Golden Age Radio Horror

Just like today, the Golden Age of radio took place at a scary time in the world. Radio was there to help cathartically. Matthew suggested this topic on Facebook. We are on Twitter @HalloweenHaunt. Find more at TheHalloweenHaunt.com.

Learn more about “Lights Out,” “The Witch’s Tale,” and “Suspense” from Wikipedia. Website The Art of Manliness, OTR Cat, The Nitrate Diva and The AV Club/Aux have some of their favorite spooky shows. And OTR Cat has more on classic horror drama. Did I mention “The Horror” podcast? Yes, I did.

Music:

“The Horrors” and “Mischief Night” by Sam Haynes from “Something Wicked 2 – Royalty Free Halloween and Horror Soundtrack Music Youtube Podsafe Copyright Free”

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“The War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast

In this special extra-sized edition, we go back 70 years to a simpler, scarier time when people believed it just might be possible aliens from Mars would attack us.  It created quite a stir.  What Halloween hoaxes do you want us to look at?  Let us know at HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com.

Also, don’t forget to listen to the episode on Ghosts….

War-of-the-Worlds.org has everything on all forms of WotW.

Wikipedia has a lot of information for you to examine.

RelicRadio.org presents one of our favorite podcasts, The Horror!, which once presented the entire program (this taken from their Orson Welles: On the Air podcast)

Music:

“Twilight Realm” by Twilight Productions (from Soundclick.com)

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