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HAPPY
HALLOWEEN FROM OTRCAT.com
Halloween is a holiday filled with both sweet treats and macabre fun. Please enjoy these Halloween-themed old time radio shows full of squeaky doors; each episode is a free download from the Halloween Scary Sampler CD. In the minds eye, old time radio horror and mystery shows can conjure the most frightening of scary sensations. We hope you'll enjoy sharing some classic old time radio from OTRCAT.com with your friends and family this holiday!
"Three Skeleton Key" from November 15, 1949
In this classic horror radio show starring William Conrad: at a sleepy lighthouse off the coast of French Guiana, a derelict boat brings a terrorizing invasion of rats. This script was later adapted into a Suspense episode and starred Vincent Price.
"Halloween Party" from September 7, 1958
Starring the comedic Harold Peary: Uncle Mort and family prepare for a halloween party and share tales of mischief. Leroy dresses as Frankenstein and Gildersleeve is hit with a sock full of flour. Judge Hooker, Leila, and Eve Goodwin bob for apples in this classic old time radio Halloween special.
"Wailing Wall" from November 6, 1945
"The cat saw everything with its yellow eyes..." in this classic horror episode sponsored by Lipton Tea: Boris Karloff is a man is haunted for forty years by moans of his strangled wife!
"Pathetic Fallacy" from Feb 2, 1948
The "mechanical electronic brain" of 1948 develops consciousness and acquires emotions: A scientist develops a huge computerized machine capable of solving complex mathematical problems. Computing the value of two plus two, his electronic brain gives an amusing answer of five. As technology becomes more complex, it erases the borderline between what is alive and what is not.
"House in Cypress Canyon "
from Dec 5, 1946
Cathy Lewis and Hans Conried star in this chilling (Christmas) tale: a foreman of a unfinished house on Cypress Canyon finds a shoe box with a manuscript telling a terrifying tale of werewolves.
"Oblong Box " from mid-1940's
From the pen of Edgar Allen Poe, this old time radio show tells the macabre story of an oblong box afloat at sea: the bodies of a "beautiful" woman in a coffin and a man's corpse tied to the top.
"Death Comes at Midnight " from October 18, 1942
You won't want to miss this "prophecy of death": follow a man who has a frightful dream that he is destined to die in 48 hours!
Highlighted OTRCAT Mystery-Horror Special Collections: Special spooky compilations of handpicked Horror and Mystery Old Time Radio Shows:
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Comedians in Suspense - Hear your favorite comedians in ways that you would never expect! |
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Boogeymen in Comedy - Shudder and Laugh! Our favorite Screen Scream stars (Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, and Vincent Price) having fun with our favorite Comics. |
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Apocolypse Collection What's scarier than the end of the world? This collection features duck and cover, plagues, robot attacks, time travel, annihilation, Cold War Speeches, and more! |
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Boo Broadcasts includes shows specifically about ghosts, haunted houses, and eerie sounds in the night. |
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Creepiest Radio Shows Collection - Turn the lights down low and sit as close as you can to your Sweetheart when this scary collection plays! |
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Gothic Horror Collection features creepy shows contrasting the innocent victims with the super evil villains find their home in the theater of the mind. |
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Halloween Scary Sampler has some of the greatest spooky radio shows for the festive season listening. |
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Halloween Variety Specials Collection is a fang-tastic compilations comedic radio Halloween special shows. |
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Haunted House Collection - Haunted houses are a common theme in horror old time radio shows. Radio is the perfect medium for a good haunting story because not seeing the ghost is almost equally as frightening as seeing one. |
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Martians, Aliens, and UFOs is a wonderful science fiction collection with little green men, Martians, and flying saucers. The most memorable in this sub-genre is Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds" in Mercury Theater. |
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Best of Suspense collection contains the hand-picked favorites of OTRCAT. Suspense ran for twenty years and this collection includes over 980 of the classic broadcasts! The Best of Suspense collection is great for people new to the show or long time fans looking for a "greatest hits" of the series. |
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Monster Collection featuring monsters of all shapes and sizes from Dracula, Frankenstein's, zombies, and swamp monsters. There is a long literary and cinematic, and radio history featuring monsters. |
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Robots Collection features another horror sub-genre focusing on Robots and other artificially intelligent creatures. |
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Alfred Hitchcock Collection:includes radio adaptations on Hitchcock's most memorable films, including Spellbound, The Birds, Rebecca, Sorry Wrong Number, and Shadow of a Doubt. |
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Agnes Moorehead: This marvelous actress was much more than Samantha's mom on Bewtcihed; she was part of the backbone of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater and one of the most talented and versatile voices Suspense's and the Golden Age of Radio. |
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Arch Oboler Collection: enjoy the great radio plays in this anthology of the eccentric horror fiction writer Arch Oboler who is best known for pushing the medium of radio in sound production, writing, and programming. |
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Boris Karloff: The original Frankenstein's Monster, Karloff was one of Radio's great Horror and Comic voices. |
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Bela Lugosi: Consistently type cast as The Vampire, Lugosi was an enduring talent who was an entertaining guest on many radio projects. |
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Vincent Price: Mr. Price was one our most prolific native Horror Men, but also an incredible comic talent. And one of Radio's best Soft-boiled Detecties, The Saint. |
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Orson Welles: Responsible for one of Radio's Great Halloween Pranks, Welles career was on of the most creative and prolific in Radio. |
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Peter Lorre: The Hungarian Lisp is one that means Terror for listeners. Lorre became a talented and versatile comic and dramatic Radio Actor. |
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