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The Witch's Tale - Stories of Gothic Horror from the Golden Age of Radio (Paperback)
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The Witch's Tale - Stories of Gothic Horror from the Golden Age of Radio (Paperback)
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Stories of Gothic horror from the Golden Age of Radio. Discover the
thrills and goose bumps that frightened a generation of listeners
during radio's Golden Age with 13 hair raising vintage radio
scripts featuring stories about Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts,
Severed heads, Devil worship, Mad scientists and more .By Alonzo
Deen Cole, the great granddaddy of modern media horror and the
creator of network radio's first drama series devoted entirely to
the supernatural.Very nicely done in an affordable trade paperback
(with, I should add, a beautiful cover by Alice Pfeiffer--a name
I'm not familiar with but hope to see more of), THE WITCH'S TALE
presents 13 of Cole's best stories. What sets the author's horror
plays apart from others of the day is that when the menace is
finally unmasked at the climax it's not the disgruntled university
scientist or scheming wife, but, more often than not, really truly
a sea monster, vampire, or (as in the opening story, "The Image") a
demonic idol. Alonzo Deen Cole's THE WITCH'S TALE represents the
closest we ever came to having a WEIRD TALES radio show. - Bare
Bones Magazine I have a copy of this and I want to say that it is
worth every penny if you are at all a fan of the macabre. Not only
is the introduction informative (you can learn a lot about this
series), the scripts are a great read. The book is attractive and
well bound for easy reading. - Jim WidnerThis is a rare opportunity
to venture back in time and experience horror purely through your
imagination. And this is the real stuff: vampires, ghosts,
werewolves, severed heads, devil worship and more. A horror fan's
delight. - Hellnotes Newsletter It's not often that we get to look
back at the creation of an entire art form. The Witch's Tale is
certainly that-the true inception of the radio horror show in
America. That recordings for these scripts are as yet unavailable
only adds to their significance. - John Dunning, noted radio
historian and author of On The Air and Tune In Yesterday
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