"Die and Rot!"
T is hard to keep an Appointment with Fear in a crowded living-room, among the bright lights and the familiar flotsam and jetsam of an existence remote from fearful contingencies, but the Man in Black certainly does his best. Last Tuesday our engagement was with John Dickson Carr’s Phantom Archer and evoked several genuine shivers, though rather the sort of shiver one gets from gazing into the eyes of a man-eating tiger from the safe side of the barrier. For the radio as a purveyor of horror is at a disadvantage compared /
with the cinema in that it harnesses only one of the senses, and compared with a book in that one is less often alone with it. But for all that there were good moments-the twang of the bowstring, the dull thud of an arrow finding its mark, and the tolling of a clock striking nine. (No, not the chimes). And the malevolent parrot whose scream of "Die and rot, die and rot!" gave atmospherics if not hysterics. Yes, the Man in’ Black is good, but be he never so good he cannot hope to be considered a serious rival to even a third-rate denSi as a maker of appointments with ear,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 406, 3 April 1947, Page 13
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206"Die and Rot!" New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 406, 3 April 1947, Page 13
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