Toy Death by The CBS Radio Mystery Theater

Summary

The Horror! (Old Time Radio)

Episode: "Toy Death" by The CBS Radio Mystery Theater

Date: April 4, 2026
Podcast Host: RelicRadio.com
Original Air Date of CBS Episode: July 22, 1981

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Episode Overview

In this chilling installment of The Horror! podcast, host RelicRadio introduces a spine-tingling tale from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater: "Toy Death." This episode delves into the unsettling power of a mysterious, primitive doll—sent unbidden to an English household—that appears to bring with it an ancient, supernatural vengeance. Rooted in past tragedies and Eastern mysticism, the story explores the boundaries between psychological disturbance and genuine malevolence, as a family’s trauma and secrets resurfacing result in terror, possible murder, and much unresolved mystery.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Atmosphere & Setting (00:48 – 03:51)

• Opening Narration: The episode is set in the early 1900s England, with haunting memories of India—a land described with "extreme poverty and untold wealth...deep spiritualism and superstition." (Narrator, 02:57)
• The backdrop of empire, colonial legacies, and cross-cultural anxieties sets the tone for much of the supernatural unease.

2. Nightmares & Unspoken Tensions (04:03 – 08:55)

• Isabella Trevelyan, haunted by relentless nightmares, hints at unresolved trauma connected to her mother’s mysterious death.
  • "At night, in this room. Sometimes... I feel she's still alive and trying to tell me something." (Isabella, 07:17)
  • The family dynamic is tense: Isabella’s emotional fragility, Captain Hugh’s avoidance, and the ambiguous role of Mrs. Fowler.

3. Arrival of the Fetish Doll (13:18 – 15:52)

• The catalyst arrives: a mysterious man delivers an anonymous parcel containing "a primitive doll...not a child's toy. More like a fetish with a wax face and a body of straw." (Tony Parker, 15:12)
  • The doll’s presence unnerves the household, except Isabella, who is fascinated.
  • "Ugly thing. I'd toss it in the fire if I were you." (Mrs. Fowler, 15:18)
  • "I wouldn't, Mrs. Fowler. I wouldn't dare." (Tony Parker, 15:20, 15:46)

4. Increasing Supernatural Activity (17:07 – 25:39)

• Isabella is increasingly fixated on the doll, treating it as her favorite; Tony and Mrs. Fowler notice odd changes in her behavior and atmosphere.
• Strange Happenings: Blood-like stains appear in Isabella’s room. Mrs. Fowler insists, "Those little spots are very dark and thick. It is blood." (23:31)
• Mrs. Fowler reports seeing the doll move on its own during a thunderstorm: "Mr. Parker, I swear to you by all that's holy, it was walking across the floor." (25:19)

5. Skepticism Gives Way to Fear (27:00 – 28:49)

• Captain Trevelyan and others debate whether these manifestations are real or psychological.
• Mrs. Fowler, unnerved, nearly resigns, stating, "It is too much of a responsibility...too much to bear alone." (27:49)
• Narrator reflects on the limits of reason in the face of the supernatural: "When the inconceivable is added to the incomprehensible, it’s asking a great deal of anyone to be patient and forbearing." (28:35)

6. Isolation, Possession, and the Doll’s Power (30:25 – 34:36)

• Tony and Mrs. Fowler conspire to investigate, finding Isabella talking to invisible presences.
• They witness the doll’s unnatural movement—crawling away, resisting destruction—and Isabella’s disturbed attachment.
  • "There was life in it. I kicked it and it kept crawling after me." (Mrs. Fowler, 34:55)

7. Revelations & Revenge (35:06 – 42:59)

• In the climax, Captain Trevelyan attempts to remove the doll:
  • "It’s squirming like it's real." (Tony Parker, 38:25)
  • "My throat—" (Captain Hugh Trevelyan, 38:29)
• The doll attacks, leaping at Captain Hugh’s throat. Isabella and Tony witness its escape through the French doors.
• In the aftermath, Captain Hugh reveals the truth:
  • The doll said "Bhisalaga" — which means "revenge" in Hindustani. (Captain Hugh, 41:21)
  • He admits to his past actions in India—hinting at guilt over his wife’s death and the possibility of a supernatural revenge sent by her lover.
  • "In some countries, the venom of a cobra is effective. It kills slowly, lingeringly, and leaves no trace." (Captain Hugh, 41:52)
  • "There is no antidote. Let me get you to the hospital right now. It’s too late, Tony." (42:42)
• Captain Hugh dies—his death inexplicable except as "failure of the heart," though the true cause seems deeply supernatural. (Narrator, 43:05)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• "[A] doll is a figure in human form....They have meanings and powers almost opposite. In one country, a doll is a wedding gift. In another, it is very unlucky, worshipped, feared, played with. A doll has been all things to all people."
  — Narrator (E.G. Marshall), 01:55
• "At night, in this room...I feel she's still alive and trying to tell me something."
  — Isabella Trevelyan, 07:17
• "Ugly thing. I'd toss it in the fire if I were you."
  — Mrs. Fowler, 15:18
• "I wouldn’t, Mrs. Fowler. I wouldn’t dare."
  — Tony Parker, 15:20, 15:46
• "Mr. Parker, I swear to you by all that’s holy, it was walking across the floor."
  — Mrs. Fowler, 25:19
• "It’s moving."
  — Tony Parker, 38:21
• "My throat —"
  — Captain Hugh Trevelyan, 38:29
• "Last night...we could hear what she was saying. Asking if she was in danger. Remembering a dog that died in her arms."
  — Tony Parker, 35:41
• "Bhisalaga. That means revenge."
  — Captain Hugh Trevelyan, 41:21
• "A man doesn’t spend enough time with his wife in a military job...she gets lonely, restless. She may be attracted to a man who has time for her. A native. Her husband...is of violent nature....Instead of facing the native who has stolen his wife’s love, he may turn upon the faithless woman....the venom of a cobra..."
  — Captain Hugh Trevelyan, 41:52
• "Within minutes, Captain Hugh Trevelyan was dead....all we can assure you is that it did happen."
  — Narrator (E.G. Marshall), 43:05

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Introduction & Historical Setting: 00:48 – 03:51
• Isabella's Nightmares: 04:03 – 08:55
• Doll Arrives: 13:18 – 15:52
• First Supernatural Occurrences: 17:07 – 25:39
• Thunderstorm & Doll’s Movement: 25:06 – 26:57
• Mrs. Fowler Threatens to Quit: 27:43 – 28:49
• Second Night’s Vigil and Doll’s Attack: 31:21 – 34:55, 35:06 – 42:59
• Captain Hugh’s Final Confession & Death: 41:05 – 43:05

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Tone & Style

The episode maintains a moody, old-world Gothic feel—intimate yet unsettling, rich with colonial-era anxieties, repressed guilt, and a fear of the unknown. Dialogue is formal but laden with emotional undercurrents, steadily building a climax that is as much about psychological horror as the supernatural.

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Summary for New Listeners

"Toy Death" is a masterfully atmospheric tale that melds old-world superstition, buried family secrets, and dark colonial history. As a cursed doll infiltrates the Trevelyan household, the psychological boundaries between past and present blur—spiraling into a chilling confrontation with guilt, vengeance, and the supernatural. The ending is both tragic and ambiguous: the captain’s death left unexplained, and the doll as an avatar of retribution that neither logic nor love could repel.

For fans of haunting, ambiguous old time radio tales, this episode is a classic showcase of how an ordinary object—a doll—can become the key to a house's unraveling, drawing both characters and listeners into a nightmarish web woven by past sins and supernatural justice.

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Transcript

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Oh, stories. Real stories. And murders too.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Turn out your legs.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Turn them out. Good evening. Come in, won't you? What's the matter? Surely you're not nervous for that to be calm, I think. Restored, we are meant to call from out of the past. Stories, strange and weird. Tales of mystery and terror by radio's masters of the MAA Stories of the supernatural, the supernormal. Dramatized the mystery of the unknown. We tell you this.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Frank.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Frank. So if you wish to avoid the excitement of these magnets, play our latest

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

series to turn off your.

[Podcast Host]

Welcome back to the horror. We've got a story from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater this week. Series that debuted in 1974, aired until 1982, produced 1,399 original stories. One we'll hear today is from July 22, 1981. It's titled Toy Death.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Available at Gurney Lumber in Gurney and

[Tony Parker]

at other home supply stores.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Check the papers for the dealer nearest you.

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

The CBS radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Welcome.

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

I'm E. G. Marshall. Today's mystery theater offering is called Toy Death. It involves a doll. Essentially, a doll is a figure in human form intended for a child. Probably the oldest plaything in the world. But dolls are also found in catacombs in graves dating thousands of years before Christ. They have meanings and powers almost opposite. In one country, a doll is a wedding gift. In another, it is very unlucky, worshiped, feared, played with. A doll has been all things to all people.

[Tony Parker]

Good lord, will you look at that?

[Mrs. Fowler]

It's a primitive doll. Ugly thing. I'd toss it into the fire if I were you.

[Tony Parker]

I wouldn't, Mrs. Fal.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Why not? Why wouldn't you burn it?

[Tony Parker]

I wouldn't dare.

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

Our mystery drama TR was adapted from a story by Algernon Blackwood, especially for the mystery theater. By James Agate, Jr. And stars Christopher Tabori and Patricia Elliott. I shall return shortly with act one. India, where this account begins and ends, is a land of contradictions. Extreme poverty and untold wealth. Deep spiritualism and superstition. Monkeys and cows eat while people starve. Roads are impassable, yet trains are crowded not only for business, but those carrying the bones of a loved one to a sacred river.

[Tony Parker]

Contrast.

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

Incongruous, yet accepted. And in England, a young girl who has the mark of India on her cries out in fear ridden sleep.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

No. Don't. Don't. Bab. You can't.

[Tony Parker]

Don't.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Where are you? I can't find you. I can't see you. Daddy. Where are you? Upstairs. Oh, a nightmare.

[Mrs. Fowler]

A Nightmare again. Oh, that was the worst. Oh, how long am I going to keep having them?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Is it better?

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Clear?

[Mrs. Fowler]

So real. But it's not real. It never happened. I never saw it happen.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Isabella, are you all right?

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Yes, Father, I'm all right, thank you.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

I heard you from upstairs, screaming.

[Mrs. Fowler]

It was only a nightmare.

[Tony Parker]

Goodness.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Mind if I sit down a moment? No, better than that. Let me open the windows. Let the smell of the garden come in. It's awfully warm in here. You really gave me quite a start.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I put my robe on and come sit by the window next to you.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Shall I turn up the gas mantle so we won't sit in the dark?

[Isabella Trevelyan]

No, no.

[Mrs. Fowler]

There's light enough from that little slice of moon in the stars. Isn't it bright in the garden?

[Tony Parker]

Yes.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Take the rocking chair, dear.

[Mrs. Fowler]

No, I'll sit on the floor.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

All right. I might as well live. This rocker was always your favorite chair.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I know, Father.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

She made me bring it back here to England. I can see her now, rocking back and forth, making little doll's clothes in our garden in Calcutta. Remember? Right under the big banyan tree.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Can we please not talk about Mother?

[Tony Parker]

Not.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Please, Father.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

I've noticed that when you need me, when you're frightened, you call me Daddy as you used to when you were little. Otherwise, it's Father.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Well, which do you prefer?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

What I really prefer is to know why you keep having these terrifying nightmares.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I don't know.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Certainly terrifying to me. When I hear you cry out like that, my heart literally stops absolutely cold as though I were dead for an instant.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I'm truly sorry, Father. I don't know why it happens. It's getting so that I. I'm almost afraid to go to bed at night.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

I have asked you before, but what

[Tony Parker]

is it you dream?

[Mrs. Fowler]

You must know that I can't tell you that. I just can't.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

All right. Maybe someday you will.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Father?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Yes?

[Mrs. Fowler]

What did Mother die of?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

I'm not exactly sure, and I don't think anyone else is. The doctors in India didn't know.

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

That's why we brought her back here.

[Mrs. Fowler]

At night, in this room. Sometimes. Sometimes I feel she's still alive and trying to tell me something.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

I wish it were true. She loved you, Isabella. Well, now we've had our little talk do you feel as though you could close your eyes? I know I do. Tony Parker is coming in at 9 tomorrow morning ready to take dictation. I shall need sleep to have my wits about me.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Of course you do, Father. How are the memoirs coming?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Slowly. Very slowly. Tony is helping me organize the material. And I've only just begun the actual writing. Oh, dear, I'm tired.

[Tony Parker]

I need sleep.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Well, you go upstairs and get it. If I can't settle down, I'll play with my dollies.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Why can't you call it your doll collection? I wish you wouldn't use those childish words. You're a grown up woman of 20. Well, I'm going. It certainly is bright here. It's like living in the garden.

[Mrs. Fowler]

That's what I love about it. Besides it having been Mother's room.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

You think you can go back to bed now?

[Mrs. Fowler]

Yes, I'm all right. You go along upstairs. And I'm sorry to have awakened you.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

That's what I'm here for. See you in the morning, Isabella. Have a good night's rest, dear. What's left of it.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Mother. Mother. He's gone. You are over there, aren't you, Mother? Sitting as you always did in your favorite rocking chair. I was sure you would come because of the new moon. It wasn't just a dream. Was did happen. What am I going to do now? There's no way to prove anything. If I said to anyone, did you know my father was the one? Well, if I said that to anyone, they'd have me put away, wouldn't they? Wouldn't they? Mother? Mother, what are we going to do about him?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Tony, how far did we get yesterday with the memoirs and. Just a moment. Is that you, Mrs. Fowler?

[Mrs. Fowler]

Yes, Captain Trevelyan.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Well, don't stand there on the door of my study. Please come in.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Was there anything you'd like me to do?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Where is our morning tea, Mrs. Fowler? Parker's been here since nine and no tea.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Oh, I'm just bringing it up, sir. We had a little problem downstairs that I. I didn't get to it.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

What problem? Why wasn't I told?

[Mrs. Fowler]

We didn't wish to disturb you, sir.

[Tony Parker]

Well, you have.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

So, what was it this morning?

[Mrs. Fowler]

Shortly before 7. You know, my room is right next to Ms. Isabella's. I heard someone trying the French doors from the outside, so I opened my window and I shouted, go away. And this man, Well, I couldn't really make him out. It just buzzed off.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Well, if you see this prowler again, call the police.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I shall.

[Tony Parker]

Good enough. We'll tea then.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

As soon as you can, Mrs. Fowler.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Yes.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Now, Tony, I've. I've looked over what you wrote down yesterday, but I have a feeling there was something else I mentioned as you were going.

[Tony Parker]

Just a paragraph. I took it home to type up, sir. Let's see. Something about. Yes? Your first encounter with a cobra. In Delhi, you said. There it was a six foot long cobra eyeing me as I walked in the door. I moved to the right, it moved to the right, I moved to the left.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Strike all that.

[Tony Parker]

What?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Cross it out, leave it out.

[Tony Parker]

Oh, but that could be a very exciting, extraordinary part of your recollection, sir. I think you're making a big mistake, if I may say so, Mrs. Fowler.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Yes, come in, Mr. Parker.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

The kitchen door's open.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I'm just about to scramble up some eggs for everyone's lunch.

[Tony Parker]

He's gone out.

[Mrs. Fowler]

A captain? Without eating?

[Tony Parker]

Yes. Someone called him on the phone and Captain said he'd be over right away, which meant I was dismissed and won't be required until tomorrow. So I thought I'd come in and tell you.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Well, you're not going all the way back to Oxford on an empty stomach. Oh, there goes the bell. Someone's at the front door.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

I'll get it, Mrs. Fowler.

[Mrs. Fowler]

All righty, Ms. Isabella. Are you married, Mr. Parker?

[Tony Parker]

I know I never have been.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I just wondered if you'd taken any notice of Ms. Trevelyan.

[Tony Parker]

Oh, I have, yes. Very attractive girl. Woman?

[Mrs. Fowler]

She's 20.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Really.

[Tony Parker]

Sometimes she acts rather. Well, rather young, I'd say.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Well, only about her. Dolly.

[Tony Parker]

Oh, please, please. I wince whenever I hear that word. She had to say anything at all. I. I prefer just to say collection. It's a bit young, you know.

[Mrs. Fowler]

And how old are you? 31 and never married.

[Tony Parker]

Too busy trying to earn my living as a writer.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Oh, so you write too?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

To afford it.

[Tony Parker]

I've become a stenographer for wealthy clients. Like Captain Trevelyan, to whom writing is a hobby.

[Mrs. Fowler]

So that's what you think of my father's memoirs. A hobby.

[Tony Parker]

Excuse me, Ms. Trevelyan. I've told him as much.

[Mrs. Fowler]

What's in that little parcel you have there, dear? The strangest thing happened just now, you

[Isabella Trevelyan]

know, when I went to answer the

[Mrs. Fowler]

door, there was this tall, very handsome man. He looked just like the Sikhs one sees in the. In the East Punjab. Was he dark? Did he wear a turban?

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Yes, he did.

[Mrs. Fowler]

That's the man. The man who's been hanging about this house since early morning. And he said, is this the house of Captain Hugh Trevelyan? And I said, yes, it is. And then he handed me this parcel I looked at. Has no name on it, who it was to or from or anything. And when I looked up, he'd gone. Vanished.

[Tony Parker]

Well, I wonder what's in it.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I have no idea.

[Tony Parker]

Why didn't you open it?

[Mrs. Fowler]

You don't think it's for my father?

[Tony Parker]

I'd say you're as much part of the House of Trevelyan as your father is.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Now. Here are the scissors. Come on. Now, give me that parcel.

[Tony Parker]

No, no, wait.

[Mrs. Fowler]

What's the matter? I don't know.

[Tony Parker]

I just had the strangest sensation.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Tony, you too, did you, Isabella? Yes, a kind of, well, emanation. I can't explain it exactly. What is the matter with you two? Are we going to open the silly package or aren't we? In a moment. Can you describe that feeling, Tony?

[Tony Parker]

Well, let's see if I can simply. You know, Isabella, the classical language of the Hindus is Sanskrit. And our word divine comes from a Sanskrit root meaning radiance.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Radiance. Yes. Yes, I felt that, too. You see?

[Tony Parker]

It's nothing to be afraid of. It was rather pleasurable, wasn't it? I think we should go ahead and open it and see what's inside. Good Lord, will you look at that?

[Mrs. Fowler]

Yes, it's a doll. A primitive doll.

[Tony Parker]

Yes, but not a child's doll. More like a fetish with a wax face and a body of straw.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Ugly thing. I'd toss it into the fire if I were you.

[Tony Parker]

No, I wouldn't do it.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I don't think it's ugly at all. It's beautiful. How could anybody make a thing like that for a child to play with?

[Tony Parker]

It's not a child's toy.

[Mrs. Fowler]

A doll like that would frighten the wee thing half to death.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

It's hideous.

[Mrs. Fowler]

How can you say that? I love it. Well, what's it good for, Doctor? Me, I'd do away with it.

[Tony Parker]

I'd be very careful.

[Mrs. Fowler]

You wouldn't burn it?

[Tony Parker]

I wouldn't dare.

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

Dolls have played a strange role in some religions. Certain ones are said to contain spirits which can influence human actions. However, isn't it possible that the sender of this odd gift simply knew that Isabella, as had her mother before her, collected dolls? And Tony, is he not perhaps finding something sinister in an object merely primitive? I shall return shortly with perhaps a few clues and a few answers.

[Tony Parker]

In Act 2,

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

No doubt you overheard remarks about morning tea lighting the gas mantle, reference to the British rule of a clue, certainly to the time of our tale, the early 1900s. However, a daughter who collects dolls and believes she communicates with her dead mother, a young writer working as a secretary and a retired army officer trying to rewrite his past are as much the

[Tony Parker]

stuff of today's drama as yesterday's Tony, what is it?

[Mrs. Fowler]

Why are you looking at me like that?

[Tony Parker]

Oh, am I? Sorry.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Is it because I carry this new doll around with me? Is it?

[Tony Parker]

I. I really don't know what you're talking about, Isabella.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Don't you? It's been two weeks now since that man in the turban delivered it to me. And every afternoon after you finished Father's work, we've taken a walk to some different part of the countryside.

[Tony Parker]

Isabella, don't think I'm not happy about that, because I am. Even today, when we're not exploring, just sitting here in the garden with you is nice, but you don't usually see an adult woman holding a kind of doll as if it were a baby.

[Mrs. Fowler]

And it bothers you.

[Tony Parker]

No.

[Mrs. Fowler]

No, it wouldn't matter to me if it did. Of all my dollies, this is my favorite. Why did you say this was more like a fetish than a doll?

[Tony Parker]

Oh, forget I said that. It's just some primitive piece. Probably sent to your father as a remembrance of India.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I'm not so sure. Father wants to remember everything about India.

[Tony Parker]

You're not?

[Mrs. Fowler]

You should know better than I. Has he started about my mother? How he met her and how they went together to India?

[Tony Parker]

I was going to say that we're well into India, aren't they? Certainly 18 years back. But not a word about your mother or you.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I wonder why I put it down

[Tony Parker]

to being perhaps too painful. A sudden, inexplicable death.

[Mrs. Fowler]

How do you know that, Mrs. Fowler? Isn't that strange?

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Rockaby baby. Johnny.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I don't think there's anything bad about this, Dolly. It's just a little thing.

[Tony Parker]

Yes, but didn't it strike you odd the moment we were about to unwrap the parcel? I mean, you'd been calling me Mr. Parker all along. So naturally I called you Miss Trevelyan. Then suddenly you said Tony. And I found myself saying to you, Isabella, it was the most natural thing in the world. As if we'd always known one another.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I never realized that that's so.

[Tony Parker]

Yes.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Are both your parents alive, Tony?

[Tony Parker]

No, I. I was an orphan. I don't know who my parents were.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Would you say it's logical that I sometimes. Sometimes feel I can talk to my mother? Even though she passed away two years ago?

[Tony Parker]

You were very close.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Not close enough. Or it might never have happened.

[Tony Parker]

Isabella.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Yes?

[Tony Parker]

Try not to think about the past too much.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Sometimes I think so hard about my mother, I can make myself believe she's right in my room.

[Tony Parker]

Yes, well, it's not a Good idea. Dwelling on the past can be sad making.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I'm not. I feel happy. Now I've got you to talk to, my darling. I have the whole collection in my room. Someday I'll show it you.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Just let me add a few more thoughts before we end today's session. Tony, you ready?

[Tony Parker]

My pencil's poised, Captain.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

In all the years I spent in India, I always felt the spiritual influence of both the Bengali poet and mystic Tagore and that of Mahatma Gandhi. Well, I think that'll be it for today. By the way, I understand from Mrs. Fowler you've been seeing quite a bit of Isabella.

[Tony Parker]

Oh, I wasn't keeping it a secret, sir. Isabella hasn't mentioned it to you herself? No, she hasn't.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

We don't talk together as much as we should.

[Tony Parker]

Because of her mother.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

What do you know of her mother? What has she told you?

[Tony Parker]

Oh, no, nothing. Nothing at all. Except that she feels very close to her, even in death.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Yes. Well, when you've typed out what I've dictated since Monday, you may leave. I'm off to London on business. If it gets late, we have an extra room, Miss. Yours. And what's the time? Our good. I'll just make it to the station for the 2 o'.

[Tony Parker]

Clock. Captain Trevelyan, I'm sorry if I said anything about Isabella and her mother that was unwarranted. I'm very fond of your daughter. It was merely to let you know that. That I'm quite concerned about her.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Well, Tony, it's. It's a good thing. She does see something of you. Bring her out of her shell.

[Tony Parker]

It's not healthy for a young woman

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

to spend so much time with a collection of dolls. But what can I do? Her mother was just like that.

[Tony Parker]

Come in. Aha, yes.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Mrs. Fowler, you've got to come now. There's something quite ghastly in Ms. Isabella's room and you have got to see.

[Tony Parker]

Is she all right?

[Mrs. Fowler]

So far as I know. Just follow me. Just across this landing, down these steps, there's a room. I don't know what to make of it. Where? The door's open. That's her room.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Isabella?

[Mrs. Fowler]

She's not in there, Mr. Parker. She went out late this afternoon with that doll of hers.

[Tony Parker]

Oh, yes, I know. It's distressing.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I want to show you something. Look.

[Tony Parker]

There on the floor.

[Mrs. Fowler]

What do you see?

[Tony Parker]

Someone spilled drops of red ink from the door to the bottom of the bed. Is that what you mean?

[Mrs. Fowler]

And there's more on the other side.

[Tony Parker]

Ah, yes, I see. From the Bed of the French window.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I came into her room after she'd gone out to clean up a bit. I found these marks and I tried to wash them away. I tried vinegar, fine sand. Talk well, they simply won't come out.

[Tony Parker]

Yes, ink is very hard to remove.

[Mrs. Fowler]

But it's not ink, Mr. Parker. Look closely. Those little spots are very dark and thick. It is blood.

[Tony Parker]

Probably Isabella cut herself.

[Mrs. Fowler]

You don't believe that. Neither do I. Mr. Parker, could you do me a great favor?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Of course.

[Tony Parker]

Anything.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Captain Trevelyan won't be back from London until tomorrow. I could put you up in the spare room, which is just down the hall from Ms. Isabella's. Could you spend the night here?

[Tony Parker]

Oh, I'd be glad to.

[Mrs. Fowler]

You don't know what a relief that is. I have this awful presentiment of something evil.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Who is it?

[Mrs. Fowler]

Mr. Parker, are you awake?

[Tony Parker]

I am now.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Mr. Parker.

[Tony Parker]

Coming.

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

What is it?

[Mrs. Fowler]

You've got to come with me. Just down the hall. Hurry. What's the time? It just struck three, I think. I must be going mad.

[Tony Parker]

All right. All set.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Look at that.

[Tony Parker]

Lightning. I'm glad I'm not on the road tonight.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I saw it. I saw it with my own eyes, Mrs. Fowler.

[Tony Parker]

Now, can you show me what it is?

[Mrs. Fowler]

Yes, but we mustn't make a sound. I don't want to wake her. Just open the door and stand there and observe.

[Tony Parker]

Open that door, Mrs. Fowler. Stand where? Observe what?

[Mrs. Fowler]

Miss Isabel's room. That ugly doll.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

It's alive.

[Mrs. Fowler]

This is what happened. I awoke when the storm began and I around the house as I always do, just to make sure the windows are shut. So I went into her room, and there it was. Mr. Parker, I swear to you by all that's holy, it was walking across the floor.

[Tony Parker]

Not the doll? Yes.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

I closed the door immediately and ran to fetch you.

[Tony Parker]

All right, all right. Now what do you want me to do?

[Mrs. Fowler]

I'm going to open her door very

[Tony Parker]

quietly and we'll have a look. You're quite sure this is no part of a bad dream of yours? Shh. Shh. The room's pitch black. And how could you have seen anything?

[Mrs. Fowler]

The lightning. The lightning struck and lit up the whole room.

[Tony Parker]

I can't make out a thing. It'll be very embarrassing if she wakes

[Mrs. Fowler]

up, but I have to know. Your eyes will get accustomed to the dark in a minute. Now, look there. Can you see her bed?

[Tony Parker]

Yeah.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Timley, do you see her hand? Do you see what's in it?

[Tony Parker]

I think so.

[Mrs. Fowler]

It's that horrible?

[Tony Parker]

Yes. Let's Go out. Come along. I don't want her to wake up and find us here. Now, Mrs. Fowler, I've looked into the room as you asked. I saw the doll, but it wasn't moving. It was lying in her hand, just as I have seen her carrying it about for weeks. I really don't think there's anything to worry about. Good night,

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Mrs. Farrer. From what you tell me, I don't

[Tony Parker]

see what the problem was last night, Captain Trevelyan.

[Mrs. Fowler]

You don't, because you didn't see what I saw.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

I think you could use a week or two of holiday.

[Mrs. Fowler]

There's just too much going on in this house to suit me.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Captain, I am not that happy with her fondness for dolls at her age. But I have to make allowances. Her mother was very much like that, too.

[Mrs. Fowler]

In some ways, Miss Isabella believes she talks to her mother. That ought to be stopped. It's not healthy.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

I know all about that also, and

[Tony Parker]

I agree it's not healthy.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

I've tried to be subtle about it without alarming Isabella, but there you are. I'm. I'm hoping she'll get over it.

[Mrs. Fowler]

As far as I'm concerned, it's too much.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Take three weeks off, Mrs. Fowler. It'll do you good. Paid vacation.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Captain, I know what I saw, and that's that. Now, it is too much of a responsibility, the goings on in this house. It's too much to bear alone. As of today, sir, I am tendering my notice. I shall forego any severance that is due me. And instead of the customary two weeks, I am afraid five days is all I can put up with. I shall leave here then. 5 days from this morning. I do feel sorry for you, Captain. But it is not I who have been struck by lightning. Believe me,

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

One can't really blame. The good mistake is Fowler, when the inconceivable is added to the incomprehensible. It's asking a great deal of anyone to be patient and forbearing. Especially when you consider our story takes place in an era when superstition far outweighed science. I shall return shortly with Act 3. It is said that once a Westerner has come into contact with the east, his eyes are opened, his values warp, and he accepts phenomena his own culture would reject. As if the magnetic needle of one's beliefs inexplicably changed direction from pointing north to pointing east. This may explain why, one week later, Mrs. Fowler decided not to leave the employment of captain Hugh Trevelyan.

[Tony Parker]

Mrs. Fowler, I'm glad you're not going to carry out your threat and abandon ship?

[Mrs. Fowler]

I couldn't. That's what it came down to. I'd be punishing Ms. Isabella. By leaving her. Something's wrong. That lot of good her father is, he's always running off somewhere on business. He doesn't seem to care about her.

[Tony Parker]

Oh, yes, he does. But he's helpless.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Oh, I don't know. He didn't impress me as a caring husband either.

[Tony Parker]

Now, Mrs. Fowler, should you be telling me all this?

[Mrs. Fowler]

Yes, I should. That man, you wouldn't think he'd buried Mrs. Trevelyan right here in our churchyard after that terrible sickness when nobody could do anything for her.

[Tony Parker]

So the Trevelyans returned from India two years ago?

[Mrs. Fowler]

Yes, but she was ill long before that in Delhi. The captain brought the family back to England and she just wasted away for six months. Months before she died.

[Tony Parker]

Oh, I see.

[Mrs. Fowler]

There's another reason.

[Tony Parker]

I'm glad you didn't leave. Isabella and I, well, we were getting along famously. I thought she trusted me. But since the night of the thunderstorm,

[Mrs. Fowler]

when I saw that doll walk across the bedroom floor.

[Tony Parker]

Yes? Since that night, she's closed up completely. I've tried to draw her out.

[Mrs. Fowler]

She looks at me, but she doesn't really see me.

[Tony Parker]

Her mind is somewhere else.

[Mrs. Fowler]

The devil has entered that girl. She's under a spell.

[Tony Parker]

Mrs. Fowler, let us, you and I, try to get to the bottom of this once and for all. Tonight, as soon as the captain is retired for the night, say, let's say half an hour later, we'll meet in the hall outside the guest room. From there, it's just a few steps to Isabella'.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I'm afraid we can't go into her room yet. She's still awake. See the light under her door? She's lit the lamp by her bedside.

[Tony Parker]

It's very late. Couldn't she have gone to sleep and left it burning?

[Mrs. Fowler]

I hear something.

[Tony Parker]

Is she talking?

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Where do you want me to go? Livia? Why?

[Mrs. Fowler]

Why isn't it safe? Who's she talking to?

[Tony Parker]

There's someone in there with her.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

What do you mean?

[Mrs. Fowler]

It's dangerous?

[Isabella Trevelyan]

The dog.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Yes, I remember the dog.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Oh, it tied in my arm so terribly. Its eyes staring at me. Sir.

[Tony Parker]

Mrs. Fowler, someone's coming down the hall. The Captain. Oh, we look stupid standing here. What do we say to him?

[Mrs. Fowler]

Open her door. We'll get inside until he passes. It's locked.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Mrs. Fowler.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Tony.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

May I ask what you two are doing here in the middle of the night? Parker. Did I see you Trying to open Isabella's door?

[Tony Parker]

Well, I.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

You're as white as a ghost.

[Mrs. Fowler]

A ghost? Is it?

[Tony Parker]

Captain Trevelyan, do you hear anything, any. Any unusual sounds coming from Isabella's room?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

I do, yes. What is it?

[Tony Parker]

There's the wind.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

In the chimney, perhaps. Mrs. Fowler, why haven't the chimney sweeps taken care of it?

[Tony Parker]

I don't think it's that, sir. Well, then, what is it? It's a little hard to explain.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Yes, well, explain it then, in the morning.

[Tony Parker]

I don't know that it's something that can wait until morning, sir.

[Mrs. Fowler]

We think it's a doll, sir. It's alive and it's talking.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Mrs. Fowler, are you repeating that nonsense you told me last week when you gave your notice? And you, Parker, are you in cahoots with this poor woman? It's an unhealthy game you're playing, and I'd like you to postpone any conversation until morning. Then perhaps, in the clear light of day, both of you will have come to your senses. Good night.

[Tony Parker]

Has he gone? Yes.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I just heard his bedroom door shut upstairs.

[Tony Parker]

Why'd she have to lock her door?

[Mrs. Fowler]

You can get into the garden. The French doors.

[Tony Parker]

Good idea. I can see her quite clearly now through the doors to the garden.

[Mrs. Fowler]

She's lying on her bed and her eyes are closed. I can see her lips move.

[Tony Parker]

She's talking in her sleep.

[Mrs. Fowler]

But I don't see the doll.

[Tony Parker]

Mrs. Fowler, we must decide. Shall we look or shall we act? Act. I'll open the French doors. There it is.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Awful thing. Demon.

[Tony Parker]

It's crawling away.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

I'll get it, break you to pieces and throw you with the dustbin.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Open the door and let it out.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Don't you dare me. Come here, you. Well, I got you, haven't I? You are a child of faith, and that's what you are. Change things. Now.

[Tony Parker]

Stop.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Darling. Darling. What did they do to you? You're all broken.

[Mrs. Fowler]

It was horrible, Captain Trevelyan. There was life in it. I kicked it and it kept crawling after me.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Is this so, Tony?

[Tony Parker]

Word for word. Both of us could not have been mesmerized into seeing the identical happening at the same time. But the worst part, of course, is Isabella's strange involvement with this new doll of hers.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Have I seen it?

[Tony Parker]

I doubt it. It's not easily forgotten. By day, she cuddles it like a baby. And at night. At night we heard her talking to

[Mrs. Fowler]

it in her sleep. And it answers in a language of its own. Like music. Like little chimes.

[Tony Parker]

Last night, before you came downstairs, we could hear what she was saying. Asking if she was in danger. Remembering a dog that died in her arms.

[Mrs. Fowler]

There was something about that dog.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

The dog died. The dog? Yes, sir. You did the right thing to tell me. I've been half expecting something like this. It was bound to find me sooner or later. They never give up.

[Tony Parker]

Captain Trevelyan. I think tonight, when Isabella's asleep, you should witness this yourself.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Mrs. Fowler, I think you said someone sent this doll to her.

[Mrs. Fowler]

It was delivered. Ms. Isabella answered the door and the man said, is this the house of Captain Hugh Trevelyan? And gave it to her.

[Tony Parker]

You did say that that was the man who had been hanging about the house from early morning? Yes.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Remember, Captain, I told you I'd seen a man with a turban moving about

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

in the garden one morning. You never said he wore a turban. Was he dark?

[Mrs. Fowler]

Miss Isabella said so. And very handsome.

[Tony Parker]

Captain, whatever it is, I think you placed your daughter's life in great danger tonight.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

I should put a stop to that.

[Tony Parker]

Captain, have you any idea why that doll was brought to this house?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Yes, I do. It was intended for me.

[Tony Parker]

I think you were wise, Captain, to tell Mrs. Fowler not to accompany us tonight.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Was that two o' clock that just struck?

[Tony Parker]

Yes, it was.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Isabella must be asleep by now. Let's open her door.

[Tony Parker]

She's locked it. And I have a key. That's it.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Now come inside.

[Tony Parker]

Close the door behind you. Where is this doll? Look at the foot of her bed that it has.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

It has no arms.

[Tony Parker]

It's. It's all broken. Let me see

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

the way the little head is bent so crookedly.

[Tony Parker]

I suppose that is a head.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

All I see is an open red mouth.

[Tony Parker]

You say Isabella likes this?

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

Yes.

[Tony Parker]

It's rather mangled now because Mrs. Fowler tried to destroy it.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

That girl sleeps like an angel. Look at her.

[Tony Parker]

It's moving.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

I must get it away from Isabella.

[Tony Parker]

Careful how you handle it. It's squirming like it's real.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

It's all right, child. It's all right. I'm just taking this doll away. My throat.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

It's at my throat. Hey, Spence, what happened? I saw something jump down from his neck.

[Tony Parker]

Is there water in this pitcher?

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Yes.

[Tony Parker]

Here. Now you take this wet cloth. See if you can bring him around.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Father. Father, wake up. Wake up, Father.

[Tony Parker]

He went for that doll and it leaped up at his throat and the Captain just keeled over. Isabella. Don't move.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Don't move.

[Tony Parker]

It's time you to crawl across the floor.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

What is it? It's horrible.

[Tony Parker]

You don't know it. Don't you recognize it?

[Isabella Trevelyan]

That thing. Where did it come from? Oh. Oh, I can't bear. But look at it. Father, please wake up.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

All right. It's all right. I. I'm old right now.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Father, your eyes are open.

[Tony Parker]

Look.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Look. There's a sting in my room.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

It's dragging itself to the French doors. Look at it. It's like a giant beetle.

[Tony Parker]

She doesn't remember it, sir.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Wait.

[Tony Parker]

It's saying something.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Tony, help me get my father off. Off the floor.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Wait, wait, I. I don't need any help.

[Tony Parker]

Look.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

French doors.

[Mrs. Fowler]

They're open.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

What did you see, Tony?

[Tony Parker]

And reached in and took the thing from the floor.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Father. Father, are you all right?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Isabella, I'm sorry for everything. All the distress I've caused you. I'm sorry your mother is dead. I really loved her so much. She didn't understand love. Now, you get yourself back to bed. I think you'll sleep better now.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I know you loved Mother. I always knew that.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Good night, my child.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Tomorrow I'm going to ask Mrs. Fowler to help me take down all these dolls and give them to the children in the hospital. Good night, you two. Good night, Father. I love.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Good morning, Tony. No, no dictation. Now, something else. That little broken doll figure last night said two words. Did you hear them?

[Tony Parker]

Yes, I did, but I couldn't tell what they were.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Well, it was Hindustani. Bhisalaga. That means revenge.

[Tony Parker]

That doll said revenge.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

A man doesn't spend enough time with his wife in a military job. Sometimes, if she's very far from home, she gets lonely, restless. She may be attracted to a man who has time for her. A native. Her husband, bred by army life, is of violent nature. Instead of facing the native who has stolen his wife's love, he may turn upon the faithless woman, no matter how much he loves her. In some countries, the venom of a cobra is effective. It kills slowly, lingeringly, and leaves no trace.

[Tony Parker]

So, at last the wife dies. What of her lover who lives?

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Perhaps he revenges himself upon the husband he was in a fetish known only to a few and from the sharp touch of which there is no escape.

[Tony Parker]

Are you sure, Captain? There is no antidote. Let me get you to the hospital right now. It's too late to name.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

In this desk drawer is a packet of letters and diary. They tell everything the memoirs left out. Write it for me, will you? As for Isabella, I think she likes you.

[Tony Parker]

Take care of her.

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

Within minutes, Captain Hugh Trevelyan was dead. They were never able to define the Exact cause and so written upon the coroner's final certificate was failure of the heart, which indeed, in many ways, is what killed him. I shall return shortly.

[Mrs. Fowler]

I remembered my diet at breakfast.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Ice cubes and Shredded wheat. But I think I forgot my body. Don't forget your body. Remember Rexall vitamins.

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

Rexall, one tablet daily.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Multivitamins plus iron.

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

Help make sure you get the right vitamins. And even when you don't eat the

[Isabella Trevelyan]

right foods, don't forget your body. Remember vitamins.

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

Rexall multivitamins.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Now only 1.69 at participating stores.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Stephen, who is ML?

[Tony Parker]

I don't know.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Dear, I found this note in your pocket. It says, send flowers to ML.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Oh, that.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Who is ML and why are you sending her flowers?

[Tony Parker]

Sweetheart, ML stands for Mother in Law.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Oh.

[Tony Parker]

And you sent my mother the FTD charm.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Her bouquet for Mother in Law's Day.

[Tony Parker]

Sunday, October 25th.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Now you're going to say Doris. Aren't you ashamed?

[Tony Parker]

No, I'm not.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Yes, you are.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

No, I'm not.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Yes, you are. Stephen.

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

Sunday, October 25th, is Mother in Law's Day. Call or visit your FTD florist today.

[Tony Parker]

If you're in search of mysteries where things are seldom what they appear to be.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Sooner or later, you'll find Raven House.

[Mrs. Fowler]

Welcome to Raven House.

[Tony Parker]

But beware.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Once you enter, there's no turning back. Ravenhouse paperbacks have more ways to keep you in suspense than you could ever imagine.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

No.

[Tony Parker]

And each murderous crime is committed in

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

its own devious way.

[Tony Parker]

So just when you think you've cracked one case, there's a whole new mystery waiting to be solved.

[Isabella Trevelyan]

Jane, quick, call the.

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

Remember, Ravenhouse mysteries are so engrossing, you can't help but let the mystery take over your life. New Raven House mysteries are published every month. Which one will claim you as its victim? If you're clever enough, you'll find Raven House mysteries, wherever paperbacks are sold,

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

Cudgel our brains. We cannot find a logical explanation for

[Captain Hugh Trevelyan]

what you have heard.

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

Did the doll actually kill the captain, or did the captain die of fright? Were all those who saw the doll undergoing mass mesmerism? Who was the man in the turban?

[Tony Parker]

An avenging Indian?

[Narrator (E.G. Marshall)]

We confess to no explanations. All we can assure you is that it did happen. Our cast included Christopher Tabori, Patricia Elliott, Marion Seldes and Court Benson. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Ravenhouse Paperback Mystery. This is E. G. Marshall, inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time.

[Tony Parker]

Pleasant dream, Sam.

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