It’s World Audio Drama Day! Tired of the everyday routine and want to get away from it all? Well, friend, you’ve come to the right feed. All month I've been recommending lesser-known spooky #audiodrama, here are all the links on one spectacular spooktober thread.
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"Ghost Hunt" from Suspense in 1949. The original "found-footage" radio horror play:https://youtu.be/lgyQbONkYec
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Wyllis Cooper's 1948 play "There are Shadows Here." I could go on and on about what makes Cooper's minimalist work so special -- humor, pacing, subtext:https://youtu.be/UF0CfrqrWFA
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Arch Oboler’s entire body of work belongs here, but let’s stick to his tiny masterpiece, "The Dark:"https://youtu.be/UYYi_sxxdEI
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Bafflegab's 2017 adaptation of "Blood on Satan's Claw" is a great modern take on '70s folk horror. --https://shop.bafflegab.co.uk/album/blood-on-satans-claw …
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"The Cistern" from The Whistler in 1945. I love the show's distinctly western accents, landscapes and weather:https://archive.org/details/The_Whistler_508_Episodes/The_Whistler_451210_186_29m22s_The_Cistern_.mp3 …
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In the 1970s and 80s, Tom Lopez of the ZBS network made the coolest binaural drama. Check out their version of Karl Edward Wanger's "Sticks" in 3D audio: https://bit.ly/2QT0V4l Preview here: http://www.zbs.org/audio/Sticks.mp3 …
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In 1896 recording of a performer mimicking actor John McCullough’s infamous horrible on-stage raving as he went mad from syphilis. There are many versions of this performance, some were marketed as real:https://youtu.be/Qz9ezPXAYYg
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The Truth’s "Sleep Some More," which wormed its way into my headphones during a flight a year back, and never came out again:http://www.thetruthpodcast.com/story/sleepnomore …
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Lucille Fletcher's "The Hitch-hiker," the *best,* spooky radio drama of all time:https://youtu.be/8eZ1sImDFwE
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Yuri Rasovsky's adaptation of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a hoot: https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari?sp=6491 … But the play of his that I dearly love is his version of Ansky’s folk exorcism tale, “The Dybbuk” https://www.amazon.com/The-Dybbuk/dp/B00282MRNQ …
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Ray Bradbury’s “The Wind” dramatized by NPR in 1983, a piece that’s ripe to be reimagined, I think:https://youtu.be/_-bE6kw8e_Q
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KPFA’s highly musical 1964 version of Virginia Woolf's meta-ghost story "A Haunted House." Listen to it two or three times in a row for full effect: http://www.kpfahistory.info/bm/bm_haunted.mp3 …
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Wireless Theatre’s 2014 play “Dream On.” One of many great radio plays about the horror of dreaming. Stylistically, it’s Arch Oboler meets Harold Pinter. Download it free: https://www.wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk/product/dream-on/ … …
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Norman Corwin’s 1944 documentary horror “Moat Farm Murder,” a story that was the In Cold Blood of its day, with Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi3YUl-sJI … Here’s Orson Welles’s version of the same play, he does it with greater austerityhttps://youtu.be/7UbB0aemcN8
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A trio of great werewolf stories: Suspense's "House in Cypress Canyon" (1946) https://bit.ly/2ODER0M ; Hi Brown's "White Wolf" (1977) https://bit.ly/2PMzOaX ; and Dirk Maggs’s 1997 "American Werewolf in London"https://bit.ly/2PbCdii
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A pair of experimental monologues of the 1960s: Sylvia Plath haunted by maternity in "Three Women" (1962) http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/hear-sylvia-plaths-barely-known-radio-play-three-women.html … …; and Erik Bauersfeld haunted by himself in "Diary of a Madman" (1964)https://youtu.be/s6Bf8uD-F-o
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The work of Gregory Whitehead. All of it. But especially “The Loneliest Road” (2003) https://gregorywhitehead.net/2012/06/25/the-loneliest-road/ … …; “Four Trees Down from Ponte Sisto” https://gregorywhitehead.net/2012/10/27/four-trees-down-from-ponte-sisto/ … … (2014); and - a *deep cut* - "Display Wounds" https://gregorywhitehead.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/displaywounds.mp3 … (1985)
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There are many scary radio plays about evil kids -- Suspense's 1955 "Zero Hour," Beyond Midnight's "No-name Baby" in South Africa in 1969 -- but Nightfall's 1982 play "Gerald" really gets me, and I love the period music:https://youtu.be/z67lHPYdY7k
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Let's lighten things up with a spooky story about a department store, Escape's 1947 version of "Evening Primrose"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmWv1Ay948M …
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Lance Dann’s “Blood Culture,” which is a smashing thriller, but especially uncanny in its sound design. Listen in headphones. I think you should listen in public. Lance thinks you shouldn’t.https://www.blood-culture.com/audio.html
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A 1947 version of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" that I hadn't heard until Jerry Haendiges posted about it recently, from the American Novels program, a precursor to the NBC University Theater of the Air: http://www.vintageradioprograms.com/World's_Great_Novels_470919_Ep012_The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow.mp3?fbclid=IwAR1XiTLbhopnK8h7qko7F7q7bKnmip-1u8BI_UnyX6aJtujc9HfFKMi7uPQ … …
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Three lighthouse tales: Suspense's Three Skeleton Key (1956) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uT4Q36hNTI … …; Nightfall's "The Road Ends at the Sea" (1982) https://archive.org/details/Nightfall_201408/Nightfall-Episode+062-The+Road+Ends+at+the+Sea.mp3 … …; and a favorite recent series,
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For Day 30, a brand new one! Later today you will be able to hear "The Lights of Witchywood" by
@Kanga_Kanga over at 11th Hour Audio. Check it out!http://www.11thhouraudio.com/?fbclid=IwAR0beWPGv0o9KAJ6feahTXx5_ctuxiPn_vq7SsPdXa7xaFwVcV211Kh9NRw …Show this thread -
Might as well finish the series a day early, why not. I suppose I must know at least 8 different radio versions of Dickens's "The Signalman" the aired over the decades. This one from a 1946 summer revival of Lights Out is, I think, the best:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcKBHe2mJJ8 …
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