“INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES” Multi-Episode Marathon 05 #WeirdDarkness #RetroRadio
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 320 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 = Silent Hands (May 13, 1944)
00:27:22.570 = Color Blind Formula (February 06, 1944)
00:54:04.079 = Desert Death (January 09, 1945)
01:23:28.344 = Death Is An Artist (January 23, 1945)
01:53:04.463 = Death In Depths (February 06, 1945)
02:22:41.875 = No Coffin For The Dead (February 20, 1945)
02:51:22.581 = The Bogoak Necklace (April 10, 1945)
03:21:04.222 = Judas Cock (April 17, 1945)
03:51:01.269 = Song Of The Slasher (April 24, 1945)
04:20:17.344 = Girl And The Gallows (May 01, 1945)
04:48:36.847 = Black Art (May 15, 1945)
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| 0:00.0 | Step into the extraordinary with auditory anthology, a podcast series where science fiction short stories come alive. |
| 0:08.0 | Narrated by me, your voice of weird darkness, and curated by Keith Conrad, each episode is a journey into imagination |
| 0:15.2 | explore cosmic wonders and futuristic tales and dive into a universe of stories |
| 0:20.3 | where the impossible is Possible, auditory anthology. |
| 0:24.3 | Available at auditory anthology.com and on Apple, Spotify, or your podcast player of choice. The Black Museum. The affiliated stations present, escape. |
| 0:45.0 | All of that is... |
| 0:48.0 | In a sanctum... |
| 0:51.0 | ... ... |
| 0:52.0 | Lights... Sanctum, this. Lights out. |
| 0:54.0 | Murder. |
| 0:58.0 | At Men. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm not. |
| 1:02.0 | A seal. |
| 1:05.0 | Present. |
| 1:10.0 | Suspends. Suspends. I am the whistler. |
| 1:18.0 | Welcome, weirdos. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm Darren Marler with another retro radio, old time radio in the dark marathon presented by the |
| 1:24.8 | Weird Darkness podcast. In each episode I bring you shows from the Golden Age of |
| 1:29.4 | Radio but still in the genre of weird darkness. I have stories of the macabre and horror, |
| 1:35.4 | mysteries and crime, and even some dark science fiction. If you're new here, welcome to the show, |
| 1:40.8 | and be sure to subscribe or follow the podcast so you don't miss future |
| 1:44.6 | episodes. |
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