Posted on 10/02/2011 2:17:22 PM PDT by Vision
Friends, it's Sunday night again. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio programs.
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Yes, Inner Sanctum sounds good! Don’t know why we have such a taste for creepy stuff, but we do! Maybe it was Night Gallery that did it for me when I was a little kid.
I love jack benny.
Me too. I’ve always enjoyed the scary stuff.
Agreed. Very unique comedy style.
This is bizarre.
Retiring to the radio. Have a great week all.
SteelYourFaith, since I assume you're a reader, this may interest you. I much prefer creepy written stories to pictures. It is just a coincidence that yesterday I picked up a compilation of "scary" short stories that I have in my collection to re-read one story in particular.
The compilation was done by Marvin Kaye. The title is Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural from 1985. This guy collects stuff from the Victorian era through the 1980s, but there is one story in particular that haunts me like no other story I have ever read. It is a short story by Robert Aickman (1914--1980) called The Hospice.
I would be very interested (if you ever cared to) in your finding a copy of either the compilation book or the story itself, reading it, and then giving me your opinion of it (I would gladly send you my copy, if you were interested). It is a story that needs at least two readings to absorb the strange hints and subtleties. I have read it, probably, four or more times. Haunting is the best description that I can give of it, as does Marvin Kaye in his short introduction to the story.
I have a couple of Kaye's compilations. He's good at collecting the chilling stories. I really like the ones from the 1800s. Just a thought, SteelYourFaith.
We agree! Keith said it sounds like Imus.
Goodnight and thanks, Vision!
The 10pm Arthur Godfrey and Friends was the single worst 30 minutes of radio I have ever heard in my life. Unlistenable! How that show was popular is beyond me. A bunch of lackeys laughing hysterically at whatever sound their boss makes. It belonged in a bar.
Yeah, Arthur was pretty unbearable. He sometimes referred to himself and his ensemble as “Arthur Godfrey and all the little Godfreys”. Talentless himself, unless you are into ukulele strumming, he ruled over his cast often with a cruel iron fist and seemed to delight in destroying careers. My sweet, deaf Grandmother loved his TV show.
Excellent! The Abe Books is a good resource!
I know you’ll enjoy Kaye’s compilation.
And how!
Yes please!!
Great! After “talking” to you about it, I have been re-reading the whole book. There are some pretty intense stories and poems...
It’s a downright chilling story (even in such a “hot” setting as it was).
On multiple readings, I still can’t determine the author’s “truth” behind the storyline. Is Maybury in hell? Is he having a prolonged nightmare? I tend toward his having died and being in hell, but who knows?
On first reading I did have the sense of an enveloping dream. After the bizarre dining scenario, Marbury’s inability to perform the routine act of starting his car, thus thwarting an avenue of escape from his surreal predicament, was nightmarishly frustrating for this reader vicariously through the protagonist. It smacked of the Hotel California lyrics “... you can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave...” Trying to anticipate Aickman’s ending, I wondered if Marbury would in fact “wake up”. I was flummoxed that the story ended with Marbury being dropped off at a bus stop, evidently escaping. It seemed a resolution.
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