Thrillers and Chillers

Another LP collection of scary stories from 1973
www.discogs.com/Various-Thril...
00:00 The Tell Tale Heart
08:59 The Monkey's Paw
19:47 The Boy Who Drew Cats
27:40 The Open Window

[@cm9439]

Ralph Bell, Robert Dryden and Dan Ocko we're talented radio veterans. Thanks for this post.

[@noman6041]

The great Robert Dryden from CBS Radio Mystery Theater reading The Tell Tale Heart and The Open Window. I always loved his voice and he was on almost every episode of Radio Theater. I just finished listening to your 'Great Ghost Stories' album, and Robert Dryden is also on that album telling the story of 'The Golden Arm'. I love these spooky story albums, very moody and creepy. Great to listen to late at night in the dark and alone!!

[@williamnorton9547]

It breaks my heart to know how few of these lost gems can still be found.

[@ThatGreenSpy]

Robert Dryden, Dan Ocko and Ralph Bell. Three legends in Halloween Ghost Stories.

[@mandiemiller5081]

I was running out of scary stories on youtube to listen to. I love I found this 🖤

[@thechadman69]

I remember listening to this when I was like 5 years old. Oh the memories

[@GRWelsh7]

They adapted some other Poe stories on CBS Radio Mystery Theater a year or two later. These albums from my childhood, in particular GREAT GHOST STORIES, let me to become a fan of Bell, Dryden, Ocko, CBSRMT, and old time radio shows!

[@noman6041]

And also the great Ralph Bell and Daniel Ocko. They must have been the 'go to' actors for all these albums. Fans of all their work, and both were also regular performers on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. They were also on the 'Great Ghost Stories'' album.

[@shannonlinville6192]

The Best 🌙

[@hic9283]

Just subscribed! I had all the old troll records when I was a kid from book fairs, now I have only one record left. Glad I found this... Lots of old memories. Good stories.... As you can see am a bit of an enthusiast.

[@ronaldshank7589]

Oh, yeah! That's it! Tell dude how to use the Monkey's paw, then warn against using it! That's real good! This is a great story about the power of subliminal suggestion, and how to get people to take disastrous risks. Only sorrow and death can result.

[@IsaPodrasky]

Seriously, when is iTunes going to put this up? I want to purchase it.

[@naturalperson24]

Good Stuff.

[@lenathompson4856]

00:00 - that is my favorite.

[@johndowney8575]

What clowns gives these a thumbs down🙄

[@PwllDdu]

That last story is written by Saki, isn't it?

[@calebjones4129]

Yes. H.H. Munro according to the Discogs.com listing. Adapted for radio by Arthur Writ.

[@RandomVideos66]

I don't get the last story. Where the people playing a prank on their guest? Or were they really ghosts?

[@bethanybody2201]

The little girl was playing a prank. She noticed Mr Nuttle was a nervous man. She knew her uncles would be coming home soon from hunting and she lied about them dying in a bog. She wanted to frighten Mr Nuttle. Just like she lied about Mr Nuttle being trapped in an open grave by dogs over night.

[@prodprod]

The last line of the short story by Saki is, "Romance at short notice was her specialty." "Romance, of course, in the old-fashioned sense of "a work of fiction dealing with events remote from real life".

[@ronaldshank7589]

@@bethanybody2201 If it was a prank, it worked-BIGTIME!!! If it wasn't a prank, it still worked-BIGTIME!!! Either way, it's still a great story. Truly frightening, & truly macabre. Truly!!!!! 👻☠️👻☠️👻!!!

[@davidpoole7067]

It isn't widely known, since the end of the story is almost always left off, but The Headless Horseman was also a prank, perpetrated by Bram Bones on his rival Icabod Crane to scare him out of town and away from Katrina Van Tassel. Hence the shattered pumpkin where there should have been a head. The original short story by Washington Irving reveals that it was a prank on the nervous schoolmaster at the end.

[@naturalperson24]

Time Portal

[@cm9439]

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