The Ghost of Radio

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to the Cauldron and your Ghost of Radio, who bring you this week the far-flung tale "Bring Back Her Bones", from the series The Creaking Door .  Another South African series from the mid-60s, this one setting a story in Haiti... what could go wrong? File under: drum or drum machine? See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com...

Click here to text your Ghost It's a special day here at the Cauldron, for the Ghost of Radio has pulled a plum out of it: Lord Marley's Guest, by Lights Out, Everybody .  A favorite in your Ghost's pantheon of episodes, it's guaranteed to remind or convince you of the joys of midcentury horror radio; File under: strange weather we're having See you soon... Contact your Gh...

Click here to text your Ghost You have returned to your Ghost to walk with it through a house haunted only by questions about unclear motives and bad American accents. Why do these things have to happen? Come in to discuss and dissect this week's episode, from the mid-sixties South African series Beyond Midnight . File under: never say Kitten again See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcen...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome to this week's episode from your Ghost of Radio - a well-traveled mystery called "They Who Sleep". Look deep into my eyes and repeat, "I will be happy, I will be happy..." File under: how to be a great sister-in-law See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o&apo...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to The Ghost of Radio, who has a tale of witchcraft and irritating marital spats to share with you, from The CBS Radio Mystery Theater . "The Young Die Good" is a claim open to dispute until we decide what's true. File under: what is it about the boy next door? See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghos...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to your Ghost of Radio, who brings you "The Sisters" this time, from Suspense!   The great Ida Lupino matched with the epic Agnes Moorhead--what could go wrong? File under: what happens to David? See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'clock drop...

Click here to text your Ghost This week your Ghost welcomes you into the small dark room of your soul, turns a bright light on a corner where Quiet Please is lurking and asks, ever murdered someone?   File under: ...are you sure? See  you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'clock drop...

Click here to text your Ghost It's time for your Ghost to haunt you with your first series, this on tracking sexism fails in six episodes of Suspense! Want to enjoy the show, but feel like you're being targeted? You may be on to something there. File under: exactly which things don't ever change? See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradi...

Click here to text your Ghost The Ghost requests that you come to their mansion to talk about this week's episode--Murder Castle from Lights Out Everybody--and be sure bring your suitcase full of bonds, will you? File under: taking care of business in a business-like way See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'...

Click here to text your Ghost Do you enjoy the words "freshly dug"? Then step right in and lie down in your readied grave as we turn our attention to The Inner Sanctum . Tea optional. File under: no, Raymond , no! See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'clock drop...

Click here to text your Ghost Fly away from and into disaster with your Ghost of Radio as we consider another Quiet, Please episode--"Very Unimportant Person". File under: keep horror on the radio and out of reality See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'clock drop...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome! Right down this alleyway is Ep 13 - The Devil's Boutique, from The CBS Radio Mystery Theater .  Better come in now; it may not be here later. File under: cheaters never prosper See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'clock drop...

Click here to text your Ghost Taking a trip to Ep 12 with the lesser-known series Theater Five . Don't judge a series by its short life: like your Ghost, this tale is unnerving from the word go. File under: Roberts' Rules of Order See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'clock drop...

Click here to text your Ghost Some midcentury radio shows go down in history--this is one.  It inspired Stephen King to be a horror writer. It appears on every "scariest story" list at Halloween. From August 9, 1948, your Ghost gives you "The Thing on the Fourble Board", from the classic epic horrific series Quiet, Please. File under: don't sit down. See you soon... Contac...

Click here to text your Ghost It's Ep 10 from your Ghost, bringing you a Lights Out story from the Cauldron.  Do you like roses? Do you wish someone would create the perfect rose? File under: never throw out the extra. See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'clock drop...

Click here to text your Ghost Ever heard of Agnes Moorhead? She was the greatest female horror radio actor of the 20th century.  Ever heard people talk about her greatest episode, where she's on the phone the whole time? Sorry, wrong episode. Agnes Moorhead's greatest episode was the one your Ghost is about to unfold for you: The Trap. File under: too believable to bear See you soon... C...

Click here to text your Ghost Ever heard of "The Well of the Skies"? You'll wish you hadn't. Join your Ghost for an episode from the great series Quiet, Please and learn about the end of the world coming tomorrow afternoon. File under: they're coming See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'c...

Click here to text your Ghost Ready for a walk in the woods to see some granite outcrops covered in glacial markings? ...Ready to see the face of death? Come with your Ghost to the world of Lights Out Everybody, where it is indeed lights out for a group of would-be nature lovers. File under: you'll wish they'd seen flowers See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com ...

Click here to text your Ghost Come with your Ghost to a "well-furnished" apartment somewhere in the South for another episode involving devil dating. Will Satan get to third base with yet another human lady--or her sister?  File under: don't date devils See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'clock dr...

Click here to text your Ghost Improve on Agatha Christie? Yes.  Join your Ghost for a Suspense episode that delivers self-alienation, scary nightingales, and the creepiest of creepy Orson Welles characters. See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'clock drop...

Click here to text your Ghost This time, it's The Devil's Workshop, from Inner Sanctum, in which we find out what happens when the Devil gets a plastic face from a jerk named Tony. File under: Devil dating See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'clock drop...

Click here to text your Ghost From Suspense! the longest-running horror radio program in the U.S.  Go listen to "On a Country Road" somewhere online, and return ready to drive all over it with your Ghost.  File under: Sometimes, suspense sucks... See you soon. Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'clock drop...

Click here to text your Ghost Lights Out Everybody = gold standard of horror radio. Morality play, revenge cycle, hatred, antipathy, and inhumanity. It's wartime Lights Out and the horror is not reserved to radio--it's out there in the real world.  Go listen to They Met at Dorset somewhere online, then return here to meet your Ghost for a journey to England, WWII. See you soon... Contact...

Click here to text your Ghost Tales of horror and the supernatural used to rule American radio waves. But why? The Ghost of Radio is here to tell you.  Join the Ghost for exploration, appreciation, and sometimes merciless critique of all things horror radio in this weekly podcast.  Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com  Instagram @ghostofradio - always look for the five o'clock drop...