Quiet Please ... I have some important news!

Well now that we are in the Halloween spirit I guess you are well and truly in the mood for suspenseful and thrilling drama.

Whilst I was digging around in the RUSC archives last week, looking for missing Bob Bailey episodes, I came across missing episodes from one of my favorite spooktacular series - Quiet, Please!

A unique series in many ways, Quiet, Please! was one of the first radio programs to focus on psychological horror, and it was known for its atmospheric sound effects and spine-chilling stories.

So with Halloween just around the corner, it seems it's the perfect time to reintroduce you to the creepy voice of Ernest Chappell, and a plethora of terrifying tales to torment your mind.

Our long-time friend of RUSC, Chuck Houlton, once wrote about the Quiet, Please! episode The Thing on the Fourbleboard, and it had Joy and I listening to the show all over again. It's a pretty weird tale about a roughneck and oil rig worker who was involved in some strange goings on twenty years earlier. Whilst drilling he and one of his colleagues came across some unexpected contents in the core of earth that had been drilled up from several thousand feet underground. Chuck summed it up as:-

"What horror do the roughnecks on the oil derrick unleash as they bore through thousands of feet of rock; through layers of earth interred over millions of years? What has lurked down there for untold eons waiting to be released? The answer is one of the weirdest, most disturbing tales ever told on radio. This is it. This is the big one. Many consider this the greatest use of radio to tell a horror story. I don't know if I agree with that, but this is an unquestionably good story of it's kind, expertly told, with an ending that's truly horrifying."

Chuck Houlton

It's definitely one to listen to! 

Inquest is the title of another show I added to RUSC recently, about the compulsory inquest held after the sudden death of a young couple. William Ross' sister and brother-in-law are the victims, and William finds himself in front of a coroners jury, when the inquest is held to find out the cause of their deaths. There's a twist too, to make things ever more interesting!

It had me totally engrossed to the final conclusion! I'd love to know what you think too?

Happy listening,