When Mel Rutland murders a love rival he gets the woman, but is tormented by guilt. However, returning to the scene of his crime, he makes a shocking discovery...

This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Estrange for  EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast. "The Living Shadow" by Rene Morris (1964).

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About the story:

"The Living Shadow" by Rene Morris. First collected in "The  Fifth Pan Book of Horror" (ed. Herbert Van Thal, pub. Pan Books).

Credit where credit's due:

Theme  music:  The Black Waltz by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com Attribution 4.0 International  (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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Sound effects:  All  sound effects sourced at Freesound*.

*Used with the following licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The recording was created using Audacity and BandLab. Podcast hosted by Anchor.

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