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Narrated by:
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Boris Karloff
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Maurice Tarplin
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Paul McGrath
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Bernard Lenrow
About this listen
The screams...the grisly sound effects...the rumbling organ music. Sounds in the dark come strange, mysterious, and terrifying in 21 episodes of such classic series as Lights Out, Inner Sanctum, Suspense, and many more. Spine-chilling tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Arch Oboler, Robert A. Arthur, David Kogan, and Alonzo Deen Cole dabble in dark realms. Boris Karloff, Maurice Tarplin, Paul McGrath, and Bernard Lenrow deliver pulse-pounding performances as the haunted and the hypnotized who come face to face with forces beyond their comprehension.
Episodes include: The Mysterious Traveler: "If You Believe" 12-29-46, "The Man the Insects Hated" 07-27-47; Escape: "The Fall of the House of Usher" 10-22-47, "The Golden Snake" 04-14-50, "The Abominable Snowman" 09-13-53; Inner Sanctum: "Corridor of Doom" 10-23-45, "The Dark Chamber" 12-11-45, "Cause of Death" 12-06-48; Suspense: "The Man Without a Body" 06-22-43, "Return to Dust" 02-01-59, "Waxworks" 03-01-59; Dark Fantasy: "I Am Your Brother" 06-05-42; The Hermit's Cave: "The Plantation Mystery 1940s"; Lights Out: "Mirage" 09-21-43, "The Haunted Cell" 07-20-46; Quiet, Please: "Let the Lilies Consider" 06-28-48, "Good Ghost" 10-24-48; Mollé Mystery Theatre: "The Beckoning Fair One" 06-05-45; The Sealed Book: "Beware of Tomorrow" 09-30-45; The Weird Circle: "The Rope of Hair" 1944; The Witch's Tale: "Rockabye Baby" 1934.
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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5 out of 5 stars
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A nice collection
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- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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2 out of 5 stars
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Some are good, but many are just preachy!
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- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7
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5 out of 5 stars
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A odd couple
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Imagination Theatre: Weird & Strange Fantasy
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- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Head to distant worlds and alternate futures! Explore the limitless potential for twists and turns when stories are fueled by the infinite power of imagination! Here are twenty-four thought-provoking tales as up-to-date as tomorrow. It's new-time radio in the classic old-time-radio manner, from the mind of producer Jim French.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely engrossing and great fun
- By Alex O. on 02-28-24
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Vintage BBC Radio Horror: The Slide, Night of the Wolf & Dark
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- Narrated by: full cast, Vincent Price, Roger Delgado, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20
A trio of terrifying radio tales starring Roger Delgado, Vincent Price and Honor Blackman. Author, playwright and TV producer Victor Pemberton was probably best known as a script editor and writer for Doctor Who, and as the inventor of the Doctor's trademark sonic screwdriver. But he also created numerous dramas for radio, among them the three cult classics included here.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listening. I love making the characters up in my own mind.
- By J. Miller on 11-01-23
By: Victor Pemberton
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Alison Larkin Presents: The Secret Adversary, Murder on the Links, and The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin, James Warwick
- Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Three critically acclaimed recordings are joined together in this dazzling Agatha Christie Triple Bill, read by award-winning narrators Alison Larkin and James Warwick, star of the Partners in Crime TV series on Masterpiece Theater.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pitch perfect narration of Agatha Christie!
- By Mary Katherine Worth on 10-18-19
By: Agatha Christie
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Inner Sanctum: Pattern for Fear
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Raymond Edward Johnson, Paul McGrath, Old Time Radio
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Step into radio’s legendary house of horrors. The only program on the air to combine pitch-dark horror with sardonic humor, sending forth its undead monstrosities with rotting tongue pressed firmly into cheek. The razor-voiced Raymond Edward Johnson handles his hosting duties like an oily insurance salesman with a sideline in ax murder, while playful Paul McGrath brings forth an effortlessly exaggerated sense of black comedy. Come in! You’ll never know what’s going on behind the rust-metal shriek of the infamous Creaking Door until you open it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inner Sanctum
- By Chris Coyne on 06-05-20
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- HH
- 02-25-24
Great Stories & Performances!
If you enjoy radio dramas, you'll really enjoy this selection of stories. They are from a different era, so keep that in mind while listening. Many titles will be familiar to you, as you may have seen these stories dramatized in film, movies or animation. You may also be familiar with these tales from sci-fi, theatre or literature. My only regret is that the titles of the stories are not listed and only shown as numbered chapters. But these are tales of mystery and suspense, so you will just have to listen and see how it all turns out. I'll divulge no secrets. Enjoy!
P.S. You'll enjoy the commercial breaks of the era as well.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Davidinark
- 06-07-16
Good for nostalgia, I suppose.
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This is old time radio melodrama at its best and its worst. Tedious, overacting from the VERY old days of radio. I'm sure this scared the pants off people 50-60 years ago. I barely got through half. On the upside, if you are looking for a trip back to a time when horror was simplistic and radio took the time to go full-on production, then it is worth a listen... when it is half-price.
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