This App allow you to stream 86 episodes of the old time radios most famous program of the weird and the supernatural, Lights Outs.
Lights Out debuted in 1934 and was radios premier horror series created by writer/director Wyllis Cooper, who later scripted Boris Karloffs 1939 classic Son of Frankenstein. Wyllis Cooper was a innovative radio writer and worked on other notable shows such as The Empire Builders, Quiet Please, Campbells Playhouse, The Army Hour, and Whitehall 1212. Lights Out truly set the bar high for other radio dramas in the 1930s due to its gore and strangeness. It was one of the first old time radio shows that developed the medium of radio with distinct sound effects and dramas intended to be heard.
Adhesive tape, stuck together and pulled apart, simulated the sound of a mans or womans skin being ripped off. Pulling the leg off a frozen chicken gave the illusion of an arm being torn out of its socket. A raw egg dropped on a plate stood in for an eye being gouged; poured corn syrup for flowing blood; cleavered cabbages and cantalopes for beheadings; snapped pencils and spareribs for broken fingers and bones. The sound of a hand crushed? A lemon, laid on an anvil, smashed with a hammer.
Cooper was succeeded by Arch Oboler, one of radios greatest dramatic talents. Oboler had scripted the Mae Wests infamous "Garden of Eden" sketch and brought a new level of psychological horror to radio in scripts like "Cat Wife," "Sub-Basement," and "Chicken Heart." Though most famous for his film roles, Karloff was an accomplished radio performer who hosted his own series Boris Karloffs Treasure Chest and narrated Radio Readers Digest broadcasts during the final two decades of his life.
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