This episode was originally released on 10/1/2018. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes beginning with this episode on the birth of radio.___________In Breaking Walls Episode 84, it’s the Simple Art of Macabre, to your ears from the mouths of some of the best who ever produced radio’s stuff of nightmares. Highlights:• Why Do We Like To Be Scared? 
• What pre-dated the radio horror program in the United States of America?
• The Witch’s Tale
• Cooper, Oboler, and Lights Out
• Orson Welles, Himan Brown, and Bill Spier
• Macabre Programming during World War II
• How Transcription Advanced the radio mystery program
• Escape, The Saint, and Vincent Price
• ABC and The Clock
• Quiet Please and Crime Classics
 • The Decline of the American audio drama in the 1950s
• Attempts at horror revivals
• Where we are todayThe WallBreakers:http://thewallbreakers.comSubscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.To support the show:http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakersThe reading material used in today’s episode was: • The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio - by John Dunning• The Witch's Tale: Stories of Gothic Horror from the Golden Age of Radio - by Alonzo Dean Cole• The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Handbook by Martin Grams Jr’s and Gordon Payton• Forecast: Is there a Sponsor in a House by Martin Grams Jr.• The Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Radio - by Christopher H. Sterling• Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran’s Golden Age of Radio programs can be found at goldenage-wtic.org • John Dunning’s Interviews can be found through the Old-Time Radio Researcher’s Library at OTRRLibrary.org.• Chuck Schaden’s interviews can be found at his site, SpeakingofRadio.com
Selected Music featured in today’s Episode was:• Seance on a Wet Afternoon composed by John Barry and rerecorded by Nic Raine* I’ve Got You Under My Skin - by Frank Sinatra