Comments on: H276: Valse Triste by Lights Out

By: RelicRadio

RelicRadio — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:24:19 +0000

Google is your best bet. There are a few sites offering otr scripts.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:06:22 +0000

where could i find this script?

By: Lionel

Lionel — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:47:54 +0000

And I’m sorry, just after I posted I read your original comment and saw you did like Mr. O. Didn’t mean to sound smug or snarky about him, I guess I did. His legacy is still impressive.

By: Lionel

Lionel — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:21:37 +0000

Hi Sunny, Crime Classics was where he really shone and had the support of some great actors and actresses, especially one very versatile black widow, Mary Jane Croft. My favorite episodes from that series were “Madeline Smith — Maid or Murderer?”, “Old Sixtoes”, “Widow Magee”, and these three gems: “Bunny Baumler”, “The Lethal Habit of the Marquise de Brinvilier”, and “The Checkered Life and Sudden Death of Colonel James Fisk Jr.”.
I don’t remember which other Crime Classics episode it was, but he had a hilariously grim intro about a singing cricket.

There was one brief role he had playing opposite Bela Lugosi in “The Doctor Prescribed Death”, also available on Relic Radio in The Horror!

In some ways I kind of think Mr. O was a bit of a hack compared to Wyllis Cooper, but he believed in his stories 100%, and sometimes they made it to the right actors. He was just a little more sour around the edges, and there wasn’t a literary element like Cooper’s episodes… “The Haunted Cell”, by the way, is amazing, and you might like it if you like Merrill’s superb deadpan… Skeeter Dempsey has his own unique bleakness.

By: To Lion'

To Lion' — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:21:03 +0000

I haven’t really followed Lou Merrill but you have perked my interest. I will be checking this out. If you have any suggestions about stories or such with him, please post them. what do you think of Mr O? Sunny

By: Lionel

Lionel — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:38:01 +0000

Man... since I started hearing Lou Merrill as the debonair sociopathic announcer in Crime Classics, this was a total surprise to hear. I can't help but wonder about him for the roles he chose, and acted so fully... He seems to have had an influence on the anonymous person who did the voice of the fiendish announcer in Silent Hills 2 and 3.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:21:23 +0000

I hadn’t heard this in over a year so kind of forgot the end. This is a scary story, quite horrible in fact, but it is fascinating also. Mr O really has a way of touching one with terror. Of course I would have liked to find the woman rescued by the guys and the weirdo changed, but leaving the outcome “out there” is more powerful. I wonder sometimes about Mr O. He surely has a curious thought process I wonder if he slept peacefully. Thanks for the story.