Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff is best known for his on-screen role as Frankenstein's monster, but he also put in some fantastic radio performances on Lights Out and Inner Sanctum.

Below are some, but not all, of those appearances. Most are bizarre husband and wife horror stories that demonstrate Karloff's abilities as an actor.

Lights Out: "Death Robbery"-- Classic Lights Out episode about a scientist who brings his wife back from the dead...with really bad results. (July 16, 1947)

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Lights Out: "The Dream"-- Fourth anniversary episode of Lights Out. Incredible performance by Boris as Darryl, a man who has never dreamed. Finally, he has a dream...that drives him to kill. (March 23, 1938)

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Lights Out: "Cat Wife"-- Over-the-top old time radio craziness. A man has trouble with his wife--but it gets worse when she turns into a cat.

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Inner Sanctum: "Death for Sale"-- Cora and Mark come up with a plan to get $50,000 in insurance money. The problem is, that her "dead" husband shows up seven years later wanting a cut of the money...   (January 1, 1947 and July 13, 1952)

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Inner Sanctum: "Wailing Wall"-- Boris plays an unbalanced husband who murders his wife and hides her body in the wall of their home. Then, he is tortured by the wailing sound coming from inside the wall...    (November, 6, 1945)

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Inner Sanctum: "Study for Murder"-- Radio play by Sigmund Miller. Herbert is a psychologist who studies murderers. He takes his study so seriously that he becomes one.  (May 3, 1942)

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(Image of Boris Karloff from Wikipedia) 

Comments

[Scott Lord]

Thanks.

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[Eric]

Death robbery was just a portion of the story...looped...endlessly. Unfortunate. Please fix this. Are your other programs acting similarly?

[Christine A. Miller]

Hi Eric,
You are right. I don't know what happened to that file, but it stopped at the nineteen minute mark. I replaced it with one that is complete. Thanks for letting me know. Best,--Christine