The Horror! (Old Time Radio)

Wyllis Cooper and Ernest Chapell bring us Quiet, Please for today’s horror.  From May 10, 1948 we’ll hear There Are Shadows Here.  As with many Quiet, Please episodes the audio quality leaves a little to be desired, but I’ve done what I can with it, and hope you’ll enjoy it. Download TheHorror343

Holden wrote in asking for a werewolf story, so I dug this one up out of the archive from Dark Fantasy.   W Is For Werewolf first aired February 13, 1942. Have a horror favorite?  Send it along to relicradio @ gmail.com (please put “horror favorite” in the subject line). Download TheHorror342

On today’s show we’ll hear some Canadian flavored horror with Theater 10:30.  This episode is titled Trespasser’s Will Be Experimented Upon.  I don’t have air dates for specific episodes of this series, but it aired from 1968 to 1971. Download TheHorror341

Time for another horror favorite.  Riley sent in a suggestion this week for an episode of The Hall Of Fantasy titled The Night The Fog Came.  This story was first broadcast February 26, 1951, then again in syndication March 23, 1953.  Most surviving episodes come from the 1953 run.  Thanks Riley! Send in your horror [...]

On this episode of The Horror we hear again from Lights Out.  The episode is titled Mungarha, and first aired October 27, 1942. Download TheHorror339

Our horror favorite this week comes from Therese, who wanted to hear an adaptation of The Evil Eye from The Weird Circle.  The script was based on the Theophile Gautier story, and aired sometime in the mid 1940′s. Download TheHorror338

On this episode we hear once again from Creeps By Night.  This one is titled The Six Who Did Not Die, and comes from an AFRS recording that aired July 11, 1944. Download TheHorror337

Today’s horror favorite came out of a discussion in the forum.  Chianti asked to hear this great episode of Suspense, starring Agnes Moorehead, titled The Yellow Wallpaper.  It first aired July 29, 1948. Download TheHorror336

The CBS Radio Mystery Theater brings us All Living Things Must Die for this episode.  The story was written by Mystery Theater regular Elspeth Eric, who wrote 115 other stories for the show, and also appeared as an actress on 13 episodes.  This one first aired April 29, 1974. Download TheHorror335

Donovan’s Brain, featuring Orson Welles, is our selection for today.  This episode originally aired on Suspense in two parts, May 18 and May 25, of 1944.  I trimmed a little off of each (1 Roma Wine commercial is enough for a week) for a smoother transition between the two. Download TheHorror334

We’ve got another incursion inside The Weird Circle for today’s show.  This one is titled The River Man, and aired sometime in the mid-1940′s. Have a favorite episode you’d like to hear?  Send it along to relicradio@gmail.com (please put Horror Favorite in the subject line) and I’ll be happy to share it with the rest [...]

We’ll hear a request from Pete on this episode of The Horror he sent in some time ago.  It’s for an episode from The Hall Of Fantasy titled He Who Follows Me.  This one was first heard March 11, 1950. If you’d like to send in a request or a favorite to be played on [...]

We’ll hear an episode from The Hermit’s Cave this week via a series for Armed Forces Radio titled Mystery Playhouse.  That series took shows like Hermit’s Cave, Inner Sanctum, Molle Mystery Theater, and others, and presented them to the troops under that banner.  The episode is titled Mr. Randall’s Discovery.  This one sounds pretty rough, [...]

Three stories from Lights Out are featured on today’s show.  First off, as requested by Jenny, we’ll hear Chicken Heart.  This version comes from a 1960′s record – not the original broadcast.  Also from that record, we’ll hear The Dark. Those episodes had originally aired in the 1930′s, and there doesn’t seem to be any [...]

We hear from Escape on today’s show.  Featuring Paul Frees, and first airing October 22, 1947, here’s their version of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic The Fall Of The House Of Usher. Download TheHorror329