Discover the wildlife of Transylvania, a mysterious region hiding some of Europe’s last wilderness.
Transylvania - a region in central Romania that most people have heard of but few can place on a map. It is a land of mystery and mythology and home to some of the biggest wolf packs in the world who roam across seemingly endless untouched mountain ranges. It is a sanctuary to vast ancient forests that have never seen a chainsaw and are the realm of the magnificent lynx and European brown bear. It is a land where crumbling medieval villages abandoned by humans long ago have been resettled by elegant storks - the mythical child-bearers of olden times. There are bats in the crumbling castles, and in the Basilica, we follow one family of mouse-eared bats as they struggle to bring up their fragile young in the ruined walls.
Emmy Award Winning, "Dracula: Theater of the Mind" is a 1940's-style radio drama, produced for television. "Dracula: Theater of the Mind" follows the story of a small band of mortals who faced the most powerful vampire of them all. It is 1888 and, in Whitby, England, Lucy Westenra has fallen ill. Her fiancee, Jack Seward has brought her to his sanitarium and called in a battery of physicians, but her condition worsens. Desperate, Jack sends for Van Helsing, a specialist in obscure diseases. Van Helsing's visit coincides with that of Jonathan Harker and his wife, Mina, who had been Seward's nurse, but resigned to care for Jon during his recent illness. Jon's law firm has purchased, for one of its clients, the old Abbey next door to the sanitarium. The client's name is Count Dracula.
It is 1940, and ace newspaper reporter Margo Mason heads to the Louisiana swamps to investigate a series of strange murders and an ancient curse centered around an archaeological dig and a strange skeleton unearthed: the body of a human, the head of a wolf. And chilling howls at night under the full moon. The local swamp witch says it's the rougarou werewolf, returned for vengeance. But who is the werewolf? And who will be its next victim?
Celebrate Halloween with thrilling and chilling finds, like a rag doll nicknamed Chucky, a nightmarish Leonora Carrington painting and an eye-catching "Bride of Frankenstein" pressbook. Which macabre and magnificent treasure is $250,000-$350,000?
Unearth some of the most significant moments of zombie pop culture over the last two centuries. Host Dr. Emily Zarka explores how zombie folklore arose before it became mainstream and how the monster changes in tandem with a changing world.
TALES OF MADNESS brings together dramatized retellings of two well-known works by Edgar Allan Poe. In Poe's "The Raven," a young man struggles with the loss of his love and the significance of her death. He must now confront a new adversary as a talking Raven causes him to question reality. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," a young woman under suspicion of murder must face the police and choose between proving her innocence or her sanity. The half-hour program draws similarities between the two classic works of literature while focusing on some of the themes that are most characteristic of Poe's writing style.
If Vincent Price had teamed up with Lawrence Welk, they might have come up with something a tad like this. Hosted by Emmy-winning bandleader Jake Kouwe, this program is a delightful jaunt into your favorite spooky season!
Upon graduating from the university, and with the help of a friend, Victor Frankenstein set out to create life--using corpses stolen from graveyards. During a raging storm, he is successful but, too late, realizes he has created a misshapen, inarticulate horror. And so begins a tale of creature vs. creator in KTWU's fifth televised 1940's style radio drama from ARTS, Inc., and playwright, Phil Grecian.
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