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A creaking door and a chorus of haunting organ music. No radio show opening is more memorable for many fans than the one heard on Inner Sanctum Mysteries. This disturbing simple salvo led people into thirty minutes of suspense and horror sprinkled with puns from a creepy host, all of which can now be heard again in sparkling audio quality from Radio Archives. Inner Sanctum Mysteries was the brainchild of producer Himan Brown, inspired by the unsettling creaking door in the basement of a studio where he once worked. Brown took that inspiration and built around it a formula that lived on beyond the show itself. Listeners tuned in every week to hear that door open and be welcomed by the sinister, yet often humorous host to join him in a chair near the fire inside the Inner Sanctum for a story sure to chill them to the bone. Stories on Inner Sanctum Mysteries originally included both classic and original tales, the new stories taking center stage as the show continued. With writers like pulp scribes Emile Tepperman and Robert Newman, as well as Robert Sloan, Milton Lewis, and others, it is little surprise that Inner Sanctum is still beloved by fans today. Utilizing numerous clichés and literary devices, Inner Sanctum Mysteries carried listeners into the heart of horror, a liberal dose of camp often thrown in. Using voices ranging from star Boris Karloff to a veteran crew of New York radio actors, Inner Sanctum set the standard for horror programs both on radio and even inspired decades of horror hosts on television. Inner Sanctum Mysteries features some of the best of fright, terror, and fantastic storytelling old time radio has to offer!

YOUTUBE TIME STAMPS…
00:00:00.000 = INTRODUCTION
00:01:54.794 = Mark My Grave (January 17, 1949)
00:29:21.389 = Deadly Dummy (January 24, 1949)
00:55:26.749 = The Devil’s Fortune (January 31, 1949)
01:21:43.959 = Death Demon (February 07, 1949)
01:48:37.048 = Birdsong For A Murderer (February 14, 1949)
02:14:36.805 = Flame of Death (February 21, 1949)
02:41:30.415 = Only The Dead Die Twice (March 21, 1949)
03:07:47.968 = Appointment With Death (March 28, 1949)
03:34:40.573 = Death Wears A Lonely Smile (April 04, 1949)
03:59:59.059 = Murder Off The Record (April 11, 1949)
04:22:57.123 = Death Deal (April 18, 1949)

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