Boris Karloff Presents "Lost" Tales From The Inner Sanctum

The INNER SANCTUM radio program, famous for the signature opening and closing of a creaking door, offered a weekly dose of banshees who wailed through radio speakers while bats would gibber and thump in their belfries. The intended overtone of the stories was almost always one of supernatural dread, especially when Boris Karloff made a guest appearance on the program playing a man tormented by demons. He read every line as though he was actually the living, breathing counterpart of the villain in the script. He built up a “hate” atmosphere, regardless of the worry and concern portrayed on the printed page. By comparison with the ghouls and mad scientists he played on the silver screen, Karloff loved performing on radio. The kill-by-kill account over a ghost-to-ghost network quickly became popular and Boris Karloff made a total number of ten guest appearances in 1941. This book reprints nine of those radio scripts from the radio's program first year... chilling stories that are not kno