Suspense
The Whistler
You’re walking alone on the street at night, but then you hear another set of footsteps and a haunting tune being whistled by an unseen stranger. Fritz Lang used an similar premise in his 1930s German movie with Peter Lorre playing M, a psychopathic murderer of children. But the American radio series was even creepier….
The Strange Dr. Wierd
The Strange Dr. Weird was a radio program broadcast on Mutual from 1944 to 1945. Sponsored by Adam Hats, the drama is notable in part because it was a sister series to The Mysterious Traveler, both in theme and its narrator, Maurice Tarplin, who was also the creepy voice of the Mysterious Traveler. Many of…
Suspense, the Radio Series
The radio show, Suspense, May be the best radio program that you’ve never heard. During the show’s nearly twenty years on the air it featured some of the biggest names on radio and in the movies, and the whos who of writers. Here are several Suspense showss you can enjoy listening to right now. You…
The Shadow Radio Show with Orson Welles
It doesn’t happen that often that a cultural icon plays a \”genre\” role, and in the 1930’s it probably happened even less. But before a certain well-documented Martian Invasion rocketed him to fame and a contract with RKO, a 22 year-old Orson Welles funded his theatrical productions with radio work, including a year on the…