1941
November 14, 1941
The Man Who Came Back
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Blake goes to have it out with Grange over his wife, and Grange shoots him down confident that self-defence will cover it -- but the dying man's promise to come back for him is kept, and the revolver left waiting holds exactly one bullet.
November 21, 1941
The Soul of Shan-Hi-Wan
A young couple carry a little brass figure home from San Francisco, cut with the warning 'Possess Me and Die', and very nearly make good on it -- a story out of the old tombs of China.
November 28, 1941
The Thing from the Sea
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A film star's yacht bound for New Zealand lies dead in the water for two days with nothing wrong with the engines, and the calm turns out to belong to the drowned island of Ebaan, whose spirits take a living body to walk in.
December 5, 1941
The Demon Tree
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Barlow Forest is left alone because of the oak said to strangle anyone who walks under it; the party that goes in anyway learns the tree has a family grudge and a long memory.
December 19, 1941
Men Call Me Mad
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Dr Terhune shrinks himself out of our world and into one no bigger than a moonbeam, stops a plague among its people, loses his heart to their princess, and comes home to a sister ready to have him committed.
December 26, 1941
The House of Bread
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A writer of weird tales named Bishop dreams of a wise man called Word, who sends him around the world after a phrase rather than a place -- and the search ends where the phrase is a town's name.
1942
January 2, 1942
Resolution, 1841
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Two couples see the year in at the old Cabot house, where a century earlier Jeremiah Cabot swore he would be back -- and one of the party starts behaving like a man of 1841.
January 9, 1942
Curse of the Neanderthal
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A painter benighted in a haunted canyon is guided out by something that means him well; the forty-thousand-year-old bones found there stay friendly only while they are left where they lie.
January 16, 1942
Debt from the Past
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A woman takes a night clerk's job in an office that pays a full week's wages on her first shift and is empty when she comes back by daylight; the year the building is living in is not hers.
January 23, 1942
The Headless Dead
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Shut in the Tower of London overnight, a man watches a procession that should not exist and promises to come back if he is let out alive; by daylight he has talked himself out of believing any of it, and never returns.
January 30, 1942
Death Is a Savage Deity
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Dolores's fiance is told to keep away from the lily pond and drowns in it; a man with perfect eyesight goes blind; and Aunt Wanna, cut out of a Haitian husband's will, turns out to have brought more than money home with her.
February 6, 1942
The Sea Phantom
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Treasure hunters after two hundred years of sunken gold find a stranger writing on a slate in the locked captain's cabin, with a skull for a face, and they take his warning for superstition.
February 13, 1942
W Is for Werewolf
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A couple bring their small son to an island friend who has been studying lycanthropy since his own boy died; what killed young Bill is still on the island, and it gets loose.
February 20, 1942
A Delicate Case of Murder
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Harvey Winstead wants a divorce from his medium wife Laura, who will not give one up while she is alive; the crash that kills her leaves her rival on the operating table -- and speaking in Laura's voice.
February 27, 1942
Spawn of the Sub Human
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The country's favourite soprano is taken off her own aeroplane by a gorilla that sings opera in her former fiance's voice, and delivered to the doctor who put it there.
March 6, 1942
The Man with the Scarlet Satchel
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An engineer of genius takes a child's modelling clay, given to him as a joke, and turns it into something to be buried with; after the funeral the grave goods start turning up, and the satchel is not empty.
March 13, 1942
Superstition Be Hanged
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A fortune teller tells three circus acrobats to carry a white feather spotted with dove's blood or hang for it; the feathers go astray one by one, and the police read Flyer Sampson's fall as murder.
March 20, 1942
Pennsylvania Turnpike
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An old man who will only accept a lift from a car carrying a redhead has been waiting on America's first superhighway a long time; the stagecoach he drove was robbed by a red-haired man.
March 27, 1942
Convoy for Atlantis
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Three ships have vanished from the same stretch of ocean, and the vessel sent to look for them is boarded by an Atlantean who wants its metal too.
April 3, 1942
The Thing from the Darkness
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A pilot hired to collect a package crash-lands in a three-day sandstorm and wakes in a village no white man goes to, where a spirit is loose and the leopards are fed on strangers.
April 10, 1942
The Edge of the Shadow
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A Vermont dairy farmer dreams the next day in enough detail to change it, and remembers everything about the dream except the three o'clock flight he was supposed to be on.
April 17, 1942
Karari
All that survives is the trailer announcer Keith Painton read the week before: a witch doctor in the Ecuadorean jungle brews a poison for an enemy who has shown him no mercy.
April 24, 1942
The Screaming Skulls
May 1, 1942
The Letter from Yesterday
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An inventor beaten to the patent office is married anyway; the mail sack they turn up in the attic holds an unopened letter, written fifty-odd years earlier, that ruined the same match once already.
May 8, 1942
The Cup of Gold
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Truman Davis has held the golf title five years running, and the challenger who finally takes it off him is shot dead as the trophy is handed over; the woman who fired is remembering a previous life on a planet where the tournament is still running.
May 15, 1942
Funeral Arrangements Completed
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A man inherits a boarded-up mansion and is walked into it by an innkeeper who should be dead and a man already in his coffin; two caskets are waiting downstairs with the new owners' names on the plates.
May 22, 1942
Dead Hands Reaching
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A voice out of nowhere -- his great-grandfather's -- keeps handing Alan Blaine good advice, and he takes it until the day it tells him not to go after the woman who has just jilted him; opium and a dream carry him the rest of the way.
May 29, 1942
Rendezvous with Satan
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Carl Fisher, thirty years a scoundrel, argues to the devil's face that circumstances made him one, and talks his way into a single day in which he must do no wrong at all.
June 5, 1942
I Am Your Brother
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Julius has admired Stefan Hamlyn since they were boys -- through Oxford, through surgery together -- and is the one man Stefan tells what he means to do; the friend who narrates the story is also the man who killed him, and the brain outlives them both.
June 12, 1942
The Sleeping Death
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A man wakes to find his leg being taken off by a 'doctor' in an asylum that shut years ago -- and the surgeon is the employer he ruined; another former employee is on her way in.
June 19, 1942
The Demon Tree (repeat performance)
The series signed off with a live restaging of its fourth episode, 'The Demon Tree' -- the strangling oak of Barlow Forest and the family it has been waiting for.