New Hampshire Radio Theater -- "the best way to describe it is -- we are a "we are the world" of NH radio -- people from many different stations come together during Halloween and Christmas to put on benefit live shows for charity (M.A.D.D. and th
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John Zacherle (later changed to just 'Zacherley') is generally considered to be the original TV Horror Film Host. He certainly was the most famous, and heralded in the entire 1960s monster craze (Addams Family, Munsters, etc.), and he is still aliv
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There is a man from England whose name on the Net is Hegel, Himself. For the past few years I have been downloading his posts from around Halloween and Christmas. These are called Hegel's Holiday Happening and the one around Halloween is dubbed Heg
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This post is dedicated to my Canadian Friends and those who, like me, grew up on or close to the border with Canada. I remember tuning to the Canadian Channels in the 1970's while I lived near the border in New Hampshire. On Saturday morning it was
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The Best of Boris Karloff
Karloff's name is synonymous with terror and suspense. Though
he is best remembered for his many screen roles, Karloff was an extremely
versatile actor who was equally at home on stage, screen, television
and in radi
Nine Ghostly Tales of Ghouls and Ghosts Told by Vincent Price. His voice alone on a Spooky Moonlit Fall Night would be enough to scare the feint of Heart. Happy All Hallows Eve and a Creepy Halloween Night to all!
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The undead and the walking dead seem to have the same post-mortem appetite and want to bite us and make us like them. Here are a few select encounters with Vampires and those other dead that walk at night. These Tales of the Macabre are lifted from
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Nightmare with Peter Lorre
It's nearing Halloween when ghouls and goblins and Nightmares abound so I will add my Nightmares to this collection of Horror. Peter Lorre would take one more stab at a radio series in 1953 in Mutual Radio’s Nightmare, a
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE
BEING
A Ghost Story of Christmas
by Charles Dickens
PREFACE
I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book,
to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my
readers out of humour with themselves, with each other,
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In Keeping with the season radio was no slouch. When it got to be close to Halloween, all the old time classic shows had thier own special version of that ghastly gruesome holiday, "Halloween", and here are some of them
Just activate the link to go
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I know that this is late but I was wondering if anyone had a copy of the WGN Christmas Carol, I am looking for the version with Bob Collins, I do have a newer version that the radio website has posted on there, but it's not the one I remember. I used
The Blue Network was the on-air name of an American radio production and distribution service from 1942 to 1945, which traced its formal origins back to 1927. It was born of a divestiture, arising from anti-trust litigation, of one of the two radio
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. The Elgin National Watch Company was founded in August 1864 as the National Watch Company. A number of former associates of the Waltham Watch Company and Chicago watchmaker J.C. Adams had discussed forming the first large watch company in the Midw
Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans. Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is usually observed on November 11.
Here is a show from Arch Obolers Plays
Episode from March 9th, 1940
Title : Joh
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