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Put out your Jack-o-lantern, grab the candy bowl, and enjoy the Down These Mean Streets Halloween Special! It\'s a full-sized candy bar of a show with eight old time radio shows - a mix of frights and delights - to get you in the spirit of the season. First, Paul Frees stars in an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe\'s "The Fall of the House of Usher" from\\xa0Escape (originally aired on CBS on October 22, 1947) and Basil Rathbone drops by\\xa0The Jack Benny Program for Halloween hijinks (originally aired on NBC on November 2, 1941). A killer stalks the streets of London in "The Hands of Mr. Ottermole," a spine-tingling tale from\\xa0The Moll\\xe9 Mystery Theatre (originally aired on NBC on June 21, 1946) and Sherlock Holmes is on the trail of a witch in "The Laughing Lemur of Hightower Heath" (originally aired on Mutual on October 26, 1947). William Bendix visits a haunted house on\\xa0The Life of Riley (originally aired on ABC on October 29, 1944) and we\'ll hear an unusual werewolf story on\\xa0The Stan Freberg Show (originally aired on CBS on October 6, 1957). Finally, we\'re back in Poe country as\\xa0The Weird Circle presents "The Cask of Amontillado" and Bud and Lou drop by Bela Lugosi\'s monstrous mansion on\\xa0The Abbott and Costello Show (originally aired on ABC on May 5, 1948).