Tonight, Saturday, October 31st, 2009, is Halloween. Tangent Online has, for the past week, showcased an Old Time Radio horror classic each night. We end this nightly week of horror, terror, the macabre and the supernatural with an early episode from the very first all-original horror series on radio, The Witch’s Tale, which takes us …

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Tonight, Friday, October 30th, 2009, Tangent Online presents the sixth of its week long Old Time Radio classic horror tales devoted to “Halloween Week 2009.” The following tale is an undisputed classic. We offer the finest of its four OTR dramatizations, and the second of this week’s shows featuring in the lead role the incomparable …

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Tonight, Thursday, October 29th, 2009, Tangent Online presents the fifth in its week long series of Old Time Radio classic horror tales celebrating “Halloween Week 2009.” Tonight makes two in a row from Lights Out, and is one of the most terrifying scenarios we can imagine, as one young woman’s life depends on a madman’s …

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Tonight, Wednesday, October 28th, 2009, Tangent Online presents the fourth in its week long “Halloween Week 2009” series of Old Time Radio horror tales leading up to All-Hallows-Eve on Saturday, October 31st. A word of caution:  stick with this one until the very end. “The Ball” aired on radio’s outstanding horror series, Lights Out, on …

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Tonight, Tuesday, October 27th, 2009, Tangent Online presents the third in its week long “Halloween Week 2009” Old Time Radio horror presentations. If you hate rats, especially swarming, hungry, rats, and you’re trapped with no escape and they’re coming for you, what do you do? In “The Digger” one man’s internal demons might be worse than …

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Tonight, Monday, October 26th, 2009, Tangent Online brings you the second of its week long “Halloween Week 2009” Old Time Radio classic horror tales. It is one of the most famous and highly regarded in all of Old Time Radio. “Three Skeleton Key” was written by French author George Toudouze and first appeared in Esquire magazine. …

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Today, Sunday, October 25th, 2009, Tangent Online begins its once-a-year week long celebration of the Halloween season with the first of this week’s Old Time Radio horror classics. Beginning today, we will present one classic OTR episode every day, culminating on Saturday, October 31st–All Hallows Eve–where we have planned, in addition to that evening’s horror tale, a little something extra. While some of these tales will be familiar to Old Time Radio buffs, a few we imagine might be more obscure. We open, if you will, this week’s seasonal coffin of horrors with a pair of horror tales. The first, with Boris Karloff, is an SF horror tale, though those down the line you’ll find will arouse in you terror and horror in any number of more traditional ways. After all, as H. P. Lovercraft once wrote (and we loosely and generously paraphrase), horror is an emotion, a feeling, an atmosphere. We hope that you enjoy them.

Jerry Sohl (1913-2002) entered the SF field with his story “The Seventh Order” (Galaxy, March, 1952). This X Minus One adaptation aired May 8, 1956. The theme of Man vs. Machine is an old one in science-fiction, takes many forms, and even goes beyond into the world at large, witness Stephen Vincent Benet’s adapted for …

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