THE BLACK MASS

BEN JACQUEPETTI
BERNARD MAYES

"The Black Mass" (1963-1967) was a horror anthology radio series, with Bernard Mayes and Ben Jacquepetti as announcers on different episodes. The series aired on KPFA (Berkeley) and KPFK (Los Angeles) from 1963 to 1967, on an irregular schedule. STORIES: These are in the Pacifica Radio Archives: "The Flies" by Anthony Vercoe "O Mirror, Mirror" by Nigel Kneale "Shiddah and Kuziba" by Isaac Bashevis Singer "Evening Primrose" adaptation of John Collier's short story "An Evening's Entertainment" by M. R. James "A Predicament" by Edgar Allan Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe "A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville "A Country Doctor" by Franz Kafka "The Ash Tree" by M. R. James "Atrophy" by J. Anthony West "The Judgment" by Franz Kafka "Oil of Dog" by Ambrose Bierce "Esme" by Saki "The Jolly Corner" by Henry James "Diary of a Madman" by Nikolai Gogol "Legend of the Island of Falles" by Betty Sandbrook (a lost episode) "All Hallows" by Walter de la Mare "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky "The Death of Halpin Frayser" by Ambrose Bierce "Moonlit Road" by Ambrose Bierce "The Man of the Crowd" by Edgar Allan Poe "MS. Found in a Bottle" by Edgar Allan Poe Six Tales by Lord Dunsany "The Outsider" by H. P. Lovecraft "Proof Positive" by Graham Greene "Witch of the Willows" by Lord Dunsany "The Renegade" by Albert Camus (a lost episode) "The Squaw" by Bram Stoker "The Rats in the Walls" by H. P. Lovecraft The following are listed from KPFA, KPFK or KQED airchecks "The Boarded Window" by Ambrose Bierce "A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf "The Feeder" by Earl Linder "The Imp of the Perverse" by Edgar Allan Poe BERNARD MAYES Anthony Bernard Duncan Mayes was born on 10 October 1929 in London, England, UK; and emigrated to the USA in 1958. His work in broadcasting commenced with the BBC in 1958, and from 1964 to 1968 with KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California. Mayes's dramatic works included: "Homer's Odyssey", the "Agamemnon" of Aeschylus and Plato's "Phaedo", each adapted from the original Greek; "The Lord of the Rings", a 1979 radio series in which he played the part of Gandalf; and several of Dickens' novels. Mayes received financial support from the National Endowment for the Arts for a dramatization of the life of Thomas Jefferson. He also recorded several books for Blackstone Audio (including Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Augustine's "Confessions" and "The City of God", Mises's "Human Action", Plutarch's "Lives", and Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson") and was often heard in "The Black Mass". Below is an episode from the series:

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