{
  "title": "STAY TUNED FOR TERROR",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "Robert Bloch’s legendary radio series from 1945…\n[Milwaukee Journal, November 21, 1944—“Horror Is Hot Stuff Now; Milwaukeean Cashing In”\nby Harold Gauer] “‘Yours truly, Jack the Ripper’ sent chills tingling down the spines of Milwaukee\nhorror fans some months ago on the Kate Smith radio show. Laird Cregar took the part of the\nmad killer, whose weird crimes were dramatized for the program by Milwaukee’s horror story\nwriter, Robert Bloch.\n“Robert Bloch has been dishing out horror for his fans in the pulp magazines for almost a\ndecade but is a mild mannered gent who wouldn’t hit a mosquito unless it bit him first. He\nseldom, if ever, wakes up screaming, and even his year old baby girl fails to see anything\ndisconcerting in her daddy’s face making over the typewriter.\n“The current popularity of the horror show, both on the radio and in the movies, has been\nbuilding up for a long time. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney, jr., have pioneered the art\nfor the films, and Peter Lorre, Laird Cregar and Basil Rathbone have moaned, chattered and\nsnarled the weird radio programs into top billing. All of this has required a very special kind of\nscripting. Stalking in the background of their present popularity are the pulp paper magazines,\nWeird Tales, Fantastic Adventures, etc., from which many of the present day themes are taken,\nlike zombies, from the dead, to walk again.\n“Today the horror market is prospering as it never has prospered before, and Author Bloch,\nlistening to the squeaking door of the ‘Inner Sanctum,’ the blood curdling screams in ‘Mystery\nPlayhouse,’ and the sibilant terror of ‘Suspense,’ is writing more furiously than ever—for the\npulps.\n“As the ‘Mad Scientist’ pursues his creation, the ‘Mad Monster,’ hypodermic needle in hand,\nacross the screens of thousands of movie houses, Author Bloch sticks to the pulp magazines.\n“‘The pulp story, however formalized,’ says Bloch, ‘demands a much higher literary quality and\ninfinitely more original plotting than the average ingredient of the ‘Gruesome Twosome’ screen\nplay. The real horror fan,’ he explains, ‘wants authentic tales, based either on known myths and\nlegends (or even fairy stories), or else on historical fact, such as the Jack the Ripper stuff.\n“The dyed in the wool reader—the kind that appreciate Bloch’s ‘Feast in the Abbey,’ ‘Druidic\nDoom’ and ‘The Faceless God’ simply would not stand for any ‘Mad Doctor’ business.\nPHOTO CAPTION: “This is a picture of Robert Bloch of Milwaukee, but honestly he doesn’t look\nthis menacing most of the time. He doesn’t even look this sinister when batting out a horror tale\nfor a pulp magazine. Bloch has been writing horror stories for 10 years. He started when only 15.\nThe picture was taken by Harold Gauer, a horror fan.”\nOriginal Press Photo of Radio Stars Johnny Neblett, Angelyn Orr. Chicago IL.. Photo is dated: 12/19/1945.\nThis is an original 4x5 negative of Arnold Rauen, Illinois state director of the U.S. Treasury\nDepartment, actree Angeline Orr Neblett, and Mike Wallace, January 22, 1947 in the\nBalinese Room. Angeline was given a posthumous award for Johnny Neblett. Johnny\nNeblett, the producer of the series,Stay Tuned For Terror, with his Neblett Radio\nProductions company tragically died in a plane crash in 1946, at the age of only 33.\nContemporaneous accounts of the plane crash state that he'd only \"recently\" begun his\nNeblett Radio Productions company, which would coincide well with Robert Bloch's\ninterview comments. Bloch had stated that his friend, Johnny Neblett helped him put\ntogether the concept for Stay Tuned for Terror, by forming his own production company--\nNeblett Radio Productions. Angeline Orr, one of the actresses for the series, married Mr.\nNeblett during the course of the recording sessions for Stay Tuned for Terror.",
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