Spooky Month 2025 - Pack #2: Halloween Audio Adventures, Sound Effects, and MORE!

 

Here is the conclusion of  "four weeks of Halloween celebration in two posts," so let's get with it:

Scary Stories: Frightening Tales For Halloween (Rhino, 1994) - Sure, the cover art sucks, but don't let that fool you, this is actually a compilation, a sampler of sorts, of vintage spoken-word stories, including Boris Karloff, James Mason, and the great Nelson Olmsted, whose work we have shared here before.  Lots of fun!

Boris Karloff - Tales Of The Frightened, Volumes 1 & 2 (1963) - Here is a pair of famous Karloff-narrated records, each containing short horror stories written by Michael Avallone (these were also published in book form with the same title, and at one time were even used in grade schools!).  In a way, they all go in the same direction, but yet I couldn't stop listening.  Clean (or complete) sources for these are hard to come by, and as always, I did lots of work to clean these up.

Vincent Price - A Graveyard Of Ghost Tales (1974) - And speaking of wonderful reading voices, here is a great LP of stories read by the master himself.  This is a great audio-book-type of collection that is excellent for listening to while driving.

Sounds Of Halloween (Madacy, 1994) - "WARNING: This compact disc is not to be listened to in the dark. Listen to this disc at your own risk!" Also, get lost in the cover art....wow, just wow! How "metal" is that?

And finally, a surprise treat for our finale:

Count Chocula Goes To Hollywood

Monster Adventures In Outer Space

The Monsters Go Disco (General Mills, 1979)

Get this--in 1979, three different 6-inch cardboard records were available inside specially-marked boxes of the Monster Cereals (don't let anybody tell you they were cut from the backs of the boxes like in the old days, either).  They feature some voice greats:  Larry Kenney as Count Chocula, Bob McFadden as Franken Berry, and for these records, Peter Waldren filled in for Paul Frees as Boo Berry.  They are as nuts, and as 1970's (I mean...disco!) as you would expect!

Happy Halloween!

LINK:  Spooky Month 2025 - Part 2