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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG October Spooktacular 2021 – Suspense: Donovan’s Brain
I wrap up this year's Spooktacular with one of my favorite scary radio tales of all time. It's Donovan's Brain, starring Orson Welles, on Suspense.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG October Spooktacular 2021 – Suspense: Fugue in C Minor
Fugue in C Minor is a bit of a Victorian age tale of the gothic which would sure to have pleased the likes of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG October Spooktacular 2021 – Suspense: Sorry, Wrong Number
Turn out the lights and give a listen to Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Agnes Moorehead, on Suspense as it aired May 25th, 1943.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG Spooktacular 2021 – Suspense: August Heat
Tonight brings another first time offering for the Spooktacular with the Suspense episode August Heat from 1945.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG Spooktacular 2021 – Suspense: The Hitch-Hiker
Turn out the lights and give a listen to The Hitch-Hiker from Suspense as it aired on September 2nd, 1942.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG October Spooktacular 2021 – Suspense: Ghost Hunt
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.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
Halloween Spooktacular 2017 – Suspense: ‘The Waxwork’
This episode of Suspense is a rather creepy one wherein a reporter offers to spend the night in the infamous murderers wing of a wax museum.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
Halloween Spooktacular 2016 – Suspense: ‘The Whole Town’s Sleeping’
While not really of a supernatural nature, The Whole Town's Sleeping is still an excellent tale where the tension builds as the story progresses.
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
Halloween Spooktacular 2016 – Suspense: ‘The Dunwich Horror’
I have to sadly say H.P. Lovecraft's work didn't see many incarnations on the airwaves during the heyday of radio. Thankfully the well remembered series Suspense did take a run at the Cthulhu Mythos with The Dunwich Horror featuring Ronald Colem
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG October Spooktacular – Suspense: ‘The House in Cypress Canyon’
Who would have ever thought Suspense would have introduced a horror tale featuring Dashiell Hammett’s legendary detective Sam Spade. Well, truth be told Spade isn’t a character in the main story though. The House in Cypress Canyon is what is traditionally known as a frame story; a story within a…
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG’s October Spooktacular – Suspense: ‘The Hitch-Hiker’
Talk about an episode which has nearly everything – Orson Welles; A script by Lucille Fletcher; Atmospheric (and unusually minimal) sound effects. The Hitch-Hiker, which is spelled in the style of the day, is surely one of my favorite old time radio scripts and just might keep you guessing until…
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG’s October Spooktacular – Suspense: ‘Sorry, Wrong Number’
What has to be no doubt one of the most famous radio stories of all time (outside of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds) has to be Sorry, Wrong Number. The radio play was performed eight times from 1943 through 1960 with Agnes Moorehead giving a one woman tour-de-force each…
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG’s October Spooktacular – Suspense: ‘The Dunwich Horror’
H.P. Lovecraft’s stories didn’t make too many appearances on radio back in the day but every once in while you’d actually catch a tale here or there. While I can’t say the Cthulhu Mythos translated overly well to a thirty minute format at least here we get in interesting performance…
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG’s October Spooktacular – Suspense: ‘Ghost Hunt’
One of the most popular – and longest running – radio programs devoted to stories which nearly always featured a slow burn was Suspense. For over twenty years some of the most famous radio spook stories aired on the series, although Suspense didn’t make too many forays into horror or…
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Audiobooks and Old Time Radio
TGG Old Time Radio Double Dip #2: Donovan’s Brain Suspense 5/18/1944 & 5/25/ 1944
Had a bit of an issue yesterday so I had to play tech support guru for my mother’s computer so I didn’t get the latest OTR Double Dip out there but that’s remedied today… You can’t have a discussion of old time radio without including Orson Welles in the discussion.…
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Tabletop Gaming
The Gaming Gang Episode 49: Our Halloween Special with A Touch of Evil, Achtung! Cthulhu, and More!
It wouldn’t be Halloween without one of our patented specials! The reviews are a bit light this time around but there’s plenty of spooky fun as we review A Touch of Evil from Flying Frog Productions and Three Kings and Heroes of the Sea for Achtung! Cthulhu by Modipius. Elliott…