Tonight on the show we have Michelle from Sleepy Hollow Spellbound a instagram page all about Sleepy Hollow and a tour guide for the town currently. Then we have the BATS Essex Peabody Museum curator on the show, music will be from SleepyHollow the movie and more Halloween Spookyness
Tonight on the show the man behind getting the 89 Batman movie produced, a comic book historian, writer on The Shadow comics, a new Stan Lee Musuem and so much more
music tonight will be from the 89 Batman and more. Show starts at 10 pm est
Let’s try this again, last week we had a snowstorm, and I had to leave early the station manager never wants to be any help in playing shows we want Tonight on the show Historian Jennifer Emerson comes on the show to talk about her job as a Historian of Salem and reenactment actress. Then the Chicago’s Derision Cult is on with us with the new single, “Bastards Of The World. Music tonight will be from Home Alone and Krampus.
Tonight on the show Historian Jennifer Emerson comes on the show to talk about her job as a Historian of Salem and reenactment actress. Then the Chicago’s Derision Cult is on with us with the new single, “Bastards Of The World. Muisc tonight will be from Home Alone and Krampus.
Tonight on the show we have Sarah Beth Cecilia Guimond Cemetery Commissioner for Massachusetts a great way to lead into the month of October and the first full week of Fall. Music tonight will be from October Noir and a variety of other Horror movies.
Tonight on the show we have Author David J. Skal on the show with us talking about his newest book, David came on back in 2012 and I’m glad he is joining me again. Then releasing his 14th album this week the man who brought us THE TOUCH Stan Bush is on. We will be playing from movies David has done commentary on and music from Stan as well from his new album and from Transformers the Movie The Touch and Dare.
Also THANK YOU to everyone who funded my kickstarter and made it a success we hit our goal weeks ago and ended well above it.
July 2007 David Klebart my 75 year old grandfather dies
August 2007 I lose my job
September 2007 We have to move, in three months there is some harsh realities of life. After the move from Sterling MA to Leominster I visit the Worcester Art Festival held every year called StART on the Street. There was a set up not far from my local comic book Store That’s Entertainment in Worcester MA for a local radio station. I check with the woman running the booth an ask if they are looking for help. She tells me they are only volunteers and always looking for new help. I ask about an Idea I have for a radio show. and pitch her the show, she give me the information of the station Manager Joe.
While I’m waiting to meet with Joe, I reached out to the local Horror Convention Rock and Shock and connect with Gina Migliozzi who lets me volunteer at the convention working under her sister Lisa. There my friend ship with Kevin Barbare. I meet with Joe Coulton the station manager for WCUW and pitch him my idea and he presents it to the board. With in a week a hear back from him and have a show. I pick ROck and Shock weekend Oct 15th 2007 to launch the show. While On Unemployment I tried to get a job at a Halloween Store owned by Spencer gifts thinking I could do both but trying to work for a Halloween retail store is one of the worst job I ever could have had. I join the crazy world of social media converting my person My Space account into one for the Radio Show to help me find guests for the show.
ROck and Shock weekend approaches and I train with Capt PJ on Thursday on how to run the board play music and more. He been with the station since the 70s, unfortunately after some health concerns he is no longer with WCUW. I spend alot of the time Rock and Shock weekend working with celebs making sure their needs are met and their money is taken care of. Working under Lisa I could tell she had a serious disdane for me. Working with Kevin I really enjoyed our time together. At Rock and Shock I would meet many people who would still be friends with today and become guests on my show, Jack Ketchum being the most frequent guest Id have on the show till his passing in 2018. Id also Meet young artist Derek Rook but our friendship would not click for a few more years.
Oct 15th,2007 Radio of Horror Launches at WCUW. I have no co-host I tried but could never get one to commit in the beginning. One woman who was said she had a panic Attack and couldn’t do it at the very last minute. I play the typical bunch of Horror movie soundtracks and scores like The Lost Boys and a bunch of hits off Elvira’s mix of music. Jim Who ran Back From the Dead a free form older music category of songs would help train me. The show was on from 12 -2 am Monday morning until 2018 when it went to 10-12.
First Guest I had on was from a small Indie Comic Book From Jester Press Comics, John J. York was the first actor I had on. That was a huge one for me as I was a big fan of Werewolf the series and he more than jumped at the chance to come on to talk about it. He been on General Hospital for a long time. I had on a beautiful model named Vanessa. She came with 2 chaperone friends of hers, one of them Heather and I would connect on Facebook dating in 2020. Nick Chen became my first co-host and would last from November 2007- January 2008. His biggest accomplishment was getting me involved with Rising Phoenix Games my first sponsor for the show and it was run by my long time friend Lia Klunk from the Poetry Group I was part of from 1999-2015. Lia would stay my sponsor from 2007-2010.
After my first broadcast my ex wife and I went to Spooky World with my friend Pauly and his gf when I won tickets. Spooky World was a Horror Theme Park that was very well known and very well respected till it was bought by Bob Craft of the New England Patriots and it went down hill from there. At Spooky World held at Gillete Stadium that year I met Penny Dreadful Danielle Gelehrter and her Husband the Werewolf Garu Magoo and it was a friendship I embraced and had Penny on my show in 2008 and I came on her Cable show Shilling Shockers that same year. I ran the gauntlet of trying to get co-hosts for the show, my friend Cowboy Matt who played at my wedding tried but was unable to commit to so late a program. My friend Kate Tak Mogel tried but I drove her nuts. Doing a show that late at night was not easy. I ate a lot of bad food and ran into a lot of sleepless nights cuz of how late I had to stay at the station past 2 am sometimes.
I got a job finally in March 2008 just as my Unemployment was running out. At the same time, Bed Rock Comics was hosting its first BOSTON COMIC CON in the basement of a big convention hall in Boston. This is where I would Jerome Conner and his wife Kara and they introduced me to Arisia the Sci-Fi convention which I had never heard of but changed my life in good and bad ways more on that in year 2. I saw every movie and read as many comics as I could try to find to cover for the show, Some weeks I ran out of music as we didn’t have station computers in 2008 only cd tape and record and 8 track players. WCUW was a mess and some changes were on the way.
March 2008-May 2008 I started my first adventure working in film, I was a grip, behind the scenes camera man and videoographer. This was quite the adventure and still something I dabble in today. The First movie I worked on was Don’t Eat Me a Zombie movie filming in RI.
June 2008 Joe is outed by the board and we get a new and still current Station Manager Troy Tyree. Troy is met with a lot of mixed feelings and bad feelings as Joe had been with the station for 2 decades but the station needed something new. I didn’t know who the guy was so I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Sept 2008 New Job again and I meet with Gina from Rock and Shock for an interview about the convention and get tickets to see one of my favorite bands whos music I only play once a year Halloween the European Metal Band Helloween. The concert is to be held at the Palladium in Worcester MA. The same building Gina is a manager of and one half of Rock and Shock.
Oct 2008 I volunteer at the Rock and Shock again that year this time sitting with John Kassir the Crypt Keeper most of the weekend but its where I would meet Meg her daughter Fiona and Sean Duffy of Fiona Fright shop ( named after their daughter ) and their friend Tina Bee. Friendships I would enjoy to this day. Its also this year Id meet Steve Barton of Dread Central and Sculptor Neal DeConte and I would be come friends. I hit the one year mark of Radio of Horror.
Over the next several weeks leading to the 13th Year Anniversary of the show I will be going over the History of Radio of Horror. The Evolution of the show and the guests we had on. How it started as a series of short audio reviews before it became Dr.Chris Radio of Horror on WCUW in Worcester in Oct 2007. Below you will also learn of the original Radio of Horror audio Show, which to say I am proud of but it sounded worse than the first year of Radio of Horror on wcuw.
May of 2006- Aug of 2007 I made audio tracks under Radio of Horror for a small comic news site. This is what some would call the KTMA year of Radio of Horror. A now defunct website called Independent Comics Review.com If there is a site up currently with this name its not the same I worked for and wish them well. I reviewed anything Horror or Sci-Fi related from the comic industry. I was a terrible writer and still am today. Two of my favorite reviews that I can remember were about The Transformers and Vampire movies. I have always been fascinated with Vampire movies, comics books and more. When I was very little sick home from school my mother let me watch My Best Friend is a Vampire. That really helped my love of Horror movies grow. I tried at a young age before understanding ANYTHING about the novel real Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire. My reviews were recorded on a Toshiba laptop I had gotten at Circuit City the year before on a Black Friday event. I had no editing software nor did I have any microphone or head set so the audio reviews, this was a disaster and I sounded ok but not really. This would continue with reviews for over a year. I eventually stopped cuz the pressure of a job and a new baby was too much.
Xavier my son was born Nov 2006. This was a huge thing for me becoming a father. Little did I know of the horror to come. Xavier was born with severe Kidney problems and it nearly killed him. I stopped doing the reviews for a couple months and went back to them erratically. Xavier is fine these days and a healthy gaming enthusiastic 13 year old who loves Dinosaurs and Godzilla movies.
March 2007 I worked at BlockBuster Video twice. ( a place to go and rent movies now adays people stream on Netflix, D+, HULU and more). Once in 2000 for several months and then again from August 2006-July 2008. There was a video store in Worcester Ma called Starship Video which my friend Jesse Smith of Trick or Treat radio podcast worked at before I ever knew him. I had always hoped BB would be as cool as that, it wasnt. Corporate Video stores are stringent and difficult always under the threat of the Mystery Shop. I got the idea to do a film fest to raise money for the Boston Children’s Hospital. They had saved my sons life and he was still being seen by them to this day to make sure his one kidney remains healthy. I planned on showing two back to back films and went out of my way to find out how to show movies in public, One of the films was The Lost Boys. ( I would later do an entire podcast with Scott Danielson breaking the film down minute by minute.) I called a company called Swag and paid 100 in public licencing fees to show them in public more if I wanted a copy of the film sent to me but they were not in high demand so that was the cheap fee to avoid getting in trouble.
July 2007 The film festival was set to premier at the VFW Hall in Leominster Ma. I had gotten a lot of food from local places I had formed relationships with like a privately owned Quiznos. I even had Mike Shu of WAAF a local Rock Radio station announce it on the air and come to the event. He was the ONLY person who came to the event. My mother, wife, my kid, grandmother and mother in law were the only ones in attendance. It was a disaster we never raised any money. Mike called Kevin Barbare a friend of mine and and asked if he was coming and he mentioned this was the night the 7th and final Harry Potter Novel was being sold and books stores everywhere were having midnight release events. Mike told me he was impressed at putting it together and getting so many vendors involved. We had ALOT of food that night. No one came but it gave me an idea.
Meeting Mike that night and later at Rock and Shock Kevin Barbare who co run Rock and Shock with Gina Migliozzi gave me an idea that when I went to a local art festival in Sept it really drove me to pursue my own radio show. Rock and Shock would be the blasting off point for the show. It was at the time besides Spooky World the only Horror Convention or event in New England. They had guests and panels and combined Rock and Horror together, Convention by day concert at night. It ran from 2003-2019 and closed or it didn’t its very confusing, but Kevin assures it will be back in 2021, they were planning to reopen this year but the Pandemic has halted that from happening.
In the next chapter we will discuss the beginning of the shows evolution the first few co-hosts and some of the trials and tribulations of working at WCUW.
The Fort Garry Hotel is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba and was built in 1913. It was originally supposed to be called The Selkirk, however it was decided that it should be named after Upper Fort Garry, which once stood at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers.
Fort Garry was popular from the start, hosting many famous guests including Queen Elizabeth, King George VI, Laurence Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Liberaci. What makes the hotel so popular today is all the reports of strange activity, especially in room 202, from guests and staff alike. The claims range from staff seeing blood dripping down the walls of room 202 to guests waking up in the middle of the night to the apparition of a woman in a cloak hovering at the foot of their bed! Other reports include housekeepers being locked in room 202 and windows in the room apparently shattering out of nowhere! Even former Ontario Liberal MP Brenda Chamerlain noticed something strange going on in room 202! During her stay in the room back in 2004 she claimed she was awoken by the sensation of somebody getting into bed with her… twice!
So you’re probably wondering what the deal with room 202 is, right? Well apparently many years ago there was a young woman was staying in the room. During her stay she found out that her husband had died in a car crash. She was so heartbroken she hung herself in the closest of room 202.
Another story from room 202 is about a young boy who was on a trip with his family organized by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He had apparently requested to stay in room 202 after hearing all the stories about the room. During his stay he decided to take some pictures with his film camera. A few months later when he got the photos back, all the pictures had turned out… except for the ones in and around room 202. The little boy was apparently pretty stoked, saying that the ghosts were “camera shy”.
The woman from room 202 reportedly haunts the hotel lounge as well. She has been witness by guests and staff, usually crying in the corner.
Staff have also reported seeing the ghost of a young woman wearing a robe walking down the hallway. Others have reported seeing a woman in a ball gown. Sometimes ghosts are even witnessed in rooms other than room 202, usually at the foot of the bed.
Now, this last story about the hotel takes place in 1989. An employee was in the kitchen tidying up late at night. He was on his way up the stairs at around 4am when he started hearing strange noises coming from the locked dining room. He immediately rushed to get the key. Upon opening the door he noticed the figure of a man sitting at a table. He ran on to get another staff member to show them what he had witnessed, but by the time he got back, the mysterious man was gone.
So what do you think? Haunted hotel or a clever hoax to attract guests? The Fort Garry Hotel is now a National Historic Landmark, however it is still open to this day. If you’re brave enough to check it out for yourself, you can go to this link to book a room:
http://www.fortgarryhotel.com/m/winnipeg-accommodations
But if you go and notice anything weird, be sure to let us know!
Tonight on the show we have By the Night Studios on with us to talk about Vampire the Masquerade, the recent grand Masquerade and more. The we have actress Kelly Love on to talk about a Horror film fest in CA. We have the team from the Sturbridge MA Sleepy Hollow Play coming on as well its a long night of horror folks stay tuned
https://www.facebook.com/ByNightStudios/?fref=ts
http://www.frightsfeastfilm.com/
https://www.osv.org/event/the-sleepy-hollow-experience
I was originally going to do a post about the history of witches in Canada, but due to the fact that witchcraft in Canada is basically nonexistent, I’ll just tell you all about the one witch I could find information on!
Elizabeth Jane Barnes(or “Mother Barnes”) was born in Cork, Ireland some time between 1744 and 1800, nobody is really positive on the exact year.
What makes Elizabeth Barnes so special? She was apparently clairvoyant. She was known to have used her gift to solve mysteries, including a murder. Who needs Nancy Drew or Scooby Doo when you have Elizabeth Barnes, right? She was also apparently able to locate hidden treasure.
Elizabeth also used her gift to tell fortunes in her one room log cabin(which is still standing today.) She was very well known for this. People would travel hundreds of miles for her services, some would offer her large sums of money. She would never accept anything more than her standard rate of twenty-five cents though. One of her most noteworthy clients is rumored to have been Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. Elizabeth Barnes believed she got her gift from being the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter.
She was married twice. First to Sergeant Robert Harrison. They met in Ireland then emigrated to Cobourg, Ontario, where they eloped and had one son, Robert Harrison Jr. Unfortunately Robert died shortly after his son was born. About four years after that Elizabeth married her second husband David Barnes and settled near Plum Hollow. Her and David had ten children together, however a few of them died, leaving them with about eight children in total. After a few years together, David left her to be a shoemaker in Smith Falls, taking one of their sons with him… what a dick! He’s lucky child support didn’t exist back then! However, his absence resulted in Elizabeth using her gift to tell fourtunes so she could provide for her children, so I guess it all worked out in the end.
Now, like her year of birth, nobody actually knows when Elizabeth died, but she reportedly died when she was in her early nineties. She rests in an unmarked grave in Sheldon’s Corners, Ontario.
Comic Girl 19 makes a good fucking point. What is wrong with the people over at google? Do you have a youtube channel you can’t swear or show violent things or talk about drugs anymore and get ad revenue….what’s next no Monsters, vampires things related to death and homosexuality, this sounds like the Seduction of the Innocent bs all over again.
We have some new interviews and reviews on our YOUTUBE page go there now to check them out
SERIAL KILLER TRADING CARDS
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COSPLAYER KATIE COE
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BONDAGE MODEL BRIELLA JADEN
Tonight on the show we have Rev Peter the Gothic Wizard on the show with us. He will be talking with us about some interesting facts concerning tarot card readings and Vampires and other things that go bump in the night. Returning to the show tonight is Andy Noir an awesome horror actress we had on back in 2012.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1584582/
We also will be playing for the first time on vinyl the sound track to ARMY OF DARKNESS.
Wow this past week we had Trace Beauliau on the show from Mystery Science Theater 3000, my favorite TV series of all time.
It was a huge ratings hit for us. Thanks to my friends who joined me in the studio. I’ll post link to the youtube page here later today. You can also find it on the right hand side of this site.
We started this show back in 2007 and we are the longest running horror show in New England.
Thanks for everyone who tuned and for those new people for joining Dr.Chris Radio of Horror.
I leave you with the Cat of Horror Sebastian after he has read the newest issue of Horror Hound magazine.
Wolfenstein the Old Blood
A prequel to 2014’s The New Order brings us back to the dreaded Castle of Nazi Occult lore.The game has gone into the more sci-fi genre this time, rather than the supernatural horror genre Wolfenstein is known for, thru the first five chapters, the last three t becomes a horror game again. In the new order the Nazi have won WW2 and its set in a cyber-techno steam punk 1960s. The Old blood is the prequel to that story. Set in 1946 and taking place just before the prologue of the New Blood. You play William BJ Blazkowicz (voiced by veteran voice actor Brian Bloom) who has been the series hero since Wolfenstein 3D in 1992. It’s your normal first person shooter combat and nothing new that you didn’t see in Wolfenstein the New Order. You never get tired of killing Nazi scum bags. It’s an 8 chapter game for 19.99 and available on the PS4 Steam and Xbox 1. Enemies are not the brightest groups you deal with. Having played Destiny you hope Bethesda games improves the enemy AI for the upcoming Doom4 using the Id tech 5 software.
This game has very little in the way of story and you go from one mission to the next killing Nazis and progressing to get to Deaths head (not to be confused with the Marvel comic character of the same name). In the New Order BJ had a lot more inner monologue and gets to know the resistance and even gets to have sex with Anya the resistance fighter a few times in the game. The game is more like B movie camp and that’s not a bad thing but it’s not great when the action never slows down but for 19.99 it’s a long game with pacing staying the same thru out. It will lead you to the final mission that BJ hopes he can retire from. That’s where we pick up his story in The New Order. When you get a chance to take a nap as was in The New Order you can travel to the original game in a dream sequence and play Wolfenstein 3D. Enemies have cyber back packs that if you shoot will explode. Giant Juggernauts that looks like a Nazi Iron Man Mach 1 armor and killer Cyber men guard Dogs. You can easily dispatch enemies with a lead pipe in stealth mode as to not alert more guards. A quick stab happy attack and back to stealth. Shamblers ugly bloody Nazi Zombies become a pyro technique foe to recon with in Chapters 6-8, after the more cyber steam punk techno Nazi enemies.
Mick Gordon composed the soundtrack for this and the New Order. You will notice through the game clues and nods to great WW2 era films like The Dirty Dozen and Where Eagles Dance and Inglorious Bastards. This game does not require you to but the New Order to play it. It’s a stand-alone expansion which you can pick up the card at a local store containing a code or down load it by itself.
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