Speaker 1: Come in.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome to mystery Theater. I am Hymen Brown. When
I was a boy, I always thought the maps in
the atlas were a fixed picture of the world that
never changed.
Speaker 1: Well, certainly not in this century.
Speaker 2: New countries turn up every day, all the ones vanish
or are renamed.
Speaker 1: I guess nothing is permanent.
Speaker 2: Carpathia Transylvania are forgotten names on a map.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they.
Speaker 2: Are as defunct as the dread creature who came from there,
whose two front teeth fastened on the victim's.
Speaker 1: Throat and drank his life's blood.
Speaker 2: But if they are, they were not seventy or so
years ago when this blood curdling begins.
Speaker 3: But I know you and I you from a dream
I had, from a dream I.
Speaker 4: Had too when I was six years old. How long
ago was there? Thirteen years?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's just when I had mine.
Speaker 4: Come Sit beside me on the bed and hold my hand.
Speaker 5: I have a feeling I know we're going to be
terribly close, you and I.
Speaker 2: Our mystery drama Carmilla was especially adapted from the classic
novella of GS Stephan You by Ian Martin and stars
Mercedes McCambridge In Spyria, which these days on a map
you will find is an Austrian province named Steiermach.
Speaker 1: Lois Stanton was born and brought up.
Speaker 2: Her father, George, was an Englishman who had married into
Hungarian nobility and had respected his wife's desire to stay
on in Austria at the Ancestral Austrian castle. But at
the end of the Middle Ages, the huge old fortress
mansion was a lonely place for a young girl to
grow up in, lying as it did deep in the
heart of the country. But since she took the time
to write it in her own cramp but still beautifully
trained hands, let Lois Stanton tell her own story.
Speaker 6: I started writing this over fifty years ago, but my
confused and horrible reactions then persuaded me to lay it aside.
But now approaching my ninetieth birthday, I should like to
leave a record of why I never married.
Speaker 7: I've only known the love.
Speaker 6: Of one person outside my father, a woman. That is
a shocking statement, even today, with all our liberation. How
shocking and experience it proved to be for me at
nineteen was so revolting and so so destroying that it
stood between me and love for the rest of my life.
I am not talking of sex or a sexual relationship,
certainly not in the ordinary sense of the word. But
let me take you back to the year nineteen hundred
and five and a whole other world.
Speaker 7: Damn it, that quite puts me out. What is it, Papa,
General Stevensdorf, which arrived by the post late as usual,
and everything is these days sent almost a week ago
from Vienna. From Vienna, us explained at moments this arrives
Bailly in time to tell me that he and his
niece will not be arriving tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Oh, what a shame.
Speaker 5: I was looking forward to making the acquaintance.
Speaker 2: Of Farline Rhinehart.
Speaker 7: Belad that the General had come, My dear, that would
have been impossible. Why the reason for canceling his visits
is because of his niece's hudden death.
Speaker 5: Her death, Papa, but.
Speaker 4: She was only my age.
Speaker 7: That's what's so tragic.
Speaker 4: Is he still coming here?
Speaker 7: No, there is some mystery. He appears to blame Bertha's
death on some young guests. They had a mysterious young woman.
Speaker 5: Oh what could it have been, Papa, an accident or
some sort of disease.
Speaker 7: That was catching There's no way of telling. I'm really
quite shaken. I'm poor, old friend, and I'm disappointed for you.
Speaker 4: You mustn't think for a moment about.
Speaker 7: Me what I do all the time locked away in
this great labyrinth of a mausoleum with no companions.
Speaker 6: Have him Madame Peradun, the housekeeper, and my governess, Mademoiselle
de la Fontaine.
Speaker 7: I make companions of your own age, not dried up
old sticks like us.
Speaker 6: Oh, you mustn't talk about that, Papa.
Speaker 4: You know I've always loved it here.
Speaker 7: Next year we must move for the season to droughts,
or perhaps in Vienna, so that you could meet some
nice young gallants.
Speaker 8: Oh, I have.
Speaker 3: A gallon who takes very good care of me.
Speaker 7: A little creaky in the joints, I'm afraid. No, no,
or you are so retiring and stuff for facing. It
might be time to check a little hussy into your bloodstream.
Speaker 4: Papa.
Speaker 5: I think we have talked enough about me, And as
for how happy I am, just look out at our garden.
Where else but at the slass could we see such
romantic misty, beauty?
Speaker 7: There's a full moon, the lovely, soft clear evening. Do
you want to take a little stroll down by the
brawbridge a moment.
Speaker 3: Till I fetch a shawl, and I'd love it.
Speaker 5: I have the strangest feeling that tonight something very special
is about to happen.
Speaker 8: All.
Speaker 6: By the time we reached the bridge, the moon was
high and brilliant, and as we turned back the whole
landscape was a medso tinted shimmering and dream life.
Speaker 7: Hm, there's moon night. It's full of magnetic force, an
odyllic in foods, which.
Speaker 5: If odylic, Papa, that's a strange word.
Speaker 8: What does it mean?
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, And it mean to be literary. Actually I'm
being quite literal. It means the effect of one animal's
magnetism upon the other. And look back at the Schloss
for example.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, all its windows flash and twinkle and reflect
the silvery splendors.
Speaker 7: If unseen hands had lit them all to receive some
special royal guests.
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 3: It's a carriage, but it's coming too fast.
Speaker 7: That back, Laura, the protection of this tree. It must
be written by a madman.
Speaker 6: It was closed Christ drawn by six horses, traveling at
tough stems. It came round the blind corner to dringe,
twisting and swaying wildly. A female voice screamed in terah.
Coming off the bridge. The lead horse panicked, pulling the
whole rig to the right, so that what was coming
was inevitable, her wheels on one side, passing over the
projecting overground roots up one of the great trees, and
in a moment.
Speaker 7: My father was one, as always an ACCREDI at first
he rushed to carletter I lead horses so that they
can returned.
Speaker 8: Still, the man in their followers and the coachman.
Speaker 7: Grown clear and joining to help him, while.
Speaker 6: I, avoiding the steel skinning peels, clambered to open the
door and to help out the occupants of the coach itself.
Speaker 8: I only gave assistance.
Speaker 6: To an elderly lady clad in a long cloak with
a good whose sole concern was for her daughter. While
I took her aside, my father and the coachman lifted
out a younger lady who seemed to be unconscious.
Speaker 4: My coatique, Are you all right?
Speaker 7: I should not worry too much, madam. I have sent
your old footman to the Schloss for assistance, and shortly
we shall have a conveyance here to conduct you and
your the young lady to accommodations where you may rest,
and we can send for a physician's help.
Speaker 5: You are too kind, Monsieur Camilla, Camilla.
Speaker 8: Are you a honest a daised Mamma Mia? But it
feels so week.
Speaker 5: Oh my godness, Oh, now what do I do?
Speaker 7: If you could tell me what troubles you want?
Speaker 4: This much?
Speaker 5: Only can I tell you are a gentleman and must
be well aware of the gathering clouds of war. I
am returning to my husband in the hastey witnessed because
I carry assurances of information.
Speaker 8: Only I can impart to him.
Speaker 5: For me to waste an hour for a moment, even
and danger is our whole future. But I can see
that the long tripped, vain and such haste something calm
Niela cannot sustain.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: Is there some hostelry in or even sanitorium where I
can leave my precious child to be well cared for
till I can send for her at more leisure and
with adequate protection for her travel?
Speaker 3: Papa, why can't.
Speaker 8: She stay with us? Bertha's room was all prepared and
is ready.
Speaker 7: It is true, we would be happy to put up
your daughter and see that she has immediate medical attention.
Speaker 5: Oh, you could save an empire and relax a mother's heart.
Speaker 7: I would feel more comfortable about all things if I
knew exactly who I'm assisting and where.
Speaker 5: That is impossible as of the moment. All that counts
now if I can feel my child's safest, for my
man and yours to write the carriage so that I
may be on my way.
Speaker 1: I promise you that.
Speaker 5: It is a matter of more than even life or death.
But Papa, where do you suppose they were coming from
on that road?
Speaker 7: It's hard to say. They must have lost the main
road and approached this way by accident. Here comes doctor Zulig. Now, well, Franz,
I was out of a patient failing well.
Speaker 9: No problem with all shoe bruises otherwise, no worse for
wear for the mishap. She is perhaps a little nervous
and lonely, and perhaps bewildered.
Speaker 7: One can highly blame her.
Speaker 9: I took the liberty of suggesting that Laura run up
and have a chat with her before she turned in.
Speaker 10: Someone of her own age, you know, come in.
Speaker 6: She was sitting chopped up in a huge dead her
hair framing her face, tumbling about her shoulders and now
for the first time, I could see her face clearly
as she saw mine, as we both gasped.
Speaker 4: But I know you and.
Speaker 3: I you from a dream.
Speaker 4: I had a dream. I had too when I was
six years old. How long ago was that? Thirteen years old?
That's just when I had mine.
Speaker 5: Oh, you must tell me, and I must tell you.
You must be Laura and my name is Cammella, and
we mustn't be strange to each other. Oh, come, come
sit beside me on the bed and hold my hand
so we can talk.
Speaker 4: I have a feeling I know we're going to be
terribly close.
Speaker 6: You and I, remembering that old, old dream which had
never ceased to haunt me. I should have been repelled,
but instead I was drawn, drawn irresistibly taward Carmula would
to God. I had known that the fascination was not
love but an unhealthy spell, the flame for the moth,
the spider's web for the fly.
Speaker 8: But I didn't know.
Speaker 6: And I went to her, and I put my hand
into Carmulus.
Speaker 2: Two beautiful young women, one blonde and blue eyed, the
very quintessence of innocence, the other lying in the bed,
pale from the accident, and seemingly vulnerable, light olive skin,
with great dark eyes and tumbling masses of hair, perhaps
masking beauty and evil.
Speaker 1: And malevolence not of this world and not to be named.
Speaker 11: Let's go behind the scenes to this episode of Radio
Mystory Theater, Martha Greenhouse's contessa.
Speaker 1: Martha's career began.
Speaker 11: With the nineteen fifty seven TV movie Cinderella. A year later,
she as followed the show Naked City. Greenhouse got her
break in nineteen sixty one when she landed a.
Speaker 1: Recurring role in Car fifty four, Where Are You?
Speaker 11: She played Officer gun through two d's system of Roads.
Several movie parts followed in such pictures as Up the
Down Staircase, Bananas, and The Stepford Widers. Martha Greenhouse was
cast over three times on Radio Mystory Theater. Some of
her more exotic characters were a Russian scientist and the
patient at a sanitarium. In her final accurrence, she depicted
the secretary of a murdered atomic scientist, and that was
a behind the scenes look at this episode of Radio
Mystery Theater.
Speaker 1: The old lady who.
Speaker 2: Writes this story of seventy years ago still retains much
resemblance to that once blooming girl of nineteen oh. The
China blue eyes are faded, the hair is ash gray
instead of golden blonde, but the figure is neat and
trim and somehow vulnerable, not only to the encroachment of
ninety years, but as if it had always been so.
Speaker 6: He sat there, hand in hand, Camilla and I, searching
each other's faces. There was a silence of what must
have been minutes. I could feel my heart pounding against
my ribs at the wonder, the terror of that spectrally
beautiful face, which it last was no longer a how.
Speaker 5: Wonderful Thirteen years ago I saw your face in a dream,
and it has haunted me ever since.
Speaker 4: For it's wonderful in vain.
Speaker 5: Thirteen years ago, in vision or reality, I certainly saw you.
I could never forget your face. It's remained with me
ever since.
Speaker 4: It seems as if we were predestined to be friends.
Speaker 8: I want you to be.
Speaker 4: My friend, as I water you yours.
Speaker 3: We will, we.
Speaker 4: Will, and we must start with the first thing we shared.
The dream.
Speaker 1: There Now I.
Speaker 5: Can see your shy look that comes of being alone
too much, So I shall start.
Speaker 4: I told you it was when.
Speaker 5: I was six, and I woke up from some troubled dream,
and I found myself in a room that was nothing
like my nursery. It had dark wood wainscoting and great
heavy beans sloping over the bed.
Speaker 4: And didn't have a big.
Speaker 5: Iron candlestick by the bed with two branches made out
of serpents.
Speaker 4: Yes, and they held the candles in there.
Speaker 5: Now there was my nursery. It's still there on the
top floor, just as you described their sea.
Speaker 4: It's more than a dream now.
Speaker 5: I remember I was only six and being in a
strange room. I was scared and I was about to
cry out, when all of a sudden, this fairy princess
with golden hair and blue eyes sat up in the bed.
Speaker 4: Next to me and held her arms out to me.
It was you as a child. No, no, as you are.
Speaker 5: Now, your lips red and full, smiling at me, beckoning me.
Speaker 8: I climbed in beside you.
Speaker 5: You put their arms around me, and softly, so sweetly.
I went to sleep, and that was all.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: No, then there's the bad part. But I I put
that out of my mind.
Speaker 4: I don't try to remember that.
Speaker 8: No. No, you must tell me.
Speaker 4: Very well, because we must have no secrets from each other.
Speaker 5: I don't know how long I've been lying there with you,
and suddenly a scream awoke me, and I scream, yes, yes,
you was sitting up on the bed screaming, and I
was terrified and I slapped to the ground and and
then suddenly everything was blank until I woke up again
in my own nays.
Speaker 3: And hasn't this dream haunted you and tortured you all
these years?
Speaker 5: Haunted if you want say rather, I've never forgotten it,
But why should it torture me?
Speaker 4: What I remember most is the love and the warmth that.
Speaker 8: Came from you.
Speaker 5: And how often I've longed for my beautiful golden lady
ha ha ha.
Speaker 4: Who would ever think i'd find her again? It's also her.
Speaker 3: I don't understand it, so topsy turnty, what.
Speaker 4: Do you mean tell me about undery? Well, it was
just the other way.
Speaker 5: I mean. I was six years old and nobody ever
worried too much about me, because I was never told
ghost stories or very stories or anything that might wake
me up in the night and worry me.
Speaker 8: So this one night, when I did.
Speaker 5: Wake up, which was unusual for me, I wasn't worried
or frightened way I was in my own bed, And.
Speaker 4: Was it the only bed in the room.
Speaker 5: No, there was another bed my nurse used to sleep in,
but by now it was empty, except that when I
looked over there this night, it wasn't empty.
Speaker 8: You were sitting up in.
Speaker 3: It, me the child, no, as you are now.
Speaker 5: And you came to my bed with your great dark
eyes and your hair streaming down your back. And I
thought I had never seen anything so beautiful. And did
I get into your bed with you?
Speaker 4: Yes, you did.
Speaker 8: Only I was you who took.
Speaker 4: Me in your arms, and you held me, and you
soothed me.
Speaker 5: Until I fell fast asleep, and I didn't wake up
or screen. No, I was the one who did that,
because I suddenly had the sensation that two needles had
been run deep into my chest at the same moment.
Speaker 4: And were there marks on you? No, the doctor found nothing.
Speaker 5: Oh, I seemed to have known you so long. I
never have had a friend, a real friend. Have I
found one now?
Speaker 8: Of course?
Speaker 5: Carmela and kissed me and promised me it shall always.
Speaker 4: Be so, Oh, my welcome at long last, Yes, I
feel as so I've come home.
Speaker 6: I have said that I was drawn to Camilla from
the first, there's no doubt about that whatsoever. A strange feeling.
It's hard to describe, except I could have wished she
were a boy, for there is no doubt I was
under her spell, and she embarrassed me often when she
spoke so freely of her love for me.
Speaker 8: Come and kiss me.
Speaker 4: Good morning, my dest ah.
Speaker 5: How wonderful to wake up to you good morning Camilla.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, not just a passing her.
Speaker 5: Come, come on, kiss me and tell me you love
your Camilla as she loves her Laura.
Speaker 4: Well, I that's better.
Speaker 5: You don't know the humiliation of how.
Speaker 4: I must live in your warm life.
Speaker 5: You shall die, die sweetly, die into mine.
Speaker 4: I don't understand you.
Speaker 5: Just never seek to know more of me and mine,
But trust me with your loving spirit. Come, come, come
kiss me again, so I know I'm forgiven in Colonel Andy,
I know are mine, you shall be mine, and you
and I are one forever.
Speaker 6: I seem to be showing you the worst of her,
because at most times she was sparked and.
Speaker 8: A vivacious talker.
Speaker 6: She kept my father and all of us in rounds
of laughter with her bright wit.
Speaker 5: The empathy which afflicted her was only bodily.
Speaker 7: Her mind was always alert.
Speaker 4: Laura, are you afraid to die?
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, everyone is, but to die together as lovers may,
so that they may live always together.
Speaker 3: Well, that's something I'd rather not talk about. Oh, I
just remember what We must go.
Speaker 4: Meet the family. The family.
Speaker 3: Yes, didn't you notice there were no pictures in the gallery.
Speaker 5: They've walked into the restorer in today's the day that
they're to be returned and re hung. And most of
them are from my mother's family.
Speaker 8: She was Hungarian.
Speaker 5: You know it should be quite exciting. Oh, just a
musty old quadrum.
Speaker 1: Just exactly what they were.
Speaker 5: They were so covered with smoke and the grime of centuries.
Speaker 3: I've never really seen any of them come along, Carmella.
Speaker 4: Do let's go have a look.
Speaker 7: Well, you can't say they're a very prepossessing looking crew.
Speaker 6: Oh, Papa, I.
Speaker 5: Think it's fun with their mutton chop whiskers and beards
and metals and Vassar coats, don't you, Carilla.
Speaker 4: Oh, they're just like all the others of their times.
Speaker 7: Well, you must be quite a historian, Carmela. Some of
these go back three hundred years or so. Hello, in
the surprise, all run hi look, Carmilla.
Speaker 5: Look, it's the very image of you, even to the
mole on your throat.
Speaker 3: Papa, isn't it a marvelous likeness?
Speaker 10: Joe?
Speaker 7: I believe you're right. Can you read who it is? Marcia?
Speaker 3: No mere, Carl.
Speaker 5: Mercarla Contesse Kernstein and the date is sixteen ninety eight.
Speaker 7: Well, I do remember that your mother was descended from
the Carsteins.
Speaker 5: As am I and I think a very long time ago.
Speaker 4: Are there any Khonstein living here now?
Speaker 7: Were none who bear the name? Although it's interesting The
ruins of their ancestral castle is not much more than
three leagues. Directed to the west of here. It was destroyed,
they say, during the civil Wars.
Speaker 4: I should like to see it sometime, Papa. This is
just a small portrait.
Speaker 8: Could I have it to hang in my room.
Speaker 1: If you like?
Speaker 7: I'll have Hans put it.
Speaker 1: Up for you.
Speaker 5: And then, once you've arranged that, could we, dear Laura,
take a stroll in the moonlight.
Speaker 4: It's so beautiful here we are at the drawbridge.
Speaker 8: It's also like the night you.
Speaker 4: Came to us.
Speaker 5: So you were thinking of the night I came?
Speaker 4: Are you glad? I did?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: Every so much someday, when you tell me your story,
I know it will be made up of one great romance.
Speaker 8: I'm sure that you.
Speaker 5: Have been in love, and that at this moment there
is an affair of the heart going on.
Speaker 4: I have been in love with no one.
Speaker 5: I never shall unless it should be you. Calmeila, Darling, Darling.
Speaker 4: I live in you, and you would die for me.
I love your.
Speaker 3: Camila, Camila.
Speaker 5: Are you all right.
Speaker 8: Than what were passible? It's the last time perhaps.
Speaker 4: That I shall see the moonlight with you.
Speaker 8: What do you mean?
Speaker 5: Time is very mean when you shall know all.
Speaker 6: She was so weak I could scarcely get her safely
to bed. It was long before I could get to sleep.
But when at last I did, if indeed I really
was asleep, I was conscious of something huge and black
circling by the foot of my bed, a monstrous catlike
shape that suddenly sprang, and I felt the stinging pain,
as if two needle sharp claws had plunged like hot
irons into my breast.
Speaker 8: And then suddenly my.
Speaker 5: Eyes were open, and I thought I saw Carmilla standing there,
and I felt relieved. The figure moved quickly to the door,
and I followed it only to find the door securely
locked from the inside, just the way I had left
it before I retired. I sprang into my bed with
the covers over my head, and I laid there more
dead than alive.
Speaker 8: Until more.
Speaker 1: There are none so blind who will not see.
Speaker 2: And yet it is only human nature that lifts the
spirits by saying that no disaster, natural or supernatural could
ever happen to us. Is it happening to Laura or
is she only a young girl with a lonely childhood
behind her and a very lively imagination.
Speaker 1: Mystery Theater will return shortly.
Speaker 11: Well, let's go behind the scenes for this episode of
radio Mystery Theater. You're hearing Stanton tell a story about
a young woman named Chermelion Abscrimelia is taken in by
her family.
Speaker 1: Laura begins to have strange dreams.
Speaker 11: In one of them, she's bitten on the neck in
a manner that suggests a vampire. The best known vampire
is cow Dracula, based on a real person. Born Vlad
Dracula in Transylvania, he ruled over the country for six years.
Speaker 1: He was a cruel monarch.
Speaker 11: Whose favorite method of execution with impalement a particularly slow
and agonizing means of death. It was this gruesome reputation
that led Bram Stoker to base his novel on the
man known to history as Lad the Entailer, and that
was a behind the scenes look at this episode of
radio mystery.
Speaker 1: Theater with the morning and the coming of light.
Speaker 2: Nothing seems more insubstantial than a dream, Certainly, although it
may leave some residual shock to the dreamer, a nightmare
loses its terror, and there is a natural inclination not
to recount one, except someone very close to you, for
fear of being laughed at, or a Laura's case, something different.
Speaker 1: I should have.
Speaker 6: Told my father that I didn't, mostly because to my surprise,
quite early that morning, in answer to a.
Speaker 8: Knock on my door, I opened it and found.
Speaker 4: Come love up and about may I come in? Of course, dearest,
you don't look well now.
Speaker 3: I don't feel very well. I had a bad dream.
Speaker 5: I knew it, and I felt these two hot pins
plunged in and punctured just beneath my throat until I
thought I'd strangle off.
Speaker 4: Let me see.
Speaker 5: Why, darling, Darling, it was a dream. There's nothing there,
but we shan't take any chances with you. Here, you
shall have my amulet to protect you.
Speaker 6: The next night and the nights following, my sleep was
deep and dreamless, although the nights were followed by days
of lassitude and a melancholy that was strangely not unpleasant.
This was well enough for a time, until new and
vague sensations began to disturb my sleep, sometimes a hand
drawn across me, sometimes the feeling of lips kissing me
longer and more lovingly, until they.
Speaker 5: Reached my throat.
Speaker 6: Within a week, my eyes were dilated in dark underneath,
and I was pale.
Speaker 8: And my father noticed the change and insisted on my
seeing the doctor.
Speaker 6: It was just as well that the doctor was called
for that night everything came to a hit.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh ha ha, yes, yes, Papa, Yes, I'm going.
Speaker 7: What is it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, little one.
Speaker 7: Like a leaf.
Speaker 3: I was asleep, I was on asleep, and all of
a sudden there was.
Speaker 5: A blinding white light, and I saw Carmilla standing at
the foot of my bed, and then her night and
she was bathed from her chinder, her feet and a
big stain of blood.
Speaker 3: Papa, I'm afraid something's happened to her.
Speaker 5: Let's go quickly, Let's go to work rope were chop
put this on and the thank you, madam, very.
Speaker 7: Don Cammella, Grimmela.
Speaker 1: This mister FanCon opened the door.
Speaker 7: Can you hear me, Carmella, it is mister Stanton opened
the door.
Speaker 4: Oh, Papa, suppose.
Speaker 3: Something terrible has happened to Camilla.
Speaker 7: Madam ring for the servants, get them up here right away.
I'm gonna have to break the door down.
Speaker 8: The men arrived in various states of undress at.
Speaker 6: The door, and the locked proved too stout and resisted
all their efforts. Papa then directed one of the footmen
to bring him his large elephant gun, which he had used.
Speaker 8: On safari in Africa.
Speaker 6: Really, George broke the lock, shattering the door, and Papa
and I burst into the room. Not only was it
empty of Carmilla, but every trace that she might ever
have been there was gone. Car Milla had disappeared into
thin air, as if she had never been. Fortunately, Papa
had given me a sleeping potion, and I knew nothing
of this until the following day, when I woke up
to find Papa and our good Doctor's you lick by
my bedside.
Speaker 9: Your father has told me the whole story. Father, you
mentioned the sensation as of two burning needles piercing deep
into you somewhere about the neck on the occasion of
the first followoo dream.
Speaker 3: You mean when I thought I saw the black cat?
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, Could you indicate to me with your finger
just why you think this occurred?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 10: Right here, let me see now with the magnifying glass.
Speaker 7: So what does it that, doctor?
Speaker 10: Please, with the glass you may see for yourself.
Speaker 9: Observed just below the throat, good maud, Why what is it?
Just where you said? A small blue spot in the
center of the two tiny sharp punctures. That is the
point where the sense of strangulation seemed to begin. Yes, er, well, then,
I don't see why you shouldn't begin to get well immediately.
Speaker 10: But she must not be left alone for a single moment.
Speaker 6: Therewell a thousand unanswered questions. I now wanted to ask
Papa and the doctor, but I never got to ask them, for,
as it happened, a most unexpected visitor, General Spielstorff, arrived
at this climactic moment, and it was his bizarre and
harrowing story which eventually answered all my unanswered questions.
Speaker 7: Well shortly before my poor child father and I were
the visitor.
Speaker 10: We had an invitation to countcast.
Speaker 7: They'll loss some leagues to the northwest of Constein. The
occasion was a magnificent masquerade ball. I felt like the
only nobody present. The more surprised was I. Therefore, when
a lady with most streetly air, accompanied by an obviously
young girl with whom Beltha immediately fell into a delighted conversation,
approached me and said, my.
Speaker 5: Dear General, what a delightful surprise to see you after
all these.
Speaker 7: Years, Madam, since you are masked, you have the better
of me.
Speaker 5: If you kissed my hand, would it jug your memory?
Speaker 7: Well, I should hope. So it's a long time since
I've kissed the lady's hand. The pleasure is all mine,
not in bad since since it cannot be your.
Speaker 5: Mess, it's only at the greatest risk that I am here,
and as all odds, I must preserve my anonymity.
Speaker 1: I see our.
Speaker 5: Girls appear to have made themselves fast friends already.
Speaker 8: That is good. I have an urgent request to make
of your friend. I am yours as always to command.
Speaker 5: I am in the gravest danger every moment I spend here,
and I've been quite desperate to know how to protect
the young lady who is my companion.
Speaker 4: Could you take her in for a few weeks at
most as.
Speaker 7: Your guests, my shoe being more than delighted, I'm sure
that Bertha will welcome the companionship.
Speaker 5: Well, then let me introduce you to my ward and
be on my way. I assure you, it is a
matter of life and death, Papa.
Speaker 8: It's just the same.
Speaker 4: It's just like Carmula and the lady.
Speaker 7: Ah, yes, the lady that I too, like the general,
mister for royalty, even for the Empress herself.
Speaker 3: We'll go on, General, what happened?
Speaker 8: It couldn't have been the same.
Speaker 7: As it were, I'm afraid, soul, My dear, My poor
Bertha suffered from the same dreams as you of a
great black animal and the piercing, double pronged punctures beneath
her thoat. She was wasting away despite all potions and powders.
The doctors tried.
Speaker 10: Till one of them suggested what seemed a piece.
Speaker 8: Of arrogant nonsense to me.
Speaker 7: Why legend has it that two hundred years ago the
Countess Constein Mirakala by name.
Speaker 5: Papa, that's the one who looks like Carmilla the.
Speaker 7: Portraital shashtiaress Benice General. Your father has told me about Miracala,
and I have verified her existence from other sources. What
the doctor told me was that she was a vampire
and has never died. He would have scoffed at this,
except because of my birth. Eye was so desperate I
concealed myself in the closet the last night before her death.
Speaker 3: Papa, I don't know if I.
Speaker 1: Want to hear what happened.
Speaker 7: You must, you must listen. It was a full moon
that night, and it flooded the room. My beloved birth
lay wasted and worn beneath the coverlet deep in asleep,
almost as profound as death. Suddenly beside her, big, a
black amorpho shake bubble up out of the pure moonlight,
moved to a berth, as though prepared to smother her.
Speaker 8: Oh shall up, What.
Speaker 5: Do you do here?
Speaker 10: Stop your milk.
Speaker 4: On your war against the ground.
Speaker 12: See rather than it you hamburther More, I we've got shoot,
do you see?
Speaker 8: With this small land?
Speaker 4: I owe you help with the dame. Comfortable man, you
are still too late. Your daughter is mine.
Speaker 7: Mine, said Milsie was gone, and I was alone with Bertha,
and by the time I was by.
Speaker 1: Her side, she had passed away off.
Speaker 10: That is not the worst. If this friend.
Speaker 7: Call her came Milla Mi Lo, come mirror Color. What
you will is not found and exterminated forever your daughter
is her slave, or even you.
Speaker 4: The comb hill has gone.
Speaker 3: How can we find it? Papa?
Speaker 4: What can we do?
Speaker 7: We are leaving for Constanin immediately we are going to
open a grave.
Speaker 6: It was a long search, and getting near to twilights
before the stone, overgrown with life and moss and weeds,
was uncovered. It was marked simply near Color, Countess khanstanding
sixteen eighty two, but the death date had been somehow obliterated. Finally,
the last debt was uncovered, and the old coffin, rotting
lay bare.
Speaker 8: The lid was rolled back, and there there lay my lovely.
Speaker 4: Come you love, come now long will lock a thing?
Speaker 7: No, the one whose brave it is, the Countess mill Cot.
Speaker 3: But see how her face is tinted with the warmth
of life. Up ah, Look her eyes are open.
Speaker 7: You contaverous snow from the coffin. She still breathes faintly.
The coffin floats nearly seven inches deep and blood. There
is your vampire. Beyond a doubt. Priest, you say, my daughter,
do your duty.
Speaker 6: The priest drove the sharpened oak stake through the body,
and that here's some shriek with still sounds in my dreams,
rent my ears. But I know now more and more
as the years have passed, that it was not Carnila
who died, but that ancient two century.
Speaker 7: Old corpse who had.
Speaker 6: Rolled in lonely agony till at last she was brought
home to the peace of.
Speaker 1: I'll be back shortly with a final thought.
Speaker 2: You can sleep safely to night wherever you are, especially
if you are young and a woman. Camilla will not
haunt your dreams. Just for the record and to keep
it all tidy, we should mention that all the proper
protocol was followed in the extinction of a vampire. The
head was severed from the body and both head and
body were burned to ashes. Our cast included Mercedes mc cambridge,
Marion Seldi's Stats Cocksworth Court Benson, and Martha Greenhouse.
Speaker 1: Associate director Marlon Swing.
Speaker 2: This is Hymon Brown, producer director, inviting you to return
to our Mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre.
Until next time, then Leslie Green yeh, next time. Mystery
Theater brings you another tale of the macabre, The Master Computer,
starring Robert Dryden. This is Hymond Brown inviting you to
discover the joy of listening.