WBW Theater

Broadcast Date: December 29, 1942

In the year 1905, living in a castle in the heart of the Austrian country, Laura Stanton was a lonely young nineteen year old girl, until one night when a mysterious visitor's carriage collides nearby and a young girl named Carmilla, needs shelter to recover from her injuries. After Carmilla is taken in by Laura's family, she begins to have strange dreams, one of which is recurring, of someone draining the blood from a bite to her throat.

Starring: Mercedes McCambridge, Marian Seldes, Court Benson, Martha Greenhouse, Staats Cotsworth

Broadcast Date: July 31, 1975

There is a legend about a beautiful forest where nobody ever went because it was said that an old oak tree in the forest was believed to strangle people. But it may be more than just a legend. In London England on the 21st April 1857 Horace Wakefield was found strangled in Barlow Forest.

Starring: Ben Morris

Broadcast Date: December 5, 1941

You out there, listen to me, I’m dead. They say the dead don’t talk but they are all around you, listen to them. Arnie Douglas had been a very happy man who had been fascinated by fires and flames and spent his life chasing fire engines.

Starring: Arch Oboler

Broadcast Date: March 23. 1943

Edna’s father had told her that if you walked or danced on a grave the poltergeist would come an evil spirit that comes out of the grave to kill and destroy so that night as she and two friends were singing merrily on their way home and accidentally danced on a gravestone Edna became hysterical. As she fled in tears a rock came flying at her from the graveyard knocking her unconscious.

Starring: Arch Oboler

Broadcast Date: October 20, 1942

The fourth anniversary of Light’s Out celebrates by bringing to the microphone Boris Karloff to perform this psychological drama. A play in which the principle character is taken not by the character himself, but by his thoughts. The voice you are about to hear is that of the one Daryl Hall, a convicted murderer sitting in a court room awaiting the return of a jury which is to decide whether he is to live or die.

Starring: Boris Karloff

Broadcast Date: March 23, 1938

Hartley Manor is a big old handsome house, which Mr Dutters and his daughter have recently moved in to. They were told that within it were 106 portraits of the ancestors of the Decasserat family that had lived in the house but could only count 105. Then Mr Roberts the headman of the church showed them where the missing portrait was hung, hidden behind a secret panel over 300 years ago after its subject died because he had been one of the most infamous monsters who had ever lived and was now known as the Devil Doctor.

Broadcast Date: February 19, 1937

As the minute hand of the clock gradually approaches 7 am, John and Blanche Bickerson are in their breakfast room, which is also the living room and bedroom of their spacious one room apartment. Mrs Bickerson chatters as husband John, ignoring his breakfast, attentively reads the morning paper. Blanche is about to hit boiling point, as he's not listening to a word she's saying...

Starring: Don Ameche, Frances Langford, Lew Parker, John Brown, Shirley Mitchell, Peter Leeds

Broadcast Date: December 13, 1947

Chester was walking down the town to see office when he sees this kid that he doesn’t know so he says Hello and the kid starts running. Suspicious of a kid that would run away for doing nothing Chester brought him in but the kid wouldn’t tell whom he was or where he was from.

Starring: William Conrad

Broadcast Date: December 6, 1952

John Conte opens the show, introducing today's guest star, the popular and talented star of radio, stage and recordings, Miss Peggy Lee, who raises the curtain with the first song of the show, Where Or When. Peggy then introduces her band, before moving on to the next tune, All Of Me.

Broadcast Date: September 16, 1951