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 Hello Cauldronites--welcome back to the unforgiving and heartless world of midcentury horror radio. Don't be afraid--your Ghost is with you. Not an iron-clad guaranty of your safety, but at least you won't suffer alone. This week, we suffer "Subbasement", from the epic series Lights Out, Everybody.  Will this episode deliver, or is it really later than we think? 

File under: check your watches

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It's Cauldron time again here with The Ghost of Radio, as we offer you another very close encounter with midcentury horror radio. This week? It's "The Sixth Button", from the show The Haunting Hour.  A promising tale of revenge from beyond the grave all ready for us to make sense of together, if we dare.

File under: broken promises

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Welcome back to The Ghost of Radio and our Cauldron full of midcentury horror radio episodes to dive into. This week your Ghost guides you into the waters  of "Wet Saturday", from the series Suspense, until you're right up to your neck in it. It's sink or swim after that--no guarantees of a return to the shore.

File under: two tables turning

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Hello and welcome--to the Cauldron, The Ghost, and the start of season 4. Midcentury horror radio never had it so good! This week, we turn our attention to "The Crawling Thing", from the series The Hall of Fantasy, which offers horror upon horror, as any good episode should. Will it be enough to make us forget how HOF begins and ends? We'll see--together.

File under: anger lightning strength

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Hello and welcome back to the Cauldron and The Ghost of Radio, your guide and reliable narrator for all things midcentury horror radio. This week, The Ghost forces you to join them on a "Weekend", from the series Macabre.  Golf, tennis, and fun-making, children, until the imagination takes over and who knows what may appear.

File under: inspiration fades into plagiarism

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Hello and welcome back to the Cauldron of midcentury horror radio episodes that fuels our conversation, debate, and enjoyment each week. This time around, we're comparing and contrasting two versions of the same story, "The Burning Court", that were broadcast three years apart on the series Suspense. Who wore it best? Come with us on our journey of exploration and find out.

File under: horrification 

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Welcome back to Cauldronside, where The Ghost of Radio awaits you. You're here of your own free will, right? You're not being drawn back here against your will by some force you can't explain or describe? Good--we wouldn't have it any other way. But "Stephanie's Room", from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, feels otherwise.

File under: don't call anyone "Mama"

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Hello and welcome to the Cauldron of midcentury horror radio! When we dive in, we never know where, when, or whether we will come up again. This week, we dive into "Banquo's Chair", from the series Suspense, where the question is not whether ghosts exist, but whether they do their work properly. And, perhaps, whether they are always the scariest entity in the room.

File under: twist endings not required, but appreciated

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Hello and welcome back to Cauldronside, where midcentury horror radio reigns supreme. We gather, listen, and make sense of a different episode each week, and this week it's the end--
"The Author and the Thing", from Lights Out Everybody.  Lights Out always did like a good end of the world story, and this time Arch pulled out all the stops... too many stops...

File under: don't worry, it's not the end of our world

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Hello and welcome back to Cauldronside, where we explore midcentury horror radio, the best, the worst, and all points in between. Where do we land this week? You'll see. It's "Three Skeleton Key", from the series Escape.  And just a warning not to listen if you can't handle sudden... silence.

File under: beware  old friends appearing in their younger selves

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