*This is not the typical Mad Scientist story, it puts a whole new twist on the Frankenstein Legend

Episode 0059 "Frankenstein Revisited"

Original Airdate: March 19, 1974

Original Story by Milt Wisoff, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

A film crew goes to Germany to cover the 400th anniversary of the death of the evil Baron Von Frankenstein who was killed on his castle grounds 400 years ago by a mysterious creature who reappears every century to claim a new victim. The crew disregards the legend as superstition, but then certain chilling events keep happening and they begin to wonder If the legend might be true.

Make yourself comfortable for the moment. You know, evil has a vitality that defies time. Its power can be curbed, denied, defeated, but only temporarily. And when it returns, its force is more malevolent than ever. We've all been to dark places and felt the presence of evil. And we've all seen things beyond our power of understanding. But like Tom Fairley we feel our explanations for everything. Or are there?

We move now from the friendly people who make these broadcasts possible to the monsters who will make it impossible for you to sleep, I hope. Our drama opens on a story conference in a Madison Avenue bar. It will end, I assure you, in terror and fear.

Starring: Michael Wager, Leon Janny, Evie Juster, William Redfield, Ralph Bell

Original Airdate: March 20, 1974

Episode 0060 "The Ghost at the Gate"

Original Story by Elspeth Eric Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

I would like to offer a few observations on the vagaries of the animal called man. Take the popular saying, seeing is believing. What idiot first said that? How many idiots have repeated it since? Do you believe in love? Tell me the color of it. Do you believe in truth, goodness, mercy? What shapes do they come in? No, my friends. Seeing is not believing. Only believing is believing. And we'll prove it to you in the story that follows.

With how much ease believe we what we wish. An English playwright named Dryden wrote that in the year 1679. Brilliant man, Mr. Dryden. But wait, listen to this. Men freely believe that which they desire. Someone else seems to have had the same idea. He wasn't a 17th century English playwright. He was a Roman emperor named Julius Caesar. Proving once again that no man in any age has a monopoly on wisdom. Now, let's get on with our story.

Starring: Beatrice Strait, Paula Truman, John Baragray

Original Airdate: March 18, 1974

Episode 0058 "Sea of Troubles"

Original Story by Henry Slesar Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

The subject of the story you're about to hear is murder. But the subject is also time. We've all heard of killing time. But have you heard about using time to kill? You will in the next few minutes when Mr. Owen Layton himself tells you his most ingenious scheme for getting rich quick by means of sudden death.

Our spine tingler begins across the sea in the delightful city of Paris. They say that you can sit at a sidewalk cafe on one of these streets and sooner or later meet everyone you've ever known. Well, now we're going to introduce you to someone who you don't know, but whose acquaintance you will enjoy making. His name is Owen Layton, and he prefers to tell you his unusual story in his own words.

Starring: Staats Cotsworth, Ian Martin, Dan Ocko

Original Airdate: March 14, 1974

Episode 0057 "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Original Story by Edgar Allen Poe Adapted by George Lowther

Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

The classic horror tale by Edgar Allan Poe tells the story of a heir driven insane by the ancient house of Usher, which he believes to be sentient. The ultimate macabre phantasmagoria winds with him burying his cataleptic sister alive.

Horror that makes the flesh crawl as with maggots. Terror that turns the brain to jelly.These mark the work of Edgar Allan Poe. For nearly a century and a half readers have wondered at the mad creations of his fevered brain even as their blood ran cold with fear as shall yours. Please God help us.

I must warn you that there lies ahead for you a tale so gruesome that when it ends you will know beyond doubt that never in your life before have you experienced such revulsion. Are you prepared for this? Come then to a certain room where a man named Gabriel Mannering sits writing in his diary.

Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Marian Seldes, Robert Dryden, Arnold Moss

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Original Airdate: March 12, 1974

Episode 0055 "A Sacrifice in Blood"

Original Story by Milt Wisoff, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

A pair of archeologists find a baby boy in an Aztec temple of evil. They decide to raise the boy - much to their regret.

It has been said that we are prisoners in a dark closet with small openings that on occasion admit some light. Small wonder that the demons who lurk in the deepest corners are more real to us than the sweet light of reason outside. There is so much evil in our world that light turns naturally to shadow Even the love of Stephen and Amelia Stampler for their son Michael is converted to suspicion in this dark closet.

And now it is time to turn to the macabre and nightmare world where there is no shortage of blood. Our tale opens on a pleasant enough note in a fashionable restaurant where Dr. and Mrs. Stampler are celebrating a special occasion. But I promise you it will end in true gothic horror.

Starring: Patricia Rowe, Ralph Bell, Don Scardino, Ian Martin

Original Airdate: March 11, 1974

Episode 0054 "The Thing in the Cave"

Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

You know, man is a curious creature. Most of us settle for routine and habit. Eight hours on the job, another seven or eight in bed, and the other eight on some hobby that is neither too physically demanding nor asks for too many mental gymnastics. Few of us stretch ourselves beyond a reasonable limit. We coast through life. Our metal never really tried. But some of us, through harrowing experience, are stretched to the full capacity of our beings. It's then we find out what fiber we are made of.

I don't suppose many of us ever plan to grow up to be speleologists, since most of us are subject to claustrophobia to at least some degree. For the very few of you who don't recognize the Latin terms, let me add that a speleologist, of course, is someone who studies and explores caves. Claustrophobia is that suffocating, pervasive dread of being shut in. This tale concerns itself with four young spelunkers. Those are cave explorers who do it only for fun. and their gruesome experience of being cave-bound. Literally buried alive.

Starring: Robert Kaliban, Marian Seldes, Michael Wager, Teri Keane

Original Airdate: March 07, 1974

Episode 0053 "The Creature From the Swamp"

Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

Just mention the word swamp and cold settles in the bones. The dampness runs through the veins like slime. The thoughts of the brooding, cloying, miasma lingers in the nostrils. Headed, decaying, conjuring in the mind visions of things that slide and slip and slither in the night.

A young game and fish warden named Larry Drake who for reasons of his own lived an isolated hermit's life in the heart of the great swamp, was returning after dark in a wild thunderstorm to his lonely cabin. Just as he approached the cup -shaped body of quicksand and swamp water called... But since this is his story, and he left a painfully careful and detailed record, why not let him tell it for himself?

Starring: Jack Grimes, Joan Lorring, Ian Martin, Robert Dryden, Leon Janny

Original Airdate: March 06, 1974

Episode 0052 "The Sending"

Original Story by Robert Newman Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

Sit down and try to make yourself comfortable. Yes, it is quite warm in here, but don't worry about it. Because in just a moment, we'll bring you a tale that will chill your blood. A tale of black magic that may have begun centuries ago, but which takes place today. A tale in which one of the dark powers of the pit is released on the campus of a midwestern university.

Is there such a thing as black magic? The ancients thought there was. For centuries there were those who were willing to trade their souls for the power to call up and control the dark forces of the pit. To what end? Sometimes for power or wealth. Sometimes, as in this tale, to achieve eternal youth, eternal life. But, as we will see, there is always great danger involved. and the price is always high, and usually paid in blood.

Our spine-tingler begins in a large rambling house on the edge of the campus of a Midwestern university. A gray-haired woman, strangely shrunken but with intense gleaming eyes, sits in a chair in a sparsely furnished room, waiting and listening.

Starring: Mandel Kramer, Marian Seldes, Phoebe Dorin, Tony Roberts

Original Airdate: March 05, 1974

Episode 0051 "A Long Time to Die"

Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

It happens now and then that a man will vanish without warning, disappear completely, without leaving a trace, or a man will suddenly lose his memory. His body remains, but his mind has gone. What is essential in him leaves us and we are left perplexed, mystified, frustrated. All we have to go on is rumor, speculation, theory and since we cannot explain it after a while we tend to stop thinking about it. Until it happens again To somebody else.

His name is Alfred Stuart Ainsley he’s 41 years old average height, average weight, average looks, nothing about him to make him memorable. Indeed he has never in his life done anything to bring him notice from beyond the circle of his immediate family and his close friends. His name was in the newspaper twice, first when he was born and then thirty years later when he was married. Right now his name is on the front pages of newspapers in every country of the civilized world, Alfred Stuart Ainsley, quiet, unassuming has it in his power to shape the government of the most important country in the world and perhaps alter the course of history…

Starring: Mandel Kramer, Grace Mathews, Arnold Moss, Nat Polen, Mason Adams

Original Airdate: March 04, 1974

Episode 0050 "This Will Kill You"

Original Story by Murray Burnett, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

Welcome to a chilling insight into the powers of witchcraft and an ancient curse. Witchcraft today is an in thing with the young, which may appear somewhat incongruous, since witches, demons, and warlocks are older than the beginning of recorded time. And somehow, despite all of society's maledictions and efforts to stamp it out, witchcraft has survived, as we will demonstrate in our spine-tingling tale.

Rage, my friends, is one of the curses of mankind. Rage thickens the blood, assails the eardrums, racks the body with a mad urge to destroy. It has been said that whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. And that applies to all of us, even if some are on speaking terms with God or the devil. Witness a man who is consumed with rage, Theodore Rakatsi.

Starring: Norman Rose, Larry Haines, Roger Dekoven, Evie Juster, Gilbert Mack