Lively discussion, critique, and love of midcentury horror radio, all in a weekly podcast.
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Click here to text your Ghost Here you are, gathered round The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, ready to be guided into--and perhaps out of--another episode by The Ghost of Radio. This week, we hear a "Voice on the Wire" from Inner Sanctum. Where is that call coming from? Only one way to find out. File under: the point of no return See you soon…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back the The Cauldron, home to The Ghost of Radio and all things midcentury horror. This week, we ask "What the Devil" via Lights Out, Everybody. Rusty old saw or source of true horror? Only one way to find out. File under: no regrets--we mean it See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com I…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, eternally tended by The Ghost of Radio. This week, we encounter "The Stranger" with Theater Five; why has he come to us, and why won't he leave? File under: cannot or will not See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com Instagram @ghostofradio…
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Click here to text your Ghost You know you've come to the right place when The Cauldron appears, filled with episodes of midcentury horror radio for The Ghost of Radio to reach into, and pull out from. This week, we "Let the Lillies Consider", with Quiet, Please. Is a story about pretty flowers really horror material? Only one way to find out. File…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, where what you hear is what you get. This week, we get "An Eye for an Eye" from The Price of Fear, and this is very much an episode that delivers a very real, very sickening real-world horror. File under: this is not clickbait See you soon... Contact your Ghost a…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome to The Cauldron of midcentury radio, where it's all fun and games until The Ghost steps in to pull out an episode. This week, you attend an "Analytical Hour" with Suspense. Do not take lightly the warning to be on your guard for some unexpected shocks. File under: patient notes See you soon... Contact your Ghos…
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Click here to text your Ghost You've been drawn back to The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, with or against your will. Whatever the case may be, The Ghost of Radio is ready as always to entertain you. This week, we endure "Sexism Fails III", focused on a single, famous, revered, horrible example of the worst of sexism in any genre. File under:…
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Click here to text your Ghost It's hot around The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, as episodes boil in an unending bonfire for your listening... pleasure. This week, you'll hear "A True Ghost Story" from Beyond Midnight. What makes it true? More to the point, what makes it false? File under: it's not always about evil See you soon... Contact yo…
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Click here to text your Ghost It's time to gather around The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio with The Ghost of Radio, your guide to the otherworld of aural experience. This week, meet "Your Devoted Wife", with Suspense. What's true, what's false? Who's good, who's evil? File under: ask those questions four times each See you soon... Contact you…
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Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, where The Ghost of Radio is always waiting, always watching, always ready to lead you through another episode. This time, we are "Nameless", thanks to The Hermit's Cave. Will our souls ever find rest afterward? Only one way to find out. File under: a ch…
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Click here to text your Ghost You've returned once more to The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, eternally beckoned by The Ghost of Radio. If any guide to this world can be reliable, The Ghost is. This week, we hear--we experience--"Six Tales by Lord Dunsany", from The Black Mass. Will we ever awaken? Only one way to find out. File under: the ch…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to The Cauldron, your home for midcentury horror radio as curated for you by The Ghost of Radio. This week we listen from "Twelve to Five" along with Quiet, Please. Will we find peace in the small hours of the night? Are you really asking? File under: what is it about lonely disc jockeys...? See you soon..…
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Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to Cauldronside, where The Ghost of Radio keeps watch over an infinite well of episodes of midcentury horror radio. This week, we make "The Last Visit" with Nightfall. It raises many questions about the nature of the end--and what lies beyond. File under: why can't they know? See you soon... Cont…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to another session of midcentury horror radio as we gather around The Cauldron to listen to what The Ghost of Radio pulls from it. This week, we suffer from "August Heat", via Suspense. Will we ever really know what was behind that particular hot day? File under: your guess and mine See you soon... Contact…
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Click here to text your Ghost It's Cauldron time again, unchanging in any season in its dedication to midcentury horror radio. The Ghost of Radio is here to present "Death Rings Down the Curtain", from The Sealed Book. Formula established--end unknown. File under: what could go wrong? See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com …
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Click here to text your Ghost We gather with the mists around The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, ready to be led ever deeper into the genre by The Ghost of Radio. This week, we learn that our doom may still come from "Out of the Sky", whether or not it's from The Hall of Fantasy. File under: we're sorry See you soon... Contact your Ghost at m…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome once more to Cauldronside, where you breathe in the vapors of midcentury horror radio as administered by The Ghost of Radio. This week, you look into a very dangerous "Crystal Ball" with Beyond Midnight. You'll want to turn away before the vision ends, but don't do it--more than one life depends on seeing it th…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back, to the world of shadows that exists around The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio. This time, The Ghost of Radio plays a "Nocturne" for you, via The Haunting Hour. It's all very sleepy until it's not. File under: it ain't Kate Bush See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com Instagram…
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Click here to text your Ghost It's the return of The Cauldron, drawing near with its overflowing melee of midcentury horror radio, all for you, like it or not. This week, we "Give the Devil His Due" with the help of The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. What exactly will we lose? Only one way to find out. File under: both sides of the coin See you soon...…
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Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to Cauldronside, where midcentury horror radio runneth over. The Ghost of Radio is ready to take you on an unspeakable journey by hijacking the "Special to Hollywood", from Lights Out, Everybody. Does the plane ever land? Only one way to find out. See you soon... File under: hanging in midair Con…
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Click here to text your Ghost It's Cauldron time again--like midcentury horror radio itself, you can never leave it behind. The Ghost of Radio makes sure of that. This week, you learn how "Death Writes a Letter" from The Mysterious Traveler. Is it addressed to you? Only one way to find out. File under: an enormous claim awaits you See you soon... C…
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Click here to text your Ghost Here we sit, around The Cauldon of midcentury horror radio, minds glowing in the light of the fires tended by The Ghost of Radio. This week, our journey into the genre involves us in a "Design for Death", by way of The Sealed Book. What happens when the role of victim keeps slipping from one person to another? Only one…
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Click here to text your Ghost You've come back again to The Cauldron of midcentury radio, where The Ghost of Radio welcomes in all who seek the unknown. This week, we find it during a "Weekend at Gleebes", via Suspense. If you're seeking support and protection, you've come to the right place--if you know what not to do. File under: a beautiful fair…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back, for better or worse, to The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, eternally tended by The Ghost of Radio, your guide to, if not protector from, all the far reaches of this genre. This week, we enter "The House in the Garden", with Macabre. What will we find inside? Only one way to find out. File under: hal…
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Click here to text your Ghost You're back beside The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, ready--or not--for whatever The Ghost of Radio retrieves from it. This week, we have a "Nightmare" from Murder at Midnight. Not for the faint of heart. File under: you can't wake up See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com Instagram @gho…
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Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to the eternal Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, and to The Ghost of Radio who makes it all boil. This week, we encounter "The Murder Prophet" in The Inner Sanctum. Is he marriage material? Only one way to find out. File under: no, he's not See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost…
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Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome to The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, curated by The Ghost of Radio, your seeking craft of all things meant to leave you unsettled and rethinking your certainties. This week... we diverge. Into "Lights Out TV" of all things. It will be the exception that proves the rule. File under: just this on…
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Click here to text your Ghost You're back again in the company of The Ghost of Radio, guardian spirit of all entities midcentury horror radio. This week we "Return to Shadow Lake" with The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Not a pleasure trip. Advance warning given. File under: some stories are evil See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gm…
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Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to Cauldronside and The Ghost of Radio, presiding over all things midcentury horror radio. This week, we play an "End Game" with Suspense. What lies at the end of that country road? We find out once and for all--but you may not like the answer. File under: Dickens See you soon... Contact your Gho…
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Click here to text your Ghost When you fall into The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, never ask if you were pushed or if you jumped. Either way this week, The Ghost of Radio gives you the same thing: "William and Mary", from The Price of Fear. Each offers a trap; The Ghost offers a way out. File under: you were never pushed See you soon... Cont…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to Cauldronside, where The Ghost of Radio is always seated, brewing and brooding over a boiling mass of midcentury horror radio. Why? Well, to serve it up to you, of course. This week, we meet "The Man Who Died Yesterday," at Murder at Midnight. Will we save him, or will he save us? Only one way to find ou…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome to The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, and your host The Ghost of Radio, who gives you this week "World Enough and Time", by way of Theater Five. We hope you have nerves of steel. File under: reversal of fortune See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com Instagram @ghostofradio - alway…
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Click here to text your Ghost Back beside The Cauldron, looking for another plunge into midcentury horror radio? The Ghost of Radio is ready for you--just "Don't Tell Me About Halloween". Quiet, Please will explain why. File under: I can't remember her name See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com Instagram @ghostofradio - al…
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Click here to text your Ghost Hello everyone, all around the world, whoever you are, come to gather round The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio with The Ghost of Radio. This week, it seems appropriate to be "Back for Christmas" with Suspense. Well, not everyone is in the holiday spirit. File under: introducing... See you soon... Contact your Ghos…
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Click here to text your Ghost Back for another ride through The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, with The Ghost of Radio at the helm. You know by now it won't be uneventful, especially when we meet "The Easy Victim" from Suspense. Ideally, we all return home again safe and sound and single. File under: the whammy doubled See you soon... Contact…
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Click here to text your Ghost If you're not here at The Cauldron of midcentury radio to be unnerved to your marrow, you should leave now. The Ghost of Radio has a particularly impactful visit to "Sagamore Cottage" lined up for you, by way of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Something about the faint of heart... File under: she can hardly wait See you…
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Click here to text your Ghost All together now, around The Cauldron and The Ghost of Radio, where midcentury horror lives and breathes on the airwaves. This week, we theorize about "Themes", in a special episode curated by The Ghost. Be ready to pass judgment. File under: it's not about the date See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost…
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Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome to The Cauldron of The Ghost of Radio, presiding spirit over all things midcentury horror radio. This week, we meet a "Little Old Lady," via Lights Out, Everybody--or do we? Only one way to find out. File under: who answers that door? See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com Ins…
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Click here to text your Ghost You're back again at The Cauldron filled with episodes of midcentury horror radio, tended as always by The Ghost of Radio. This week, we meet "The Man who was Death" via Murder at Midnight. Will we survive the encounter? Only one way to find out. File under: it's always the human that scares you See you soon... Contact…
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Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome back to Cauldronside, where The Ghost of Radio awaits our gathering. This week our journey into midcentury horror radio exposes us to a "Shortwave Goodbye" from Nightfall. Will it send us on our way? Only one way to find out. File under: always echoes See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturygh…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome and enter if you will in the world of The Ghost of Radio, where the Cauldron of midcentury horror radio bubbles eternally with episodes to pull out and experience together. This week, we witness "The Juvenile Rebellion" by Suspense. Is it an armageddon we can get behind? Only one way to find out. File under: ev…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome to the end of the year, and the heights of terror as served up by The Ghost of Radio. As we conclude this Origin Season, we witness the end of it all when "Zero Hour" arrives, via Suspense. It doesn't get more intense than this. File under: you saw it coming See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost…
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Click here to text your Ghost We're deep in our origin season journey, which can only mean that this week holds deeper terrors than last week. So what do we experience this week? "Atrophy", via The Black Mass. Don't worry--there's nothing you can do. File under: prisons upon prisons See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcenturyghost@gmail.com In…
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Click here to text your Ghost You're back again, to honor the origin season of The Ghost of Radio by diving into the Cauldronette of specially curated episodes that represent the pinnacle of midcentury horror radio. This week the horror is delivered by way of the "Northern Lights" as described by Quiet, Please. Listen while you can still move. File…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome into the October Cauldronette, curated for the origin season of horror by The Ghost of Radio. This week, we trade places with a "Spider" in the jungles of Lights Out, Everybody. Malevolent imprisonment and criminal execution were never so horribly described. File under: Give us Kong! See you soon... Contact you…
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Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome into the heart of midcentury horror radio darkness that is The Ghost of Radio. This week, in honor of our origin season, we take you to "Them", via the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Hold on--the journey is just beginning. File under: phase 1 of the October Cauldronette See you soon... Contact your Ghost …
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Click here to text your Ghost Hello and welcome to The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, where The Ghost of Radio presides over a full immersion experience. This week, we see what happens when a "Strange Coupe Stays Overnight", over at Lights Out, Everybody. There's more than one drastic surprise in this story, so stick around. File under: origi…
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Click here to text your Ghost Welcome back to the deep waters of The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, ruled by The Ghost of Radio. Benevolent or malevolent, always a despot. This week, The Ghost makes you part of a "Convoy for Atlantis", by way of Dark Fantasy. Familiar with this legend? Let's hope so. File under: I really want to believe--I'm …
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Click here to text your Ghost You've returned to The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio, looking for another guided tour of the unknown from The Ghost of Radio. Good thing, too, because this week we go "Out the Window" with Suspense. When will you know the ride is over? Who says you will? File under: every name See you soon... Contact your Ghost a…
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Click here to text your Ghost Back again at The Cauldron of midcentury horror radio? You must be waiting for The Ghost of Radio to lead you into another episode. And here it is: "Welcome to Homerville", from Nightfall. Will it be a round trip? Only one way to find out. File under: they got the rights See you soon... Contact your Ghost at midcentury…
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