EDGAR ALLAN POE SERIES
[RADIO-SERIES]
A three-month series on WHN in New York City. It was replaced in its time slot
by another literary series, The Pickwickians. WHN did not abandon horror
altogether. Within the month after this series went off the air, they made a fresh
advance back into the genre with the series The Ghost Walks.
[PROGRAM INFORMATION]
ORIGINATION: WHN, New York City, New York.
DURATION: November 24, 1935-February 1, 1936.
PERSONNEL: Unknown.
EXTANT RECORDINGS: None.
[PROGRAM LOG]
EDGAR ALLAN POE SERIES (WHN, NEW YORK)
[Sunday—6:15-6:30 PM]
November 17, 1935
November 24, 1935
December 1, 1935
December 8, 1935
December 15, 1935
December 22, 1935
December 29, 1935
January 5, 1936
January 12, 1936
January 19, 1936?
[Saturday—5:30-5:45 PM]
January 25, 1936
February 1, 1936
EERIE STORIES
Bad one-man show which may have been an audition recording for a series that never sold.
[Toledo News-Bee, January 20, 1938—“Mason With WXYZ”]
“Sidney Mason, former stage and motion picture player, has joined the announcing staff of
Station WXYZ and the Michigan Radio network, and is being heard regularly by listeners to
whom his voice is familiar. He announced the dramatic serial, ‘The O’Neills’ over NBC for a
season, and as an actor has been heard in Death Valley Days, the Johnny Presents program,
Hammerstein’s Music Hall and other broadcasts. Mason is 32.”
‘Competition was too stiff,’ Kelley recalled, ‘though I recall one downtown publisher who tried
to hold on for a while. He arranged to bring out a magazine titled Eerie Tales and got me to write
it for him. I did a lead yarn, ‘The Hound,’ four or five shorter stories and part one of a proposed
serial, ‘The Weird Queen.’”
ORIGINATION: Unknown.
DURATION: Unknown.
PERSONNEL: Sidney Mason (narrator).
EXTANT RECORDINGS: “The Case Of The Disappearing Professors.”