Will a mansion full of monsters and ghouls scare Falk Zildjian away from doing his duty? Will hearts be torn out or tamed? Is there anyone here besides us chickens? Listen to find out!
It Was a Dark and Stormy Reading of the Will, episode 112 of This Gun in My Hand, was carried out according to the final instructions of Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What ensures that I get good deals at thrift stores? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Watching The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966), The Bat (1959) or House on Haunted Hill (1959) will not necessarily prepare you for this episode, but it’d be a good excuse to put off listening to this episode.
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UyPC24qfI4
The Bat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3OM8jbBJQ
House on Haunted Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsnw-RNGKFY
2. This Gun in My Hand is perpetually set in 1939. Patsy Kelly’s next movie after 1939 was released in October 1940, The Hit Parade of 1941, also known as Romance and Rhythm. Her reputation was enough to get her listed on the posters for this film, and pictured on some of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_Parade_of_1941#/media/File:Hit_Parade_of_1941.jpg
3. The audio and text of This Gun in My Hand are works of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, real organizations, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, organizations, places and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
4. Clacton-on-Sea is east and a little north of London, but it’s not in what they consider East London.
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music Title: Let Me Call You Sweetheart (I’m in Love With You)
Music by Leo Friedman, lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson, 1910.
Performed by Carter’s Orchestra, 1924.
License: Public Domain
https://archive.org/details/carters-orchestra-let-me-call-you-sweetheart-brunswick-3541-b
Sound Effect Title: R30-28-Classic Thunder Clap.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/486273/
Sound Effect Title: S23-19 Thunder claps; variation edit of Universal’s “Castle Thunder”.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/675991/
Sound Effect Title: G46-06-Treble-Heavy Thunder Crack.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/438743/
Sound Effect Title: G28-27-Crowd Fast Walla Applause.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438387/
Sound Effect Title: chugging diesel (bus) and rev.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/CraftyIndividual/sounds/418436/
Sound Effect Title: bus coach ext pull up brake air release idle.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/454420/
Sound Effect Title: Bus Closing Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/am7/sounds/520753/
Sound Effect Title: DoorKnockerVarious.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/136544/
Sound Effect Title: Creaking door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/333929/
Sound Effect Title: Creaking Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/709418/
Sound Effect Title: Slam door.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/SoundsForHim/sounds/395653/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: Cutlery drawer
License: Public Domain
http://soundbible.com/591-Cutlery-Drawer.html
Sound Effect Title: Glass Bottle Breaking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/IENBA/sounds/607910/
Sound Effect Title: S10-19 Falling wooden beam; big interior crash; house collapses; long.wav
by craigsmith
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/675967/
Sound Effect Title: Foley_Footsteps_ShedWoodenFloor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/523273/
Sound Effect Title: 175bpm_classical_running_freak.wav
By giacomelli
License: Creative Commons Sampling+
https://freesound.org/s/95763/
Sound Effect Title: TUBE POP.wav
By sandyrb
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/102540/
Sound Effect Title: R27-20-Small Crowd Gasps.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480774/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of the public domain comic book This Magazine is Haunted, Number 9, February 1953. Artist might be Sheldon Moldoff.
