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It's that time again--are you ready to gather round the Cauldron of midcentury horror radio? If so, The Ghost of Radio is ready to endanger you. This week, you're exposed to "Time On My Hands", from Suspense. How well you will weather it is very hard to tell; if only we could travel to the future and find out before we begin.

File under: please don't be a time loop

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Welcome back to Cauldronside, where you gather at your own risk to plunge into midcentury horror radio. Luckily you have a guide: The Ghost of Radio, who expertly leads you to--and through--the most frightening experiences. This week, it's "The Man Who Stole a Planet", from the magnificent Quiet, Please.  That's enough warning for anyone.

File under: what's the word we're looking for?

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Welcome back to the Cauldron of midcentury horror radio tended weekly by The Ghost of Radio--the closest you can come to a trusted guide in a world of horror. This week, we inhabit a "House of Cards", from Theater Five, perhaps the least trustworthy series we can visit. Stay close and be prepared.

File under: you can't outlive it

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You're back at Cauldronside with The Ghost of Radio, waiting to re-enter the world of midcentury horror radio--if you ever left it. It gets harder and harder to leave as we go along. This week, our journey inward takes us to "The Picture of Dorian Gray", by the CBS Radio Mystery Theater.  Can it do justice to one of the most unsettling stories ever told? Only one way to find out.

File under: human nature known and unknown

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Enter the world of The Ghost of Radio, where midcentury radio is the be-all and end-all of our experience. This week, The Cauldron offers up a special episode where we are comparing one story as told by two different series: "Stranger in the House", by The Mysterious Traveler and The Sealed Book. 

File under: Who wore it best?

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Unable to go on without some midcentury horror radio to get you thinking and questioning everything you know? Back to The Cauldron we go, then, to listen to another episode together. This week, we observe "The Mark of Shame", from The Hall of Fantasy.  Will it come to us, or will we simply see it at a distance?

File under: ghosts and things

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Welcome back to Cauldronside, where The Ghost of Radio leads you through the unbekannt lands of midcentury horror radio. This week we enter "The House of Death", from The Mysterious Traveler.  We'll also leave it once the story is done--which is more than we can say for everyone in the story.

File under: it's the lies that hurt

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Welcome to Year Three, Season Five around The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio boiled up for you by The Ghost of Radio. We continue our journey with "The Black Room", from The CBS Radio Mystery Theater.  Horrors real and imagined await us.

File under: you have to care a lot--about endings

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It's the close of October, and the world ends this week, with "The Lottery", from NBC's Short Story.

File under: not fiction

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It's October, it's almost the end of the month... it's dangerous territory around the October Cauldron. The Ghost of Radio is here to endanger and guide you through it, if you take up that very mixed offer. This October week it's "Knock at the Door", from Lights Out, Everybody. Not for the faint of heart, or weak of arm.

File under: why did she do that?

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