Welcome back to another Old Time Radio Show of the Week! Today, we'll be looking at and listening to a 1936 episode of a lost series titled "The Devil's Scrapbook". Excusing the mislabeled year on the picture above, The Devil's Scrapbook was a 1936 radio series much in the same vein as The Hermit's Cave, and was actually narrated by the same man who played the Hermit on the West Coast. His name was Charles Penman. The premise was pretty simple- the Devil, himself, would introduce each story as if it were a lovely memory out of his own scrapbook (ala Mr. Applegate in the musical Damn Yankees), and the story unfolds before the audience's ears. While it was an interesting concept, the show did not last long and fell into obscurity, with this being the only surviving episode. Perhaps in 1936 the idea of the Devil himself narrating a story seemed unattractive to many people, since this was a delicate time in American history and radio censorship was becoming more common. At any rate, this story is one of the most eerie radio show episodes I have heard in a long time. Sit back, relax, and let the Devil tell you a little story about a man named Mr. David Rugg... Listen below-
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