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- The Pit and the Pendulum (1943)
The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe has been adapted for Suspense by John Dickson Carr. This version stars Raymond Burr. " I was sick, sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sound of the inquisitorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy indeterminate hum…” The French Officer was a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition condemned to death and in his cell a pit to which was to be his hell and alone with only the torment of his own mind awaiting the torture of the inquisition.
Stars Henry Hull
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
31 min - Nothing up My Sleeve (1943)
Dorothy Dale is determined to find the $88,000 stolen from a bank where her fiancé Jerry Winton works to free him from the suspicion upon him. She knows that it is her employees nephew, Mr Rolse, an intelligent lawyer who set up the whole bank robbery but without finding the hot money she cannot prove a thing.
Stars Elissa Landi
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
32 min - Two Sharp Knives (1942)
A man is arrested for murder in a small town and is later found hanged in his cell. . The story was previously produced on "Suspense" on December 22, 1942. + The story “Two Sharp Knives” is by Dashiell Hammett one of America’s acknowledged masters of Suspense writing. A pleasant easy going assistant chief of police in a small town to everyone’s surprise was instrumental in causing a murder.
Stars Stuart Erwin
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
31 min - Till Death Do Us Part (1942)
Two newlyweds witness a murder; a woman's face is shot away! Running from the gunman, the couple find the dead body back in their tourist cabin! The landlady finds the corpse and the groom winds up killing her! The story has a terrible cop-out ending. The script was previously used on "Inner Sanctum" on October 16, 1945 and subsequently on June 4, 1951 and September 14, 1952. Joe and Nancy Paige have been married hardly five hours and have parked up at the side of the road by the old mill stream, whispering sweet nothings to each other. As they are sat there, another car pulls up onto the bridge, not seeing them, and parks. A couple get out of the car, arguing. Suddenly, a gunshot rings out loudly into the night...
Stars Peter Lorre, Alice Frost
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
31 min - The Bride Vanishes (1942)
A haunted balcony in an Italian villa encourages a madman to try a second murder.
Stars Hanley Stafford, Lesley Woods
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
30 min - The Body Snatchers (1942)
The story is set in 19th century England and is told by Cameron Fergus a drunk and a resurrection man. Poor Cameron Fergus lulled in to the crime of accessory after the fact. Controlled by men wiser in ways of vice than he, who would soon involve him as accessory before the fact. Most doctors of those days were not abut to be trouble about the material they dissected only the few who trafficked in procuring the illegal material were involved in matters of conscience and most of them sad to say found rich enough rewards to still what small worm of morality might squirm within their hearts. The resurrectionists were well paid and those who bought the dreadful merchandise each made their own defences. Adapted for radio from the Robert Louis Stevenson Classic The Body Snatcher (1884)Stars E. G. Marshall
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
31 min - Menace in Wax (1942)
During the French revolution of 1793 a Swiss girl copied in wax the severed heads of those had just been guillotined. She married a French Man named Tussard and came to London and she founded Madam Tussard’s Wax Works. There it is still in Marleborne near Baker Street station, not the original building, that was destroyed by fire but it remained untouched. On a darker shadow the revolution came to England, they blasted high explosives on that street all along the road and hit the cinema next door. We are going to London under the bomber. Late one night in March of 1941 a young man hurried up to the great vast doors of Madam Tussard’s…
Stars Joe Julian
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
31 min - Will You Make a Bet with Death (1942)
Can a man stake his life against $25,000? Can another and cleverer man track him down like a hunter stalking his prey and kill him within five hours? Can you make a bet with death and win? Listen to this gripping tale written by John Dickson Carr.
Stars Michael Fitzmaurice
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
32 min - The Devil in the Summer House (1942)
Somewhere along the Hudson perhaps not far from Terry Town there is a modest house in its own grounds. Behind it in its spacious garden stands the summerhouse of evil memory. More than 25 years ago a man shot himself or at least died in that summerhouse. They found Major Kenyon with a scorched bullet hole in his head and a weapon beside him. But we are in the present now. The summerhouse has grown heavy with vines and only the other evening two men came into that garden at twilight over the shaggy grass as a storm was brewing along the Hudson…
Stars Martin Gabel
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
32 min - The Lord of the Witch Doctors (1942)
The drums were beating that night; the lord of the witch doctors was on his way. Twenty miles off the east African coast fanned by the blistering heat of the Indian Ocean lies the island of Zanzibar. Here many years ago in the year 1889 three nations were rivals for trades.
Stars Nicholas Joy
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
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About Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE!
From the publisher's feed
This is a rebroadcast of the original Suspense! Radio Show. Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1940 through 1962. One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" and focused on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era. Approximately 945 episodes were broadcast during its long run, and more than 900 still exist.
Suspense went through several major phases, characterized by different hosts, sponsors, and director/producers. Formula plot devices were followed for all but a handful of episodes: the protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a threatening or bizarre situation; solutions were "withheld until the last possible second"; and evildoers were usually punished in the end.
In its early years, the program made only occasional forays into science fiction and fantasy. Notable exceptions include adaptations of Curt Siodmak's Donovan's Brain and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror", but by the late 1950s, such material was regularly featured. - via Wikipedia