Archive for December, 2008
Old Time Radio Horror Dramas
Dec 18th
Old Time Radio Dramas
Radio drama is a form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the story.
Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s, however, radio drama lost some of its popularity, and in some countries, has never regained large audiences.
However, recordings of OTR (old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors and museums.
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Rio Youers Bio
Dec 1st
Rio Youers was born after The Beatles broke up and before Jim Morrison died, a time when there was sufficient psychedelia in the air to impact his imagination. He has been described by the bestselling novelist Peter Straub as "… one of the most vital, most exciting young talents to come along in this decade."
Rio's first novella Ellie's Boy was published in 1999, and he has since had stories published in dozens of magazines and ezines. His debut novel, End Times, was published in 2007 to outstanding reviews ("Powerful and disturbing … a tightly woven story told in lyrical prose." More >
