{"id":4902,"date":"2011-10-30T08:31:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T13:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2023-02-21T07:53:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T12:53:55","slug":"chicken-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/30\/chicken-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicken Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No video today. We are going to do something a little different and return to those thrilling days of yesteryear.<\/em> Follow me as we enter the theater of the mind <\/em>with a vintage radio drama!<\/p>\n

I first heard about this episode of the classic radio program Lights Out<\/strong><\/em><\/a> like a lot of people did – from Bill Cosby’s<\/strong><\/a> classic comedy routine describing listening to the show as a child. I thought it was something that Cosby cooked up because it sounded so silly. A chicken’s heart that will destroy the world?<\/em> Ridiculous!<\/strong> But it was real! It was part of the Lights Out<\/strong><\/em><\/a> radio series.<\/p>\n

Lights Out<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is a wonderful and surprisingly gruesome radio anthology series which was probably the forerunner of The Twilight Zone<\/em> and certainly influenced the plot lines in EC Comics<\/strong><\/a> horror stories. Some of the stories are pure cornball, but others, like The Chicken Heart<\/strong><\/em>, are truly creepy.<\/p>\n

Embedded below is The Chicken Heart.<\/strong><\/em> Click on it<\/em> and listen, if you dare!<\/em><\/p>\n