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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Last Story,” originally broadcast on September 11, 1945. Episode 236 of the CBS suspense series stars Richard Widmark as young newspaperman Tony Muse.

Sent to a coastal fishing village to report on its fishermen, Tony encounters the troubled Rita Sherman near a rocky bluff and churchyard. As he becomes involved in her fears and the unsettling people around her, the assignment turns dangerously personal. Written by Christopher Mayo and directed by Himan Brown.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:40 Original Broadcast
24:25 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “You Could Die Laughing,” originally broadcast on CBS on May 7, 1946. Program no. 270 stars Santos Ortega as Elwood Fitch, with Paul McGrath as host; the story was written especially for the series by Michael Sklar and produced and directed by Himan Brown.

After being given troubling medical advice, Elwood and Catherine Fitch find their lives thrown into turmoil following a nighttime automobile accident. When a witness turns their fear into a blackmail threat, the couple is drawn into a tightening web of pressure and desperate choices.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:51 Original Broadcast
29:46 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Strange Passenger,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 31, 1952. Also cataloged as “Stardust,” this episode is identified as episode 522 and features Wendell Corey, with Paul McGrath as host.

On a hot, storm-lit night, John Thompson drives west from New York and offers a ride to Anne, a young hitchhiker who seems to know more about him than she should. With “Stardust” returning again and again on the car radio, uneasy roadside stops and encounters along the highway turn a simple trip into a mounting journey of dread.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:54 Original Broadcast
24:05 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Portrait of Death,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 12, 1945. Episode 231 of the classic anthology is an original radio play by Robert Sloane, produced by Himan Brown, with Paul McGrath as host and Lesley Woods among the featured performers.

At an art auction, collector Mr. Mason acquires a grim portrait coveted by a mysterious woman in black. As an art-dealer clerk investigates the painting’s ominous past, its reputation for bringing misfortune to its owners turns a collector’s prize into a Gothic tale of obsession and apparent supernatural menace.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
30:38 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Death by Scripture,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 9, 1945. Episode 240 was written by Robert Newman and directed and produced by Himan Brown.

Near Shanghai in war-ravaged China, Major Roger Mason encounters a terrified refugee while traveling to Camp 14, a displaced-persons camp shadowed by fear and suspicion. As a deadly warning linked to the Black Dragon Society unsettles the camp, Mason searches for the truth before its fragile safety gives way. Stefan Schnabel stars as Stefan.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
30:50 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Dark Chamber,” originally broadcast on CBS on December 11, 1945. Episode 249 features Kenneth Lynch as recently discharged veteran Joe Watson, in a script by Robert Newman; it is also noted as Paul McGrath’s debut as the series host.

Joe awakens trapped in a bare, windowless room with little more than a telephone, a table, and a growing sense that someone is watching. As his attempts to reach help become more urgent and another frightened captive appears, the chamber becomes a chilling experiment in fear.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:50 Original Broadcast
30:41 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Confession” (AFRS), originally broadcast January 22, 1946. This is episode 255 of the original CBS series, preserved in an Armed Forces Radio Service rebroadcast as part of Mystery Playhouse.

Santos Ortega stars as Alex Sturgis, a struggling druggist whose hospital-bed confession follows a bank robbery, an injured fugitive, and stolen money that brings danger ever closer. Written by Michael Sklar and Richard Manoff, this tense crime-and-greed drama unfolds between an emergency ward, a neighborhood drugstore, and a tightening investigation.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:52 Original Broadcast
26:02 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Corpse Is Lonely,” originally broadcast on CBS on May 30, 1949. Episode 424 of the long-running anthology was produced and directed by Himan Brown, with Paul McGrath as host.

When Smitty finds a bottle holding part of an old map, he and Julie are drawn into a perilous search for pirate treasure near the remote Jellicoe Lighthouse. Larry Haines stars as Smitty and Barbara Weeks as Julie in this tense coastal mystery by writer John Robert.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
26:29 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Wailing Wall,” originally broadcast November 6, 1945. Episode 244 of the CBS series stars Boris Karloff as Gabriel Hornell and was written by Milton Lewis.

On a fog-bound Manhattan waterfront, firemen rescue an elderly man from the blaze consuming the long-isolated Hornell mansion. As the old house’s history emerges, an unhappy marriage, a guarded secret, and a strange sound that has haunted its owner for decades cast a chilling shadow. Paul McGrath hosts this Himan Brown production.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:54 Original Broadcast
30:12 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Amazing Death of Mrs Putnam,” originally broadcast January 7, 1941. Episode 1 of the series, this NBC Blue Network premiere is hosted by Raymond Edward Johnson.

When a frightened woman telephones police from the Putnam house on Maple Street, Detectives Jeff Hansen and Ed “Porky” Lamb arrive to find an unsettling contradiction: Martha Putnam is said to have died hours earlier. As they question the household in the gloomy old home, small inconsistencies point toward a deeper mystery. The original broadcast includes Carter’s Little Liver Pills commercials.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:42 Original Broadcast
25:58 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Ghost in the Garden,” originally broadcast on CBS on February 10, 1947. Episode 305 was directed and produced by Himan Brown and features Lesley Woods, Berry Kroeger, and Santos Ortega.

At a family estate shadowed by an old rose garden, Laura’s returning uncle plans to sell the property she believes should be hers. As tensions rise, strange scents, an unsettling visitor, and rumors of a ghost turn the house into a place of suspicion and dread.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
26:01 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Dead Laugh,” originally broadcast on September 23, 1946. This CBS/Bromo-Seltzer episode is cataloged as episode 285 of the series and is also known as “Ghosts Always Get the Last Laugh.”

Judge Richard Thornton is troubled by the mocking laughter of a murderer he sentenced to death. As tensions mount at home and a new nurse enters his life, guilt, fear, and an unsettling possibility from beyond the grave begin to shadow every corner. Featuring Mercedes McCambridge and Santos Ortega, this psychological supernatural mystery was directed and produced by Himan Brown.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:50 Original Broadcast
26:51 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Death Rides a Riptide,” originally broadcast on CBS on September 6, 1948. Cataloged as episode 387, this Bromo-Seltzer-sponsored installment was written by Louis Vittes and features Everett Sloane and Mercedes McCambridge.

At a seaside cliff house, a newly married woman receives an unsettling message connected to her husband’s first wife, who drowned. A desperate blackmail letter soon brings suspicion and danger to the couple’s new home as the surf pounds the rocky shoreline.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:39 Original Broadcast
25:34 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Skull That Walked,” originally broadcast on CBS on April 15, 1944. Episode 172 is also known by the alternate title “The Walking Skull.”

At the remote Cruz estate, Carl and Lucille Cruz uncover a human skull while planting trees on their grounds. When caretaker Spears warns that the land may be an old burial ground, Carl dismisses him—but the grim discovery begins appearing where it should not, unsettling Carl’s fragile brother Arthur. Berry Kroeger, Lesley Woods, and Alan Devitt star in this macabre tale of superstition and family tension.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:51 Original Broadcast
30:34 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Judas Clock,” originally broadcast on CBS on April 17, 1945. This is episode 224 of the series, written by Christopher Mayo and directed by Himan Brown.

Clockmaker Sebastian Packer is asked to restore a huge, silent Italian Renaissance timepiece—and recognizes it as the dreaded Judas Clock, an object tied to thirty pieces of silver and to memories of a long-buried crime. Berry Kroeger stars, with Alice Reinhart, Santos Ortega, and Jackson Beck; Raymond Edward Johnson serves as host and announcer.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:40 Original Broadcast
30:12 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Till Death Do Us Part” (AFRS), originally broadcast October 16, 1945. This is episode 241 of the CBS suspense series, written by Emile C. Tepperman and directed by Himan Brown.

On their wedding night, Joe and Nancy Page witness a shooting near an old mill stream and a moonlit bridge. Afraid the gunman may have seen them, the newlyweds retreat to a nearby tourist cabin—only to face a night of mounting fear and desperate uncertainty. Larry Haines stars as Joe Page and Anne Shepherd as Nancy Page. The surviving recording is cataloged as AFRS transcription #855.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
27:40 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “No Coffin for the Dead,” originally broadcast on CBS on February 20, 1945. Episode 216 stars Les Tremayne and was written by Emile Tepperman, with Himan Brown directing and producing.

After District Attorney Tom Archer survives a knife attack that kills his assistant, the investigation leads to an escaped asylum inmate whose physical condition makes the apparent answer seem impossible. Suspicion, family tensions, and inheritance pressures deepen the mystery in this tense urban thriller.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:50 Original Broadcast
30:27 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Black Art,” originally broadcast May 15, 1945. Episode 227 of the CBS series features Simone Simon as the enigmatic Claudine, with Raymond Edward Johnson as host; it was produced and directed by Himan Brown.

A man awaiting execution receives a startling visit from Claudine, a beautiful, wealthy woman who claims she can help him escape. As the boundaries of his jail cell begin to feel less certain, this shadowy tale of occult possibility asks what Claudine truly wants—and what her help may cost.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:52 Original Broadcast
29:23 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Death Out of Mind,” originally broadcast on CBS on December 29, 1947. Episode 351 was the final broadcast of the series’ 1947 season.

Reporter Ed is plagued by guilt after a story he covered ends in tragedy. When he encounters the mysterious, black-clad Santo, fear and conscience begin to close in amid a shadowy world of crime and uneasy suspicion. Written by John Roeburt, the cast includes Larry Haines, Ann Shepherd, and Everett Sloane.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:52 Original Broadcast
25:05 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Honeymoon with Death,” originally broadcast on CBS on September 19, 1949. This is episode 440 of the series.

Newlyweds Joan and Anthony Darby rent a secluded cottage for their honeymoon, only to find it shadowed by a chilling local legend about a bride, a groom, and a deadly night. Arlene Blackburn and Mason Adams star in this suspense tale from a story by Milton Lewis.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
24:36 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Death Across the Board,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 5, 1945. This is episode 230 of the series, written by Robert Newman and starring Raymond Massey, with Paul McGrath as host.

After a doctor kills a man in self-defense, he becomes entangled in a sinister chess-themed challenge where human lives appear to be moved like pieces on a board. As police confront a calculating adversary, the suspense builds around a deadly pattern of moves. Jackson Beck also appears.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
30:29 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Undead,” originally broadcast on December 18, 1945. This CBS episode, No. 250 of the series, is an original radio play by Milton Lewis and stars Anne Seymour as Diana Barker.

Alone in her New York penthouse while her actor husband works nights, Diana is haunted by a terrifying nocturnal encounter. A troubling newspaper clipping draws her toward Greenlawn Cemetery, where mounting fears about her home and marriage take on a distinctly vampiric chill.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
30:28 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Death of a Doll,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 18, 1948. This is episode 392 of the series, written by Fred Maytho and featuring Mason Adams as rookie reporter Willie Harper and Ted Osborne as painter Beau Cousins.

In 1948 Manhattan, Harper’s first assignment for the Morning Blade begins at the city morgue, where an unidentified young woman is found clutching a small doll. Following the doll’s trail through newspaper files, an artist’s memories, and the city’s waterfront shadows, Harper encounters a mystery touched by the ominous name Kara Nana.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:53 Original Broadcast
25:56 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Over My Dead Body,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 23, 1947. Episode 324 was written by Robert Sloane and features Larry Haines, Vera Allen, Berry Kroeger, Santos Ortega, and host Paul McGrath.

Edgar Finley devises a grim test of his relatives’ sincerity, acquiring a coffin and arranging a telephone inside it as part of an unsettling staged-death experiment. As suspicion and family tensions build, the tale turns on distrust, inheritance, and mounting danger.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:55 Original Broadcast
25:36 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Lonely Sleep,” originally broadcast on September 25, 1945. Episode 238 of the CBS series, this chilling drama was written by Christopher Mayo and directed by Himan Brown.

A lonely department-store window trimmer creates an extraordinarily lifelike female mannequin for a display, but the figure’s uncanny presence begins to deepen his isolation and obsession. Karl Swenson, Joan Banks, and Santos Ortega star in this dark psychological mystery set amid the bright lights of a retail storefront.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:51 Original Broadcast
30:31 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Death Is a Double-Crosser,” originally broadcast March 26, 1946. This is episode 264 of the classic CBS suspense series.

Recently released forger Harry Smith moves with his wife, Marie, into a New York brownstone where she keeps house for Olaf Anderson, a celebrated elderly diamond cutter. When Anderson is entrusted with a magnificent diamond, Harry is drawn into the specialized world of gem cutting—and toward a dangerous opportunity shaped by greed and deception. Lawson Zerbe stars as Harry Smith in this original radio play by Michael Slaw, directed by Himan Brown.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:56 Original Broadcast
25:18 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Creeping Wall,” originally broadcast on CBS on January 8, 1946. Episode 253, written by Sigmund Miller, stars Irene Wicker as Karen Jeremy.

Karen is haunted by the terrifying conviction that the walls around her are slowly leaning inward. Her husband Horace and Dr. Gustafson believe her fears may be a nervous condition, but even a change of surroundings cannot easily quiet the dread. A chilling psychological mystery set between the Jeremys’ home and a looming old mansion.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:40 Original Broadcast
30:15 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Black Sea Gull,” originally broadcast on March 7, 1943. Episode 114 stars Peter Lorre as Richard Blake and was written by Sigmund Miller, with Himan Brown directing.

Off the Carolina coast at dusk, Richard Blake and Dr. Griffin search the choppy waters for Richard’s missing wife, Barbara. As grief and ominous signs—including a black sea gull—close in, this atmospheric supernatural drama explores love, loss, and the unsettling possibility that death may not be the end.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
29:28 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “No Rest for the Dead,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 24, 1952. Episode 521, also listed as “Mr. Macabre,” was written by Robert Sloane and directed by Himan Brown.

Desperate for ready cash, a man agrees to sell what is said to be his last remaining asset: his own brain. Everett Sloane, Barbara Weeks, and Leon Janney star in this compact tale of an increasingly sinister bargain.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:08 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Murder Rides the Carousel,” originally broadcast on September 5, 1949. Episode 438 of the CBS suspense series, this carnival-set mystery features Leslie Woods, Lawson Zerbe, Everett Sloane, and Mercedes McCambridge, with Paul McGrath as host.

A female carnival barker becomes entangled in a murder investigation after a patron is found dead following a troubling encounter. As the case draws her deeper into the nighttime midway, the carousel and fairground atmosphere become the backdrop for mounting unease. Written by Louis Vittes and directed by Himan Brown.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
25:17 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Death on the Highway,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 6, 1949. This episode, program #425, was produced and directed by Himan Brown and features Ted Osborne and Alice Reinhart.

An embezzler fleeing the consequences of a crime picks up a hitchhiker on a lonely highway—only to find the encounter growing increasingly unsettling. After a roadside accident draws unwanted attention, the driver faces witnesses, suspicion, and the threat of blackmail.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:42 Original Broadcast
26:14 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Bog-Oak Necklace,” originally broadcast on CBS on April 10, 1945. Episode 223 of the series, this eerie drama was written by David Driscoll and directed by producer Himan Brown, with Miriam Hopkins, Santos Ortega, and Lesley Woods.

When workmen uncover skeletal remains beside a rural body of water, a distinctive bog-oak necklace draws an elderly woman back toward a tragedy buried for forty years. Told largely in flashback, the story follows the necklace’s unsettling connection to two sisters and a long-ago contested romance.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:58 Original Broadcast
30:22 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Mark My Grave,” originally broadcast on CBS on January 17, 1949. This is episode 405, written by John Robert and featuring Lawson Zerbe as newspaper photographer Colby and Santos Ortega as Gabby.

Sent to the isolated village of Christenberry to investigate the notorious Brenda ghost, Colby expects a cynical newspaper assignment. Instead, the decaying Brenda estate, a missing couple, an empty coffin, and unsettling organ music lead him into an increasingly chilling haunted-house mystery.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
27:14 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Spectre of the Rose,” originally broadcast on August 19, 1946. Episode 280, this CBS Bromo-Seltzer presentation is a Ben Hecht special, adapted for radio by Robert Sloane and directed by Himan Brown.

Celebrated ballet dancer Andre Sanine has abandoned the stage after a devastating performance of Le Spectre de la Rose. When impresario Max “Poli” Polikoff urges him to return opposite a gifted young ballerina, Haidi, rehearsals awaken troubling memories amid the music, costumes, and shadowed world of the ballet. Ben Hecht makes a special appearance.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
27:07 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Dead Walk at Night,” originally broadcast on September 28, 1952. Episode 526 of the CBS series stars Donald Buka as Danny Williams and was produced and directed by Himan Brown.

Danny hopes to marry Martha, but the persistent tapping of his wealthy blind uncle’s cane begins to haunt him. As the sound seems impossible to escape, guilt and fear deepen into a shadowy psychological mystery.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
23:54 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Night Is My Shroud,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 24, 1949. Episode 445 features Kenneth Lynch and Ann Shepherd, with Paul McGrath as host.

A man faces a horrifying possibility: that his wishes may have the power to make others die. This compact supernatural drama explores dread, moral peril, and the terrifying consequences of thoughts that may become deadly reality.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:40 Original Broadcast
25:53 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Magic Tile,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 8, 1948. Episode 361 stars Mercedes McCambridge and Everett Sloane and was produced and directed by Himan Brown.

A woman convinced that her mother and stepfather are concealing the truth about her father’s death turns to a strange tile rumored to summon the dead. As she searches for answers, the ominous object draws her deeper into a frightening family mystery.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:46 Original Broadcast
25:08 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Flame of Death,” episode 410, originally broadcast on CBS on February 21, 1949. The drama stars Charlotte Holland and Les Tremayne and was sponsored by Lipton Tea.

A distraught widow blames herself for her husband’s fiery death. When she begins to believe he has returned from the grave to haunt her, fear and suspicion leave her uncertain whom she can trust.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
27:05 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Death Is a Joker,” originally broadcast on June 10, 1944. In this overall-series episode 180, Peter Lorre stars as actor-comedian Charles Rupert.

On trial for murder, Charles recounts the troubling events that followed a visit to his friend Robert Langwell, whose planned marriage to Julie Winthrop awakens jealous tensions. Framed by a courtroom and unfolding in Langwell’s apartment, this CBS suspense drama also features Raymond Edward Johnson, Berry Kroeger, and Myron McCormick.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:57 Original Broadcast
31:46 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Mind over Murder,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 22, 1949. Episode logs identify it as episode 436. Written by John Roeburt, the drama stars Everett Sloane and Elspeth Eric.

Grace Stenning faces a nightmare after her father secures a loan under an extraordinary arrangement: his brain is the collateral. When the lender is found dead, Grace is pulled into a tense mystery of violence, fear, and the burden of a witness who may have chosen not to act.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:37 Original Broadcast
24:50 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Beyond the Grave,” originally broadcast on ABC on December 19, 1949. Commonly listed as episode 453, this fog-bound thriller is also known by the alternate title “Terror Out of the Fog” and features Martin Gabel.

On a narrow Florida island cut off by heavy fog, Arthur receives threatening telephone calls that seem to come from his wife, Valerie, who drowned months earlier. As friends and family arrive and the bridge to the mainland becomes uncertain, suspicion and dread close in around the isolated house.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:52 Original Broadcast
25:30 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Undead” (AFRTS), originally broadcast December 18, 1945. This is episode 250 of the CBS suspense series, written as an original radio play by Milton Lewis and featuring Anne Seymour as Diana Barker.

Diana is troubled by a vivid nighttime vision and the strange absences of her actor husband, Richard. When she discovers an old obituary bearing his name and photograph, her search for answers leads from a New York penthouse to Greenlawn Cemetery—and an unsettling family tomb. Paul McGrath hosts, with Karl Swenson and Santos Ortega also featured.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
30:00 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Silent Hands,” originally broadcast on May 13, 1944. Episode 176 of the CBS series stars Mary Astor and was written by Robert Sloane and Robert Tallman, with Himan Brown directing.

On fog-shrouded bluffs above a West Coast harbor, police search for the mysterious “woman in white” in connection with a series of strangulation murders. When reporter Barnes follows an anonymous tip to Overlook Park, he and colleague McGraw are drawn to the unsettling Kohler house, where Nina and Carolyn Kohler—and a private aviary—add to the mounting unease.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:53 Original Broadcast
26:46 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Corpse for Halloween,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 31, 1949. This is episode 446 of the classic radio anthology, hosted by Paul McGrath.

Years after a disastrous tiger-hunting expedition in Burma, Jimmy Fox is still haunted by guilt. On Halloween night, amid a city full of masks and costumes, a scarred survivor from the past confronts him—and makes escape from old fears seem impossible. Larry Haines, Mercedes McCambridge, and Berry Kroeger star in this psychological horror story written by John Roeburt and directed by Himan Brown.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:55 Original Broadcast
27:05 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Hunter from Beyond,” episode 36 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast September 7, 1941. Hosted by Raymond Edward Johnson and directed by Himan Brown, the episode aired on the Blue Network.

A climbing party braves the icebound heights of La Chino, where an unexpected discovery in the glacier gives an ancient legend a chilling new urgency. Alan Devitt and Myron McCormick star in this high-altitude tale of a hunter who may have waited 100,000 years to settle an account.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:50 Original Broadcast
06:15 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Scream,” originally broadcast on January 16, 1950. This is episode 457 of the series, directed and produced by Himan Brown and featuring Barbara Weeks.

A woman finds her loyalty tested when her husband returns to a small town still haunted by an earlier murder accusation. After their housekeeper is killed, suspicion and hostility rise again in this tense CBS mystery from the Bromo-Seltzer era.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:42 Original Broadcast
25:05 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Catch a Killer,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 3, 1949. Commonly listed as episode 442, this suspense drama was produced and directed by Himan Brown and features Larry Haines and Barbara Weeks.

Crime reporter Stitch Thompson is approached by Gail Chase, who is convinced her brother Marco was wrongly condemned for the murder of his dance partner, Mona Taylor. Following a trail through the morgue, the newspaper office, and a remote Catskills cabin, Stitch finds unsettling gaps in the case against Marco.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:43 Original Broadcast
27:03 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “Birdsong for a Murderer,” originally broadcast February 14, 1949. Episode 409 of the CBS suspense series was directed and produced by Himan Brown and features Ted Osborne and Arlene Blackburn.

Carl Warner’s quiet home is filled with the song of canaries—until a visitor from Crag Mount asylum arrives with unsettling knowledge and a demand. As tension mounts, Lieutenant Greg investigates a strange clue involving a bird and its cage in this compact psychological murder mystery.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
26:05 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “I Want to Report a Murder” (AFRS), originally broadcast June 18, 1946. Episode 276 of the classic CBS suspense series stars Santos Ortega and was produced and directed by Himan Brown.

A man living under the strain of a fiercely jealous wife finds himself drawn into a dangerous situation when a young woman begins blackmailing him after her husband’s accidental death. Suspicion, fear, and mounting consequences drive this tense domestic-crime mystery.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:53 Original Broadcast
25:45 Closing

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Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents “The Murder Ship,” originally broadcast August 2, 1948. Also cataloged as “Ship of Doom,” this is episode 382 of the series and features Mason Adams.

Aboard the Gypsy Princess, Captain Henty becomes increasingly obsessed with a beautiful, mysterious woman seemingly tied to the ship. With the vessel isolated at sea and its provisions mysteriously dwindling, fears surrounding the former master, Captain Bellows, deepen into an atmosphere of maritime dread.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:51 Original Broadcast
26:09 Closing

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