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Title: The Weird Circle, Collection 1

Author: Black Eye Entertainment

Narrator: full cast

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Nostalgia Radio, Crime & Mystery

Publisher's Summary:

"The Weird Circle" was an anthology of classic thrillers from the pens of the world's best-known and respected fiction authors of the 19th Century. The focus was horror and suspense stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mary Shelley (among others) with the occasional drama by Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens and George Eliot. "The Weird Circle" was produced in New York by NBC and offered in syndication. The narrator of "The Weird Circle" sat in a cave by a restless sea and instructed a bell keeper to "toll the bell so all may know that we are gathered again in the weird circle for another strange and weird story from out of the past." Casts included New York's steady pool of busy supporting actors including: Lawson Zerbe, Eleanor Audley, Jackson Beck, Mason Adams, Raymond Edward Johnson and Arnold Moss.

2/6/44 The Niche of Doom

2/13/44 The Heart of Ethan Brand

2/27/44 The Feast of the Red Gauntlet

3/12/44 The Spectre of Tappington

3/19/44 The Strange Judgment

3/26/44 Wuthering Heights

4/2/44 The Curse of the Mantel

4/16/44 A Rope of Hair

5/28/44 The Middle Toe of the Right Foot

9/3/44 The Dream Woman

9/10/44 The Phantom Picture

9/17/44 The Ghost's Tough

Members Reviews:

GREAT OLD TIME HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS

I love these tongue in cheek jaunty Hollywood creeps shows.

Don't make them like this any more. With these, you never know which subject is going to used. Imagination is what these are about.

Frankenstein & Vampire have been done to death in modern era.

I love listening to these types of shows in the winter, dark dull days. Perfect when curled up all nice and safe and warm ;)

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Title: The Whistler, Vol. 3

Author: Hollywood 360

Narrator: Bill Forman, full cast

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-16

Publisher: Black Eye Entertainment

Genres: Nostalgia Radio, Crime & Mystery

Publisher's Summary:

The Whistler was one of radio's top mystery programs airing from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955, sponsored by the Signal Oil Company.

The Whistler was an ominous narrator who opened each episode with: "I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak."

The opening dialog was heard over the echo of footsteps and a haunting signature 13-note theme, whistled each week by Dorothy Roberts. The stories followed an effective formula in which a person's criminal acts were typically undone by their own missteps. The Whistler narrated the story, often commenting directly upon the action in the manner of a Greek chorus, taunting the criminal from an omniscient perspective. One of the show's trademarks was the ironic twist endings that helped serve as a payoff for the listener.

Bill Forman held the title role of host and narrator the longest. Others who portrayed the Whistler include Gale Gordon (later starring in I Love Lucy), Joseph Kearns (Mr. Wilson in television's Dennis the Menace), Marvin Miller (later starring on television as Michael Anthony in The Millionaire), Bill Johnstone (The Shadow on radio from 1938 to 1943), and Everett Clarke.

The 12 half-hour episodes starring Bill Forman, included here with the date of broadcast, are:

"Strange Sisters" (28 Jan 1946), "Panic" (4 Feb 1946), "Six Letter Word for Death" (11 Feb 1946), "Murder in Haste" (25 Feb 1946), "Terror Stricken" (8 Apr 1946), "Smart Boy" (15 Apr 1946), "Ambassador of Death" (16 Jun 1947), "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" (16 Jul 1947), "Whispered Verdict" (13 Aug 1947), "Curtain Call" (27 Aug 1947), "A Question of Murder" (4 Aug 1948), "Payment in Full" (1 Sept 1948).

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Title: The Man Called X, Vol. 1

Author: Hollywood 360

Narrator: Herbert Marshall, Leon Belasco, full cast

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-16

Publisher: Black Eye Entertainment

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nostalgia Radio, Crime & Mystery

Publisher's Summary:

Here are 12 exciting episodes of international intrigue from the golden age of radio.

"Wherever there is mystery, adventure, intrigue, in all the strange and dangerous places in the world, there you will find the man called X!" Debonair British actor Herbert Marshall stars as FBI secret agent Ken Thurston, "the man who crosses the ocean as readily as you and I cross town; he is the man who fights today's war in his unique fashion, so that tomorrow's peace will make the world a neighborhood for all of us." Leon Belasco plays Mr. X's comedic sidekick, Pagan Zeldchmidt, who always turns up in remote parts of the world to assist Thurston.

The Man Called X debuted over CBS radio on July 10, 1944, moved to NBC in 1950, and continued through May 20, 1952. In 1956 Ziv Television adapted The Man Called X as a 39-episode syndicated series starring Barry Sullivan as Ken Thurston.

This collection contains the following episodes and the dates they aired on radio: Antarctic Expedition (3 Apr 47), Mr. Messler and the Insurance (17 Apr 47), Acme Oil Refinery (24 Apr 47), Stamp Story (15 May 47), A Journey to Xenophon (27 Oct 50), Professor Czorny Disappears behind the Iron Curtain (3 Nov 50), Race against Death (21 Apr 51), Knocked off His Feet (11 May 51), Enough Intrigue to Fill a Book (18 May 51), Amazon River (15 Jun 51), Petroleum Sabotage in Lima (1 Jan 52), A Flying Trip to Nowhere (8 Jan 52).

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Title: Dangerous Assignment, Volume 5

Author: Radio Archives

Narrator: full cast

Format: Original Recording

Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Nostalgia Radio, Crime & Mystery

Publisher's Summary:

The 1950s in America was a period of both prosperity and paranoia, of families and fear. Even though victorious in World War II, American society still saw criminals in every shadow, villains around the corner, all lying in wait to disrupt the American way of life. Movies, television, books, and entertainment of all sorts capitalized on this anxiety, turning out tales of foreign infiltrators, nefarious plots to overthrow America, and the broad shouldered, barrel chested heroes who stood up for the United States. Radio was no different, and one of the best examples of this type of program was Dangerous Assignment. Dangerous Assignment featured tough guy actor Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, a troubleshooting agent of some sort, no real title or number is identified, for an unnamed agency established to protect the country and prevent unrest and turmoil from abroad.

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Title: The Hall of Fantasy, Vol. 1

Author: Hollywood 360 - producer

Narrator: full cast

Format: Original Recording

Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-16

Publisher: Black Eye Entertainment

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nostalgia Radio, Crime & Mystery

Publisher's Summary:

Here are 12 episodes of the horror and mystery series written and produced by radio announcers beginning in 1946. There were several series under the Hall of Fantasy banner, all produced by Richard Thorne. The first originated from radio station KALL in Salt Lake City. Richard Thorne and Carl Greyson were announcers for the station and coproduced the bare-bones horror series beginning in 1946. Written or adapted by Robert Olson and directed by Thorne, the stories were mostly murder mysteries with traditional endings. This first series ended in 1947 when Thorne and Greyson went their separate ways.

The Hall of Fantasy was revived in 1949, when by pure coincidence, Thorne and Greyson found themselves working together at WGN in Chicago. This time, the series featured stories with shocking endings involving struggles against the supernatural in which man was usually the loser. In Chicago, actor Don Ameche's brother, Jim Ameche, sometimes appeared in the episodes. In 1952, The Hall of Fantasy went nationwide over the Mutual network, with Thorne writing original horror stories and also adapting classics of literature, including Robert Louis Stevenson's "Markheim" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Tell-Tale Heart".

Episodes included are: "The Perfect Script", "The Judge's House", "Man-Size, in Marble", "Markheim", "The Mark of Shame", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Black Figurine of Death", "The Night the Fog Came", "The Return from Death", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "Stone's Revenge", and "The Castle of Lavoka".

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Title: Box 13, Vol. 2

Subtitle: The Classic Radio Collection

Author: Hollywood 360

Narrator: Alan Ladd, Sylvia Picker, full cast

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-16

Publisher: Black Eye Entertainment

Genres: Nostalgia Radio, Crime & Mystery

Publisher's Summary:

Movie star Alan Ladd played Dan Holiday, a former newspaperman turned mystery novelist and adventurer. To gain ideas for his books, Holiday placed an ad in the Star-Times newspaper: "Adventure wanted - will go anywhere, do anything - write Box 13, Star-Times." It wasn't long before his post office box became jammed with adventure offers galore. The stories follow his escapades when he responds to the letters.

Holiday always had more adventure than he had originally sought, because those who responded to his ad never revealed all of their glorious, unusual, and sometimes sinister details until they met in person and the adventure had already begun. Holiday's scatterbrained secretary, Suzy, played by Sylvia Picker, added touches of humor to this mystery-adventure and its nail-biting story lines.

Box 13 was produced by Mayfair Productions, a company run by Alan Ladd and Richard Sandville. In addition to producing Box 13, Ladd also wrote some of the scripts.

Included are these 12 exciting episodes: "Hot Box" (26 Dec. 1948), "The Better Man" (2 Jan. 1949), "The Professor and the Puzzle" (9 Jan. 1949), "The Dowager and Dan Holiday" (16 Jan. 1949), "Three to Die" (23 Jan. 1949), "The Philanthropist" (30 Jan. 1949), "Last Will and Nursery Rhyme" (6 Feb. 1949), "Delinquent Dilemma" (13 Feb. 1949), "One One Three Point Five" (20 Mar. 1949), "Dan and the Wonderful Lamp" (27 Mar. 1949), "Tempest in a Casserole" (3 Apr. 1949), and "Mexican Maze" (10 Apr. 1949).

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Title: The Adventures of Rocky Jordan, Vol. 1

Subtitle: The Classic Radio Collection

Author: Hollywood 360

Narrator: Jack Moyles, full cast

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-16

Publisher: Black Eye Entertainment

Genres: Nostalgia Radio, Crime & Mystery

Publisher's Summary:

Reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart's character Rick Blaine from the classic movie Casablanca, Rocky Jordan relocated to Cairo after being ousted from St. Louis by his enemies. Now living in North Africa, Rocky Jordan owns and operates a gin joint, the Café Tambourine, and finds himself involved in an assortment of mystery and intrigue endeavors while unwillingly moonlighting as a crime fighter.

Cairo police chief Sam Sabaaya is an Egyptian Muslim who strictly adheres to the law. When a crime is committed, Jordan is often the prime suspect, which forces Jordan to solve the crime so he can clear his name and save his neck.

The show was first heard in 1945, with Jack Moyles starring as Rocky Jordan. The show's writers, Larry Roman and Gomer Cool, strove to create an authentic North African feel to the show by featuring Middle Eastern theme music by Richard Aurandt and using actual street names from Cairo.

Episodes included are "Up in Flames", "Red Stands for Blood", "The St. Louis Blues", "Consignment for Naples", "Lady in Disguise", "The Race", "The Coward of Mutakhan", "Barlache", "Gold Fever", "Cairo Vendetta", "The Gum Queen", and "A Stranger to the Desert".

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Title: The Weird Circle, Vol. 1

Subtitle: The Classic Radio Collection

Author: Hollywood 360

Narrator: full cast

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-16

Publisher: Black Eye Entertainment

Genres: Nostalgia Radio, Crime & Mystery

Publisher's Summary:

The Weird Circle radio show was an anthology of classic thrillers from the pens of the world's best-known and respected fiction authors of the 19th century. The focus was on stories of horror, suspense, and the supernatural by such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Mary Shelley, with an occasional drama by the likes of Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot.

For The Weird Circle, produced in New York by NBC and offered in syndication, the announcer sat in a cave beside a restless sea and instructed a bell keeper to "toll the bell so all may know that we are gathered again in the weird circle for another strange and weird story from out of the past". The casts included New York's steady pool of busy supporting actors, including Lawson Zerbe, Eleanor Audley, Jackson Beck, Mason Adams, Raymond Edward Johnson, and Arnold Moss.

This collection of 12 episodes from 1943 includes stories based on works by Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Colllins, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Mérimée, and more: "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The House and the Brain", "The Vendetta", "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym", "Declared Insane", "A Terribly Strange Bed", "What Was It?", "The Knightsbridge Mystery", "The Horla", "William Wilson", "A Passion in the Desert", and "Mateo Falcone".

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Title: The Spider #23

Subtitle: Master of the Death-Madness

Author: Grant Stockbridge

Narrator: Nick Santa Maria

Format: Original Recording

Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Nostalgia Radio, Crime & Mystery

Publisher's Summary:

A shrill scream pierced the quiet night as the mighty Plutonic breasted the glassy waves. As if at a signal, countless passengers, young and old, men and women, were seized by an epidemic of frantic self-destruction. By water, fire, steel, and lead they tried eagerly to hurl themselves into oblivion - into the greedy arms of Anubis, grim Egyptian deity of death! Richard Wentworth, who defended humanity in the guise of the dread Spider, recognized the suicide mania immediately as an extremely cunning attack by the master brains of the international underworld. Yet when his fellow men needed his protection more than ever before, the Spider lay gravely wounded, ruthlessly harried by law and criminal, while his beloved Nita, fortified by her courageous love, went forth to prove she was indeed the Spider's mate!

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Title: Box Thirteen, Volume 1

Author: Russell Hughes

Narrator: Vern Carstensen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nostalgia Radio, Crime & Mystery

Publisher's Summary:

When Dan Holiday opens Box Thirteen, he never knows what adventure awaits him. A former newspaperman turned novelist, Holiday crafts the plots for his books by living them. Spurred into action by letters from his readers, Dan Holiday's adventures range from the outrageous to the dangerous, whatever the case. Dan Holiday is sure to find adventure in volume one of Box Thirteen.

Episodes include: "The First Letter", "Insurance Fraud Scheme", "Blackmail Is Murder", "Actor's Alibi", "Extra! Extra!", "Shanghaied", "Short Assignment", "Double Mothers", "Book of Poems", "The Great Torino", "Suicide or Murder?", "Triple Cross", "Damsel in Distress", "Diamond in the Sky".