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Dark Fantasy presents “The Man Who Came Back,” its series premiere, originally broadcast November 14, 1941. Written by Scott Bishop and produced by John Prosser, the NBC Red Network thriller originated from WKY in Oklahoma City.

During millionaire Keith Granger’s masquerade ball, police attention turns to a secretive guest concealed behind a black domino mask. As Officer Casey questions the stranger, a disturbing history involving Granger, playwright Philip Blake, and Sylvia unfolds—one shadowed by betrayal, violence, and an old grievance that may not be finished.

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The Weird Circle presents “The Trial for Murder,” episode 36, originally broadcast April 30, 1944. This supernatural courtroom mystery adapts the Victorian tale associated with Charles Dickens and Charles Allston Collins.

Juror Hugh Trilani, chosen as foreman in the murder trial of Peter Cook, watches as the case over the death of John Talbot unfolds. But amid the testimony, Trilani senses an alarming presence in the courtroom—one apparently invisible to everyone else.

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Molle Mystery Theatre presents “Killer Come Back to Me,” originally broadcast on NBC on May 17, 1946. This is episode 202, sponsored by Mollé Shaving Cream and adapted by Joseph Ruscoll from Ray Bradbury’s early crime story “Killer, Come Back to Me!”

Richard Widmark stars in a tense noir tale of a young hoodlum recruited by a dead gangster’s girlfriend to impersonate her former lover. As resemblance and ambition pull him deeper into a dangerous criminal world, identity becomes a perilous commodity. Alice Reinheart and Bernard Lenrow also appear.

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The Sealed Book presents “Death Laughs Last,” originally broadcast on Mutual on September 2, 1945. Episode 25 of the 26-program series, it is introduced by Philip Clarke as the mysterious Keeper of the Book.

A financially desperate locksmith searches for a way to pay for his wife’s urgent operation, but his trade soon draws him toward a dangerous criminal opportunity. Written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and directed by Jock MacGregor, this tense crime-horror story builds its unease from moral pressure, desperation, and the ominous consequences of a single choice.

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Old Time Horror Radio presents The Devil and Mr. O, episode 19, “Three Thousand Dollars,” originally broadcast January 21, 1972.

In this coastal tale by Arch Oboler, poor sailor Swenson wins $3,000 in a sweepstakes—a stroke of luck that could change his life. But his friend Tony, a deep-sea diver, sees the money in a very different light. This syndicated presentation retitles Oboler’s earlier Lights Out drama, “Money, Money, Money.”

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Escape presents “The Loup-Garou,” episode 157, originally broadcast on CBS Radio Network on November 16, 1952. This original play was written by William Froug and directed by Norman Macdonnell, with William Conrad, Georgia Ellis, and John Dehner among the cast.

In the Louisiana bayous, an enigmatic stranger named Zeb grows close to Marie, a young woman in a Cajun community. When misfortune stirs old fears, the villagers begin whispering of the loup-garou—the shape-changing creature of local legend—and suspicion turns the moonlit swamp into a place of mounting danger.

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Dark Fantasy presents “The Headless Dead,” episode 10, originally broadcast January 23, 1942. This NBC Red Network sustaining drama originated from WKY in Oklahoma City.

Skeptical visitor Frederick J. Holman takes an after-hours tour of the Tower of London with watchman Mr. Swifte, who knows every chilling legend surrounding its ancient stones. Inside the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula, stories of the Tower’s headless dead—and the grave-marking flagstones beneath the floor—test Holman’s disbelief. Written by Scott Bishop, a pseudonym of George Marion Hamaker, the episode stars Ben Morris and Fred Wayne.

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The Whistler presents “Ticket to Murder,” originally broadcast on October 30, 1949. Episode 387 of the Signal Oil-sponsored CBS Pacific Network suspense series, this story was written by Adrian Gendot and features Bill Forman as the ominous Whistler.

In nighttime Kansas City, lonely Eve Benton overhears troubling voices from the next hotel room—words about a stolen necklace, a large cash offer, and danger. A train ticket soon carries her toward San Francisco, where a chance encounter turns the journey into a tense contest of secrets and suspicion.

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Suspense presents “Murder in Black and White,” episode 336, originally broadcast on CBS on April 14, 1949. Edmund Gwenn stars in this tightly wound 1949 thriller, produced and directed by Anton M. Leder.

Rice Archer is a businessman who trusts nothing to chance. With a tab-by-tab notebook and a carefully arranged hotel alibi, he waits in room 459 for word that his plan has unfolded exactly as intended. But as the expected confirmation fails to arrive, each passing hour turns his meticulous routine into an increasingly unnerving ordeal.

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The Devil and Mr. O presents “The Hungry One,” episode 18, originally broadcast January 14, 1972. Hosted by Arch Oboler, this syndicated presentation revives his earlier Lights Out tale, “Meteor Man,” with Bret Morrison featured in the cast.

During a nighttime meteor shower, Professor Russell Adams and his wife, Diane, recover a small fallen meteorite near their home. Their scientific examination soon brings them face-to-face with an unsettling presence from beyond Earth.

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The Weird Circle presents “The 415 Express,” episode 21, originally broadcast January 16, 1944. This syndicated suspense anthology was produced by NBC’s Radio Recording Division.

Adapted from Amelia B. Edwards’s Victorian railway ghost mystery “The Four-Fifteen Express,” the story follows a passenger aboard an express train who finds himself sharing a compartment with a profoundly unsettling fellow traveler. As the journey continues, an uncanny mystery involving missing money, robbery, and murder begins to unfold.

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Molle Mystery Theatre presents “Ghost with the Gun,” originally broadcast October 26, 1945. This surviving presentation is Armed Forces Radio Service Mystery Playhouse #138. Hosted by Bernard Lenrow as Geoffrey Barnes, the program adapts Anthony Boucher’s recent short story, later reprinted as “Trick-or-Treat.”

On Halloween night, a man answering his front door is shot by a small trick-or-treater in a ghost costume. With few clues and a victim whose connections raise troubling questions, police face a tense, seemingly impossible whodunit in this grounded seasonal mystery.

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Dark Fantasy, “The Sleeping Death” (episode 30), originally broadcast June 12, 1942, on the NBC Red Network. Written by Scott Bishop, the pseudonym of George M. Hamaker, this story reworks an earlier Tales of the Witch-Queen installment, “The Deathmaker of Shillingham Road.”

Troubled by a mysterious worsening condition in his leg, Paul Wentworth is taken to Fairchild Sanitarium, an isolated island hospital believed to have been closed for a decade. As a doctor urges immediate treatment and former colleague Linda Young arrives at the institution, Wentworth begins to sense disturbing connections to a scandal from his past. Only the first half of this...

The Devil and Mr. O presents “Paris Macabre,” episode 21, originally broadcast February 4, 1972. This installment repackages Arch Oboler’s 1943 Lights Out drama “The Ball,” with Bea Benaderet and Jane Morgan featured in the cast.

Two young American visitors in Paris seek adventure at an unusual artists’ masquerade ball, only to find the masked gathering and its peculiar customs growing steadily more unsettling. Written, produced, and directed by Arch Oboler, this is a compact exercise in mounting supernatural dread.

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The Sealed Book presents “Murderer Unknown,” episode 23, originally broadcast on August 19, 1945. In this Mutual Broadcasting System chiller, the Keeper of the Book is played by Philip Clarke.

A prosperous but unscrupulous businessman begins receiving black-bordered letters warning that his life is in danger. As the threats become more personal, wealth and influence prove scant protection against an unseen enemy. Written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan, the story was adapted from their earlier Mysterious Traveler tale.

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Escape presents “Two and Two Make Four,” episode 223, originally broadcast on CBS on August 21, 1954. This final-season suspense tale was written by Walter Brown Newman and features Shepard Menken and Joyce McCluskey.

After recovering from a head wound in Calais, a merchant sailor blacks out and awakens in England with no memory of crossing the Channel. His search for an explanation becomes a tense mystery of missing time, uncertain facts, and an unseen pursuer—against a backdrop that may conceal an impossible route beneath the English Channel.

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The Whistler presents “Grave Secret,” originally broadcast February 27, 1949. This circulating AFRS version is commonly cataloged as episode 351. Written by Steve Hampton, the suspense drama features Sarah Selby, Howard McNear, and Betty Lou Gerson.

In the quiet, tree-shaded Eldridge neighborhood, Harriet Eldridge maintains a carefully controlled household routine built around a steady flow of letters from her supposedly absent wealthy employer. But when the employer’s niece arrives unexpectedly from Australia, polite questions begin to threaten a secret that may not stay buried.

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Old Time Horror Radio presents The Devil and Mr. O, episode 11, “Vacation with Death,” originally broadcast November 26, 1971.

A family’s bargain summer rental in an old country house soon proves unsettling. An uneasy caretaker, strange organ music after dark, and their young son’s talk of an unseen old woman turn a holiday escape into a supernatural domestic chiller. Written by Arch Oboler, this episode is the syndicated retitling of his earlier Lights Out tale, “The Organ.”

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Dark Fantasy presents “The Thing from the Sea,” originally broadcast November 28, 1941. In this third known episode of the NBC Red Network supernatural anthology, Hollywood actor Philip Hayward and his companions sail aboard the yacht Dolphin toward New Zealand—until an unseen force brings their voyage to a terrifying halt.

Written by Scott Bishop, the pseudonym of George Marion Hamaker, this early maritime chiller blends Pacific peril, lost-civilization legend, and eerie supernatural menace as the stranded travelers encounter signs that something ancient may be stirring beneath the sea.

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The Weird Circle presents “Declared Insane,” episode 5, originally broadcast September 26, 1943. Adapted from Honoré de Balzac’s L’Interdiction, this literary suspense drama was written by Peggy Mayer, with Morris Hamilton and Oscar Turner among the production team behind the series’ early adaptations.

In France, Judge Popinot receives a petition to have the Marquis d’Espard declared insane. As the inquiry examines an estranged marriage, disputed finances, and family loyalties, the case raises unsettling questions about motive, reputation, and who stands to gain from the judgment.

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The Sealed Book presents “Devil Island,” episode 4, originally broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System on April 8, 1945. Hosted by Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, this mystery-terror tale was written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan, with Jock MacGregor producing and directing.

Anne Drake arrives at her family’s desolate New England island to meet the father she has never known and take up residence in the cliffside Drake Manor. But the grim old house, its secretive inhabitants, and troubling tales of instability in the Drake family soon leave her questioning what can be trusted.
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The Devil and Mr. O presents “Nature Study,” episode 8, broadcast November 5, 1971. Hosted and written by Arch Oboler, this syndicated presentation rebroadcast Oboler’s earlier Lights Out drama, originally heard on NBC on June 22, 1943. The cast includes Cathy Lewis and Mary Jane Croft.

A scenic canyon excursion turns into a tense ordeal when a devastating rockslide leaves four travelers cut off amid the steep walls and fallen boulders. As the group faces uncertainty and mounting pressure, the disaster becomes a grim test of conscience and secrets.

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Suspense presents “Death Notice,” episode 789, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on February 8, 1959. Victor Jory stars in this late-run drama, directed and produced by William N. Robson.

After Charlie Slade receives a devastating medical diagnosis, he is forced to confront the life he has been living and the people closest to him. With time suddenly uncertain, an ordinary domestic world takes on new urgency in this reflective suspense drama.

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Molle Mystery Theatre, episode 75, presents “The Man Who Murdered in Public,” originally broadcast on March 6, 1945. Adapted from Roy Vickers’ Department of Dead Ends mystery story, this NBC drama later circulated in an Armed Forces Radio Service Mystery Playhouse presentation hosted by Peter Lorre.

George Macartney falls under suspicion after a troubling series of apparent drowning accidents unfolds in public view. This inverted detective mystery builds its suspense around a chilling question: when everyone suspects the same man, how can investigators prove it?

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Dark Fantasy presents “Death Is a Savage Deity,” originally broadcast on NBC on January 30, 1942. Identified in surviving reference listings as episode 11, this supernatural thriller was written by Scott Bishop and originated from WKY in Oklahoma City.

In a wealthy household shadowed by mounting calamities, Delores grows increasingly alarmed for her fiancé, Jim Harvey, and those around her. With ominous warnings from her formidable Aunt Wanna, the concern of maid Alma, and disturbing hints of a long-buried family past tied to Haitian occult practices, the menace seems to close in on the mansion, its conservatory, and its dark lily pond...

Escape, “A Tooth for Paul Revere,” originally broadcast July 4, 1948, is episode 45. This Fourth of July historical fantasy adapts Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1937 short story, with a radio adaptation by John Dunkel and direction by Norman Macdonnell.

Massachusetts farmer Lige Butterwick has one pressing concern: a miserable toothache. Sent toward colonial Boston to seek the help of silversmith Paul Revere, Lige’s practical mission leads through the tense, colorful world of the American Revolution. Harry Bartell stars as Lige, with Parley Baer as Revere and Berry Kroeger in multiple roles.

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The Weird Circle presents “The Curse of the Mantle,” episode 32, originally broadcast April 2, 1944. This supernatural suspense drama adapts Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1838 tale “Lady Eleanore’s Mantle,” with Maurice Tarplin credited in the cast.

In colonial Massachusetts, Lady Eleanore, the governor’s niece, acquires a luxurious mantle shadowed by a sinister reputation. As the garment’s influence seems to grow, her fiancé George Helwyse faces mounting unease in a community already gripped by fear and a smallpox outbreak.

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The Devil and Mr. O presents “Mr Freak,” episode 5, originally broadcast October 15, 1971. This syndicated presentation retitles Arch Oboler’s earlier drama “The Ugliest Man in the World.”

Raymond Edward Johnson stars as Paul Martin, a poet haunted by a lifetime of public cruelty over his appearance. In a somber, memory-driven psychological drama, Martin confronts loneliness, humiliation, dignity, and the fragile possibility of human connection, including an encounter with a young blind woman. Ann Shephard also appears.

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The Sealed Book, “The Accusing Corpse,” originally broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System on April 29, 1945. This is episode 7 of the 30-minute mystery anthology, hosted by Philip Clarke.

At wealthy stockbroker Philip Drake’s country home, his wife Vivian is preparing to leave after only three months of marriage. When Drake calls on Roger to intervene, a bitter domestic confrontation leads into a chilling mystery of private motives, conflicting evidence, and a corpse that refuses to remain easily explained. Written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan, the story reworks their earlier The Mysterious Traveler script.

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Mollé Mystery Theatre presents “Nightmare,” originally broadcast November 28, 1944. This surviving Armed Forces Radio Service presentation aired as Mystery Playhouse #50, adapted from Cornell Woolrich’s William Irish story “And So to Death,” later retitled “Nightmare.”

When Vince’s nightmare of murder begins to match unsettling physical clues and a police report from Clarksburg, he seeks help from his brother-in-law, homicide detective Cliff Dodge. Though Vince insists he has never visited the town, a stormy drive toward an isolated house raises disturbing questions about dreams, memory, and evidence. Peter Lorre hosts the AFRS Mystery Playhouse broadcast.

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Dark Fantasy presents “Demon Tree,” episode 4, originally broadcast December 5, 1941. This NBC sustaining drama was written by Scott Bishop and produced by John I. Prosser.

At a country inn near England’s Barlow Forest, four friends bound for London hear an ominous local legend about an ancient oak that stalks the woods and strangles those who approach it. A chilling old newspaper account and a possible personal connection to the cursed tale draw them toward the forest path in search of the so-called strangling oak. The cast includes Eleanor Naylor Caughron, Ben Morris, Garland Moss, and Murillo Schofield.

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The Devil and Mr. O presents “Gravestone,” episode 6, originally broadcast October 22, 1971. Written by Arch Oboler, this syndicated presentation is a retitled revival of his 1942 Lights Out! drama, “Poltergeist.”

During a winter sleigh outing, three city women discover a snow-covered country cemetery. A bit of carefree play among the half-buried gravestones gives way to unease when an old warning about disturbed graves begins to feel all too real.

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The Weird Circle presents “The Strange Judgment,” episode 30, originally broadcast March 19, 1944. This NBC-syndicated adaptation draws on Honoré de Balzac’s 1834 tale Un drame au bord de la mer, also known as La Justice paternelle.

On the rugged Brittany coast, an elderly man living alone beside the sea recalls his earlier life as Pierre, a prosperous fisherman. As Pierre and his wife Brouin grow troubled by the increasingly cruel behavior of their son Jacques, a missing family provision pushes long-simmering fears toward a private and terrible reckoning.

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The Devil and Mr. O, episode 17, “Official Killer,” originally broadcast January 7, 1972. Written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler, this syndicated revival installment retells his earlier Lights Out drama, “State Executioner.”

In Georgian England under King George III, Samuel Jones serves as the Crown’s official executioner. Alone with the weight of his profession, he confronts the pride, isolation, and private conscience of a man bound to the gallows. Featuring Mercedes McCambridge and Byron Kane.

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Suspense presents “Black Path of Fear,” episode 107, originally broadcast on CBS on August 31, 1944. Adapted by Robert Tallman from Cornell Woolrich’s 1944 novel, this Havana-set noir thriller stars Brian Donlevy as Bill Scott, with Lurene Tuttle and John McIntire.

After fleeing to 1940s Havana with the wife of a gangster, former chauffeur Bill Scott finds his escape collapsing into danger. With police scrutiny mounting and powerful enemies nearby, he must find his way through an unfamiliar city and clear his name.

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Dark Fantasy presents “Dead Hands Reaching,” episode 27, originally broadcast May 22, 1942. This NBC production originated from WKY in Oklahoma City and was written by Scott Bishop, the pseudonym of George M. Hamaker, with John I. Prosser directing and producing.

Office worker Allan Blaine begins hearing an unseen voice offering startlingly helpful advice about his career—and ominous warnings about his troubled relationship with Judith West. As desperation pulls Allan away from ordinary life, his search for escape leads through shadows of Chinatown and toward a disturbing connection with his family’s past. Ben Morris stars as Allan Blaine, with Eleanor...

Escape presents “The Man Who Could Work Miracles,” originally broadcast on CBS on September 19, 1948. This is episode 54, adapted by Les Crutchfield from H. G. Wells’s classic 1898 fantasy-comedy short story.

In a placid English village, mild-mannered George Fotheringay discovers he can make anything happen simply by willing it. His startling gift soon attracts the attention of the skeptical Reverend Maydig and the local townspeople in a supernatural tale of ordinary life pushed beyond the natural order. Ben Wright stars as Fotheringay, with John Dehner as Reverend Maydig; Norman MacDonnell directed and produced.

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Mollé Mystery Theatre presents “Breakdown Afrs Myst Phs,” originally broadcast June 12, 1945. This surviving recording was rebroadcast by the Armed Forces Radio Service as Mystery Playhouse; episode numbering varies between listings.

Written by Robert Bloch, later celebrated for Psycho, this English-set suspense drama follows a man trapped in a dangerous domestic triangle, contemplating murder involving his wife and mistress. Martin Gabel, Ian Martin, and Roc Rogers are featured, with Howard Duff hosting the AFRS presentation.

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The Devil and Mr. O presents “House Is Haunted,” episode 16, originally broadcast December 31, 1971. This syndicated revival installment repackages Arch Oboler’s earlier Lights Out! drama “Mungahra.”

Far from any haunted house, the story follows a fortune hunter and his local guide in the remote Australian outback, where a valuable diamond brings greed, suspicion, and the threat of vengeance to an isolated expedition. Written, produced, and directed by Arch Oboler, the drama features Elliott Lewis, with a brief appearance by Cathy Lewis.

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The Sealed Book, “Queen of the Cats,” originally broadcast June 24, 1945, is episode 15 of the Mutual Broadcasting System supernatural anthology. Philip Clarke hosts this tale, written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan and produced and directed by Jock MacGregor.

Chris Arnold’s troubled marriage to the glamorous Rhana Farouk has left him haunted by her unnerving devotion to cats. As he tries to reclaim the life he once imagined with Jane Elliott, he becomes increasingly convinced that the watchful felines around Rhana are part of something far more sinister. The script was adapted from an earlier 1944 The Mysterious Travel...