EVILUN, real name Ruth Sprayberry, played Bad Movie Hostess Evilun the Witch Saturday nights at 10:15 for Double Features on KSLA in Shreveport, Louisiana. She hosted the shows Terror on Saturday Nights! and The Witching Hour from September 7th, 1963 to October 2nd, 1965.
Evilun’s sidekick was a witch named Malicea, played by Billie Jardine. Malicea crash-landed her broom in Shreveport and became Evilun’s apprentice.
February 19th, 1965 was when Terror on Saturday Nights! was retitled The Witching Hour for the rest of its run.
One of Evilun’s milestones came on March 14th, 1964 when horror legend Lon Chaney, Jr. was her guest. She presented two of his schlockier movies – Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943) and The Mummy’s Tomb (1942). Continue reading
PART 81 – As always, it’s fascinating to read the over 100-year-old opinions of James Larkin Pearson (and by extension his Fool Killer), including the opinions that one doesn’t agree with. Here are some of the Fool Killer’s targets in January 1916: 
MID-SUMMER – Future television icon JACKIE COOPER starred as Val Barton, a man who longs to continue performing in vaudeville with his stage partner (Larry Wilde). BARBARA BEL GEDDES – Dallas‘ Miss Ellie Ewing herself – played his wife Lily Barton, who wants him to settle down in a more stable and respectable job as a teacher. 
WALTER KOENIG ON THE STARLOST (1973) – Fair solar winds and following seas to the late Walter Koenig. Since everybody else has been covering his Star Trek role Pavel Chekov or his movie Moon Trap, Balladeer’s Blog will instead review his two episodes as the alien named Oro on the Canadian sci-fi series The Starlost in 1973. 
EPISODE TEN: THE ALIEN ORO (November 3rd, 1973) – Brace yourself for a villainous Walter Koenig speaking without a Russian accent. 
KNOCKING OFF NUMBER FOUR – In the NCAA Division 2, the number 20 EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY WARRIORS played host to the 4th ranked team in the country – the KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY GOLDEN BEARS. A 16-10 midpoint edge for the Warriors became a 25-25 tie to end Regulation. In Overtime, East Stroudsburg prevailed 32-25.
DOWN GOES NUMBER NINE – Over in the NAIA, the UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS PATRIOTS visited the 9th ranked GEORGETOWN (KY) COLLEGE TIGERS. The Patriots put Georgetown on Upset Alert with their 19-10 Halftime lead. The Tigers cut that to a 19-17 difference to end the 3rd Quarter, but UC held on from there to win 26-25. 
THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE (2016) – This horror film was the 1st English-language movie directed by 
TALES OF THE ZOMBIE Vol 1 #1 (July 1973) 
This low-key but riveting horror story is fiction but is one of those presented as if it’s true. 
Gaston Leroux’s The Bloody Automaton (1923) and The Machine to Kill (1924) were a lengthy serialized story later published as one novel. Many book sites list 1930s dates for these works, but that was just when they were finally translated into English. 
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ASHLEY GHASTLY – Cyrus Newitt played the phantom Ashley Ghastly, host of the Bad Movie Show Scream Theatre from 1977 or 1978 to 1982. The program aired on Saturday nights/ Sunday mornings at 12:30am on WCSC in Charleston, SC. 
Then, viewers would be greeted by Ashley Ghastly, who spoke with a British accent that sounded a lot like Tim Curry’s Dr. Frank N. Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. As usual, a witty host or hostess showing bad old movies became a hit and Ashley soon had a Phantom “Phan” Club his devotees could join. 
