Friday's Favorite OTR

 Inner Sanctum: "The Meek Die Slowly" 9/7/52

The caretaker of a cemetery murders a young woman on the same day each year to mark the anniversary of the day his wife disappeared.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Inner Sanctum: "Death out of Mind" 12/29/47

A man is convinced his own conscience has taken human form and is trying to kill him.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Inner Sanctum: "Make Ready My Grave" 4/23/46

Betty's new husband subconsciously ties nooses in random pieces of string; the family servant is super-creepy; and someone has dug a grave for her in the family cementary. It's possible that Betty has married... unwisely.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Inner Sanctum: "Boomerang" 11/25/45

A man suspects his wife and his business partner of plotting to murder him. He decides to act preemptively.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Inner Sanctum: "Man from Yesterday" 12/21/41

A gorilla captured in Africa and brought to a museum in the U.S. turns out to hold an eons-old grudge against humanity--or at least against a particular human.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Inner Sanctum: "Black Sea Gull" 3/7/43

A man's wife dies in a boating accident. He, though, is convinced she'll come back to him. Is he going insane or... is he right?

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Inner Sanctum: "The Girl and the Gallows" 5/1/45

A murdered man may or may not have been seen in a vision by a woman who may or may not be psychic and who may or may not exist.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

 Inner Sanctum: "The Amazing Death of Mrs. Putman" 1/7/41

A woman calls the police to claim someone is about to murder her. But then the police learn that she had apparently died two hours before the call was placed.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

Inner Sanctum Mysteries: "Mark My Grave" 1/17/49

“A dead man who gets up out of his casket, plays an organ solo, commits a murder, then gets back into the casket. You don’t dare believe it. Because if you do, you’ll never stop screaming.”

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Friday's Favorite OTR

Inner Sanctum: "Fearful Voyage" 1/3/49

It's supposed to be bad luck to have a woman aboard a fishing boat. This is apparently true even if the woman is dead--hidden aboard after her fisherman husband murdered her.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

Inner Sanctum: "The Judas Clock" 5/17/45

A particular clock will only run properly if its pendulums are weighted with the 30 pieces of silver paid to Judas Iscariot. Gee, there's no way that particular time piece could bring ill luck to any one, is there?

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Friday's Favorite OTR

Inner Sanctum: “Birdsong for a Murderer” 6/22/52

In my opinion, this is THE classic Inner Sanctum episode, with a superb performance by Boris Karloff and a strong plot that zigs and zags unexpectedly at the end.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

Inner Sanctum: “The Dead Laugh” 9/23/46

A judge ignores a plea for clemency and a jury recommendation, sentencing a convicted killer to death.

He has no sympathy for killers, regardless of motive or extenuating circumstances. But this is Inner Sanctum, after all---the judge soon discovers that there just might be circumstances that could drive him to murder.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

Inner Sanctum: "8 Steps to Murder" 6/4/46


This is a nifty story told--as is often the case on Inner Sanctum--from the point of view of a killer. A newspaper columnist plans to whack a theatrical producer and has blue-printed out his impending crime step by step, so that nothing can possibly go wrong. He'll have a perfect alibi, while an unsuspecting playwright will get blamed for the murder.


But you can't think of everything--even something like an unexpected rain shower can throw the entire plan off kilter. The twist at the end of this story is a very good one. It's no surprise that the killer's plans would all unravel, but the exact detail that causes his downfall is something that many listeners probably won't see coming.

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Friday's Favorite OTR

Inner Sanctum: "Death's Little Brother" 8/29/48


Inner Sanctum is best remembered for the wonderful squeaking door sound effect that opened and closed the show, as well as the macabre humor of Raymond, the show's host. But the stories sandwiched inbetween the squeaks were usually pretty high-quality as well.


"Death's Little Brother" involves two guys meeting on a train. One of them is traveling to see his long-lost sister to collect his half of a large inheritence. The other guy quickly improvises a plan to kill him and take his place, thus collecting the money for himself.


But improvising a murder plot is never a good idea. Soon, he's dealing with both a blackmailer and the increasingly uncomfortable possibility that someone else might be carrying out nefarious plans of their own. It all makes for a fascinating and suspenseful tale, expertly produced and well-acted.

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