“INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES” Multi-Episode Marathon 10 #WeirdDarkness #RetroRadio
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 331 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!
YOUTUBE TIME STAMPS...
00:00:00.000 = INTRODUCTION
00:01:54.794 = Over My Dead Body (June 23, 1947)
00:26:33.106 = Till Death Do Us Part (October 27, 1947)
00:55:25.238 = Death Out Of Mind (December 29, 1947)
01:19:37.154 = Tempo In Blood (January 12, 1948)
01:44:00.097 = Magic Tile (March 08, 1948)
02:08:12.114 = Lady Killer (March 29, 1948)\
02:32:40.929 = The Corpse Laughs Last (June 28, 1948)
02:58:18.135 = Death Demon (July 05, 1948)
03:28:00.959 = Eyes Of My Murderer (July 19, 1948)
03:53:29.093 = Murder Takes A Honeymoon (July 26, 1948)
04:17:39.242 = Murder Ship (August 02, 1948)
04:42:54.281 = House Of Doom: AFR Version (August 09, 1948)
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
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| 0:00.0 | Strange Creatures |
| 0:02.0 | Cretches, gruesome murders, oozing organisms, unfathomable abductions, |
| 0:09.0 | enigmatic expeditions, |
| 0:11.0 | Anage-old malevolence, and much more. |
| 0:15.0 | Author J.C. Moore delivers a collection of dark horror tales that are both chilling and |
| 0:19.9 | poignant. |
| 0:21.4 | Dark intrigues, book one, is filled with horror fiction for fans of short story anthologies, |
| 0:27.0 | horror collections, ghost fiction, suspense,ession, and More. |
| 0:32.8 | Dark Intrigues Book 1 by J.C. Moore, available on Kindle or as an audiobook narrated |
| 0:38.9 | by Darren Marler. |
| 0:40.4 | Find Dark Intrigues Book 1 on the audiobooks page at Weird Darkness.com. |
| 0:45.0 | That's Weird Darkness.com slash audiobooks. |
| 0:49.0 | Hey weirdos, show what brings you here? |
| 0:55.6 | Our next Weirdo Watch Party is this Saturday, May 4th. |
| 0:59.0 | But don't go too far. |
| 1:00.0 | This Saturday night, Dario Evil and his mausoleum of terror present Boris Karloff in 1971's |
| 1:06.7 | Isle of the Snake People. |
| 1:08.9 | Or just Snake People, it depends on which poster you're looking at. |
| 1:13.0 | It's neither here nor there. |
| 1:14.0 | An evil scientist runs an army of LSD crazed zombies. |
| 1:18.0 | Come at my laboratory. |
| 1:20.0 | I'd like to show you something. |
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