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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to Cauldronside and your Ghost of Radio, who always has something midcentury horror radio waiting for you. This week, The Ghost hopes you're ready for an extremely wild ride: it's "My Son John", from our oldest friend Quiet Please . So if you think you're ready, listen in. Are you ready? File under: you're not ready See you s...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to Cauldronside and The Ghost of Radio, where we discover and dissect all things midcentury horror radio. This week our hiding place is "Evening Primrose", from the series Escape .  Featuring some real-world horror we'd rather not encounter, if you're ready. File under: people who hide pay the price See you soon... Contact yo...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to Cauldronside, where midcentury horror radio never dies. This week, we walk with "He Who Follows Me", from The Hall of Fantasy.   You know how we like an episode with two endings? Maybe that's only because we've never heard one with three endings before. Now's our chance--if we'll take it. File under: it's th...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to Cauldronside, where midcentury horror lives and breathes and swims in a sea of our anticipation. This week, it's a simple fishing story from The Price of Fear called, of course, "Fish".  Nothing to fear from your genial friend Vincent, right? He would never let you come into harm's way... ? File under: simple stories are t...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome to The Ghost of Radio and to the Cauldron filled with midcentury horror radio episodes. What do we pull out at random this week? "Behind the Locked Door",  from The Mysterious Traveler .  Another story of ancient evil? or something truly different, something actually horrifying? You'll be the judge. File under: actual horror See you so...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to Cauldronside, where we imbibe midcentury horror radio at its best, worst, and irritatingest. What will we get this week? Well, the episode is "Death Robbery",  from a show calling itself Lights Out --but we'll see about that.  Ready to explore multiple horrors? You'll need to be. File under: don't bring back the dead...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to the Cauldron of midcentury horror radio that is The Ghost of Radio. What horror will we experience this week? "The Thing in the Window", from the series Suspense .  Just a word of advice--the window is not the one across the street. It's the one you're standing in. File under: a very interesting monster indeed See you soon... Contac...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back, seekers of midcentury horror radio--you're always welcome around the Cauldron. This week we're in "The Waiting Room", from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Will it be worth the wait? We won't be the only ones asking that question; we'll be in sizable (f not good ) company as we look for an answer. File under: plagiarism is a c...

Click here to text your Ghost Hang on to your hats this week as we gather around three different Cauldrons: two filled with midcentury horror radio, and one... well, one that we know we ought to understand, but can't quite get. It's "A Mile High and a Mile Deep" from the magisterial series Quiet, Please . Not for the faint of heart, or for anyone who doesn't want to acknow...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to Cauldron-side, where we explore midcentury horror radio at its best and worst and in-betweenest. This week, it's "The Man Who Liked Dickens," from the series Suspense .  Where will it fall on our sliding scale of horror? That's for you to listen and for us to find out. File under: reading is fundamental(ly frightening) See you soon....

Click here to text your Ghost Back beside the Cauldron for another episode of midcentury horror radio? Always a wise decision, but especially wise this week, as we read through "The Diary of Sophronia Winters" from the series Suspense . Starring the greatest radio voice actor of all time, one of the most famous radio writers of all time, and the highest number of possible interpretations...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to Cauldronside, where The Ghost of Radio is ready to pull out another episode of midcentury horror radio for (y)our approval - but it turns out this time around the Cauldron is a little different: we're going to compare and contrast the ways two different shows told the same story, and judge who wore it best. File under: silly, sick, spook...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome to the Cauldron, where The Ghost of Radio gathers you together once more to pull out an episode of midcentury horror radio to consider. This week, it's "Five Strangers" from the series Theater Five . It promises to be quite a story; let's see if we get all of it. File under: I think the file stopped uploading before it was through...

Click here to text your Ghost Time to welcome you back to the Cauldron for another go-round with midcentury horror radio. This week it's "The Line Is Dead" from Murder at Midnight, a truly "organic" series that we've enjoyed before. Will this week deliver the goods? We'll just have to listen and make that... call... together. File under: lack of curiosity still k...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome to The Ghost of Radio - glad you came to join us around the Cauldron of midcentury horror radio episodes we have so lovingly brewed up. This week, we're pulling out "The Evil of Adelaide Winters", from the series Suspense . It's good and evil, it's true and a lie, it's every complicated double-edged sword you can imagine...

Click here to text your Ghost It's Cauldron time again here at The Ghost of Radio, where midcentury horror radio is our bread and butter. This week, we'll be visiting "Lanceford House", from the series Beyond Midnight .  How long will we stay there before we make our choice about whether to bring about our own death--or before the choice is made for us? File under: don't f...

Click here to text your Ghost We're back again at Cauldron-side and pulling out another episode of midcentury horror radio. This time out, it's "Come to the Bank",  from the mighty series Lights Out Everybody . Not found in Top 10 Scariest lists... but it should be. You'll enter this episode, but you won't come back out. File under: who'll come back to save you o...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back once again to the Cauldron of midcentury horror radio episodes carefully tended by your Ghost of Radio. This week, we pull out an episode from the series Macabre called "Final Resting Place." Will we be fans of this fanfic creation? That remains to be seen, to coin a phrase. File under: why does she let the cab go? See you soon... Contact your G...

Click here to text your Ghost It's The Ghost of Radio One Year Anniversary part 2! Hello and welcome to Season 3--a new season that begins with a look back at our first year by sharing your Top Five episodes from Seasons 1 and 2. It's a list full of surprises, so it seems you have mastered the art of surprise and suspense, and your Ghost would expect nothing less. File under: there'...

Click here to text your Ghost It's The Ghost of Radio One Year Anniversary, part 1! How else to celebrate such a milestone than to listen together to the Mercury Theater on the Air present "The War of the Worlds", by H.G. Welles? Listen before you go trick-or-treating... then see if you go. File under: nothing else like it See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail....

Click here to text your Ghost Let's get down to business: it's an intensely frightening episode coming out of the Cauldron this week, and The Ghost of Radio warns you to be prepared as you listen to "The House in Cypress Canyon",  from Suspense .  It's been a source of horror memes since it first aired in 1946, and its impact seems to be eternal, endlessly possessing one l...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to the Ghost of Radio and their Cauldron of midcentury horror radio episodes. This week we'll be taking frozen steps through the episode "Poltergeist", from that series of series, Lights Out Everybody . Beware your own perception of real and fake, truth and consequences, because no path through the forest is ever safe. File under: did those...

Click here to text your Ghost It's welcome back to the Cauldron, where we have another particularly resonant episode of midcentury horror radio to share in: "Little Visitor", from the epic series Quiet, Please . What other series could tell a tale so subtly unnerving and unpleasant? Just right for we who gather at Cauldron-side. File under: all of the other shows that echo See you s...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to Cauldron-side as we take a turn toward The Line; rest assured that we won't cross it, even as we listen to "The Rats in the Walls", by The Black Mass .  Luckily we trust each other here at The Ghost of Radio to remain on the side of the civilized, and to stay out of the deepest grottoes. File under: actual horror is always worse than ima...

Click here to text your Ghost It's Cauldron time again here at The Ghost of Radio, and this week's dive into midcentury horror radio is "Spawn of the Subhuman",  from the series Dark Fantasy .  We're going to play a little drinking game this week--you'll figure out what it is; whenever you hear a certain repeated MCHR meme, take a drink. But not out of the Cauldron! T...