The Gaming Gang October Spooktacular 2022 – Suspense: Donovan’s Brain Part Two (1944)
Oct 31, 2022
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Tonight we come not only to the conclusion of Donavan’s Brain but also of this year’s edition of the Spooktacular as well.
Tonight we come not only to the conclusion of Donavan’s Brain but also of this year’s edition of the Spooktacular as well.
Orson Welles had appeared on Suspense several times (possibly most famously in Lucille Fletcher’s The Hitch-Hiker) when he took to the mic for Donovan’s Brain.
An escaped lunatic, a dark night, an isolated and deserted road, a broken down car, a young couple who are lost, and the pouring rain. On a Country Road!
A couple experience strange supernatural phone calls in Bells as it aired on Suspense back on August 6th, 1961.
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.
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.
Turn out the lights and give a listen to Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Agnes Moorehead, on Suspense as it aired May 25th, 1943.
Tonight brings another first time offering for the Spooktacular with the Suspense episode August Heat from 1945.
Turn out the lights and give a listen to The Hitch-Hiker from Suspense as it aired on September 2nd, 1942.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
