The Night Stalker: Tonight’s Episode the Ripper……50th Anniversary

Above-The art here features Kolchak front and center with two creatures of the night-a vampires and a zombie. Each appeared in an episode. Photo by IMDB

Five Decades of Terror, Chills, Thrills & the Macabre and featuring A Dogged, Unrelenting Investigative Reporter-Kolchak

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Above-newspaper prop created for the 1972 Telefilm The Night Stalker. Photo by Reg Hartt

ABC Network- back in the early 70’s. Two films and a series that relied on blanket advertising on it’s own network, radio campaigns and publications like TV Guide…and word of mouth…here is a what can be done with a limited budget. It resulted in creating some genuine scares..more than effective- the public and viewers including yours truly were more than rattled by the ads and the actual full length product. Bob Cobert’s atmospheric and undoubtedly one of the spookiest soundtracks- The Night Stalker 1972 music by Robert Cobert (youtube.com)

Audible-the first audible chapter of The Night Stalker by Jeff Rice and narrated the author of this article, Chris Nersinger****117 — The Night Stalker By Jeff Rice — Chapter One And Short Introduction by Chris Nersinger (soundcloud.com)