Today marks the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles’ broadcast of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. Welles, and his Mercury Theater players, produced a radio play on October 30, 1938 based on HG Wells’ book. Though it was preceded by a disclaimer that it was a fiction, the play itself was interwoven with “fake”…
31 Days of Halloween — October 28, 2013
It is well known that the old Manton house is haunted. In all the rural district near about, and even in the town of Marshall, a mile away, not one person of unbiased mind entertains a doubt of it; incredulity is confined to those opinionated persons who will be called “cranks” as soon as the…
31 Days of Halloween — October 27, 2013
When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. Indeed, Lord Canterville himself, who was a man of the most punctilious honour, had felt it his duty to mention the…
31 Days of Halloween — October 25, 2013
“The others went upstairs, a slow unwilling procession. If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling. But this house was the essence of modernity. There were no dark corners – no possible sliding panels – it was flooded…
31 Days of Halloween — October 22, 2013
“All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have…