#RetroRadio “Screen Directors’ Playhouse (1949): The Spiral Staircase” #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: Tonight, it‚Äôs an episode from November 25, 1949 ‚Äì ‚ÄúThe Spiral Staircase‚Äù with Dorothy McGuire who also starred in the film version in 1946, from which this radio adaptation is based. In a small village the¬Ýmute¬ÝHelen attends a¬Ýsilent film¬Ýscreening in the parlor of a local inn. During the screening, a woman staying at the inn is murdered in her room; the latest in a string of killings¬Ýin the community.¬ÝAnd that‚Äôs just how the story begins!
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| 0:37.0 | content in weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners |
| 0:41.0 | and is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:43.0 | Parental discretion is strongly advised. |
| 0:46.0 | The black music. |
| 0:47.0 | The Black Museum. |
| 0:55.0 | Museum. |
| 0:56.0 | The affiliated stations present, escape. |
| 0:59.0 | All of vertices. |
| 1:02.0 | In a sanctum mistakes. |
| 1:07.0 | Lights out. |
| 1:11.0 | Murder. Present, suspense, suspense. |
| 1:25.0 | I am the whistler. |
| 1:30.0 | Welcome, weirdos. I'm Darren Marler, and this is Retro Radio Sunday on Weird Darkness. |
| 1:37.0 | Each week I bring you a show from the Golden Age of Radio, but still in the genre of Weird Darkness. |
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