Weird Circle

About The Series

"In this cave by the restless sea, we are met to call
from out of the past, stories strange and weird. Bell keeper, toll the
bell, so that all may know that we are gathered again in the Weird
Circle".

The Weird Circle began its brand of horror stories in November 1943. It often featured stories borrowed from authors like Edgar Allen Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Honore de Balzac, and Charles Dickens. Each show was around 30 minutes long, and 78 were produced before the series ended in October of 1947.

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Mad Monkton
The Ghosts Touch
What Was It?

Episode Log

Num  Title                                Author
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1  "The Fall Of The House Of Usher"     Edgar Allen Poe
2  "The House And The Brain"            Edward Bulwer-Lytton
3  "The Vendetta"
4  "Narrative Of Arthur. Gordon Pym"    Edgar Allen Poe
5  "Declared Insane"
6  "A Terribly Strange Bed"             Wilkie Collins
7  "What Was It"                        Fitz-James O'Brien
8  "The Knightsbridge Mystery"          Charles Reade
9  "The Horla"                          Guy de Maupassant
10  "William Wilson"                     Edgar Allen Poe
11  "Passion In The Desert"              Honore de Balzac
12  "Mateo Falcone"                      Prosper Merimee
13  "The Man Without A Country"          Edward Everett Hale
14  "Dr. Manette's Manuscript"           Charles Dickens
15  "The Great Plague"                   Thomas Hood (?)
16  "Expectations Of An Heir"
17  "The Hand"                           Guy de Maupassant (?)
18  "Jane Eyre"                          Charlotte Bronte
19  "The Murders In The Rue Morgue"      Edgar Allen Poe
20  "The Lifted Veil"                    George Eliot
21  "The 4:15 Express"                   Amelia B. Edwards
22  "A Terrible Night"                   William Clark Russell (?)
23  "The Tell-Tale Heart"                Edgar Allen Poe
24  "The Niche Of Doom"
25  "The Heart Of Ethan Brand"           Nathanial  Hawthorne
based on "Ethan Brand"
26  "Frankenstein"                       Mary Shelley
27  "The Feast Of The Redgauntlet"       Sir Walter Scott
28  "The Murder Of The Little Pig"
29  "The Spectre Of Tappington"          Richard Harris Barham
from 'The Ingoldsby Legends'
30  "Strange Judgment"
31  "Wuthering Heights"                  Emily Bronte
32  "The Curse Of The Mantle" ("Mantle")
33  "The Cask Of Amontillado"            Edgar Allen Poe
34  "The Rope Of Hair"                   Guy de Maupassant
Based on the story "Apparition"
35  "Falkland"                           Edward Bulwer-Lytton
36  "The Trial For Murder"               Charles Allston Collins & 
Charles Dickens
37  "The Werewolf"                       Frederick Marryat
38  "The Old Nurse's Story"              Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The announcer calls it "The Old
Nurse's Tale", the host calls
it "The Old Nurse's Story".
39  "The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot"   Ambrose Bierce
40  "The Dream Woman"                    Wilkie Collins
41  "The Phantom Picture"
42  "The Ghost's Touch"                  Wilkie Collins
43  "The Bell-Tower"                     Herman Melville
44  "The Evil Eye"                       Theophile Gautier (?)
45  "The Mark Of The Plague"             Mary W. Shelly (?)
46  "The Queer Client"
47  "The Burial of Roger Malvin"         Nathanial Hawthorne
From "Roger Malvin's Burial"
48  "The Fatal Love Potion"
49  "Mad Monkton"                        Wilkie Collins
50  "The Returned"                       Neville Brand
51  "The Executioner"                    Honore de Balzac
52  "Rappaccini's Daughter"              Nathaniel Hawthorne
53  "The Wooden Ghost"
54  "The Last Days Of A Condemned Man"   Victor Hugo
55  "The Warning"                        Lord Dunsany (?)
56  "The Doll"                           Algernon Blackwood (?)
57  "The Diamond Lens"                   Fitz-James O'Brian
58  "The History of Dr. John Faust"
59  "The Duel Without Honor"
60  "The Specter Bride"                  Washington Irving (?)
61  "The Tapestry Horse"
62  "The River Man"
63  "The Ancient Mariner"                Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Based on "The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner"
64  "The Oblong Box"                     Edgar Allen Poe
65  "The Mysterious Bride"               James Hogg (?)
66  "The Thing in the Tunnel"
67  "The Moonstone"                      Wilkie Collins
68  "The Pistol Shot"                    Aleksandr S. Pushkin (?)
69  "The Possessive Dead"
70  "The Goblet"
71  "The Case of Monsieur Valdemar"      Edgar Allen Poe
72  "The Shadow"                         Jeffery Farnol (?)
73  "The Bride of Death"
74  "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde"            Robert Louis Stevenson
75  "The Red Hand"                       Arthur Machen (?)
76  "The Haunted Hotel"                  Wilkie Collins
77  "Markheim"                           Robert Louis Stevenson
78  "The Black Parchment"
(last show)