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filkertomSeventy-one years ago tonight, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds was adapted for radio by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre. Several other versions, including the 1988 NPR adaptation with Jason Robards and the 2005 version done by members of the cast of Star Trek, can be found here.
What are some of your favorite scary stories? I mean good, old-time, low-gore, on-the-door-handle-was-a-hook kinda stories. I love The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and a lot of Poe ("The Tell-Tale Heart" is still chilling -- here's Part One and Part Two of an amazing television performance by Vincent Price, and an animated version from 1953 narrated by James Mason). And H. P. Lovecraft's "The Statement of Randolph Carter" fucked me up for days.
What are some of your favorite scary stories? I mean good, old-time, low-gore, on-the-door-handle-was-a-hook kinda stories. I love The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and a lot of Poe ("The Tell-Tale Heart" is still chilling -- here's Part One and Part Two of an amazing television performance by Vincent Price, and an animated version from 1953 narrated by James Mason). And H. P. Lovecraft's "The Statement of Randolph Carter" fucked me up for days.
