CBSRMT Intro

One of my favorite intros is from CBS Radio Mystery Theater MP3:

"Welcome to the sound of suspense;
Welcome to the fear you can hear.
For the next 52 mintues, I will be your companion
to the world of your own terrifying imagination..." 

The renowned actor and radio voice, EG Marshall, would intone these words each night over the CBS Radio network. His voice would herald us into "another adventure into the macabre."
With these words, we were introduced to villains and heroes, to monsters and poltergeists; even an alien or two.

Many familiar names would welcome us to familiar places; Shakespeare and Twain, Jefferson and Lincoln, Holmes and Watson. Other names, other we never heard of before, beconed to us to dark places of horror, suspense and terror.

Each and every night, some places at 11, other places at midnight, but each night we would await eagerly, under our blanks, straining our ears to listen to the transistor radio that we had turned down low as to not wake Mother and Father; After all, it was past our bedtime, and tomorrow was a school day. But we could not help ourselves. We could not resist the urge, the desire, resist the trembling in the pit of the stomach each time we hear that door creak open. Only our grandparent really understood, it was them that let us stay up late to listen, and would even listen with us. They would tell us tales of radio shows of their childhood. Radio shows of adventure and mystery and suspense. Shows that have long and almost forgotten. Shows that our parents never understood. But we were the lucky ones. We were the ones our grandparents would talk to in that strange language of OTR, and we understood! We understood without knowing why, without knowing where it came from, or where it would take us.

So, it is to our grandparents, and the men and women of that yet older generation, the ones who brought us these tales of terror, those stories of suspense. To them I dedicate this site to. Because without them, this series would have never been born.

Without them, we would have never had that special connection with "Gramps". Without them, we would have not been scared out of our pajamas!

-CBSRMT