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September 14, 2025 • 27 mins
The Witch's Tale was a horror-fantasy radio series which aired from 1931-1938. This blood-chilling and creepy program was created, written, and directed by Alonzo Deen Cole. Each episode was introduced by "Old Nancy" the witch, played by Adelaide Fitz-Allen.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
We bring you the Witch's Tales, written and produced by
Alonzo dene Cole. Now let us join old manshis Witch

(01:10):
of Salem and Satan her wise black test.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Han.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
I'm loving you all id to day, Yes, Sir Hanna,
loving you all. Will Satan here, all these folks together
to hear one of our persty little dead time story.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
And tonight we're gonna tell him one.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Let's become famous all over the world. You're right, saysan
A woman name know is Shelley. Once with is yan
of our in a book that te no no where else,
never know the true facts of the case. That mes

(02:06):
Dow's our friend life.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
That when the bookish shadows is the wasting here.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
Our persy tales.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Now draw up to the fire and gaze into Rember,
Gaze into him, Dee, and soon.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
You'll be with us in Switzerland.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Soon you're here.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
I am of franken Stein. Frankenstein, I'm not.

Speaker 7 (02:54):
Don't break out whither the wolver Oh justin.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Oh what do you think, Madame Murray?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Goody with me raining fast and dogs, set in side
light and close the door.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yes, Madam, to.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Let met with him brother drip all over the Queen
Science but I suppose I should be used to such tailessness.
After keeping house for Victor fighting.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Science, he does a young scientist, Madame Morrik's just waitcuse
he reaches my age.

Speaker 6 (03:29):
Where is all Victor in his laboratory?

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Does he ever anywhere else? Doesn't even come up for
his meals anymore? What is he doing in there, Professor,
that he's so mysterious about.

Speaker 6 (03:38):
I don't know any more than you do. All Victor
is a genius, and genius shares a secret with no one.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Professor Waldman. I'm worried about that boy. In the last
six months, he's changed vis change. Yes, he thinks of nothing,
but this worth of you. You know how much he
loves is fiance Elizabeth. The three times he's postponed their
marriage because it wasn't finished. And I'm afraid of whatever
he's doing. I feel it is on the oda Holy

(04:08):
I'll tell you for Busney to went to that laboratory,
it is. But he can't close up my ears.

Speaker 6 (04:15):
At night.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
I hear frightful sounds from there, the cries of animals,
they plain, and then from him who is always been
so kind, he's plainly shouts of privy and I've seen
the thing bouts looking membring in that house, hideous things
from the slaughterhouses, and with the mock. Last week the
public executioner was deaf. He brought the body of the

(04:37):
robber who.

Speaker 6 (04:38):
Was headed in the square.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
There is no need for you to worry, however, discussing
the tools the employers, you may be sure the objects
of Victor's workers to benefit mankind.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
I hope you're right.

Speaker 6 (04:49):
But he's coming from the laboratory.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
You're a master door behind him and the characters. One
would think their room was filled with gold.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Good evening, vic girls, that's a.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Or worse.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Gotta boy, this is happening, Cloak, I'll send you to
your sisters.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Is awful storms?

Speaker 5 (05:07):
That a storm? There's a storm, then you must call
a cab. I'm sorry, as a professional walman and I
must have a house alone.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
This is the night of which I've worked alone, this
night on which I'll finished the crowning achievement of the ages.

Speaker 6 (05:18):
The sire, you are trembling with excitement?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Have you done?

Speaker 5 (05:20):
Tomorrow? If Switzerland shall know, my name shall ring throughout
the world, and you shall know first time. Adam Morris,
that's the Knights of must go. You must go now,
you mean your work it in.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yes, there will be no more dead bodies coming through
that door.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
No more horror from the now. Go go, go going.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Even though I catch my death of cold and this
awful storm, it'll be worse.

Speaker 6 (05:39):
Go go go, Please, What have you discovered?

Speaker 5 (05:42):
If she's out of hearing, she wouldn't understand she's gone?

Speaker 6 (05:45):
What does it come?

Speaker 5 (05:46):
And sleeve come into the laboratory as.

Speaker 6 (05:49):
A wallman and the two presents of death.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
I have wrested the secret cup like life.

Speaker 8 (05:53):
Yes, I, Victor Frankenstein, have created man.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
Looking in there, it might get past it.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
This organistic limbs, his brain is external flank.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Beautiful sleeping, sire, but sleeping.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
Only until I get him life. Now the time has come.
That's why it's not for you, old teacher. You pointed
out the power.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
I know nothing of that.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
You sent me to the ancients for forgotten knowledge. Through
them I learned of magic and the hidden foods of nature.
But I have gone beyond the ancient.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
In a moment, I shall make a man.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
I shall be your stop, you bless Why the race
of whom the giant will be Father Frankenstein will.

Speaker 9 (06:35):
Be God.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
For I am greater than your lord, your mana.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
But if this tuneing human fribe would be created, they
must have delicate food, long hours of rest.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
That we became SoRs with sickness of prayer, heath and cold.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Compared to this child of Frankenstein's great genius, men are
flies living out of summer day. Man, I'm not a streight,
and you into weather, illness and fatigued with a brain
that will grasp in a single hour all that man
must take a year to learn.

Speaker 6 (07:05):
This machine will give him life.

Speaker 8 (07:07):
I pull a lever, what oh, don't saba In a
moment he will breathe, and I shall of them proved
done nature, I sell of them proved.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Gone bird the tires. Let's goes wrong? That's not taking
to me, saying no.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Near rise and walk? Wait God, right straight and time.

Speaker 8 (07:23):
The beautiful concut of his body, of what it's like,
it's scribbling like a Mummay's coming, ugly mishap that you
are creating.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
A horror machine. I turn it all too lad.

Speaker 8 (07:32):
He breathes, what le may God hotive you find some
signs you've made a monster.

Speaker 6 (07:48):
I can't go back to the bath house.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
Geez, you get to look at him again. You must
You should not have pled for him an hour ago.
You always possible for him.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
You are his creatort.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
You're right, a great god, frank, But how could he
have changed?

Speaker 1 (08:05):
So?

Speaker 5 (08:05):
If I gave him life? I planned to sing a beauty,
she produced a loathsome horror.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Man cannot uself the barvages of God?

Speaker 5 (08:13):
Let us go in? All right? Oh, why should I
hear him?

Speaker 1 (08:18):
This frightfulness may be only that of an exterior that
I him some way? Mind, I give him a brain
capable of the most lovely thoughts for noblest actions. Why
it's gonna be all right? In the body of a scene?
Maybe even nature of the names are I? I planned
this nature?

Speaker 4 (08:35):
So Victor celebratory door and opened, Yes, burst the locks.
Tim strength is gone the one.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
What is that flying in the shadows?

Speaker 4 (08:44):
It's Madame Maurice.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
She didn't go to assistance. She saw him, She faded
a fright.

Speaker 6 (08:48):
They thought she is dead.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
No, no, let's past my time.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Hands the monsters killed her? No, all right, I.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
The great God chrity.

Speaker 6 (09:20):
Well, my boy, how does it feel to be on
your feet again?

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Not bad?

Speaker 6 (09:24):
After a year in bed?

Speaker 5 (09:25):
Our wager a year stat awful night.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
Ah, you know I forbid you to speak of that
just yet.

Speaker 9 (09:32):
Oh, I'm quite strong now, and we must talk, Professor.
This is the first opportunity I've had to be with
you alone.

Speaker 6 (09:39):
Careful Victor. Elizabeth is in the next room, and your mother.
They don't know. No one knows but you and me.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
They think your ratings are the monster simply pigments of delirium.
And you have been quite mad, you though, yes, mercifully mad,
till a week ago. The darkness lifted from my brain,
till that he remember and to fear what other crimes?

Speaker 5 (10:02):
Is the thing I made committed? Since you brought me here?

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Where is it?

Speaker 5 (10:04):
You wist?

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Tell you have nothing to fear, That the monster is
dead dead. Yes, you're not lying to me, You're not lying,
just to leave my money. During the week after his disappearance,
he was seen in several villages, and the superstitious.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
Farmers took him for a demon from another world.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
At last, he was fired upon and wounded. A trail
of his blood was placed to the edge of a
mountain chasm a thousand feet in depth. We shall never
hear of him again.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
He's really good.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Oh, oh, I feel it's all the way of time
itself were lifted from my shoulders.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
I'm free again.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
My nighte saar is over.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
There's nothing more than fear.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Come in, my dear, you forgive my incusions. I heard
Rich's voice and it found it so different, so happy.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
That since they had to come in, And oh I
am happy.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
I shall be happy forevermore, will be even happier if
left with Elizabeth alone.

Speaker 6 (11:04):
I know, young lovers, I'll see.

Speaker 9 (11:07):
You, dear sweetheart.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
How good it is to see you yourself again. It
seems so real, so close to this.

Speaker 9 (11:19):
But now I have to turn to life and to
you forever.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
You mean, until you go away again. Back to your studies, joyce.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
No, my studies are over, My sermons are ended. I
shall never enter a laboratory again.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
There will be no more postponements of our wedding.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Then I shall have you all room. Oh, my dear,
you don't know how happy that'll make you. HA been
so jealous of the science which kept us from, which
seemed to keep you from even his son.

Speaker 9 (11:51):
I have come back to you, thank God, for.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Your mother is calling me. I must color for us.
We can denied right away.

Speaker 9 (12:00):
Tomorrow is possible.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
I love you, I love you becoming mother taking sign o.

Speaker 7 (12:11):
Happy happy happy, there's nothing not a fear you Why, Yes,
the month you'll create.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
And say sense these folks has got away till next
time to hear the finish of these thirty yards.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Then we will tell him some.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Cruel facts about his franken signs and his monster that
will make their hair allow.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
We bring you the Witch's Tales, written and produced by
Alonzo Dean Cole. And now let us join Old Nancy

(15:12):
and her black cat Satan.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
Hannah.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
And to the old id today, yes, Hannah, and to
the old we all shaken. And these folks who just
jut out them light and make.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
It nice and dark. We'll finish telling.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Them that purty story we begun last time they were here.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
We already told.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Them how that scientist Fella discovered the secret of light
and made a monstrous, ugly giant whose.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
First stack was to straangle our old lady.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Then he disappeared, and the fellow who made him thought
he didn't kill I'm killed idea like he hear.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
The giant's awful voice of calling him me.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Now draw up to the fire and gaze into thembers
gaze into them, jeeves, and hear the rest of I
yam south Frankensteins, franken Stein.

Speaker 5 (16:35):
I have followed to this desolate place as you bade me,
what do you want of me?

Speaker 8 (16:39):
I saw you my home, Frankenstein. This parent came up
on the mountain side, exposed to the wind from howling
me here. I am a monster you created live whilst
you reside in comfort.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
I want to show you my solitude whilst you are
very married.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
I thought you dead.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
You made me too.

Speaker 8 (16:56):
Strong before you hadn't killed me. Could not descry anybody.
I could begin the paper man, because man has shut
me out. Even you can repair to look at my repulsity,
even you.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
My maker, you my dog, God great God's branker. Yes,
when you made me.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
So you call yourself?

Speaker 5 (17:18):
How did you learn that I was your creative?

Speaker 8 (17:20):
Upon that night when I pressed you life, You've paid
for the horror you've given breath from me. I was
naked it with cold. I wrest the cloth of your
about me. You'll papers in his pocket. When I learned
to read, I found those papers were your notes of
my creation are pretty pale. They told of how you
made me from the refuse of the flotterhouse and mob.

(17:40):
I'm fartly man, and fartly see you owe me.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
You recompense for the awful life for the wick.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
I am sad. That is why I told you tonight that.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
You may pay your debt.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
But do you way a companion? Companion?

Speaker 8 (17:57):
Yes, France and style mate you Yes, I love you
for your all. I have take pity on the scene
you made for I am only with a hunger that
no man can ever know.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
You want me for your content? No, you'll know more
than other men can.

Speaker 8 (18:14):
Dare to look upon my frightfulness.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
Give me a creature of roles for of myself.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Well, no, not tend belief to hide the size and
horror you means create another monster?

Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yes, for everything upon his health.

Speaker 8 (18:26):
Accepting me, there is a mate of my breed. I
am Adam Frankenstein thanke you me female? No, yes, you
plan that is why not know? No, why you might
loose upon the world a race of monsters await with
this by mankind.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
I swear we'll do no harm for right, and said
I never I.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
Just don't know more.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
Upon the powers of heaven, I expel that no longer
with the mystery of God will not create for your mates,
nor a thousand tied you yourself will take one.

Speaker 8 (18:55):
Beware you made me strong.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
I can trust you like a came out of sight
of you, only a blight secrets I have already told
to deep.

Speaker 8 (19:02):
I will not do the thing you ask the day
like no, I say you now, that's the hour of
your greatest happiness. I will strike right to your heart rightoncise,
wait and dear, or I'll.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Be with you on your wedding night. On your wedding night.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
How can you be so sad tonight when all our
dreams that just comes true.

Speaker 9 (19:35):
I'm not sad, Jess, How could I be even at
the last. You and my wife this, your titis are
be right.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
No, Professor Waldon is acting strangely too, And the ground
dogs are still the strange men who looked as though
they were policemen standing God. You are nothing to hear,
my darlings, no enemy who would harm you on heart waiting, Oh.

Speaker 10 (19:57):
Of course not.

Speaker 5 (19:59):
Why what can I be afraid of on our wedding night?

Speaker 6 (20:02):
Because oh yes, yes, I went a woman.

Speaker 10 (20:06):
Take a cold Excuse me, elizaeth, I must pick your
husband alone.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
It's lapping you and you stay here.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
I'll explain everything when I returned.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
Tony victors.

Speaker 5 (20:14):
Yes, yes, excuse me, dear close take monster.

Speaker 6 (20:18):
You see the monster while he's having surround. Let's go.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Come on.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
Wait, he's conning.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
I can't leave Alissabeth and that room alone. If he's you,
he doesn't just take not her, and we have him
in the left.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
He cannot get away and leave me to him.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
At last, let me destroy and the offer thing my
hands are made back to that.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Oh my god, say the personal mine troppling on the
floor right over the windows.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
The monster.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
Fright and tame s right to.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
A franconstrain.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
You freck me down, you sing.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
The tills stand out from those rocks where I.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
Can see you.

Speaker 10 (21:10):
So you aim in my breast that pistol as.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
You carry very well?

Speaker 8 (21:13):
I have you now?

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yet you forget how I move left?

Speaker 8 (21:18):
Did you think to describe me with weapons such as this, hi,
whom you made superior to the puny ate the mail.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
I throw your pistol to be on the cattle lock,
and I will eat you on her.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
And unharmed somewhere sometime, and another.

Speaker 6 (21:30):
Weapon I shall bring you death.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Tonight.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
You have killed a woman.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
I love death in all the world on her broken body.

Speaker 8 (21:35):
I have sworn a lift for you. This fuck, I'm told,
I strike you to the heart. You probably no hard
to freight your body.

Speaker 10 (21:40):
It was a better way.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
I turned to a happiness to miss a great lord
of all, Hi to smart you, my god, you, my
lord of all.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
Listen, my father, as you denied me the comradeship of
one trifling myself.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Now you are deny to me, and you can tell
me to life of slow and sorrow. Tell you from
him you want to live for my.

Speaker 8 (22:01):
Destruction, your bed, your hate will make you follow me
across the world to the ton fosgather and the icy
train you know he can hold, and death and hunger
to tire your creature of a mule. How well you
made me break con Frank and say you'll follow me
across the world. I always just said you always just
behind until your body wrecked by age and pull.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
We will reach the end. Now I go and you
will follow. I will follow to your death, to the
tet of bolt.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
For you and I have f all.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Oh past away we point stall it castaway here in
the Arctic centor Lia.

Speaker 8 (22:53):
Psychos Gloss is a man on a floating block of ice,
probably block away from the maidens rest.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
Dead, A white man a thousand miles from human kin
umits born, probably like ourselves.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yes, who's lost his party. He may be a companion
of that strange giant we tore him.

Speaker 5 (23:06):
The distance a week ago.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
If we can get him there, we'll.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Try Man the longbow all and that man humble for floy.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Is a strange story, you tell, mister Frankenstein, You've pursued
this man for forty years.

Speaker 9 (23:35):
A man master esteem over a mountain and desert, oceanan plain,
the bells of Africa, here to the Arctic circle.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
I have para.

Speaker 9 (23:47):
I always just behind, he always just ahead.

Speaker 10 (23:54):
Forty years I.

Speaker 9 (23:55):
Have known no home, no friend, only an acute measure
and an empty dream of vengeance.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
Now I'm died.

Speaker 6 (24:09):
I can pursue no longer. There there, ma'am.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Five days on that ice floor didn't do you any good.
But our ship's doctor will soon have you on your
feet and as good as new. And what you need
now is lots of rest. So I'll leave you until morning.
Good night, mister frankenstile and connect.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
Yes, that's.

Speaker 10 (24:36):
Yes, my father, you I crept aboard the ship when
darkness fell, I expected you.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
So we have reached the end.

Speaker 10 (24:47):
Yes, a god as miserable as his Adam. An Adam
is sorrowful, as is God's awful.

Speaker 9 (24:54):
Because your vengeances.

Speaker 10 (24:56):
Of Frankenstein at the end that is no longer artful vengeance.

Speaker 11 (25:01):
All things cease, all things begin again. You're dying, the
sun cannot survive the parent. Let me lift you in
my arms, cardy to gently, tenderly, I bear you, for
you're all I'll add to love well.

Speaker 10 (25:18):
I've had tour eight Franken's. Forgive me at the end,
I forgive.

Speaker 9 (25:26):
And forgiveness sake.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
In these I say, waters, that there.

Speaker 9 (25:32):
Be one grade about you, and I create and created
my presumption and your measure.

Speaker 10 (25:41):
But at the rave, the waters who wait below.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
Lets find peace together.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Now the end the end, and then with the true
facts start the stoke of Frankenstein. Come see us next week,

(26:11):
and satanly, you have another young depinion.
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