 18, 1951 “Some Only Sleep”\nSep. 25, 1951 “Four Fatal Callers”\nOct. 2, 1951 “What Happened Last Night?”\nOct. 9, 1951 “The Man Who Knew\nEverything”\nOct. 16, 1951 “Death Needs a Substitute”\nOct. 23, 1951 “This Is Murder Calling”\nOct. 30, 1951 “Miracle on Tenth Avenue”\nNov. 6, 1951 “Behind the Locked Door”\nNov. 13, 1951\n“Speak of the Devil”\nNov. 20, 1951\n“The Most Famous Man in\nThe World”\nNov. 27, 1951\n“Murder Has a Price”\nDec. 4, 1951 “Token of Friendship”\nDec. 11, 1951 “Hideout”\nDec. 18, 1951 “Make Mine Murder”\nDec. 25, 1951 “Christmas Story”\nJan. 1, 1952 “Stamps from Eldorado”\nJan. 8, 1952 “It’s Only Money”\nJan. 15, 1952 “Key Witness”\nJan. 22, 1952 “Change of Address”\nJan. 29, 1952 “Stranger in the House”\nFeb. 5, 1952 “The Man Who Frightened\nHimself”\nFeb. 12, 1952 ‘Death Plays the Tune”\nFeb. 19, 1952 “Strange New World”\nFeb. 26, 1952 “Appointment to Die”\nMarch 4, 1952\n“The Betrayer”\nMarch 11, 1952\n“Man of Destiny”\nMarch 18, 1952\n“The Black Door”\nMarch 25, 1952\n“Two of a Kind”\nApril 1, 1952 “April Fool”\nApril 8, 1952 “Money Isn’t Everything”\nApril 15, 1952\n“Murder in Haste”\nApril 22, 1952\n“The Fourth Dimension”\nApril 29, 1952\n“Murder in 2952”\nMay 6, 1952 “The Gun Fighter”\nMay 13, 1952 “Death Rides the Storm”\nMay 20, 1952 “In the Depths”\nMay 27, 1952 “Wheels of Murder”\nJune 3, 1952 “The Haunted Trailer”\nJune 17, 1952\n“The Green Death”\nJune 24, 1952\n“When Dead Men Speak”\nJuly 1, 1952 “Bird of Prey”\nJuly 15, 1952 “Sands of Death”\nJuly 22, 1952 “Time Is Running Out”\nJuly 29, 1952 “The Big Fog”\nAug. 5, 1952 “Death Points a Finger”\nAug. 12, 1952\n“Temporary Corpse”\nAug. 19, 1952\n“Day of Reckoning”\nAug. 26, 1952\n“The Big One”\nSep. 2, 1952 “The Treasure of Superstition\nMountain”\nMYSTERY AND IMAGINATION\nDescribed as “new and revived radio plays on fantastic and imaginative themes.”\nORIGINATION: Home Service, London (BBC).\nDURATION: November 1, 1945-February 14, 1946.\n[NOTE: Recordings of six broadcasts from this series were run in the summer of 1947 on\nNew York station WNEW as part of a series of BBC plays entitled Mysteries from\nEngland.]\nPERSONNEL: Leonard Cottrell (scriptwriter), Douglas Cleverdon (scriptwriter, producer),\nPaul Dehn (scriptwriter), Felix Felton (scriptwriter, producer), Wilfrid Grantham\n(producer), Robert G. Newton (scriptwriter).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nMYSTERY AND IMAGINATION\n[Thursday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nNov. 1, 1945 “Golden Dragon City” (by Lord\nDunsany)\nNov. 8, 1945 “The Celestial Omnibus” (by\nE. M. Forster)\nNov. 15, 1945\n“Music from the Sea” (by\nWalter de la Mare)\nNov. 22, 1945\n“The Rose-wood Door” (by\nOliver Onions)\nNov. 29, 1945\n“The Picture” (by Gwendoline\nFoyle) / “The Rocking Horse\nWinner” (by D. H. Lawrence)\nDec. 6, 1945 “The Church by the Sea” (by\nHugh Stewart)\nDec. 13, 1945 “Lord Mountdrago” (by W.\nSomerset Maugham)\nDec. 20, 1945 “Chinese Magic” (by Algernon\nBlackwood)\nJan. 3, 1946 “Evening Primrose” (by John\nCollier)\nJan. 10, 1946 “The Nurse’s Tale” (by H. R.\nWakefield) / “Thursday\nEvenings” (by E. F. Benson)\nJan. 17, 1946 “Confession” (by Algernon\nBlackwood and Wilfred Wilson)\nJan. 24, 1946 “The Fall” (by Stacy Aumonier)\nJan. 31, 1946 “Uncle Arthur” (by John\nPudney)\nFeb. 7, 1946 “Warsaw Fantasy” (by Phyllis\nAustin)\nFeb. 14, 1946 “The Boy Who Saw Through”\n(by John Pudney) / “Blind\nMan’s Buff” (by H. R.\nWakefield)\nMYSTERY BEFORE MIDNIGHT\n[Bridgeport Telegram] “…WABC radio’s new chills-thrills nightly series… Unusual in its\npresentation of radio drama at this late hour, the program will tell a complete half-hour\nstory each evening.”\n[Variety] “WABC, N.Y., has purchased several half-hour radio mysteries from various\nproducers to fill a time of night in New York when currently the chief competition is\nfrom platter spinners.”\nORIGINATION: WABC, New York City, New York (ABC).\nDURATION: September 13, 1954-[January 18], 1955\nPERSONNEL:\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nMYSTERY BEFORE MIDNIGHT\n[Monday-Thursday—11:15-11:45 PM; Friday—11:30 PM-12:00 MIDNIGHT]\nSep. 13, 1954 “Death at Stormhouse”\n[“…a drama mixing the supernatural\nand the macabre…tells of a beautiful\nwoman who was so jealous that even\nthe grave could not bring her peace.\nWhen her husband John married again,\nhis new wife pays a penalty neither of\nthem had counted on…”]\nSep. 14, 1954\nSep. 15, 1954\nSep. 16, 1954\nSep. 17, 1954 “Trail to New York”\nMYSTERY IN THE AIR\n“Each week at this hour, Peter Lorre brings us the excitement of the great stories of the\nstrange and unusual—of dark and compelling masterpieces culled from the four corners of\nworld literature.”\nPeter Lorre finally got his own series.\nJohn Crosby: “…these tales will be full of spiders, corpses, and psychiatry of one sort or\nanother. Peter Lorre with his W’s where his R’s should be, his velvety whispering and his\nintense interest in murder will be in all of them. They couldn’t get a better man for the\njob.”\nAnd nobody could throw themselves into a pathological character more intensely than\nLorre. “One night he got so excited he threw his script away,” remembered Peggy\nWebber, “and we spent the whole next scene trying to ad-lib our way out of it.”\n“It’s an odd thing,” observed Port Arthur News radio columnist Grace Foote, visiting in\nHollywood, “to see how nonchalant ushers and usherettes at the NBC studio in\nHollywood are when it comes time to airwave headliners in general—all except one, and\nthat’s Peter Lorre. Since Lorre took to the air…the young NBC employees, most of them\ndramatic students, crowd into the clients’ booth at the studio and watch in hushed\nsilence as Lorre performs at rehearsals each week.”\nHP at the mvaldemar.blogspot observes: “…de Maupassant’s deservedly famous story\nof an invisible Brazilian soul-vampire kind of peters out (no pun intended) at the end.\nOur Man from Vienna knows this, and in a masterstroke of comedic Stanislavskian\nimprovisation, Lorre salvages de Maupassant’s story, busts open radio’s fourth wall\n(does radio have a fourth wall?), and skewers his own Hollywood image.”\nORIGINATION: KFI, Los Angeles, California (NBC).\nDURATION: July 3-September 25, 1947.\nPERSONNEL: Paul Baron (musical director), Don Bernard (producer), William T. Johnson\n(scriptwriter),  Cal Kuhl (director), Herbert Clyde Lewis (scriptwriter), Peter Lorre (host,\nlead actor), Tom McKnight (scriptwriter), Henry “Harry” Morgan (“The Voice,”), Michael\nRoy (announcer), Douglas Whitney (scriptwriter), Frank Wilson (scriptwriter).\nGUEST STAR: Agnes Moorehead (7/24/47, 8/14/47).\nCASTS: Bob Andersen, Lynn Allen, Conrad Binyon, Lyle Bond, John Brown, Bob Bruce,\nHerb Butterfield, Floyd Caton, Ed Chandler, Ken Christy, Hans Conried, Lois Corbett,\nHoward Culver, Jack Douglas, Jack Edwards Jr., Barbara Eiler, Stan Farrar, Monte Fraser,\nBarbara Fuller, Gordon Gray, Jerry Hausner, Joseph Kearns, Cyrus Kendall, Mary Lansing,\nRaymond Lawrence, Irvin Lee, Lucille Meredith, Henry “Harry” Morgan, Jane Morgan,\nPhyllis Christine Morris, Frank Nelson, Ruth Perrott, Alan Reed, Rolfe Sedan, Gloria Ann\nSimpson, Eric Snowden, Russ Stewart, Bill Stulla, Russell Thorson, Lurene Tuttle, Luis Van\nRooten, Herb Vigran, Stanley Waxman, Peggy Webber, Lynn Whitney, Horace Willard,\nBen Wright.\nSPONSOR: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (Camel Cigarettes).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “The Tell-Tale Heart” (7/3/47), “The Marvelous Barastro”\n(8/7/47), “The Lodger” (8/14/47), “The Horla” (8/21/47), “Beyond Good and Evil”\n(8/28/47), “The Mask of Medusa” (9/4/47), “The Queen of Spades” (9/11/47), “The Black\nCat” (9/18/47), “Crime and Punishment” (9/25/47).\n[NOTE: “The Tell-Tale Heart” (7/3/47) is held by the Library of Congress, but does not yet\ncirculate among collectors.]\nMYSTERY IN THE AIR\n[Thursday—6:00-6:30 PM]\nJuly 3, 1947 “The Tell-Tale Heart” (by\nEdgar Allan Poe)\nJuly 10, 1947 “Leiningen and the Ants” (by\nCarl Stephenson)\n[“…the story of a race of warrior\nants near the Amazon River…”]\nJuly 17, 1947 “Touch of Your Hand”\n[“…story of a moody trapeze artist\nand his beautiful young wife…”]\nJuly 24, 1947 “The Interruption”\n[“…W. W. Jacobs’ classic chiller\nabout a wife murderer.”]\nJuly 31, 1947 “Nobody Loves Me”\nAug. 7, 1947 “The Marvelous Barastro” (by\nBen Hecht)\nAug. 14, 1947\n“The Lodger” (by Mrs. Belloc\nLowndes)\nAug. 21, 1947\n“The Horla” (by Guy de\nMaupassant)\nAug. 28, 1947\n“Beyond Good and Evil”\nSep. 4, 1947 “The Mask of Medusa” (by\nNelson Bond)\nSep. 11, 1947 “The Queen of Spades” (by\nAlexander Pushkin)\nSep. 18, 1947 “The Black Cat” (by Edgar\nAllan Poe)\nSep. 25, 1947 “Crime and Punishment” (by\nFeodor Dostoevsky)\n`\nN\nLAS NARRACIONES TERRORIFICAS DEL “MONJE LOCO”\nThis series title was found in 1951 Mexico City newspapers. Uncertain as to whether or\nnot this constitutes a different series. It was still on XEQ at this time, running in a 10-\nminute slot across the board (Monday-through-Friday).\nORIGINATION: XEQ, Mexico City, Distrito Federal.\nDURATION: Circa 1951.\nPERSONNEL: Salvador Carrasco (voice of “El Monje Loco”), Carlos del Prado\n(scriptwriter).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nNAZARENO CRUZ Y EL LOBO\n“Later, we make a work of Omar Aladio and Carlos Ortea Peace, When the Indian cries. It\nwas a goal superior to both previous. That is finished and nonsabiamos that to put.\nThen, one night of rain, of much cold, we met to think about a bulincito of the street\nCurrent, where Chiappe escribia. That we do, that we do not do.. good, we did not\ndecide anything. I go out with much cold, I am walking by Currents, and I arrive until the\nPremier cinema. Then I see in the poster: “the human wolf”, with Claude Reims, Maria\nOupenskaia and Lon Chaney, son; heating. I enter to see pelicula, very pretty, in colors,\nmade very well; of that famous legend that septimo son man bitten by a wolf becomes\nlobizon, in the full moon-lits night, Fridays. I see pelicula, and I think, if this could be\ntransferred to the Argentine field, serious extraordinary. Coat another entrance and I\nreturn it to see. Wise I who in my house, tapeworm books that habia bought in San\nClemente of the Tuyu, that was all then medano, in one libreria old. It was a lot of\ncountry books, that interested me in the subjects that estabamos doing; despues served\nmuch to me. And agreed me of a very small book, that was called “the man dog”, that\nnot habia opened at least. – Searching carefully in the thin bibliotequita that tapeworm,\nencontre.”\n“Coat that Hbro, and I see that argentine is the history of lobizon in the field” “That is\nto say, alii exponia as the legend became segiin the regions, and the relative were\ncalled” “, in Santa Fe; “lobizon” in the Chaco; the “man-dog” in Tu-cuman... I go with the\nidea to the following day, and I say to him to Chiappe: - Sight, I encontre this. When\narriving with the very good idea, them parecio. Then we thought, that I title we put to\nhim. Chiappe says: - This individual sufrio like a Christ... Audon answers: - and, ponele\nNazareno... I say: - a Christ that I take the cross... Audon: - Nazareno Cross... Chiappe\nadds: - and the wolf. Asi I am conformed I title: Nazareno Cross and the wolf. BS: Now\nthis is called creation collective. MIRANDA: In that time he was a group of three, who\nestabamos thinking together. Then we make Nazareno Cross, with the collaboration of\nthe three, but the Chiappe company.”\nLeonardo Favio: “Si, pero el radioteatro no tenia mucho que ver con lo que fue la\npelicula. Ese radioteatro era la historia de un tipo que se transforma en lobo, se esconde\nen los pajonales, sale en la noche de luna llena y se come las ovejas. Y, ademas, estaba\nel personaje de una paisana que se llamaba Griselda, y que lo hacia sufrir a Nazareno\npor amor.”\nORIGINATION: Argentina.\nDURATION: 1952-?.\nPERSONNEL: Juan Carlos Chiappe (scriptwriter).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.\nNICOLAS GOGOL ET LE DIABLE PITTORESQUE\n“Sous ce titre, le producteur Stanislas Fumet qui sortait de son domaine de\npredilection—il fut le producteur de la celebre Analyse spectrale de l’occident—proposa\nen 1962-1963 l’adaptation de deux oeuvres fantastiques—l’une signee Cazotte, l’autre\nNicolas Gogol—qui avaient en commun un meme personage central: le diable en\npersonne!… Quand a l’emission sur Gogol, il y fut donne notamment une adaptation de\nLa Nuit de Noel.”\nORIGINATION: France III, Paris.\nDURATION: September 29-October 27, 1962.\nPERSONNEL: Raphael Fumet (music), Stanislas Fumet (scriptwriter, producer).\nCASTS: Louis Arbessier, C. Cler, Pierre Constant, G. Cour, Alain Cuny, P. Dehelly, Rene\nFarabet, Jacques Fayet, Raymond Jourdan, J. Lassalle, J.-P. Lituac, Pascal Mazzotti, G.\nMorel, N. Nerval, Yves Peneau, Claude Pieplu, J. Riviere, Jean Topart, S. Vannier, Rosy\nVarte, R. Vattier, Cl. Versace, A. Weber.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.\nNIGHT MUST FALL\nEmlyn Williams’ play…\nORIGINATION: Various.\nDURATION: Various.\nPERSONNEL: Betty Davies (producer—1969), Peggy Wells (scriptwriter—1969).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS:\nSATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE (RADIO 4, LONDON)\n[Saturday—8:30-9:58 PM]\nJune 7, 1969 “Night Must Fall”\nNIGHTMARE\n[Davenport Democrat and Leader, August 21, 1949] “Composer Igor Stravinsky has been\nretained to write original music for the new radio series, tentatively titled ‘Nightmare,’ in\nwhich some of Edgar Allen Poe’s stories will be included.”\nNIGHTMARE\n“Now, courtesy of a John Norman Production bowing at 10:30 PM Thursday on KTHT,\nyou can get your nightmares whipped up as fast as your breakfast cereal. Monday\nthrough Friday, a five-minute bedtime story for folks who like to dream violently will be\ntold by Mr. Norman, scored and emphasized on the organ by Bruce Barkis and written\nby Gene Miller, the Houston actor. The capsule hunk of horror will immediately follow\nthe Sports Roundup each night.” (Phylys Greene, The Houston Post, May 1, 1952)\nORIGINATION: KTHT, Houston, Texas.\nDURATION: May 1, 1952-[??? ??], 1953.\nPERSONNEL: Bruce Barkis (organist), Gene Miller (scriptwriter), John Norman (producer,\nnarrator).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Race of Monsters,” Man kills wife on boat, Man waits to kill\ndominating father, “Boa Constrictor,” “Fear of Heights,” “The Hand,” “Murder in a\nCrowd,” “Two for Davy Jones,” “Wrong Death,” “The Rat,” “Hard-Headed.”\nNIGHTMARE\n[Monday-Friday—10:30-10:35 PM]\nMay 1, 1952\nMay 2, 1952\nMay 5-9, 1952\nMay 12-16, 1952\nMay 19-23, 1952\nMay 26-30, 1952\nJune 2-6, 1952\nJune 9-13, 1952\nJune 16-20, 1952\nJune 23, 1952\n“Murder on the Flying\nTrapeze”\nJune 24-27, 1952\nJune 30-July 4, 1952\nJuly 7-11, 1952\nJuly 14-18, 1952\nJuly 21-25, 1952\nJuly 28-Aug. 1, 1952\nAug. 4-8, 1952\nAug. 11, 1952\nAug. 12, 1952\nAug. 13, 1952\nAug. 14, 1952\n[“…A rancher’s wits are unherded\nuntil a horse of another color shows\nup…”]\nAug. 15, 1952\nAug. 18, 1952\nAug. 19, 1952\nAug. 20, 1952\nAug. 21, 1952\nAug. 22, 1952\n“Terror on the High Seas”\n[“…a squall and a sea monster…”]\nAug. 25, 1952\n[“…a mistreated lover receives a\nfinal insult at the hands of his\nbeloved…”]\nAug. 26, 1952\nAug. 27, 1952\nAug. 28, 1952\n[“…they all ran after the farmer’s\nwife and cut off their tale for ending\nher life…”]\nAug. 29, 1952\nSep. 1-5, 1952\n[Monday-Friday—9:55-10:00 PM]\nSep. 8-12, 1952\nSep. 15-19, 1952\nSep. 22-26, 1952\nSep. 29-Oct. 3, 1952\nOct. 6-10, 1952\nOct. 13-17, 1952\nOct. 20-24, 1952\nOct. 27-31, 1952\nNov. 3, 1952\nNov. 4, 1952\nNov. 5, 1952\n[“…a wife killer…”]\nNov. 6, 1952\nNov. 7, 1952\nNov. 10-14, 1952\nNov. 17-21, 1952\nNov. 24, 1952\nNov. 25, 1952\nNov. 26, 1952\n[“…story of a man who tries to kill\nhis invalid wife…”]\nNov. 27, 1952\nNov. 28, 1952\nDec. 1, 1952\n[“…story of a love triangle murder\nwith a circus background…”]\nDec. 2, 1952\nDec. 3, 1952\n[“…story of a man who goes crazy\nwith rage after his wife leaves him.”]\nDec. 4, 1952\n[“…story of a hunter paralyzed with\nfear as a rattlesnake closes in for the\nkill…”]\nDec. 5, 1952\nDec. 8, 1952\nDec. 9, 1952\nDec. 10, 1952\n[“…after planning for three years, a\nconvict tries to escape…”]\nDec. 11, 1952\nDec. 12, 1952\nDec. 15, 1952\n[“…story of a shipwreck victim\nclinging to a bit of wreckage…”]\nDec. 16, 1952\n[“…a bank robber…”]\nDec. 17, 1952\n[“…a man who kills his wife while\nthey are still on their honeymoon.”]\nDec. 18, 1952\n[“…a man who gets revenge on the\nmob which tarred and feathered\nhim…”]\nDec. 19, 1952\n[“…two hunters on a trip into the\nCanadian woods—one of them a\nmurderer…”]\nDec. 22, 1952\nDec. 23, 1952\n[“…a gang boss in his last few\nminutes in death row…”]\nDec. 24, 1952\n[“…revolution in South America\nproves livelihood and death for a\nsmuggler…”]\nDec. 25, 1952\n[“…power politics in the movies,\nwith an assistant director trying to\ngain control of a picture…”]\nDec. 26, 1952\n[“…greed leads a trapper into an\nunexplored swamp which provides\nits own traps…”]\nDec. 29, 1952-Jan. 2, 1953\nJan. 5-9, 1953\nJan. 12, 1953\n[“…a policeman battles six killers\nwith one bullet and one idea…”]\nJan. 13, 1953\n[“…gang war in the underworld…”]\nJan. 14, 1953\n[“…a depraved organist wanders\nthrough a cathedral determined to\nkill…”]\nJan. 15, 1953\n[“…a stolen idol and a thief pursued\nby the sound of voodoo drums…”]\nJan. 16, 1953\nJan. 16, 1953 [“…a liquor store bandit is trapped\nby a bottle…”]\nJan. 19-23, 1953 ?\nNIGHTMARE\n“Out of the dark of night, from the shadows of the senses, comes this—the fantasy of fear.”\nThis series starred Peter Lorre as host and narrator (with occasional starring roles in the\nstories) and featured a mixture of crime and horror dramas.\n“Mutual’s nightly mystery series with ‘Counterspy’ on Monday; ‘High Adventure’ with\nGeorge Sanders, Tuesday; ‘Bulldog Drummond’ with Basil Rathbone, Wednesday;\n‘Nightmare’ with Peter Lorre, Thursday and ‘Four-Star Theater’ with Madeleine Carroll on\nFriday…”\n[Gene Plotnik, BROADCASTING review: “The future of ‘Nightmare,’ as well as the other\nnew shows Mutual brought forth with its now-doomed network option plan, is at the\nmoment uncertain. But this Peter Lorre vehicle definitely merits continuation. It is slick\nand bewitching radio programming. It is that eerie sort of stream-of-consciousness\ndrama for which radio has always been so effective.\n“In the stanza caught, Lorre played a psycho driven by murder guilt. The form that his\nfantasies took neatly offset the sordid gloom of the setting (calliope music followed by\nthe voice of a little girl in the background singing ‘I Know a Secret’). The music and\nsound accompaniment of Lorre’s reading skillfully played up the mounting pace. A\nsteady rhythm and constant footsteps came over while he was trying to catch the little\ngirl of his imagination.\n“The wind-up was in an asylum, where the man the hero imagined he’s murdered\noffered to foot his psychiatry bill.”\nThe 8/25/54 broadcast, “If I Should Die Before I Wake,” has been falsely identified by\nsome researchers as based on the Cornell Woolrich story of the same name. The press\nrelease description indicates, however, a completely different plot: “…story of a police\nsergeant who begins falling asleep every time he hears the man he’s after.”\nORIGINATION: WOR, New York City, New York (MBS).\n[NOTE: Transcription recordings were made in Hollywood.]\nDURATION: October 1, 1953-September 29, 1954.\nPERSONNEL: Peter Lorre (host-narrator, occasional roles), Sandy Marshall (director),\nBob Monroe (producer), William K. Wells Jr. (scriptwriter).\nCASTS: Connie Lemke, et al.\nSPONSOR: Co-op sponsorship.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “The Purple Cloud” (11/19/53), “Coincidence” (11/26/53), “The\nHollow Footsteps” (2/3/54), “The Chance of a Ghost” (3/31/54), “The Leach” (prob.\n4/7/54), “The Hybrid” (4/14/54).\n[NOTE: “Coincidence” is erroneously listed in some collectors’ catalogs under the title\n“Hemmed In by Death.”]\nNIGHTMARE\n[Thursday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nOct. 1, 1953\nOct. 8, 1953 “The Swamp”\n[“…Peter Lorre airs a story about\n‘The Swamp’ in Georgia’s\nOkefenokee territory…”]\nOct. 15, 1953 “The Case of Adam Greene”\n[“…The story involves a Communist\ntracked down by a Senate\ninvestigating committee. The man\ntries to escape by disappearing from\nthe face of the earth…”]\nOct. 22, 1953\n[Announced: “The Secret Corner”]\nOct. 29, 1953 “The Last Word”\n[“…A man tires of his wife’s small\ntalk and takes a course to learn how\nmentally to block her chatter…”]\nNov. 5, 1953 “Letdown”\n[“…one about an airline pilot’s cabin\non a foggy night when everything\ngoes wrong and he is eventually\ntrapped inside…”]\nNov. 12, 1953\n“The Secret Corner”\n[“…A mad artist’s plan for murder is\nrevealed…”]\nNov. 19, 1953\n“The Purple Cloud”\n[“An odd series of circumstances\nleads to confusion… Radio-activity,\na parade and a wife on a shopping\ntour provide the strange formula…”]\nNov. 26, 1953\n“Coincidence”\nDec. 3, 1953 “How To Lose Friends”\nDec. 10, 1953 “Food for Thought”\n[“…A man with an insatiable hunger\nwhich turns his life into a nightmare,\nprovides the psychological horror for\nPeter Lorre…”]\nDec. 17, 1953 “The Angry Man”\n[“…’The Angry Man’ faces a choice\n—kill his brother or turn against his\ncountry…”]\nDec. 24, 1953\n[Dec. 31, 1953\nCheryl Morris lists “The\nFrightened Frenchman” ???\n[Wednesday—8:00-8:30 PM]\nJan. 6, 1954 “Traffic Jam”\n[“…a truck driver with a perfect\nrecord suddenly finds himelf\ninvolved in trouble…”]\nJan. 13, 1954 “Invaders”\n[“…a scientist discovers thousands\nof invisible men roaming the earth,\nreadying to strike…”]\nJan. 20, 1954 “Not My Day”\n[Wednesday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nJan. 27, 1954 “Novel Idea”\n[“…An author with a ‘novel idea’\ncommits the ‘perfect crime’—until he\ndecides to write a book about it…”]\nFeb. 3, 1954 “The Hollow Footsteps”\n[“…A hoax involving a ghost is\nsolved by a wife who knows her\nhusband’s roving eye…”]\nFeb. 10, 1954 “It Runs Down Hill”\n[“…one about a man who wanted a\nlittle country hide-away…”]\nFeb. 17, 1954 “Triple Trouble”\n[“…one concerning a ‘trigimist’ and\nhis problems, his biggest headache\noccurring when all three wives meet\nface to face…”]\nFeb. 24, 1954\n[“…George and Mary Brown, an\nordinary couple, fall in love with an\nold house, but little do they know\nthat the house will lead to a\nnightmare…”]\nMarch 3, 1954\n“The Pyramid”\n[“…a man’s girl friend has\ndisappeared…”]\nMarch 10, 1954\n“All That Glitters”\n[“…story revolving around a request\nfor a loan…”]\nMarch 17, 1954\n“The Strange Voyage of\nCaptain Mundsen”\nMarch 24, 1954\n“The Caves of Fear”\n[“…Peter Lorre goes into the realm\nof insanity when he narrates ‘The\nCaves of Fear’…”]\nMarch 31, 1954\n“The Chance of a Ghost”\n[“…tale of life on the séance\ncircuit…”]\nApril 7, 1954 “The Leech” (prob.)\nApril 14, 1954\n“The Hybrid”\n[“…story of a man who tries to grow\nnew and unusual plants, eventually\ndeveloping one with killing\npowers…”]\nApril 21, 1954\n“The Sky Hook”\nApril 28, 1954\n“The Softer Voice”\nMay 5, 1954 “Quorum for Death”\nMay 12, 1954 “Lucky Stretch”\nMay 19, 1954 “His Worst Enemy”\n[“…story about a dog and his\nowner…”]\nMay 26, 1954 “False Faces”\n[“…story of a man who has a\nstrange power…”]\nJune 2, 1954 “The Hungry Thing”\n[“…story with a jungle setting…”]\nJune 9, 1954 “One for the Road”\n[“…story of a man who fought\nalcoholism…”]\nJune 16, 1954\n“The Brain Wash”\n[“…Peter Lorre narrates the story\nof ‘The Brain Wash’ which was\ngiven an American…”]\nJune 23, 1954\n“Dig the Grave Deep”\n[“…story of a young man seeking\nuranium in Canada…”]\nJune 30, 1954\n“The Last Laugh”\n[“…A guy named Joe loses his girl,\nhis business and his life to a guy\nnamed Jones…”]\nJuly 7, 1954 “Till the End of Time”\nJuly 14, 1954 “Desert in the Sky”\n[“…story of two drunks on the steel\nbeams of a new skyscraper…”]\nJuly 21, 1954 “The Face”\nJuly 28, 1954 “The Hammer Killer (according\nto Cheryl Morris)\nAug. 4, 1954 “Forget Me Not”\nAug. 11, 1954\n“The Abyss”\n[“…a story proving that even\noceanographers and their wives can\nbecome involved in romantic\ntriangles…”]\nAug. 18, 1954\n“The Alien”\n[“…A man from another world\ncomplicates the life of a young\ndoctor…”]\nAug. 25, 1954\n“If I Should Die Before I\nWake”\n[“…story of a police sergeant who\nbegins falling asleep every time he\nhears the man he’s after…”]\nSep. 1, 1954 “The Coils of Fear”\n[“…one about a criminal who sought\nthe ‘perfect’ place to hide and\nlanded on an island inhabited by\npythons…”]\nSep. 8, 1954 “Bread and Butter”\nSep. 15, 1954 “The Rose Has Thorns”\n[“…one about a respectable citizen\nwho suddenly finds himself in a\nliving nightmare…”]\nSep. 22, 1954 “Grave for Rent”\nSep. 29, 1954 “H-Hour”\n[“…It’s about a man who dwells on\nthe question of what it would be like\nif an H-bomb fell…”]\nSources for log information: Miami Daily News, Miami Herald, Houston Post, The\nBillboard.\n`\nO\nONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT\n“Alfred Hitchcock is about to send some of his spine-chilling yarns over the airwaves.”\nORIGINATION:\nDURATION: Recorded in 1945.\nPERSONNEL: Alfred Hitchcock (host, narrator).\nEXTANT RECORDING:\nORVAL ANDERSON HORROR SERIES\n[Dallas Morning News, August 25, 1941] “Orval Anderson, enlongated mike spieler who\nhas just arrived from New Orleans to join the WFAA-KGKO staff, makes his local debut\nas a master of ceremonies Tuesday p.m., on the exciting quiz show, What Am I?”\n“Orval Anderson, announcer of WFAA and KGKO, is busy preparing material for a new\nidea in horror stories. The drama will be built around three transcribed spot\nannouncements which occur in the allotted quarter hour, making the script read\nsomething like ‘…before the madman cuts this nice man’s head off, a word to you by\ntranscription.’ The title and time of the dramas will be announced at a later date.” [Dallas\nMorning News, July 12, 1942]\nOUT OF THE DARKNESS\n“Romance, fear, hatred—the dramatic story of a man back from the dead. Thriller\nadapted from the work of Sheridan Le Fanu, and concerns a great scientist who works\nsecretly on amazing experiments.” 52 episodes.\n[Lane] “…a macabre tale of a scientist working to restore life to the dead…”\nORIGINATION: George Edwards Productions, Sydney, New South Wales.\nDURATION: Circa 1946. (1942, according to Lane).\nPERSONNEL: George Edwards (producer), Eric Scott (scriptwriter).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nOUT OF THE NIGHT\n“Canada’s only indigenous horror pulpster (he never left home) was the flamboyant\nThomas P. Kelley, a fast-talking, hard-drinking roisterer who had no literary background\nbut, by his own account, left a print legacy of 700 stories totaling eight million words…\nThe best of the original Canpulps was Uncanny Tales, which was produced by Adam\nPublishing in Toronto, and ran some 21 issues between 1940 and 1943… Kelley claimed\nto have written every story in the first few issues… He certainly wrote such stories as ‘The\nTalking Heads,’ ‘Isle of Madness,’ and ‘The Soul Eater,’ for these appeared under his own\nname. Kelley’s fascination with the weird and horrific even resulted in a series of 57\nCanadian radio dramas broadcast under the title ‘Out of the Night.’\n…Outgunned by fatter, glossier product, Toronto’s own pulp paper barons began\nclosing down operations.\n‘Competition was too stiff,’ Kelley recalled, ‘though I recall one downtown publisher\nwho tried to hold on for a while. He arranged to bring out a magazine titled Eerie Tales\nand got me to write it for him. I did a lead yarn, ‘The Hound,’ four or five shorter stories\nand part one of a proposed serial, ‘The Weird Queen.’”\nORIGINATION: Canada.\nDURATION: Circa 1943.\nPERSONNEL: Ernie Edge (scriptwriter), Kay Edge (scriptwriter), Thomas P. Kelley\n(scriptwriter).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nOUT OF THE NIGHT\nPossibly an audition recording.\nORIGINATION: (ABC).\nDURATION: Circa 1947.\nPERSONNEL: Jeanette Nolan (role in audition play).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Dead End” (11/25/47).\nOUT OF THIS WORLD\nAn audition recording for what later became Escape. It is clear that the original intention\nwas toward the sinister and supernatural rather than rigorous adventure. It is possible\nthat some of the horror scripts used during the first year of Escape (eg. “The Fall of the\nHouse of Usher,” “Pollock and the Porrah Man,” “Taboo,” “Ancient Sorceries”) were\nholdovers that had been written when it was still considered a weird series.\nORIGINATION: WABC, New York City, New York.\n[NOTE: This show was produced for CBS but never broadcast.]\nDURATION: Recorded on February 28, 1947.\nPERSONNEL: Art Carney (role in audition play), Berry Kroeger (role in audition play).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Dead of Night.”\nOUT OF THIS WORLD\nCanadian series done by popular childrens show actor.\nORIGINATION: C???, Toronto, Ontario (CBC Dominion Network)\nDURATION: May 6-July 1, 1955.\nPERSONNEL: Rodney Coneybeare (scriptwriter), Andrew Stewart (producer).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.\n`\nP\nTHE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA\nBasil Rathbone replaced Claude Rains in this Lux production.\nPHANTOM THEATER\nBob Kent is cited in the 1944 Radio Annual for his work on this and another KFH series,\nParlor Playhouse. KFH broadcast from the York Rite building in downtown Wichita.\nAn ad in the October 23, 1942 issue of the Wichita Eagle announced: “10:30 P.M.—\n‘PHANTOM THEATER” RETURNS—A Presentation of Goldsmiths—Produced by John\nSpeer—With Veteran Cast of Players.”\nVariant title: Goldsmith’s Phantom Theater.\nORIGINATION: KFH, Wichita, Kansas.\nDURATION: December 12, 1941 (one-shot broadcast), October 23, 1942-June 4, 1943\n(series).\nPERSONNEL: John Speer (producer).\nCASTS: Bob Kent, et al.\nSPONSOR: Goldsmith’s (“Gifts, Books and Games”).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nPHANTOM TIME\n“A series of ghost stories and of the supernatural, combining the strange, the incredible,\nthe horrifying. It contains original stories together with adaptations of some of the\nworld’s best-unknown tales from authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles\nDickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Edgar Allan Poe.”\nORIGINATION: 2UW, Sydney, New South Wales.\n[NOTE: Electrical transcriptions of the series were distributed through Fidelity.]\nDURATION: Circa 1958.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nCASTS: John Alden, Queenie Ashton, Kevin Brennan, Amber Mae Cecil, Margaret\nChristensen, Roger Climpson, Myrna Dodd, David Eadie, Stewart Ginn, Gordon\nGlenwright, Maddi Hedd, Max Osbiston, Don Pascoe, Jean Robertson.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “The Haunted Cabin” (#13), “The Tapping Stick” (#14), “The\nHand of Shen-Tu” (#19), “Jerryb Jarvis’s Wig” (#20).\n[NOTE: These broadcasts are accessible only at the archives of ScreenSound Australia in\nCanberra. Also available at the archives, as part of the 2UW sound effects collection, is a\nrelevant bit of noise, noted as follows: “Female crying (moaning) in gigantic echo\nchamber: used exclusively in Phantom Time (The Ghoul Show).”]\nPHANTOM TIME\n[1]\n[2]\n[3]\n[4]\n[5]\n[6]\n[7]\n[8]\n[9]\n[10]\n[11]\n[12]\n[13] “The Haunted Cabin”\n[14] “The Tapping Stick”\n[15]\n[16]\n[17]\n[18]\n[19] “The Hand of Shen-Tu”\n[20] “Jerryb Jarvis’s Wig”\n[21]\n[22]\n[23]\n[24]\n[25]\n[26]\n[27]\n[28]\n[29]\n[30]\n[31]\n[32]\n[33]\n[34]\n[35]\n[36]\n[37]\n[38]\n[39]\n[40]\n[41] “Lord Arthur Saville’s\nCrime”\n[42] “The Man in the Mirror”\n[43] “The Tall Woman”\n[44] “The Transferred Ghost”\n[45] “The Alibi”\n[46] “The Engineer”\n[47] “The Telephone”\n[48] “The Death Watch”\n[49] “A Christmas Visit”\n[50] “The Follower”\n[51] “The House in the Dream”\n[52]\nEpisode title with unidentified number:\n“The 4:15 Express”\nTHE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY\n[Australian OTR Database] “Oscar Wilde’s story of a man able to see his own soul in a\npicture of himself—a picture which changes as the man’s character changes from good\nto evil.”\nORIGINATION: George Edwards Productions.\nDURATION:\nPERSONNEL: George Edwards (producer).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nTHE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY\n[Australian OTR Database] “Oscar Wilde’s story of a man able to see his own soul in a\npicture of himself—a picture which changes as the man’s character changes from good\nto evil.”\nORIGINATION: George Edwards Productions.\nDURATION:\nPERSONNEL: Catherine Jones (scriptwriter—1945, Vancouver Playhouse), Archie\nMacCorkindale (1945, Vancouver Playhouse).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS:\nVANCOUVER PLAYHOUSE (\n[\nJan. 5, 1945 “The Portrait of Dorian Gray”\nJune 29, 1945\n“The Portrait of Dorian Gray”\nTHE PLAYMAKERS’ LAB\nA New Orleans dramatic group under the direction of Beverly Brown. Not enough horror\nin their overall line-up, but what they did was interesting.\nORIGINATION: WNOE, New Orleans, Louisiana.\nDURATION: [November 5, 1941-March 10, 1943].\nPERSONNEL: Beverly Brown (director), Don Ringe (scriptwriter).\nCASTS: Elaine Richards, Don Ringe, Bob Steele, Joseph Stoll.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nTHE PLAYMAKERS’ LAB\n[Wednesday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nNov. 5, 1941 “The Phantom Coach”\nNov. 26, 1941\n[“…The Playmaker’s Lab presents a\ndual offering… Beverly Brown directs\ndramatizations from both Poe and\nMaupassant…”]\nDec. 3, 1941 “Diary of a Madman” (by Guy\nde Maupassant)\nDec. 10, 1941 “The Fall of the House of Usher”\n(by Edgar Allan Poe)\n[“…Elaine Richards plays the role of\nMadeline in Poe’s ‘Fall of the House\nof Usher’… Joseph Stoll is narrator in\nthis production of the Playmakers’\nLab…”]\n[Thursday—8:15-8:45 PM]\nSep. 17, 1942 “The Spectre Bridegroom” (by\nWashington Irving)\n[Wednesday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nOct. 21, 1942 “The Vampire” (by Dion\nBoucicoult)\n[“A large cast from WNOE’s\nPlaymakers Lab will enact Dion\nBoucicoult’s ‘The Vampire’… Weird\nsound effects have been fabricated by\na technical crew…”]\nFeb. 10, 1943 “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nMarch 10, 1943\n“Drums in the Night”\n[“…presents an original play by one\nof its members. Don Ringe, Tulane\nstudent, has written a tale of the\nweird voodoo…”]\n`\nQ\nQUIET PLEASE\nOne of the glories of Silver-age radio.\nAccording to Dunning: “Sundays at 3:30 until June 29; then, beginning July 28, 1947,\nthere were two weekly broadcasts—Mondays at 10 in New York (out of WOR) and\nWednesdays at 8:30 on Mutual. On Feb. 2, 1948, the network broadcast moved to\nMondays at 9:30, resulting in a single weekly performance thereafter.”\nORIGINATION: WOR, New York City, New York (MBS).\nDURATION: May 22, 1947 (audition show), June 8-July 3, 1947 (first series), July 28,\n1947-September 13, 1948 (second series).\nPERSONNEL: Albert J. Buhrman (piano, organ), Ernest Chappell (narrator), Wyllis Cooper\n(scriptwriter, producer), Gene Perazzo (piano, organ).\nCASTS: Charita Bauer, Donald Briggs, Lon Clark, Nancy Douglas, Vinton Hayworth, Ed\nLatimer, Claudia Morgan, Ralph Morgan, Kermit Murdock, Pat O’Malley, Anne Seymour,\nPeggy Stanley, Lotte Stavisky, Les Tremayne, James Van Dyke, Walter Black.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Nothing Behind the Door” (6/8/47),\nQUIET PLEASE (WOR)\n[?????\nMay 22, 1947 “How Are You, Pal?”\n[Sunday—3:30-4:00 PM]\nJune 8, 1947 “Nothing Behind the Door”\n[“…three thieves decide to use a\nfenced-off building atop Mount\nWilson as a cache for stolen money.\nAstronomers at the Mount Wilson\nobservatory ‘who know a lot more\nthan they are telling’ warn off\nintruders, but the thieves are\nundaunted. They cut thru the fence\nin the black hours of early morning,\nbreak thru the door—and one and\nthen another enters the blackness to\ndisappear into the vastness of the\nuniverse. An astronomer appears to\nsave the third and to conduct him to\nsafety over a series of catwalks\nsuspended in the blackness amidst\nstars, space and nothingness…\nCurrently the program is heard over\nMBS, but not in New York. The web\nis considering shifting the show to a\nnighttime spot…”] (The Billboard)]\nJune 15, 1947\n“I Have Been Looking for\nYou”\n[“…a highly sentimental piece of an\nunnamed young man’s long, aching\nsearch for the girl of his dreams. The\ngirl also futilely searches for him.\nThey meet death at the same instant,\nat the same spot, without\nmeeting…” (Variety)]\nJune 22, 1947\n“We Were Here First”\nJune 29, 1947\n“The Ticket Taker”\n[Sunday—9:00-9:30 PM] 10:00?\nJuly 20, 1947 “Cornelia”\n[“…the strange tale of a dead\nwoman’s hideous revenge—which\nultimately drives her bereaved\nhusband to murder…”]\n[This schedule was announced in\nthe St. Petersburg Times.] ??????\n[Sunday—10:00-10:30 PM]    [3:30-4:00 PM]?????\nJuly 27, 1947\nSyracuse Herald-American\nLists QP at 3:30 and 10:00\n[Monday—10:00-10:30 PM]\nJuly 28, 1947 “I Remember Tomorrow”\n[“…a new dramatic series to be\nheard on WOR by transcription…\nMr. Cooper will offer the listeners,\nduring the initial offering, the story\nof the inventor of a time machine\nwho learns that he is about to be\nmurdered…”]\n[Sunday—10:00-10:30 PM]\nAug. 3, 1947 Same as July 27\n[Monday—10:00-10:30 PM]\nAug. 4, 1947 “Inquest”\n[Sunday—10:00-10:30 PM]\nAug. 10, 1947\n“Bring Me to Life”\nAug. 11, 1947\n“Bring Me to Life”\n[Sunday—10:00-10:30 PM]\nAug. 17, 1947\n“\nAug. 18, 1947\n“A Mile High and a Mile\nDeep”\n[“…It’s a story about the copper\nmines in the mountains above Butte,\nMontana, and the people who work\nthere…”]\n[Sunday—10:00-10:30 PM]\nAug. 24, 1947\n“\nAug. 25, 1947\n“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall”\n[Sunday—10:00-10:30 PM]\nAug. 31, 1947\n“\nSep. 1, 1947 “Retreat at Dunkuerque”\n(AKA “A Ribbon of Lincoln\nGreen”)\n[Sunday—10:00-10:30 PM]\nSep. 7, 1947 “\nSep. 8, 1947 “Three Sides to a Story”\n[Wednesday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nSep. 10, 1947 “How Are You, Pal?”  ?????\n[“…Johnny Madero, sustainer\ncurrently on Mutual Wednesday\nnights, does its last broadcast\nSeptember 3, with Quiet, Please,\nnew Mutual Wyllis Cooper show,\ninheriting the spot September 10…”\n(The Billboard)]\nSep. 15, 1947 “The Big Box”\n[Wednesday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nSep. 17, 1947 “The Big Box”\nSep. 22, 1947 “Be a Good Dog, Darling”\n[Wednesday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nSep. 24, 1947 “Be a Good Dog, Darling”\nSep. 29, 1947 “The Low Road”\n[Wednesday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nOct. 1, 1947 “\nOct. 6, 1947 “Not Enough Time”\n[Wednesday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nOct. 8, 1947 “Not Enough Time”\nOct. 13, 1947 “Camera Obscura”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nOct. 15, 1947 “\n[Monday—10:00-10:25 PM]\nOct. 20, 1947 “The Girl with the Flaxen\nHair”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nOct. 22, 1947 “The Girl with the Flaxen\nHair”\nOct. 27, 1947 “Don’t Tell Me About\nHalloween”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nOct. 29, 1947 “Don’t Tell Me About\nHalloween”\nNov. 3, 1947 “Take Me Out to the\nGraveyard”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nNov. 5, 1947 “Take Me Out to the\nGraveyard”\n[Announced as “Take Me Out\nto the Cemetery.”]\nNov. 10, 1947\n“Three”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nNov. 12, 1947\n“Three”\nNov. 17, 1947\n“Kill Me Again”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nNov. 19, 1947\n“Kill Me Again”\nNov. 24, 1947\n“In Memory of Bernadine”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nNov. 26, 1947\n“In Memory of Bernadine”\n[“…the story of a strange and\nwonderful love…”]\nDec. 1, 1947 “Come In, Eddie”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nDec. 3, 1947 “\nDec. 8, 1947 “Some People Don’t Die”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nDec. 10, 1947 “Some People Don’t Die”\nDec. 15, 1947 “Little Fellow”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nDec. 17, 1947 “Little Fellow”\nDec. 22, 1947 “Berlin—1945”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nDec. 24, 1947 “Berlin—1945”\n[“…The unusual story of an\ninterrupted banquet…”]\nDec. 29, 1947 “Rain on New Year’s Eve”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nDec. 31, 1947 “\nJan. 5, 1948 “Little Visitor”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nJan. 7, 1948 “Little Visitor”\n[“…The chilling tale of a man haunted\nby a ‘Little Visitor’… This latest\ncreation of writer-director Wyllis\nCooper concerns a respectable citizen\nwho commits terrible crimes each time\nthe youthful apparition appears…”]\nJan. 12, 1948 “The Room Where the Ghosts\nLived”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nJan. 14, 1948 “The Room Where the Ghosts\nLive”\n[“…Imagine being imprisoned in a\nroom that doesn’t exist. That’s the\nplight of actor-narrator Ernest\nChappell…”]\nJan. 19, 1948 “Baker’s Dozen”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nJan. 21, 1948 “\nJan. 26, 1948 “Green Light”\n[Wednesday—8:30-8:55 PM]\nJan. 28, 1948 “\n[Monday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nFeb. 2, 1948 “The Pathetic Fallacy”\n[“…Ernest Chappell will play the role\nof a college professor of philosophy\nwho learns that even inanimate objects\nhold strange secrets…”]\nFeb. 9, 1948 “A Red and White Guidon”\nFeb. 16, 1948 “Whence Came You?”\nFeb. 23, 1948 “Wear the Dead Man’s Coat”\nMarch 1, 1948\n“Sketch for a Screenplay”\nMarch 8, 1948\n“Never Send to Know”\nMarch 15, 1948\n“Meeting at Ticonderoga”\nMarch 22, 1948\n“A Night to Forget”\n[“…The story describes the plight of\na man who wishes he could forget.\nErnest Chappell will play the role of\nthe man faced with this strange\ndilemma…”]\nMarch 29, 1948\n“Quiet Please”\nApril 5, 1948 “I Always Marry Juliet”\nApril 12, 1948\n“Twelve to Five”\nApril 19, 1948\n“Clarissa”\nApril 26, 1948\n“Thirteen and Eight”\nMay 3, 1948 “How Beautiful Upon the\nMountain”\nMay 10, 1948 “There Are Shadows Here”\nMay 17, 1948 “Gem of Purest Ray”\nMay 24, 1948 “In the House Where I Was\nBorn”\nMay 31, 1948 “Below Fifth Avenue”\nJune 7, 1948 “100,000 Diameters”\n[“…Electronic microscopes are said\nto magnify objects to approximately\n20,000 times their normal size.\nHowever, Wyllis Cooper has\nconstructed one that magnifies up to\n‘100,000 diameters’ which he’ll\naudibly display on tonight’s\nbroadcast. Ernest Chappell is cast as\na scientist who sees too much\nthrough the lens…”]\nJune 14, 1948\n“Not Responsible After 30\nYears”\nJune 28, 1948\n“Let the Lilies Consider”\nJuly 5, 1948 “Wahine Tahiti”\nJuly 19, 1948 “As Long As I Live”\n[“…A whirlwind of swift, unique\nand terrible revenge engulfs narrator\nErnest Chappell…”]\nJuly 26, 1948 “The Man Who Stole a Planet”\nAug. 2, 1948 “It Is Later Than You Think”\nAug. 9, 1948 “The Thing on the Fourble\nBoard”\n[“…Fourble board! Doubletalk? No,\nit’s just oilmen’s lingo for the\nplatform halfway-up the derrick\nholding oil well drills. And it’s ‘The\nThing on the Fourble Board’ that\nprovides Wyllis Cooper with a story\nof a haunted oil well…”]\nAug. 16, 1948\n“Presto Change-O, I’m Sure”\nAug. 23, 1948\n“Three Thousand Words”\nAug. 30, 1948\n“Motive”\nSep. 6, 1948 “The Third Man’s Story”\nSep. 13, 1948 “Symphony in D Minor”\nQUIET PLEASE\nSwitching from MBS to ABC.\nORIGINATION: WJZ, New York City, New York (ABC).\nDURATION: September 19, 1948-June 25, 1949.\nPERSONNEL: Albert Buhrmann (organist), Ernest Chappell (narrator, lead roles), Wyllis\nCooper (scriptwriter, producer, director), Bill McClintock (sound effects), Ed Michael\n(announcer).\nCASTS: Donald Briggs, Kathleen Cordell, Charles Eggleston, Athena Lord, Pat O’Malley,\nRalph Scuman, Peggy Stanley, Lotte Stavisky, Warren Stevens, Dan Sutter, Frank Thomas\nJr.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS:\nQUIET PLEASE (WJZ)\n[Sunday—5:00-5:30 PM]\nSep. 19, 1948 “Anonymous”\n[“…A politico, between\ncongratulatory letters and phone\ncalls, gets an anonymous call from a\nfemme urging him to drop dead.\nThis occurrence preys on his mind\nuntil he obliges the lady…”]\nSep. 26, 1948 “Light the Lamp for Me”\nOct. 3, 1948 “Meet John Smith, John”\nOct. 10, 1948 “Beezer’s Cellar”\nOct. 17, 1948 “And Jeannie Dreams of Me”\nOct. 24, 1948 “Good Ghost”\nOct. 31, 1948 “Calling All Souls”\nNov. 7, 1948 “Adam and the Darkest Day”\nNov. 14, 1948\n“The Evening and the\nMorning”\nNov. 21, 1948\n“One for the Book”\nNov. 28, 1948\n“My Son John”\nDec. 5, 1948 “Very Unimportant Person”\nDec. 12, 1948 “Rede Me This Riddle”\nDec. 19, 1945 “The Gothic Tale”\nDec. 26, 1948 “Berlin—1945”\nJan. 2, 1949 “The Time of the Big Snow”\nJan. 9, 1949 “Portrait of a Character”\nJan. 16, 1949 “Is This Murder?”\n[Glut has date of September 25,\n1947. “…A murdered man’s brain is\nput into the head of an automaton\nwith cranium-plated skull,\nmicrophone ears and wide-angle\nlenses. The story frequently refers to\nMary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the\nUniversal films Frankenstein, Son of\nFrankenstein (written by Willis\nCooper) and Abbott and Costello\nMeet Frankenstein…”]\nJan. 23, 1949 “Summer Good-Bye”\nJan. 30, 1949 “Northern Lights”\nFeb. 6, 1949 “Tap the Heat, Bogdan”\nFeb. 13, 1949 “Valentine”\nFeb. 20, 1949 “Where Do You Get Your\nIdeas?”\nFeb. 27, 1949 “If I Should Wake Before I\nDie”\nMarch 6, 1949\n“The Man Who Knew\nEverything”\nMarch 13, 1949\n“Dark Rosaleen”\nMarch 20, 1949\n“The Smell of High Wines”\nMarch 27, 1949\n“A Time to Be Born and a\nTime to Die”\nApril 3, 1949 “The Venetian Blind Man”\nApril 10, 1949\n“Dialog for a Tragedy”\nApril 17, 1949\n“Shadow of the Wings”\nApril 24, 1949\n“The Vale of Glencoe”\nMay 1, 1949 “Dark Grey Magic”\nMay 8, 1949 “The Other Side of the Stars”\nMay 15, 1949 “The Little Morning”\n[Saturday—\nMay 21, 1949 “The Oldest Man in the World”\nMay 28, 1949 “In the House Where I Was\nBorn”\nJune 4, 1949 “Tanglefoot”\nJune 11, 1949\n“The Hat, the Bed, and John J.\nCatherine”\nJune 18, 1949\n“Pavane”\nJune 25, 1949\n“Quiet Please”\n`\nR\nRADIOTEATRO FANTASTICO\nCited in an appendix of the book La Radio en Chile (CENECA, 1985); nothing further is\nknown. It came on the air at 23:30, a half-hour until midnight.\nORIGINATION: CB 66, Santiago (Chilena).\nDURATION: Circa 1960.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.\n`\nS\nSATAN’S WAITIN’\nThis summer replacement for the mystery series Mr. and Mrs. North featured\ndramatizations depicting the Devil tempting people into committing crimes. “In\nattempting to put a new twist on this dramatic show,” commented the Variety reviewer,\n“scripter Joel Malone has come up with one of the most venerable, not to say hoariest,\ndevices in literature—the use of the devil as the plot manipulator. Malone, however, has\na flashy style and puts enough complications and violence into the yarn to sustain\ncomplete attention.”\nConcurrently with the radio series a pilot film was made for television (reviewed in the\nJuly 2, 1950 issue of NYT).\nORIGINATION: KNX, Hollywood, California (CBS).\nDURATION: June 6-August 29, 1950.\nPERSONNEL: Frank Graham (announcer), Joel Malone (scriptwriter), Joe Rines\n(producer).\nSPONSOR: Colgate.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Paintings of Death” (7/25/50).\nSATAN’S WAITIN’\n[Tuesday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nJune 6, 1950\n[“…Satan stirs up an evil love potion\nconcocted for throwing three persons\ninto a jealous rage…”]\nJune 13, 1950\n[“…Satan shows the pitfalls of\nmarriage for money…”]\nJune 20, 1950\n[“…A business tycoon discovers\nhis wife is in love with a junior\nexecutive of his firm…”]\nJune 27, 1950\n[“…A wealthy woman deliberately\ntests her husband’s love of money\nand resistance to pretty women…”]\nJuly 4, 1950\n[“…The political ambitions of an\nassistant district attorney lead him\ninto dire entanglements…”]\nJuly 11, 1950\nJuly 18, 1950\n[“…Swashbuckling soldier-of-\nfortune Marty South runs afoul of a\nfemale buzzsaw in the Far East and\nconsents to pose as her mate who\nwas lost in a ship-wreck enroute to\nSingapore…”]\nJuly 25, 1950 “Paintings of Death”\n[“…An extracurricular romance\nwith a young artist leading a\npretty young wife to the brink of\ndivorce…”]\nAug. 1, 1950\nAug. 8, 1950\n[“…Satan taunts a private\ninvestigator, Frank Carson, into\nmurdering his partner in undercover\ndeals…”]\nAug. 15, 1950\n[“…A bobby-soxer with an\ninfatuation for an orchestra leader\nhelps solve a mystery…”]\nAug. 22, 1950\n[“…A gangster seeking refuge in the\nhills of Mexico, is smoked out of his\nhiding place by need of medical\nattention…”]\nAug. 29, 1950\n[“…A check book showing a\nbalance of more than $100,000 is\nfound on the body of a man by a\nshiftless and penniless fellow…”]\nSources for log information: Miami Daily News, DenverPost.\nTHE SEALED BOOK\nThe Mysterious Traveler minus the Traveler…replaced with the “Keeper of the Book.”\nORIGINATION: WOR, New York, New York City (MBS).\n[NOTE: This series was also released as electrical transcriptions into the syndication\nmarket by the WOR recording division.]\nDURATION: March 18-September 9, 1945.\nPERSONNEL: Robert Arthur (scriptwriter), Philip Clarke (voice of “The Keeper of the\nBook”), David Kogan (scriptwriter), Jock MacGregor (director).\nSPONSOR: John Surrey Ltd. (Snow Apple Smoke Tobacco).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: The entire series of 26 broadcasts.\nTHE SEALED BOOK\n[Sunday—10:30-11:00 PM]\nMarch 18, 1945\n“The Hands of Death”\nMarch 25, 1945\n“King of the World”\nApril 1, 1945 “Death Spins a Web”\nApril 8, 1945 “Devil’s Island”\nApril 15, 1945\n“Escape by Death”\nApril 22, 1945\n“Death at Storm House”\nApril 29, 1945\n“The Accusing Corpse”\nMay 6, 1945 “Stranger in the House”\nMay 13, 1945 “Out of the Past”\nMay 20, 1945 “Welcome Home”\nMay 27, 1945 “I’ll Die Laughing”\nJune 3, 1945 “Design for Death”\nJune 10, 1945\n“The Ghost Makers”\nJune 17, 1945\n“Broadway, Here I Come”\nJune 24, 1945\n“The Queen of the Cats”\nJuly 1, 1945 “Death Rings Down the\nCurtain”\nJuly 8, 1945 “Till Death Do Us Part”\nJuly 15, 1945 “The Man With the Stolen\nFace”\nJuly 22, 1945 “My Beloved Must Die”\nJuly 29, 1945 “Beware of Tomorrow”\nAug. 5, 1945 “Murder Must Be Paid For”\nAug. 12, 1945\n“To Have and To Hold”\nAug. 19, 1945\n“Murderer Unknown”\nAug. 26, 1945\n“Time on My Hands”\nSep. 2, 1945 “Death Laughs Last”\nSep. 9, 1945 “You Only Die Once”\nSEATON’S AUNT\n[SHORT-STORY]\nShort story by Walter de la Mare…\nORIGINATION: Various.\nDURATION: Various.\nPERSONNEL: Jonathan Holloway (scriptwriter, 1996), David Hunter (director, 1996),\nAdrian Johnston (music, 1996).\nCAST [1996]: Tereas Gallagher (Young Seaton), Margaret Robertson (Seaton’s Aunt),\nPatience Tomlinson (de Witt), Melinda Walker (Young Withers), Samuel West (Rupert\nWithers), Andrew Wincott (Arthur Seaton).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS:\n(HOME SERVICE)\n[\n??? ??, 1944 “Seaton’s Aunt”\nPLAY (RADIO 4, LONDON)\n[Thursday—3:05-3:50 PM]\nJan. 29, 1976 “Seaton’s Aunt”\n(RADIO 4, LONDON)\n[\nNov. 23, 1996\n“Seaton’s Aunt”\nLA SENDA DEL TERROR\nCited in the XEX radio listings of Mexico City daily El Nacional; listed as “sketch” in the\n11:15-11:30 time slot; nothing further is known.\nORIGINATION: XEX, Mexico, D.F.\nDURATION: [February 2-June 28], 1951.\nPERSONNEL: Unknown.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: None.\nEL SINIESTRO DR. MORTIS\n“The voice of Juan Marino, representing sinister Doctor Mortis, recounted stories from\nbeyond the grave, with diverse incidental noises: hinges that hissed when the coffin was\nopened, howl of wolves, a solitary gallop and the whistle of the wind in the middle of\nthe night, all ending with a horrifying outburst of laughter from the narrator.\nOther classic radio programs of terror were La tercera oreja (The Third Ear) and Lo que\ncuenta el viento (What the Wind Tells), the latter with traditional legends from the\nChilean fields. It seems to me that none of the films of the series Pesadilla could\nproduce the terrorific atmosphere of those programs that caused that each radio\nmonitoring filled the dark with its own fantasies. To the children often they prohibited\nthose programs, because later it cost to make sleep them. It is that they guessed that in\nhis dreams they would be waiting for them the monsters and the absurdities that left\nthe radio.”\nORIGINATION: CB ??, Punta Arenas (Radio Ejercito, 1945-); CB 126, Santiago (Radio\nNacional, 1954-); CB 118, Santiago (Radio Cristobal Colon, 1960-); CB 82, Santiago\n(Radio del Pacifico); CB 101, Santiago (Radio Yungay).\nDURATION: Circa 1945-1982.\nPERSONNEL: Juan Marino (scriptwriter, voice of “Dr. Mortis”), Alejandro Roman (voice\nof “Dr. Mortis”).\nCASTS: David Acevedo, Ruth Brown Baltra, Maruja Cifuentes, Nestor Corona, Blunt Hugo,\nJuan Marino.\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Agonia,” “Les Confeciones de Monsenor Krauss,” “El Escultor\ndel Diablo,” “El Fuguitivi de las Galaxias,” “La Garra,” “Licantropia” (Part 1), “Licantropia”\n(Part 2),  “Melodia de Horror” (Part 1), “El Pistolero.”\nSLEEP NO MORE\n“David McKinsey, SMU student, will present his play, ‘The Horror Over Dunwich’.”\nDavid Lampton McKinsey\nDied peacefully in his home in Novato, March 9, 2003. Born May 21, 1927 in Joplin, MO\nand spent his formative years in Missouri. David was a World War II veteran and\ngraduated from Southern Methodist University. He pursued a career in radio\nbroadcasting and served as Program Director at KABL for many years. He received the\nMarconi Award in 1989, the radio industry's most prestigious award. While at KABL, he\nconceived the idea for the San Francisco Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest. He had a\nlifelong love for fishing in his native Ozarks and recently published \"Fishing With Dad\",\nhis first book. His other two books will be published posthumously. David is survived by\nhis beloved wife Dorothea at home; stepchildren Marilyn (John) Walgora, John (Toni)\nGoldstein, Gregory (Maria) Goldstein; children Gretchen (Alex) Clarke, Stephanie\nMcKinsey and John (Angie) McKinsey; nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren;\nbrother Mike and numerous nephews. The family has requested donations be made to\nthe American Heart Association. Service and Interment will be held at Valley Memorial\nPark, 650 Bugeia Lane, Novato on Wednesday March 12, 2003 at 1:00 PM. Keaton's\nRedwood Chapel Novato 415-897-1151\nORIGINATION: KSMU, Dallas, Texas.\nDURATION: Circa 1949.\nPERSONNEL: David McKinsey (scriptwriter).\nCASTS:\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.\nSLEEP NO MORE\nNelson Olmsted milked the horror craze with an appropriately literary title for a series of\nliterature readings.\nFurther research: “This is an expanded version of a previous 15 minute series heard\nover NBC in the early fifties, but the 1956 season began with the introduction of a new\nhalf-hour format.”\nORIGINATION: WRCA, New York City, New York (NBC).\nDURATION: November 7, 1956-April 24, 1957.\nPERSONNEL: Ben Grauer (announcer), Kenneth MacGregor (director), Nelson Olmsted\n(narrator), Daniel Sutter (director).\nEXTANT RECORDINGS: “Conqueror’s Isle” (11/21/56), “Mr. Mergenthwirker’s Lobblies”\n/ “August Heat” (11/28/56),\nTHE WORLD’S GREATEST SHORT STORIES (WBAP)\n[Friday—\nSep. 6, 1940 “The Case of Monsieur\nValdemar” (by Edgar Allan Poe)\nSep. 19, 1940 “The Ghost Ship” (by Richard\nMiddleton)\nTHE WORLD’S GREATEST SHORT STORIES (WMAQ-NBC)\nSep. 30, 1940 “The Tell-Tale Heart” (by\nEdgar Allan Poe)\nOct. 9, 1940 “The Case of Monsieur\nValdemar”\nOct. 14, 1940 “The Man and the Snake” (by\nAmbrose Bierce)\n[“…story of the man whose belief he\ncould be hypnotized by a snake\nfinally resulted in his death…”]\nOct. 15, 1940 “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (by\nNathaniel Hawthorne)\nOct. 30, 1940 “An Occurrence at Owl Creek\nBridge” (by Ambrose Bierce)\nNov. 12, 1940 “The Coward” (by Guy de\nMaupassant)\n[“…story of a romantic dandy who\ncommits suicide rather than keep an\nappointment for a duel with an\nexpert pistol shot…”]\nNov. 26, 1940\n“What Was It?” (by Fitz-James\nO’Brien)\n[“…The story concerns a man who is\nattacked by an invisible being. He\noverpowers his assailant and then is\nforced to let the creature die of\nstarvation because no way can be\nfound to feed a nondistinguishable\nbeing…”]\nDec. 10, 1940 “Dead Man” (by James M.\nCain)\n[“…story of a young hobo who\naccidentally kills a train detective\nand manages to escape all suspicion,\nonly to have his own conscience\nforce him to surrender…”]\nDec. 18, 1940 “Green Thoughts” (by John\nCollier)\nJan. 14, 1941 “What Was It?”\n[“…Fitz-James O’Brien’s story about\nan invisible demon which tries to kill\na man… The thing is conquered but\nbut finally starves to death as the\ndeath as the man does not know how\nor what to feed it…”]\nJan. 20, 1941 “The Raven” (by Edgar Allan\nPoe)\nJan. 21, 1941 “The Transferred Ghost” (by\nFrank R. Stockton)\nJan. 28, 1941 “The Signal Man” (by Charles\nDickens)\nFeb. 16, 1941 “How It Happened” (by Arthur\nConan Doyle)\nFeb. 19, 1941 “Laura” (by Saki)\nMarch 10, 1941\n“The Flowing of the Strange\nOrchid” (by H. G. Wells)\nApril 1, 1941 “Lazarus” (by Leonid\nAndreyev)\n[“…story of the man who rose from\nthe dead at Christ’s command…”]\nSep. 5, 1941 “Three Skeleton Key” (by\nGeorge Tudos)\nNov. 7, 1941 “The House of Ecstasy” (by\nRalph Milne Farley)\nJan. 19, 1942 “The Masque of the Red\nDeath” (by Edgar Allan Poe)\nJan. 28, 1942 “Thus I Refute Beelzy” (by\nJohn Collier)\nJune 29, 1942\n“Keeping His Promise” (by\nAlgernon Blackwood)\nJuly 7, 1942 “In the Cage”\n[“…psychological study of the\nphobias of man…”]\nAug. 29, 1942\n“August Heat” (by W. F.\nHarvey)\nAug. 31, 1942 “The Bookshop” (by Nelson S.\nBond)\nSep. 22, 1942 “The Clerk’s Quest” (by George\nMoore)\n[“…tale of imaginative pursuit….”]\nDec. 12, 1942 “Fishhead” (by Irvin S. Cobb)\n[“…The narrative concerns a\nhalf-human creature who is thought\nto be in league with the catfish in a\nnearby lake…”]\nDec. 26, 1942 “The Facts in the Case of\nMonsieur Valdemar”\nJan. 2, 1943 “The Ghost Ship”\nFeb. 13, 1943 “The Bad Hand” / “Babel” (by\nMindret Lord)\nMarch 6, 1943\n“He Looked At Me Out of His\nEyes” (by Michael Fessier)\nApril 3, 1943 “The Old Folks at Home” /\n“The Betrayal” (by Mindret\nLord)\n[“…The first one tells of a woman\nwho returns to her old family home\nto live with the ghosts of her parents.\nThe second story concerns a dog\nwho asks for meat after being\nbestowed with the power of\nspeech…”]\nApril 10, 1943\n“The Chaser” (by John Collier)\nMay 8, 1943 “Spider Bliss” (by Michael\nFessier)\nMay 29, 1943 “The Music of Erich Zann”\n(by H. P. Lovecraft)\nJuly 3, 1943 “A. V. Laider” (by Max\nBeerbohm)\nAug. 14, 1943 “August Heat”\nJan. 31, 1944 “The Death of Olivier Becaille”\n(by Emile Zola)\nSTORIES BY OLMSTED\nMay 4, 1946 “The Ghost Ship”\nNELSON OLMSTED\nOct. 14, 1946 “The Death of Olivier Becaille”\nMay 2, 1948 “The Chaser”\nSLEEP NO MORE\n[Wednesday—9:30-9:55 PM]\nNov. 7, 1956\nNov. 14, 1956\nNov. 21, 1956\n“Conqueror’s Isle” (by\nNelson Bond)\nNov. 28, 1956\n“Mr. Mergenthwerker’s\nLobblies” (by Nelson Bond) /\n“August Heat” (by W. F.\nHarvey)\nDec. 5, 1956 “Over the Hill” (by Michael\nFessier) / “The Man in the\nBlack Hat” (by Michael\nFessier)\nDec. 12, 1956 “Three O’Clock” (by William\nIrish)\nDec. 19, 1956 “The Storm” (by McKnight\nMelmar) / “Annabel Lee” (by\nEdgar Allan Poe)\nDec. 26, 1956 “Fishhead” (by Irvin S. Cobb) /\n“The Death of Olivier Becauie”\n(by Emile Zola)\n[\nJan. 2, 1956 “The Horsehair Trunk” (by\nDavis Grubb) / “A Friend to\nAlexander” (by James Thurber)\n[Wednesday—\nJan. 9, 1957\nJan. 16, 1957 “The Waxwork” (by A. M.\nBurrage) / “The Man and the\nSnake” (by Ambrose Bierce)\nJan. 23, 1957 “I Am Waiting” (by Christopher\nIsherwood) / “Browdean Farm”\n(by A. M. Burrage)\nJan. 30, 1957 “The Jilting of Granny\nWeatherall” / “Escape”\nFeb. 6, 1957 “Banquo’s Chair” (by Rupert\nCroft Cooke) / “The Coward”\n(by Guy de Maupassant)\nFeb. 27, 1957 “To Build a Fire” / “Three\nSkeleton Key”\nMarch 6, 1957\n“Thus I Refute Beezly” / “The\nBook Shop”\nMarch 13, 1957\n“The Escape of Mr. Trimm”\nMarch 20, 1957\n“The Woman in Gray” / “A\nSuspicious Gift”\nApril 3, 1957 “The Bet” / “The Clerk’s\nQuest”\nApril 10, 1957\n“A Passenger to Bali”\nApril 17, 1957\n“Homecoming” / “Aunt Cassie”\nApril 24, 1957\n“The Evening” / “The\nFlowering of the Strange\nOrchid”\nLA SOMBRA\nMexican incarnation of The Shadow—“enigma de un hombre que esconde su rostro bajo un antifax.” “The\nadventures of a singular detective and his assistant Cliff, the same who traveled in one of their\n‘adventures’ to the Planet Venus.”",
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