Scott's Old Time Radio

A short story I recorded back in 2018 on Librivox. Part of the Short Ghost and Horror Collection Vol 013. "The Empty House" is a famous ghost story by the British author Algernon Blackwood. The short story was first collected in the 1906 anthology The Empty House and Other Stories. In the story, a man accompanies his adventurous aunt to a notorious house where, a century ago, a servant was murdere...

Adaptation of a story by one of the Masters of Horror, Bram Stoker, Author of the classic "Dracula" Original Airdate: September 25, 1981 Episode 1245 "The Judge's House" Original Story by Bram Stoker Adapted by George Lowther Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall Two writers rent a house in the English countryside despite the warning of the local villagers that the house is haunted by the sp...

Original Airdate: May 13, 1974 Episode 0090 "The Lodger" Original Story by George Lowther Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall The widowed owner of a boarding house fears that one of her tenants might be a serial killer.(Jack the Ripper type). He leaves messages in lipstick at each murder scene. The fates, they say, weave the pattern of our lives. Some there are who believe that whatever ha...

Original Airdate: May 09, 1974 Episode 0089 "A Tiny Drop of Poison" Original Story by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A former hippie radical, now a respected politician, suffers guilt for a murder she committed 5 years prior. Her husband, a detective, has been assigned the cold case. Welcome to another world. A world of suspense. A world of the unexpected. And a world where f...

Original Airdate: May 08, 1974 Episode 0088 "The Breaking Point" Original Story by Hank Warner Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A scientist discovers how to project his thoughts. He targets his wife's subconscious to influence her to murder -- him! Welcome to another hour of mystery and suspense. To a terrifying experiment in supernatural power. An experiment by a retired scientist to d...

Original Airdate: May 07, 1974 Episode 0087 "The Suicide Club" Original Story by Robert Lewis Stevenson Adapted by George Lowther Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A high stakes gambler joins a club where he may be asked to commit someone else's murder, or be forced to commit suicide Himself. Fear, it may be said, is a malignancy which, once the seed is sown in the human soul, spreads li...

Original Airdate: May 06, 1974 Episode 0086 "Murder With Malice" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall An son who hates his father attempts to hypnotize his sister to carry out the murder. In 1843, a Dr. James Braid of Manchester developed the art of being able to produce trance sleep. Of course, he was not the first. That honor belonged to Friedrich Anton Mesmer...

Original Airdate May 02, 1974 Episode 0085 "Dracula" Written by Bram Stoker, Adapted by George Lowther, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall An adaptation of the original novel by Bram Stoker. Vampire. Perhaps in the safety of your home, the word means little to you. Oh, you've heard of vampires, of course. But do you believe that they exist? Not you. Well, all I can say is Mina Harker did...

Original Airdate: May 01, 1974 Episode 0084 "The Death Bell" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall There is a green land called the Emerald Isle, where stardust dapples shining lakes that sparkle against blue mountains which fall away to winding bays. But there are darker sides to Ireland currents that run deep a wasting bitter civil war in the north and everywhe...

Original Airdate: April 30, 1974 Episode 0083 "The Venus D'Ille" Original Story by Prosper Merimee, Adapted by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall A down on his luck gambler marries for money. However, when he carelessly places the ring on a statue, he finds himself betrothed to a goddess. The Romans called her Venus. The Greeks knew her as Aphrodite. To other ancient peoples she...

Original Airdate: April 29, 1974 Episode 0082 "All Living Things Must Die" Original Story by Elsbeth Eric, Directed by Himan Brown, Hosted by EG Marshall A lonely woman is left with just the houseplants for her company under the rules of her tyrannic husband. But he goes too far in trying to take even the plants away from her and the vegetation isn't willing to comply. I want very much to tell you...

Original Airdate: April 25, 1974 Episode 0081 "Sunset To Sunrise" Original Story by Elspeth Eric Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall Following the death of her domineering and mean-spirited mother, a grieving daughter struggles with growing suspicions that the deceased woman has become a vampire. Welcome to another adventure into the incomprehensible. I like to think of myself as a thinkin...

Original Airdate: April 24, 1974 Episode 0080 "The Hand" Original Story by Guy de Maupassant Adapted by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallWelcome to the world of eerie imagination. The fear you can hear. Vendetta the very word itself invokes dread and strikes a mood of brooding terror But to live on the island of Corsica home of the vendetta is to be steeped in the tradition of...

Original Airdate: April 23, 1974 Episode 0079 "The Ghost Driver" Written by George Lowther Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall Anxious to get away from the city, a couple purchase an old mansion in the Colorado Rockies with the intention of turning it into a ski resort, against the warnings of a former owner who claims that her dead husband's ghost has driven former purchasers off the clif...

Original Airdate: April 22, 1974 Episode 0078 "The Wishing Stone" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall CBS for Seattle, this is KIXI with the time now is six minutes past 11. Welcome to the world of terrifying imagination. The fear you can hear. Somebody said it, I believe, or if he didn't he should have. The world is neither good nor bad. Tis wishing makes it s...

Original Airdate: April 18, 1974 Episode 0077 "A Portrait of Death" *****(Same Title as Episode 0337, But Different Story)***** Original Story by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall An artist who is renown for his portraits has the misfortune of having his models die shortly after he completes their painting. His next subject: his sister in law which causes his brother much anguis...

Original Airdate: April 17, 1974 Episode 0076 "The Horror Within" Original Story by Milt Wisoff Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall Following the death of his parents, a young man prays for special powers to prevent future pain and suffering in the world. But as his faith weakens, his desire to use the powers grows. Welcome to the terrifying world of your own imagination. There are many fe...

Original Airdate: April 16, 1974 Episode 0075 "Men Without Mouths" Original Story by Henry Slesar Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A mobster takes in the daughter of a dead compatriot and raises her as his own. As he approaches his twilight years, he's haunted by visions of creatures without mouths. His adopted daughter son-in-law try to help him. Welcome to another Fearful Earful. And...

Original Airdate: April 15, 1974 Episode 0074 "Only The Dead Remember" Original Story by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall War buddies conspire to kill the fellow former POW who ratted out their escape attempt from a Korean POW camp. They want to avenge the death of one of their own 20 years after the war's end. Justice. The noblest creation and the highest ideal of man the foun...

Original Airdate: April 11, 1974 Episode 0073 "Strange Company" Original Story by Bob Juhren Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall An old woman with a large stash of money is tormented by visitors who no one else can see. Her nephew and his wife are unsympathetic and use the occurrences to slowly rob her. Sit back and lend us your imagination for a while. We'll do some remarkable things with...

Original Airdate: April 10, 1974 Episode 0072 "Out of Focus" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall An advertising professional makes futile attempts to take the pictures of a beautiful model as all her photos turn out blank. In the process, he falls hopelessly in love with her until her real nature is revealed. All of us daydream. It seems a harmless enough way o...

Original Airdate: April 09, 1974 Episode 0071 "The Murder Museum" Original Story by Henry Slesar Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A museum dedicated to criminals becomes the scene of the retelling of a real murder when the relative of one of the "exhibits" protests his placement in the museum. You're about to be taken on an unusual museum tour. There won't be any Mona Lisa's on this tou...

Original Airdate: April 08, 1974 Episode 0070 "The Locked Room" Original Story by Henry Slesar Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A bride's mother plays villain in the life of a newly wed couple. She is convinced the boy has married her not-too-beautiful daughter simply for her wealth and plans a nasty surprise for him. This is a tale of young love. The love of a charming young man for a...

Original Airdate: April 03, 1974 Episode 0068 "Die! You're On Magic Camera" Original Story by Murray Burnett Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall An aspiring photographer obtains a special camera that takes photographs of future events. He soon finds that the people who made the camera want it back. So do those whom were photographed. Welcome into my world where things are even stranger tha...

Original Airdate: April 02, 1974 Episode 0067 "The Pharaoh's Curse" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall An archeologist and a songstress unearth valuable jewels, artifacts and a curse in an Egyptian tomb. For the four centuries before Christ, a remarkable combination of priests and monarchs established one of the most astonishing cultures in the world. The rule...