Radio Classics

Excerpts from the classic medieval poem, performed in the original language with English translation, original music, and commentary.

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irving wrote the story while living in Birmingham, England. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle.

The Radio Reading Room Halloween Classics features stories of the season from some of Americana's most revered writers, including the master of the Macabre Edgar Allen Poe 's "The Masque of The Red Death" and "The Raven", Mark Twain's "A Ghost Story", O'Henry's "The Furnished Room" and an adaptation of an old ghost tale "The Ghost with Two White Eyes" by Myron Hieronymous Thomas.

This full-cast audio movie invites you to travel with Professor Challenger to a secluded South American plateau...deep in the Amazon jungle...where no civilized man dares to go...and where dinosaurs still roam! This is the original terrifying adventure tale, as spawned by the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - the man who gave the world Sherlock Holmes.

In the 25th century mankind fought against the hated telepathic slan race in the fierce slan-wars. The result was the extermination of almost all slans, and the establishment of a world-wide police state.