This is a book that has long been awaited: it is a collection of “NEW” stories of OTR shows written by fans, many of which you will recognize from conventions, books they have written and the OTR digest. Some of the programs used in writing “NEW” stories are: Our Miss Brooks; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; captain Midnight; Inner Sanctum. As you read the stories, you will HEAR many familiar characters. I recommend it.

It would be impossible to comment on each of the stories in this collection, but the
reviewer found the whole group to be compelling, absorbing, skillfully plotted, and often
surprising. They were perfect matches for the radio shows which inspired them. The
short biographies of the authors suggest a mix between experienced professionals, with
lengthy credits, and first-time fiction writers, but all the works demonstrate a seasoned,
polished construction making it difficult to select a favorite, or "best of show." The tales
in this wondrous volume deserve a wide audience.

There's a good assortment of shows that we're very familiar with, like The Black
Museum, Dimension X, and Lum & Abner. There are also a few shows we may not know
as well, like The Clyde Beatty Radio Show, and The Green Lama. You'll be pleased to
see that the authors of these stories are people who know the shows better than almost
anyone else. Reading the list of contributing authors is like a partial who's who list of
OTR scholars, Jack French, Stephen Kallis Jr., Martin Grams Jr.; they're all here,
spinning fictional tales this time around, instead of their usual positions of informing and
documenting. Fan fiction? Yes, and it works incredibly well. There's no doubt about it,
these OTR fans have the gift of writing well-crafted, engrossing tales.
There are twenty short stories to be found in this book, and honestly, I can say
that all of them are quite good, and they all impressively capture the flavor of the original
programs. That's no easy task when you're writing short story fiction based around
characters that were designed for use in an aural medium. Ohmart set few stipulations
before the authors, but one of them was that the programs written about must've
originated on radio. Therefore, we see no stories of The Thin Man, The Shadow, or
Have Gun Will Travel. While that did knock out quite a few great shows, we still get
plenty of good reading.