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 seriesThe 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 titledEerie Talesand 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.”