The Haunting Hour

FORMAT: (1) MP3 CD The Haunting Hour is a very mysterious show. First, let's note that the Haunting Half-Hour would actually be correct, but an odd title for the show. So Haunting Hour it was.The second mystery is that, like so many of the great radio talents who labored in the background, unseen and unheralded, this show made for transcription has receded into the ethers of old time radio without a history. That is, the Magister Ludi of Old Time Radio himself, John Dunning, succinctly states in "On the Air, The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio," "There were no credits, so casts and production crews are unknown."Vanished without a trace? Were they really there, making real radio? The answer is yes, and the following set of shows proves it. Perhaps you, the kind listeners, might give us a clue to the talents involved. Or were we all just imagining it? It sounds like a plot for another Haunting Hour.The shows are classic chills from the old school, with creepy organ, overwrought women and over the top men. Perhaps not the highest of melodrama, but obsessively workmanlike. After all, they might have known they were a skeleton staff toiling relentlessly without a ghost of a chance of fame. Thanks to transcription, these unknowns are still with us. Episode List A Corpse There WasAssignment DeathBird of DeathBreakdownDark TowerDate in the DarkDeath By RequestDeath of JonathonDestination UnknownDevil's DeepDouble ThreatHomicide HouseIf the Shoe FitsLonesome HeartMentoMurder is My BusinessMurder Wears a Strange MaskNo EscapeNocturneOccupation MurderPale Hands That KillPeople in the HousePtolomey's GraveRevengeSecond ChanceSinister EstateSkyscraper MysteryTapping on the WindowThe Case of the Lonesome CorpsThe Cat ManThe Hands of Mr. SmithThe Old, Old ManThe Sixth ButtonThe ThoughtThe Two Mr. BrandtsTill Murder Do Us PartUnidentified BodyUptown Express