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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES” Multi-Episode Marathon 06 #WeirdDarkness #RetroRadio

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 310 minutes

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Summary

Get full-length pulp audiobooks, pulp eBooks, and old-time radio shows ABSOLUTELY FREE FOR IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD by emailing WeirdDarkness@RadioArchives.com!
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 = Dead To Rights (May 22, 1945)
00:31:36.515 = Musical Score (May 29, 1945)
01:01:05.169 = Death Across The Board (June 05, 1945)
01:30:43.631 = Portrait of Death (June 12, 1945)
02:00:24.511 = Dead Man’s Holiday (June 19, 1945)
02:29:55.109 = Dead Man’s Debt (June 26, 1945)
02:59:14.586 = Dead Man’s Deal (August 28, 1945)
03:28:53.832 = Murder Prophet (September 04, 1945)
03:58:37.908 = The Last Story (September 11, 1945)
04:22:21.083 = Terror By Night (September 18, 1945)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Our next weirdo watch party is Saturday, April 13th.

0:04.0

Are all the men gathered and all the fools?

0:07.0

We'll be treated to a Roger Corman crap fest from 1958,

0:11.0

Teenage Caveman starring Robert Vaughn.

0:14.0

There are shadows there deep and cold and dirt that eats men.

0:17.0

Did he just say dirt that eats men?

0:19.0

There are shadows there deep and cold and dirt that eats men.

0:22.0

Yep, guess so.

0:24.0

Mistress Malicious and her Mistress Peace Theater will keep us entertained throughout the film

0:28.0

as we watch this caveman teenager with great hair go into the jungle to fight prehistoric monsters like dogs and

0:37.6

and an armadillo whatever they're prehistoric creatures an animal is far more terrible than any you've seen.

0:45.0

Our watch party is always free to watch online,

0:48.0

so grab your popcorn, candy, and soda, and jump into the fun,

0:51.0

and even get involved in the live chat as we watch the movie.

0:54.7

We could make a place to lie down on.

0:56.7

Plus during this weirdo watch party I'll be giving away a creepy crate to one lucky

1:01.2

winner full of scary surprises like horror collectibles, true crime-themed

1:05.8

accessories, books, terrifying trinkets, and more with some weird darkness swag added in.

1:12.0

You won't know what's in the creepy crate until you open it.

1:14.7

Strengthening his courage, his daring, his dreams. And I'll be giving instructions

1:19.7

on how to win the creepy crate inside the chat during the movie so you have to tune in to win.

1:25.9

It's Teenage Caveman Saturday April 13th hosted by Mistress Peace Theater.

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