1 00:00:09,359 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 1: Come in. 2 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:17,760 Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome to mystery Theater. I am Hymen Brown. When 3 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,679 I was a boy, I always thought the maps in 4 00:00:20,719 --> 00:00:23,960 the atlas were a fixed picture of the world that 5 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:24,839 never changed. 6 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:27,399 Speaker 1: Well, certainly not in this century. 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,079 Speaker 2: New countries turn up every day, all the ones vanish 8 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:33,439 or are renamed. 9 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: I guess nothing is permanent. 10 00:00:36,719 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 2: Carpathia Transylvania are forgotten names on a map. 11 00:00:41,719 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: I wonder if they. 12 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 2: Are as defunct as the dread creature who came from there, 13 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:51,240 whose two front teeth fastened on the victim's. 14 00:00:50,719 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 1: Throat and drank his life's blood. 15 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 2: But if they are, they were not seventy or so 16 00:00:57,079 --> 00:01:01,280 years ago when this blood curdling begins. 17 00:01:01,679 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 3: But I know you and I you from a dream 18 00:01:07,359 --> 00:01:08,879 I had, from a dream I. 19 00:01:08,799 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 4: Had too when I was six years old. How long 20 00:01:12,079 --> 00:01:14,439 ago was there? Thirteen years? 21 00:01:14,879 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 3: Oh, that's just when I had mine. 22 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 4: Come Sit beside me on the bed and hold my hand. 23 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 5: I have a feeling I know we're going to be 24 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,799 terribly close, you and I. 25 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:41,879 Speaker 2: Our mystery drama Carmilla was especially adapted from the classic 26 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,439 novella of GS Stephan You by Ian Martin and stars 27 00:01:47,879 --> 00:02:03,560 Mercedes McCambridge In Spyria, which these days on a map 28 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:07,879 you will find is an Austrian province named Steiermach. 29 00:02:08,439 --> 00:02:11,039 Speaker 1: Lois Stanton was born and brought up. 30 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,039 Speaker 2: Her father, George, was an Englishman who had married into 31 00:02:15,159 --> 00:02:20,080 Hungarian nobility and had respected his wife's desire to stay 32 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:25,360 on in Austria at the Ancestral Austrian castle. But at 33 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,199 the end of the Middle Ages, the huge old fortress 34 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,680 mansion was a lonely place for a young girl to 35 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,879 grow up in, lying as it did deep in the 36 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:38,159 heart of the country. But since she took the time 37 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,879 to write it in her own cramp but still beautifully 38 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:46,360 trained hands, let Lois Stanton tell her own story. 39 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 6: I started writing this over fifty years ago, but my 40 00:02:53,759 --> 00:03:00,639 confused and horrible reactions then persuaded me to lay it aside. 41 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:05,680 But now approaching my ninetieth birthday, I should like to 42 00:03:05,759 --> 00:03:08,719 leave a record of why I never married. 43 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:11,719 Speaker 7: I've only known the love. 44 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 6: Of one person outside my father, a woman. That is 45 00:03:17,599 --> 00:03:23,039 a shocking statement, even today, with all our liberation. How 46 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,800 shocking and experience it proved to be for me at 47 00:03:25,879 --> 00:03:33,000 nineteen was so revolting and so so destroying that it 48 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:37,240 stood between me and love for the rest of my life. 49 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:42,159 I am not talking of sex or a sexual relationship, 50 00:03:42,599 --> 00:03:45,960 certainly not in the ordinary sense of the word. But 51 00:03:46,199 --> 00:03:50,479 let me take you back to the year nineteen hundred 52 00:03:50,599 --> 00:03:56,080 and five and a whole other world. 53 00:03:56,199 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 7: Damn it, that quite puts me out. What is it, Papa, 54 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,599 General Stevensdorf, which arrived by the post late as usual, 55 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,319 and everything is these days sent almost a week ago 56 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:14,319 from Vienna. From Vienna, us explained at moments this arrives 57 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,439 Bailly in time to tell me that he and his 58 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:19,240 niece will not be arriving tomorrow. 59 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:20,639 Speaker 4: Oh, what a shame. 60 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 5: I was looking forward to making the acquaintance. 61 00:04:23,959 --> 00:04:24,959 Speaker 2: Of Farline Rhinehart. 62 00:04:25,079 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 7: Belad that the General had come, My dear, that would 63 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,279 have been impossible. Why the reason for canceling his visits 64 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,800 is because of his niece's hudden death. 65 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 5: Her death, Papa, but. 66 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 4: She was only my age. 67 00:04:43,079 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 7: That's what's so tragic. 68 00:04:44,759 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 4: Is he still coming here? 69 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 7: No, there is some mystery. He appears to blame Bertha's 70 00:04:50,759 --> 00:04:55,959 death on some young guests. They had a mysterious young woman. 71 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:00,879 Speaker 5: Oh what could it have been, Papa, an accident or 72 00:05:00,959 --> 00:05:02,600 some sort of disease. 73 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:07,439 Speaker 7: That was catching There's no way of telling. I'm really 74 00:05:07,519 --> 00:05:13,600 quite shaken. I'm poor, old friend, and I'm disappointed for you. 75 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 4: You mustn't think for a moment about. 76 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,079 Speaker 7: Me what I do all the time locked away in 77 00:05:18,079 --> 00:05:21,160 this great labyrinth of a mausoleum with no companions. 78 00:05:21,519 --> 00:05:26,519 Speaker 6: Have him Madame Peradun, the housekeeper, and my governess, Mademoiselle 79 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:27,279 de la Fontaine. 80 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 7: I make companions of your own age, not dried up 81 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:32,000 old sticks like us. 82 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 6: Oh, you mustn't talk about that, Papa. 83 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 4: You know I've always loved it here. 84 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:40,399 Speaker 7: Next year we must move for the season to droughts, 85 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,480 or perhaps in Vienna, so that you could meet some 86 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:44,839 nice young gallants. 87 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 8: Oh, I have. 88 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 3: A gallon who takes very good care of me. 89 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 7: A little creaky in the joints, I'm afraid. No, no, 90 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:59,079 or you are so retiring and stuff for facing. It 91 00:05:59,199 --> 00:06:02,759 might be time to check a little hussy into your bloodstream. 92 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 4: Papa. 93 00:06:03,439 --> 00:06:06,399 Speaker 5: I think we have talked enough about me, And as 94 00:06:06,439 --> 00:06:08,720 for how happy I am, just look out at our garden. 95 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,879 Where else but at the slass could we see such 96 00:06:13,639 --> 00:06:16,399 romantic misty, beauty? 97 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 7: There's a full moon, the lovely, soft clear evening. Do 98 00:06:22,639 --> 00:06:24,439 you want to take a little stroll down by the 99 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,079 brawbridge a moment. 100 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 3: Till I fetch a shawl, and I'd love it. 101 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,399 Speaker 5: I have the strangest feeling that tonight something very special 102 00:06:34,959 --> 00:06:35,839 is about to happen. 103 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 8: All. 104 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,439 Speaker 6: By the time we reached the bridge, the moon was 105 00:06:42,519 --> 00:06:46,800 high and brilliant, and as we turned back the whole 106 00:06:47,079 --> 00:06:51,720 landscape was a medso tinted shimmering and dream life. 107 00:06:52,800 --> 00:07:00,639 Speaker 7: Hm, there's moon night. It's full of magnetic force, an 108 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:02,759 odyllic in foods, which. 109 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,199 Speaker 5: If odylic, Papa, that's a strange word. 110 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:06,879 Speaker 8: What does it mean? 111 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:11,439 Speaker 7: I'm sorry, And it mean to be literary. Actually I'm 112 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:15,560 being quite literal. It means the effect of one animal's 113 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,279 magnetism upon the other. And look back at the Schloss 114 00:07:19,279 --> 00:07:19,839 for example. 115 00:07:19,959 --> 00:07:25,079 Speaker 6: Oh yes, all its windows flash and twinkle and reflect 116 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:26,759 the silvery splendors. 117 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,639 Speaker 7: If unseen hands had lit them all to receive some 118 00:07:29,879 --> 00:07:32,240 special royal guests. 119 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:34,519 Speaker 1: What's that? 120 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,639 Speaker 3: It's a carriage, but it's coming too fast. 121 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 7: That back, Laura, the protection of this tree. It must 122 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:42,839 be written by a madman. 123 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 6: It was closed Christ drawn by six horses, traveling at 124 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:55,439 tough stems. It came round the blind corner to dringe, 125 00:07:55,519 --> 00:08:00,399 twisting and swaying wildly. A female voice screamed in terah. 126 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,240 Coming off the bridge. The lead horse panicked, pulling the 127 00:08:04,279 --> 00:08:06,839 whole rig to the right, so that what was coming 128 00:08:07,399 --> 00:08:11,759 was inevitable, her wheels on one side, passing over the 129 00:08:11,759 --> 00:08:16,000 projecting overground roots up one of the great trees, and 130 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:17,160 in a moment. 131 00:08:21,639 --> 00:08:26,279 Speaker 7: My father was one, as always an ACCREDI at first 132 00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:29,560 he rushed to carletter I lead horses so that they 133 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:30,240 can returned. 134 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 8: Still, the man in their followers and the coachman. 135 00:08:34,039 --> 00:08:37,159 Speaker 7: Grown clear and joining to help him, while. 136 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 6: I, avoiding the steel skinning peels, clambered to open the 137 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,639 door and to help out the occupants of the coach itself. 138 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,639 Speaker 8: I only gave assistance. 139 00:08:47,039 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 6: To an elderly lady clad in a long cloak with 140 00:08:50,639 --> 00:08:54,960 a good whose sole concern was for her daughter. While 141 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,080 I took her aside, my father and the coachman lifted 142 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:02,720 out a younger lady who seemed to be unconscious. 143 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:05,399 Speaker 4: My coatique, Are you all right? 144 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,559 Speaker 7: I should not worry too much, madam. I have sent 145 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,320 your old footman to the Schloss for assistance, and shortly 146 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,480 we shall have a conveyance here to conduct you and 147 00:09:17,519 --> 00:09:23,279 your the young lady to accommodations where you may rest, 148 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,440 and we can send for a physician's help. 149 00:09:25,799 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 5: You are too kind, Monsieur Camilla, Camilla. 150 00:09:31,159 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 8: Are you a honest a daised Mamma Mia? But it 151 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:36,879 feels so week. 152 00:09:36,639 --> 00:09:40,679 Speaker 5: Oh my godness, Oh, now what do I do? 153 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,759 Speaker 7: If you could tell me what troubles you want? 154 00:09:42,799 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 4: This much? 155 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 5: Only can I tell you are a gentleman and must 156 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,279 be well aware of the gathering clouds of war. I 157 00:09:50,279 --> 00:09:53,200 am returning to my husband in the hastey witnessed because 158 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:54,879 I carry assurances of information. 159 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 8: Only I can impart to him. 160 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 5: For me to waste an hour for a moment, even 161 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,320 and danger is our whole future. But I can see 162 00:10:05,039 --> 00:10:08,360 that the long tripped, vain and such haste something calm 163 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:09,679 Niela cannot sustain. 164 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:11,039 Speaker 1: Now. 165 00:10:11,399 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 5: Is there some hostelry in or even sanitorium where I 166 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,480 can leave my precious child to be well cared for 167 00:10:17,919 --> 00:10:20,200 till I can send for her at more leisure and 168 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:22,360 with adequate protection for her travel? 169 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,759 Speaker 3: Papa, why can't. 170 00:10:24,639 --> 00:10:27,799 Speaker 8: She stay with us? Bertha's room was all prepared and 171 00:10:27,919 --> 00:10:28,519 is ready. 172 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 7: It is true, we would be happy to put up 173 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,960 your daughter and see that she has immediate medical attention. 174 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 5: Oh, you could save an empire and relax a mother's heart. 175 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:44,679 Speaker 7: I would feel more comfortable about all things if I 176 00:10:44,759 --> 00:10:47,919 knew exactly who I'm assisting and where. 177 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 5: That is impossible as of the moment. All that counts 178 00:10:52,519 --> 00:10:55,639 now if I can feel my child's safest, for my 179 00:10:55,759 --> 00:10:57,919 man and yours to write the carriage so that I 180 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:58,759 may be on my way. 181 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 1: I promise you that. 182 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 5: It is a matter of more than even life or death. 183 00:11:09,879 --> 00:11:14,080 But Papa, where do you suppose they were coming from 184 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:15,320 on that road? 185 00:11:15,399 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 7: It's hard to say. They must have lost the main 186 00:11:18,799 --> 00:11:25,399 road and approached this way by accident. Here comes doctor Zulig. Now, well, Franz, 187 00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:28,120 I was out of a patient failing well. 188 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:32,039 Speaker 9: No problem with all shoe bruises otherwise, no worse for 189 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,559 wear for the mishap. She is perhaps a little nervous 190 00:11:35,639 --> 00:11:37,840 and lonely, and perhaps bewildered. 191 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:39,279 Speaker 7: One can highly blame her. 192 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 9: I took the liberty of suggesting that Laura run up 193 00:11:42,759 --> 00:11:44,960 and have a chat with her before she turned in. 194 00:11:45,399 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 10: Someone of her own age, you know, come in. 195 00:11:56,039 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 6: She was sitting chopped up in a huge dead her 196 00:12:00,519 --> 00:12:05,440 hair framing her face, tumbling about her shoulders and now 197 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,559 for the first time, I could see her face clearly 198 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,559 as she saw mine, as we both gasped. 199 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 4: But I know you and. 200 00:12:17,039 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 3: I you from a dream. 201 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 4: I had a dream. I had too when I was 202 00:12:22,639 --> 00:12:26,320 six years old. How long ago was that? Thirteen years old? 203 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:29,200 That's just when I had mine. 204 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,639 Speaker 5: Oh, you must tell me, and I must tell you. 205 00:12:32,639 --> 00:12:35,840 You must be Laura and my name is Cammella, and 206 00:12:35,879 --> 00:12:38,879 we mustn't be strange to each other. Oh, come, come 207 00:12:39,639 --> 00:12:42,360 sit beside me on the bed and hold my hand 208 00:12:43,159 --> 00:12:44,159 so we can talk. 209 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 4: I have a feeling I know we're going to be 210 00:12:49,799 --> 00:12:51,200 terribly close. 211 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 6: You and I, remembering that old, old dream which had 212 00:12:59,759 --> 00:13:03,639 never ceased to haunt me. I should have been repelled, 213 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:11,360 but instead I was drawn, drawn irresistibly taward Carmula would 214 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,639 to God. I had known that the fascination was not 215 00:13:15,039 --> 00:13:20,639 love but an unhealthy spell, the flame for the moth, 216 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:23,799 the spider's web for the fly. 217 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:26,559 Speaker 8: But I didn't know. 218 00:13:27,799 --> 00:13:33,039 Speaker 6: And I went to her, and I put my hand 219 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:38,320 into Carmulus. 220 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 2: Two beautiful young women, one blonde and blue eyed, the 221 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,840 very quintessence of innocence, the other lying in the bed, 222 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:55,759 pale from the accident, and seemingly vulnerable, light olive skin, 223 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,759 with great dark eyes and tumbling masses of hair, perhaps 224 00:14:00,879 --> 00:14:03,360 masking beauty and evil. 225 00:14:03,639 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: And malevolence not of this world and not to be named. 226 00:14:08,279 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 11: Let's go behind the scenes to this episode of Radio 227 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,720 Mystory Theater, Martha Greenhouse's contessa. 228 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 1: Martha's career began. 229 00:14:15,399 --> 00:14:19,039 Speaker 11: With the nineteen fifty seven TV movie Cinderella. A year later, 230 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,320 she as followed the show Naked City. Greenhouse got her 231 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,480 break in nineteen sixty one when she landed a. 232 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:26,879 Speaker 1: Recurring role in Car fifty four, Where Are You? 233 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,879 Speaker 11: She played Officer gun through two d's system of Roads. 234 00:14:30,879 --> 00:14:33,720 Several movie parts followed in such pictures as Up the 235 00:14:33,759 --> 00:14:38,120 Down Staircase, Bananas, and The Stepford Widers. Martha Greenhouse was 236 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,039 cast over three times on Radio Mystory Theater. Some of 237 00:14:41,039 --> 00:14:44,080 her more exotic characters were a Russian scientist and the 238 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:47,600 patient at a sanitarium. In her final accurrence, she depicted 239 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,000 the secretary of a murdered atomic scientist, and that was 240 00:14:51,039 --> 00:14:53,720 a behind the scenes look at this episode of Radio 241 00:14:53,759 --> 00:14:54,480 Mystery Theater. 242 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:06,399 Speaker 1: The old lady who. 243 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:11,159 Speaker 2: Writes this story of seventy years ago still retains much 244 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:16,399 resemblance to that once blooming girl of nineteen oh. The 245 00:15:16,519 --> 00:15:19,759 China blue eyes are faded, the hair is ash gray 246 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,799 instead of golden blonde, but the figure is neat and 247 00:15:23,879 --> 00:15:29,240 trim and somehow vulnerable, not only to the encroachment of 248 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,919 ninety years, but as if it had always been so. 249 00:15:38,159 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 6: He sat there, hand in hand, Camilla and I, searching 250 00:15:42,879 --> 00:15:46,639 each other's faces. There was a silence of what must 251 00:15:46,639 --> 00:15:50,440 have been minutes. I could feel my heart pounding against 252 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:55,279 my ribs at the wonder, the terror of that spectrally 253 00:15:55,360 --> 00:16:02,080 beautiful face, which it last was no longer a how. 254 00:16:01,639 --> 00:16:07,679 Speaker 5: Wonderful Thirteen years ago I saw your face in a dream, 255 00:16:07,879 --> 00:16:09,639 and it has haunted me ever since. 256 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 4: For it's wonderful in vain. 257 00:16:12,679 --> 00:16:17,279 Speaker 5: Thirteen years ago, in vision or reality, I certainly saw you. 258 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:21,159 I could never forget your face. It's remained with me 259 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:21,840 ever since. 260 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 4: It seems as if we were predestined to be friends. 261 00:16:25,799 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 8: I want you to be. 262 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,519 Speaker 4: My friend, as I water you yours. 263 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 3: We will, we. 264 00:16:30,039 --> 00:16:34,759 Speaker 4: Will, and we must start with the first thing we shared. 265 00:16:35,519 --> 00:16:37,000 The dream. 266 00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: There Now I. 267 00:16:39,039 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 5: Can see your shy look that comes of being alone 268 00:16:42,039 --> 00:16:44,200 too much, So I shall start. 269 00:16:45,759 --> 00:16:47,679 Speaker 4: I told you it was when. 270 00:16:47,559 --> 00:16:51,759 Speaker 5: I was six, and I woke up from some troubled dream, 271 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,759 and I found myself in a room that was nothing 272 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:58,279 like my nursery. It had dark wood wainscoting and great 273 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:00,200 heavy beans sloping over the bed. 274 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 4: And didn't have a big. 275 00:17:01,639 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 5: Iron candlestick by the bed with two branches made out 276 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:06,920 of serpents. 277 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 4: Yes, and they held the candles in there. 278 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:13,160 Speaker 5: Now there was my nursery. It's still there on the 279 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,480 top floor, just as you described their sea. 280 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,599 Speaker 4: It's more than a dream now. 281 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 5: I remember I was only six and being in a 282 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,119 strange room. I was scared and I was about to 283 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:28,039 cry out, when all of a sudden, this fairy princess 284 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:32,240 with golden hair and blue eyes sat up in the bed. 285 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,599 Speaker 4: Next to me and held her arms out to me. 286 00:17:35,599 --> 00:17:40,160 It was you as a child. No, no, as you are. 287 00:17:40,559 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 5: Now, your lips red and full, smiling at me, beckoning me. 288 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:49,440 Speaker 8: I climbed in beside you. 289 00:17:50,599 --> 00:17:56,839 Speaker 5: You put their arms around me, and softly, so sweetly. 290 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:01,160 I went to sleep, and that was all. 291 00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:03,799 Speaker 4: No. 292 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 5: No, then there's the bad part. But I I put 293 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:09,039 that out of my mind. 294 00:18:09,079 --> 00:18:10,599 Speaker 4: I don't try to remember that. 295 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:12,319 Speaker 8: No. No, you must tell me. 296 00:18:12,759 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 4: Very well, because we must have no secrets from each other. 297 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 5: I don't know how long I've been lying there with you, 298 00:18:19,319 --> 00:18:24,160 and suddenly a scream awoke me, and I scream, yes, yes, 299 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:25,880 you was sitting up on the bed screaming, and I 300 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,839 was terrified and I slapped to the ground and and 301 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:32,319 then suddenly everything was blank until I woke up again 302 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:33,400 in my own nays. 303 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 3: And hasn't this dream haunted you and tortured you all 304 00:18:36,279 --> 00:18:36,759 these years? 305 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 5: Haunted if you want say rather, I've never forgotten it, 306 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:42,920 But why should it torture me? 307 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 4: What I remember most is the love and the warmth that. 308 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:48,920 Speaker 8: Came from you. 309 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 5: And how often I've longed for my beautiful golden lady 310 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:55,400 ha ha ha. 311 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 4: Who would ever think i'd find her again? It's also her. 312 00:19:00,279 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 3: I don't understand it, so topsy turnty, what. 313 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,599 Speaker 4: Do you mean tell me about undery? Well, it was 314 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:08,960 just the other way. 315 00:19:10,279 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 5: I mean. I was six years old and nobody ever 316 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:15,960 worried too much about me, because I was never told 317 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:20,000 ghost stories or very stories or anything that might wake 318 00:19:20,039 --> 00:19:21,359 me up in the night and worry me. 319 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,039 Speaker 8: So this one night, when I did. 320 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:28,039 Speaker 5: Wake up, which was unusual for me, I wasn't worried 321 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,839 or frightened way I was in my own bed, And. 322 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 4: Was it the only bed in the room. 323 00:19:32,279 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 5: No, there was another bed my nurse used to sleep in, 324 00:19:35,279 --> 00:19:38,720 but by now it was empty, except that when I 325 00:19:38,839 --> 00:19:42,039 looked over there this night, it wasn't empty. 326 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:45,279 Speaker 8: You were sitting up in. 327 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 3: It, me the child, no, as you are now. 328 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,839 Speaker 5: And you came to my bed with your great dark 329 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:59,000 eyes and your hair streaming down your back. And I 330 00:19:59,039 --> 00:20:02,359 thought I had never seen anything so beautiful. And did 331 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,119 I get into your bed with you? 332 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:04,839 Speaker 4: Yes, you did. 333 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 8: Only I was you who took. 334 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,640 Speaker 4: Me in your arms, and you held me, and you 335 00:20:10,839 --> 00:20:11,599 soothed me. 336 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,519 Speaker 5: Until I fell fast asleep, and I didn't wake up 337 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,079 or screen. No, I was the one who did that, 338 00:20:19,079 --> 00:20:24,200 because I suddenly had the sensation that two needles had 339 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,839 been run deep into my chest at the same moment. 340 00:20:27,839 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 4: And were there marks on you? No, the doctor found nothing. 341 00:20:34,759 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 5: Oh, I seemed to have known you so long. I 342 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:47,920 never have had a friend, a real friend. Have I 343 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 found one now? 344 00:20:50,319 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 8: Of course? 345 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 5: Carmela and kissed me and promised me it shall always. 346 00:20:56,559 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 4: Be so, Oh, my welcome at long last, Yes, I 347 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:11,200 feel as so I've come home. 348 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,039 Speaker 6: I have said that I was drawn to Camilla from 349 00:21:22,039 --> 00:21:27,319 the first, there's no doubt about that whatsoever. A strange feeling. 350 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,680 It's hard to describe, except I could have wished she 351 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:35,279 were a boy, for there is no doubt I was 352 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,599 under her spell, and she embarrassed me often when she 353 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:43,119 spoke so freely of her love for me. 354 00:21:44,039 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 8: Come and kiss me. 355 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,880 Speaker 4: Good morning, my dest ah. 356 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,839 Speaker 5: How wonderful to wake up to you good morning Camilla. 357 00:21:52,039 --> 00:21:54,559 Speaker 4: No, no, no, not just a passing her. 358 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,640 Speaker 5: Come, come on, kiss me and tell me you love 359 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,799 your Camilla as she loves her Laura. 360 00:22:02,279 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 4: Well, I that's better. 361 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,599 Speaker 5: You don't know the humiliation of how. 362 00:22:12,519 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 4: I must live in your warm life. 363 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:24,319 Speaker 5: You shall die, die sweetly, die into mine. 364 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 4: I don't understand you. 365 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,279 Speaker 5: Just never seek to know more of me and mine, 366 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:33,279 But trust me with your loving spirit. Come, come, come 367 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,279 kiss me again, so I know I'm forgiven in Colonel Andy, 368 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:43,799 I know are mine, you shall be mine, and you 369 00:22:43,839 --> 00:22:51,880 and I are one forever. 370 00:22:53,799 --> 00:22:56,519 Speaker 6: I seem to be showing you the worst of her, 371 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,519 because at most times she was sparked and. 372 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 8: A vivacious talker. 373 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 6: She kept my father and all of us in rounds 374 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,000 of laughter with her bright wit. 375 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 5: The empathy which afflicted her was only bodily. 376 00:23:12,599 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 7: Her mind was always alert. 377 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 4: Laura, are you afraid to die? 378 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 5: Oh, yes, everyone is, but to die together as lovers may, 379 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,759 so that they may live always together. 380 00:23:29,759 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 3: Well, that's something I'd rather not talk about. Oh, I 381 00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:36,119 just remember what We must go. 382 00:23:36,079 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 4: Meet the family. The family. 383 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 3: Yes, didn't you notice there were no pictures in the gallery. 384 00:23:42,519 --> 00:23:45,039 Speaker 5: They've walked into the restorer in today's the day that 385 00:23:45,039 --> 00:23:47,640 they're to be returned and re hung. And most of 386 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,039 them are from my mother's family. 387 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 8: She was Hungarian. 388 00:23:50,039 --> 00:23:52,319 Speaker 5: You know it should be quite exciting. Oh, just a 389 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:53,599 musty old quadrum. 390 00:23:53,799 --> 00:23:55,039 Speaker 1: Just exactly what they were. 391 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,759 Speaker 5: They were so covered with smoke and the grime of centuries. 392 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,599 Speaker 3: I've never really seen any of them come along, Carmella. 393 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 4: Do let's go have a look. 394 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 7: Well, you can't say they're a very prepossessing looking crew. 395 00:24:13,319 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 6: Oh, Papa, I. 396 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:20,559 Speaker 5: Think it's fun with their mutton chop whiskers and beards 397 00:24:20,599 --> 00:24:25,160 and metals and Vassar coats, don't you, Carilla. 398 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,079 Speaker 4: Oh, they're just like all the others of their times. 399 00:24:28,319 --> 00:24:31,559 Speaker 7: Well, you must be quite a historian, Carmela. Some of 400 00:24:31,599 --> 00:24:35,960 these go back three hundred years or so. Hello, in 401 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:41,200 the surprise, all run hi look, Carmilla. 402 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 5: Look, it's the very image of you, even to the 403 00:24:47,039 --> 00:24:48,039 mole on your throat. 404 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 3: Papa, isn't it a marvelous likeness? 405 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:52,400 Speaker 10: Joe? 406 00:24:52,599 --> 00:24:58,559 Speaker 7: I believe you're right. Can you read who it is? Marcia? 407 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 3: No mere, Carl. 408 00:25:01,279 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 5: Mercarla Contesse Kernstein and the date is sixteen ninety eight. 409 00:25:09,799 --> 00:25:13,880 Speaker 7: Well, I do remember that your mother was descended from 410 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,160 the Carsteins. 411 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 5: As am I and I think a very long time ago. 412 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 4: Are there any Khonstein living here now? 413 00:25:23,519 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 7: Were none who bear the name? Although it's interesting The 414 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,200 ruins of their ancestral castle is not much more than 415 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:34,519 three leagues. Directed to the west of here. It was destroyed, 416 00:25:34,519 --> 00:25:36,000 they say, during the civil Wars. 417 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,640 Speaker 4: I should like to see it sometime, Papa. This is 418 00:25:39,759 --> 00:25:40,720 just a small portrait. 419 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,799 Speaker 8: Could I have it to hang in my room. 420 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:44,599 Speaker 1: If you like? 421 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 7: I'll have Hans put it. 422 00:25:46,519 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 1: Up for you. 423 00:25:47,319 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 5: And then, once you've arranged that, could we, dear Laura, 424 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:54,920 take a stroll in the moonlight. 425 00:25:55,839 --> 00:26:08,880 Speaker 4: It's so beautiful here we are at the drawbridge. 426 00:26:09,799 --> 00:26:11,759 Speaker 8: It's also like the night you. 427 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 4: Came to us. 428 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 5: So you were thinking of the night I came? 429 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 4: Are you glad? I did? 430 00:26:18,559 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 7: Oh? 431 00:26:18,799 --> 00:26:22,799 Speaker 5: Every so much someday, when you tell me your story, 432 00:26:23,759 --> 00:26:26,720 I know it will be made up of one great romance. 433 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:28,759 Speaker 8: I'm sure that you. 434 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 5: Have been in love, and that at this moment there 435 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,279 is an affair of the heart going on. 436 00:26:34,559 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 4: I have been in love with no one. 437 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:48,079 Speaker 5: I never shall unless it should be you. Calmeila, Darling, Darling. 438 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 4: I live in you, and you would die for me. 439 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:53,519 I love your. 440 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 3: Camila, Camila. 441 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 5: Are you all right. 442 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 8: Than what were passible? It's the last time perhaps. 443 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,279 Speaker 4: That I shall see the moonlight with you. 444 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:08,880 Speaker 8: What do you mean? 445 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 5: Time is very mean when you shall know all. 446 00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:22,519 Speaker 6: She was so weak I could scarcely get her safely 447 00:27:22,559 --> 00:27:26,440 to bed. It was long before I could get to sleep. 448 00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:28,839 But when at last I did, if indeed I really 449 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:34,640 was asleep, I was conscious of something huge and black 450 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:39,599 circling by the foot of my bed, a monstrous catlike 451 00:27:39,799 --> 00:27:45,359 shape that suddenly sprang, and I felt the stinging pain, 452 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,559 as if two needle sharp claws had plunged like hot 453 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,319 irons into my breast. 454 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 8: And then suddenly my. 455 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,920 Speaker 5: Eyes were open, and I thought I saw Carmilla standing there, 456 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,720 and I felt relieved. The figure moved quickly to the door, 457 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,720 and I followed it only to find the door securely 458 00:28:07,759 --> 00:28:10,400 locked from the inside, just the way I had left 459 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,880 it before I retired. I sprang into my bed with 460 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,319 the covers over my head, and I laid there more 461 00:28:18,519 --> 00:28:19,759 dead than alive. 462 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 8: Until more. 463 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,559 Speaker 1: There are none so blind who will not see. 464 00:28:31,279 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 2: And yet it is only human nature that lifts the 465 00:28:34,559 --> 00:28:40,000 spirits by saying that no disaster, natural or supernatural could 466 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:44,640 ever happen to us. Is it happening to Laura or 467 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,200 is she only a young girl with a lonely childhood 468 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,480 behind her and a very lively imagination. 469 00:28:52,759 --> 00:28:55,079 Speaker 1: Mystery Theater will return shortly. 470 00:28:55,319 --> 00:28:57,519 Speaker 11: Well, let's go behind the scenes for this episode of 471 00:28:57,599 --> 00:29:01,440 radio Mystery Theater. You're hearing Stanton tell a story about 472 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,680 a young woman named Chermelion Abscrimelia is taken in by 473 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:05,279 her family. 474 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: Laura begins to have strange dreams. 475 00:29:08,119 --> 00:29:09,799 Speaker 11: In one of them, she's bitten on the neck in 476 00:29:09,799 --> 00:29:13,400 a manner that suggests a vampire. The best known vampire 477 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,920 is cow Dracula, based on a real person. Born Vlad 478 00:29:17,039 --> 00:29:20,720 Dracula in Transylvania, he ruled over the country for six years. 479 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,519 Speaker 1: He was a cruel monarch. 480 00:29:22,119 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 11: Whose favorite method of execution with impalement a particularly slow 481 00:29:26,039 --> 00:29:29,759 and agonizing means of death. It was this gruesome reputation 482 00:29:29,839 --> 00:29:32,240 that led Bram Stoker to base his novel on the 483 00:29:32,319 --> 00:29:35,880 man known to history as Lad the Entailer, and that 484 00:29:36,039 --> 00:29:38,119 was a behind the scenes look at this episode of 485 00:29:38,519 --> 00:29:39,599 radio mystery. 486 00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:53,359 Speaker 1: Theater with the morning and the coming of light. 487 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 2: Nothing seems more insubstantial than a dream, Certainly, although it 488 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,440 may leave some residual shock to the dreamer, a nightmare 489 00:30:03,559 --> 00:30:07,680 loses its terror, and there is a natural inclination not 490 00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:12,359 to recount one, except someone very close to you, for 491 00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:18,000 fear of being laughed at, or a Laura's case, something different. 492 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: I should have. 493 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 6: Told my father that I didn't, mostly because to my surprise, 494 00:30:29,799 --> 00:30:32,559 quite early that morning, in answer to a. 495 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,039 Speaker 8: Knock on my door, I opened it and found. 496 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 4: Come love up and about may I come in? Of course, dearest, 497 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,279 you don't look well now. 498 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,119 Speaker 3: I don't feel very well. I had a bad dream. 499 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 5: I knew it, and I felt these two hot pins 500 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,200 plunged in and punctured just beneath my throat until I 501 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:58,920 thought I'd strangle off. 502 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 4: Let me see. 503 00:31:02,559 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 5: Why, darling, Darling, it was a dream. There's nothing there, 504 00:31:07,119 --> 00:31:11,079 but we shan't take any chances with you. Here, you 505 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,680 shall have my amulet to protect you. 506 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 6: The next night and the nights following, my sleep was 507 00:31:22,599 --> 00:31:26,880 deep and dreamless, although the nights were followed by days 508 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:32,599 of lassitude and a melancholy that was strangely not unpleasant. 509 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,759 This was well enough for a time, until new and 510 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:43,480 vague sensations began to disturb my sleep, sometimes a hand 511 00:31:43,599 --> 00:31:49,240 drawn across me, sometimes the feeling of lips kissing me 512 00:31:50,319 --> 00:31:54,400 longer and more lovingly, until they. 513 00:31:54,319 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 5: Reached my throat. 514 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 6: Within a week, my eyes were dilated in dark underneath, 515 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:01,680 and I was pale. 516 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,319 Speaker 8: And my father noticed the change and insisted on my 517 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:06,519 seeing the doctor. 518 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,799 Speaker 6: It was just as well that the doctor was called 519 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,240 for that night everything came to a hit. 520 00:32:14,799 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 7: Yeah. 521 00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:24,359 Speaker 3: Oh ha ha, yes, yes, Papa, Yes, I'm going. 522 00:32:26,119 --> 00:32:27,559 Speaker 7: What is it? 523 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, little one. 524 00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 7: Like a leaf. 525 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,039 Speaker 3: I was asleep, I was on asleep, and all of 526 00:32:37,079 --> 00:32:38,599 a sudden there was. 527 00:32:38,559 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 5: A blinding white light, and I saw Carmilla standing at 528 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,920 the foot of my bed, and then her night and 529 00:32:45,039 --> 00:32:47,720 she was bathed from her chinder, her feet and a 530 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,640 big stain of blood. 531 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,519 Speaker 3: Papa, I'm afraid something's happened to her. 532 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 5: Let's go quickly, Let's go to work rope were chop 533 00:32:58,519 --> 00:33:02,119 put this on and the thank you, madam, very. 534 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,799 Speaker 7: Don Cammella, Grimmela. 535 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: This mister FanCon opened the door. 536 00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:15,359 Speaker 7: Can you hear me, Carmella, it is mister Stanton opened 537 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:15,880 the door. 538 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,440 Speaker 4: Oh, Papa, suppose. 539 00:33:18,119 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 3: Something terrible has happened to Camilla. 540 00:33:20,559 --> 00:33:24,279 Speaker 7: Madam ring for the servants, get them up here right away. 541 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,400 I'm gonna have to break the door down. 542 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 8: The men arrived in various states of undress at. 543 00:33:32,839 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 6: The door, and the locked proved too stout and resisted 544 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,799 all their efforts. Papa then directed one of the footmen 545 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,839 to bring him his large elephant gun, which he had used. 546 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 8: On safari in Africa. 547 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:52,759 Speaker 6: Really, George broke the lock, shattering the door, and Papa 548 00:33:52,839 --> 00:33:56,200 and I burst into the room. Not only was it 549 00:33:56,279 --> 00:33:59,480 empty of Carmilla, but every trace that she might ever 550 00:33:59,599 --> 00:34:06,200 have been there was gone. Car Milla had disappeared into 551 00:34:06,319 --> 00:34:11,440 thin air, as if she had never been. Fortunately, Papa 552 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,880 had given me a sleeping potion, and I knew nothing 553 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,760 of this until the following day, when I woke up 554 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,679 to find Papa and our good Doctor's you lick by 555 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:20,519 my bedside. 556 00:34:21,039 --> 00:34:24,639 Speaker 9: Your father has told me the whole story. Father, you 557 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:29,400 mentioned the sensation as of two burning needles piercing deep 558 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,599 into you somewhere about the neck on the occasion of 559 00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:33,800 the first followoo dream. 560 00:34:34,599 --> 00:34:36,960 Speaker 3: You mean when I thought I saw the black cat? 561 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:39,840 Speaker 9: Yes, yes, Could you indicate to me with your finger 562 00:34:40,079 --> 00:34:41,679 just why you think this occurred? 563 00:34:42,119 --> 00:34:42,320 Speaker 4: Ah? 564 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 10: Right here, let me see now with the magnifying glass. 565 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,079 Speaker 7: So what does it that, doctor? 566 00:34:54,079 --> 00:34:56,320 Speaker 10: Please, with the glass you may see for yourself. 567 00:34:57,119 --> 00:35:02,760 Speaker 9: Observed just below the throat, good maud, Why what is it? 568 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,119 Just where you said? A small blue spot in the 569 00:35:07,159 --> 00:35:11,639 center of the two tiny sharp punctures. That is the 570 00:35:11,679 --> 00:35:17,119 point where the sense of strangulation seemed to begin. Yes, er, well, then, 571 00:35:17,119 --> 00:35:19,800 I don't see why you shouldn't begin to get well immediately. 572 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,559 Speaker 10: But she must not be left alone for a single moment. 573 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:31,679 Speaker 6: Therewell a thousand unanswered questions. I now wanted to ask 574 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,840 Papa and the doctor, but I never got to ask them, for, 575 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:41,280 as it happened, a most unexpected visitor, General Spielstorff, arrived 576 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:46,360 at this climactic moment, and it was his bizarre and 577 00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:52,760 harrowing story which eventually answered all my unanswered questions. 578 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:59,320 Speaker 7: Well shortly before my poor child father and I were 579 00:35:59,400 --> 00:35:59,840 the visitor. 580 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,159 Speaker 10: We had an invitation to countcast. 581 00:36:03,559 --> 00:36:08,920 Speaker 7: They'll loss some leagues to the northwest of Constein. The 582 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:13,199 occasion was a magnificent masquerade ball. I felt like the 583 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:17,960 only nobody present. The more surprised was I. Therefore, when 584 00:36:18,519 --> 00:36:23,480 a lady with most streetly air, accompanied by an obviously 585 00:36:23,599 --> 00:36:27,480 young girl with whom Beltha immediately fell into a delighted conversation, 586 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,679 approached me and said, my. 587 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:35,719 Speaker 5: Dear General, what a delightful surprise to see you after 588 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:36,360 all these. 589 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:40,920 Speaker 7: Years, Madam, since you are masked, you have the better 590 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:41,280 of me. 591 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 5: If you kissed my hand, would it jug your memory? 592 00:36:46,119 --> 00:36:50,159 Speaker 7: Well, I should hope. So it's a long time since 593 00:36:50,199 --> 00:36:53,639 I've kissed the lady's hand. The pleasure is all mine, 594 00:36:54,440 --> 00:37:01,039 not in bad since since it cannot be your. 595 00:37:00,639 --> 00:37:04,519 Speaker 5: Mess, it's only at the greatest risk that I am here, 596 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:09,480 and as all odds, I must preserve my anonymity. 597 00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:11,679 Speaker 1: I see our. 598 00:37:11,559 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 5: Girls appear to have made themselves fast friends already. 599 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,079 Speaker 8: That is good. I have an urgent request to make 600 00:37:18,119 --> 00:37:21,000 of your friend. I am yours as always to command. 601 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:27,079 Speaker 5: I am in the gravest danger every moment I spend here, 602 00:37:27,599 --> 00:37:29,840 and I've been quite desperate to know how to protect 603 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,440 the young lady who is my companion. 604 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,199 Speaker 4: Could you take her in for a few weeks at 605 00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:36,480 most as. 606 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,760 Speaker 7: Your guests, my shoe being more than delighted, I'm sure 607 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,760 that Bertha will welcome the companionship. 608 00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,519 Speaker 5: Well, then let me introduce you to my ward and 609 00:37:45,559 --> 00:37:49,119 be on my way. I assure you, it is a 610 00:37:49,159 --> 00:37:57,920 matter of life and death, Papa. 611 00:37:56,519 --> 00:37:57,480 Speaker 8: It's just the same. 612 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,159 Speaker 4: It's just like Carmula and the lady. 613 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,199 Speaker 7: Ah, yes, the lady that I too, like the general, 614 00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:07,840 mister for royalty, even for the Empress herself. 615 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:09,920 Speaker 3: We'll go on, General, what happened? 616 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:12,360 Speaker 8: It couldn't have been the same. 617 00:38:12,119 --> 00:38:17,880 Speaker 7: As it were, I'm afraid, soul, My dear, My poor 618 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:22,000 Bertha suffered from the same dreams as you of a 619 00:38:22,039 --> 00:38:26,639 great black animal and the piercing, double pronged punctures beneath 620 00:38:26,639 --> 00:38:33,119 her thoat. She was wasting away despite all potions and powders. 621 00:38:33,159 --> 00:38:34,400 The doctors tried. 622 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,239 Speaker 10: Till one of them suggested what seemed a piece. 623 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,519 Speaker 8: Of arrogant nonsense to me. 624 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:45,199 Speaker 7: Why legend has it that two hundred years ago the 625 00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:49,559 Countess Constein Mirakala by name. 626 00:38:49,519 --> 00:38:53,000 Speaker 5: Papa, that's the one who looks like Carmilla the. 627 00:38:53,000 --> 00:39:01,719 Speaker 7: Portraital shashtiaress Benice General. Your father has told me about Miracala, 628 00:39:02,159 --> 00:39:06,599 and I have verified her existence from other sources. What 629 00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:11,920 the doctor told me was that she was a vampire 630 00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:17,320 and has never died. He would have scoffed at this, 631 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:22,559 except because of my birth. Eye was so desperate I 632 00:39:22,639 --> 00:39:26,760 concealed myself in the closet the last night before her death. 633 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 3: Papa, I don't know if I. 634 00:39:29,199 --> 00:39:30,239 Speaker 1: Want to hear what happened. 635 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:35,800 Speaker 7: You must, you must listen. It was a full moon 636 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:40,920 that night, and it flooded the room. My beloved birth 637 00:39:41,159 --> 00:39:46,239 lay wasted and worn beneath the coverlet deep in asleep, 638 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:53,679 almost as profound as death. Suddenly beside her, big, a 639 00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:59,000 black amorpho shake bubble up out of the pure moonlight, 640 00:39:59,679 --> 00:40:04,000 moved to a berth, as though prepared to smother her. 641 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,519 Speaker 8: Oh shall up, What. 642 00:40:07,639 --> 00:40:08,440 Speaker 5: Do you do here? 643 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:10,679 Speaker 10: Stop your milk. 644 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,760 Speaker 4: On your war against the ground. 645 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:18,760 Speaker 12: See rather than it you hamburther More, I we've got shoot, 646 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:26,199 do you see? 647 00:40:26,679 --> 00:40:27,960 Speaker 8: With this small land? 648 00:40:28,079 --> 00:40:33,519 Speaker 4: I owe you help with the dame. Comfortable man, you 649 00:40:33,639 --> 00:40:37,920 are still too late. Your daughter is mine. 650 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:47,599 Speaker 7: Mine, said Milsie was gone, and I was alone with Bertha, 651 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,239 and by the time I was by. 652 00:40:49,079 --> 00:40:53,599 Speaker 1: Her side, she had passed away off. 653 00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:58,800 Speaker 10: That is not the worst. If this friend. 654 00:40:58,639 --> 00:41:02,559 Speaker 7: Call her came Milla Mi Lo, come mirror Color. What 655 00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:07,519 you will is not found and exterminated forever your daughter 656 00:41:08,159 --> 00:41:10,280 is her slave, or even you. 657 00:41:10,519 --> 00:41:11,639 Speaker 4: The comb hill has gone. 658 00:41:12,639 --> 00:41:14,519 Speaker 3: How can we find it? Papa? 659 00:41:14,679 --> 00:41:15,400 Speaker 4: What can we do? 660 00:41:15,559 --> 00:41:18,880 Speaker 7: We are leaving for Constanin immediately we are going to 661 00:41:19,039 --> 00:41:19,960 open a grave. 662 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:29,039 Speaker 6: It was a long search, and getting near to twilights 663 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:34,559 before the stone, overgrown with life and moss and weeds, 664 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:41,880 was uncovered. It was marked simply near Color, Countess khanstanding 665 00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:51,760 sixteen eighty two, but the death date had been somehow obliterated. Finally, 666 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:57,840 the last debt was uncovered, and the old coffin, rotting 667 00:41:58,599 --> 00:41:59,119 lay bare. 668 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:10,719 Speaker 8: The lid was rolled back, and there there lay my lovely. 669 00:42:10,639 --> 00:42:15,880 Speaker 4: Come you love, come now long will lock a thing? 670 00:42:16,079 --> 00:42:21,039 Speaker 7: No, the one whose brave it is, the Countess mill Cot. 671 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,719 Speaker 3: But see how her face is tinted with the warmth 672 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,320 of life. Up ah, Look her eyes are open. 673 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:34,719 Speaker 7: You contaverous snow from the coffin. She still breathes faintly. 674 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:39,400 The coffin floats nearly seven inches deep and blood. There 675 00:42:39,519 --> 00:42:44,039 is your vampire. Beyond a doubt. Priest, you say, my daughter, 676 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:45,760 do your duty. 677 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,960 Speaker 6: The priest drove the sharpened oak stake through the body, 678 00:42:58,079 --> 00:43:02,199 and that here's some shriek with still sounds in my dreams, 679 00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:08,000 rent my ears. But I know now more and more 680 00:43:08,079 --> 00:43:12,000 as the years have passed, that it was not Carnila 681 00:43:12,079 --> 00:43:17,000 who died, but that ancient two century. 682 00:43:16,519 --> 00:43:18,960 Speaker 7: Old corpse who had. 683 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:24,599 Speaker 6: Rolled in lonely agony till at last she was brought 684 00:43:24,599 --> 00:43:27,519 home to the peace of. 685 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,519 Speaker 1: I'll be back shortly with a final thought. 686 00:43:40,679 --> 00:43:45,280 Speaker 2: You can sleep safely to night wherever you are, especially 687 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,960 if you are young and a woman. Camilla will not 688 00:43:49,079 --> 00:43:53,280 haunt your dreams. Just for the record and to keep 689 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,480 it all tidy, we should mention that all the proper 690 00:43:56,519 --> 00:44:01,000 protocol was followed in the extinction of a vampire. The 691 00:44:01,079 --> 00:44:03,920 head was severed from the body and both head and 692 00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:10,199 body were burned to ashes. Our cast included Mercedes mc cambridge, 693 00:44:10,519 --> 00:44:16,400 Marion Seldi's Stats Cocksworth Court Benson, and Martha Greenhouse. 694 00:44:17,639 --> 00:44:20,280 Speaker 1: Associate director Marlon Swing. 695 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:26,119 Speaker 2: This is Hymon Brown, producer director, inviting you to return 696 00:44:26,199 --> 00:44:30,639 to our Mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. 697 00:44:31,559 --> 00:45:07,280 Until next time, then Leslie Green yeh, next time. Mystery 698 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:13,400 Theater brings you another tale of the macabre, The Master Computer, 699 00:45:14,079 --> 00:45:19,400 starring Robert Dryden. This is Hymond Brown inviting you to 700 00:45:19,519 --> 00:45:21,960 discover the joy of listening.