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 It's that time of year again, when October winds howl through the night and "trick or treat!" chanting reverbates through gaping doors.

It's time for a break, perhaps a scary story and what better than a couple of classic fright tales from yesteryear vintage radio dramas to go with the evening's activities!

We combed through the finest of stories of terror,suspense and horror

from the very best of old time radio

to bring you our handpicked winners

(the best of the best in our humble opinion)

that will surely raise goosebumps and

the hairs on the back of your neck.

So sit back,

listen in the dark,

we

DARE YOU!

"The HitchHiker"

starring:

Orson Welles

produced by:

Mercury Summer Theatre

This frightening urban legend is so popular that Orson Welles reprised his role twice for Mercury Theatre,

 once for Suspense and not to mention inspiring many other shows notably the Twilight Zone's episode of The Hitchhiker.

The story concerns Ronald Adams, a man driving cross-country from New York City to Los Angeles. On the morning he leaves New York, in the rain, Adams sees a man on the Brooklyn Bridge. He seems to be waiting for a lift. Adams sees the man again an hour later, hitch-hiking at the Pulaski Skyway. At several points along his journey, Adams repeatedly sees the same hitch-hiker, despite the fact that, logically, there is no possible way the mysterious man could always somehow get ahead of him.

Welles has expressed an opinion that Fletcher's The Hitch-Hiker and Sorry, Wrong Number were the two best suspense plays ever written for the medium of radio.

.excerpted from Wikipedia

"On a Country Road"

starring

Cary Grant,

Cathy Lewis & Jeannette Nolan

produced by:

Suspense

 One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" and focused on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era.  excerpted from Wikipedia

"An escaped lunatic from the asylum has already killed many people and remains uncaptured in sparsely populated rural area where a married couple decides to drive through and then runs out of gas..on a old country road of Terror!"

Approx. playing Time for both tales:

1 hour