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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome to the Cauldron, where The Ghost of Radio presides over a never-ending boil of midcentury horror radio, all for you. This week, we visit "The Island of Lost Souls", from The Creaking Door .  Sound familiar? It may.  Feel prepared for what we'll find there? You may. But remember the cardinal rule of MCHR: take nothing for granted. File under: spe...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome to the Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, presided over by The Ghost of Radio. Together we immerse ourselves in the best and the worst of the genre.  Will we sink this week or will we swim? Let's find out as we explore "The Last Letter of Dr. Bronson", from the series Suspense .  No guarantees, as usual, of your safety, but you'...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome to midcentury horror radio, as served up by The Ghost of Radio. This week, we're ushered into another haunted space as we explore "The Jolly Corner", from the masterful series The Black Mass .  Enter at your own risk, remembering that we all must be wary of the glamour of evil. File under: it has its good and bad sides See you soon... Contact yo...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to The Ghost of Radio, who awaits you each week at the Cauldron of midcentury horror radio. You're here of your own free will, so The Ghost is not responsible for what you may hear this week as we encounter "The Curse of the Mantle", from The Weird Circle .  If there is a curse, we'll bear it together. File under: how many shots? See y...

Click here to text your Ghost You're back at Cauldronside, where The Ghost of Radio throws you into the deep end of midcentury horror radio to see if you sink or swim. This week, you enter the waters of "The Meteor Man", from Lights Out, Everybody .  Mixed metaphor, you say? Take The Ghost's word: you ain't heard nothing yet. File under: doesn't get any deeper See you...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome to The Ghost of Radio, where your Ghost leads you into the deepest and sometimes the darkest of spaces in the world of midcentury horror radio. This week we experience an "Incident at Apogee", from Theater Five .  It set many horror bells ringing in many minds back in 1962, and for at least six years afterward, if you know what we mean. File under: y...

Click here to text your Ghost It's Cauldron time again, and we're gathering round it in our insatiable pursuit of all things midcentury horror radio. This week the Cauldron dishes up "The Kettler Method", from Suspense .  The Ghost of Radio cannot guarantee your reaction to this episode; you'll have to take your chances with the rest of us--the "horror" in "...

Click here to text your Ghost You're in with The Ghost of Radio and into the Cauldron filled with episodes of midcentury horror radio--just where you want to be. This week we find ourselves drawn to "The Paxton's House", courtesy of Beyond Midnight-- that's if we're able to see the house down there in the valley of the glen. If you can't see it, don't worry-...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome to The Ghost of Radio, whose Cauldron boils over with episodes of midcentury horror radio. This week, we'll hear "The Ninth Removal", from The Price of Fear , and wonder once again what is real and what is fantasy and who is just a person and who is something we can't quite define, but we'll try  to define it together. File u...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome to the Cauldron, where The Ghost of Radio is serving midcentury horror radio, in every conceivable way. This week we're reaching in and pulling out "If I Should Wake Before I Die", from the inimitable series Quiet, Please .  It's not for the faint of heart. Lucky for you you have your Ghost to get you through it. File under: our minds on th...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to Cauldronside, where The Ghost of Radio is always serving midcentury horror radio. This time, we're exploring a meme of said MCHR so atrocious, so terrible, that it's scarier than any episode could ever be. You'll have to listen in to find out what it is, but be warned--it's not for the faint of heart. File under: [insert name here]...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome to The Ghost of Radio and our shared podcast. What's boiling in the Cauldron of midcentury horror radio today? It's "The Noon Stars", from the series Theater Five . Always a dangerous mix of good and bad on T5--always risky. You're very lucky to have your Ghost to guide you through this one; hopefully we'll have a starti...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back, to this our shared podcast and Cauldron and shipping of midcentury horror radio. We're all in this together, and this week we lie down all together in "A Terribly Strange Bed", from the series Suspense .  Anything with "terrible" in the title has to be good, right? in the world of horror? Let's hope so. File under: if only i...

Click here to text your Ghost You're back again, for another round of midcentury horror radio straight from the Cauldron, delivered by The Ghost. This week, it's "House of Doom", from ...a little show called The Inner Sanctum . Ever heard of it? Prepare to have your expectations annihilated by a truly unnerving story that delivers, over and over again. File under: a not-to-be-l...

Click here to text your Ghost  Hello Cauldronites--welcome back to the unforgiving and heartless world of midcentury horror radio. Don't be afraid--your Ghost is with you. Not an iron-clad guaranty of your safety, but at least you won't suffer alone. This week, we suffer "Subbasement", from the epic series Lights Out, Everybody .  Will this episode deliver, or is it really late...

Click here to text your Ghost It's Cauldron time again here with The Ghost of Radio, as we offer you another very close encounter with midcentury horror radio. This week? It's "The Sixth Button", from the show The Haunting Hour .  A promising tale of revenge from beyond the grave all ready for us to make sense of together, if we dare. File under: broken promises See you soon......

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to The Ghost of Radio and our Cauldron full of midcentury horror radio episodes to dive into. This week your Ghost guides you into the waters  of "Wet Saturday", from the series Suspense,  until you're right up to your neck in it. It's sink or swim after that--no guarantees of a return to the shore. File under: two tables turning See y...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome--to the Cauldron, The Ghost, and the start of season 4. Midcentury horror radio never had it so good! This week, we turn our attention to "The Crawling Thing", from the series The Hall of Fantasy, which offers horror upon horror, as any good episode should. Will it be enough to make us forget how HOF begins and ends? We'll see--togethe...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to the Cauldron and The Ghost of Radio, your guide and reliable narrator for all things midcentury horror radio. This week, The Ghost forces you to join them on a "Weekend", from the series Macabre .  Golf, tennis, and fun-making, children, until the imagination takes over and who knows what may appear. File under: inspiration fades in...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to the Cauldron of midcentury horror radio episodes that fuels our conversation, debate, and enjoyment each week. This time around, we're comparing and contrasting two versions of the same story, "The Burning Court", that were broadcast three years apart on the series Suspense . Who wore it best? Come with us on our journey of exp...

Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to Cauldronside, where The Ghost of Radio awaits you. You're here of your own free will, right? You're not being drawn back here against your will by some force you can't explain or describe? Good--we wouldn't have it any other way. But "Stephanie's Room", from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater , feels otherwise. File under:...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome to the Cauldron of midcentury horror radio! When we dive in, we never know where, when, or whether we will come up again. This week, we dive into "Banquo's Chair", from the series Suspense,  where the question is not whether ghosts exist, but whether they do their work properly. And, perhaps, whether they are always the scariest entity...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to Cauldronside, where midcentury horror radio reigns supreme. We gather, listen, and make sense of a different episode each week, and this week it's the end-- "The Author and the Thing", from Lights Out Everybody .  Lights Out always did like a good end of the world story, and this time Arch pulled out all the stops... too many s...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to Cauldronside, where we explore midcentury horror radio, the best, the worst, and all points in between. Where do we land this week? You'll see. It's "Three Skeleton Key", from the series Escape .  And just a warning not to listen if you can't handle sudden... silence. File under: beware  old friends appearing in their...

Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome to The Cauldron, hosted by The Ghost of Radio, where midcentury horror radio lives on and on. This week, we're exploring one of the most frightening aspects of MCHR--failure to frighten. Yes, it's episodes that leave you saying incredulously, "But there was no plot!" We'll break down four of them before they break us down. Fi...