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31 Days of Halloween: Day 31

Well, here it is - Halloween and the end of our 31 day countdown. I hope everyone's enjoyed these few trifles in the spirit of the season. But, just because Halloween is here and soon to be no more than a ghastly spectre in our memories, the (nearly) daily offering of images, radio shows, podcasts and tunes will go on with various themes throughout the year.

Today's Comic :
   

Today's Film - Taken from a Universal Pressbook for Bride of Frankenstein...

Today's Tale:
H.P. Lovecraft's The Rats in the Walls

Today's Tune:
Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos - Hearse With A Curse

Today's Links:
Flickr Sets featured in this months countdown...

• Horror Film Posters
• Horror Comics
• Horror Screen Caps

Halloween Mix 5 at Spread The Good Word

Link: Spread The Good Word.

"THAT’S IT my dear friends, boohoohooohooooooo... this is the last and final part of your favorite halloween mixes !

His voice was soft and very slow,
As he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allen Poe,
"And my soul from out that shadow floating on the floor,
Shall be lifted--Nevermore!"

Selections from The Haunted House... at audium

Link: audium.

"Special Halloween treat for all you Audium readers around the world. I present: "Selections from The Haunted House and Other Spooky Poems and Tales". I've digitized all the tracks into mp3s and scanned the cover too. This is a pretty "high-culture" kid's record, including work by Langston Hughes, Goethe, Theodore Roethke. It's also interesting to think of all these authors having written spooky or macabre pieces. I bought this 45 in a thrift store in Honolulu several years back. As the ballpoint pen on the back attests, it once belonged to an "Anne Wong". The record was released by Scholastic in 1970, and contains selections from a book of the same name."

Summer of Lurve compilation at PLANET XTABAY

Link: PLANET XTABAY.

"Lurve is in the air and Xtabay is eagerly anticipating summer. You unlucky Northern Hemispherites will be expecting winter soon haha (sorry didn't mean that). Mr and Mrs Xtabay will soon be leaving the bustling metropolis of Perth and moving to a not so sleepy holiday resort called Mandurah about one hours drive from Perth...Anyway just to get us in the mood here's a compilation by Xtabay featuring Space Age Songs all with the word 'Love' in them. Grooovy Baby. Have fun!."

31 Days of Halloween: Day 30

Today's Comic:

   

Today's Tale:
Ghosts and Ghosthunters
(Final part of Nottingham Radio occult series)

Today's Tune:
With Her Head Tucked Under Her Arm - Rudy Vallee

31 Days of Halloween: Day 29

Today's Film - The 1944 adaptation of Curt Siodmak's novel Donovan's Brain:

The Lady and the Monster (1944)

Today's Comics - A pair of horrific Vaults:

   

Today's Tale:
The Bodysnatchers in Nottingham (24min. 17mb)
(Part 2 of Nottingham Radio's Triology of Terror Documentary series)

31 Days of Halloween: Day 28

Today's Comic - The Phantom Stranger:

   

Today's Tale:
The Witch and The Witchfinder
(Exellent Nottingham Radio Occult Documentary focusing on the diabolical career of Matthew Hopkins - Witchfinder General)

Today's Link:
Printable Star Wars Halloween Masks

Why Fidelity: October Pledge Drive - Exclusive Bonus Podcasts

Link: Why Fidelity: October Pledge Drive - Exclusive Bonus Podcasts.

If you enjoy this site, the Why Fidelity Podcast, Mystifyingly Glad Radio or any of the other projects I've worked on over the years please consider making a small donation to help keep the SWO family of sites afloat.

There's a pledge drive going on over at Why Fildelity (huge thanks to all those who have already pitched in!) where I'm offering a pair of bonus shows (including a bonus Halloween program) available only to folks who make a $5 donation. But, even if you could care less about the bonus podcasts, evey donation helps support this site as well.

"Help support Why Fidelity in the month of October and you'll not only be helping us keep the podcast alive but you'll also receive two special, exclusive, bonus, double length podcasts available only to listeners who help out with a $5 donation.

Hear more of your favorite Why Fidelity artists with extra long sets and virtually no annoying computer voices."

October Pledge Drive and bonus podcast Info

Are You Ready for Inner Space? at Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else

Link: Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else.

Another gem you almost certainly won't hear anyplace else -

Are You Ready For Life In Inner Space?

"...Specifically, the question shows up on the cover and on the record label. And I think it appears, in echo-backed form, in the recording itself. Not sure. I do know that Are You Ready for Life in Inner Space? is the kind of stupid but entertaining record I die to find. Well, actually, that I live to find. But this is Halloween....

I also know that writer-narrator-director Bert Tenzer produced, wrote, and directed the 1969 move Two Thousand Years Later, which, according to New York Times critic Howard Thompson, "simply isn't funny." The movie starred Terry-Thomas, Edward Everett Horton, and Pat Harrington..."

31 Days of Halloween: Day 27

Today's Comic - Weird Mystery sinks the Titanic:

Today's Film - Metropolis:

Today's Tale:
The Dunwich Horror - Suspense (1945)

Serge Gainsbourg's Eurovision at spikedcandy

Link: spikedcandy.blog-city.com.

Lots of swell Eurovision/Serge related goodies!

Yet more Halloween goodness at Tiki-Tim's Exotica Lounge

Link: Tiki-Tim's Exotica Lounge.

Lots more Halloween treats for our listening (and dancing) pleasure including Les Baxter's Lovecraft OST The Dunwich Horror, Vic Mizzy's The Addam's Family, Gene Moss's Dracula's Greatest Hits and so much more!

BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - John Peel Day

Link: BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - John Peel Day.

To mark the first anniversary of the death of John Peel, we remember the man by talking to the ordinary people whose lives he touched - the fans, the obscure record labels, and the struggling musicians.

We hear from the network of loyal Peel listeners who swap cassette recordings of shows from the seventies, the musicians doing their bit to honour John, the DJs and record-label owners on the very fringes of musical taste that Peel championed.

Not the Jarvis Cockers and the PJ Harveys, but the happy hardcore DJs and the death metal labels.

All over the UK, and in fact round the world, people are doing their bit, small or large, to honour john's memory. From the red tulip being named in his honour, to the Cuban Boys tribute track, to the young listeners determined to become radio presenters so they can seek out unsigned bands the way John did.

They are are united in their determination to keep the spirit of John alive - to keep it Peel.

Muito Na Onda and Arthur Lyman at The Collector

Link: :::: THE COLLECTOR : eclectic magazine.

Muito Na Onda's

Conjunto 3D and Arthur Lyman's Love For Sale now being shared, amidst much other goodness, at The Collector

31 Days of Halloween: Day 26

Today's Comics:

Today's Film:

Today's Tale:
Escape  - Ancient Sorceries (1948)

Today's Tune:
Mike Sarne - Dracula's Castle

31 Days of Halloween: Day 25

Today's Comics :

Today's Tale - Another tale of unfathomable terror from Father Knows Best:
Father Knows Best - Halloween Blues (1953)

Today's Tune:
Poe For Moderns - The Raven

Chappell Library/Mark Duval at PLANET XTABAY

Link: PLANET XTABAY.

Some retro-library sounds as Mark Duval plays the music of Pete Moore - Part of the Chappell library.

Scooby Doo at I Dig Worms & Scooby Doo Case Files

Link: I Dig Worms.

IDW re-links a tremendous collection of music cues from the classic Scooby Doo toons. Tunes actually come from the exellent Scooby Doo Case Files site but are a pain to access. Do make sure you check out the Case Files for tons of Scoobylicious goodness.

I Dig Worms also adds a groovy tune from Davy Jones' appearance on The Scooby Doo Mysteries and lots more good stuff besides...

The Lost Continent at Basic Hip Digital Oddio

Link: Basic Hip Digital Oddio.

Exotic Soundtrack action at Basic Hip...

The Lost Continent :

Francesco Lavagnino
MGM Records E3635 Mono 1957

George DeWitt at The Department Of Records

Link: The Department Of Records.

"Now to George DeWitt: He was a singing waiter in Atlantic City, NJ during high school, and eventually entertained in USO tours during WWII. His nightclub and theater stints afterwards led him to the hosting gig on Name That Tune in the late '50s. He sang occasionally on the show, and his unique style sent folks to request this album, his first on Epic Records. Ray Ellis provides the backgrounds to the standards DeWitt sings."

Prez Prado at Pinicchio's Easy-Listening- & Instrumental-Corner

Link: Pinicchio's Easy-Listening- & Instrumental-Corner.

Pops and Prado
"Latin beat goes Space-Age-Pop. This is the first album that he added a Conn and a Hammond organ to his music, I guess. On most tracks only one of these electric organs is used, but on "Carolina In The Morning", "You're Driving Me Crazy!", "Paper Doll" and "If You Knew Susie", both are used. What a sound!"

Halloween Madness at Tiki-Tim's Exotica Lounge

Link: Tiki-Tim's Exotica Lounge.

Tons of triffic terror inducing shares at Tiki-Tims...Go Now!

Halloween at Jammin' Jamaican Sounds

Link: Jammin' Jamaican Sounds.

Tasty Reggae tracks in a Halloween style now on offer...including tracks from Yelloman, Peter Tosh, and, what I'm groovin' to right now, Lone Ranger's tribute to '60's daytime bloodsucker Barnabas Collins!

31 Days of Halloween: Day 24

Today's Film - Fay Wray sans giant ape in Black Moon:

Today's Comics - Tower of Shadows:

Today's Tale: Halloween Father Knows Best Style
Father Knows Best - A Spooky Cemetary (1950)

Today's Tune:
Ghosts in White Linen

Why Fidelity's Trilogy of Terror part 3

Link: Why Fidelity.

Here's the final ghastly installment in Why Fidelity's Trilogy of Terror. Join us as we call on the spirits of ...

Playlist:

    * Halloween Spooks - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
    * Bela's Bash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett
    * Mysterious Mose - Ted Weems
    * The Shrimpenstein Song - Gene Moss
    * Song From Spider Baby - Lon Chaney Jr.
    * The Mummy - Bob McFadden
    * The Mummy's Bracelet - Lee Ross
    * Teenage Creature - Lord Luther
    * La Fete Fantastque - Pierre Arvey
    * Industrie Spatiale - Robert Hermel
    * Yodelling Ghost - Patsy Montana

31 Days of Halloween: Day 23

Today's Comics - A pair of covers from DC's tome of creepy combat Weird War:

Today's Film -The culty euro-horror of What Have You Done to Solange?

Today's Tale:
The Sealed Book - Queen of the Cats

Today's Tunes:
Serge G. pays tribute to a pair of legendary villains.

Miracle Mile at Score*Blog

Link: Score*Blog-Soundtracks audioblog.

Some tracks from Tangerine Dream's soundtrack to the fairly disturbing (when I saw it as a teen) film Miracle Mile. The blog is en francais but well worth keeping up with even if you don't read French - just babelfish it....

Même si pour certains cela peut paraître un peu daté, je trouve qu’au moins les partitions électroniques s’affirmaient en tant que telles offrant un charme et une ambiance que l’on ne retrouve plus aujourd’hui tant les machines produisent un son identique à un orchestre.

A Bloody Halloween Mix Part 4 at Spread The Good Word

Link: Spread The Good Word.

Rev Frost does it again...

Klatu verata niktu !!!
Klatu verata niktu !!!
Klatu verata Neekkhurrmmhurrm...Here comes the 4th Part !!!

A Bloody Halloween Mix Part 4 (28 :18)

31 Days of Halloween: Day 22

Today's Comic - The Twilight Zone
A rather comical take on the Gremlin theme...

Today's Film - The Bride of Frankenstein:

Today's Tale:
Escape - The Ring of Thoth
(adaptation of Conan Doyle's tale of Ancient Egyptian immortality)

Today's Tune:
Frankie Frankenstein - Ivan

31 Days of Halloween: Day 21

Today's Comic - Super Mystery Comics:

Today's Film -The Haunted House:

Today's Tales :
More Ghastly Goodness from Vincent Price (20mb)

Today's Tune:
Hollywood Flames - Frankenstein's Den

Barnacle Press: Inside Woody Allen

Link: Barnacle Press: Inside Woody Allen.

Some rough but very welcome fiche scans of the fairly amusing Inside Woody Allen strip that used to run in various newspapers back in the day.

31 Days of Halloween: Day 19

Today's Comic: The (very first) Witching Hour:

Today's Film: The Rocky Horror Picture Show:

Today's Tales:
Vincent Price - A Graveyard of Ghost Tales part 1 (20mb)

Today's Tune:
Brownsville Station-The Martian Boogie

31 Days of Halloween: Day 18

Today's Comics - Outer Space & Weird Science:

Today's Film - I was a Teenage Werewolf:

Today's Tale:
Lights Out : Sub Basement

Today's Tune:
Jack And Jim - Midnight Monsters Hop

Today's Links:

• Mobius Home Video Forum
• Giallo at Kinoeye
• Fortean Times

Indian Reservation and Other Top Pop Hits at PLANET XTABAY

Link: PLANET XTABAY.

Indian Reservation and Other Top Pop Hits:
Some good hip sounds circa 1967 by various Living conglomerations (Living Strings, Living Brass etc).

Mexican Rock & Roll Rumble at Record Brother

Link: RecordBrother.

"No International music posting could be complete without some jams from our Brothers and Sisters south of the Border no I'm not tawkin' bout' Jersey these fine Latin Rockers come once again off a comp brought many many many many,[ ridiculous ain't it] many, many many years ago,..."

Jeane Dixon at Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else

Link: Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else.

"...on this 1967 side made for the Bell label, she goes on and on about her "gift of prophecy" (as bestowed upon her by The Supreme Being and first detected, in gasping fashion, by a "Gypsy") and how wonderful the gift is and how "Visions are not a form of psychic phenomena" (a very important point, for some reason), and how we all have the potential to "become great," though, to become great, we "need only go one inch beyond mediocrity," and so on and so on. We get the point--Jeane had great powers. Wonderful, marvelous powers. Unfortunately, her great powers had zero impact on the shape of things to be, save for making her rich and famous..."

More Death and Horror at Pastor McPurvis' Weekly mp3 Talent Show

Link: Pastor McPurvis' Weekly mp3 Talent Show.

Another brilliant find from the Vinyl Orphanage...

"Up this week we’re continuing the Halloween fun with this grizzly offering of various vignettes of demise. Recorded in 1978, ‘More Death and Horror’ is the work of BBC employees Mike Harding and Peter Harwood who created the audio scenes of death in the studio using various everyday objects. Paper mache becomes a mucky swamp, raw potatoes become gouged out eyeballs, and a dripping teapot stands in for a sewer..."

Ferrante & Teicher at TAM TAM & Melodie

Link: TAM TAM & Melodie.

Lovely new share at TT&M...

Ferrante & Teicher - Pianos In Paradise

31 Days of Halloween: Day 17

Today's Film - The Whispering Shadow:

Today's Comic - Tales Calculated to Drive You Bats:

Today's Tale:
The Teeth of Abbot Thomas

Today's Tune:
Ichabod Crane - Dave Rudolph

Today's Links:
Old Haunts
Victorian Halloween
Gothic Tales at Blackmask

Rip Van Winkle & Ichabod Crane at Kiddie Records Weekly

Link: Kiddie Records Weekly.

This week at KRW it's Walter Huston starring in the tale of Rip Van Winkle and Der Bingle in The Story of Ichabod Crane

31 Days of Halloween: Day 17

Today's Comic - Bob Hope:

Today's Film - Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein:

Today's Tale:
Lights Out : The Signalman (1946)

Today's Tunes:
Why Fidelity's Trilogy of Terror Part 2

Halloween Mix at Spread The Good Word

Link: Spread The Good Word.

Nifty Halloween Mix now up at StGW...

"Pull de string!, Pull de string!, Pull de string !!! Beware of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys, puppy-dog tails and big fat snails... Here comes the third part of thee bloody Halloween mix !!!"

Hatari at PLANET XTABAY

Link: PLANET XTABAY.

"My first new download for a while is perhaps my favourite Henry Mancini soundtrack - Hatari! Listen to Sounds of Hatari and Baby Elephant Walk for two classic exotica tracks."

The Cricketer at RecordBrother

Link: RecordBrother: Truly International.

"...got some delectable take away flavors for ya this weekend first up is this slice of Hindi Film goodness these tracks aren't your average Asha, Lata, Kumar,Rafi hits no no there's something more than a little disco about this yummy number and that's not all..."

A Laughably Brief History of Music at Free Albums Galore

Link: Free Albums Galore.

"...a mix I put together of legal tracks available offsite. This compilation is called A Laughably Brief History of Music, and focuses on significantly innovative works and composers of music from the earliest era of notational music to today..."

Mrs.Acroyd at Boot Sale Sounds

Link: Boot Sale Sounds.

"Mrs.Acroyd is actually a dog and according to poet and songwriter Les Barker wrote several books of poems with Les's help back on the 70's and 80's. This LP "Mrs Ackroyd - Superstar" in on the Free Reed label from 1977..."

31 Days of Halloween: Day 16

Today's Comic - Dracula:

Today's Film - Hammer's Classic Curse of Frankenstein:

Today's Tale:
Ray Bradbury - The Veldt (12mb)

Today's Tune :
The Voodoo Man - The Del Vikings

Today's Links:

• The Dark Side of the Net
• The Horror Timeline
• Cute Creeps From Popular Culture

More OTR for Halloween

via Zombie Astronaut

The OTR Plot Spot and Gwangi's Radio Review are both sharing terrific classic Old Time Radio shows in the Halloween spirit.

Halloween at Zombie Astronaut

Humongous dollops of ghastly goodness this month from Zombie Astronaut. Where else can you find three dueling versions of War of the Worlds, a Universal Studios serialization of Dracula, an Invisible Ape, William Gibson,Zacherle and Milton DeLugg to mention but a few of the Z'astronaut's October offerings.

Go now...

Hallowe'en MP3s at Pop Debris!

Link: Pop Debris!.

Lots of nifty holiday tunage over at Pop Debris....

Today's treats come from Sacramento indide rockers The Groovie Ghoulies.