1940-11-10 Carnival of Death

Broadcast November 10th 1940 on Mutual at 5:30 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal" and syndicated for the summer by Goodrich Tires

This episode is included in Radio Spirits CD Set The Shadow: Knight of Darkness*

Written by: Jerry Devine

Announcer: Ken Roberts

Cast: Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Everett Sloane, Alan Reed, Dwight Weist

Music: Elsie Thompson

Synopsis:

In the Tableaux of Horror, a wax museum in a carnival on Joy Island, Lamont and Margot stumble upon two corpses recently disguised as wax figures on display. The bodies mysteriously disappear before Commissioner Weston and his men arrive. Disillusioned, Lamont and Margot investigate a passageway, discovering what appears to be the ghost of a subway train filled with passengers. After surviving a quicksand trap, Lamont takes after Pop Wright, the old man in charge of the wax museum, and rescues Margot, whom Pop has kidnapped. It seems Pop’s mind snapped after a train wreck years ago accidentally killed forty-plus passengers. Pop now keeps the train operating every night with “passengers” who are all corpses of victims he acquired from time to time. Before Pop can make Margot his latest victim, The Shadow tricks the old man into believing he is one of the evil spirits from the past and a frightened Pop runs away only to fall into the quicksand and die.

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Note:

This episode was adapted and recorded for broadcast in Australia as "The Case of the Wax Museum" by Grace Gibson Productions. This episode has not been released by Grace Gibson Productions.

*The episode is also available on The Murray Hill Anthology of The Shadow