SatanYK EP LXXI Who Was In The Room Next Door (Lights Out Radio Horror Series)

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Lights Out debuted in 1934 and was radio's premier horror seriescreated by writer/director Wyllis Cooper, who later scripted Boris Karloff's1939 classic Son of Frankenstein.  Wyllis Cooper was a innovative radiowriter and worked on other notable shows such as The Empire Builders, QuietPlease, Campbell's Playhouse, The Army Hour, and Whitehall1212.  Lights Out truly set the bar high for other radiodramas in the 1930's due to its gore and strangeness.  It was one of thefirst old time radio shows that developed the medium of radio with distinctsound effects and dramas intended to be heard. Adhesive tape, stuck together and pulled apart, simulated the sound of aman's or woman's skin being ripped off. Pulling the leg off a frozen chickengave the illusion of an arm being torn out of its socket. A raw egg dropped ona plate stood in for an eye being gouged; poured corn syrup for flowing blood;cleavered cabbages and cantalopes for beheadings; snapped pencils and spareribsfor broken fingers and bones. The sound of a hand crushed? A lemon, laid on ananvil, smashed with a hammer. Cooper was succeeded by Arch Oboler, one of radio's greatest dramatictalents. Oboler had scripted the Mae West's 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 radioperformer who hosted his own series Boris Karloff's Treasure Chest and narratedRadio Reader's Digest broadcasts during the final two decades of hislife.⁠https://archive.org/details/lights-out_20200820/