The Black Mass
The Black Mass was an Old-time radio program.
From: MAX SCHMID
The Flies
Oh Mirror, Mirror
Shidah and Kuziba
Evening Primrose
An Evening's Entertainment
2 By Poe - The Predicament and Tell-Tale Heart
Nightmare
Bartleby The Scrivener (Melville)
A Country Doctor
The Ash Tree
Atrophy
The Judgemewnt
2 By Ambrose Bierce - Oil of Dog and Esme
Reel 2
The Jolly Corner by Henry James
Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol
Legend of the Island of Falles by Betty (Sandbrook?, Sambrook?)
All Hallows by Walter de la Mer
Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Death of Halpin Frasier by Ambrose Bierce
Moonlit Road by A. Bierce
Two By Poe - Man in the Crowd and Ms. Found in a Bottle
Tales by Lord Dusaney
As promised, below is as much complete information as I can assemble
on the KPFA series The Black Mass. Except as noted, these programs can from
the Pacifica Radio Archives.Sorry I don't have more info on the above, the reel is
temporarily missing. and Witch of the Willows by Lord Dunsaney
The Renegade by Albert Camus
The Squaw by Bram Stoker
Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft
The following not from Archives - mostly airchecks of KPFA or KPFK
Great American Scream - KPFK
The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
and A Haunted House by Virginia Wolfe
The Feeder by Earl Linder
Imp of the Perverse by Poe KQED, San Francisco (15")
As you can see by the authors, this series went somewhat beyond the
scope of OTR horror series.
Sorry about the phonetic spelling on some of the names. To correct
something here yesterday, I see that the show Candaules Commissioner is
credited to the Actor's Workshop, not Black Mass.
I have located one Black Mass show with an original archive label:
Dream of a Ridiculous Man Archive #BB5499 36:00, although this tape
has no open, close, or credits, and my older copy is listed as 37:40". A
cast of 6 is listed on the label, and the show is highly produced with SFX
and original music by Ian Underwood. Broadcast date is listed as 1/29/67.
The cast list includes Shirley Jones - could it be the same one?
I suspect that the series was produced on an irregular basis over
many years, time and budget permitting.
Rats in the Walls and The Outsider were released in the 70s on LP in
a very limited pressing, maybe 1,000, that I found at a comic book convention.
I am going to try to contact someone who worked on the series
with Erik Bauersfeld; if I get anything more on the series, I'll post it
here. -MaxPACIFICA PROGRAM SERVICE AND RADIO ARCHIVES
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