Summary: #64. NBC syndication. "The Oblong Box". An excellent horror story about an ill-fated ocean voyage and the strange secret of the box on board a drifting longboat. the story is told as narrated by Poe himself conferring with Detective Dupin. Written by: Edgar Allen Poe The Weird Circle was a syndicated series produced in New York and licensed by Mutual, and later, NBC's Red network. For two seasons, it cranked out 39 shows (78 total) consisting mostly of radio adaptations of classic horror stories The show's strength was stories from famous writers of the two genres, including Robert Lewis Stevenson, Victor Hugo, Edgar Alan Poe and even Charles Dickens. Most all of the stories came from the Victorian era or older. Shop for Classic Horror Shows
