TGG October Spooktacular 2021 – Lights Out: The Dream
Boris Karloff may never have been better on radio than in The Dream on Lights Out.
Boris Karloff may never have been better on radio than in The Dream on Lights Out.
Tonight brings another first time offering for the Spooktacular with the Suspense episode August Heat from 1945.
Turn out the lights and listen to Death is the Visitor from The Mysterious Traveler as it aired August 18th, 1946.
Turn out the lights and listen to The Judge’s House from CBS Radio Mystery Theater as it aired September 25th, 1981.
Tonight we’ll hear the premiere episode of the extremely short 1947 revival of Light Out, Death Robbery starring Boris Karloff.
Tonight’s story comes from The Martian Chronicles. It’s Mars is Heaven as it aired on Dimension X July 7th, 1950.
Turn out the lights and give a listen to The Hitch-Hiker from Suspense as it aired on September 2nd, 1942.
The Spooktacular continues with a classic from one of America’s premiere fantasists Ray Bradbury. It’s The Screaming Woman from Bradbury 13.
Shirley Jackson also penned what is possibly the most famous of all American short stories, The Lottery.
In I Warn You Three Times, a man stopped at a light during a snowstorm steps out of his car to clear snow off his windshield only to disappear into thin air.
In Murder Castle, Arch Oboler takes on Chicago serial killer H.H. Holmes (aka Herman Webster Mudgett) although in the story his name is Henry Stewart.
Radio DJ Smiley Smith (played by Ralph Edwards) aims to pull off a remote recorded stunt broadcast from a supposedly haunted house set upon a Malibu cliff.
Two scientists are experimenting with transporting objects through time and back again when they accidentally bring something along on a return trip.
Vincent Price takes on James Poe’s script, based on the classic George G. Toudouze short story, for Three Skeleton Key for the first time on Escape.
Let’s wrap up this year’s Spooktacular with what is possibly the most famous radio broadcast of all time: Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air players’ adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells’ tale The War of the Worlds.