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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP84: The Simple Art of Macabre—Mystery, Suspense, and Horror from Radio’s Best (1931 - 1982)
Description: In Breaking Walls Episode 84, it’s the Simple Art of Macabre, to your ears from the mouths of some of the best who ever produced radio’s stuff of nightmares.
Highlights:
• Why Do We Like To Be Scared?

• What pre-dated the radio horror program in the United States of America?

• The Witch’s Tale
• Cooper, Oboler, and Lights Out

• Orson Welles, Himan Brown, and Bill Spier

• Macabre Programming during World War II

• How Transcription Advanced the radio mystery program

• Escape, The Saint, and Vincent Price

• ABC and The Clock

• Quiet Please and Crime Classics

• The Decline of the American audio drama in the 1950s

• Attempts at horror revival...