Posted on 10/25/2016 5:22:39 PM PDT by dynachrome
Before folks sat around the TV watching American Horror Story or classic movies like The Shining and Friday the 13th, they gathered around the radio to listen to their favorite weekly programs. Many of them were comedies or dramas, just like today’s television programs, but there were also shows dedicated to the creepy crawly — that made goosebumps rise and sent shivers down the spine. It’s often said that what you can’t see is scarier than what you can, and radio programs can sweep you up and create a whole spooky world in your imagination.
With Halloween coming this weekend, there’s no better time to visit some of the scariest shows and episodes that old time radio has to offer. They’re all available for free online, making for quality, affordable entertainment. If you’re interested in more, I strongly suggest checking out both RadioHorrorHosts.com and www.escape-suspense.com; both were immensely helpful in my research for this piece. I’ve broken it down by radio show, then given a few suggestions of episodes to listen to from each show. To up your experience, convert an old-time radio into a mp3 speaker and huddle around it with your family or friends with the lights dimmed.
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Listened to those shows on KSFO . Some of them were scary..A local high schoolstation , WFOS. plays episodes of Red Skelton’s shows. The high school station is what I listen to the most thes days, they have the best music.
I am a crazy OTR fan. CBS Radio Mystery Theater is one of my favorites — I have downloaded most of the shows (there is a massive free site for it.)
My favorites are with EG Marshall, Tammy Grimes as host lost me.
Their version of Dracula with Mercedes McCambridge is phenomenal.
I’m also a big fan of The Price of Fear with Vincent Price, and Nightfall — a great Canadian production.
Also like Theater 5, and Theater 10:30.
Ghost and Mr. Chicken — a classic.
“Atta boy, Luthor!”
This was not a radio broadcast, but it is without a doubt one of the most haunting renditions of a classic tale ever recorded.
I hate teasers so...
Basil Rathbone reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPhQCJ6waLI
To summarize “Young Goodman Brown”: “You don’t want to know.”
The Creaking Door.........The Rose Crystal Bell............
My mother wouldn't allow us to listen to these programs; so we would turn the radio down vereeeeery low..... She said she could always tell when we were listening to forbidden programs because the radio suddenly got soft.
Wrong thread, but “I hate apples” was mine. haha.
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Aweome... I’d like to hear them again...
But, it won’t be the same. I LIVED FOR that 40 minutes of time, every night, to quiet my brain and help me get ready for sleep.
These days, I don’t think my wife would enjoy listening to them. :-(
LOL I remember several. The one I remember best was, the adaptation from Poe’s Cask of Amontillado. It was SPOOKY!
Donovan’s Brain was a classic.
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men! The Shadow knows!?
I’m old enough to have listened to these shows when they first aired, at least those from the mid 1940s forward. Lying on the floor next to my dad, in the dark, next to the console radio.
I’m surprised how much of the stock orchestral spooky music I still remembered... they loved their oboes!
Love, love, LOVE Hammer films! Cushing and Lee made a great team in those early films.
When we’re listening to those shows gramps would relate stories when he was a kid living in NYC. Anyway, it’s fun stuff.
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