Halloween Horror - The AV Club 13

The AV Club site is a gold mine of both audio and video tresures. Here's their description of this offering:

Think of them as podcasts from decades ago: Horror masters like Stephen King have pointed to the rich imagination of radio shows as offering more appropriate terror than the page or screen. In the era before television (just imagine), purely audio suspense was provided by not only by the writers, actors, and the listeners’ own imaginations, but the sound-effects engineers, in an art form that has now been lost to the ages. Gruesome shows like Inner Sanctum and Lights Out! helpfully provided health precautions with their intros for faint-hearted listeners. But the era’s premiere radio drama, Suspense, also offered lots of scary moments for the thrill-bound, as did the more adventure-based Escape and the sci-fi-themed X Minus One. Then the sound-effects guys would go to town, cracking walnuts to indicate bones and using ripe melons to depict bodies falling from buildings: the squishier the better. For Halloween this year, try one of our selections below, with mournful organ chords, creaky doors, and various screams by some names you’ll recognize, as many film stars flocked to the popular radio medium in an attempt to get further exposure. That’s only if you dare, of course.

The files in Hi-Q are HERE

I've also included (below) a Word doc with all the descriptions and pictures of the 13 shows.

Bob

AV Club 13.docx

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  • Thank you.

  • Wonderful! Thanks, Bob.

    Roger

  • Thank you for these episodes!

  • I take my hat off to you Bob.

    A superb offering for Halloween.

  • Sounds great, and timely for me as I've been wanting to revisit some classic Halloween horror. Thank you very much.

  • Thanks for these, Bob. These are acknowledged as The Classics and it's nice to have them collected together.

  • Thanks for sharing these episodes. 

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