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Post by dem bones on Sept 9, 2017 12:52:05 GMT
Self-explanatory thread title, too dull to think of anything snappier. An imaginary anthology of loosely radio-themed horror/ supernatural stories. Jack Oleck - All Through The House: " ... and a man described as a homicidal maniac has escaped from the Middleton hospital for the criminally insane. He is described as being six feet three inches tall, two hundred and ten pounds, dark eyes, long black hair, and he may be wearing a Santa Claus costume stolen from a shop in Burley."You know The Rest. ( Tales From The Crypt, 1972). Gregory Nicoll - Dead Air: Disc-jockey on the graveyard shift is pursued around his studio after a caller requests he play Screaming Lord Sutch's Hands of Jack the Ripper. (Susan Casper & Gardner Dozois [eds.], Jack The Ripper, Futura, 1988) Gary Power - The Road To Hell: Anthony Lerrom, disgraced MP and all round bad egg turned media lovie, is driving to Brighton to dish more dirt on his former Parliamentary colleagues via yet another lucrative radio interview. Then it's back to the hotel for a three-in-a-bed romp with a pair of busty bimbo's. Let's all pray he gets there safely. (Sean Wright [ed.] When Graveyard's Yawn, 2006: Vault Advent Calendar, 2013. Read it hereRex Miller - The Voice: A BeBop DJ on lates at a Dallas station finally persuades regular caller, Patricia of the lovely, sexy velvet voice, that they should meet up the next time her husband is out of town. Their tryst is not a success. Voice of a siren she may have, but a house fire has seen to it that Patricia has the face of Lon Chaney in The Phantom Of The Opera. A laudiably ghastly five-pager from the Slob man. (Jeff Gelb & Lonn Friend, [eds], Hot Blood, Pocket, 1989). Ramsey Campbell - Broadcast: "The microphone ... It's like a disposal unit. It's draining me away. I don't know how much of me remains." Mr. Rolands the art teacher allows two fourteen year old pupils to sit in on one of his evening broadcasts for Radio Brichester. There had been a fire at the building the previous night and this seems to have had some damaging effect on the microphone which plays up abysmally throughout. Locked inside his tiny studio, abandoned by Malcolm the producer who's disappeared to the pub, Mr. Roland fast unravels as he's recorded out of existence ... (David A. Sutton [ed.] New Writings In Horror & Supernatural, Sphere, 1971. Reprinted in the same editor's Horror - Under The Tombstones, Shadow, 2013). Ramsey's revelations re a radio interview with Rosie Dixon starlet can be read on this thread ( Captives of Gor) Davis Grubb - Radio: ( Twelve Tales of Suspense and the Supernatural, Scribners, 1964). Will and Anne, sweltering in the heat of their miserable East Twenty-third Street Hovel. Will reckons we're at the mercy of machines and tonight his radio seems determined to prove him right. The volume button is jammed, the plug fused in the socket, and he can't turn it off. The perpetual bombardment of grim news items and singing commercials grates on his nerves until there's nothing for it but to take a claw hammer to the bastard. At last. Perfect near-silence. But Anne loved that radio, even the crappy ads, and when she takes to parroting them static and all, Will reckons maybe the time has come to switch her off as well. ( One Foot In The Grave, Arrow 1966). David Hopkins - The Danny Roberts Show: A bullying talkshow host, who promotes himself as the lonely heart's friend, finds himself on the wrong side of a vengeful mystery caller. (Pamela Lonsdale [ed.], Spooky, 1984). A. W. Calder – Song Of Death: ( Weird Tales, June 1938). Trumpeter Charles Corliss and his orchestra début a song written by a young singer named Alwa on their popular radio show. At the end of her dynamic vocal, Alwa stumbles at the mic stand, drops down dead. The band agree never again to perform the-song-with-no-name, but the-song-with-no-name has other ideas. During the next live show, Charlie has to shove his tongue up his sax to prevent belting out those deadly minor keys, and it becomes glaringly apparent that Alwa's vampire melody is another Gloomy Sunday, dealing death to musician and appreciative radio listener alike. The studio shuts down and Charlie disbands the orchestra as "life would mean only an endless cringing from this song." Am sure we've all been there. Reprinted in Kurt Singer's 2nd Ghost Omnibus, Nel/Four Square, 1967. H. R. Wakefield - Ghost Hunt: ( Weird Tales, March 1948). Tony Weldon, Ghost-busting proto-shock jock, ill-advisedly broadcasts live from The Red Lodge! Noise Annoys bonus supplement:(i.e., neither are as radio friendly as I mis-remembered. Good stories, though). R. Patrick Gates - Heavy Metal: Warning to head-banging metal muthas. When blasting out Highway To Hell at max. volume on your ghetto blaster, do not sit directly beneath the window of a raving maniac with an anvil at his disposal. (Jeff Gelb [ed.] Shock Rock, 1992). Richard Layon - Invitation To Murder: Shane Malone is struggling to complete a story for a new anthology and that inconsiderate broad just moved in next door won't keep the frigging noise down! ( Dreadful Tales, 2001). Any more?
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Post by ropardoe on Sept 9, 2017 13:05:28 GMT
Self-explanatory thread title, too dull to think of anything snappier. An imaginary anthology of loosely radio-themed horror/ supernatural stories. Jack Oleck - All Through The House: " ... and a man described as a homicidal maniac has escaped from the Middleton hospital for the criminally insane. He is described as being six feet three inches tall, two hundred and ten pounds, dark eyes, long black hair, and he may be wearing a Santa Claus costume stolen from a shop in Burley."You know The Rest. ( Tales From The Crypt, 1972). Gregory Nicoll - Dead Air: Disc-jockey on the graveyard shift is pursued around his studio after a caller requests he play Screaming Lord Sutch's Hands of Jack the Ripper. (Susan Casper & Gardner Dozois [eds.], Jack The Ripper, Futura, 1988) Gary Power - The Road To Hell: Anthony Lerrom, disgraced MP and all round bad egg turned media lovie, is driving to Brighton to dish more dirt on his former Parliamentary colleagues via yet another lucrative radio interview. Then it's back to the hotel for a three-in-a-bed romp with a pair of busty bimbo's. Let's all pray he gets there safely. (Sean Wright [ed.] When Graveyard's Yawn, 2006: Vault Advent Calendar, 2013. Read it hereRex Miller - The Voice: A BeBop DJ on lates at a Dallas station finally persuades regular caller, Patricia of the lovely, sexy velvet voice, that they should meet up the next time her husband is out of town. Their tryst is not a success. Voice of a siren she may have, but a house fire has seen to it that Patricia has the face of Lon Chaney in The Phantom Of The Opera. A laudiably ghastly five-pager from the Slob man. (Jeff Gelb & Lonn Friend, [eds], Hot Blood, Pocket, 1989). Ramsey Campbell - Broadcast: "The microphone ... It's like a disposal unit. It's draining me away. I don't know how much of me remains." Mr. Rolands the art teacher allows two fourteen year old pupils to sit in on one of his evening broadcasts for Radio Brichester. There had been a fire at the building the previous night and this seems to have had some damaging effect on the microphone which plays up abysmally throughout. Locked inside his tiny studio, abandoned by Malcolm the producer who's disappeared to the pub, Mr. Roland fast unravels as he's recorded out of existence ... (David A. Sutton [ed.] New Writings In Horror & Supernatural, Sphere, 1971. Reprinted in the same editor's Horror - Under The Tombstones, Shadow, 2013). Ramsey's revelations re a radio interview with Rosie Dixon starlet can be read on this thread ( Captives of Gor) Davis Grubb - Radio: ( Twelve Tales of Suspense and the Supernatural, Scribners, 1964). Will and Anne, sweltering in the heat of their miserable East Twenty-third Street Hovel. Will reckons we're at the mercy of machines and tonight his radio seems determined to prove him right. The volume button is jammed, the plug fused in the socket, and he can't turn it off. The perpetual bombardment of grim news items and singing commercials grates on his nerves until there's nothing for it but to take a claw hammer to the bastard. At last. Perfect near-silence. But Anne loved that radio, even the crappy ads, and when she takes to parroting them static and all, Will reckons maybe the time has come to switch her off as well. ( One Foot In The Grave, Arrow 1966). David Hopkins - The Danny Roberts Show: A bullying talkshow host, who promotes himself as the lonely heart's friend, finds himself on the wrong side of a vengeful mystery caller. (Pamela Lonsdale [ed.], Spooky, 1984). A. W. Calder – Song Of Death: ( Weird Tales, June 1938). Trumpeter Charles Corliss and his orchestra début a song written by a young singer named Alwa on their popular radio show. At the end of her dynamic vocal, Alwa stumbles at the mic stand, drops down dead. The band agree never again to perform the-song-with-no-name, but the-song-with-no-name has other ideas. During the next live show, Charlie has to shove his tongue up his sax to prevent belting out those deadly minor keys, and it becomes glaringly apparent that Alwa's vampire melody is another Gloomy Sunday, dealing death to musician and appreciative radio listener alike. The studio shuts down and Charlie disbands the orchestra as "life would mean only an endless cringing from this song." Am sure we've all been there. Reprinted in Kurt Singer's 2nd Ghost Omnibus, Nel/Four Square, 1967. H. R. Wakefield - Ghost Hunt: ( Weird Tales, March 1948). Tony Weldon, Ghost-busting proto-shock jock, ill-advisedly broadcasts live from The Red Lodge! Noise Annoys bonus supplement:(i.e., neither are as radio friendly as I mis-remembered. Good stories, though). R. Patrick Gates - Heavy Metal: Warning to head-banging metal muthas. When blasting out Highway To Hell at max. volume on your ghetto blaster, do not sit directly beneath the window of a raving maniac with an anvil at his disposal. (Jeff Gelb [ed.] Shock Rock, 1992). Richard Layon - Invitation To Murder: Shane Malone is struggling to complete a story for a new anthology and that inconsiderate broad just moved in next door won't keep the frigging noise down! ( Dreadful Tales, 2001). Any more? Rick Kennett's "The Windows" (G&S 13) fits. The narrator, presenting a radio show, witnesses sinister events going on through the windows into an adjoining studio (I believe there is a version of this on the talestoterrify.com podcast). Not a story, but also worth mentioning is the remarkably strange film Pontypool, about some sort of zombie invasion of a Canadian radio station. I really liked that film but (or perhaps because) I didn't understand it at all!
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Post by dem bones on Sept 9, 2017 13:35:21 GMT
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Post by ropardoe on Sept 25, 2017 11:29:44 GMT
Here's another one to add to the list, but I don't think it's actually appeared in print form. Lynne Truss's short story "The Proceedings of that Night" was read on Radio 4 on November 24, 2003. In my review in G&S Newsletter 6, I quoted the Radio Times description: Up a lonely lane in the back of beyond, an actor enters an unmanned studio to read a ghost story". "As the story unwinds," I say in my review, "we discover that it is the narrative itself which is haunted and peopled by characters doing their best to warn [the actor]! It is well read and acted by an increasingly, and understandably, spooked [actor], alone apart from the distant voice of a female director in another studio two hundred miles away (and even that eventually disappears)". There are a multiplicity of Jamesian references and I really liked it: there's something deeply metafictional about a story about a haunted radio broadcast being broadcast on radio! I've done a hunt of the Net and can't find a printed version, but apparently it was turned into a play in 2011.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Sept 25, 2017 13:32:34 GMT
Here's another one to add to the list, but I don't think it's actually appeared in print form. Lynne Truss's short story "The Proceedings of that Night" was read on Radio 4 on November 24, 2003. In my review in G&S Newsletter 6, I quoted the Radio Times description: Up a lonely lane in the back of beyond, an actor enters an unmanned studio to read a ghost story". "As the story unwinds," I say in my review, "we discover that it is the narrative itself which is haunted and peopled by characters doing their best to warn [the actor]! It is well read and acted by an increasingly, and understandably, spooked [actor], alone apart from the distant voice of a female director in another studio two hundred miles away (and even that eventually disappears)". There are a multiplicity of Jamesian references and I really liked it: there's something deeply metafictional about a story about a haunted radio broadcast being broadcast on radio! I've done a hunt of the Net and can't find a printed version, but apparently it was turned into a play in 2011. I remember this one well, as I'd made a point of listening to the readings on Radio 4 to see if a Jamesian story would suit and the very first one I happened to listen to was this. I was disappointed to miss the stage version when it was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2011. The original text for the radio version was online after the broadcast and I may have saved it somewhere. I'll have to see if I can locate it. 'The Danny Roberts Show', mentioned above, is one of the two episodes of kids anthology series 'Dramarama: Spooky' that could easily have sat in an anthology series for adults (the other being Alan Garner's 'The Keeper'). 'Two Five Seven' by Thana Niveau in The Eleventh Black Book of Horror revolves around wirelesses and numbers stations in a massively creepy way. I'm also a huge admirer of 'Pontypool'. The movie, that is. I couldn't get to grips with the book it's very loosely based on. There was also a radio version, though this was actually the film soundtrack without visuals, as I recall. Another film revolving around radios and ghosts is 'A Child's Voice', a short 70s number I was introduced to by Calenture, formerly of this parish. He uploaded the thing to YouTube, and it's a nicely creepy piece, with an intro from Valentine Dyall that adds a touch of homage. (Dyall's best 'Man in Black' tones also crop up on a wireless in 'Dutch Schlitz's Shoes', an episode of 'Dramarama' predecessor, 'Shadows'.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mrVaEebdVw&t=0s
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Post by dem bones on Sept 26, 2017 8:25:37 GMT
Thanks for the suggestions. Smite me for overlooking Two Five Seven! There must be at least one ghost or horror story based upon 'electronic voice phenomena'? "And now ... from the station that keeps you ahead of the news, over to Paula Scott in our radio car with the latest on last night's tragedy at the Fairfield Institute."Sixty pages in, Jo Gannon & Robert Knight's Plasmid - "They took to the sewers in a holocaust of horror," etc. - is already showing plenty potential. The studios of Metropole Radio, "the Sound of the South Coast," just about withstood a siege by controversial rock star Big Willy's rabid teeny-bopper fan-base. You suspect sterner tests await when the red-eyed albino flesh-eaters break cover. Added bonus; our heroine has attracted the attentions of an "(I'm your number one) SLIMY FAN." He's now pinned a pair of leopard-print briefs under her windscreen-wiper with a note, FOR YOU, PAULA. WHEN DO I GET YOURS? RICHIE..
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Sept 26, 2017 8:38:51 GMT
I can't believe I forgot During Barty's Party from Nigel Kneale's anthology series Beasts, the eponymous Barty's Party being the inane radio show that plays on in the background, and eventually offers a potential lifeline to a middle-aged couple besieged in their secluded house by a pack of hyper-intelligent rats.
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Post by rawlinson on Oct 5, 2017 21:28:14 GMT
Not about the radio, but would the radio play The Edison Cylinders be any use? A horror story about an early recording on wax cylinders. There was also an episode of the Tales from Beyond the Pale audio series that focused around a haunted radio station, Dead Air. There's also another story called Dead Air, quite a spooky Tenth Doctor audio story. It was a David Tennant audiobook based around a pirate radio station in the 60s that comes under assault from a creature that kills through noise. Then there's the episode of Suspense called On a Country Road, really tense and brilliant story with Cary Grant based on the familiar idea of a car breaking rown on a lonely road while the radio breaks the news of an escaped killer on the loose. Suspense also did a play called Ghost Hunt about a radio broadcast from a haunted house. Then there was The House at Spook Corner, a radio play about a radio documentary (In the story within the story) with the whole thing inspired by the Enfield Haunting. Jerry Stiller was in an episode of Tales from the Darkside about a shock jock getting tormented with calls. His son Ben did a spoof of the idea of a shock jock in Hell as a sketch for his t.v. show. I'm sure there's more too.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 6, 2017 10:10:50 GMT
Suspense also did a play called Ghost Hunt about a radio broadcast from a haunted house. Thanks for the suggestions, Rawlinson. Ghost Hunt is an adaptation of H. Russell Wakefield story of the same name. I think the Tales From The Darkside episode is The Devil's Advocate? Can now confirm that Oakhaven's Radio Metropole, "The Sound of the South Coast," comes under sustained attack from malodorous mutants in 'Robert Knight's superlative Plasmid, so that one most definitely qualifies for this thread.
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Post by rawlinson on Oct 6, 2017 14:17:36 GMT
That's the one. Also, would the Ghosts episode of Down the Line count? Down the Line was a comedy radio series from The Fast Show team about a call-in dj. When it first aired nobody realised it was a comedy show and were outraged thinking they were listening to a really incompetent dj the BBC had hired for some reason. They did a Ghosts themed episode that gets spookier as it goes on.
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Post by pbsplatter on Dec 31, 2022 14:47:40 GMT
Rex Miller: Shock Rock Jock From Jeff Gelb's Shock Rock II (1994; 1994 does seem to have been the final year for many of the Splatterpunk/New Horror-tinged anthologies that showed up from the mid-80s through the mid-90s). Miller treats us to another tale of misogyny and outrageous sexual abuse as a foul-mouthed, foul-souled shock jock gets his comeuppance. The ending rant from our female avenger has more than a little of the MeToo's about it (am somewhat amazed one of the Splat Pack hasn't turned their sights on Weinstein & Co.).
Donald Burleson: Snow Cancellations (From 2AM magazine, and subsequently in the first Jones & Campbell Best New Horror and, where I first encountered it as a lad, Read Magazine's YA horror collection Read If You Dare!)
Two kids, left to their own devices by a blizzard, chat on the phone and listen gleefully as the radio announcer lists off the snow cancellations, including their schools. Come to think of it, the announcer sounds a bit gleeful himself, and when one of the kids tries to reach his mom at the hospital she works (the hospital being 'cancelled'), there's nothing there. Soon it's whole apartment blocks that are being 'cancelled'. . .
A creepy read, and a good companion piece to Thana Niveau's "And May All Your Christmases"
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Post by humgoo on Sept 9, 2023 18:29:00 GMT
Programme title: So-Pure Soaps present Dare Danger with Deene Running time: 1 hour (live broadcast)
Hosted by: Nick Deene
Content: Host stays in the bedroom of a supposedly haunted mansion (phony, with no known legends attached to it) for an hour, with his leg handcuffed to the four-poster (real, as witnessed by two newsmen) so he can't escape.
Quote: "May I make a suggestion? Why do not you, who listen, turn out your lights too, and we will wait together in darkness for the approach of the creature known as the Curse of the Carridays—a creature which I hope, before the next hour is over, to describe to you." Listenership: 5 million Reception: Too successful
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Post by enoch on Sept 9, 2023 23:14:11 GMT
Programme title: So-Pure Soaps present Dare Danger with Deene Running time: 1 hour (live broadcast)
Hosted by: Nick Deene
Content: Host stays in the bedroom of a supposedly haunted mansion (phony, with no known legends attached to it) for an hour, with his leg handcuffed to the four-poster (real, as witnessed by two newsmen) so he can't escape.
Quote: "May I make a suggestion? Why do not you, who listen, turn out your lights too, and we will wait together in darkness for the approach of the creature known as the Curse of the Carridays—a creature which I hope, before the next hour is over, to describe to you." Listenership: 5 million Reception: Too successful
I've sometimes wondered if this story was an influence on the movie Ghost Watch. In one, an audience of millions provides the psychic energy to act as a sort of "super-seance"; in the other, the combined belief of millions that something is true gives rise to its actual existence.
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