Danse Macabre by The Columbia Workshop

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🗓️ 22 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Our Strange Tale comes from the Columbia Workshop this week. From March 21, 1937, here’s Danse Macabre. Listen to more from The Columbia Workshop https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales844.mp3 Download StrangeTales844 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Strange Tales Relic Radio is funded solely by listener donations. If you would like to help support it, visit Donate.RelicRadio.com for more information. Thank you.

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0:00.0	Strange Tales
0:02.0	RELES
0:03.0	Relicradio.
0:20.0	Relic Radio.com presents tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked.
0:26.2	Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.
0:35.1	Join us now for Strange Tales, featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.
1:03.9	Music This week on Strange Tales, we travel back to March 21, 1937.
1:08.2	For an episode from the Columbia Workshop titled Dance Macab,
1:17.7	the series aired over CBS for 11 years, July 1936 to April of 1947, and created 370 episodes. Music The direction of Irving Rees.
1:40.1	The direction of Irving Rees. Dance Dance Macomb It is midnight.
2:03.6	It is midnight.
2:22.9	In his twilight graveyard world, death sits, alone with his mistung silent tombs.
2:31.5	The chill night wind moans in the linden trees. The shades of shadows flee each other
2:37.9	in the ghostly gloom. And death makes music on his violin, striking his heels against a
2:44.7	hollow tomb. Death's fingers pluck the vibrant strings. His tune is now an airy dance,
2:52.1	and now a plaintive dirge,
2:54.3	the doleful cadence echoed by the mournful wind.
2:58.0	The gone trees in the gravestones
3:00.1	silently attend the fandom concert
3:02.1	in the world of night.
3:04.6	I cannot play.
3:06.8	I am lonely
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