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  • The Vanishing Bride of Capri

    The Vanishing Bride of Capri
    2026/08/09
    Aired: Dec 1st, 1942. A young American couple's honeymoon cruise into Italy's glittering Blue Grotto turns unsettling when locals stare at the new bride with unmistakable dread. As their boatman ferries them beneath the low sea-arch into the glowing cavern, he recounts a chilling local legend: another bride, fitting her wedding gown three years before, stepped onto a balcony above the sea and was never seen again. Adapted from a tale by master mystery writer John Dickson Carr, this 1942 Suspense broadcast layers honeymoon bliss with slow-building, atmospheric dread.
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    29 分
  • Two Sharp Knives

    Two Sharp Knives
    2026/08/08
    Aired: Dec 22nd, 1942. A mild-mannered small-town assistant police chief stumbles into a big-city murder case when a wanted fugitive steps off the midnight train. Adapted from a Dashiell Hammett story and starring Stuart Erwin, this 1942 Suspense broadcast turns a routine depot stakeout into a slow-burning trap where nothing is quite what it seems. Expect Hammett's trademark hard-boiled twists wrapped in small-town Americana.
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    29 分
  • The Cottage on the Downs

    The Cottage on the Downs
    2026/08/07
    Aired: Dec 15th, 1942. Peter Lorre stars as a mild-mannered mathematics professor who dotes on his young wife with unsettling intensity in this 1942 Suspense classic. Isolated in a remote Sussex cottage on a howling December night, a seemingly cozy fireside evening curdles into something far more sinister as old jealousies and a mysterious hot toddy take center stage. Adapted from a story by John Dickson Carr, it's a slow-burn study in domestic dread and the perfect crime.
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    30 分
  • The Body Snatchers

    The Body Snatchers
    2026/08/06
    Aired: Nov 24th, 1942. A resurrection gang creeps through a moonlit English churchyard in 1832, digging up a freshly buried corpse to sell to anatomy schools — until a grieving family's midnight vigil turns the job deadly. Based on John Dickson Carr's tale of grave-robbing and Old England's grim medical black market, this Suspense broadcast trades ghosts for something far more real: the greed and desperation of men who trafficked in the dead.
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    29 分
  • The Chamber That Plays Cards

    The Chamber That Plays Cards
    2026/08/05
    Aired: Nov 17th, 1942. A skeptical reporter, tipped off by a jittery night watchman, investigates strange goings-on inside Madame Tussaud's wax museum during a London air raid. What starts as a puff piece about eerie dummies turns unsettling when he learns the wax figures in the museum's gambling tableau seem to rearrange their own cards night after night. As bombs fall outside and shadows shift among the guillotine and its silent, staring crowd, he begins to suspect the mystery hides something far more dangerous than superstition.
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    29 分
  • A Bet with Death: Coney Island's Deadly Wager

    A Bet with Death: Coney Island's Deadly Wager
    2026/08/04
    Aired: Nov 10th, 1942. A chance encounter in a Coney Island funhouse pulls a young woman into a stranger's desperate secret: he's staked his life on a bizarre wager against his wealthy stepfather, with only five hours left on the clock. Orson Welles headlines this taut John Dickson Carr thriller, where a carnival ride's fake terrors give way to a real race against time. Vintage 1942 radio suspense at its tightest.
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    30 分
  • The Devil in the Summer House

    The Devil in the Summer House
    2026/08/03
    Aired: Nov 3rd, 1942. A lawyer and a homicide detective meet at twilight in an abandoned Hudson Valley estate, drawn there by an impossible letter — one addressed from a dead man about a suicide that happened twenty-five years earlier. As a storm rolls in and old memories flood back inside the house's dust-heavy library, the two men begin to suspect that Major Kenyon's death in the vine-choked summer house was never as simple as it seemed. A gothic mystery of buried secrets, ghostly letters, and a love triangle that may have ended in murder.
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    30 分
  • Drums Over Zanzibar

    Drums Over Zanzibar
    2026/08/02
    Aired: Oct 27th, 1942. On a moonlit island off the East African coast, a British Residency braces for an uprising as native drums pound through the night and rumors swirl of a towering witch doctor marching toward the shore. When a mysterious stranger slips uninvited into the drawing room performing sleight-of-hand tricks, the family must decide whether he's a lunatic, a conjurer, or the key to a deadly colonial power struggle. Adapted from a John Dickson Carr tale, this episode blends period intrigue, gunrunning diplomats, and old-world mysticism into a slow-burning tale of nerve and deception.
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    29 分