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The Weird Circle, Vol. 1 (Hollywood 360 - Classic Radio Collection)(Audio Theater)
The Weird Circle Vol 1 - Hollywood 360 - Classic Radio Collection - Audio Theater Author:Hollywood 360 [Volume 1][Audio Theater] Out of the ''time-worn pages of the past come phantoms from a world gone by'' in these stories of suspense and terror by classic authors of the nineteenth century. — The Weird Circle radio show was an anthology of classic thrillers from the pens of the world's best-known and respected fiction authors of the nineteenth ce... more »ntury. The focus was on stories of horror, suspense, and the supernatural by such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Mary Shelley, with an occasional drama by the likes of Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot.
For The Weird Circle, produced in New York by NBC and offered in syndication, the announcer sat in a cave beside a restless sea and instructed a bell keeper to ''toll the bell so all may know that we are gathered again in the weird circle for another strange and weird story from out of the past.''
The casts included New York's steady pool of busy supporting actors, including Lawson Zerbe, Eleanor Audley, Jackson Beck, Mason Adams, Raymond Edward Johnson, and Arnold Moss.
This collection of twelve episodes from 1943 includes stories based on works by Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Colllins, Honore de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee, and more.
CD 1.''The Fall of the House of Usher'' (29 Aug 43), ''The House and the Brain'' (5 Sep 43)
CD 2.''The Vendetta'' (12 Sep 43), ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym'' (19 Sep 43)
CD 3.''Declared Insane'' (26 Sep 43), ''A Terribly Strange Bed'' (3 Oct 43)
CD 4.''What Was It?'' (10 Oct 43), ''The Knightsbridge Mystery'' (17 Oct 43)
CD 5.''The Horla'' (24 Oct 43), ''William Wilson'' (31 Oct 43)
CD 6.''A Passion in the Desert'' (7 Nov 43), ''Mateo Falcone'' (14 Nov 43)« less