The Witch's Tale
13 original vintage radio scripts
by
Alonzo Deen Cole
Creator of network radio's first drama series
devoted entirely to the supernatural.

Now available for the first time
in a limited edition trade paperback.

Discover the thrills and goose bumps that frightened
a generation of listeners during radio's Golden Age.

13 hair raising scripts featuring stories about

Vampires • Werewolves • Ghosts • Severed heads
Devil worship • Mad scientists
. . . and more . . .

From Alonzo Deen Cole,
The great granddaddy of modern media horror.

PLUS lots more for the OTR enthusiast.

•    Biographical sketch of Alonzo Deen Cole: author, actor, producer, director.
     (The Orson Welles of his day.)

•    New information about the program and cast.

•    Complete Program Log listing the dates, titles and broadcast time
     for all 332 broadcasts.

•    Cast photographs featuring members of the ensemble cast.

•    Special Prologue and Epilogue written by famed radio actress Miriam Wolff
     who played Nancy, the Witch of Salem, 1935-38.

•    Complete Program Index.

...
If you're not familiar with The Witch's Tale program,
here's what contemporary critics had to say about the series . . .

In a class by itself. — Radio Guide

Old Nancy told her Witch's Tale and succeeded in working me into
a sweat. Thrill seekers miss plenty when they fail to hear this new
dramatic series. — New York Daily News, 1931

Boyoboyo!!! Alonzo Deen Cole's Witch's Tale of last evening was one
grand piece of radio drama!! — New York Daily News, 1932


. . . Here's what John Dunning, noted radio historian and author of On The Air
and Tune In Yesterday had to say about this special edition of original scripts from
The Witch's Tale.

        It's not often that we get to look back at the creation of an entire art form.
        The Witch's Tale is certainly that—the true inception of the radio horror
        show in America. That recordings for these scripts are as yet unavailable
        only adds to their significance.

Some Reviews of The Witch's Tale
This is a rare opportunity to venture back in time and experience horror purely through your imagination. And this is the real stuff: vampires, ghosts, werewolves, severed heads, devil worship and more. A horror fan's delight. - Hellnotes Newsletter, 10/98

With a good number of genuine chills and fascinating information, this volume becomes a rich and rewarding journey into horror's past and an invaluable testimony to a lost art. The detail that Cole was the first to use a supernatural comic narrator named Nancy to introduce every tale, alone should ensure his place in the Horror Hall of Fame, and put in his debt everyone who ever got a freight from Tales from the Crypt.- Rue Morgue 11/98

Dunwich Press has done a good job of making a book look as good as it is...(The book) engenders a true feeling of the macabre and gives a graphic picture of what can be done with words and sound effects to scare the dickens out of you. It's an interesting book-well worth adding to your collection. - Thrilling Days of Yesteryear 11/98

I have a copy of this and I want to say that it is worth every penny if you are at all a fan of the macabre. Not only is the introduction informative (you can learn a lot about this series), the scripts are a great read. The book is attractive and well bound for easy reading. -Jim Widner/Old Time Radio Discussion Board 9/98

David S. Siegel and his Dunwich Press make it possible to see just how creepy this Cole guy was. Very nicely done in an affordable trade paperback. - BareBones 11/98


John Gassman has conducted an excellent and highly informative interview with Dave Siegel concerning "The Witch's Tale". If you would like to hear this Interview in RealAudio, please click here now.

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