Vintage Horror Radio

We're taking care of a request I got some time ago with today's show.  From Favorite Story we'll hear their adaptation of The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.  This radio version is based on Washington Irving's story first published in 1820, and one of few early examples of American fiction still read today.  Favorite Story aired their version May 29, 1948.

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Our Halloween programming ends this week with another short story by Edgar Allan Poe.  Berenice was first published in 1835 in the Southern Literary Messenger, and was the cause for many letters to their editor regarding the violence of the story.  We'll hear a radio adaptation done by the CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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This week we continue our Edgar Allan Poe radio adaptations with The Fall Of The House Of Usher.  This story was first published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in 1839, then again a year later in the collection Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque.  We heard a version from Escape a few shows back, this time it's from NBC Short Story.

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We continue our October exploration of Edgar Allan Poe on radio this week.  We'll hear The Imp Of The Perverse, a short story first published in Graham's Magazine in the July 1845 issue.  A revised version would later be published in a gift book titled May-Flower in 1846.  This radio adaptation was done by The Black Mass, and first aired July 29, 1964.

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This October on Vintage Horror Radio we'll hear four radio adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories.  We begin this week with The Tell-Tale Heart, adapted for radio by NBC Short Story some time in the 1950's.  The original short story was published in The Pioneer magazine in January of 1843.  This story was done many times for radio including The Weird Circle version which we heard back on episode 8.

Next Monday we'll hear Imp Of The Perverse as done by The Black Mass.  For more Halloween inspired old time radio, visit the Relic Radio Halloween site!

Hot on the heel of Matt's article about a newly republished Le Fanu story, I thought we'd listen to an old one for this show.  We'll hear from The Weird Circle and an episode titled The Wooden Ghost.  This episode was based on the short story Strange Event In The Life Of Schalken The Painter, first published in Dublin University Magazine in 1839.  The story would go on to be included in two short story collections beginning with a revised version printed in Ghost Stories And Tales Of Mystery from 1851, and an 1880 collection titled The Purcell Papers.

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On this episode of Vintage Horror Radio we'll hear again from Favorite Story and their adaptation of Dr. Heidegger's Experiment.  The original short story was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and first published as The Fountain Of Yonder in The Knickerbocker Magazine in 1837.  Later that year it would be published again in his collection Twice Told Tales.  You may remember this story from the 1963 movie Twice Told Tales, which featured three Hawthorne stories, all starring Vincent Price.  This radio adaptation first aired May 15, 1948.

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