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Spooky Tunes for a Swinging Halloween
As of now, we’re all spooks all the time here at Cladrite Radio. We’re playing nothing but songs about murder and mayhem, ghosts and goblins, but the ghoulish fun ends soon, so listen while you can.
Speaking of Halloween on the radio, OTRCat.com, purveyors of old-time radio programs, are offering an assortment of spooky shows free of charge (they offer many more collections of shows that you can pay for, if you’re so inclined). The free shows run the gamut from adventure to mystery, horror—even comedy.
Here’s a sample program, an episode of Inner Sanctum starring none other than Boris Karloff.
Inner Sanctum: “Wailing Wall” (first aired November 6, 1945; 27 min, 7 sec.)
Make Mine Swinging—and Spooky
As of now, we’re all spooks all the time here at Cladrite Radio. We’re playing nothing but songs about murder and mayhem, ghosts and goblins, but the ghoulish fun ends soon, so listen while you can.
Speaking of Halloween on the radio, OTRCat.com, purveyors of old-time radio programs, are offering an assortment of spooky shows free of charge (they offer many more collections of shows that you can pay for, if you’re so inclined). The free shows run the gamut from adventure to mystery, horror—even comedy.
Here’s a sample program, an episode of Inner Sanctum starring none other than Boris Karloff.
Inner Sanctum: “Wailing Wall” (first aired November 6, 1945; 27 min, 7 sec.)
Thrills and chills, at no cost to you
Halloween is upon us, a time when we’re reminded that sometimes less is more, that suggestion can sometimes be more effective than graphic representation.
Which is why we appreciate that the good folks over at OTRcat.com are again offering free streams and downloads of a handful of old-time radio programs, each with a Halloween theme. No graphic violence or gore for us, please. We prefer to shudder in our seat due to a sense of creeping dread rather than leap out of it in reaction to some shocking bit of cinematic violence.
Here are horror and mystery programs—Inner Sanctum, Quiet Please, and Suspense, among others—and even an episode of the popular comedy show The Great Gildersleeve.
And if you find listening to these few frightening offerings whets your appetite for more, now’s the time to take the leap, as the folks at OTRcat are offering their collections of scary programs at 20% off. We’re not certain just how long the savings will last, so hurry over.
We’ll share with you one of our favorites among the programs available at the site, an episode of The Whistler, a series that ran from 1942 until 1955 and was adapted into a movie series starring Richard Dix.
As we’ve said before, we have nothing whatsoever to do with OTRcat.com; we certainly don’t make a dime from promoting the site and its wares. We just like their product and the fact that they’re willing to occasionally give away some of what they’re selling. Anyone who introduces more people to old-time radio is okay in our book.
Thrills and chills, gratis
OTRcat.com (Old Time Radio Catalog), a terrific source for collections of vintage radio programming from the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s, is, in the spirit of the season, offering a selection of scary programs for your listening pleasure, free of charge.
That’s right, all the Halloween thrills and chills you can handle, and they won’t cost you a dime—though you might find you’re tempted to spring for some of their terrific collections of OTR programs, shiver-inducing or otherwise, once you’ve sampled their wares.
You can shudder to the likes of Inner Sanctum, Quiet, Please, Suspense, The Whistler, and other memorably macabre programs.
Give ’em a listen, and tell ’em Cladrite Radio sent you!