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22: 513:- Pacifica Radio Archive #BB5499 36:00 This tape has no opening, closing or credits; an older copy is listed as 37:40. A cast of six is listed on the label. With sound effects and original music by Ian Underwood, the show aired 1/29/67. 151:
Bauersfeld's sound designer for most of the episodes was John Whiting, KPFA's production director. Their collaborations were later credited in a Ph.D. dissertation with "keeping radio drama alive in America in the 1960s."
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Erik Bauersfeld's dramatic adaptations of Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls" and "The Outsider" were released in the 1970s on an unauthorized limited
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Music for the series was by several Bay Area composers, including KPFA's Music Director
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The following are listed from KPFA, KPFK or KQED airchecks, not the Pacifica Archives:
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and such. He helped me a lot. I consider Eric my mentor. He also did some fine
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radio drama
Erik Bauersfeld
KPFA
KPFK
Charles Shere
Chez Panisse
Thomas Lopez
H. P. Lovecraft
Eugene O'Neill
Pacifica Radio
Official Black Mass site
Nigel Kneale
Isaac Bashevis Singer
John Collier
M. R. James
Edgar Allan Poe
A Predicament
The Tell-Tale Heart

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