The Witch's Tale

Welcome back to the show.

I've got a nice, creepy, old-time radio classic for you today from The Witch's Tale.

I just absolutely love plays like this.

They're my favorite kind.

And they just really embody what classic old time radio horror and suspense is.

Absolutely love it.

So let's go ahead and get into today's play from The Witch's Tale.

Sit back and enjoy Graveyard Mansion, which aired March 6th of 1933.

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We bring you The Witch's Tale, written and produced by Alonzo Dean Cole.

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We bring you The Witch's Tale, written and produced by Alonzo Dean Cole.

Horror and fantasy shows appeared on radio nearly from the very start.

The first horror drama during radio's golden age was The Witch's Tale, which was aired from 1931 to 1938.

It featured Old Nancy, the Witch of Salem, who introduced a different terror tale each week.

You'll hear an episode from 1937.

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On December 7th, 1931, WOR New York scheduled episode 27 of The Witch's Tale, The Confession, for 9.15 that evening.

In San Francisco's Chinatown, two Catholic priests receive an urgent request to hear the confession of a young woman believed to be dying.

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And we call it Devil Hands.

Devil Hands.

That was The Witch's Tale, The Confession, from December 1931.

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We bring you The Witch's Tale, written and produced by Alonzo Dean Cole.

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We bring you The Witch's Tale, written and produced by Alonzo Dean Cole.

The Witch's Tale Thank you.

And now let us join old Nancy and Satan, her wise black cat.

During wartime, Lieutenant Steve Buckley becomes involved with a mysterious woman, and the matter places him in conflict with his cousin, Captain Mason.

From WOR in New York, this is The Witch's Tale, The Firing Squad, Episode 14, first heard August 31st, 1931.

Alonzo Deen Cole wrote and directed the broadcast and plays Lieutenant Steve Buckley.

Adelaide Fitzallen is old Nancy, with Marie O'Flynn as the temptress.

You folks come see us next week when I had the birthday.

And we'll have another tearful yarn to spin ye.

The Witch's Tale concludes with The Firing Squad.

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And he was inspired by old radio shows that he would listen to as a kid, uh, particularly one called Lights Out and another one called The Witch's Tale.

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And so he and this guy named Al Feldstein got together, who also loved those old radio shows, and they wrote a comic called...

Adelaide Fitzallen appears as Old Nancy in a production written, produced, and directed by Alonzo Dean Cole.

On November 2nd, 1937, Mutual carried Episode 304 of The Witch's Tale, The House of the Bridegroom, a repeat of a broadcast first heard from WOR New York on June 26th, 1933.

Mrs. Sheridan inherits an English house that has belonged to her family for generations, where local rumor links its haunting to Dr. Drummond, the man once engaged to her great-great aunt before she rejected him.

As the family faces the house's reputation, Drummond's interests in scientific inquiry and witchcraft enter the story.

Now, back to the Golden Age of Radio.

[dramatic music] We bring you The Witch's Tale, written and produced by Alonzo Dean Cole.

[dramatic music] Now let us join Old Nancy, the Witch of Salem, and Satan, her wise black cat.

[laughs] [eerie music] Hundred and 22 year old I be today.

Mark Lavonier, your host for an hour of horror.

Later on, Armed Forces Radio presents Macabre, but right now a grisly story on the witch's tale called The Devil's Number, from May 2nd, 1938.

The Devil's Number

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The fascination of the eardy.

Weird, blood-chilling tales told by old Nancy, the Witch of Salem.

Well, that's the end of that incident.

You folks look out for Friday the 13th when it comes your way.