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Inner Sanctum Mysteries 10-CD Set, 20 Half-Hour Episodes Running Time: 10 Hours Inner Sanctum, one of Old Time Radio's most popular mystery series! 20-Half Hour Episodes on 10 digitally remastered discs. These are full-length, high quality episodes, not poor quality MP3s. Episodes include: The Bog Oak Necklace, The House Where Death Lived, The Horla, Black Sea Gull,Death Across the Board,The Dead Walk at Night,Dead Man's Magic,Terrible Vengeance, Study for Murder, Dead Reckoning, Death has Claws, The Man from Yesterday, The Death Ship, Island of Death, Death is a Joker, The TellTale Heart, Dead Freight, Fog, Death for Sale, Mystery of the Howling Dog. Inner Sanctum Mysteries was a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941 to October 5, 1952. Created by Himan Brown, the anthology series featured stories of mystery, terror and suspense. The tongue-in-cheek introductions were in sharp contrast to shows like Suspense and The Whistler. A total of 526 episodes are known to have been produced. 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 punctuated Raymond's many morbid jokes and playful puns. Raymond's closing was an elongated "Pleasant dreeeammsss?!" 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 Cooper's later series, Quiet, Please) and Maurice Tarplin (on The Mysterious Traveler) to EC Comics' Crypt-Keeper in various incarnations of Tales from the Crypt. In interviews, EC publisher Bill Gaines stated that he based EC's three horror hosts not on Raymond but on Old Nancy, host of radio's earlier The Witch's Tale (1931-38). Of more than 500 programs broadcast, only about 100 remain in circulation. Search amazon for PDQ AUDIOWORKS for a list of all our titles!
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