Columbia Workshop
Metzengerstein
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Columbia Workshop was an experimental radio series that explored what the medium could do as a form of storytelling. Its broadcasts ranged across drama, comedy, fantasy, and other imaginative forms, often using sound and performance in inventive ways.
The title identifies this recording as “Metzengerstein,” a story by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s tale follows a young nobleman whose rivalry with a neighboring family and fascination with a mysterious horse lead toward a dark, uncanny reckoning. The radio adaptation brings the story’s Gothic atmosphere into focus through spoken performance and sound.
The result is a literary drama shaped for listening: suspense and mood emerge through voices, pauses, and the sounds surrounding the action. It offers a compact encounter with Poe’s macabre imagination and with the Workshop’s interest in treating radio as an expressive dramatic art.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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