The Shadow: Knight of Darkness (Classic Radio Suspense) Audio CD – Audiobook, October 17, 2008

Here's one of the great characters of radio — and then of pulp magazines —in all his grim (but always entertaining) glory. Yes, The Shadow knows! And for years, his radio show delivered thrills to countless listeners as he faced off against criminals, madmen, spies, larger-than-life villains, unseen but heard & felt by those foes as he brought justice (often immediate & fatal) to them. In some cases, those foes are horrific, making for some convincing chills down the spine.Now, either you just plain love this stuff, or you don't. I do! It makes superb use of radio's theater of the mind, evoking eerie & exciting images as the stories unwind. Is some of it corny & clichéd? It is … but that's part of the charm, right down to the period commercials. No one will ever mistake it for Art, but it was never meant to be Art. And again, that's part of the charm.So, sit back & tune that radio dial (or turn on the CD player) & let these wonderfully old-fashioned stories take you away for an evening of excitement & enjoyment. Enthusiastically recommended!

I ordered this series because I recalled how much I loved to listen to it when I was a kid. I thought it would be good entertainment when my wife and I were on the road. Well, it is more funny now than serious or scary like it once was. The plots are silly, the actors over the top, but you got to love the commercials. Overall, I like the stories because it brings back memories, stirs up things I haven't thought for a long time, like gathering around the radio with family and letting my imagination put me into the story, actually forcing me to USE my imagination. The quality is OK, volume goes up and down but it is an old recording. So what if the plots stink, the actors overdo it and the sound isn't perfect, it takes us back to a time before TV, cell phones, instant gratification, and computers. I would buy it again.

Loved this. This was a little before my time but listen to these when they are on our local radio station late at night. I decided to see if they had these on audio CD’s and they were. So enjoying.

If you want to be shocked by blood and thunder stories, look no further than "Hounds in the Hills" which concerns an old woman and her hillbilly family relatives who kidnap young children for personal pleasure. And this was before the days of the Amber alert. In "The Old People," Lamont and Margot discover a mad scientist who needs to learn that you cannot take over the world when you fail to reckon with the victims of his dibolical machine. In "Horror in Wax" and "Death is an Art" are worth listening to back to back for comparison.My only complaint is why Radio Spirits chose to distribute the 'lost' radio programs into box sets, two at a time. Why not all in one box set? To stretch the goods and make more money, no doubt. But overall, if you never heard a Shadow radio broadcast, this isn't a bad start.

I enjoyed listing to this with my young kids. My mother told me about how she listened to it when she was young by radio. Back in the days before TV. It is a great show!

This takes me back to when I was a kid and to the time we used a radio for our entertainment. I can remember my family sitting down and listening to the Shadow "who had the power to cloud minds...." It is still around on some internet and probably on AM radio somewhere out there. They tried to make a movie out of it but screwed that up. The funny thing is that the Old Time Radio (OTR) groups love this stuff and pay money for it even though this is in the public domane and avail for free if you can figure out how not to get caught copying it off somebody elses copy.

I have listened to the "Shadow" radio shows via KTRH radio (Houston) when they broadcast these shows on weekend nights. When KTRH stopped these broadcasts I missed them and wanted to order them on CDs. My recent purchase of the 9 CD set of the Shadow has provided very enjoyable listening in the evening. Amazon offered the best price and quick processing and shipping so I could quickly again start enjoying this old radio series. I can't wait to order my next set of old radio show CDs from Amazon.com.

The Shadow is always great! You can't go wrong with The Shadow CD's. Got them for my dad as a fathers day gift. He loves them. I remember him having a few on tape when i was a child and he would listen to them. I am so glad I found them on CD for him. He keeps them in his car to listen to while driving.