Close your eyes. The only input you have is audio. With a little imagination, you can easily transport yourself back to a comfortable chair positioned next to the fire, in a 1940s’ home. What you are experiencing is exactly the same as what someone in the 1940s experienced if they sat by the fire with their eyes closed.

It’s the third night in the City of the Dead. Captain Friday locks Jimmy Parker and Phyllis Carroll together in a room. Later, Friday and his father discover three corpses. One had been strangled. The second is the body of the man killed by the Claw-footed Phantom. The last appears to have been inexplicably frightened to death.

After a night of unearthly events and sudden death that all seem to be centered around the caretaker’s cottage in the City of The Dead, Captain Friday wakes to find a phantom figure roaming about.

In the be­gin­ning, most ra­dio pro­grams em­u­lat­ed the vaudeville acts that were the main­stay of pub­lic amuse­ment be­fore ra­dio. Comics and singers ruled the air­waves! Best of all, you no longer had to leave your home to en­joy their tal­ents! Even­tu­al­ly, how­ev­er, au­di­ences ma­tured and oth­er types of pro­grams were added to the ra­dio sched­ule.

In this episode of Carlton E. Morse’s The City of the Dead, three men stand on the edge of a partially open grave. A fourth stands in the grave whispering, “I’ve struck something. Something awful.”

Joshua Friday is shot as he searches for the source of the phantom church bell.

Jimmy Parker and Doc Tuner go down to the City of the Dead to investigate the source of the phantom church bell.