THE FRIGHTENED
[RADIO-SERIES]
This five-minute series ran (possibly) during 1957 and spun-off the same year into a short-lived
magazine (two issues) entitled Tales Of The Frightened and two phonograph albums of the same
name released on Mercury Records.
“’The Frightened’ was one of several proposed radio features that were packaged by Lyle Kenyon
Engel. The project never really got off the ground and it is not clear how how many, if any, were
actually aired.”
ORIGNATION: Republic Features Syndicate, New York(electrical transcriptions).
DURATION: Circa 1957.
PERSONNEL: Michael Avallone (scriptwriter), George S. Engel (editor), Lyle Kenyon Engel (producer),
Boris Karloff (narrator).
EXTANT RECORDINGS: “Call at Midnight,” “The Deadly Dress,” “Don’t Lose Your Head,” “The Fortune
Teller,” “The Hand of Fate,” “Just Inside the Cemetery,” “The Ladder,” “The Man in the Raincoat,” “Mirror of
Death,” “Never Kick a Black Cat,” “Nightmare,” “The Vampire Sleeps,” “Voice from the Grave.”
[OG-NOTE: All of the above recordings are derived from the two Mercury LPs.]