''Inner Sanctum Mystery'', also known as ''Inner Sanctum'', is a popular
old-time radio
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program that aired from January 7, 1941, to October 5, 1952. It was created by producer
and was based on the
imprint
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...
given to the mystery novels of
Simon & Schuster
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.
In all, 526 episodes were broadcast.
Simon & Schuster series
In 1930, the first title was published in Simon & Schuster's "Inner Sanctum" mystery series: ''I Am Jonathan Scrivener'' by
Claude Houghton
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. Although the imprint "Inner Sanctum" also included serious drama (published with blue covers) and romance (published with red covers), for the most part it was associated with mysteries (published in green covers).
Lee Wright was the editor of the series, and over the years she introduced such authors as
Craig Rice,
Gypsy Rose Lee
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,
Patrick Quentin
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, Thomas Sterling and
Anthony Boucher
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.
Horror hosts
On January 7, 1941, the ''Inner Sanctum'' radio program premiered,
the name licensed by Simon & Schuster on condition that at the end of each broadcast the announcer would promote the latest book title published in the series.
The
anthology series
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featured stories of mystery, terror and suspense, and its tongue-in-cheek introductions were in sharp contrast to shows like ''
Suspense
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'' and ''
The Whistler
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''.
The early 1940s programs opened with
Raymond Edward Johnson
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Early years
Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Johnson started out as a bank teller, and late ...
introducing himself as "Your host, Raymond" in a mockingly sardonic voice.
A spooky melodramatic organ score (played by Lew White) punctuated Raymond's many morbid jokes and playful puns. Raymond's closing was an elongated "Pleasant dreeeeaams, hmmmmm?" His tongue-in-cheek style and ghoulish relish of his own tales became the standard for many such horror narrators to follow, such as
Maurice Tarplin
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(on ''
The Mysterious Traveler
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Radio
Wri ...
'').
When Johnson left the series in May 1945 to serve in the Army, he was replaced by
Paul McGrath, who did not keep the "Raymond" name and was known only as "Your Host" or "Mr. Host".
(Berry Kroeger had substituted earlier for a total of four episodes.) McGrath was a Broadway actor who turned to radio for a regular income. Beginning in 1945,
Lipton Tea
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sponsored the series, pairing first Raymond and then McGrath with cheery commercial spokeswoman Mary Bennett (aka the "Tea Lady"), whose blithesome pitches for Lipton Tea contrasted sharply with the macabre themes of the stories. She primly chided the host for his trademark dark humor and creepy manner.
The creaking door
The program's familiar and famed audio trademark was the eerie creaking door which opened and closed the broadcasts. Himan Brown got the idea from a door in the basement that "squeaked like Hell." The door sound was actually made by a rusty desk chair. The program did originally intend to use a door, but on its first use, the door did not creak. Undaunted, Brown grabbed a nearby chair, sat in it and turned, causing a hair-raising squeak. The chair was used from then on as the sound prop. On at least one memorable occasion, a staffer innocently repaired and oiled the chair, thus forcing the sound man to mimic the squeak orally.
Guest stars
The stories were effective little chillers, mixing horror and humor in equal doses. Memorable episodes included "Terror by Night" (September 18, 1945) and an adaptation of "
The Tell-Tale Heart
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" (August 3, 1941). The latter starred
Boris Karloff
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, who was heard regularly in the first season, starring in more than 15 episodes and returning sporadically thereafter.
Other established film stars who appeared on the program in the early years included
Bela Lugosi
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,
Mary Astor
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,
Helen Hayes
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,
Peter Lorre
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,
Paul Lukas
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,
Claude Rains
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,
Frank Sinatra
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, and
Orson Welles
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. Most of the lead and supporting players were stalwarts of New York radio. These included
Santos Ortega,
Larry Haines
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,
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Luis van Rooten
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,
Stefan Schnabel
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Ralph Bell
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,
Berry Kroeger
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Career
Kroeger was born in San Antonio, Texas. He got his acting start on radio as an announcer on ''Suspense'' and as an actor, playing fo ...
,
Arnold Moss
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,
Leon Janney
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,
Myron McCormick
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, and
Mason Adams
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. Players like
Richard Widmark
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,
Everett Sloane
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,
Burgess Meredith
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Agnes Moorehead
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,
Ken Lynch
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, and
Anne Seymour also found fame or notability in film or television.
Of more than 500 programs broadcast, only about 200 remain in circulation.
Example program opening
Sound effect: A door with squeaky hinges is slowly opened. Organ begins to play.
Raymond: Good evening, friends of the ''Inner Sanctum''. This is Raymond, your host. I'm glad you came tonight, because we have a very special guest of horror with us. I'd like you to meet the late Johnny Gravestone, the most celebrated member of the Inner Sanctum Ghost Society. He's the best haunter of them all. Johnny's the tall figure in the white sheet wearing the blue ribbon. He's haunted everything from a palace to a telephone booth. And uh, if you're very nice to him, he'll be glad to consider giving your house the once-over. Who knows? He might even haunt you! Ha-ha-ha-ha!
(Commercial)
Raymond: Well, we're about to begin our story. Oh, I forgot to warn you about the Trembliens. They're those pesky, invisible cousins of the gremlins. They uh, you, give quick little shoves, and give the false impression that you're trembling. If you're being troubled by a Tremblien, just grab him by his invisible little horns and stick him into the nearest pin cushion.
Films
In June 1943, Universal purchased the screen rights to the series from
Simon and Schuster
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, Inc.
The ''Inner Sanctum Mysteries'' feature a "stream of consciousness" voiceover which Edward Dein stated he incorporated into his script at
Lon Chaney, Jr.
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's insistence. With the exception of ''
Pillow of Death
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'', each film is prefaced with a sequence featuring the bobbing head of actor
David Hoffman staring out of a crystal ball, giving warnings to the audience about how each audience member is capable of murder.
Lon Chaney, Jr. was hopeful for the series, craving diversity in his roles after Universal had placed him in various monster roles in their horror films. Pivar planned to produced two ''Inner Sanctum'' mystery films a year with each film featuring Chaney and
Gale Sondergaard
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Sondergaard began her acting career in theater and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Awar ...
in the lead roles. Sondergaard was dropped from the lead role shortly before the filming of ''
Calling Dr. Death
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''.
The films in the series are ''Calling Dr. Death'' (1943), ''
Weird Woman
''Weird Woman'' is a 1944 Inner Sanctum film noir mystery and horror film directed by Reginald Le Borg and starring Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Gwynne, and Evelyn Ankers. The "Inner Sanctum" franchise originated with a popular radio series and all ...
'' (1944), ''
Dead Man's Eyes
''Dead Man's Eyes'' is a 1944 Inner Sanctum film noir mystery film directed by Reginald Le Borg, and starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Jean Parker. The film was distributed by Universal Pictures. The "Inner Sanctum" franchise originated with a popula ...
'' (1944), ''
The Frozen Ghost
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...
'' (1945), ''
Strange Confession
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'' (1945) and ''Pillow of Death'' (1945).
From retrospective reviews,
Kim Newman
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described the film series as "straddling whodunnit and horror" and that "the films vary in quality but mostly deliver as strange entertainment." Newman found that ''Weird Woman'' was the standout film in the ''Inner Sanctum'' series, being the sole entry in the series to have supernatural elements. The authors of the book ''Universal Horrors'' declared the series "feeble melodramas with little to recommend them beyond their camp qualities and the morose spectacle of seeing a badly miscast Chaney struggle his way through acting assignments that were painfully beyond his depth." They concluded that the series was "generally regarded by buffs and film historians as a missed cinematic opportunity."
Television
The 1954 syndicated television series featured Paul McGrath as the off-camera host/narrator. The TV shows were produced at the Himan Brown Production Center (now
Chelsea Studios
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Hist ...
) in
Manhattan
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.
"Pleasant dreeeeaaams, hmmmmm?"
In the 1970s, with his ''
CBS Radio Mystery Theater
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'' series, Himan Brown recycled both the creaking door opening and, to a lesser extent, the manner of Raymond. The hosts were
E. G. Marshall
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and during the final season,
Tammy Grimes
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Grimes won two Tony Awards in her career, the first for originating the role of Molly Tobin in the musical '' The Unsinkable Molly Brown'' and the ...
. When the series was rebroadcast during the late 1990s, Brown himself rerecorded the host segments and mimicked Raymond's "Pleasant dreeeeaaams, hmmmmm?" for the familiar closing.
Satires
Harvey Kurtzman
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and
Will Elder
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satirized the series in ''
Mads fifth issue (June–July 1953) with "Outer Sanctum!" In the opening panels, host Ramon greets the reader: "Come in, I've been waiting for you! I've been waiting for you to fix my squeaking door!... What?... You say you're not the carpenter?... You have come to hear a story?... Very well!"
In the
Three Stooges
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short ''
The Ghost Talks'', a creaking door prompts Shemp to parody the opening narration of the program, naming it "The Outer Sanctorum."
The opening of an ''Inner Sanctum'' episode was used to open one side of ''The Whole Burbank Catalog'', a 1972
compilation album
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in the
Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders
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series from
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. The announcer's jokey pun in this case concerned an author friend, specializing in best-sellers, who "tried to bury
imin one, because all the very best sellers (cellars) have corpses in them." A backwards version of the creaking door sound effect led directly into
"Get It On" by
T. Rex.
The popular British 60s radio comedy ''
Round The Horne
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'' had occasional sketches that were influenced by the style of the show. Regular cast member
Hugh Paddick
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would introduce the "scary" sketch with the words "Inner Sanctum-um-um-um-um-um..." – pretending to echo! This was accompanied by a warbling, quivering, high pitched tone from a
Theremin
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played by an orchestra member. The sketches nearly always ended in confusion as the plots were deliberately circular and convoluted whilst playing up the "spookiness" of the part.
The 1946
Warner Brothers
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Bugs Bunny
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cartoon ''
Racketeer Rabbit
''Racketeer Rabbit'' is a 1946 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on September 14, 1946, and features Bugs Bunny.
In the cartoon, Bugs duels with a pair of racketeers or gangsters, Rocky and H ...
'' had Bugs enter an abandoned Victorian house (which was actually the gangsters' hideout) that had a squeaky door. Bugs said as he was entering the house, "Huh? Sounds like Inner Sanctum!"
See also
*
List of ''Inner Sanctum'' episodes
References
;Notes
; Sources
*
*
;Further reading
* Ohmart, Ben (2002). ''It's That Time Again''. Albany: BearManor Media
* Grams, Martin (2002)
''Inner Sanctum Mysteries: Behind the Creaking Door'' Churchville: OTR Publishing
*
External links
*
ttp://www.old-time.com/otrlogs2/inners_mg.html "Existing Episodes of ''Inner Sanctum Mysteries''" by Martin Grams, Jr.OTR Network Library: ''Inner Sanctum Mysteries'' (106 episodes)''Inner Sanctum Mysteries'' – OTR Researchers Certified Setat the
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