Fangoria's Dreadtime Stories
Fangoria's Dreadtime Stories with host and narrator Malcolm McDowell are fully-dramatized radio dramas to thrill you and chill you! WARNING: These radio dramas are not for the feint of heart and are not recommended for persons under 14.
FANGORIA’S DREADTIME STORIES & THE REVIVAL OF HAUNTED RADIO
Interview with host Malcolm McDowell, Fangoria editor-in chief & composer Chris Alexander, and producer Carl Amari
By David Bertrand
Chris Alexander
The word is out, old-school terror junkies: FANGORIA is back on top. In spring 2010, ex-Rue Morgue scribe & all-around horror encyclopedia Chris Alexander took over as FANGORIA Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, and now more than ever, Hollywood chillers and set-report filler have been shoved to the side, replaced with huge vats of blood & ink spilled each month in tribute to vintage horror.
So it’s only fitting that, riding this new wave, FANGORIA should launch a project so “vintage” in concept it predates the very cinema that spawned the magazine in the first place – a straight-up, old-time horror radio drama. The timing is perfect, oddly enough, as this long-thought-extinct medium is now creeping back to prominence in the streaming ease of the podcast age. So give thanks, my fiends. And welcome to the darkside, where the night never ends, as FANGORIA presents DREADTIME STORIES with your ghoulish host… MALCOLM frickin’ MCDOWELL!
Promising one new horrific episode each month, this audio frightfest launched September 1st, 2011, with flagship episode “The Late Shift” written by Dennis Etchison. FANGORIA editor Chris Alexander gives SPECTULAR OPTICAL the gritty details: “The show is the brainchild of FANGORIA publisher Tom DeFeo and producer Carl Amari – who was behind the popular TWILIGHT ZONE radio drama adaptations on Sirius. DREADTIME STORIES is Carl and Tom’s bid to use the format and push it even deeper into the dark, into horror. The tone is eerie, the stories grim yet blackly funny and playful, incredibly macabre and infinitely amusing…”
But even with the FANGORIA seal of approval, an iconic face (and voice) was needed. With the exception of maybe a resurrected Vincent Price, who could be better than the legendary Malcolm McDowell (CALIGULA, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, I don’t need to intro Malcolm McDowell, do I…?) as the voice beckoning us to our doom? This ace up the sleeve was an acquaintance of veteran producer Carl Amari, who, in the old-time radio revival world, is the guy who makes things happen. Says Carl, “I got hooked (and I mean hooked bad) on radio drama as a young boy. As a teen I collected thousands of radio dramas on cassette tape. By the time I was in college, I decided to turn my hobby into a business, licensing classic radio shows from the rightsholders so that I could broadcast them and sell them on cassette and later on CD. I spent a decade licensing more than 60,000 radio dramas from the producers, estates and networks that owned them for my company Radio Spirits . In 2001 I began producing the TWILIGHT ZONE radio dramas – I convinced CBS to license me the rights to do so; hired Stacy Keach to host; and now 10 years later, we have nearly 200 hour-long episodes in the can.”
October 2011
THE LATE SHIFT by Dennis Etchison
A company takes flesh-peddling to a whole new level.
November 2011
REINCARNAL by Max Allan Collins
A young woman may be the reincarnated victim of a serial killer on the loose.
A FUNGUS AMONG US by Steve Nubie
A mysterious fungus is causing people to act like Zombies before their heads explode and spore-like snakes ooze out of their brains!
Luke Danes has posted the first 3 episodes in the series below in the longer higher quality versions.
he said he is getting them each month so please download from his link below, as I have deleted mine.
Check back from time to time for more episodes at the same link
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Thanks. Big fan of Malcolm McDowell and this genre.
Thanks for collecting all these and sharing
Paul
Thank you !
Happy New Year!!!
Let´s start 2013 with a...
HOUSE OF BLOOD
by Max Allan Collins
A gruesome murder of an entire family by a homicidal father, years ago, has turned a lovely old home into the local "House of Blood." A young couple who picked the song up for a song, terrorized by horrific sights and sounds, is advised by their real estate agent to send in a crack team of ghost-hunters. The paranormal investigators in the House of Blood have their own darks secrets, however, and when a seance unleashes the homicidal spirit within the house, blood again soaks the walls.
http://ge.tt/7pIhKjQ?c
Thank you!
What he said,Thank You.
Thomas
Happy New Year and Thank You very much for all of these or should i say Haben Sie vielen Dank! ---------- Rick
First of November, and here we go again!
14 . HERE COMES THE SLUDGE
by Steve Nubie
Some scientists believe that all of the water on earth was the result of icy comets bombarding the primordial planet and simply melting into deep oceans, lakes and seas. Others believe that ancient microorganisms hitched a ride and gave rise to life for the first time. It seems to be a preposterous proposition. Unless you consider that a fresh comet is en route with the seeds of a new form of life, or perhaps...a new form of death.
http://ge.tt/7pIhKjQ/v/0?c
Thank you
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