LIGHTS OUT ♦ Classic Radio Show ♦ Ep 14 ♦ The Devil s Due ♦ 04/26/1939

Lights Out radio show. 04/26/1939



Episode 14



Title: The Devils Due



Author:  Wyllis Cooper



Directed By: Arch Oboler



Genre(s): Horror, Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.

Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(radio_show)



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LIGHTS OUT ♦ Classic Radio Show ♦ Ep 13 ♦ It Happened ♦ 05/11/1938

Lights Out radio show. 05/11/1938



Episode 13



Title: It Happened



Author:  Wyllis Cooper



Directed By: Arch Oboler



Genre(s): Horror, Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.

Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(radio_show)



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No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman ♦ By Charles Dickens ♦ Supernatural Hor...

No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman ♦ By Charles Dickens ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman



Author:  Charles Dickens



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Tony Addison



Librivox Recording



"The Signal-Man" is a horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.





Clayton tunnel entrance as seen from the north.

The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him by telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the spectre, and then by a terrible accident.



The first accident involves a terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel crash[1] that occurred in 1861, five years before he wrote the story. Readers in 1866 would have been familiar with this major disaster. The second warning involves the mysterious death of a young woman on a passing train. The final warning is a premonition of the signalman's own death.  Summary By Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Signal-Man



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SUSPENSE ♦ Classic Radio show ♦ The Body Snatchers ♦ EP 13 ♦ 11-24-1942

Suspense Radio Show  11-24-1942



Episode 13



Title:  The Body Snatchers



Stars: Herbert Marshall and Edmund Gwenn



Genre(s): Drama and Suspense



Language: English



One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" and focused on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era. Approximately 945 episodes were broadcast during its long run, and more than 900 still exist.



Suspense went through several major phases, characterized by different hosts, sponsors, and director/producers. Formula plot devices were followed for all but a handful of episodes: the protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a threatening or bizarre situation; solutions were "withheld until the last possible second"; and evildoers were usually punished in the end.



In its early years, the program made only occasional forays into science fiction and fantasy. Notable exceptions include adaptations of Curt Siodmak's Donovan's Brain and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror", but by the late 1950s, such material was regularly featured.  Summary By Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspense_(radio_drama)



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Devil Car ♦ By Roger Zelazny ♦ Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror ♦ Full A...

Devil Car ♦ By Roger Zelazny ♦ Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: Devil Car



Author:  Roger Zelazny



Genre(s): Science Fiction, Horror



Language: English



A MINDWEBS Production



Summary:

A computer virus has changed some of the artificial intelligence cars to turn against humans. Coffee-drinking and smoking protagonist Murdock goes on a revenge crusade against a black caddy called Devil Car who murdered his brother. At his side his a hot blonde, this time in the form of an A.I. car called Jenny who develops some very emotional capabilities.



This action adventure is an easy SF read around the topic of Wild West romanticism (freedom, loyality) with car profanity/emotions/seducing. It is quite a contrast to King’s Christine, and I thought more of the more recent Megan Lindholm’s Old Paint where the cars were also infected by a computer virus.



As with many other Zelazny stories, the SF aspect is a bit artificial and it could have been set easily in a cowboy vs. American indians context. But it is a good story, and I like Zelazny’s language.



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The Masqued Red Death ♦ By Edgar Allan Poe ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦...

The Masqued Red Death ♦ By Edgar Allan Poe ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Masqued Red Death



Author:  Edgar Allan Poe



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  J. Olpecre



Librivox Recording



The story takes place at the castellated abbey of the "happy and dauntless and sagacious" Prince Prospero. Prospero and 1,000 other nobles have taken refuge in this walled abbey to escape the Red Death, a terrible plague with gruesome symptoms that has swept over the land. Victims are overcome by "sharp pains", "sudden dizziness", and "profuse bleeding at the pores", and die within half an hour. Prospero and his court are indifferent to the sufferings of the population at large; they intend to await the end of the plague in luxury and safety behind the walls of their secure refuge, having welded the doors shut.



Prospero holds a masquerade ball one night to entertain his guests in seven colored rooms of the abbey. Each of the first six rooms is decorated and illuminated in a specific color: blue, purple, green, orange, white, and violet. The last room is decorated in black and is illuminated by a scarlet light, "a deep blood color" cast from its stained glass windows. Because of this chilling pairing of colors, very few guests are brave enough to venture into the seventh room. A large ebony clock stands in this room and ominously chimes each hour, upon which everyone stops talking or dancing and the orchestra stops playing. Once the chiming stops, everyone immediately resumes the masquerade.



At the chiming of midnight, the revelers and Prospero notice a figure in a dark, blood-splattered robe resembling a funeral shroud. The figure's mask resembles the rigid face of a corpse and exhibits the traits of the Red Death. Gravely insulted, Prospero demands to know the identity of the mysterious guest so they can hang him. The guests, too afraid to approach the figure, instead let him pass through the six chambers. The Prince pursues him with a drawn dagger and corners the guest in the seventh room. When the figure turns to face him, the Prince lets out a sharp cry and falls dead. The enraged and terrified revelers surge into the black room and forcibly remove the mask and robe, only to find to their horror that there is nothing underneath. Only then do they realize the costume was empty and all of the guests contract and succumb to the disease. The final line of the story sums up, "And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all." Summary By Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death



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LIGHTS OUT ♦ Classic Radio Show ♦ Ep 12 ♦ Valse Trieste ♦ 03/30/1938

Lights Out radio show. 03/30/1938



Episode 12



Title: Valse Trieste



Author:  Wyllis Cooper



Directed By: Arch Oboler



Genre(s): Horror, Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.

Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(radio_show)



Lights Out Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDivK77tTvN54877Tl_F7JIU



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Dad Barker's Ghost ♦ By R. C. Canterbury ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ F...

Dad Barker's Ghost ♦ By R. C. Canterbury ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Dad Barker's Ghost



Author:  R. C. Canterbury



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Matt Braymiller



Librivox Recording





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Ring Once for Death ♦ By Robert Arthur Jr. ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦...

Ring Once for Death ♦ By Robert Arthur Jr. ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Ring Once for Death



Author:  Robert Arthur, Jr.



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Chris Pyle



Librivox Recording



The power of the old gods was certainly nothing for Mark and Edith—a modern, twentieth-century couple—to worry about. After all—everybody dies! Twenty years had left no trace inside Sam Kee's little shop on Mott Street. There were the same dusty jars of ginseng root and tigers' whiskers, the same little bronze Buddahs, the same gim-cracks mixed with fine jade.



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A Suspicious Gift ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ ...

A Suspicious Gift ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  A Suspicious Gift



Author:  Algernon Blackwood



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  William Mosqueda



Librivox Recording



Excerpt:

It was curious—that sense of dull uneasiness that came over him so suddenly, so stealthily at first he scarcely noticed it, but with such marked increase after a time that he presently got up and left the theater. His seat was on the gangway of the dress circle, and he slipped out awkwardly in the middle of what seemed to be the best and jolliest song of the piece. The full house was shaking with laughter; so infectious was the gaiety that even strangers turned to one another as much as to say, "Now, isn't that funny?"



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LIGHTS OUT ♦ Classic Radio Show ♦ Ep 9 ♦ Murder Casle ♦ 02/16/1938

Lights Out radio show. 02/16/1938



Episode 9



Title: Murder Castle



Author:  Wyllis Cooper



Directed By: Arch Oboler



Genre(s): Horror, Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.

Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(radio_show)



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A Haunted Island ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ F...

A Haunted Island ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  A Haunted Island



Author:  Algernon Blackwood



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Bernard Spiel



Librivox Recording



Summary:

A short story originally published in Pall Mall Magazine Vol. 17, No. 72, in 1899. Its first appearance in a collection was in Blackwood's 1906 "The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories."



A supernatural vision on an Island, in which a man encounters a group of natives with particularly ill intent.





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LIGHTS OUT ♦ Classic Radio Show ♦ Ep 8 ♦ Oxychloride X ♦ 01/26/1937

Lights Out radio show. 01/26/1937



Episode 8



Title: Oxychloride X



Author:  Wyllis Cooper



Directed By: Arch Oboler



Genre(s): Horror, Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.

Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(radio_show)



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Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural...

Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp



Author:  Algernon Blackwood



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Occult



Language: English



Read By:  Bernard Spiel



Librivox Recording



Summary

The characters in this story are all on a hunting trip for moose, somewhere up in Canada. It tells how another man washes up on the shore of Skeleton Lake right near the narrator's camp. The narrator says that the man, named Rushton, simply began to ramble about his recent experience, and could not be stopped from telling it. Rushton had said that a companion and his canoe had overturned and left the two men clinging to it, when they drifted near an island. Jake, Rushton's friend, had wanted to swim to the shore, and disappeared below the water instantly having let go of the canoe. Rushton said he'd gotten to the island and had seen shadows crawling out of the water and into the bushes. The narrator said that Rushton had so many flaws in his story that the truth was almost obvious. At the end of the story, two of the men went to go looking for the body, and found it with a terrible wound in the back of its head. One that he couldn't have done to himself. Summary by: Sophia Buhrow



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The Mezzotint ♦ By M. R. James ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook

The Mezzotint ♦ By M. R. James ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Mezzotint



Author:  M. R. James



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Ghost Story



Language: English



Read By:  Louise J. Belle



Librivox Recording



Summary:

Mr. Williams, the curator of a university art museum (implied to be Oxford) receives a mezzotint from an art dealer. The very disturbing engraving changes each time Mr. Williams and the colleagues he enlists look at it. In the end, it is suggested that the nighttime engraving depicts a vengeful poacher named Gawdy, returning from the grave to kidnap and murder the infant heir of a Mr. Arthur Francis. Gawdy had been hanged for shooting a gamekeeper while poaching on Francis' land. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mezzotint



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LIGHTS OUT ♦ Classic Radio Show ♦ Ep 7 ♦ The Dark ♦ 12/29/1937

Lights Out radio show. 12/29/1937



Episode 7



Title: The Dark



Author:  Wyllis Cooper



Genre(s): Horror, Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.

Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(radio_show)



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Keeping his Promise ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ...

Keeping his Promise ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Keeping his Promise



Author:  Algernon Blackwood



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Chris Pyle



Librivox Recording



Excerpt:

It was a stranger. He saw a youngish man short of figure and very broad. His face was the colour of a piece of chalk and the eyes, which were very bright, had heavy lines underneath them. Though the cheeks and chin were unshaven and the general appearance unkempt, the man was evidently a gentleman, for he was well dressed and bore himself with a certain air. But, strangest of all, he wore no hat, and carried none in his hand; and although rain had been falling steadily all the evening, he appeared to have neither overcoat nor umbrella.



A hundred questions sprang up in Marriott’s mind and rushed to his lips, chief among which was something like “Who in the world are you?” and “What in the name of heaven do you come to me for?” But none of these questions found time to express themselves in words, for almost at once the caller turned his head a little so that the gas light in the hall fell upon his features from a new angle. Then in a flash Marriott recognised him.



“Field! Man alive! Is it you?” he gasped.



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The Tree ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror Short) ♦ Full Audiobook

The Tree ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror Short) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Tree



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories



Language: English



Read By:  Michael Sample



Librivox Recording



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Plot:

On a slope of Mount Maenalus in Arcadia is an olive grove that grows around a marble tomb and the ruin of an old villa. There, one gigantic tree resembles a frighteningly distorted man, and the roots of the tree have shifted the blocks of the tomb.



The narrator explains that the beekeeper who lives next door told him a story about the tree: Two renowned sculptors, Kalos and Musides, lived in the colonnaded villa, which was "resplendent" in its day. Both men created works that were widely known and celebrated. They were devoted friends, but different in disposition: Musides enjoyed the nightlife, while Kalos preferred the quiet of the olive grove. It was there he was said to receive his inspiration.



One day, emissaries from "the Tyrant of Syracuse" ask the sculptors each to create a statue of Tyché (Greek: τύχη, lit. 'fortune; fate'). The statue, they are told, must be "of great size and cunning workmanship", since it is to be "a wonder of nations and a goal of travellers." The most beautiful statue will be erected in the Tyrant's city, Syracuse. Kalos and Musides accept the commission. Secretly, the Tyrant expects the sculptors not only to compete but to cooperate, resulting in statuary that will be truly magnificent.



The work proceeds, and although Musides is still social and active, he seems morose—apparently because Kalos has fallen ill. Despite Kalos' weakened state, his visitors detect in him a serenity that contrasts Musides' dismay. Despite the efforts of his doctors and his friend Musides, Kalos weakens. When Kalos' death seems imminent, Musides weeps and promises to carve for him an elaborate marble sepulchre. Kalos asks that one twig each from two specific olive trees in the grove be buried near his head. Soon after, Kalos dies in the olive grove.



Musides builds the tomb and buries the olive twigs. From the burial place of the twigs an enormous olive tree grows at an incredible rate. An especially large branch hangs over the villa and Musides' statue.



Three years later, Musides' work on the statue is complete. The Tyrant's agents arrive, then head to town to stay the night. That evening, a windstorm whips down the mountain. When the Tyrant's people return to the villa the next morning, they find it utterly destroyed; the great tree branch has fallen, and Musides' statue has been crushed into unrecognizable pieces. Musides himself is nowhere to be found.



The end of the story recalls the Latin aphorism that precedes the text: "Fata viam invenient" ("fate will find a way"). Summary By Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tree_(short_story)



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Breakdown ♦ Chiller Thriller ♦ The Haunting Hour ♦ EP 7 ♦ 05/05/1945

Breakdown ♦ Chiller Thriller ♦ The Haunting Hour ♦ EP 7 ♦ 05/05/1945



Originally Aired 05/05/1945 on The Haunting Hour Radio Show



Title: Breakdown



Genre(s): Horror, Thriller, Chiller, Mystery, Supernatural



Language: English



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The show was about the creepy scenes, bone-chilling organ, screams and a mystery to be solved. Most of the time, women are the show’s protagonist, maybe for the purpose of targeting women as the audience. As for why it is the Haunting Hour, despite the fact that the show only runs for 30 minutes, it’s still a mystery.



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Banshees ♦ By Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audio...

Banshees ♦ By Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Banshees



Author:  Elliott O'Donnell



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Occult



Language: English



Read By:  Caesura



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Summary

Many of the earliest occult stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive to buy.



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