INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES COLLECTION - Old Time Radio 12 AUDIO CD – 24 Shows (Old Time Radio)
Inner Sanctum Mysteries, a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941 to October 5, 1952, was created by producer Himan Brown. A total of 526 episodes were broadcast. Horror hosts The anthology series featured stories of mystery, terror and suspense, and its tongue-in-cheek introductions were in sharp contrast to shows like Suspense and The Whistler. The early 1940s programs opened with Raymond Edward Johnson introducing himself as, "Your host, Raymond," in a mocking sardonic voice. A spooky melodramatic organ score (played by Lew White) punctuated Raymond's many morbid jokes and playful puns. Raymond's closing was an elongated "Pleasant dreeeeaams, hmmmmm?" His tongue-in-cheek style and ghoulish relish of his own tales became the standard for many such horror narrators to follow, from fellow radio hosts like Ernest Chappell (on Wyllis Cooper's later series, Quiet, Please) and Maurice Tarplin (on The Mysterious Traveler). When Johnson left the series in May 1945 to serve in the Army, he was replaced by Paul McGrath, who did not keep the "Raymond" name and was known only as "Your Host" or "Mr. Host". SHOWS LIST CD 1 1945-01-09 Desert Death 1945-01-23 Death Is an Artist CD 2 1945-02-06 Death in the Depths 1945-04-10 The Bog-Oak Necklace CD 3 1945-04-17 The Judas Clock 1945-05-01 The Girl and the Gallows CD 4 1945-05-15 The Black Art 1945-05-22 Dead to Rights CD 5 1945-06-19 Dead Mans Holiday 1945-09-25 The Lonely Sleep CD 6 1945-11-20 Boomerang 1946-01-15 The Edge of Death CD 7 1946-01-22 The Confession 1946-01-29 Blood of Cain CD 8 1946-02-26 I Walk in the Night 1946-03-26 Death Is a Double Crosser CD 9 1946-05-07 You Could Die Laughing 1946-05-21 Detour to Terror CD 10 1946-06-04 Eight Steps to Murder 1949-01-10 Murder Comes to Life CD 11 1949-01-31 The Devils Fortune 1949-03-28 Appointment with Death CD 12 1949-05-16 The Unburied Dead 1952-08-24 No Rest for the Dead
Format: Audio CD
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