Old-Time Radio's Greatest Mysteries - Including "The Shadow", "Escape", "Inner Sactum Mysteries" and "The Mysterious Traveler" [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Orson Wells (Contributor), Ben Morris (Contributor), Peter Lorre (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1998

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear! Pull the covers up close and be chilled to sixty 30-minute old-time radio mystery programs, complete and unedited on twenty 90-minute cassettes. A full 30 hours of horrific fun! The Black Museum The Chain 1952 Canvas Bag 1952 The Mandolin String 1952 The Clock Nicky 03-04-48 Bad Dreams 04-25-48 Bank Holiday 04-30-48 Crime Classics If a Body Need a Body, Just Call Burke & Hare 12-02-53 The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 12-09-53 John and Judith: Their Crime and Why They Didn't Get to Enjoy It 12-16-53 The Crime Club Silent Witnesses 03-27-47 Sun Is a Witness 04-03-47 Murder on Margin 05-22-47 Dark Fantasy Death Is a Savage Deity 01-30-42 The Sea Phantom 02-06-42 W Is for Werewolf 02-13-42 Escape The Killer Mine 02-11-51 The Follower 02-18-51 The Island 07-11-51 The Haunting Hour Murder Wears a Strange Mask 1940s No Escape 1940s 'Til Murder Do Us Part 1940s Inner Sanctum Mysteries Make Ready My Grave 04-23-46 Murder Faces East 12-13-48 Between Two Worlds 12-20-48 Lights Out Prelude to Murder 06-15-43 Murder Castle 08-03-43 Battle of the Magicians 07-27-46 The Molle Mystery Theatre Make No Mistake 04-30-48 Close Shave 05-14-48 Solo Performance 05-21-48 Murder at Midnight Wherever I Go 10-07-46 Death's Goblet 10-21-46 Dead Hand 05-01-50 The Mysterious Traveler Queen of the Cats 07-02-44 If You Believe 12-29-46 The Lady in Red 05-23-50 Mystery in the Air The Marvelous Barastro 08-07-47 The Horla 08-21-47 Crime and Punishment 09-25-47 Quiet Please Pathetic Fallacy 02-02-48 A Red and White Guidon 02-09-48 Whence Came You? 02-16-48 The Sealed Book Hands of Death 03-18-45 King of the World 03-25-45 Death Spins a Web 04-01-45 The Screen Director's Playhouse The Uninvited 11-18-49 The Spiral Staircase 11-25-49 Dark Mirror 03-31-50 The Shadow Murders in Wax 1938 Aboard the Steamship Amazon 1938 Carnival of Death 11-10-40 Suspense The House on Cypress Canyon 12-05-46 Ghost Hunt 06-23-49 On a Country Road 11-16-50 The Weird Circle The Bride of Death 1945 Markheim 09-29-47 Pistol Shot 1945 The Whistler Witness at the Fountain 09-09-46 The Brass Ring 09-16-46 The Clever Mr. Farley 11-27-49

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Radio Spirits (January 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570191549
• ISBN-13: 978-1570191541
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8.9 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,061,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #20 in Books > Books on Cassette > Radio Shows

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sleuths, Suspense, Scifi, the Supernatural, March 22, 2001

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George R Dekle "Bob Dekle" (Lake City, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Old-Time Radio's Greatest Mysteries - Including "The Shadow", "Escape", "Inner Sactum Mysteries" and "The Mysterious Traveler" (Audio Cassette)

The stories here cover the gamut from true crime to truly incredible. The "Black Museum" and "Crime Classics" do an excellent job of recreating true life crime stories. "Escape" and "Suspense" provide exactly the type of entertainment their titles suggest.

One really interesting story from the "Suspense" cassette was 'Ghost Hunt', which anticipated "The Blair Witch Project" by approximately fifty years. 'The House on Cypress Canyon Road' served up suspense, pathos, and paradox in equal helpings, and is probably my favorite story of the entire collection.

Arch Oboler's "Lights Out" provides three excellent stories, one suspense, one supernatural, and one ('Murder Castle'), with a seemingly preposterous premise. The seemingly silly premise was, however, based on the career of a true life serial killer. "Murder at Midnight", "The Sealed Book", and "Weird Circle" all have campy introductions but creditable stories.

"Mystery in the Air", starring Peter Lorre, was a summer replacement show that dramatized classic stories. "Quiet Please" turned in a couple of good efforts with 'Pathetic Falacy', about a "thinking machine", and 'Red and White Guidon', which started off looking like a misplaced Western but ended up a quite satisfying tale of the supernatural.

The last tape in the collection, "The Whistler", had three excellent stories with captivating surprise endings. In each episode the narrator trumpeted the fact that the story would have a surprise ending, and in spite of that the stories never failed to surprise and delight.

There are some sour notes in the collection, but all in all, I had sixty hours of listening pleasure from this anthology.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than TV, January 3, 2003

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Terry L. Funburg "funny" (Checotah, Oklahoma United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Old-Time Radio's Greatest Mysteries - Including "The Shadow", "Escape", "Inner Sactum Mysteries" and "The Mysterious Traveler" (Audio Cassette)

What a great medium for travel or just to pass the time.I bought this series after listening to old time radio program replays when i could catch them on my car radio.I am from Oklahoma and it was interesting to find that one of the programs that i really enjoyed originated in Oklahoma City.I also enjoyed the commercials which are humorous in todays context but give such a wonderful feel of the bygone era of my parents and grandparents.One commercial concerns sending cigarettes to veterans in a Muskogee,Okla. veterans hospital.I would recommend this series to anyone.It certainly makes a long drive enjoyable and is so much more stimulating and vivid than television.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some of the best of the old radio shows, June 11, 2002

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Brian Reaves (Anniston, AL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Old-Time Radio's Greatest Mysteries - Including "The Shadow", "Escape", "Inner Sactum Mysteries" and "The Mysterious Traveler" (Audio Cassette)

I can't recommend this one highly enough. From Suspense's "Ghost Hunt" (listen to this one with the lights off and see if the chill bumps don't grab you), to "The Uninvited" (which was made into a movie that's just as creepy as this story), to all 3 of the Inner Sanctum Mysteries - there are just too many good ones to highlight them all. I really haven't found a better collection like this yet, and I think you'll love it too. If you haven't been introduced into how good OTR used to be, then this is a great way to be introduced to it.