“INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES” Multi-Episode Marathon 04 #WeirdDarkness #RetroRadio
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 304 minutes
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Summary
A creaking door and a chorus of haunting organ music. No radio show opening is more memorable for many fans than the one heard on Inner Sanctum Mysteries. This disturbing simple salvo led people into thirty minutes of suspense and horror sprinkled with puns from a creepy host, all of which can now be heard again in sparkling audio quality from Radio Archives.Inner Sanctum Mysteries was the brainchild of producer Himan Brown, inspired by the unsettling creaking door in the basement of a studio where he once worked. Brown took that inspiration and built around it a formula that lived on beyond the show itself. Listeners tuned in every week to hear that door open and be welcomed by the sinister, yet often humorous host to join him in a chair near the fire inside the Inner Sanctum for a story sure to chill them to the bone.Stories on Inner Sanctum Mysteries originally included both classic and original tales, the new stories taking center stage as the show continued. With writers like pulp scribes Emile Tepperman and Robert Newman, as well as Robert Sloan, Milton Lewis, and others, it is little surprise that Inner Sanctum is still beloved by fans today. Utilizing numerous clichés and literary devices, Inner Sanctum Mysteries carried listeners into the heart of horror, a liberal dose of camp often thrown in. Using voices ranging from star Boris Karloff to a veteran crew of New York radio actors, Inner Sanctum set the standard for horror programs both on radio and even inspired decades of horror hosts on television.Inner Sanctum Mysteries features some of the best of fright, terror, and fantastic storytelling old time radio has to offer!
00:00:00.000 = INTRODUCTION
00:01:54.794 = The Amazing Death of Mrs Putnam (January 07, 1941)
00:27:00.637 = Dead Freight (May 18, 1941)
00:51:06.162 = Death is a Joker (May 25, 1941)
01:21:51.610 = Telltale Heart (August 03, 1941)
01:48:28.747 = Hell Is Where You Find It (October 09, 1941)
02:13:42.511 = Man From Yesterday (December 21, 1941)
02:43:08.456 = Terrible Vengeance (June 14, 1942)
03:08:21.322 = Black Seagull (March 07, 1943)
03:38:10.167 = Death Across the Board (June 06, 1943)
04:06:45.922 = The Skull That Walked (April 15, 1944)
04:35:28.785 = Melody of Death (April 22, 1944)
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. The black Museum. |
| 0:45.0 | Museum. |
| 0:46.0 | The affiliated stations present, escape. |
| 0:50.0 | All of majesty. |
| 0:52.0 | Inner sanctum. All of Fadicy Ginner Sanctum Mist. |
| 0:56.0 | Lights out. |
| 0:58.0 | Murder. |
| 1:02.0 | Murder. Murder at Men. |
| 1:05.0 | Min I. |
| 1:07.0 | The Seal Book. |
| 1:10.0 | Present. Sus. Present, suspense, suspense. |
| 1:15.0 | I am the whistler. |
| 1:20.0 | Welcome, weirdos. I'm Darren Marler with another retro radio, old-time radio in the dark |
| 1:27.3 | marathon presented by the Weird Darkness Podcast. In each episode I bring you shows from the Golden Age of radio but still in the genre of weird darkness |
| 1:36.5 | I have stories of the macabre and horror mysteries and crime and even some dark science fiction. |
| 1:43.0 | If you're new here, welcome to the show and be sure to subscribe or follow the podcast |
| 1:47.8 | so you don't miss future episodes. |
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| 1:55.8 | Spreading the word about the show helps it to grow. |
| 1:58.4 | If you're here because you're already a fan of nostalgic audio in print, you'll want to email |
| 2:02.3 | Weird Darkness at radio archives. |
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