I love these classic radio thrillers! You might be interested in this one, “The Gables” and three others listed under “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. Just follow the link here and enjoy! th-cam.com/video/Ot1sF7fkhMw/w-d-xo.html--Claud. Also, The latest production is now premiered, online and ready to view. "They Never Found a Body": th-cam.com/video/7pfXLyAvS08/w-d-xo.html/ ! Claud.
@@bsota8513 Hope you get to listen. The video images are just for distracton; they are purely intended to be listened to. I'm planning on producing another, eventually. COVID got in the way.
I love these classic radio thrillers! You might be interested in this one, “The Gables” and three others listed under “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. Just follow the link here and enjoy! th-cam.com/video/Ot1sF7fkhMw/w-d-xo.html--Claud. Also, The latest production is now premiered, online and ready to view. "They Never Found a Body": th-cam.com/video/7pfXLyAvS08/w-d-xo.html/ ! Claud.
sounds like another good one , i ordered the whole searies , it should be here in the morning , or even the next day , im so happy , i can"t waite to listen to all of the stories , i love utube , but i do wish i didn"t spend houres on it all the time , i do it cause i love old radio shows , and this one is my favorite , thank you so much
Marcus Kurtz is the series on CD the same poor quality recordings as many of the TH-cam shows, or are they the original clean non-broadcast recordings?
Thanks for bringing that story to my attention. I'd never heard of it, nor of Oliver Onions. I searched on TH-cam, found three audiobooks and a really creepy tv version of it aired in 1968 on the Hammer-Fox program Journey to the Unknown. I might play one of the audiobooks once I decide which reader I like best. I agree about Elspeth Eric; I keep a separate playlist just for her.
Sort of reminds me of Norman Bates in Psycho where he developed a personality of his deceased mother.....Stephen developed a personality of his character in his novel, Clarissa. The conversations we hear Stephen having with Clarissa turned out to be Stephen, who, seemingly, developed a dual personality as we learn after he attempts to burn the pages when he got too close to the flames.....I think is similar to that of Norman Bates in Psycho.
@36:36 - "Clarissa! You wouldn't!" "Wouldn't what?" "Fall in love... Fall in love with the ghost writer..." Of course not, Steven. You yourself just pointed out that she only loves herself. Another damned plot hole.
Apart from the surreal end, this story is plausible in real life. Many a spouse has left a marriage because their husband or wife was too obsessively in love with his or her work, and that's what the protagonist is facing (even if his wife feared there might literally be another woman). But that's not all... Clarissa was going to become a series, the publisher was already planning it, and that can sometimes damage an author creatively. A lot of Ian Fleming's potential was squandered when James Bond took over his career. I've often wished Larry McMurtry had killed Danny Deck after the first novel or two; the books with Danny in them were never McMurtry's best (instead, years later McMurtry killed Danny's wonderful daughter, a woman who deserved to live way more than Danny did). So I empathize with the novelist in this story and I admire Elspeth Eric's insight.
As expected, the episode gets the bible verse WRONG (as do so many others who quote 1st Timothy 6: 10). The correct quote is "For the *LOVE* of money is the root of all evil..."
Argh... This is a well-worn story I've heard many times from several different sources. Worst part is the way the writers of this piece danced around the ugly reality that "Clarissa" is a bloody flaming narcissist and about as pleasant as a black widow spider. In addition, the writers of this piece ignored the obvious solution of killing Clarissa off and [edit] having Steven write up another manipulative seductress with slight variations on the theme of the scheming narcissist. BIG plot hole there, all for the dramatic device of the conflict going on inside of Steven and the psychological tangle of Steven falling in love with his mirror image in drag.
But if Clarissa really is the "bloody flaming narcissist" you think she is, if she really is Steven's "mirror image in drag," why does Higgins think she's too wonderful a character to be killed off? He didn't get where he is by having such shallow insight into the works he publishes.
@@dontaylor7315 Higgins understood the obsession that can befall someone attracted to an attractive but cold-hearted lover. The obsession that a narcissist would have with a female version of himself would be even deeper, and would be paralyzing.
@@WWZenaDo And that's a basis for wanting the character preserved and planning a series around her? Higgins didn't say, or even hint, that he had a horror series in mind and that's about all the potential Clarissa has if she's the character you contend she is.
@@dontaylor7315wrote: "And that's the basis for wanting the character preserved and planning a series around her?" Dude, those are YOUR thoughts and words, not mine. I'm going to step away and let you continue arguing with the voices in your head.
@@WWZenaDo The "voices" are in the episode not in my head. Higgins proposed a series, implying Clarissa was a character worth building such a series on. If she were the character you describe she wouldn't be suitable for anything but horror novels. Did you LISTEN to the episode?
I love these classic radio thrillers! You might be interested in this one, “The Gables” and three others listed under “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. Just follow the link here and enjoy! th-cam.com/video/Ot1sF7fkhMw/w-d-xo.html--Claud. Also, The latest production is now premiered, online and ready to view. "They Never Found a Body": th-cam.com/video/7pfXLyAvS08/w-d-xo.html/ ! Claud.
Funny you mention that, because I have wondered several times while listening to shows if Stephen King was influenced by the show. I just thought about it the other day as a matter of fact, not this story but another. There are several. I'll have to think on it and try and recall which ones made me think of his books.
If it weren't for Robert Bloch,Rod Serling, Richard Matheson and other great writers of the 1960's king couldn't have written anything. Including the old horror movie From Beyond the Grave 1973 about the old store called Temptations Inc. that gave people what they wanted king then writes needful things. King can't be accused of being original.
This author is such a d-bag. "I love my wife sooo much so I'm going to ever-so-selflessly transfer the money and character to some ghost writer. Wait, this character that's not real might love someone else? NO! I'd rather screw over my wife than allow my character to... love another person!" And yeah, why isn't a female ghostwriter considered?
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These stories have been great to listen to every night I thouraghly enjoy them.
Listened today!!
I love these classic radio thrillers! You might be interested in this one, “The Gables” and three others listed under “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. Just follow the link here and enjoy! th-cam.com/video/Ot1sF7fkhMw/w-d-xo.html--Claud. Also, The latest production is now premiered, online and ready to view. "They Never Found a Body": th-cam.com/video/7pfXLyAvS08/w-d-xo.html/ ! Claud.
@@hudsony777 thank you
@@bsota8513 Hope you get to listen. The video images are just for distracton; they are purely intended to be listened to. I'm planning on producing another, eventually. COVID got in the way.
Oh how I wish Boris Karloff had done some of these! His voice would've been perfect!
Or Vincent Price x
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Great stuff to listen to, at night! I have not heard this one, yet!
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The voice acting in this one was above and beyond great. Thank you for sharing.
I love these classic radio thrillers! You might be interested in this one, “The Gables” and three others listed under “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. Just follow the link here and enjoy! th-cam.com/video/Ot1sF7fkhMw/w-d-xo.html--Claud. Also, The latest production is now premiered, online and ready to view. "They Never Found a Body": th-cam.com/video/7pfXLyAvS08/w-d-xo.html/ ! Claud.
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Thank you, I'll check them out!
@@jaceek2030 Sorry, it seems I may have written you before.
@@irvinpeeples4120 Hi Irvin Peeples.
sounds like another good one , i ordered the whole searies , it should be here in the morning , or even the next day , im so happy , i can"t waite to listen to all of the stories , i love utube , but i do wish i didn"t spend houres on it all the time , i do it cause i love old radio shows , and this one is my favorite , thank you so much
Marcus Kurtz is the series on CD the same poor quality recordings as many of the TH-cam shows, or are they the original clean non-broadcast recordings?
You can always count on something good from Elspeth. :) *vaguely* reminds me of Oliver Onions' classic, "the beckoning fair one".
A really fine ghost story writer. Always loved the name.
@T Z Yes, that was his name. Sometimes pronounced O NYE UNS, sometimes just like the vegetable. Not sure which is correct.
Thanks for bringing that story to my attention. I'd never heard of it, nor of Oliver Onions. I searched on TH-cam, found three audiobooks and a really creepy tv version of it aired in 1968 on the Hammer-Fox program Journey to the Unknown. I might play one of the audiobooks once I decide which reader I like best.
I agree about Elspeth Eric; I keep a separate playlist just for her.
@@dontaylor7315 my thanks in return. I was not aware of the BBC version 🥂 i’ll see if I can dig it up some place 🙃
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Find it here:
th-cam.com/video/restI3PIa1E/w-d-xo.html
I wish I could own them all on CDs. I wonder how much it would cost?
Sort of reminds me of Norman Bates in Psycho where he developed a personality of his deceased mother.....Stephen developed a personality of his character in his novel, Clarissa. The conversations we hear Stephen having with Clarissa turned out to be Stephen, who, seemingly, developed a dual personality as we learn after he attempts to burn the pages when he got too close to the flames.....I think is similar to that of Norman Bates in Psycho.
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Alternative ending in books like movies now in the future that would be nice
@36:36 - "Clarissa! You wouldn't!"
"Wouldn't what?"
"Fall in love... Fall in love with the ghost writer..."
Of course not, Steven. You yourself just pointed out that she only loves herself. Another damned plot hole.
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Apart from the surreal end, this story is plausible in real life. Many a spouse has left a marriage because their husband or wife was too obsessively in love with his or her work, and that's what the protagonist is facing (even if his wife feared there might literally be another woman). But that's not all...
Clarissa was going to become a series, the publisher was already planning it, and that can sometimes damage an author creatively. A lot of Ian Fleming's potential was squandered when James Bond took over his career. I've often wished Larry McMurtry had killed Danny Deck after the first novel or two; the books with Danny in them were never McMurtry's best (instead, years later McMurtry killed Danny's wonderful daughter, a woman who deserved to live way more than Danny did).
So I empathize with the novelist in this story and I admire Elspeth Eric's insight.
> what counts...
As expected, the episode gets the bible verse WRONG (as do so many others who quote 1st Timothy 6: 10). The correct quote is "For the *LOVE* of money is the root of all evil..."
I thought Higgans was going to fall for her.
Argh... This is a well-worn story I've heard many times from several different sources. Worst part is the way the writers of this piece danced around the ugly reality that "Clarissa" is a bloody flaming narcissist and about as pleasant as a black widow spider. In addition, the writers of this piece ignored the obvious solution of killing Clarissa off and [edit] having Steven write up another manipulative seductress with slight variations on the theme of the scheming narcissist. BIG plot hole there, all for the dramatic device of the conflict going on inside of Steven and the psychological tangle of Steven falling in love with his mirror image in drag.
But if Clarissa really is the "bloody flaming narcissist" you think she is, if she really is Steven's "mirror image in drag," why does Higgins think she's too wonderful a character to be killed off? He didn't get where he is by having such shallow insight into the works he publishes.
@@dontaylor7315 Higgins understood the obsession that can befall someone attracted to an attractive but cold-hearted lover. The obsession that a narcissist would have with a female version of himself would be even deeper, and would be paralyzing.
@@WWZenaDo And that's a basis for wanting the character preserved and planning a series around her? Higgins didn't say, or even hint, that he had a horror series in mind and that's about all the potential Clarissa has if she's the character you contend she is.
@@dontaylor7315wrote: "And that's the basis for wanting the character preserved and planning a series around her?"
Dude, those are YOUR thoughts and words, not mine. I'm going to step away and let you continue arguing with the voices in your head.
@@WWZenaDo The "voices" are in the episode not in my head. Higgins proposed a series, implying Clarissa was a character worth building such a series on. If she were the character you describe she wouldn't be suitable for anything but horror novels. Did you LISTEN to the episode?
the voice of the wife sounds like a much older woman --very odd vocal choice, I think.
I love these classic radio thrillers! You might be interested in this one, “The Gables” and three others listed under “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. Just follow the link here and enjoy! th-cam.com/video/Ot1sF7fkhMw/w-d-xo.html--Claud. Also, The latest production is now premiered, online and ready to view. "They Never Found a Body": th-cam.com/video/7pfXLyAvS08/w-d-xo.html/ ! Claud.
She does and so does he.. I mean for having babies.
Shades of Misery Chastain? Hmmm....there is no original thought...
Funny you mention that, because I have wondered several times while listening to shows if Stephen King was influenced by the show. I just thought about it the other day as a matter of fact, not this story but another. There are several. I'll have to think on it and try and recall which ones made me think of his books.
If it weren't for Robert Bloch,Rod Serling, Richard Matheson and other great writers of the 1960's king couldn't have written anything. Including the old horror movie From Beyond the Grave 1973 about the old store called Temptations Inc. that gave people what they wanted king then writes needful things. King can't be accused of being original.
Especially king.
This author is such a d-bag. "I love my wife sooo much so I'm going to ever-so-selflessly transfer the money and character to some ghost writer. Wait, this character that's not real might love someone else? NO! I'd rather screw over my wife than allow my character to... love another person!"
And yeah, why isn't a female ghostwriter considered?
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