EL CASERON DEL VAMPIRO

[RADIO-SERIAL]

Cited inLos Andes On Linearticle. “Mabel Roman, occulta bajo el seudonimo de Claudio

Malbran: Madre Negra (1950) y El Caseron del Vampiro.”

Mabel Roman: “Good, then despues him taste as much the layer, that Ubriaco said to me: -;Esta

layer is beautiful! iQue I can do with her... And me ocurrio: - For a vampire... Everything thought

about function of the layer; because the things are born asi sometimes. And escribi the big

rambling house of the vampire. I queria not to make a vampire common; he was a man who in a

fire undergoes very important burns in the face, is hidden with one chewed of normal face, that

one takes off in the full moon-lits night, and then becomes vampire and monster. But it does not

know its condition, is a good man. Single that when there is Full Moon, grows the eyeteeth,

discovers their burned face to him; that is, everything a fright. He was very graceful, because

ademas when I escribia tapeworm fear. It was with my maquina, and the baby giving returned

around. It watched my hijita, and me decia, is one vergiienza to be scared, because she always

worries to me that it was not scared of anything. Then it watched it, she sonreia, and it gave value

me; the value never knew that it gave me. I worked like actress ademas; towards the fiancèe of the

vampire. Since the author, the creator of Frankenstein, is a woman, pense, good I, can create a

vampire, are so many, that one but... but mio is going to be good. And this personage, in I

complete act, when he discovers that that being who kills people is the same one, one makes ataud

and he sacrifices his life. It is a very special vampire. The romance with their continuous fiancèe

in the other world, is happy in but alia; where everything is pure, where each thing this in its

place.

Altavista Babelfish translated the title asBig Rambling House of the Vampire.

[CHRONOLOGY]
EL CASERON DEL VAMPIRO (MENDOZA, PERU)

Circa 1950s

SCRIPT: Mabel Roman (pseudonym of Claudio Malbran).

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
[SHORT-STORY]

Edgar Allan Poe story, one of his more adaptable to the dramatic medium…

[Norman Kraeft,

The Garfieldian, December 26, 1946] “On the dramatic front, chilling and

sinister Sydney Greenstreet uncorks a cask of horror in a dramatization of Poe’s The Cask of

Amontillado (Decca, DA-479). In all honesty, though, we must confess that Poe’s narrative still

gives us a bigger bang than do the dramatic versions. By overworking horror, the cast has turned

the basement scene into a rather ludicrous Hollywood chase, rather than retaining Poe’s subtle

and horrible psychological tension.”

[November 18, 1931] “ ‘The Cask of Amontillado,’ Edgar Allen Poe’s weird [sic] story, will be

‘radio dramatized’ tonight by the Eno Crime Club… The tale deals with a terrible revenge…”

[Program log]
ORIGINATION:

Various.

DURATION:

Various.

PERSONNEL:

Himan Brown (producer-director—1975,CBS Radio Mystery Theater), Georgia

Fifield (director—1933, KNX), Nick Fisher (scriptwriter—1982,Thirty-Minute Theatre), George

Lowthar (scriptwriter—1975,CBS Radio MysteryTheatre), Helen Norris (scriptwriter—1933,

KNX), Yuri Rasovsky (scriptwriter, director—1975,National RadioTheater).

CAST [1933, KNX]: Stuart Buchanan, John Coates, Georgia Fifield, Gale Gordon.

CAST [1937,Sunday Night Party]: Claude Rains, et al.

CAST [1945,Molle Mystery Theatre]: Berry Kroeger, et al.

CAST [1982,Thirty-Minute Theatre]: Geoffrey Collins, Miranda Forbes, David March.

EXTANT RECORDINGS:
[CHRONOLOGY]
POE’S TALES (WBZ, BOSTON)
[Friday—8:30-9:00 PM]

July 15, 1932The Cask of Amontillado

SHORT STORIES FROM LIFE (KHJ, LOS ANGELES)

[Sunday—2:30-3:00 PM]

July 24, 1932The Cask of Amontillado

[“…Prof. Lindsley…”]
(KNX, HOLLYWOOD)
[Wednesday—8:30-9:00 PM]

March 8, 1933An Excellent Jest

[“…The play is a dramatization by Helen Norris of Edgar Allan Poe’s

story, ‘The Cask of Amontillado’…”]

THE COLUMBIA DRAMATIC GUILD (WABC, NEW YORK—CBS)

[Thursday—8:30-9:00 PM]

July 20, 1933The Cask of Amontillado

[Sunday—10:30-11:00 PM]

November 19, 1934The Cask of Amontillado

[“…The CBS Dramatic Guild is repeating Edgar Allen Poe’s thriller…”]

December 2, 1934The Cask of Amontillado

(WAAF, CHICAGO)
[Sunday—3:30-3:45 PM]

December 16, 1934The Cask of Amontillado

THE KPRC DRAMATIC PLAYERS (KPRC, HOUSTON)

[Saturday—9:00-9:30 PM]

January 5, 1935“The Cask of Amontillado”

(WBZ, BOSTON)
[Wednesday—11:30 PM-12:00 MIDNIGHT)

January 16, 1935The Cask of Amontillado

THE MYSTERY PLAYERS (KYA, SAN FRANCISCO)

[

March 2, 1935The Cask of Amontillado

ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE (KNX, HOLLYWOOD)

[

April 28, 1935The Cask of Amontillado

(NORTHERN IRELAND—BBC)
[Saturday—7:30-8:00 PM]

September 28, 1935The Cask of Amontillado

[“…read by Raymond Glendinning…”]
THE BLACK CHAPEL (KNX, HOLLYWOOD)
[Saturday—11:45 PM-12:00 MIDNIGHT]

November 28, 1936“The Revenge of Fortunato”

[“…a spine-chilling tale of Italy’s catacombs…”]
POE’S TALES (WFIL, PHILADELPHIA)
[Tuesday—10:30-11:00 PM]

March 23, 1937“The Cask of Amontillado”

SUNDAY NIGHT PARTY (WEAF, NEW YORK—NBC-RED)

[Sunday—10:00-11:00 PM]

July 18, 1937The Cask of Amontillado

BLACK NIGHT (WBAP, FORT WORTH)
[Friday—10:30-11:00 PM]

November 12, 1937“The Cask of Amontillado”

[“…The scene is laid in Rome at the height of the Carnival season.

Suspecting his beautiful wife of infidelity with an Italian fortune seeker,

an American husband takes revenge in a way that only a writer like Poe

could imagine. The decaying bones of the dead Christians buried in the

catacombs beneath a river serve the revengeful husband for a wine cellar

and it is there that he supposedly has stored the cask of rare old

Amontillado…”]

N.T.S.T.C. PROGRAM (WFAA, DALLAS)

[

February 11, 1939The Cask of Amontillado

ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT (KFI, LOS ANGELES)
[Monday—9:00-9:30 PM]

April 8, 1940“The Cask of Amontillado”

(WILL, URBANA)
[Tuesday—

September 1, 1942The Cask of Amontillado

THE KATE SMITH HOUR (WABC, NEW YORK—CBS)

[Friday—8:00-8:30 PM]

January 8, 1943The Cask of Amontillado

[“…Kate Smith will present the first of her new half hour Variety

programs when she has as her guest artist deep- voiced Peter Lorre,

bogey man of the screen… Lorre, the man with the sepulchral voice, will

be starred in a radio adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s famous story. It tells

the diabolical plot of a man who lures a supposed friend into a wine

cellar, secretly intent on murder…”]

STORIES BY OLMSTED (WMAQ, CHICAGO—NBC-RED)

[Tuesday—10:45-11:00 PM

April 13, 1943The Cask of Amontillado

THE WEIRD CIRCLE (NBC DISC SERIES)

Circa 1944The Cask of Amontillado

MOLLE MYSTERY THEATRE (WEAF, NEW YORK—NBC)

[

April 24, 1945The Cask of Amontillado

MY FAVORITE STORY (KNX, HOLLYWOOD)
[Saturday—5:15-5:30 PM]

January 19, 1946The Cask of Amontillado

TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL (WWDC, WASHINGTON)

[Sunday—11:30-11:45 PM]

January 20, 1946The Cask of Amontillado

APPOINTMENT WITH FEAR (HOME SERVICE, LONDON—BBC)

[Tuesday—9:30-10:00 PM]

April 9, 1946The Cask of Amontillado

THE HALL OF FANTASY (KALL, SALT LAKE CITY)

[Sunday—8:30-9:00 PM

February 23, 1947The Cask of Amontillado

(KSMO, SAN MATEO)
[Monday—11:15-11:30 AM]

January 5, 1948The Cask of Amontillado

(WWGC, GETTYSBURG)
[Thursday—9:00-9:30 PM]

October 7, 1948The Cask of Amontillado

THE NBC UNIVERSITY THEATER (WEAF, NEW YORK—NBC)

[Sunday—3:30-4:30 PM]

March 6, 1949“Noseology” / “The Cask ofAmontillado” / “The Fall of the House of

Usher”

[“…the Univesity Theater will present a departure from its usual plan of

dramatizing novels, and will present three of Edgar Allen Poe’s short

stories… Joseph Schildkraut of film and stage prominence will be the

narrator…”]

THE HALL OF FANTASY (WGN, CHICAGO)
[Saturday—2:30-3:00 PM]

December 10, 1949The Cask of Amontillado

(WCFM, WASHINGTON, D.C.)
[Thursday—9:30-10:00 PM]

March 2, 1950“The Tell-Tale Heart” / “TheCask of Amontillado

[“…Dramatization by local students…”]
THE HALL OF FANTASY (WGN, CHICAGO)
[Monday—8:00-8:30 PM]

May 1, 1950The Cask of Amontillado

[Monday—7:30-8:00 PM

January 19, 1953The Cask of Amontillado

ABC MYSTERY TIME—“MYSTERY CLASSICS” (WABC, NEW YORK—ABC)

[Thursday—7:30-7:55 PM]

April 19, 1957The Cask of Amontillado

PLAYHOUSE OF WORLD FAMOUS AUTHORS (ARTRANSA, SYDNEY)

Circa 1960sThe Cask of Amontillado

EXPERIMENT IN STEREOPHONY (NETWORK THREE, LONDON—BBC)

[Saturday—10:15-11:15 AM]

March 11, 1961The Cask of Amontillado

OMAR SHAPLI READS EDGAR ALLAN POE (WRVR, NEW YORK)

[Tuesday-Friday—11:30 PM-12:00 MIDNIGHT)

June 3, 1966The Cask of Amontillado

THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATRE (WRVR, NEW YORK)

[???day—10:07-11:00 PM]

January 12, 1975The Cask of Amontillado

[“…Fortunato Bellini, to whom vineyard owner Arno Montresor is deeply

in debt, demands from Montresor a cask of Amontillado wine and

payment of his debt. Montresor, who has borne a thousand insults from

Bellini as best he is able, can find no Amontillado, nor can he pay what he

owes the heartless creditor…”]

CAST:

Robert Dryden (Fortunato Bellin), Leon Janney (Inspector Murdero),

Richard Kiley (Arno Montresor), Roberta Maxwell (Isabella), Francis Sternhagen

(Margarita).

NATIONAL RADIO THEATER

Circa 1975The Cask of Amontillado

HALLOWEEN HORRORTHON WITH JOHN CARRADINE (DISC SERIES ON KPAC,
PORT ARTHUR)
[Sunday—6:30-7:00 PM]

October 30, 1977The Cask of Amontillado

THIRTY-MINUTE THEATRE (RADIO 4, LONDON)
[Saturday—2:05-2:35 PM]

December 4, 1982The Cask of Amontillado

A BOOK AT BEDTIME (RADIO 4, LONDON)
[Tuesday—11:00-11:15 PM]

December 1, 1983“Three Stories by Edgar Allan Poe—[2]The Cask ofAmontillado

EDGAR ALLAN POE’S GOTHIC TALES (RADIO 2, LONDON)

[Thursday—11:45 PM-12:00 MIDNIGHT]

December 25, 2003The Cask of Amontillado