THE DEVIL AND MR. "O" - SPOOKY HORROR RADIO SHOWS OTR

THE DEVIL AND MISTER "O"

30 Radio shows - 30 minutes each

15 hours playback time

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IF YOU ARE A FAN OF HORROR THEN YOU WILL LOVE THESE OTR SHOWS.

And with 30 shows, playing at 15 hours, this is great value spooky entertainment!

The Devil and Mr. O

A transcribed syndication of original broadcasts from Lights Out.

With its premiere on the nationwide NBC hookup in 1935, Lights Out was billed "the ultimate in horror."

Never had such sounds been heard on the air. Heads rolled, bones were crushed, people fell from great heights and splattered wetly on pavement. There were garrotings, choking, heads split by cleavers, and, to a  critic at Radio Guide, "the most monstrous of all sounds, human flesh being eaten."

Few shows hadever combined the talents of actors and imaginative writers so well with the graphic art of the sound technician.

Wyllis Cooper, who created, wrote, and produced it, was then a 36-year-old staffer in Chicago's NBC

Studios.

Cooper created his horror "by raiding the larder." For the purposed of Lights Out sound effects, people were what they ate. The sound of a butcher knife rending a piece of uncooked pork was, when accompanied by shrieks and screams, the essence of murder to a listener alone at midnight.

Real boneswere broken - spareribs snapped with a pipe wrench. Bacon in a frypan gave a vivid impression of a  body just electrocuted. And the cannibalism effect was actually a zealous actor.

Gurgling and smacking his lips as he slurped up a bowl of spaghetti. Cabbages sounded like human heads when chopped open with a cleaver, and carrots had the pleasant resonance of fingers being lopped off.

Arch Oboler's celebrated tale of a man turned inside-out by a demonic fog was accomplished by soaking a rubber glove in water and stripping it off at the microphone while a berry basket was curshed at the same instant. The listener saw none of this. The listener saw carnage and death.

Cooper left the show in 1936 and Oboler was given the job. Oboler lost no time establishing himself as the new master of the macabre. Between May 1936 and July 1938, he wrote and directed more than 100 Lights Out plays.

To follow Cooper was a challenge: he was "the unsung pioneer of radio dramatic techniques," but Oboler had passed the test with his first play. His own name soon became synonymous with murder and gore, though horror as a genre had always left him cold. Oboler aspired to more serious writing.

Oboler's shows are well represented - this series of Lights Out was syndicated in the Devil and Mr. O.

offerings of 1970 - 73. A transcribed syndication of original broadcasts from 1942 - 43 with Arch

Oboler as the host.

            Across The Gap                   71-09-24    2
            Alley Cat                        71-09-17    1
            Ancestor                         71-10-29    7
            Archer                           71-10-29    7
            Balance Sheet                    71-12-24   15
            Ball, The                        72-02-04   21
            Big Mr. Little                   71-11-12    9
            Cat Wife                         71-09-17    1
            Cemetary                         72-02-25   24
            Chest, The                       72-01-28   20
            Fast One, The                    72-03-03   25
            Going Down                       71-12-17   14
            Gravestone                       71-10-22    6
            Hole, The                        71-12-03   12
            Hollywood Visitor                72-02-18   23
            House Is Haunted                 71-12-31   16
            Hungry One, The                  72-01-14   18
            Immortal Gentleman               71-12-10   13
            Little People                    72-03-10   26
            Live Forever                     71-12-10   13
            Lord Marley's Guest              72-02-18   23
            Meteor Man                       72-01-14   18
            Money, Money, Money              72-01-21   19
            Mr. Freak                        71-10-15    5
            Mr. Maggs                        72-01-28   20
            Mungahra                         71-12-31   16
            Nature Study                     71-11-05    8
            Neanderthal                      71-09-24    2
            No Escape                        71-11-19   10
            Official Killer                  72-01-07   17
            Organ                            71-11-26   11
            Oxychloride X                    71-12-03   12
            Paris Macabre                    72-02-04   21
            Poltergeist                      71-10-22    6
            Protective Mr. Drogen            71-11-12    9
            Revolt Of the Worms              71-10-01    3
            Rocket From Manhattan            72-02-11   22
            Scoop                            72-02-25   24
            Shrinking People                 72-03-10   26
            Speed                            72-03-03   25
            State Executioner                72-01-07   17
            Sub Basement                     71-12-17   14
            Three Thousand Dollars           72-01-21   19
            Ugliest Man In The World         71-10-15    5
            Vacation With Death              71-11-26   11
            Where Are You?                   71-10-08    4

PUBLIC DOMAIN MATERIAL: This OLD TIME RADIO shows are in the public domain and fully comply with EBAY policy.