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The Secret History Of Hollywood

A Universe Of Horrors

The Secret History Of Hollywood

Adam Roche

Tv & Film, Film History

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Especially for Halloween Month... Delving deep into the darkest corners of horror movies this series explores the highs and lows of the blood and gore genre following, in particular, the changing fortunes of Universal Horror. From Dracula and Frankenstein to The Black Cat, a movie that even Universal executives deemed "too vile for public consumption", and beyond to the influences of science fiction and the new breed of horror films... To gain instant access to the entire series, along with twelve more full length multi-hour series' on Hollywood and its history, sign up now at https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time. They'll be on it all the time. He could walk to school by himself. She could see something, she shouldn't. He could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls. They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet. So, should I give my kid a phone?

0:22.5

Growing up with phones isn't always easy.

0:24.6

Introducing EEE safer Sims.

0:28.3

Sims that help moderate usage and shield harmful content on any smartphone.

0:29.9

Choose EEC for Sims.

0:31.9

Only on the UK's best network.

0:34.5

To verify best network see E.e.com.uk slash claims. This newly mastered version of a universe of horrors is one of 12 series of the secret history of Hollywood.

0:42.0

New episodes are being written and created all the time.

0:45.8

If you'd like full access to every drama, every thrill, every story, then sign up now

0:51.5

at patreon.com slash ataboy's secret or follow the link in the show notes of this episode

0:58.4

and thank you how do you do mr car limelay feels it would be a little unkind to present this picture

1:06.6

without just a word of friendly warning he is one of the strangest tales ever told. It deals with

1:13.1

the two great mysteries of creation, life and death. I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even horrify it. So if any of you feel that

1:30.3

you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now is your chance to, well,

1:38.3

we've warned you. On a busy Chicago Street one summer in 1905, a 30-year-old man named Carl was taking a break outside the dry goods store he'd been managing for 12 years.

2:08.7

Carl was a firm believer in the American dream. He traveled from a now-disappeared land called the Kingdom of Wurttemberg at the age of 17, and while work had been easy to find,

2:15.0

he wasn't satisfied with the life he'd carved out for himself so far.

2:20.5

He'd been saving his money for years, sending a little home to his family now and then,

2:25.3

and had always planned on buying his own dry goods store,

2:28.5

and expanding it into an empire he could call his own.

2:32.2

However, the world of dry goods just didn't hold a sparkling

2:36.5

allure for Carl anymore. He was beginning to feel lost. But then something across the bustling

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